Tag Archives: Palin

Leader of the Opposition

Whilst most elected Republicans are still preoccupied in pledging to work with (or for) the Obama administration, Sarah Palin isn’t having any of it. This is significant criticism, because it is vitally important that a Republican leader emerges who can … Continue reading

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Sarah Palin in 2012

Rasmussen reports today that Sarah Palin is the choice of 64% of Republicans for the 2012 Republican nomination, and that a staggering 91% of Republicans have a favorable impression of her (equally remarkable, 65% rate their view as ‘highly favorable’). … Continue reading

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Operation Leper

RedState launches Operation Leper to expose recently unemployed McCain aides who are trying to pin their failures on Sarah Palin. Hardly unexpected. As Grover Norquist noted yesterday, the only time the McCain campaign led the polls was during the two … Continue reading

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Christopher Hitchens & Political Irresponsibility

Video of Laura Ingraham interrogating Christopher Hitchens over his rather weakly supported endorsement of Barack Obama for president. Hitch’s primary position in this chat is that Obama should be supported because he is “evolving” toward support of a more aggressive … Continue reading

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Hacks & Hackers

Sarah Palin’s personal email account gets hacked by an anonymous operative and Farhad Manjoo blames Palin for “Rovian tactics.” Indifference to irony isn’t a new thing in Palin reporting, but there’s a certain amusement about the event in liberal circles … Continue reading

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Palinmania Snippets

Like so many others, Elizabeth Johnson is out for that Palin look. Sarah always has such choice footwear…and eyewear retailers are getting explicit in their advertising. In case you were curious, this is where you end up when your anti-Palin … Continue reading

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Sarah vs. Joe

Who would win in a head-to-head contest of the Veeps for the presidency? Palin, according to Rasmussen, by 47%-44%.

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The Palin Democrats

Tim Reid travels to Mount Clemens, Macomb County Michigan, to talk to white working class female voters. Macomb County should be core Democratic blue country, but it was here that Stanley Greenberg first identified the “Reagan Democrats” of the 1980s, … Continue reading

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Mark Penn on the Press & Palin

Boy, this was an awfully interesting exchange. Democratic strategist Mark Penn, absurdly invited by Brian Goldsmith to argue the press has been soft on Sarah Palin, instead slams the media for counterproductively biased and vindictive coverage:

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The Error of Inexperience

According to a new Associated Press poll 46% of the public thinks Barack Obama is too inexperienced for the presidency, and only 36% say the same of Governor Palin. So much for that line of attack. In contrast with both, … Continue reading

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Palinmania and the Stature Gap

Toby Harnden weighs in with his thoughts on the Palin effect. All interesting, all very astute IMO. Of particular interest is Toby’s argument that McCain commands enough public respect for his experience and expertise, that he has no concerns about … Continue reading

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Sarah Palin: FlightSim Gamer

Playing a demo for Aviation Day, at the STARBASE Alaska Military Youth Academy in Fort Richardson. Nice rig. Photo: Capt. Guy Hayes

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John McCain and Sarah Palin: Fairfax Gallery

Ron Hilton caught some great shots at the McCain/Palin rally in Fairfax, Virginia. He was gracious enough to let us post them here for you:

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Obama’s Plan: Does This Work?

According to the Associated Press, a sequence of interviews with Democratic leaders has revealed this to be the political plan being recommended to the Obama campaign: 1. Tie the Republican to an unpopular President Bush. 2. Let no charge go … Continue reading

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Outer Dark

(photo: Brian Long) Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice president of the Canadian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, is concerned that Sarah Palin’s decision to have Trig, may lead to a reduction of abortions in Canada through positive example. This is … Continue reading

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Immunizing Palin Redux

StubbornFacts picks up on the political immunization effect of throwing every farcical slander you can find or invent at Sarah Palin: “I suspect that eventually, they may find something that really does hit Palin square amidships. By the time they … Continue reading

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Moderates for Palin

Some thoughts on why Barack Obama’s effort to portray Sarah Palin as “Pat Robertson with ovaries” (as Andrew Romano inelegantly puts it), isn’t working out so well.

