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Even though she’s retiring, Bachmann still fundraising on her campaign website saying Dems “trying to defeat her”

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Here is what you see if you click on Michele Bachmann’s campaign’s donation page:

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Obama and the Democrats are targeting Michele for speaking out against their extreme liberal agenda. They will do, say and spend whatever it takes to defeat her.

Please make a secure online contribution today to help defend Michele and the conservative values we share!

That would be the same Michele Bachmann who said she won’t run for re-election.

The very same Michele Bachmann who frequently finds herself in hot water (Can Michele pray this away? FEC fines Bachmann $8,000 for 2010 campaign finance violations).

Why does she still have her hand out? Targeting Michele for what? Getting into ethical and legal trouble? Embarrassing herself? Retiring? Being herself? Here’s an idea, Michele: Stop drawing those bullseyes and we’ll stop aiming.

Still, you never know what she’s capable of; after all, there’s always the Senate, right?

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But with all the baggage she’s lugging around, a Senate run seems unlikely… or does it?

Smart Politics:

Nearly two weeks after announcing she would not seek a 5th term from Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, Republican Michele Bachmann’s congressional campaign website is still locked and loaded to take in money. [...]

Bachmann has not officially ruled out another campaign in the current 2014 cycle or beyond – recently telling FOX’s Sean Hannity, “I may run for another public office.”

However, since her retirement announcement, Representative Bachmann has not issued a tweet on her campaign Twitter account, a press release on her campaign web site, or a post on her campaign Facebook account.

How can we stop targeting you miss you if you won’t go away?

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NOOOO!!! Minn. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she won’t run for re-election in 2014- Video

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Let me make it clear that I don’t want her to serve, but she’s just too good of a story generator to lose. Whattaya think? Marcus headed for “ex gay” therapy and she’s just trying to get ahead of the story?

WASHINGTON — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a conservative firebrand and a favorite of tea party Republicans, said Wednesday she will not run for another term in the U.S. House.

Bachmann, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination last year, announced her decision in a video on her website.

“My decision was not influenced by any concerns about my being re-elected,” Bachmann said. She narrowly won a fourth term in 2012 over Democrat Jim Graves, a hotel chain founder who is running again in 2014.

Bachmann also said, “This decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign.” In January, a former Bachmann aide filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, claiming the candidate made improper payments to an Iowa state senator who was the state chairman of her 2012 presidential run. The aide, Peter Waldron, also accused Bachmann of other FEC violations.

Bachmann had given few clues she was considering leaving Congress. Her fundraising operation was churning out the regular pitches for the small-dollar donations that Bachmann corralled so well over the years, and she had an ad running on Twin Cities television talking about her role in opposing President Barack Obama’s health law.

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Cartoons of the Day- Anthony Weiner for NYC Mayor

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Just when you think it can’t get crazier, former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh could replace former Illinois GOP chairman

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A few days ago we posted about the Illinois GOP chair resigning, citing support for marriage equality as a reason. That Illinois GOP chairman was Pat Brady, who left partly because he’d been butting heads with several members of the state GOP over his support for marriage equality, and also because his wife has cancer.

That left an opening that would provide an opportunity for the Republican Party to demonstrate that they’re Very Serious about their Very Serious Outreach Effort (scroll), right?

Wrong.

Via the Chicago Sun Times‘s piece titled, “Ron Gidwitz blows up, blasts GOP conservative bloc for ‘destroying any chance … party has in 2014′”:

Brady had called on female leadership to revive embattled Illinois Republicans, but so far just one woman made the cut of contenders lining up to take the helm.

Someone who did make the list was Tea Party ex-Congressman Joe Walsh [...]

The list may grow before Friday’s deadline… 30 people were nominated and the nominations included other women — but numerous nominees said they were not interested.

Yes, “Tell your employees to vote Republican or they could be out of a job Deadbeat Dad, hostile, lowlife, bullying loudmouth who thought nothing of insulting veteran Duckworth with his now infamous, “Female, wounded veteran … ehhh” remarks. The same one who said, “Go get a job. Go get a job Sandra Fluke.” Joe Walsh. That Joe Walsh.

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Simi Valley tea party councilman called out for posting decapitation video and misogynistic content on Facebook

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Over the past year, Mike Judge, a Simi Valley, California councilman, has posted links on his Facebook page to some offensive and racy websites. Very un-Simi-like of him. I taught in the Simi Valley school district for well over a decade, and it is a very conservative bedroom community. In fact, Simi and the porn industry have publicly clashed for some time now, including over the requirement that porn actors use condoms.

Did I mention that Mike Judge is an outspoken tea partier?

