The Romney campaign is asking old prep school friends to speak out in his defense, say he didn’t beat up gay kids, etc.
TPM Reader BK thinks Obama’s marriage move will shore up critical elite media support …
I wanted to offer a few brief thoughts on some of the potential upside of Obama’s pro gay marriage declaration, apart from any moral, polling, or fundraising calculations. Let me preface this by saying that I’m allergic to any narratives about liberal media bias and “elite” media conspiracy. That said, I think this move inevitably shores up considerable sympathy (if not exactly “support”) and regains some luster with a demographic crucial in 2008: the media, maybe particularly television.
New technology turns any surface that conducts electricity into a touch screen.
Colbert: “I believe gay people should be having hot, sweaty, depraved, anonymous man-piles in the basements of techno clubs, devoid of the slightest emotional connection, just as God intended.” Watch.
After months of failed negotiations to reach a settlement agreement, the Justice Department today finally sued Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for alleged civil rights abuses against Latinos.
Amazing look at the role of religion in the breakdown of voting choices.
Romney: “Back in high school I did some dumb things and if anybody was hurt by that or offended by that I apologize.”
He further said: “I certainly don’t believe that I thought the fellow was homosexual. That was the furthest thing from our minds back in the 1960s.”
Earlier Romney, through spokespeople, had said he didn’t remember the incidents.
Obama: Biden “got out a little over his skis” on same sex marriage.
Barney Frank: “Look, I note that this happens just a couple months before my own marriage. And it makes me very happy both because he’s doing it and because it confirms that we are on the verge of winning this fight within 10 years.”
TPM Reader BT on that Mitt video …
Did you notice that each of these things that Mitt got testy about are issues important to young people? The entirety of this election is generational, with racial and cultural layers built over it. And the Ryan budget is the keystone of that: make everybody under 54 pay full Medicare for everybody over and then cut them off.
Generational warfare is the core animating force of our politics.