Rush Limbaugh sure knows a lot about hot air, so, you know, he’s pretty much an expert on hurricanes. He seems to think that President Barack Obama is personally responsible for guiding Tropical Storm Isaac to Tampa, or something. Nothing he says really makes much sense…
Is tropical storm Isaac God’s way of smiting Tod Akin for saying stupid sh*t? Is it a coincidence that the squall is set to touch down at the very moment that Rick Scott takes to the podium in Tampa? Does Jesus just hate the GOP?Get a hold of yourself, man!…
Dear Democratic Party of Florida,Rumors have been swirling that Charlie Crist would be joining your party ever since he got his ass handed to him Tea-Party style in the 2010 Senate race. Now there’s very specific gossip going around that he’ll announce his official membership in your party in a…
Well, that didn’t take long. The bizarre campaign of Justin Lamar Sternad in the District 26 Democratic primary is under investigation by the FBI and Miami-Dade Police Department, according to the Miami Herald. His campaign’s deep connections to Republican Rep. David Rivera definitely appear to be more than coincidental. The whole campaign…
From the moment Mitt Romney picked budget radical Paul Ryan as his running mate, one of the biggest question is how the Wisconsin rep would play in Florida. Romney desperately needs the swing state, but Ryan’s plans to turn Medicare into a voucher system — not to mention his shaky…
In a story straight out of a twisted fever dream shared by Michael Bay and Aaron Sorkin — not to mention the sick fantasies of thousands of catastrophe-seeking journalists everywhere — Tropical Storm Isaac looks more likely than ever to strengthen into a hurricane just in time to bear down…
Tropical Storm Isaac now has the vast majority of Florida in its cone of concern, with most models having it creep up the west coast early next week. Of course, there’s already a disaster planned for that are next week: the Republican National Convention in Tampa.However, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn…
If you were Republican Rep. David Rivera, and you were dodging investigations by both the FBI and IRS, you’d think you’d try and keep your nose clean and avoid any controversy while running for reelection. Yet evidence continues to mount that Rivera and his associates helped run the campaign of…
So, the Republican are having their National Convention in Florida, which is slightly uncomfortable for conservatives as Florida has one of the least popular Republican governors in the country. Despite some early speculation to the contrary, however, the Romney campaign has given Gov. Rick Scott a tiny little speaking spot…
Read our full gonzo guide to the RNC: “Fear and Loathing In Tampa”Screw Geraldo Rivera. Bugger off Wolf Blitzer. When it came time to pick a guide to this year’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, we went with Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi. He may play a Middle Eastern correspondent…
Rep. Connie Mack is now officially the Republicans’ nominee for Florida’s senate race, but his easy win in last week’s primary didn’t give him much of a boost in the polls. A new Rasmussen Reports poll, a firm that’s independent but tends to produce results that are kinder to Republicans,…
Barack Obama’s reelection campaign hasn’t even hit full stride yet, and there’s already an e-book that supposedly explains all the campaign’s dirty secrets.Politico and Random House released “Obama’s Last Stand” this morning, an e-book that among other things claims that when speculation began that Marco Rubio might become Romney’s running…
In our nation’s capital, real consensus happens as often as a noncreepy Rick Scott grin. Yet for the past couple of years, everyone in Washington, D.C., has agreed on this: President Obama’s mammoth 2009 stimulus was kind of laughable. Green-energy initiatives? Saving America from financial ruin? Hah!Last week, though, that…
Well, Norman Braman’s quest to unseat incumbent Miami-Dade County Commissioners was far from a smashing success, but one of his candidates will live to see another electoral day. Incumbent Bruno Barreiro barely missed the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff by just nine votes. So now he’ll face off…
Dave Gordon thought a seat on the board of the Orlando International Airport was all but his. He’s the president of an aviation logistics company and has a master’s degree in airline administration from Embry-Riddle.However, Gordon claims that he was told by a prominent Republican fundraiser that in order to…
Also read “New Voting Laws Could Take Out Obama This Fall.”It’s becoming a regular morning routine for Floridians: Roll out of bed, sip a cafecito, open the paper to read about the latest bananas Rick Scott law getting tossed out by a federal court. This morning’s edition comes courtesy the…
Several local candidates competing in Tuesday’s elections sought the endorsement of the controversial anti-gay group the Christian Family Coalition, but it turns out that the group’s endorsement isn’t worth much. Out of the dozens of candidates the group endorsed this cycle, only three of the non-incumbents they endorsed actually won…
Tampa’s strip club industry may be revving up for the Republican National Convention, but for those Republican dudes who aren’t exactly into the idea of seeing Sarah Palin’s porno double spread eagle, don’t worry, because GOProud, a gay Republican group, is hosting Homocon 2012.And of course, as every proper homosexual…
Most of the time, we get lousy politicians who refuse to go away no matter the evidence against them. David Rivera, for instance. Occasionally, however, we see a politician emerge from nowhere only to quickly disappear: too rare to survive a campaign, but too weird to ever really be forgotten.Such…
Sometimes Riptide realizes how woefully white we are. Did you know papaya is basically the Cuban equivalent of pussy? We did not! Neither did Mitt Romney! So, perhaps that’s why he ended up declaring his love for “papaya” at his recent Miami stop and was greeted with a bunch of…
Until last night, Florida was the largest state in the union to have never elected an openly gay candidate to its state legislature. Yes, even Texans elected an openly gay representative all the way back in 1991.That changed last night as voters in Florida 113th House district, which encompasses parts…
Miami-Dade voters went to the polls today to vote on a long ballot filled with primary battles for both federal and state level legislative races, and the first (and in some cases, possibly final) rounds of the county mayor race, and several county commission seats. Longtime Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine…