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Sarah Palin’s Google Bounce, Part II

Last week I noticed that Sarah Palin had exceeded Joe Biden slightly in Google returns. Understandably, that has now become an avalanche (Biden: 5.6 million | Palin: 22.4 million). Although it plainly doesn’t exceed John McCain or Barack Obama’s returns … Continue reading

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A Rosy Future for Anti-Americanism?

Longtime Clinton ally Leon Panetta pronounces Barack Obama “intimidated” by Sarah Palin, and lost in a deepening cycle of reactive defense. With McCain now winning a majority of independents and erasing the gender gap, the blood is most definitely in … Continue reading

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Us not Them

It seems Us Magazine’s anti-Palin cover-story has backfired badly. They’re suffering a flood of mass cancellations from subscribers and have been forced to issue an apology along with free issue incentives. Yikes.

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Debbie Does Palin

Debbie Schlussel isn’t exactly thrilled about the prospect of Sarah Palin as veep. She can’t seem to make up her mind however, on whether Palin is the “sleazy t-shirt” wearing representative of a “low class” family, or a upper-middle-class high … Continue reading

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Immunizing Sarah Palin

(photo: Tom LeGro) Christopher Hitchens notices a pattern with anti-Palin rumors: their troubling tendency to turn out highly exaggerated or entirely fabricated, in a very short turn. [A]s often as I have forwarded some alarming e-mail about her from a … Continue reading

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An Outside View of the State of Our Presidential Race

Caroline Glick via Ace of Spades Caroline Glick is an astute observer of our political situation. She is based in Jerusalem. “McCain’s strategic grasp of the requirements for a successful presidential race provide an important lesson for policy-makers and political … Continue reading

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Mommy & MSNBC

Tom in Paine has a blistering take on the MSNBC commentariat’s demands for the intervention of Hillary Clinton against Palin, as a kind of childhood psychodrama: “The more you listen to them the more you realize that instead of supporting … Continue reading

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The Sarah Palin Style

(Italee) Apparently Sarah Palin has become the latest women’s fashion trendsetter. Ladies across the country are flocking to find her rectangular rimless spectacles, created by Japanese designer Kazuo Kawasaki, to achieve that “Sarah Palin look.” Some are comparing the glasses … Continue reading

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Listing Lies

Warner Todd Huston compiles some of the more egregious untruths being promoted in mass media about Sarah Palin.

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VPILF: The Stencil Shirt

Michael Carian scores the shirt from a kid selling them out of the back of his car: (carianoff)

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Another Palin Smear Campaign Fails

Turns out the allegation of the Leftblogs that Palin associate Scott Richter was concealing an extramarital affair with Sarah, was just another desperate conspiratorial invention. TSG uncovers the exceedingly boring and ordinary divorce documents Richter filed a sealing motion for. … Continue reading

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Do The Opposite

Jihad Watch I have seen a few articles that say something like – if the left dislikes McCan-Palin so much they must be doing something right. Here is a similar argument about views from the Muslim world. “whenever your taqiyya-practicing … Continue reading

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An Encounter With Political Sexism

How many children does John McCain have? It’s seven including adoptions, but very few seem to know that. Easier question: how many children does Sarah Palin have? Five and I bet you knew that instantly. Welcome to sexism says liberal … Continue reading

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Sarah Palin in the Green Room

Sarah on babysitting, energy independence and CS Lewis in the Charlie Rose Green Room:

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Give that man a cigar

Someone here made a good choice back on June 30th. Me? I think Sarah Palin would make a great choice

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A Western Vibe Ticket

Todd Zywicki, of the Volokh Conspiracy, takes a look at libertarianism in the McCain/Palin ticket and notes a distinct western vibe to the first all-western ticket in our history. He had an interesting observation that I think captures a lot … Continue reading

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Global Palinism

Sarah Palin traveled a long way from Wasilla in a short time. Here she graces the cover of an Indonesian magazine.

