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adn.com - 4/3/2009

Palin, Ruedrich call for Begich resignation

— adn.com — WASHINGTON -- The head of the Alaska Republican Party today called on Sen. Mark Begich to step... down from the U.S. Senate, saying that the state's voters would have re-elected former Sen. Ted Stevens had they known the U.S Department of Justice would ... (more) Palin, Ruedrich call for Begich resignation

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newsminer.com - 4/2/2009

newsminer.com • Palin joins call for new Senate election after Stevens' case dropped

— newsminer.com — JUNEAU — Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday echoed a call from the Alaska Republican Party for U.S.... Sen. Mark Begich to resign after the Justice Department asked a judge to toss out corruption charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens. “I absolutely agree,” ... (more) newsminer.com • Palin joins call for new Senate ...

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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 4/3/2009

Ted Stevens should run against Palin, Alaska Republican says

— politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — Will Sarah Palin face a primary challenge from Ted Stevens in 2010? WASHINGTON (CNN) – Now that... the corruption case against former Sen. Ted Stevens has been dropped, Alaska Rep. Don Young wants Stevens to run for governor — a move that ... (more) Ted Stevens should run against Palin, Alaska Republican says

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Clean Bill of Health?
Talking Points Memo — ... of now-former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK). But as Zack Roth reports in this new post at TPMMuckraker, we're now in the midst of an outpouring of tributes to Stevens claiming that the effective dismissal of the case makes Stevens an aggrieved victim and confirms that the prosecution never should have been brought in the first place (see ...

Hullabaloo — ... It's no surprise that Matthews has no idea how the criminal justice system works. And of course, the rest of the Village establishment has taken up for their pal Ted as well, deliberately misreading yesterday's events and intoning gravely how this honorable man has been "besmirched." ...

Forget the do-over
Political Animal — ... case. Does he get a do-over election? Not so much. Look, there's no doubt that the prosecutors in Stevens' trial badly mishandled the case. But let's also not forget that Holder intervened, not because of Stevens' innocence, but because of the misconduct in Bush's Justice Department. To hear the media and Alaska Republicans tell it, Stevens was pure as the driven snow and would have won yet another term were it not for being railroaded by bungling lawyers. In reality, as Zachary Roth explained yesterday , "[N]o one disputes that Stevens accepted hundreds of thousands of ...

Versailles' Culture of Narcissism: Ted Stevens Edition
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'Innocence' is relative
Political Animal — 'INNOCENCE' IS RELATIVE.... There are two key angles to keep in mind when it comes to former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' (R) recent legal developments. One, the prosecutorial misconduct in Stevens' trial was egregious and unacceptable, and the Justice Department was right to dismiss the charges. Two, the prosecutors' wrongdoing doesn't change the fact that Stevens still appears to be very, very guilty. There's been a bizarre push of late -- in Republican circles and among political reporters -- that Stevens has somehow been exonerated. In one particularly egregious example, ...