newyorker.com - 10/26/2008
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Here’s a little news flash,” Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska and the Republican candidate for Vice-President, announced in September, during her début at the Party’s Convention, in St. Paul. “I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment. And ...
dyn.politico.com - 10/25/2008
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dyn.politico.com —
Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble
to close the gap in the final days of...
the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are complicating the campaign's already-tense internal dynamics. Four Republicans close to Palin said she has ...
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Palin allies report rising campaign tension - ...
article.nationalreview.com - 10/25/2008
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article.nationalreview.com —
Is there a connection between the criticisms of
Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin and repressed post abortion...
grief?
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Burke: The Palin Trig-ger
politico.com - 10/25/2008
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politico.com —
Some McCain aides say they had little choice
with a candidate who simply wasn't ready for the...
national stage, and that Palin didn't forcefully object. Moments that Palin's allies see as triumphs of instinct and authenticity the Wright suggestion, her ...
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Palin allies report rising campaign tension - Ben Smith
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Rove And Kristol Fault Disloyal, Ill-Serving Campaign Staff For McCain’s Struggles
Think Progress —
... The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer said Kristol was “the most ardent promoter” of Palin, repeatedly talking up her electoral prowess on Fox News and urging McCain to choose her for vice president. Some recent polls have shown her selection to be ...
Pallin' Around With Palin
Political Punch —
... know far less about Palin than she does about foreign policy. A good example is Ken Adelman, who headed the arms control agency in the Reagan administration. Adelman recently endorsed Obama and said he 'would not have hired [Palin] for even a mid-level post in the arms control agency.' Well, I know both Palin and Adelman. And Ken, I'm sorry to tell you, but I think there are an awful lot of jobs in Washington that Palin would get before you." On a related note, you should check out Jane Mayer's New Yorker story on "How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin." -- jpt October ...
The Love Boat
Suburban Guerrilla —
Interesting look at how Sarah Palin curried the interest of the conservative establishment.
Why McCain Will Win
Jon Swift —
... , it's why McCain picked her in the first place: "McCain took Palin to his favorite coffee-drinking spot down by a creek and a sycamore tree," she writes. "They talked for more than an hour, and, as Napoleon whispered to Josephine, ‘Voila.’ One does not have to be a psychoanalyst to reckon that McCain was smitten." In The New Yorker Jane Mayer describes how a group of influential conservative men became ...
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