The pages he “liked” included “Fap Fap Fap” and “Big Fake Titties, Guns and other Manly Shit That Will Piss Your Girlfriend Off” (a page which, incidentally, has called Senator Feinstein a “moldy old c***”).

Judge’s own Facebook page is not set to private, so anyone can see what his, erm, preferences are.

Awhile back, the Simi Valley Acorn, a local paper out here in Ventura County, called him out because a minor stumbled across his Facebook page. He promised he would be “more careful” in the future.

Of course he would, because tea party members are fine, upstanding, honest, patriotic, family values citizens. And what did this fine, upstanding, honest, patriotic, family values tea partier do? Why he proceeded to post a video of a woman being beheaded with a pocketknife by drug cartel executioners.

The video came from BestGore.com, a torture and mutilation site that is also extremely anti-Semitic (they named Adolf Hitler as the greatest man of the 20th century). People are now want Judge to resign. Can’t for the life of me imagine why.

Via the Los Angeles Times:

But on Tuesday the Ventura County Democratic Party called for the Simi Valley Republican councilman’s resignation and censure after Judge linked to a graphic video of a woman being decapitated with a pocket knife. David Atkins, chair of the county Democratic Party, said the video appeared to depict a Mexican cartel murder.

“I started watching 10, 15 seconds of it before I clicked away. I’d seen enough,” he said. “When a councilman is a public figure and he starts sharing disturbing content like that from a website that’s basically torture porn … that’s a problem because people follow what he ‘likes.’ ” [...]

Atkins said the beheading video, which has been removed from Judge’s Facebook page, came from a website that features violent deaths, including executions, suicides and gruesome car wrecks.

But fine, upstanding, honest, patriotic, family values Councilman Judge then said, hey, this was all part of his police work, even though the crime wasn’t committed in the United States, and he never asked for help identifying the perpetrators when he posted it.

L.A. Times:

The nearly 23-year veteran of the LAPD said he didn’t go “trolling” for the pages, but that he “liked” them after male friends whom he described as being in the “alpha category” shared them with him.

Apprently Judge is also a fine, upstanding, honest, patriotic, family values, “alpha category” guy.

Here is The Acorn’s story describing how he was “called out not for his political views or votes but for his online profile—specifically, the types of pages he “likes” on Facebook, some of which contain scantily clad women in suggestive poses.”

According to The Acorn, an anonymous emailer who identified herself as “Simi Mother” had notified the local media, the city manager and city attorney, and the City Council—but not Judge, who is serving as mayor pro tem. She said, among other things, “He’s brought his private bedroom behavior to our bedroom community.” Per The Acorn:

[She] called out seven pages in particular, via screen shots of those pages attached to the email: Fap Fap Fap, Tactical Girls, Hot Chicks With Abs, Models Universe, Hot Mirror Shots and The Cougar Club. The other page name is not suitable for print; the page posts revealing photos of women, focusing on two body parts in particular.

The Acorn reached Judge, who said, sure, he “liked” the pages but sees them differently than “Simi Mother,” saying,

“There’s no porn on my Facebook. I know what pornography is, and I don’t consider any of that pornography… I have a lot of friends in the military, a lot of friends in law enforcement, so I get a lot of these things. Some people might find them distasteful, some might find them funny, that’s the way it is. I also post a lot of puppy pictures.

Awww, puppy pictures! See? He’s not so bad after all.

He also said that the woman complaining was out to get him. He has “unliked” several pages.

Republican War on Women? Naaah. Family values? Yeah, right. Pro-Life? I retort, you deride.

Another day, another GOP hypocrite.

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Illinois GOP chair resigns, citing support for marriage equality as a reason

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Those Republican scamps, swearingtogod that they’re totally into that Big Outreach Effort (scroll) of theirs, while shunning anyone who they think is “different” from them when they think we’re not looking.

The Republican Party chair in Illinois, Pat Brady has resigned, partly because he’s been butting heads with several members of the state GOP over his support for marriage equality. The other reason he gave was the old, “I want to spend more time with my family” routine. However, in this case, both reasons are valid; Republicans are small-minded, and his wife has cancer.

(CNN) – “There were several reasons,” why he decided to step down, Brady said in a telephone interview with CNN. “I’ve been going at it hard for six years, I need to focus on my family, and obviously I had lost the support of the state Central Committee because of my position on gay marriage.” [...]

Brady’s public support of same-sex marriage angered social conservatives because it went against the state GOP platform on the issue.

That would be the same GOP platform that represents their sincere, heartfelt, big tent reachy-outiness. The one that discriminates against gays. And women. And anyone else who isn’t Christian and/or white.

So Republicans, how’s that rebranding thing workin’ for ya?

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Video Mid Day Distraction- “House of Cards” Spoof, “House of Cardinals”

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Via Sullivan.

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