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The Corner on National Review Online — ... . . . GOP Convention Sarah Palin is Being Prepped for Prime Time Los Angeles Times [image] GOP Tightens Image Control As Palin Prepares for Debut The Wall Street Journal [image] Before Speech, Running Mate Gets Some Coaching The Washington Post [image] Grand Old Party Seeks Fresh Faces USA Today [image] Bush Hands GOP to McCain The Washington Times [image] Bush and Lieberman Hail McCain as a Leader The New York Times [image] [image] McCain Had Criticized Earmarks from Palin Los Angeles Times [image] Effort to Woo Conservatives Is ...

Bringing Home The Bacon, Part II
Political Animal — ... to help direct nearly $27 million in pork projects to the town of Wasilla. And today we learn that McCain has actually condemned some of the very earmarks his running mate and her lobbyists secured. For much of his long career in Washington, John McCain has been throwing darts at the special spending system known as earmarking, through which powerful members of Congress can deliver federal cash for pet projects back home with little or no public scrutiny. He's even gone so far as to publish "pork lists" detailing these financial favors. Three times in recent years, McCain's ...

Palin Capitalizes on Family in the Spotlight
The Democratic Daily — ... and blew the “Republican message about the Palin offspring” being off limits into a farce. Unbelievable. But not… That is what these people live for and the wingnuts in the crowd ate it up, while that young couple at times, looked visibly uncomfortable. Palin’s took jabs at Barack Obama in her speech, “misrepresented his record and simply lied about her own, claiming to oppose earmarks that she supported, and dissembling on her $1.5 billion tax hike and record of raising sales taxes ...

Real Vetting Roundup
Daily Kos — ... call McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds out on his spin on this and more here. Video surfaced of Sarah Palin at her church just three months ago, claiming that regardless of what policies are enacted, it doesn't mater if "people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God."  Palin also claimed that American soldiers have been sent to Iraq "on a task that is from God." (Full videos here and here). She can't "fix" Washington when she's played the Washington game so well: Wasilla had received few if any ...

Frank Rich: Palin and McCain’s Shotgun Marriage
The Latest on Air America — ... any doubt that that McCain has fled, confirmation arrived with his last-minute embrace of Sarah Palin. [...] Most of the rest of the biography supplied by her and the McCain camp is fiction. She didn’t say “no thanks” to the “Bridge to Nowhere” until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers’ money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in ...

Palin Retrospective
Newshoggers.com — ... 2001 - McCain list of spending "that had been approved without the normal budget scrutiny included a $500,000 earmark for a public transportation project in Wasilla." ...