Tag: politics
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His erstwhile friends
I promise to tell the truth always about my intention and my beliefs. Sen. John McCain, Republican presidential candidate Some of my fellow bloggers and pundits (the redoubtable Andrew Sullivan, for instance, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, and Time’s Joe Klein, to name just a few) had long labored under the illusion that John McCain was a…
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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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Kinsley’s take
Sarah Palin’s Alaskonomics By Michael Kinsley, Time magazine, Tuesday, Sep. 09, 2008 Sarah Palin thinks she is a better American than you because she comes from a small town, and a superior human being because she isn’t a journalist and has never lived in Washington and likes to watch her kids play hockey. Although Palin…
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McCain & Bush: Soul Brothers
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Maverick chronicles
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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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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…