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Palin won't be GOP nominee in 2012

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - By Robert Shrum - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - Sarah Palin is the bright red thread in the dull grey fabric of the Republican Party. She is charismatic, quirky, melodramatic, and fervently anti-choice, anti-gay, and anti-Obama. But there's one thing she'll never be—the GOP nominee for President in 2012.

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She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - As the Republicans’ lone charismatic performer, Sarah Palin has come to represent a dwindling white nonurban America that is aflame with grievances. Sarah Palin and Al Sharpton don’t ordinarily have much in common, but they achieved a rare harmonic convergence at Michael Jackson’s memorial service. When Sharpton told the singer’s children it was their daddy’s adversaries, not their daddy, who were “strange,” he was channeling the pugnacious argument the Alaska governor had made the week before. There was nothing strange about her decision to quit in midterm, Palin told America. What’s strange — or “insane,” in her lingo — are the critics who dare question her erratic behavior on the national stage.

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Newt in 2012?

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Robert Novak - Nov. 08 (Opinion) - In serious conversations among Republicans since their election debacle Tuesday, what name is mentioned most often as the Moses, or Reagan, who could lead them out of the wilderness before 40 years? To the consternation of many Republicans, it is none other than Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House. Gingrich is far from a unanimous or even a consensus choice to run for president in 2012, but there is a strong feeling in Republican ranks that he is the only leader of their party who has shown the skill and energy to attempt a comeback quickly. Even one of his strongest supporters for president in 2012 admits it is a "very risky choice." But Republicans are in a desperate mood after the fiasco of John McCain's seemingly safe candidacy. Republicans seem chastened by the failure of seeking moderate, independent and even Democratic votes. They are ready to try going back to the "old-time religion."

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McCain Strategist: "If We Keep Talking About The Economic Crisis, We're Going To Lose"

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 06 (Editorial) - I hope you DO Lose...

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McCain waging dishonorable campaign

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Ruth Marcus - Sep. 18 (Opinion) - McCain's transgressions, though, are of a different magnitude. His whoppers are bigger; there are more of them. He -- the easy out would be to say "his campaign" -- has been misleading, and at times has outright lied, about his opponent. He has misrepresented -- that's the charitable verb -- his vice presidential nominee's record. Called on these fouls, he has denied and repeated them.

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Very Bizarre 'Holy Laughter Annointing' Theology at Sarah Palin's Juneau Church

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Bruce Wilson - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - Rose is well known as far away as Australia for his participation in the "new wave" of the Holy Spirit. Former General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in Australia, Dr. Andrew Evans, has also been a supporter of the "new wave" and its manifestations which he lists as falling, shaking and drunkenness (in the Spirit),and uncontrollable weeping and laughing. (He has been a controversial figure for his belief that these manifestations would aid in church growth in his denomination in Australia although these activities have been repeatedly denounced as Deviant Behavior by the U.S. General Council.)

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GOP Ignores Copyrights, Raises Ire Of Multiple Recording Artists

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Dave Burdick - Sep. 05 (Opinion) - This campaign season, Republicans have been using a lot of songs from artists who wouldn't have given permission if asked, and some who have spoken up to ask that their songs not be used in the future.

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Palin: wrong woman, wrong message

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Gloria Steinem - Sep. 04 (Opinion) - This isn't the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

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I-Witness Video Collective Forced Out of Living Space After Second Raid by St. Paul Police in Five Days

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Sep. 04 (Interview) - Police in St. Paul are being accused of continuing to intimidate a group of video makers that traveled to the Twin Cities to document police misconduct during the Republican National Convention. On Saturday, police raided a home where members of the I-Witness Video collective were staying. Members of the group were detained for over two hours. The building's landlord forced the group to move out yesterday after police armed with batons and a battering ram entered their living space for a second time.

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Why We Were Falsely Arrested

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

TruthDig - By Amy Goodman - Sep. 04 (Opinion) - Behind all the patriotic hyperbole that accompanies the conventions, and the thousands of journalists and media workers who arrive to cover the staged events, there are serious violations of the basic right of freedom of the press. Here on the streets of St. Paul, the press is free to report on the official proceedings of the RNC, but not to report on the police violence and mass arrests directed at those who have come to petition their government, to protest.

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Palin hubbub leads Republican delegates to target 'liberal media'

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By James Rainey - Sep. 03 (Opinion) - But the scene could have come from the convention floor Tuesday in St. Paul, where the Republican faithful began working out once again on a favorite punching bag. Their goal: to lessen the burden on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, five election cycles after the media were lambasted because it dared to question the credentials of another would-be vice president, Dan Quayle.

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McCain Camp Levels Charges Of Sexism

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - In a comment sent out by the Arizona Republican's aides, adviser Carly Fiorina said she was "appalled by the Obama campaign's attempts to belittle Governor Sarah Palin's experience. The facts are that Sarah Palin has made more executive decisions as a Mayor and Governor than Barack Obama has made in his life. Because of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the Presidency and the treatment she received, American women are more highly tuned than ever to recognize and decry sexism in all its forms. They will not tolerate sexist treatment of Governor Palin."

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McCain Gambles that Palin is More than a Dan Quayle

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - Team Obama wasted no time in jumping all over Alaska governor Sarah Palin; as they brusquely put it she has zero experience in statecraft. The obvious point is that this automatically flushes down the drain Republican rival John McCain's prime hit point against Democratic nominee Barack Obama and that's that he's simply too much of a greenhorn on foreign policy and national security to trust White House command too.

