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Salon composite/AP Photos Crazy right-wing myths about Obama 2.0

The post-inauguration edition of odd things conservatives believe about Obama. Teleprompters! Hitler Youth! Satan!
  • Romney wins CPAC straw poll

    An old conservative favorite came out on top at the conference, while attendees were more than a little skeptical of President Obama.
  • Not your average tea party

    Conservatives gather to recreate the spirit of the Boston Tea Party and protest Obama's economic policies, and the word "revolution" was on some people's lips.
  • DeMint: Obama "world’s best salesman of socialism"

    Talk of an impending socialist takeover of the U.S., and taking to the streets to stop it, is a frequent occurrence at CPAC.
  • Conservatives band together against nonexistent threat

    A prominent right-wing media watchdog announces the formation of a group dedicated to fighting against the Fairness Doctrine.
  • The right's bogus Fairness Doctrine fears

    Conservatives have been warning for almost two years that Democrats intend to censor talk radio, but the conspiracy they see is only imaginary.
  • Palin to speak at CPAC

    Sarah Palin has confirmed that she will appear at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, a required stop for Republican presidential candidates.
  • How did that realignment work out for you, Republicans?

    Five years ago, overweening conservatives predicted they would dominate the future. Goodbye to all that -- for now.
  • The Republican shipwreck

    The mighty right-wing Titanic is sinking, and McCain is desperately blaming Bush. But the problem isn't the captain -- it's the ship.
  • Christopher Buckley quits the National Review

    His relationship with the conservative movement has gone sour since he endorsed Obama; he has now left the magazine his father founded.
  • The GOP goes back to its ugly roots

    McCain is resurrecting the GOP's oldest tactic: Smearing Obama as a scary black terrorist sympathizer. But he may meet the same fate as Barry Goldwater.
  • The Palin problem

    After weeks of declaring that she's their girl, conservatives are expressing doubts about McCain's V.P. pick.
  • McCain's Palin pick is the epitome of tokenism

    Suddenly all anyone needs to qualify as a potential commander in chief is to be a religious ideologue with female gender characteristics?
  • Thomas Frank on the Bush administration: Sabotage by design

    The author of "What's the Matter With Kansas?" discusses the corrosive relationship between conservatives and business, liberal bias and his new book about Republican misrule.
  • How conservative greed and corruption destroyed American politics

    Abramoff, DeLay, Norquist, oh my! The spectacular misrule of the GOP was not an accident.
  • Conservatives worry about McCain backslide on immigration

    Obama's not the only presidential candidate with "base issues" this week. Conservatives are getty antsy about McCain's renewed talk of comprehensive immigration reform.
  • A GOP plan for reclaiming the burbs

    Two young conservatives famous for arguing that Republicans must consolidate their appeal to "Sam's Club" voters now offer a prescription for winning the Starbucks crowd.
  • Wielding the conservative veto pen

    National Review's John J. Miller strikes four possibilities from McCain's potential veep list as ideologically unsound.
  • Jesus loves you -- and your orgasm

    The religious right is celebrating sex to stroke its conservative message. Liberals better rise to a secular defense soon.
  • The bitter legacy of Jesse Helms

    There's a reason why so many Americans can't feel charitable about the passing of the virulent warrior of the Right.
  • McCain's scary economic advisor

    Not only is former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm a shill for special interests, his deregulation policies helped spur the mortgage crisis, among other financial disasters.
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