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Palin agonistes

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Howard Kurtz - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - You have to feel a twinge of sympathy for Sarah Palin.

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Paranoia Strikes Deep

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:18:04 -0800

New York Times - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - If the G.O.P. essentially shrinks down to a rump party across America, the country could become ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.

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The Revenge of Levi - NYTimes.com

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Gail Collins - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - In an article for Vanity Fair, Levi Johnston shares his view on the Palin home life. It’s too bad he is untrustworthy about every subject not covered by Field & Stream.

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Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Vanity Fair - Jul. 20 (Comedy News) - If you watched Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, you know one thing: her high-priced speechwriters moved back to the Beltway long ago. Just how poorly constructed was the governor’s holiday-weekend address? We asked V.F.’s red-pencil-wielding executive literary editor, together with representatives from the research and copy departments, to whip it into publishable shape. Here is the colorful result.

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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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Even out of office, Palin is her party’s leader

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Daniel Finkelstein - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - There is no more eloquent statement of modern Republicanism than resigning office with time still on the clock. Mrs Palin has chosen to talk about power, rather than exercise it. She would rather write a book and give lectures about being a governor than actually be a governor. And her party has made the same choice.

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Palin's Resignation Leaves GOP Searching for New Leader

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

U.S. News & World Report - By Kenneth T. Walsh - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - Sarah Palin's abrupt resignation as governor of Alaska has set off a new round of soul searching and hair pulling in the Republican Party.

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Sarah Palin Does Not Understand Cap and Trade

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Conor Clarke - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - If you're wondering what Sarah Palin will do after leaving the Alaska governor's office, look no further than her op-ed in the this morning's Washington Post. She writes, "at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be: I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy." As a card-carrying member of the chattering class, let me say that I am in indeed disappointed by this development. Not because Palin is showing a greater interest in policy, or because she'll be focusing on an issue that's near and dear to my heart. I'm disappointed because Palin's op-ed displays an ignorance for the subject so profound it's almost gutsy. Almost.

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Have Palin and Sanford damaged the GOP brand?

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Katherine Mangu-Ward, Glenn Reynolds - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - You'd think Americans would be jaded about political scandals by now. Any voter still surprised to discover feet of clay (creeping out from under the partition of a bathroom stall, for instance) should seem impossibly naive. But instead we collectively thrill to revelations of salacious secrets about our leaders.

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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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Sweet, Tweet Revenge

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

New York Times - By Maureen Dowd - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - It was only a matter of time, once John McCain joined the 21st century and got himself a Ford Fusion Hybrid, a Facebook page and a Twitter account, that he would reconnect with people out of his past he would rather forget.

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A Farewell to Harms

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

Wall Street Journal - By Peggy Noonan - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.

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Why Palin Quit

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - People close to Sarah Palin say national political reporters and pundits have missed the real reasons for her surprising decision to resign as Alaska governor. The national media have dismissed or downplayed her real motives, which had little to do with any plans to run for president in 2012.

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Letterman sort of apologizes about Palin wisecrack

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By The Associated Press - Jun. 11 (Interview) - NEW YORK -- ’Late Show’ host David Letterman is apologizing, sort of, for jokes about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and one of her teenage daughters.

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Op-Ed Columnist - Bristol Palin’s New Gig

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Gail Collins - May. 07 (Opinion) - But when a teenager goes out on this kind of mission, you have to wonder where her parents’ heads were. What does this say about Sarah Palin’s judgment? Although we’ve sort of answered that question before

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The Perils of 'Populist Chic'

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

Wall Street Journal - By Mark Lilla - Nov. 08 (Opinion) - Finita la commedia. Many things ended on Tuesday evening when Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States, and depending on how you voted you are either celebrating or mourning this weekend. But no matter what our political affiliations, we should all -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- be toasting the return of Governor Sarah Palin to Juneau, Alaska. The Palin farce is already the stuff of legend. For a generation at least it is sure to keep presidential historians and late-night comedians in gainful employment, which is no small thing. But it would be a pity if laughter drowned out serious reflection about this bizarre episode. As Jane Mayer reported recently in the New Yorker ("The Insiders," Oct. 27, 2008), John McCain's choice was not a fluke, or a senior moment, or an act of desperation. It was the result of a long campaign by influential conservative intellectuals to find a young, populist leader to whom they might hitch their wagons in the future.

