Battling Our Greatest Fear
Many McCain supporters and undecided voters feel the same discomfort level that I do with Sarah Palin. They are the ones who I wanted to connect with.
Many McCain supporters and undecided voters feel the same discomfort level that I do with Sarah Palin. They are the ones who I wanted to connect with.
Danielle Crittenden | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
I love the idea of Sarah Palin. She conforms to an early American ideal of womanhood: rifle on one hip, baby on the other. The problem is that the the idea of Sarah Palin does not match the reality of Sarah Palin.
Jason Whitlock | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
Before Sarah Palin, I was a stubbornly proud non-voter, a 41-year-old patriotic American unwilling to tie any of my identity to a political party or ideology.
Think Progress | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a th...
Paul Hipp | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
Martin Lewis | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
I KNEW we'd heard that voice somewhere before! And I knew we'd heard this ANSWER somewhere before! "Something doesn't smell right..." - David Lett...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney and Sam Stein | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
Famed conservative columnist George Will told a gathering of Senate aides on Monday that Gov. Sarah Palin is "obviously" not prepared to assume the pr...
David Weinberger | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
Suspicious Russian tourists spotted across the Bering strait in Dezhnevo; Schedule for memorizing state capitals thrown off by need for new schedule to memorize states.
Huff TV | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
When Joe Lieberman first started stumping on behalf of John McCain, he said it was driven primarily by a shared vision for the Iraq war and a personal...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home
I had no idea Palin would change the dynamic of the election like this. There are 3000 enthusiasts waiting in the rain with me in Lebanon, Ohio, to see her, and a thousand more crowding the barricades behind us.
Michael Shaw | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media
We are looking at someone completely new to the national stage being asked to present herself for the first time to millions of Americans.
Michael Shaw | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 10.05.2008 | Home
Wednesday night the Republican Party changed frames, and did so brilliantly. The agent of change was Palin, who suddenly has become the most dangerous person to the progressive agenda since Reagan.
Michael Markarian | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green
Last night in the Twin Cities, the GOP conventioneers were officially introduced to their vice presidential candidate who is, as Fred Thompson said, "...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 10.05.2008 | Home
Bud McFarlane tells me that right now "a friend" of his is working with Palin on foreign affairs. "She's clearly very intelligent," he says. "It's a good sign she hasn't been afraid to say what she doesn't know. That was Ronald Reagan's strength."
Chip Berlet | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home
"Each wave of conservative Christian organizing erects more institutional infrastructure in the form of publishing houses, radio and television programs, bookstores... This "institutional thickening" bulks up the network to carry it through divisive episodes, such as the current one."
Leah McElrath Renna | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
As Sarah Palin's personal situation continues to unfold on a national stage, Democrats are spending a good amount of time arguing about how exactly to...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
News continues to break regarding vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin that could, in the long term, pose serious problems to one of the main thrus...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 10.01.2008 | Home
Unless intense media scrutiny and the St. Louis debate destroy her credibility -- and it's going to take a lot more than bridges, polar bears and an abusive brother-in-law to have any sway in the Buckeye State -- Sarah Palin has suddenly put Ohio seriously into play for John McCain.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
Tasked with defending Sarah Palin's foreign policy credentials as a vice presidential nominee, Sen. Lindsey Graham instead launched a vicious attack a...
Wajahat Ali | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics
Sadly, some of McCain and Clinton's followers think they suffer from an unbearable Whiteness of being as well, one that Obama's Blackness apparently allowed him to transcend.
Michael Shaw | Posted 09.30.2008 | Media
Politico | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
Politico points out that McCain's VP pick dissed the job only a month ago: In an interview just a month ago, she dissed the job, saying it didn't se...
Politico | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
Count Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as one of the most surprised that she was chocen as unning mate for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). In an interview just a ...
Danny Elfman | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics