This is getting interesting:

Social conservatives are blasting the National Council for a New America, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) nascent effort to rebrand the Republican Party, as a misguided and weak-kneed initiative that is out of touch with the GOP rank and file.

And why do you suppose the whackjobs don’t like it?

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Seeking to disprove the notion that he can’t even get himself arrested, Alan Keyes is in South Bend, Indiana, today, brandishing bloody dead-baby dolls to demonstrate his commitment to opportunistic self-promotion.

The occasion is Barack Obama’s upcoming commencement speech at Notre Dame, itself needing a distraction from holding the NCAA record for consecutive bowl-game losses. The announcement of Obama’s visit quickly became a political football (you’re welcome!) when anti-abortion groups declared that a Catholic university shouldn’t be hosting a man who feasts upon the blood of the unborn between trips to the hamburger joint.

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Wired commits journalism, actually looks into that Fed kidnapping story making the wingnut rounds, and finds — nothing:

The claim that the boy is a victim of USA PATRIOT, though, appears to have been cut from whole cloth. While there’s plenty to criticize in that post-9/11 law, it doesn’t contain any provision that abrogates a defendant’s right to a trial. It’s also not responsible for making it illegal to phone in a bomb threat. That’s been a federal crime since 1939.

The boy’s mother, Annette Lundeby, has even acknowledged in interviews that her son has been formally charged, has a court-appointed attorney, and has already made appearances in front of a judge.

So, where did the claim of Patriot Act abuse originate? Mom made it up.

Bloggers, TV, Go Nuts Over Misleading ‘Patriot Act’ Arrest Claim [Wired]

Oh, Now It’s Tyranny [Stinque]

My earlier PUMA inspired me to look for more. Native Americans Against Obama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWnS4UtAyFY

He’s going to take away your guns, tax you, kill 25 million of us, and bankrupt the coal industry.

How did I miss this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP3q8dHA4Hk

This must be what mainlining is like. Pure, one-hundred percent, batshit crazy wingnuttery. More pure than Ivory soap.

So what is he – a sociopath, homeschooled, or clinically insane?

Charlie Crist! Jesus Christ, What An Asshole! Here he is with an another complete piece of GOP shit. Did Charlie gobble McCain's schlong, too? Can he control himself?

Gay-bashing, schlong-gobbling fascist fucktard and GOP governor of Florida Charlie Crist loves to inhale the man-snake and condemn anyone else who is a guy and enjoys the same sport. Everyone knows that.

In fact, everyone knows he was pondering running for Senate specifically to take on the US Marine Band since Laura Bush left town and left the band members unserviced. It is easy to see how this would be a mutually beneficial arrangement as many musicians could park their horns, bells down, on his pin-shaped head while he services them.

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