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Getting Real About Palin

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Josh Marshall - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - I've noticed some people who should know better claiming that bringing up Gov. Palin's troopergate scandal is tantamount to making a victim of or defending her slimeball ex-brother-in-law who allegedly once used a taser on his stepson. That's awfully foolish. So I thought I'd put together a post explaining why. The person in question is state trooper Mike Wooten -- Palin's ex-brother-in-law who's embroiled in a bitter custody and divorce battle with Palin's sister. Back in the second week of August, well before Palin became a national political figure, TPMMuckraker was reporting on this story. And as part of the reporting we tried to get a handle on just how bad a guy Wooten was. Most people who are familiar with the ugliness that often spills out of custody and divorce cases know to take accusations arising out of the course of them with a grain of salt unless you know a lot about the people involved. And if you look closely at the case there are numerous reasons to question the picture drawn by the Palin family. Regardless, we proceeded on the assumption that Wooten really was a rotten guy because the truth is that it wasn't relevant to the investigation of Palin.

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2 Top Alaska Newspapers Question Palin's Fitness

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Greg Mitchell - Aug. 30 (Opinion) - From the editorial in the Daily News-Miner in Fairbanks: Sen. John McCain's selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate was a stunning decision that should make Alaskans proud, even while we wonder about the actual merits of the choice.... Alaskans and Americans must ask, though, whether she should become vice president and, more importantly, be placed first in line to become president. In fact, as the governor herself acknowledged in her acceptance speech, she never set out to be involved in public affairs. She has never publicly demonstrated the kind of interest, much less expertise, in federal issues and foreign affairs that should mark a candidate for the second-highest office in the land.

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Dissent doesn't belong in a cage

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 15 (Opinion) - The bulwark against tyranny is dissent. Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.

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Recalling the GOP Convention's Festival of Falling Stars

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Congressional Quarterly - By Bob Benenson - Aug. 08 (Opinion) - as we prepare to head out in a couple of weeks for the back-to-back Democratic convention in Denver and Republican convention in St. Paul, another way of illustrating the GOP's hard and fast slide emerges. A look at the list of featured speakers at the 2004 Republican convention is itself a graphic illustration of why just four years ago seems like the good old days to so many Republican loyalists.

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'Straight Talk Express' takes the low road

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Joel Connelly - Jul. 31 (Opinion) - McCain's presidential campaign is evolving into nonstop attacks on Sen. Barack Obama, salted with distortion and innuendo. After years as a media darling, the candidate has taken to complaining about his opponent's press coverage. What's happened?

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Why the right reluctantly defended McCain

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei - Feb. 24 (Opinion) - Conservative leaders often portray their political mission in moralistic terms: right vs. wrong. But their reaction to a news report that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) might have had an inappropriate relationship with a female lobbyist shows the activist right is often animated by a different impulse: us against them

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McCain Makes a Promise About Judges

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Pajamas Media - By Stephen Bainbridge - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - John McCain will appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court if elected. He pledged to do so at CPAC last week, and presidents are easier to pressure these days. Remember Harriet Miers?

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Bush Signals Support for McCain

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Peter Baker - Feb. 07 (Opinion) - President Bush plans to give an implicit endorsement of onetime rival John McCain's conservative bona fides tomorrow as the Arizona senator seeks to consolidate the party behind his candidacy. In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in the morning, Bush plans to say that the nominee of the party will be a strong conservative, according to excerpts released by the White House tonight.

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Rich Lowry on Hillary Clinton & 2008 on National Review Online

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

National Review - By Rich Lowry - Feb. 05 (Opinion) - Bill's relationship to Hillary is blissfully straightforward compared with that of Republicans. They hate her, and they love hating her. They have wanted her to lose the nomination for the mere sport of it, and they have wanted her to win because they think she's the weakest potential Democratic nominee. Lately, the entire party seems united in its quiet pleading: "Please, Hillary, you're in it, now win it -- for us."

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Dyspepsia on the Right

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:40:00 -0800

New York Times - By William Kristol - Feb. 04 (Opinion) - When the primaries are over, if McCain has won the day, don't sulk and don't sit it out. Don't pretend there's no difference between a candidate who's committed to winning in Iraq and a Democratic nominee who embraces defeat. Don't tell us that it doesn't matter if the next president voted to confirm John Roberts and Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court, or opposed them. Don't close your eyes to the difference between pro-life and pro-choice, or between resistance to big government and the embrace of it.

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The Party Animal Either Plays Well or Fights Well

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Michael Oreskes - Feb. 03 (Review) - Sometimes the simplest of arguments can reveal the deepest of divisions. Take the dispute between Senator Barack Obama and the Clintons over the legacy of Ronald Reagan. The episode began in Reno, Nev., you will recall, when Mr. Obama told an editorial board that Mr. Reagan was a president of ideas who had moved the country's politics. His ideas weren't necessarily good ideas, as Mr. Obama framed it, but they were transformative.

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Ron Paul Flatlines

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Outside the Beltway - By James Joyner - Feb. 03 (Opinion) - Ron Paul's ability to attract enthusiastic support among young people, especially online, has been quite impressive and unexpected. The degree to which that has translated into fundraising capability has been nothing short of spectacular.

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