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newsweek.com - 11/5/2008
A 2012 Political Playbook for Sarah Palin | Newsweek Politics
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When conservative leaders gather in Virginia on Thursday to assess the fallout from the presidential election and start planning their comeback, they will also be taking a closer look at their new potential standard-bearer, Sarah Palin . Most national conservatives have never met the Alaska ...
rasmussenreports.com - 11/7/2008
69% of GOP Voters Say Palin Helped McCain
— rasmussenreports.com — Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republican voters say Alaska Governor Sarah Palin helped John McCain’s bid for the... presidency, even as news reports surface that some McCain staffers think she was a liability. Only 20% of GOP voters say Palin hurt the ... (more) 69% of GOP Voters Say Palin Helped McCain

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ace.mu.nu - 11/5/2008
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— ace.mu.nu — « Scenes from the Divorce | Main | Chaos II -- why I'll be registering as democrat... » Anti-Palin McCain Staffers Begin Full-Scale Kneecapping of Sarah Palin Update: Bullshit Video of Bullshit Claims Now Available for Your Bullshit Enjoyment ... (more) Comments 11-05-08

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Palin Aide Offers Strong Rebuke to Criticisms
blogs.abcnews.com - 11/7/2008
Palin Aide Offers Strong Rebuke to Criticisms
— blogs.abcnews.com — ABC’s Kate Snow reports: A longtime aide to Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is lashing back at anonymous... critics within the McCain-Palin presidential campaign, telling ABC News they are attacking the former vice presidential candidate with distortions. ... (more) Palin Aide Offers Strong Rebuke to Criticisms

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Ross Douthat:  It Could Have Been Worse

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Balloon Juice:  If it keeps on Palin, the Levi’s gonna break

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It Could Have Been Worse
Ross Douthat — ... a month ago, on whether this year ends up for Republicans like the Democrats' 1980, or the Democrats' 2004. And if it's like 1980, which I suspect it is, then it's very easy to imagine the Republicans telling themselves "hey, things could have been worse" all the way to a Mondale-style drubbing four years from now. (It's pretty easy to see that scenario shaping up, for instance, in some of the Palin-in-2012 playbooks currently ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... sympathetic observers: that she should stay outside the Beltway and not appoint herself to the Senate seat held by Ted Stevens. Like her near-doppelganger George W. Bush, she's a reverse Groucho Marx: just for spite, she really, really wants to belong to precisely the club she feels is most determined not to have her as a member, even as she expresses contempt for it. ...

If it keeps on Palin, the Levi’s gonna break
Balloon Juice — Via NoMoreMisterNiceGuy, I see that Newsweek seems to have devoted an entire issue to Sarah Palin. As I said earlier, with Sarahcuda dribbling through a full-court press from the media (I’m not sure who I’m parodying here, but it’s someone), Playgirl’s got to pull the trigger on the Levi issue ASAP. Anyway, the Newsweek analysis isn’t entirely stupid, though it does push the “center-right” nation bullshit. One piece compares her to Barry Goldwater, which I think is wrong. I agree with this ...

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