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thenextright.com - 10/15/2008
Hands Off Palin
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Ross Douthat smartly reviews the unfolding civil war in the conservative pundit-sphere over Sarah Palin, and tries to call a truce of sorts: In such circumstances, what's the best course of action - denouncing the rats, or trying to figure out why the hell the ship is sinking? Even if Brooks ...
weeklystandard.com - 10/14/2008
No One Ever Said 'Kill Him' About Obama
— weeklystandard.com — A look back at the original language used by Palin at the rally in question makes it... nearly impossible for the exclamation to be misunderstood as an attack on Obama unless you happen to be a MSM member just dying to think the worst of the Right.  ... (more) No One Ever Said 'Kill Him' About Obama

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On the "Palin Effect"
realclearpolitics.com - 10/15/2008
On the "Palin Effect"
— realclearpolitics.com — A reader writes in with a question: A few of my friends have said almost in the... same words, "I was thinking of voting for McCain until he chose Palin. After that, I'm voting for Obama." Packer's article in the... (more) On the "Palin Effect"

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The Weekly Standard
weeklystandard.com - 10/14/2008
The Weekly Standard
— weeklystandard.com — A look back at the original language used by Palin at the rally in question makes it... nearly impossible for the exclamation to be misunderstood as an attack on Obama unless you happen to be a MSM member just dying to think the worst of the Right. ... (more) The Weekly Standard

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Classical Values:  Can the recriminations wait? How about just a couple of weeks?

Ross Douthat:  Why The Grassroots Needs Elites

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  Palin Is The Solution!

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Can the recriminations wait? How about just a couple of weeks?
Classical Values — Can the recriminations wait? How about just a couple of weeks? Another civil war ? Must we? I don't know, but I couldn't resist clicking the above to read Patrick Ruffini's analysis (in a post tiled "Hands Off Palin") of Ross Douthat's warning to certain conservatives. Noting the negative reactions of the latter to the negative reactions to Sarah Palin by certain Big Media conservative intellectuals, Douthat said, ...if I were Hanson or Levin or Steyn I'd be devoting a little less time to ritual denunciations of heretics and RINOs and at least a little more time to figuring out how to build the sort of ship that will ...

Why The Grassroots Needs Elites
Ross Douthat — You should read Patrick Ruffini on the great right-wing pundit civil war. He argues that I'm underestimating the justifiable sense of betrayal movement conservatives feel at being simultaneously asked to swallow a massive, massive government intervention in the economy while their own pundit class is lecturing them about how Sarah Palin - whom they regard as the only good choice McCain has made all year - is the problem with the McCain campaign and the GOP in general. "I'm with Ross," he writes, "on the fact that we have bigger fish to fry than pundit-on-pundit action right now. But once the post-election recriminations ...

Palin Is The Solution!
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Ruffini digs in. He actually thought Kristol - who created Palin - now opposes Palin. Ha!

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