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If you want fresh evidence that Donald Trump has turned American politics upside down, here it is: Former Gov. Christie Whitman, a lifelong Republican, is so appalled by him that she wants Democrats to take over the House. "I'm hoping we lose the House, that would be a good thing," she said Friday. "Congress could stand up to him and could be dialing back a lot of this. They have ceded too much to this president." But be careful, she says. Don't kill the moderate Republicans, they are the ones who can help steer the country back to safe ground....

Ebola, evil voices and the devil. Those are just a few of the things a Butler County bartender cited as reasons he was going to kill House Speaker John Boehner this past fall, federal agents said. Michael Robert Hoyt, 44, was indicted Jan. 7 on charges of threatening to murder the congressman in a plot authorities said included poisoning his drink at a country club.

Reading another bit of Palin-bashing this morning, it occurred to this poster that the approach is indistinguishable, in every way - from the Saul Alinsky mudslinging tactics of ... communists. Coincidence? Let's compare: RINOS: believe in globalism COMMUNISTS: believe in globalism RINOS: believe in big government COMMUNISTS: believe in big government RINOS: oppose the Tea Party COMMUNISTS: oppose the Tea Party RINOS: believe the "right wing" is scary. COMMUNISTS: believe the "right wing" is scary. RINOS: are weenies COMMUNISTS: aren't. Finally... One difference!

This annoys the hell out of me, because I'm not some rabid Palinista. Crap like this from Barbara Bush leaves one no alternative but to respond to it. What, does she have another son, or a grand kid lined up for the job of President? Reagan handed your husband his, despite some misgivings, and he blew it, Barbara. And as much as I supported her husband and her son while they were in office, they've hardly gotten us to a great place. Guess what? If not for 9/11, GW may well have been a one-term-er, just like his father. He...

Former governor and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christie Whitman and four of her former aides launched a consulting firm yesterday that will be based in New Jersey and have international reach, Whitman said. The Somerset County-based firm, Whitman Strategy Group, will specialize in environmental issues, but is prepared to advise corporations and countries on everything from energy to international negotiations to homeland security. "We're interested in trying to use our knowledge, experience and contacts to help businesses and governments do the right thing," Whitman said in a phone interview. Her partners are Jane Kenny, Jessica Furey, Eileen McGinnis and Susan...

Swift Yacht Veterans Unveil Campaign Commercial: Claim John Kerry was a “Jolly Good Fellow” and a “Dapper Gentleman Indeed” 8/23/2004 - Robert Krupto In a stinging retort to criticisms levied by the Swift Boat Veterans, who claim that John Kerry’s heroic Vietnam record is fabricated, the Massachusetts-based Swift Yacht Veterans will unveil a commercial in which they maintain that Kerry is a “jolly good fellow” and a “dapper gentleman indeed.” The ad features three white-haired men dressed in sailor hats, cravats, and blue, anchor-lapelled blazers; all of the men are sipping cognac, and two of them smoke pipes. They all...

Kerry Said to Have Many Ties to Royalty Mon Aug 16, 8:21 PM ET LONDON - Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) has blue blood from all the royal houses of Europe, with even more titled relations than President Bush (news - web sites), Burke's Peerage said Monday. Burke's Peerage, which researches genealogy, said the Democratic presidential candidate traces descent through his mother, Rosemary Forbes, to the royal houses of Albania, England, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Byzantium, Persia (Iran) and France. Forbes was descended from William Forbes, the Laird of Newe, an extended family that included many baronets, Burke's...

After months of research into Kerry's ancestry, Burke's Peerage, experts on British aristocracy, reported Monday that the Vietnam war veteran is related to all the royal houses of Europe and can claim kinship with Czar Ivan "The Terrible," a previous Emperor of Byzantium and the Shahs of Persia. Burke's director Harold Brooks-Baker said Kerry had his mother, Rosemary Forbes, to thank for most of his royal connections. "Every maternal blood line of Kerry makes him more royal than any previous American president," Brooks-Baker said.

