The Cost of Palin
From The New Republic’s Reagan Appointee and (Recent) McCain Adviser Charles Fried Supports Obama: “Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, has long been one of the most important conservative thinkers in the United States. Under President Reagan, he served, with great distinction, as Solicitor General of the United States. Since then, he has [...]
Warrants Mentioning
From Salon’s The big veep showdown: “As Palin and Biden take their places behind their dueling lecterns on Thursday night, it is worth remembering that this is the debate almost guaranteed to raise the ire of both Democratic and Republican partisans alike. Democrats are primed to see in every Palin answer evidence that she is [...]
The Lipstick Is Off The Pig
From Pew Research Center’s Obama Boosts Leadership Image and Regains Lead Over McCain: “[O]pinions about Sarah Palin have become increasingly negative, with a majority of the public (51%) now saying that the Alaska governor is not qualified to become president if necessary; just 37% say she is qualified to serve as president. That represents a [...]
She Does Have ONE Qualification
Here’s a little bit of interesting news. The URL www.votefortheMILF.com redirects you to the McCain/Palin campaign website. This is not the action of some sly Republican. It’s the action of the John McCain campaign itself. Obviously, they think she’s a serious contender.[Hat tip to GOVGAP.com]
If Hypocrisy Were Gold, McCain’s Brain Would Be Fort Knox
From Carl Bernstein’s (as in Woodward and Bernstein) The Palin Pick — The Devolution of McCain: “The issue of Palin’s relative ignorance about international affairs and the larger world beyond America’s shores (compared to previous vice presidential nominees), her attendant arrogance in seeming to revel in it, and McCain’s decision to subject the country to [...]
Bonding over Imposture
From Judith Warner’s Poor Sarah: “On Tuesday afternoon when I went to The Times Web site and saw the photo of Sarah Palin with Henry Kissinger, a funny thing happened. A wave of self-recognition and sympathy washed over me. That’s right — self-recognition and sympathy. Rising up from a source deep in my subconscious. I [...]
Kennedy on Palin
From Robert Kennedy’s Palin’s Big Oil infatuation: “Palin’s enthusiastic embrace of Big Oil’s agenda (if not always Big Oil itself) has been the platform of her hasty rise in Alaskan politics. In that sense she is as much a product of the oil industry as the current president and his vice president. Palin, whose husband [...]
“A real woman! The real thing!”
From Matt Taibbi’s Lies of Sarah Palin: “In her speech, Palin presented herself as a raging baby-making furnace of middle-class ambition next to whom the yuppies of the Obama set – Who never want anything all that badly except maybe a few afternoons with someone else’s wife, or a few kind words in The New [...]
More dirt on Palin
From CNN’s Palin’s town charged women for rape exams: “Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s hometown required women to pay for their own rape examinations while she was mayor, a practice her police chief fought to keep as late as 2000.” [Hat tip to Adam for the link]
Not interested enough
From James Fallow’s The Palin interview: “What Sarah Palin revealed is that she has not been interested enough in world affairs to become minimally conversant with the issues. Many people in our great land might have difficulty defining the ‘Bush Doctrine’ exactly. But not to recognize the name, as obviously was the case for Palin, [...]
