corner.nationalreview.com - 11/18/2008
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I've written about my problem with conservative identity politics more than a few times, but let me just expand on this point in regards to my Sarah Palin post below. Yes, it's true part of her appeal is that she speaks to a demographic category -- though it isn't quite ethnic nor purely ...
blogs.news.com.au - 11/21/2008
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“And you thought her media outings as a
vice presidential candidate were as bad as it gets,”
says alarmed MSNBC host David Shuster … following footage of Sarah Palin speaking at a turkey processing plant: Shuster (who ...
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AS BAD AS IT GETS
article.nationalreview.com - 11/17/2008
redstate.com - 11/14/2008
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redstate.com —
What is it about CNN that they have
to distort things that Governor Sarah Palin has said
in interviews? This time, CNN even distorted what she said in an interview one of its own correspondents conducted. On CNN's Political Ticker Blog on ...
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CNN Distorts Palin Comments From Its OWN Interview With Her
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Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Jonah Goldberg makes some good points here : ... Vice Presidential picks have always been made on a nakedly political calculus. Was JFK's selection of LBJ "identity politics"? Or was it simply a recognition of political reality that a Catholic east-coaster needed a southern protestant on the ticket? Was Reagan's selection of George HW Bush identity politics or was it an attempt to unify the party by picking an old guard Rockefeller Republican to balance out a West Coast movement conservative? Again, I don't think the use of the term "identity politics" is always inappropriate ...
Shock: Frum Slams Palin
Ace of Spades HQ —
... solely because she's "one of us." And it never mattered whether she could govern -- just that she was a Christian and didn't abort babies. Goldberg disagrees, and questions if we're really talking about Palin: I just don't see a lot of merit to the effort to depict Palin into some grand symbol of conservative decay. If you want to argue she wasn't prepared to be President McCain's understudy, fine. That's certainly a legitimate argument (and there are legitimate responses to it). But I can't shake the feeling that Frum, Brooks, Noonan and others are using Palin as an excuse to ...
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... The "2012 Draft Sarah Committee" has a rudimentary website up showing the Alaska governor dishing out moose chili and appears to be composed of rank-and-file conservative activists.
They've already found their way into the in-boxes of some of the opinion-makers in early primary and caucus states.
David L. Kelly, apparently the group's Treasurer and Colorado coordinator, sent a mass email today that hit at least one Iowa GOP vet.
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Conservative Identity Politics
I've written about my problem with conservative ...
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Conservative Identity Politics
I've written about my problem with conservative identity politics more than a few times, but let me just expand on this point in regards to my Sarah Palin post below. Yes, it's ...
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wonkette.com 11/10/2008 — It is 1945 all over again. A major historical War for the White House has ended forever, and the liberals won. The liberals do not usually win these things because they are scared of fighting, so who knows how this happened. Whatever. They can ...
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The AP’s lead on yesterday’s meeting: "No longer foes but not yet allies, President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain buried their bitter campaign in public smiles and searched for common ground in private on Monday, discussing possible ...
GOP's future: Palin back at work —
First Read 11/18/2008
The AP outlines some of Palin's challenges as she heads back to governing in Alaska. Among them: "Palin's state budget proposal is due in a month, with plummeting oil prices slashing Alaska's revenues by billions of dollars. The 1,700-mile natural gas ...
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