I’m running Ray McMurrey’s campaign for U.S. Senate against John Cornyn. Our main opponent in the primary is five-term state Rep. Rick Noriega, who spends most of his time talking about how he serves in the National Guard. Apparently, my entire family — including me — should run for Senate because we’ve all been active-duty. [...]

Just received a lovely e-mail from the God’s own homosexual-filled Republican Party of Texas: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Hans Klingler at 512/477-9821 Democratic Senate Candidate Noriega Asks “Netroots” Donors to “Step Up” And They Don’t Dismal Three Day Online Fundraising Effort Further Points to Anemic Start for Liberal Senate Wannabee Austin- Today the Republican Party [...]

It’s a pissing contest to see who South Carolina’s favorite son really is! As CNN reports: Comedian Stephen Colbert brought his mock presidential campaign to the capital of South Carolina Sunday, where he was declared “favorite son” by the mayor of Columbia and given the key to the city. Colbert, a native of Charleston, told [...]

What if only poor people were allowed to vote? Or only middle-income? Or just the rich? Well, the 2004 election would have looked something like this: [Hotel Tango: Crooked Timber]

The conservative Lone Star Times is reporting that presidential hopeful Ron Paul has received campaign donations from the white supremacist movement. The LST, which I’m certain I’d never agree with otherwise, has been digging up information on the donations, the Web site owned by the contributor, Don Black, and a bunch of other facts that [...]

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that [Stephen] Colbert is preferred by 13% of voters as an independent candidate challenging Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani. The survey was conducted shortly after Colbert’s surprise announcement that he is lusting for the Oval Office. The result is similar when Fred Thompson is the [...]

A new poll looks at the support for Stephen Colbert’s faux presidential campaign among Democrats and Republicans: Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm, recently completed a national poll of 1,000 likely 2008 voters that included Colbert’s name in both the GOP and Democratic primaries. (He has announced his plans to run in both the [...]

PolitiFact.com from the St. Petersburg Times examines politician’s statements and ranks them on their truth-o-meter. Here’s a great Huckabee quote from the last Republican debate in Orlando that got a “Pants on fire!” rating from PolitiFact. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were “brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.” Politifact’s [...]

That’s one harsh lesson Obama recently learned: In an interview on MSNBC Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Cheney said that in the course of researching her husband’s genealogy for her new book, “Blue Skies, No Fences,” she discovered that [Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama] share an ancestor eight generations ago. . . [...]

Oh, god, yes! Appearing on Larry King’s CNN show Thursday night, Stephen Colbert was accused by the host of using the publication of his new book as a platform to run for president. Colbert happily confirmed this, saying that he would likely seek the nomination from both parties. When King said this was a “cop [...]