LONDON (Reuters) - When it comes to American presidential elections, blue blood counts.   So say British researchers who predict Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) will oust President Bush (news - web sites) on Nov. 2 simply because he boasts more royal connections than his Republican rival. After months of research into Kerry's ancestry, Burke's Peerage, experts on British aristocracy, reported Monday that the Vietnam war veteran is related to all the royal houses of Europe and can claim kinship with Czar Ivan "The Terrible," a previous Emperor of Byzantium and the Shahs of Persia. Burke's director...

The Peerage by David Hill The Royal Factor in Presidential Elections There is some information that the American Public should be made aware of when it comes time to cast their vote for the Presidential Candidates this fall. It is a KNOWN FACT, according to Burke's Peerage, that the Presidential Candidate with the most Royal Blood ALWAYS WINS THE ELECTION. In an article dated October 25, 2000 and which, apparently, originated with ABC News from London (URL below) via reporter Tony Eufinger, they had this to say about our elections, "'The presidential candidate with the most royal genes and chromosomes...

High school reunions are inherently unkind. But, for John Kerry, the fortieth gathering of the St. Paul's class of 1962 was particularly bad. The key episode took place in a Concord, New Hampshire, restaurant, not far from the school itself. Kerry wasn't at the dinner. That, however, didn't prevent him from looming over the evening. Toward the meal's end, the class president, a Boston lawyer named Lloyd Macdonald, rose to give a toast. He wanted to celebrate his classmates who had devoted their careers to public service. As he ticked off the names - FBI Director Robert Mueller; the State...

Naushon Island Naushon Island has been a Forbes family retreat for some time, where the opium trader John Murray Forbes and his family summered for more than a century. Sen. John Forbes Kerry and his first cousin Brice Lalonde summered there, and at another Forbes family estate in France, at Saint-Brieuc when he was growing up. The family owns the island through the J.M. Forbes Naushon Island Trust. Naushon island is several miles long, just off (SW of) Cape Cod in the Elizabeth Islands, and NW of Martha's Vineyard. The island is owned by the family and they pay little...

WASHINGTON – Most of us working stiffs can only dream of owning an oceanside vacation home, but Sen. John F. Kerry’s family has an entire vacation island to call its own. Naushon Island stretches for seven pristine miles, a glittering jewel of land off the coast of Massachusetts where Kerry, under the arcane rules of a Forbes family trust, can spend time each year hunting, sailing, horseback windsurfing, vegging out or whatever else moves him. The bucolic island is essentially a private Forbes-owned family preserve with a few dozen cottages and a mounted caretaker on patrol to toss off interlopers...

BOSTON (AP) — Rosemary Forbes Kerry left many things to her son John: a flinty New England resolve, a worldly view of politics, and a middle name that conjures up images of a childhood drenched in wealth. The Democratic presidential candidate grew up in a world of elite private schools and vacations on a French estate, something most Americans could only dream about. His parents, a U.S. diplomat and a homemaker, turned to a wealthy, childless great-aunt, Clara Winthrop, to help pay the bills. Before he married Teresa Heinz, the heir to the food empire, Kerry had little more than...

We're so full of it. We pretend to be a middle-class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. We love our Roosevelts, Rockefellers, Kennedys, Bushes, Deans and Gores. We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before the New England summer homes. How else can you explain the Bush vs. Kerry matchup that confronts us this year? In Britain neither of these guys could lead a major party. Their upper-crust pedigrees would be disqualifying. But here in the land of Ralph Lauren wannabes, one all-scion campaign follows...

If you were to pick a presidential candidate on the basis of social standing — and really, darling, who doesn't — you'd have to pick Howard Brush Dean III over George Walker Bush. The Bush lineage is fine. I'm not criticizing. But the Deans have been here practically since Mayflower days and in the Social Register for generations. It's true Bush's grandfather was a Wall Street financier, a senator and a Yale man, but Dean's family has Wall Street financiers going back to the Stone Age, and both his grandfathers were Yale men. The Bush family properties were in places...