Entries Tagged as '2008 Republican Race'

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Whackjobs of a Feather

Joe Arpaio sent out a fundraising letter for J. D. Hayworth, bashing John McCain as a “moderate or even liberal.”
Arpaio’s attacks on McCain come as a surprise to folks from outside of the state, but as E. J. Montini points out, it shouldn’t come as much of a shock to people who actually follow our [...]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

A Little Perspective

Sarah Palin has been making the rounds (and no, I haven’t read the book) and one of the things that inevitably comes up is Katie Couric and her “gotcha questions.” It would be helpful to remember that one of these “gotcha” questions was about what newspapers she read. This wouldn’t even stump the contestants in [...]

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

The Latest

Apparently, Senate Democratic leaders are meeting with the governor at this hour. Despite the bluster in Chuck Coughlin’s editorial last week, indications are that la Cervecera’s plan is not the “sign and blame” that many of us thought. I’ve been told to look for line item vetoes, which could mean we still don’t have a [...]

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Another for the “Who Do You Root For?” File

Those of us who are in Southern Arizona may have missed this week’s intra-mural grudge match between our state’s Republican officials.
Monday night at a meeting of the Legislative District 6 Republican club, as chronicled on conservative blog Seeing Red AZ, State Republican Chairman Randy Pullen ripped into two of the district’s Republicans, Senator Pamela Gorman [...]

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

What Was Weak Last Week…

I’ve been enjoying the minor fracas among the Republicans that broke out late last week when the following YouTube video was making the rounds:

There were charges about who was behind the video, and fingers pointed to one of the usual suspects, Constantine Querard. There wasn’t much indication of who paid for the video, but there [...]

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

And Funny Thing, ACORN Ain’t Involved

From the US Attorney’s Office:
ARIZONA COUPLE INDICTED FOR FRAUDULENT VOTING DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
TUCSON, Ariz. – A federal grand jury returned a 5-count indictment against James A. Marshall, 63, and Karen S. Marshall, 56, both of Green Valley, Ariz., for Conspiracy to Commit Fraudulent Voting and Fraudulent Voting. The indictment alleges that the Marshalls [...]

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Making Our State Proud

In my interregnum of negligence last week, I failed to say anything about Sylvia Allen’s comments in support of a memorial supporting more uranium mining in Northern Arizona. You’ve seen a lot of commentary about it already in the blogosphere, and it even got national attention:

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Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Sharpen Your Microscope…

Irony watch, complete with an Arizona tangent.

NB: The video embed doesn’t seem to want to work for everyone, so click this link.

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Another Thought

Had John McCain been elected, would we now be invoking Section 2 of the 25th Amendment?

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Terry Goddard at Maricopa County Democratic Party Meeting

The remarks of Terry Goddard at a meeting of the Maricopa County Democratic Party on Saturday:

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