Tag: Sarah Palin
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Vendettas and cronyism
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes (Photo: Heath Family, via Associated Press) The Wasilla City Council, with Sarah Palin, the future governor and vice-presidential nominee, at the center, in a 1998 photograph. Throughout her career, Ms. Palin has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and blurred the line between government and personal…
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what they’ll do to ‘liberty’
From Women’s Work Palin bags a big one http://drawger.com/show.php?show_id=36&image_id=1137 Copyright Zina Saunders 2008 * http://www.zinasaunders.com/ Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Richter’s scale
I have written a couple of times on this and I was wrong both times. The first time, I thought Scott Richter’s emergency Alaska court filing to have his divorce papers sealed was to conceal an affair he had with the moose hunter from The Alaskan Tundra (I was not the only one but that…
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Republicans in Minnesota, a revisit
My friend, Chiara, sent me this note on Thursday, the final day of the Republican National Convention. I managed to miss the note and I’m offering it now for your consideration. Last night, my sister-in-law, Joyce, a nurse, mother of three, and grandmother of many, wrote to a number of us in the family to…
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Twin Peaks
Along with the prego teen daughter, trying to fire everyone who ever crossed her, views that are out of the mainstream with most Americans, among other things, it turns out Sarah Palin’s bulging and very colorful closet may spill yet more secrets. Andrew Sullivan says: Todd Palin’s former business partner files an emergency motion to…
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Dick Cheney with Lipstick?
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us this message: I’ve got to give her props, Sarah Palin has redefined chutzpah. There is something very unseemly about this self described pit bull mom. As the mother of three daughters and the aunt of a special needs child this woman is really making me angry. Will this…
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Thoughts on the Palin speech
If I had to pick one word to summarize my impression of Gov. Palin’s speech tonight, it would be “shrill.” It was a fiercely partisan speech, a mocking speech, a culture-war speech. It was ably written and ably delivered, but it came with a sneer. While it may be the kind of speech that plays…
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That Dog Won’t Hunt . . .
Our friend, Eileen Davis of the DAVISReport, sent us this message: Say hello to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, John MCCain’s VP select ,the governor of a state where its citizens by birthright get checks sent to them up to a couple thousand a year, that represent oil profits gained on state owned land. Yes Virginia,…
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What’s wrong with this picture?
Have you seen People magazine’s exclusive photo of the McCain and Palin families? Four members of the McCain and Palin familes are absent from the photo. Palin’s eldest son, Track, and McCain’s youngest son, Jimmy, are in the military and on deployment. McCain’s older son, Jack, is at the Naval Academy. Where’s Bridget McCain? Bridget…
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GOP Veepstakes
Word is out this evening that Sen. McCain is finalizing his vice-presidential pick tonight. Because we may know as soon as tomorrow who he’s chosen, it’s now or never for another round of veepstakes. If I were advising McCain, here’s who would be on my suggested short list: Tom Ridge Kay Bailey Hutchinson As a…