Tag: Palin
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Sarah Palin of Wasilla, Alaska
Newsweek magazine, despite a generally laudatory profile of Sarah Palin, serves up some inconvenient facts to counter the myth that she and her state have been swathed in since her nomination: Palin is not regarded as an introspective or intellectual type—not the sort who likes to mull the deepest nuances of every issue. In that…
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Maverick chronicles, I
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Twin peaks update
On Friday, I breathlessly linked to a post by Andrew Sullivan on an emergency court motion in Alaska by an associate of Todd Palin, Sarah Palin’s husband, asking that his divorce papers be sealed. Like others of my ilk, I assumed the court motion had something to do with Mrs. Palin’s alleged extra-marital affair. But…
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Did Sarah Palin really say that?!?
Gawd, I hope this isn’t true. There’s a rumor circulating around the internet today that Governor Palin used racist and sexist slurs to refer to Senators Obama and Clinton: So Sambo beat the bitch. The rumor is thinly sourced to a woman named “Lucille,” who allegedly overheard the governor make the statement at a diner…
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Palin-gate
What some conservatives are saying about the Palin selection TalkingPointsMemo had a the transcript … Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we’ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We’ll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the…
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Palin, before being picked
In an interview with The New Yorker magazine two weeks before Sen. John McCain picked her as his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was sounding very much like an Obamacan: Before she was running against him, Sarah Palin—the governor of Alaska and now the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States—thought it was…
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From the weekend . . .
New York Times Op-Ed columnist Gail Collins had interesting thoughts on Sen. John McCain selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate: It is conceivable that some people will think John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate because she is a woman. I know you find this shocking, but I swear I have…
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Thoughts on Sarah Palin
Longtime readers will remember that Sarah Palin was on my early short list for McCain. I said back in June that she might be a good pick if McCain found himself behind in the polls and needed a Hail Mary pass. Now that he’s made the pick, how does it look? First, Palin is undoubtedly…
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A master stroke
Let’s give the McCain campaign credit for one thing: They sure know how to steal the Democrats’ thunder. Democrats dominated the nation’s attention this week with their convention, culminating with their historic affirmation of Barack Obama as the first African-American to nominated for president by a major political party. Sen. Obama punctuated that with what…