Cause → Effect: Jeb Drops Out of Iowa Straw Poll After Embarrassing Numbers
Walker Hides from Wisconsin's Budget Problems in Israel
"Molotov!" Scott Walker must be exhausted. He's running for president, sprinting from the press, and hiding from serious problems back home. Walker is currently doing the rounds in Israel, but you may not have noticed since he's barred any media from covering his trip. Even worse, while the presumptive GOP candidate is overseas, his home state is facing severe budget cuts to education, health care, and emergency services. Luckily folks aren't letting him off that easy.
No, Jeb Heard the Iraq Question Loud & Clear, Stands by His Answer
Jeb Bush is doubling down on comments that he would still authorize the Iraq War, even after knowing what his…
Denial Is No Longer Just a River in Egypt: Johnson Gets Chippy with Constituent on Climate Change
Renowned climate skeptic Ron Johnson brought us a full plate of irrationality Saturday in Sherwood, Wisconsin, arguing with a constituent…
Round Up: The Best of Lickgate
In case you missed it, Rand Paul's New Hampshire political director licked an American Bridge tracker's camera yesterday.
Clueless Bro, Jeb Bush Tanking Presidential Ambitions
There's only one word to describe the response to Jeb Bush's recent defenses of his brother's failed foreign policy: BRUTAL. At a closed-door event in New York, the not-yet candidate said George W. was one of closest advisers on international affairs. Following that jaw-dropper up with a FOX News interview where Jeb, knowing what we know now about the intelligence failures used to justify the war, said he would STILL have invaded Iraq in 2003. Perhaps Politico's Roger Simon ties this up best: "So to fully appreciate the importance of Jeb’s revelation that George W. will be his chief adviser when it comes to the Mideast, you’ve got to keep in mind that Jeb’s entire campaign is built around one selling point: Jeb is the smart one in the family."
POLITICO: Jeb keeps it all in the family
Washington Examiner: Jeb Bush's disastrous defense of the Iraq War
New Web Ad: George and Jeb: Foreign Policy Fools
Despite George W. Bush's admission that he would be the biggest drag on his brother's campaign, Jeb doesn't seem to care. Over and over, including in an interview with FOX News slated for tonight, Jeb has defended his brother's disastrous foreign policy -- including the fateful decision, based on false intelligence, to invade Iraq. Jeb either doesn't remember the ramifications of that war or thinks its consequences were desirable. Either way, the American people remember Jeb's brother as a terrible Commander in Chief. If that's the role model he's set for his presidency, he's doing a great job of lowering expectations. The latest from American Bridge, "George and Jeb: Foreign Policy Fools" will target specific constituencies in Nevada, where Jeb will be campaigning Wednesday, with a substantial effort including preroll and social media advertising. Watch the web ad below:
Somewhere, Whit Ayres Is Scratching His Head
Here's the premise, laid-down by Republican pollster Whit Ayres: the GOP presidential nominee will need to take at least 45% of the Latino vote to win the White House in 2016. That's a tall order, considering Mitt Romney won just 27% of this voting bloc in 2012 and John McCain did just slightly better in 2008, winning 31%. So naturally the Republican Party has studied why they've done poorly with Hispanics in presidential elections, most recently in a postmortem after the 2012 election. "We must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. If we do not, our Party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only," wrote the authors of the report from the RNC. "If Hispanic Americans hear that the GOP doesn’t want them in the United States, they won’t pay attention to our next sentence. It doesn't matter what we say about education, jobs or the economy.
South Carolina Cattle Call Whistles Past GOP's Electoral Graveyard
Another Republican cattle call has passed, this time the South Carolina Freedom Summit, and even SNL is in on the gag by this point-- the endless parade of events is primed to remind voters of everything they don't like about the Republican party. From Jim DeMint equivocating "the left" to ISIS to the latest and greatest in Steve King's musings to shots at Jeb and endorsements of so-called Personhood laws, the cast in Greenville was doing their best to conjure the ghosts of election losses past. Here's the lowlights: SCOTT WALKER Defends Wall Street: YouTube Proud of enacting voter ID: YouTube RICK SANTORUM Calling for cuts to legal immigration: YouTube MARCO RUBIO Contrasting with Jeb, reminds that his family isn’t “rich and famous”: YouTube
Scott Walker's Re-Ups His Extreme Anti-Choice Agenda
Scott Walker doubled down on his anti-choice agenda yesterday, saying he would support the 20 week abortion ban introduced by Republicans in the Wisconsin state legislature. Walker is in favor of extreme policies when it comes to a woman's right to choose, opposing abortion even in cases of rape, incest or to protect the mother's life. The governor also supports personhood which could restrict women's access to birth control and hurts families trying to conceive through nontraditional methods like In Vitro fertilization. Take a look at more of his extreme record below: