Northwest Indiana Discussion

Stevie Wonder performs for just 200 people at badly organised Obama rally
Voters were informed of the gig just half an hour before it started

Eric Hartsburg of Michigan City, Ind., says he plans to have the red-and-blue "R" removed from its prominent place next to his right eye.

Weeks after President Barack Obama defeated the former Massachusetts governor in the Nov. 6 election, Hartsburg says "now to me it represents not a losing campaign, but a sore losing campaign."

One day after Rubio entered the conservative lion’s den to talk immigration reform on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, Coulter blasted the GOP senator in a Human Events column.

And then there's Sanford, of Appalachian Trail and Argentine lover fame, who apparently by unwritten rule must be described by reporters as "disgraced former governor Mark Sanford." Perhaps we're reaching a point where it would be more appropriate to call him "formerly disgraced governor Mark Sanford," though. He took a solid 37 percent of the vote, exceeding the closest comer by 24 points.

INDIANAPOLIS | The Twitter antics that prompted Senate Republicans to exile state Sen. Mike Delph, R-Carmel, to a new chamber seat deep in Democratic territory also forced state Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Ogden Dunes, out of the back row seat she loved.

Delph's Senate chamber seat was changed Friday as punishment for his tweeting last week about internal debates over the marriage amendment during a private meeting of Senate Republicans.

More troubling to movement leaders, GOP moneyed interests are taking aim at Tea Party lawmakers deemed disruptive and bad for the brand. Rep. Justin Amash’s hard line on the debt ceiling, for instance, outraged key business interests, including the Chamber of Commerce, which have lined up behind his primary challenger, Brian Ellis.

“Five years ago, I never would have imagined the Republican Party would be coming after people the Tea Party had gotten elected,” says Keli Carender, the national grassroots coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots. “It still shocks me.”

"I can’t do this. I talk with my hands," she said, with an expression the Detroit Free Press described as "slightly panicked and clearly uncomfortable."

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As he gears up for a possible second presidential run, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is crisscrossing the country.

But back home, members of Perry's own party seem poised to dismantle key parts of his legacy.

[b]Perry's Texas legacy unraveling as he leaves[/b]

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As he gears up for a possible second presidential run, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is crisscrossing the country.

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But back home, members of Perry's own party seem poised to dismantle key parts of his legacy.

http://news.yahoo.com/perrys-texas-legacy-unraveling-leaves-191111553--lection.html

Now...what's that third one there?

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning after polls closed in Mississippi’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate, a campaign staffer for Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel was found locked inside a county courthouse with a a top Tea Party activist and a consultant for the Mississippi Baptist Christian Action Commission.