Ouch! Michael Steele rejected from Chicago "Tea Party"

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Wednesday April 08, 2009 · 6:01 PM PDT

2009/04/08 · 18:01

Give some credit to the Teabaggers. Today, RNC Chairman Michael Steele got around to askingthe Chicago "Tea Party" organizers if he could speak. They smacked him down, hard.

I've copied the rest of the story from my post at the Washington Independent.

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What will Michael Steele do on April 15?

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What will Michael Steele do on April 15?

Hold his own Tea Party, damn it.

35 votes

Heckle the Chicago Tea Party speakers while shaking a coffee can.

27 votes

Reveal that his RNC election was set up by Barack Obama to make Republicans look bad.

76 votes

NY-20: Dick Morris 527 asking for Obama's birth certificate

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Tuesday March 17, 2009 · 6:47 AM PDT

2009/03/17 · 06:47

I have a story today about the National Republican Trust, the 527 founded by a self-described "wingnut" who, by buying a bunch of right-wing mailing lists, funded millions of dollars in Jeremiah Wright ads against Barack Obama. It's now buying ads in NY-20 attacking Democrat Scott Murphy, and being promoted by Dick Morris.

Oh, and the guys who run the 527? They don't think President Obama's an American citizen.

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Thursday March 12, 2009 · 6:57 AM PDT

2009/03/12 · 06:57

Democrat Scott Murphy is catching up with Republican Jim Tedisco in the race for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s vacated seat in New York’s 20th Congressional District, according to the new Siena Research Institute Poll. The trend lines are from the last poll released on February 26.

Republican candidate Jim Tedisco - 45 (-1)
Democratic candidate Scott Murphy - 41 (+7)
Libertarian candidate Eric Sundwall - 1 (+1)

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Who'll win in NY-20?

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Who'll win in NY-20?

Murphy by a lot

5 votes

Murphy in a squeaker

41 votes

Tedisco in a squeaker

2 votes

Tedisco by a lot

1 vote

Michael Steele, baby!

3 votes

Ron Paul mulling a 2012 presidential bid

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Friday November 14, 2008 · 10:52 AM PST

2008/11/14 · 10:52

From reason, where I blogged this...

Last week, Campaign for Liberty press guy and Ron Paul grandson-in-law Jesse Benton was driving to a constituent event with his boss and the subject of 2012 came up.

"He hasn’t closed out the idea of another run," said Benton today. "We have some time to decide whether he runs again, or whether he gets behind somebody else. But we don’t have tons of time. By the middle of 2009, the decision needs to be made."

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 10:44 PM PST

2008/11/02 · 22:44

I've been mulling this over. I've spent a lot of this year arguing with conservatives and debunking Obama smears. The Politico was nice enough to give me credit for debunking Larry Johnson's "whitey tape" rumor. In thinking about that, I realized something.

I reeeeeaaaaally want to read Johnson's blog if Obama wins.

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What righty blog will you click on to laugh at if Obama wins?

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What righty blog will you click on to laugh at if Obama wins?

FreeRepublic

27 votes

No Quarter

7 votes

Atlas Shrugs

3 votes

The Corner (at National Review)

12 votes

Red State

24 votes

Hot Air

1 vote

Michelle Malkin

12 votes

Larry Sinclair

0 votes

HillaryIs44

11 votes

Some other PUMA blog (specify)

6 votes

Another conservative blog (specify)

1 vote

None - why put a sour mood on the best day of my life?

75 votes

All of them - HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

48 votes

GA-Sen: Bush-supporting jackass probably winning Dem nomination [UPDATE: Or not!]

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Tuesday August 05, 2008 · 5:10 PM PDT

2008/08/05 · 17:10

[UPDATE: This is now the dumbest diary I've ever written. Early trends revealed nothing: In the big counties, Jim Martin is smoking Vernon Jones. He's going to win by 20 points.]

I've been watching the returns from Georgia's Senate runoff, and it looks like incompetent moron Vernon Jones will beat Jim Martin, about whom I know nothing other than the fact that he's not Vernon Jones. Check out the trends.

