“In a speech today, President Obama said that Michelle Obama is very strong and talented and she frequently tells him that he is wrong. As a result, Michelle Obama is now the Republican front-runner for 2016.” SaidTodayStrongPresidentResultsFrontsRepublicanSpeechPresident ObamaVery StrongRunners Author:Conan O'Brien
“Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.” PeopleThinkingMadeReasonAmericaMovingSidesDecisionFrontsAmountRepublicanEgoCapableUnderstoodFemaleDemocratMalesStartingMade ItCanadaOppositionBlindnessBreakthroughMoving Away Author:Richard Rohr
“John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh--.” WayGivingShouldFunClearWeekFrontsInternetRepublicanFindingsShould HaveDenyHeatTreatmentRunnersOld FashionedRumorBrowsJohn KerryBotox Author:Bill Maher
“The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out.” LastsMovingAsksPoliticsPresidentLeadershipComedyFrontsRepublicanElectionStrategyDemocratIdeologyCandidatesRunnersDeanPartisanshipSecond Place Author:Brian Schweitzer
“In a Republican primary every candidate is going to come in front of you and say I'm the most conservative guy that ever lived. Goshdarnit, whodidily, I'm conservative. You know what, talk is cheap. The word tells us you shall know them by their fruits ... Look every candidate in the eye and say 'Don't talk, show me.'” KnowsLooksShowsEyeGuyFrontsRepublicanFruitConservativePrimariesCandidatesShow MeTalk ShowsTalk Is Cheap Author:Ted Cruz
“The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.” PersonsLongMadeTwoRealityPoliticalReligiousWhiteClassFrontsColorTvsRepublicanConservativeEducatedFilmmakerGlobal WarmingObscureBackwardsRedneckReactionariesTokensUneducatedIdeologues Author:Frank Schaeffer
“With the Republican Party`s presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought to be a national registry of Muslims, that we ought to looking into Muslims having to carry government ID cards that state their religion, now, the word fascist is being used to describe this ascending and leading Republican politician.” ShouldStatesGovernmentUsedUnitedPartyUnited StatesFrontsOughtPoliticianRepublicanCardsPresidentialRunnersRepublican PartyEnteringFascistsBannedAscending Author:Rachel Maddow
“The Republican front-runner, has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking prejudice and paranoia. His latest insult is his call to stop all Muslims from entering the United States.” MadeStatesLastsNamesUnitedUnited StatesFrontsMonthsRepublicanPrejudiceInsultRunnersEnteringParanoiaTrafficking Author:Rachel Maddow
“The Republicans finally got some good news over the weekend. The North Koreans set off a nuclear bomb. Thank God. It was so powerful it knocked the Mark Foley story right off the front page. And knocked him off the page he was on, too.” StoriesPowerfulFrontsRepublicanNewsPagesMarkNuclearBombsThank GodWeekendGood NewsNorth KoreaKoreanNuclear BombNorth Korean Author:Jay Leno
“Jeb`s Bush front-runner status was short lived, to say the least. But who could have predicted that the Republican front-runner would be someone that we were not even thinking about.Donald Trump was not even on anyone`s radar back then and Mike Pence was getting more attention than he was.” ThinkingWould BeAttentionFrontsTrumpRepublicanRunnersMikeRadarShort Lived Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“Republicans woke up Sunday with an undeniable reality. Donald Trump's the clear front-runner now for their party's nomination. Trump, celebrated, of course, his big win in South Carolina.” BigsRealityCoursesWinningPartyClearFrontsTrumpRepublicanSouthSundayRunnersCarolinaNominationsSouth Carolina Author:Chris Matthews
“If you want to really sort of quantify the dereliction of the Republican establishment, those two facts are the most important two facts. One, that they didn`t even understand the base of their own party, white working class voters who you know what, don`t care about tax cuts for the rich, really aren`t interested in the things that the elite part of their party want, including immigration reform. And number two, they spent eight months avoiding finding opposition research to use against the guy who was becoming the front-runner in their party that they don`t want.” IfsKnowsWantTwoImportantFactsUseCareGuyWhitePartyNumbersClassRichCuttingFrontsMonthsBecomingRepublicanTaxesFindingsResearchIncludingDon't CareEightImmigrationReformOppositionVotersEstablishmentElitesWorking ClassRunnersAvoidingTax CutsImmigration ReformWho You Know Author:Chris Hayes
“I also think the party needs to work on a couple different fronts. There are so many fault lines within the party: conservative vs. moderate, the more fiscally minded Republicans vs. the more socially minded Republicans, the Old Guard - the sort of Newt Gingrich-Karl Rove Republican - vs. the New Guard - the Michael Steele-Sarah Palin sort of emerging sect of the party. And the party has to decide what direction it's going to go in.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentLinesPartyFrontsCoupleRepublicanFaultsConservativeModeratesEmergingSectsPalinNewts Author:Andrea Tantaros
“It`s been a long and tumultuous relationship between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz that started off more or less as allies during the Republican primary. As Trump took the early lead in polls, Cruz stuck with the strategy of drafting off of the front-runner waiting for the moment to make his move.” LongMomentsMovingWaitingFrontsTrumpRepublicanStrategyStuckPrimariesAlliesRunnersPollsCruzLead InDrafting Author:Chris Hayes
“There was a whole set of issues that the other Republican candidates couldn`t go after Trump that hard on. They had this difficult position where they were trying to knock Trump down while appealing to the voters who liked a lot of the outrageous things about Donald Trump.[Hillary] Clinton is giong to have no such restrictions. She`s going to attack him on a wide variety of fronts and I don`t think Trump is going to deal very well with being attacked in that way.” ThinkingWayTryingWellsHardWholeDifficultDealsIssuesFrontsPositionTrumpRepublicanClintonWideVarietyCandidatesVotersRestrictionOutrageous Author:Josh Barro