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Hat tip to CrellMoset who unearthed an arrest warrant for one George Felix Allen from 1974. One more thing for Macaca to explain.

Tim Tagaris says Jayson Blair is writing Lieberman’s campaign commercials. Of course, that’s just speculation.

This is what true deep-end homophobia looks like. The GOP looks poised to devour itself. Arovosis notes:

Yes, Virginia, there are gays in the Republican party, and you’ve known it for years. So why all the belly-aching now?

I’ll tell you why. Because while gay and lesbian Americans have been increasingly welcomed into the fabric of the American family, including the Republican party, the religious right has increasingly exposed itself as a fringe movement of hateful bigots, and nobody likes them anymore.

It’s not even clear the powerbrokers in the GOP ever liked them.

A new book by a former White House official says that President Bush’s top political advisors privately ridiculed evangelical supporters as “nuts” and “goofy” while embracing them in public and using their votes to help win elections.

Quote of the Day:

Dick Armey: “When it comes to James Dobson, my personal experience has been that the man is most interested in political power.”

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