Christian Coalition pixie and Jack Abramoff pal Ralph Reed is coyly leaking word that he'll announce whether or not he's running for Congress tomorrow at 11 a.m. For what it's worth, he is. Remember the '90s?

Representative Buck McKeon and some of his Republican colleagues fear gays. They pretend there is some other reason they don't want them to serve openly in the military, but there isn't. Here's their latest wheeze for continuing their prejudice.

It's not just disaffected baby boomers who are turning away from the Democrats they helped to elect. 18 to 29-year-olds are moving towards the GOP, or away from politics altogether (which is the same thing really) in increasing numbers. [AP]

Sarah Palin was in God's Country last night, preaching "revolution" to the Arkansas GOP in exchange for $100,000 or so. The party also gave her an engraved .44-magnum rifle. So that's what you get the quitter who has everything.

The thorny issue of exactly how much to appease the conspiracy-theorist nutbags on the right when you're running for office has come to a head in race to be Texas governor. Birthers? Fine. 9/11 Truthers? Too much.

According to a newly released survey, Republican politicians dominate the congressional Twitter-verse. Meanwhile, Barack Obama just sent his first "Tweet" last month. Twitter Gap!

The perhaps-secessionist Texas governor refuses to compete for $700m in stimulus money for education. Because he thinks it "smacks of a federal takeover of our public schools." Good one Rick. You've really got one over on the man. [AP]

Rudy Giuliani will not run for senator, or governor, in 2010, according to several reports. He will endorse Republican Rick Lazio for the statehouse. Which raises the question: just what is he planning to do?

No, not like that. More like a deeply insecure bald man who's desperate to demonstrate to the kids that he's not like those other Republican National Committee chairmen. Here are the "hip" outtakes from intern portraits taken by Mark Odell.

Last week playboy Republican scumbag Tim Durham's offices were raided by the FBI. Today another Ferrari-driving friend of the GOP, Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein (pictured with Governor Charlie Crist) has been charged in a $1.2bn Ponzi scheme.

The punditocracy say that Mike Huckabee's clemency towards a prisoner who went on to shoot four police officers has given his potential 2012 opponents a gift. But he's not the only GOP hopeful who's written his own attack ads.

Doug Hoffman was the ultra-conservative candidate that Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity backed in an election upstate. The district then went Democrat for the first time in 200 years. But don't worry, it was all an ACORN conspiracy.

Big Bird gave money to hookers through ACORN. Oscar the Grouch had an abortion. These fucking puppets hate America, say conservatives. You know who doesn't hate America? Sarah Palin. And she has a conspiracy theory of her own to add.

Now the Republicans have won a couple of minor elections, everyone seems to be conveniently forgetting that they're as crazy as a box of frogs. As a reminder: meet Todd Herman the man behind the recently relaunched $1.4m GOP website!

On election night, Sarah Palin threatened to "go rogue" by delivering a speech someone else wrote for her, but John McCain refused so she didn't. Now you can read the addresses — both concession and victory — she would've given.

Dubya has mainly been writing a book in crayon since leaving the Oval Office, with his tongue stuck out to help him concentrate. But, perhaps upset that Michael Steele is the only person regularly gaffe-ing, he's back and giving speeches!

The recent relaunch of GOP.com featured a miniature animated Michael Steele begging for money and an appropriation of the ghost of Jackie Robinson and was the most comically awful thing in the history of the internet. The cost: $1.4 million.

Two South Carolina County Republican Party chairmen defended Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) by likening him to Jews who "take care of the pennies."

The GOP's brand-spanking-new website calls Jackie Robinson a "GOP Hero." That's true! Also true: baseball's first black player said the 1964 Republican convention gave him an "understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany."

Usually when people accuse Politico of cutting-and-pasting GOP press releases into their stories, they're speaking metaphorically. But no—that's what they actually do. They select the angry words, hit the "copy" thing, and paste them right onto the internet.