Carl Paladino made the rounds on the TV morning shows today, trying to tamp down the reaction to his comments about not wanting children “brainwashed” about homosexuality. Paladino’s line of defense this morning: “I’m not a homophobic. I have no reservations whatsoever about gays, except for marriage.”
Eric Kleefeld takes a closer look at the Republican poised to knock off Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI).
Remarkable images of the massive spill of toxic sludge from an aluminum plant in Hungary that killed at least seven people and injured more than 100:
The latest news today from Hungary is that the prime minister today announced that the head of the company that owns the plant where the disaster occurred has been detained by police.
This is pretty bizarre. But then again, it’s Carl Paladino.
You’ve probably already heard that Paladino created another press frenzy this weekend by telling a group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders in Brooklyn that “there is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual.”
But just a short while ago Paladino’s campaign sent out a press release insisting that not only does Paladino not believe this but that he did not even say it.
Full text of the press release after the jump … Read More
The big story last week — or story-lette — in the West Virginia Senate race was Politico’s scoop that the NRSC ad people did a casting call for ‘hicky’ actors to for an anti-Joe Manchin ad in support of GOP nominee John Raese. Now Manchin’s on the air with a new ad playing the revelation for all its worth. Take a look.
I’ll be curious to see how well this ad works and particularly whether it can shift momentum in the race. Republicans playing on the supposed elitism of national Democrats is a constant theme in Appalachia. But Manchin is a very popular Democratic governor. What’s got him in a tight race is President Obama and the national mood on the right. An ad like this attempts to put the lie to that whole Republican narrative. As I said, quite apart from the race itself, will be very interesting to see how the ad plays.
House Republicans scrub Nazi-reenacting Rich Iott from their ‘Young Guns’ list of top Republican House contenders in 2010.
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There are a lot of Dems in a lot more danger in November than Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D). But whatever worry she may have had about reelection, I think that’s over now that her opponent Rich Iott has been revealed as an avid Nazi reenactor.
When I first heard about this story, my first thought was whether this was just analogous to people who do Civil War reenactments, which is pretty troubling on some levels but pretty commonplace around the country. But when you read the descriptions of the Nazi party on their website, it’s rather positive. “Germany,” reads the site’s history section, “headed a strong movement in Europe to actively campaign (politically and through warfare) against the ideals of Bolshevist Communism. This culminated in 1941, when the German armed forces were pitted against the very home of Bolshevism, Soviet Russia.”
Christine O’Donnell’s self-proclaimed “number one” qualification for U.S. Senate is an 8-day fellowship on the Constitution at the conservative Claremont Institute in California. Chuck DeVore, who lost the GOP primary for U.S. Senate this year, attended the program a few years ago and defends it: “People would often wonder if I was a constitutional attorney because of the intense training.”