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Last of the Culture Warriors

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Peter Beinart - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - Why has America turned on Sarah Palin? Obviously, her wobbly television interviews haven't helped. Nor have the drip, drip of scandals from Alaska, which have tarnished her reformist image. But Palin's problems run deeper, and they say something fundamental about the political age being born. Palin's brand is culture war, and in America today culture war no longer sells. The struggle that began in the 1960s -- which put questions of racial, sexual and religious identity at the forefront of American politics -- may be ending. Palin is the end of the line.

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The Evidence Establishes, without Question, that Republican Rule Is Dangerous

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

FindLaw - By John W. Dean - Oct. 31 (Opinion) - Republicans rule, rather than govern, when they are in power by imposing their authoritarian conservative philosophy on everyone, as their answer for everything. This works for them because their interest is in power, and in what it can do for those who think as they do.

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Northern Star Rising

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Eugene Robinson - Oct. 31 (Opinion) - I thought Palin was a lightweight; she's not. I thought she was an ingenue; she is, but only as long as her claws are sheathed. I thought she was bewildered and star-struck at her sudden elevation to national prominence; if she ever was, she isn't anymore. I thought she was nothing but raw political talent and unrealistic ambition; it turns out that she has impressive political skills. I thought she was destined to become nothing more than a historical footnote; I now think that Democrats underestimate her at their peril.

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Call Him John the Careless

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By George F. Will - Oct. 30 (Opinion) - From the invasion of Iraq to the selection of Sarah Palin, carelessness has characterized recent episodes of faux conservatism.? Tuesday's probable repudiation of the Republican Party will punish characteristics displayed in the campaign's closing days.

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Move over, Tonto. In Barack Obama's world, President Bush and John McCain are now 'Batman and Robin'

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By James Gerstenzang - Oct. 30 (Opinion) - The Democratic presidential nominee, who began Saturday saying that McCain trying to distance himsef from the president was akin to "Tonto getting mad at the Lone Ranger," ended it by saying "it's like Robin getting mad at Batman."

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Sarah Palin's War on Science

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Christopher Hitchens - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - With Palin, however, the contempt for science may be something a little more sinister than the bluff, empty-headed plain-man's philistinism of McCain. We never get a chance to ask her in detail about these things, but she is known to favor the teaching of creationism in schools (smuggling this crazy idea through customs in the innocent disguise of "teaching the argument," as if there was an argument), and so it is at least probable that she believes all creatures from humans to fruit flies were created just as they are now. This would make DNA or any other kind of research pointless, whether conducted in Paris or not. Projects such as sequencing the DNA of the flu virus, the better to inoculate against it, would not need to be funded. We could all expire happily in the name of God. Gov. Palin also says that she doesn't think humans are responsible for global warming; again, one would like to ask her whether, like some of her co-religionists, she is a "premillenial dispensationalist"—in other words, someone who believes that there is no point in protecting and preserving the natural world, since the end of days will soon be upon us.

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Gaffe-In

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Show - By Jon Stewart - Oct. 25 (Comedy News) - The candidates' mistakes are called gaffes, bloopers, or as they're known on the street -- Pullin' a Biden. The election is close and the gaffes keep coming. Joe Biden says the wrong thing at a closed-door fundraiser, while Sarah Palin and John McCain slip up in front of the cameras.

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Obama for president

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - On the most important issue of the day, Sen. Obama is a clear choice. Sen. McCain describes himself as a maverick, by which he seems to mean that he spent 25 years trying unsuccessfully to persuade his own party to follow his bipartisan, centrist lead. Sadly, maverick John McCain didn't show up for the campaign. Instead we have candidate McCain, who embraces the extreme Republican orthodoxy he once resisted and cynically asks Americans to buy for another four years.

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The Palin Problem

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Jonathan Darman - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - If McCain loses, the GOP will have a head vs. heart decision to make about the party's veep pick.

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