Beast of the Month: November & December 2012

Here are the latest winners for Beast of the Month.  Monthly columns should return in 2013.

November 2012: Todd Akin
Why did the Republicans get their asses kicked in the 2012 election?  Sorry, Mitt Romney wasn't the real problem, the real problem was the GOP candidates just plain scared most Americans.  And nobody perfectly represented this scariness like Akins, who led off a "Rape Brigade" of rogues who just couldn't stop talking about rape in a stunningly offensive way.

December 2012: SuperPACs
For all the Democratic victories, the real winner of the 2012 election was still money and the corruptive influence of SuperPAcs on democracy.  And it seems that the negative influence of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling will only continue in the coming years.