TagsTagsIt 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
David Frum looks at the GOP’s impending defeats in New York and New Jersey, and the angry conservatives who are going to cut off their noses to spite their faces: Prelude to Republican fratricide. What lessons will Republicans draw? You might think that the impending defeats in New York ...
Sarah Palin, New York, Scozzafava, Meltdown, GOP, Republican Party, Angry Right
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor who quit in the middle of her elected term, is endorsing a third party candidate in New York’s 23rd congressional district, because the official GOP candidate doesn’t meet her standards for ideological purity (in other words, Dede Scozzafava is pro-choice): Palin backs Hoffman in ...
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Gateway Pundit says, with his usual subtlety: A new low for the rabid left… They just can’t hate this Christian conservative woman enough. (Bold text in original.) Here’s what Jim Hoft is freaking out about today: Attention, Sarah Palin bashers: Lookalike book ‘Going Rouge’ is coming! Rabid leftist capitalist anti-Christian conservative-haters! We’re doooomed! ...
Sarah Palin, Death Panel, Death Book, Outrageous Outrage, Nontroversy
Is this really Sarah Palin’s resumé? Sarah Palin - LinkedIn. It looks like it really is. Jaw meet floor. Sarah Palin’s Experience Governor State of Alaska (Government Agency; Government Administration industry) December 2006 — June 2009 (2 years 7 months) Vice Presidential Candidate 2008 Election (Government Administration industry) 2008 — 2008 (less than a year) Chairperson Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation ...
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 candidacy ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Steve Schmidt, John McCain, Video
On this morning’s Meet the Press, Rachel Maddow brought up the connection of Sarah Palin’s ghostwriter, Lynn Vincent, with white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain — a connection first reported here at Little Green Footballs. Here’s the video clip and the transcript. MS. MADDOW: I, I do think that ...
Robert Stacy McCain, White supremacism, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Sarah Palin
Steve Schmidt, former top campaign strategist for John McCain, said today that if Sarah Palin becomes the GOP nominee for President in 2012, it would be “catastrophic” for the party. “I think that she has talents, but my honest view is that she would not be a winning candidate for ...
The New York Post reports that Sarah Palin isn’t having much luck on the lecture circuit. After quitting as governor of Alaska in July, Palin signed with the top-notch Washington Speakers Bureau, which also reps George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger, LA Dodgers manager ...
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David Weigel lets Robert Stacy McCain talk: Robert Stacy McCain Responds to Gawker, Defends Palin Collaborator Lynn Vincent. Of course he tosses out some insults; that’s his modus operandi when called out on his racist friends and statements. But we also get yet another attempted explanation for his ugly comment about interracial ...
Robert Stacy McCain, White supremacism, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin’s soon-to-be-released book was ghostwritten by Lynn Vincent. Who’s Lynn Vincent? She’s the co-author of a book with white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain. Vincent is also a credited author on “Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party,” a take-down of the Democrats co-written by conservative author ...
Robert Stacy McCain, White supremacism, Racism, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Sarah Palin
Philandering creationist governor Mark Sanford now says he’s being persecuted just like Sarah Palin: Sanford: Now I know what Palin felt like. And he repeated his contention that God put him on Earth to be the governor of South Carolina. Sanford didn’t mention if God also planned for him to sneak ...
Mark Sanford, Politics, South Carolina, Creationism, GOP, Affair, Sarah Palin
At her Facebook page, Sarah Palin is hyping the Glenn Beck Obama-Hitler Hour: Sarah Palin: An Invitation | Facebook. FOX News’ Glenn Beck is doing an extraordinary job this week walking America behind the scenes of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and outlining who is actually running the White House. Monday night ...
Sarah Palin, Death Panel, Death Book, Alarmism, Glenn Beck, Extremism
Death Book for Veterans! It’s another “death” boogeyman from a party that should be asking real questions about the health care legislation, but can only seem to muster up cheap alarmist scare tactics intended to confuse and mislead. Here’s the VA planning document they’re calling a “death book:” Your Life, Your Choices ...
Sarah Palin, Death Panel, Death Book, WSJ, Health Care, Veterans, Alarmism
Charles Krauthammer just keeps making sense: Honest Debate Needed on End-of-Life Talk. Let’s see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. [Good luck with that. --ed.] We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I’ve got nothing against her. She’s a remarkable political talent. But ...
Uh oh. 61% of Americans think Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska was a bad move. (CNN) – A new national poll suggests that most Americans don’t think Sarah Palin’s decision to step down as Alaska governor was a smart political move. Sixty-one percent of people questioned in a Marist ...
ABC News has been running a series of pretty good “fact check” segments on the proposed health care legislation: Watch Our Fact Check Series — All in One Place - The World Newser. Here’s their piece on the Sarah Palin “death panel” smear and the distorted accusations of euthanasia. [Video] I’ve seen some ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Facebook, Death Panel, ABC News, Fact Checking
Probably because her first statement about “death panels” was such a resounding political success, Sarah Palin is doubling down on the euthanasia card in her latest post at Facebook: Sarah Palin Notes. These consultations are authorized whenever a Medicare recipient’s health changes significantly or when they enter a nursing home, ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Facebook, Death Panel
Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) said today that Sarah Palin’s description of the end of life provisions in the House bill as “death panels” is “nuts”. Q: How did this become a question of euthanasia? ISAKSON: I have no idea. I understand — and you have to check this out — I ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Facebook, Death Panel
Quite a few readers were upset with me for criticizing the mob-like behavior of many town hall demonstrators. Some denied that this behavior even happened at all, accusing the media (or me) of exaggerating and lying about it. If Sarah Palin were to come out with a statement asking the demonstrators ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Facebook, Death Panel
Sarah Palin weighs in. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” ...
Juan Cole writes a piece for Salon comparing Sarah Palin to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (yes, really), and gets our coveted Dumb Article of the Week prize: Sarah Palin, meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It’s striking what Cole leaves out of his comparisons; since he’s going for the over-the-top smear anyway, I would have expected ...
Now you can keep up with Sarah Palin’s daily life by following her new personal Twitter site. I’ll stay in touch w/whomever wants via personal twtr site;launch July 26; in meantime it’s pleasure to update interested folks on State biz!
After quitting her job as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin says she’s not leaving politics. WASHINGTON – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she is not only staying in politics once she leaves the governor’s office later this month, she’s jumping right back into the national fray. Palin tells the Washington Times ...
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 turns ...
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