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Uh oh. The young man who impregnated Sarah Palin’s daughter said yesterday that the former GOP vice-presidential candidate is a liar and that she stopped being nice to him after her defeat in November. Levi Johnston, 19, stood by his claim that he lived with his former girlfriend, Bristol ...
Sarah Palin, Republican, GOP, Alaska, Bristol Palin, Scandal
Sarah Palin made a surprising pick for the Alaska state Supreme Court: Sarah Palin defies conservative advice, names woman to Supreme Court. The Alaska Family Council, a conservative group that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion, favored another Superior Court judge, Eric Smith of Palmer, saying he would be more ...
Did sex appeal hurt Sarah Palin in the election?
Is there a little bit of friction between the RNC and Sarah Palin, perhaps? Palin stiffs the House Republicans. ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports: When House Republicans planned their annual winter retreat, they extended an invitation to Alaska Gov. Sara Palin, hoping the party’s 2008 vice presidential nominee would ...
Andrew Malcolm notes that Sarah Palin has formed a Political Action Committee, in preparation for a Presidential run in 2012. The surest sign yet that Alaska’s Republican Gov. Sarah Palin intends at least to be in position for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination contest. Like others presumed to have ...
Is Bobby Jindal the next Barack Obama? No less an aspiring kingmaker than Steve Schmidt, the chief strategist of McCain’s failed presidential bid, sees Jindal as the Republican Party’s destiny. “The question is not whether he’ll be president, but when he’ll be president, because he will be elected someday.” ...
Social Conservatives, GOP, Republican, Bobby Jindal, Creationism, Evolution, discovery institute
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
Several readers emailed about this Washington Post column by By Christine Todd Whitman and Robert M. Bostock on a subject that’s been responsible for several highly contentious threads at LGF: Free the GOP. Subtitled: “The Party Won’t Win Back the Middle as Long As It’s Hostage to Social Fundamentalists.” ...
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
John McCain has told Fox News’ Chris Wallace that he may postpone the Republican convention because of Hurricane Gustav. John McCain said the Republican National Convention may be postponed as federal officials said Hurricane Gustav was gathering to a devastating Category 5 as it headed toward star-crossed New Orleans. ...
Featured keynote speaker at the Republican Convention: Rudy Giuliani. Former New York City mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani will be the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention, which begins Monday, September 1st. His Tuesday night address will follow primetime speeches from Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and ...
LGF, Election 2008, GOP, Republican, convention, Rudy Giuliani
Without further ado, here’s our post-debate poll: [Poll moved to more recent thread...] UPDATE at 6/5/07 8:32:13 pm: Kos Kidz agree: Ron Paul wins!
It’s the first draft of the new Republican Campaign Fund contribution form, retrieved from a dumpster in a secure undisclosed location by the indomitable Iowahawk: Give ’Til it Hurts.
Here’s an interesting comparison: the two post-debate LGF polls for the GOP candidates. In the poll following the first debate, Mitt Romney came out significantly ahead of Rudy Giuliani. (And you can also see the effects of Ron Paul’s supporters spamming the poll.) [Poll temporarily removed: 20070503-gop-debate] But in the ...
[The poll has been moved to here.] UPDATE at 5/15/07 8:43:31 pm: The best moment from the debate: Video: Rudy blasts Ron Paul’s apology for 9/11. UPDATE at 5/16/07 9:01:03 am: Ron Paul’s name is now off this poll, because his supporters are trying to use LGF to build a ...
Here’s a quick straw poll to see where the GOP candidates stand with LGF readers, in advance of the second debate this evening. [Poll]
This is Rudy Giuliani’s position on abortion, as stated in the GOP debate last night. [Video] We usually don’t poke this particular sleeping dragon, because debates on abortion almost always result in much more heat than light. But since this is clearly a dividing line between Giuliani and most other ...
LGF, Poll, GOP, Republican, Election, 2008, Giuliani, Abortion
So. Who “won?” [Poll] UPDATE at 5/3/07 6:35:47 pm: MSNBC chooses their most deranged commentator, Keith Olbermann, for the post-debate wrap-up. Anyone surprised? UPDATE at 5/4/07 10:29:38 am: I see Ron Paul supporters are trying to stack the vote. I’m sure there’s a link on a blog somewhere pointing people ...
The debate’s about to begin on MSNBC with the dreaded Chris Matthews hosting. Here’s an open thread, as Rudy Giuliani gives the first statement... UPDATE at 5/3/07 5:28:01 pm: OK, my jaw has now officially dropped. The guy from Politico.com just asked Mitt Romney, “What do you dislike most about ...
In advance of the first GOP debate, here’s a little straw poll to see who LGF readers support from among the 10 Republican candidates in tonight’s debate. (I would have done a similar poll for the Democrats’ debate, but the poll application wasn’t ready.) [Poll]
It seems like American politics has become one perpetual election campaign, uninterrupted by any actual governing except of the negative kind. Did we used to have debates a year and a half out from an election, or am I just dreaming of a more peaceful, idyllic time? Anyway, tonight’s the ...