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Some of John McCain’s top campaign aides are not happy about Sarah Palin’s book. Top aides to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign hit back at Sarah Palin Friday and Saturday, calling the former vice presidential nominee’s soon-to-be-released book “revisionist and self serving” “fiction.” Campaign manager Steve Schmidt, who emerges ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Rogue, Alaska
It won’t be officially released until Tuesday, but the Associated Press has an advance look at Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue.” She complains that the McCain campaign deliberately kept her “bottled up,” and coached her to give non-answers. She portrays herself as a down-home simple kinda gal who resented being forced ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Rogue, Alaska
As Glenn Beck does his best impression of Joseph McCarthy and tries to get White House Communications Director Anita Dunn hounded out of office for quoting Mao Zedong in a speech at St. Andrews Episcopal School, all I can say is, “Uh oh.” [Video] (Hat tip: Dave Weigel.) UPDATE at ...
Nontroversy, Chairman Mao, John McCain, Glenn Beck, Anita Dunn
In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, John McCain finally admits there was tension between his campaign manager Steve Schmidt and the Sarah Palin camp: McCain weighs in on Palin in 2012. He had to admit it because Schmidt forced his hand by saying recently that a Palin ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Video
A new book on the 2008 presidential campaign reveals that Sarah Palin’s (in)famous line about Barack Obama “palling around with terrorists” apparently came straight from the McCain camp: ’Pals Around With Terrorists’: Palin Wasn’t That Rogue, After All. On the subject of linking Obama to ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers, it ...
Sarah Palin, John McCain, Campaign, controversy, Email, Rogue
CBS has obtained internal McCain-Palin campaign emails that show a lot of infighting between Sarah Palin and campaign staffers. Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated then Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had become with the manner in ...
John McCain enhances his maverick image by damning his former running mate with faint praise: McCain: I can’t promise to support Palin for president. (CNN) — Sen. John McCain said Sunday he would not necessarily support his former running mate if she chose to run for president. Speaking to ...
Excuse me while I enjoy this moment—because it’s the first (and probably the only) time I’ve been praised at the Los Angeles Times, in a blog post by Andrew Malcolm: Joe the traitor now flushing good friend John McCain. I hope Andrew doesn’t get fired for saying something nice about ...
Hey, Joe. Where you going with that wrench in your hand? Joe the Plumber: McCain ‘appalled me’. Joe Wurzelbacher lashed out at former GOP presidential nominee John McCain Tuesday, the man who made Wurzelbacher famous as “Joe the Plumber.” Wurzelbacher told conservative radio host Glenn Beck that he felt ...
Tod Lindberg, Hoover Institution fellow and Policy Review editor (and informal foreign policy adviser to the McCain campaign), weighs in on the swirling socialcon controversy: The Center-Right Nation Exits Stage Left. Here’s the stark reality: It is now harder for the Republican presidential candidate to get to 50.1 percent ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, GOP, Republican, Social Conservatives, Christian Right
This is a thought-provoking essay by Paul Hsieh, a practicing physician in Denver and long-standing Republican voter: How the GOP lost my vote. After a resounding electoral defeat, in which voters in this once-red state rejected Republicans McCain, Schaffer, and Musgrave, the Colorado Republican Party will undoubtedly be asking ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, GOP, Republican, Social Conservatives, Christian Right
We don’t know what the McCain campaign’s excuse is, but way back in June we pointed out that the Obama campaign’s web administrators were making ridiculous, amateurish security mistakes: Highlights: Newsweek’s Special Election Project. The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated ...
I don’t know what to say about this, except ... ugh. [Video]
The president elect is giving his victory speech, and here’s one more thread to discuss it.
Barack Hussein Obama is the next President of the United States, and we extend our sincere congratulations. Country first.
Hey, maybe California will go for McCain! Ya think?
Here’s what I wrote on February 5th: If John McCain is the nominee, we’re going to have at least four years of a Democrat in the White House—and with some estimating that Iran will have a bomb within two years, that means we’d have a Democrat facing a nuclear-armed ...
Pajamas TV has a special live election show, free to all...
Another thread for electoral wrangling and persiflage...
We’ve embedded a live electoral map on our page, courtesy of Google; it will remain at the top of every page. Hover your mouse over states to see the current percentages, or use the drop-down menus to check out individual states and see totals by county. You can zoom in ...
We’re in the final hours of polling on the east coast, and here’s another discussion thread... (We’re trying to ignore exit polls this year, because they’re basically worthless.)
Just back from the polling corral, where I cast my vote for the person I most trust to bring America the change we need, the Green Party’s Cynthia McKinney. Just kidding! Had you going there, didn’t I?
Via Lone Star Times: Has anyone ever seen an Obama sign defaced like this?
Via Election Journal, video of Black Panthers in paramilitary dress menacing voters with a nightstick in Philadelphia, before the police arrived and put a stop to it. [Video]
Election 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, Black Panthers, Philadelphia
World hopes for a ‘less arrogant America’. Among the more irreverent festivities planned in Paris: a “Goodbye George” party to bid farewell to Bush. “Like many French people, I would like Obama to win because it would really be a sign of change,” said Vanessa Doubine, shopping Tuesday on ...