Many of you have asked about how Democrats can get through the culture of the South and the Heartland…God, guns, gays, and race. Since I have been stereotyped (by some) as a racist over the last 12 hours or so, let’s start with the racial wedges that the Republicans have used against us. For those [...]

I’m moving on. You guys are tough. I sincerely hope we can all agree on this post. It has to do with all Democrats’ common goal… winning a Presidential election. The non-partisan “Center for Rural Strategies” released their new national rural poll today, and it’s definitely good news for us. As we are all painfully [...]

I agree with Jason Zengerle’s assessment of the RADICAL NEW APPROACH that the Fred Thompson team will be taking: He spends his days raising money and assembling an increasingly sophisticated campaign operation. His advisers hold daily conference calls to discuss issues and to craft a schedule that includes visits to states with early caucuses and [...]

Well, Ana–at least you’re honest about it: You want Scooter in jail because vengeance is so satisfying. I agree…although my sense of an appropriate punishment for Libby–emptying bedpans at Walter Reed–seems so much more metaphorically apt. (I also remember, with fondness, the competition in your former incarnation, as Wonkette, for a jailhouse name for Libby: [...]

Sniff: Arenas said Saturday that the knee injury he suffered in April and the recent birth of his second child has led him to view his financial future in a different light. “It’s very important that I secure my future,” Arenas said. “Next summer, I will be in a position to sign a contract that [...]

Well, more details from Anbar via the NY Times today. This isn’t quite the shock it would seem, especially since General Odierno said last week that 12,000 Sunnis had joined the Iraqi military out in Anbar, and as we know, the Iraqi military and the Iraqi militias are first cousins, or closer. But it is [...]

As it is the itching and the burning: “Once you’ve been in bed with Ted Kennedy on immigration, you’ve got political herpes,” said William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, which opposed the legislation. “John McCain, you will never, ever be the president of the United States of America because of your betrayal [...]

To those of you out there who have called me these names and more, here is my response: 1.-Nowhere in my first post did I say I was “anti-blogging”. Quite to the contrary, I said to bloggers who want to take the Democratic Party back into the big tent, “God bless you and thank you.” [...]

I would not have predicted this turn of events for Mudcat’s first day in the swamp… As for Mudcat’s position vis-a-vis liberal elites and intolerance: I think they’re not intolerant — or maybe sharp-elbowed — enough, at least when it comes Bush and his mistakes. Wouldn’t your guy Webb agree? I’m a huge fan of [...]