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Conservative blog site asks readers to send Sen. McConnell a weasel for his debt proposal

By | 07.12.11 | 5:05 pm

Conservative media personality and editor of the blog RedState Erick Erickson wants his readers to send Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a toy weasel for proposing the president have the authority to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval.

Is a Republican Civil War over the party leadership race a media fiction?

By | 11.09.10 | 8:58 am

Erick Erikson at RedState thinks the way the media have excitedly covered the race for House GOP Conference Chair between Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) has been far removed from reality:

It is absolute and utter nonsense. This contest is not in the least

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Tea Party leadership begins applying primary pressure early

By | 11.05.10 | 10:21 am

Whether the Tea Party rank-and-file decide to get on board remains an open question, but conservative figures like Dick Armey, the former Republican majority leader who now chairs FreedomWorks, and Erick Erickson, managing editor of the blog RedState, are already excited about the prospect of directing Tea Party outrage toward More…

New Video From Kentucky Stomper Incident

By | 10.27.10 | 1:49 pm

RedState has obtained a new video from the notorious “head stomp” incident at an event for Senate candidate Rand Paul (R) in Kentucky. RedState insists that the video, which documents some of the events that precede the incident, is in no way an attempt to present mitigating circumstances or More…

Fox News Touts Another Incident of Possible Voter Fraud

By | 10.04.10 | 2:45 pm

Fox News continues its drumbeat on the “rampant, largely ignored and troubling issue” of voter fraud with a story about Daytona Beach City Commissioner Derrick Henry, whose computer was allegedly “used to obtain dozens of absentee ballots prior to the city’s Aug. 24 elections, in which he was re-elected.”

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Conservatives Back Boehner in Calls to Fire Geithner

By | 08.25.10 | 5:32 pm

Seems like just yesterday liberals were the ones calling for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s head. Now that House Minority Leader John Boehner has spoken, however, Geithner’s become a figurehead on the right for what Boehner is calling, “19 months of government-as-community organizer. It hasn’t worked. Our fresh start More…

RedState Backs Burns in PA-12 Special Election

By | 02.25.10 | 12:53 pm

The influential conservative site gets into some of the issues I covered in my story today about the sleeper special election in PA-12 — the seat opened up by the death of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) — and backs a first-time candidate against the man who gave Murtha his More…

D’Ippolito Falls Flat

By | 02.16.10 | 1:17 pm

The oh-so-brief conservative push to get fringe cafe owner Tamyra d’Ippolito on the Indiana ballot as the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate seems to have hit the reef. Reid Wilson reports:

An official in Marion Co. (IN) tells Hotline OnCall d’Ippolito turned in just 3 signatures in the 7th

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RedState Bans Birthers

By | 02.12.10 | 4:11 pm

RedState’s Erick Erickson announces a blanket ban on conspiracy theorists at his site, taking some whacks at liberals and “Clintonistas” for starting the “truther” and “birther” conspiracy theories while announcing that he will “part ways with the individuals and groups willing to share the stage and treat as legitimate the More…

Adam Andrzejewski, No Longer the ‘Next Scott Brown’

By | 02.03.10 | 10:06 am

Rep. Mark Kirk’s (R-Ill.) successful Illinois Senate primary campaign against a truly weak field of GOP candidates is being interpreted as a blow to the “Tea Party movement.” I don’t think it is — it’s clear that Kirk headed off conservative anger by flip-flopping on cap-and-trade (he voted for it More…