Here are the first round results.

Here are tonight's.

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Wednesday July 30, 2008 · 9:11 PM PDT

2008/07/30 · 21:11

I confess, I've been flabbergasted by the success that John McCain's had pushing the "Obama is presumptuous" meme. Does anyone in the press have a short-term memory? McCain was on the air with this ad two bleedin' months ago.

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The "arrogance" meme

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The "arrogance" meme

Is a brilliant attack that will work wonders

77 votes

Is stupid, but McCain will keep using it

432 votes

Will be abandoned for some other nonsense by mid-August

592 votes

USAT/Gallup: McCain leads Obama by 4

daveweigel

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Monday July 28, 2008 · 12:07 PM PDT

2008/07/28 · 12:07

Get ready for some breathless coverage of this.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain moved from being behind by 6 points among "likely" voters a month ago to a 4-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama among that group in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. McCain still trails slightly among the broader universe of "registered" voters. By both measures, the race is tight.

It's way off today's 8-point Obama lead in the Gallup tracking poll, but that's nothing new.

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Wednesday June 18, 2008 · 3:59 PM PDT

2008/06/18 · 15:59

I attended Larry Sinclair's press conference today and was confused when he concluded by rushing out of the room, taking no more questions. The reason? He was arrested by the D.C. metropolitan police. I called the First District station where he was being held and confirmed that Lawrence Wayne Sinclair was charged as a fugitive from justice based on an outstanding warrant.

The first story, I think, is up at my magazine's blog. But expect to hear it reported elsewhere soon.

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Tuesday June 03, 2008 · 3:24 PM PDT

2008/06/03 · 15:24

Early exits (especially ones released three hours before polls close) are dicey, but if we can believe Fox, Clinton will squeak out a win in South Dakota.

Fox has men going 52/48 for Clinton, and women going 57/43 for her. They're tied on which candidate "shares your values." Clinton won late deciders 62-38. If she wins, she was put over the top by her last-week, positive campaigning.

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Who'll win South Dakota?

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Who'll win South Dakota?

Obama

199 votes

Clinton

94 votes

THERE'S A SECRET TAPE OF MICHELLE SAYING BAD THINGS MWHAHAHA

79 votes

The Larry Johnson meltdown

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Monday June 02, 2008 · 8:48 AM PDT

2008/06/02 · 08:48

If I'm wrong about this, I'll (unhappily) eat my words. But I don't think I'm wrong. I think the "Michelle Obama whitey tape" story is a smear spread by people who want Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination, and are trying to keep superdelegates on the fence by exploiting fears of "more shoes to drop." The Wright and Pfleger tapes have stoked that fear, so the smearsters have got a little credibility when they work the phones and spread the stories.

So: Larry Johnson's 9 a.m. update convinces me that the story is a smear. At worst, there might be a video along the lines of what Booman suggests, a video of Michelle Obama sounding like she's attacking "whitey" when she's actually saying "why'd he." But Johnson claims:

It features Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan. They are sitting on a panel at Jeremiah Wright’s Church when Michelle makes her intemperate remarks.

This is odd.

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The Michelle Obama tape

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The Michelle Obama tape

Exists and is as bad as you can imagine.

28 votes

Exists and is being overblown by Larry Johnson et al.

82 votes

Does not exist.

393 votes

North Carolina: Obama up by 21 points

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Tuesday March 25, 2008 · 10:42 AM PDT

2008/03/25 · 10:42

The latest Public Policy Polling survey shows an Obama surge in North Carolina. This is the poll that showed Obama falling to a tie with Clinton during Wrightgate: Now, thanks to increased white support, he's up 21 points.

Barack Obama - 55 (44)
Hillary Clinton - 34 (43)

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How much would Obama have to win by in NC to knock out Clinton?

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How much would Obama have to win by in NC to knock out Clinton?

Any win will do.

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More than 10 points.

62 votes

Around 20 points.

72 votes

North Carolina doesn't count.

63 votes

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