talkingpointsmemo.com - 7/3/2009
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At 4:06 ET, when news first broke that Sarah Palin was resigning the governorship, Fox News got Palin's Svengali, Bill Kristol, on phone who said he was "real surprised" by the decision. "[Y]ou know when I first heard it I thought that's a little crazy, giving up the governorship for a year and ...
weeklystandard.com - 7/3/2009
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weeklystandard.com —
If Palin wants to run in 2012, why
not do exactly what she announced today? It's an...
enormous gamble - but it could be a shrewd one. After all, she's freeing herself from the duties of the governorship. Now she can do her book, give speeches, ...
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Kristol: A Contrarian Take
corner.nationalreview.com - 7/1/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of
Sarah Palin appears to have opened old wounds in...
the McCain campaign. At issue is a question that was never resolved following McCain's loss in November: Who in the McCain campaign was secretly trashing ...
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Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
politico.com - 7/6/2009
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politico.com —
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who's emerged as
one of Sarah Palin's highest profile conservative boosters, defended...
the Alaska governor's decision to step down today in a panel appearance on "Fox News Sunday," and compared her level ...
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Kristol: Palin qualifications on par with Obama
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Surreality Only Beginning
Talking Points Memo —
... As David noted below, many commentators have taken little more than an hour to proceed from slack-jawed bewilderment to belief that Sarah Palin's unexplained resignation may be a political masterstroke. ...
Now, only an ex-Governor, with lipstick
The Reaction —
... so they could CGI in the throngs of people standing by the geeky guy, always affirming "you're covered", to avoid looking like the "before Dead Zone" If you want, there's a zillion posts out on Memeorandum that you can click through, while we highlight a few here. It's only Act I, of a multiple act play, so no telling what this is all about today, the sudden, abrupt ditching of the Governor digs. The Right Wing Freak Show is beginning to rally around that this is the cannon ...
PALIN ABSOLUTELY DOMINATES THE NEWS CYCLE
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... Discussion: Ezra Klein, The New Republic, Balloon Juice, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Talking Points Memo and Winds of Change.NET ...
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pandagon.net - we are the public option
by Jesse Taylor
Ross Douthat is trying to muscle in on Bill Kristol territory, turning Sarah Palin into a Lesson For Us All :
Our president represents the meritocratic ideal — that anyone, from any background, can grow up to attend Columbia and Harvard Law School and become a great ...
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