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Palin Tactical Confusion on the Left

Dick Durbin renews the Democratic attack on Palin’s experience, and calls for a retreat on family slander. It’s pretty much back and forth between the two attack vectors day-to-day in Democratic circles. They don’t know how to deal with her … Continue reading

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Palin Hated by Alaskan Republicans

Chronicle of the ConspiracyThis is a good thing. She fights waste wherever she finds it.

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The Biden Vote Defended

If you thought Huckabee’s contention that Sarah Palin received more votes for mayor of Wasilla than Biden did for president sounded a little unlikely, that’s because it was. I don’t know where that went wrong, but I bet he meant … Continue reading

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Palin Magazine Morsels

Jeremy McCarter for Newsweek: “[W]ith all due respect to whatever kid roughed up the young Barry Obama in Indonesia many years ago, he might never have been on the receiving end of a beatdown like this one.” Nancy Gibbs for … Continue reading

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A Republican Atavism

John Podhoretz thinks the Palin speech might be among the most dazzling debuts in American political history. I don’t know about that, but I do know it was the most powerful, important, and effective speech by a vice presidential candidate … Continue reading

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A Fine Figure of a Republican

The title is what Time Magazine labeled New Jersey’s Senator William Warren Barbour in 1940. The expression takes on a better curve for Sarah Palin, but it fits the occasion of a very partisan and frankly rather phenomenal speech tonight … Continue reading

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Dick Morris on Palin

Yep: Understand: Palin is under attack because she was such a good choice. [...] After years of electing plasticized creations of political consultants, we have the chance to vote for a real person with real peoples’ problems. In standing by … Continue reading

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Sarah Palin’s Google Bounce

When McCain named Sarah Palin his veep, she had about 500k mentions on the web according to Google, and Joe Biden mustered an impressive five million plus (I checked). A few short days later Palin has surpassed Biden with 5.8 … Continue reading

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What on Earth is Obama Thinking?

He’s actually starting to run against Sarah Palin: “My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We’ve got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we … Continue reading

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McCain Hits Back. Hard.

John McCain, in an interview with Brian Williams on Sarah Palin: “The facts are funny things. She’s been in elected office longer than Sen. Obama. She’s been the chief executive of the state that provides 20 percent of America’s energy; … Continue reading

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Obama vs. Palin

Looking at today’s stats, so far the number one search engine keyword bringing people to ASHC is “obama vs palin.” It’s amusing that people seem to think the Republican vice presidential nominee bears easier comparison and contest with the Democratic … Continue reading

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Unvetted?

Andrew Sullivan is so hysterical about the “irresponsibility” of Sarah Palin as vice president, that he’s almost to the point of arguing that McCain didn’t even know her name until an hour before the announcement. As Neo-Neocon contends however, the … Continue reading

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Minor Scandals Can Help

Apparently the teenage pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol has excited social conservatives even more about the candidate (for the when-it-counts demonstration of opposition to abortion). According to Grover Norquist, the soc-cons are “over the moon” in their support. That’s … Continue reading

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Obama Defends Palin

Barack Obama has denounced and disowned the attacks by the Left on Sarah Palin’s family. A commendable action.

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A Bitter Absolution for Sarah Palin

It would seem the innuendo campaign alleging the illegitimacy of Sarah Palin’s son Trig, inadvertantly uncovered a real family tragedy to media attention. As Jay Tea points out, the circumstances of that situation make it physically impossible for the campaign … Continue reading

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Zog Gets a Second

Perhaps those Zogby numbers weren’t so crazy after all.  CNN confirms the erasure of the Obama lead on an apparent Sarah Palin bounce.

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