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The View From Wasilla - God Help Us if Sarah Palin is Elected

Erik Ose | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Erik Ose

I got a fascinating e-mail from a Wasilla, Alaska resident who was witness to Sarah Palin's tenure as mayor. Except for a New York Times article this...

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McCain's Road To Victory

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

In Palin, McCain may have found a way to shift attention away from Bush-McCain associations. "In a normal election," Karl Rove said, "the effect of the vice presidential candidate is minimal..."

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Reading The Pictures: RNC Final Night Top 10

Michael Shaw | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media

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Michael Shaw

2008-09-05-sarah_palin_moose.jpg Who could resist Sarah in pearls and the paramilitary-looking outfit. (Can anyone ID the uniform?). And, of course, the moose.

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RNC Speech Proves Sarah Palin is Not "Every Woman"

Kim Mance | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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Kim Mance

As a woman and feminist, I'm not buying all the rhetoric. Mainly because Sarah Palin is the most anti-women woman to hit national politics to date.

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Oops, the McCains Said It Again

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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Robert S. McElvaine

While many people were going ga-ga over Sarah Palin being able to read, with feeling, the Bush team's talking points off the teleprompter on Wednesd...

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McCain Is Suddenly Camera Shy

E. Joyce Moore | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home

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E. Joyce Moore

If McCain is so proud of his pick for vice president, why does he keep skipping interviews?

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Am I "Off Message" on Sarah Palin?

Hilary Rosen | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

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Hilary Rosen

Palin is being attacked for her lack of experience for the job and for whether she should be putting her family first instead of her career. This just isn't that unusual in my book.

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Sarah Palin's Cruel Streak

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Glenn Hurowitz

One of Palin's first acts in office was to put a $150 bounty on the heads of her state's wolves, allegedly with the goal of increasing the moose and caribou population.

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Will Palin Make it to the Gate in this Race?

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Maggie Van Ostrand

Can anyone really believe Sarah Palin will make it to the election? It seems more obvious every moment that she was initially used to deflect attenti...

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Just Any Woman Won't Do

Ertharin Cousin | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Ertharin Cousin

It is our responsibility to ensure that we tell our neighbors and friends and women across the country that Barack is the candidate who will fight for women.

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Sarah Palin: Laura Roslin?

Mark Jeffrey | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Mark Jeffrey

Watching the whole Sarah Palin saga unfold, I can't help but think of Laura Roslin from Battlestar Galactica. On the show, humanity is all but wiped ...

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Fear of God

Dan Pasternack | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Dan Pasternack

The unwavering faith in absolute truth that belongs to evangelicals is incredibly powerful. And it's the reason why Sarah Palin is a brilliant choice as John McCain's running mate.

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What John McCain Is Thinking, Part III

Seth Greenland | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Seth Greenland

Maybe I shoulda picked ol' Huck. Compared to Sally, he's Julius Caesar. Two of us got along like a coupla M&Ms on the trail, he's right on all the issues the Jesus Team cares about, and he killed on Leno.

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Drooling Banjoes

Steven Weber | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

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Steven Weber

The crux of McCain's approach to reversing the seemingly inexorable tide of Change and Hope is a campaign of denial, defensiveness and defamation. And dumbness.

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Reckless John Disses America

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

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Robert S. McElvaine

But the issue on we ought to be focusing is less whether she is fit to be president than what McCain's know-almost-nothing-about-her selection says about his fitness to be president.

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The Palin Choice and the Reality of the Political Mind

George Lakoff | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

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George Lakoff

The Palin nomination is not about external realities and what Democrats call "issues," but about the symbolic mechanisms of the political mind -- the worldviews, frames, metaphors, cultural narratives, and stereotypes.

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Saving the GOP and The Unbearable Lightness of Being Sarah Palin

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

If McCain had picked any of the far more experienced candidates on his short list, they would have come fully equipped with a long paper trail implicating them in the horror show that is the Republican Party of the last eight years.

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Brand First, Equivocate Later: The Message of Denver and the Importance of Defining McCain-Palin Before They Define Themselves

Drew Westen | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

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Drew Westen

The position Palin and others on the right have articulated gives every rapist the right to pick the mother of his child. That position is tantamount to a Rapist's Bill of Rights -- those are McCain-Palin's "family values."

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Where Do the Veep Candidates Stand on Animals?

Michael Markarian | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

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Michael Markarian

Having Sarah Palin one heartbeat from the presidency should strike fear into any animal advocate in the nation.

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How Sarah Palin's Plucky Ingénue Could Spell Curtains for McCain

Glenn W. Smith | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

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Glenn W. Smith

If Palin is given any time to become a new America's Sweetheart, a true ingénue immune to criticism, attacks against her will be worse than fruitless.

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I Am Un-American

Howard Gewirtz | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

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Howard Gewirtz

The fact that Sarah Palin is Annie Oakley reincarnated more than balances the insignificant fact that she has no more business being president or VP than Barbara Eden in "Harper Valley PTA."

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The Palin Pick and Talk of McCain's Mortality

Rick Hasen | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

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Rick Hasen

An initial reaction to the McCain VP pick: does it not accentuate the talk about McCain's age in a way that a more experienced VP choice would have neutralized?

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Gidget Goes To Washington

Reny Monk | Posted 09.30.2008 | Home

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Reny Monk

As a woman, I find McCain's cavalier and blase vetting of Ms. Palin insulting. One look at the dame was good enough for him, so we should be excited about having a broad to vote for. McCain just doesn't get it.

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Paint McCain Pink

Fara Warner | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

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Fara Warner

As the news sinks in of Palin's overnight rise to vice presidential nominee, I find myself insulted. Insulted and disrespected and angry.

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Is John McCain Mentally Fit To Be President?

Erik Ose | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

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Erik Ose

In a breathtakingly puzzling move, John McCain showed terrible judgment by selecting first term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate. ...

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