In the past the Tea Party has been fond of featuring President Obama as Hitler.  But now one prominent Tea Party group has dolled up one of America’s most prominent Republicans  in fascist regalia: A top tea party group is taking its clash with Karl Rove to a new level, sending out a fundraising email [...]

Karl Rove could have called it a day after successfully re-electing George W. Bush in 2004. It could have been the capstone on one of the most successful and substantive careers in modern American politics. Rove would have left a master strategist feared by his enemies, admired by his friends, and mythologized by observers of [...]

Aside from the death threats to Todd Akin, the insider account of a Karl Rove fundraiser was enormously revealing. First of all, you get an eye into the Crossroads strategy, and since it promises to have $300 million behind it, it’s a heavy part of the strategy to recapture the White House: Then came the [...]

Just to carry over from the last post, Todd Akin will stay in his Senate race in Missouri, saying that he’s received “tremendous grassroots support” over the last 48 hours. That will have to suffice for the time being, however. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, which has been leading efforts to force Akin out, said [...]

This really makes minced meat of our campaign finance laws. Mitt Romney is holding a “Victory Leadership Retreat” this weekend in Utah. It sounds like a fine affair, if your idea of a good time is listening to former secretaries of state James Baker and Condoleezza Rice, Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman, Sen. John McCain, [...]

I’m not sure I should be paying this much attention to polls with almost a year to go until the election, but given that the Elizabeth Warren-Scott Brown race incorporates all the themes of contemporary politics in the 21st century, particularly the 1% vs. the 99%, it’s worth pointing out that this message is resonating [...]

Karl Rove jumped into the foreclosure fraud debate yesterday, as Marcy points out. But how should we judge his entry? I think it’s a sign that the banks know they’re slipping and need to look for reinforcements. Rove focuses on the AG settlement, but that’s a red herring, as Marcy points out: But again, why [...]

Both sides have gotten off the sidelines and started to spend money in the surprisingly close NY-26 special election between Republican Jane Corwin, Democrat Kathy Hochul and Tea Party candidate Jack Davis. After polls showed the race in the red district within reach for the Democrat, thanks to the third party effort of Davis taking [...]

As we near the 11th hour before a government shutdown, the wavering on the GOP side is intense. I mentioned some of it this morning: Pat Toomey and Michele Bachman balked at shutting down the government over riders. Bachmann has expanded on that in a post at RedState with the title “Not a Big Enough [...]

Karl Rove’s money-laundering shop has ordered up a series of ads attacking Democratic Senate candidates. But despite them clearly being electorally focused, Rove’s team tries to make them “issue ads” by adding a bill unrelated to the spots in the end plate. You can see all four ads, backed by “American Crossroads,” the Rove/Ed Gillespie [...]

I said a couple weeks ago to a friend that, as a general rule, liberals are by their nature a little neurotic, and conservatives by their nature are extremely smug and gullible. Therefore, liberals tend to think that things are worse for them than they may be, while conservatives tend to think that things are [...]