Much like John Kerry was brandished a flip-flopper in 2004, a new GOP online advertising campaign seeks to paint Barack Obama as a man who not only enjoys eating waffles, but as a candidate who waffles on the issues.

Check out the ad below:

Earlier: McCain’s Crystal Ball Ad Sees Hillary

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Rep. Julia Carson only passed away yesterday, but Republican politicians in Indiana are already making moves to vie for her Congressional seat.

Political insiders are saying in local media reports that state Rep. Jon Elrod, R-Indianapolis, thinks he may have a chance of winning in the heavily Democratic district, and GOP analysts “consider the seat worth watching” after Republican Greg Ballard’s upset of Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, a Democrat.

Sen. John Kerry won the district with 58 percent of the vote in 2004. Carson’s grandson, Democrat Andre Carson, is considered an early favorite as a replacement for his grandma.

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But is there proof? Those ever-satirical Wonkette editors, after all, said last week that they wouldn’t link to the Big Head DC story about Benjamin Nicholas and Trent Lott because they thought it could be wrong (what a strange time to grow a conscience). But now they’re implying some young college Republican is gay because he uses exclamation points when he types. WTF!!!!?

Do we smell a double standard, or was the Wonkette boss Nick Denton just mad that we scooped him on a story he’d been sniffing out (literally) for some time?

Related: New Wonkette Editor Says Hello to Big Head DC

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When are Republicans going to start taking this guy seriously? On Monday, Ron Paul, the surging GOP candidate for president, raised over $4 million in a less than one-day period. The amazing amount of fund raising was largely Web-driven and coincided with the commemoration of Guy Fawkes Day. Fawkes was a British mercenary who was the model for the protagonist in the movie V for Vendetta.

“Paul backers motivated donors on the Internet with mashed-up clips of the film on the online video site YouTube as well as the Guy Fawkes Day refrain: ‘Remember, remember the 5th of November,’” the AP notes.

Paul’s one-day tally ranks as one of the largest amounts of money a candidate for president has ever raised in 24 hours.

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Remember Richard Curtis, the Republican Washington state representative who was forced to resign last week after it was revealed that he dressed up in ladies’ clothes and had anal sex with some dude without a condom? Well! It turns out the dude he had sex with, named Cody Castagne, was actually already famous before this whole tawdry affair went down. Because, you see, he is actually a gay porn star. And the kids over at Fleshbot have uncovered some pretty graphic snaps of his recent work. Now you just gotta wonder if the ex-politico took any pics during his personal Cody sessions?

Earlier: Closeted Gay Pol Looking for Pages

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