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Political Hacks Swarm NE: Invasion of the Bus People

Originally published May 4, 2012, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. 6 Comments

Political Hacks Swarm NE: Invasion of the Bus People

I don’t know if everyone reading this is old enough to remember all the press about “the boat people” fleeing Vietnam in the ’70s.  According to Wikipedia, references to the boat people “came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass departure of Vietnamese refugees from Communist-controlled Vietnam, following the Vietnam War.”  Desperate […]

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Activism, Campaign Finance, Featured, Tea Party, US Senate Tagged With: 2012 campaign, 2012 election, all politics is local, amy kremer, astroturfing the tea party, attorney general jon bruning, ben nelson's senate seat, boat people, bus people, campaign finance, candidates, candidates for u.s. senate, carpet baggers, carpetbaggers, don stenberg, eagle forum, election 2012, family research council, federalism, gop astroturf, heritage foundation, herman cain, herman cain 9-9-9 plan, herman cain nine nine nine plan, important us senate seats, influencing local elections, jon bruning, money from outside the state, national tea party groups, nationalizing elections, nebraska don stenberg, nebraska election 2012, nebraska jon bruning, nebraska politics, nebraska senate race, nebraska senate seat, obama mega-hearse, obama planet-eating death star, obama tour bus, outside influences on election, phyllis schafly, secret service prostitutes, secret service scandal, stenberg campaign, tea party express, tea party express endorsements, tea party gop, tea party influence on elections, tea party movement and elections, teaparty, teaparty gop, tpx, u.s. seat, us senate race, values bus tour, vietnam boat people, vietnam war refugees

It’s The Electability and Inevitability, Stupid

Originally published March 8, 2012, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. 3 Comments

It’s The Electability and Inevitability, Stupid

We don’t know about anyone else, but we’re a little tired of having our intelligence insulted. We started writing this article on Monday, well before the votes were in from “Super Tuesday”. When family matters interrupted our task, we hoped we’d be proven wrong and just have to scratch this article. But, alas, as the […]

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