GOP Opponents

The attacks are already flying in Ohio's 15th congressional district and, oddly enough, they're about an issue on which some believe the candidates would agree -- in theory.

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The GOP sure is trigger happy lately.

We told you earlier about the NRCC's Young Guns program, which helps recruit and train GOPers in targeted open-seat and challenger races. And now we have news that the Young Guns are taking aim and increasing their numbers, adding 32 new GOP candidates to the program -- and using more gun analogies and references than ever!

Yesterday, we told you about the outrageous comments printed in the Medina County (Ohio) Republican Executive Committee's Republican Review newsletter, saying "Let's take Betty Sutton out of the House and put her back in the kitchen." You were all as disgusted as we were -- but if you thought the situation was already bad, just wait -- there's more.

In an article that shows just how astoundingly out of touch they are, PoliticMO describes the latest argument going on between Republican Missouri Senate candidates Sarah Steelman and Todd Akin over Medicare.

By now, if you haven’t heard that, almost two decades after the infamous hearings, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni, called Anita Hill and told her to apologize to her husband, you may be the only person in America without a Facebook page, a Twitter feed, or a television.

Usually, it's a good thing when I say someone is "on the List." But there's always an exception.

There is a growing trend in the national media of talk about how 2010 holds potential to be another "Year of the Woman." EMILY's List and its members are fighting tooth-and-nail to ensure that the pollsters, the pundits, and especially the people at the polls know there is an ENORMOUS difference between our team of women and the motley crew assembled by Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.

Ever since Iowa finished caucusing and Rick Santorum galloped to a narrow second place, the former Pennsylvania Senator has garnered, well, about a metric ton of media that he wasn't getting previously.

But I wanted to bring to your attention to one nugget about Santorum that I haven't heard too many folks talking about. He opposes birth control. Full stop. For single women and for married women alike.

GOP Cong. Chip Cravaack, whom we put “On Notice” in April for his heinous anti-woman record, was already considered one of the most vulnerable freshmen in the House. Now, not only is former state senator and green jobs advocate Tarryl Clark in the race for Minnesota’s 8th District, she’s “On the List.”

Carly Fiorina, former "victory chair" of John McCain's presidential campaign and CEO (fired) of Hewlett-Packard, did not bother to vote in any elections during the eight years she lived in New Jersey. The state elections division finally dropped her off the voter rolls for inactivity.

Before that, Fiorina lived in Maryland - where she apparently did not even bother to register, let alone vote.