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NRSC Raises Funds off Terror Attack

By | 12.30.09 | 4:00 pm

Reid Wilson has the latest fundraising pitch from the GOP’s Senate campaign committee, and, if anything, it’s more double-take-inducing than the pitch that tripped up Pete Hoekstra. To wit:

To you and me and our friends throughout America, the healthcare bill is a man-made disaster. And when a foreigner

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NRSC Plays the Feminism Card

By | 12.16.09 | 2:14 pm

The National Republican Senatorial Committee — which, so far, has been struggling to find any challenger to appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) — is attempting to make an issue out of a frothy story about Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) tiff with a female flight attendant while Gillibrand remained mum. More…

NRSC Using Lieberman Threat Against Vulnerable Democrats

By | 10.27.09 | 3:26 pm

The smart take among liberal and Democratic strategists is that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is making an empty threat to filibuster his party’s health care bill. But there are short-term consequences for what Lieberman is doing. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is using Lieberman to push Democrats More…

Belatedly, NRSC Endorses Pat Toomey

By | 07.14.09 | 3:18 pm

Several months after he became the leading Republican candidate in Pennsylvania’s 2010 U.S. Senate race, former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) has won the endorsement of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in a statement:

Congressman Pat Toomey’s life experience and public service make him uniquely qualified

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GOP Distorts Franken’s Tribute to Paul Wellstone, Again

By | 07.07.09 | 9:28 am

Well, sort of. During the 2008 Senate campaign, Al Franken would often tell a story about Paul Wellstone — who was five-foot-five and perpetually wired — egging on his son to finish a race. Franken would jump up and down, shaking his arm, stage-yelling “You can take this guy! You More…

Cornyn: I’ll Support Norm Coleman if He Appeals to the Supreme Court

By | 06.23.09 | 2:12 pm

At a luncheon at the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s headquarters near Capitol Hill (organized by the Heritage Foundation), I asked Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) if there was a Republican game plan ready when the Minnesota Supreme Court makes its ruling in the contested 2008 Minnesota Senate race — More…

Newt at Large

By | 06.09.09 | 9:11 am

When President Obama gave his “Muslim speech” in Cairo, the Drudge Report headlined it “6,000 words.” When former Vice President Cheney responded to the president’s speech on Guantanamo Bay and torture, he opened with a joke about how long it was (“In the House, we have the five minute rule.”) More…

Bloggers to NRSC: Drop Dead

By | 05.20.09 | 1:37 pm

John Hawkins of Right Wing News has gotten a number of A- and B-list conservative bloggers to co-sign an open letter to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a reaction to last week’s endorsement by the group of Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in the Florida U.S. Senate race.

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‘Tea Party’ Republicans Rebel Against National GOP

By | 05.14.09 | 1:41 pm

On March 11, when Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) entered the 2010 U.S. Senate race, Marco Rubio was in Washington. The former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives was ready for this moment, rumored for weeks, the entry of a Republican party dream candidate who threatened to push him out More…

Crist’s Our Man!

By | 05.12.09 | 9:32 am

Josh Kraushaar reports that the National Republican Senatorial Committee will go back on its word from last week and endorse Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) when he announces his bid for the U.S. Senate. It’s one of several Senate races where the party has drafted or is trying to draft More…