Getting Real
talkingpointsmemo.com 8/31/2008 — I've noticed some people who should know better claiming that bringing up Gov. Palin's troopergate scandal is tantamount to making a victim of or defending her slimeball ex-brother-in-law who allegedly once used a taser on his stepson. That's ...

Cindy McCain: Palin knows foreign policy because ‘Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia.’
thinkprogress.org 8/31/2008 — Today on ABC’s This Week, Cindy McCain tried to rebut the criticism that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has no national experience by taking a talking point from Fox’s Steve Doocy . McCain pointed to the fact that Palin’s state is near ...

Stooping to Lowest Level: Democratic Claim of Palin's 'Faked Pregnancy' Gaining Steam
newsbusters.org 8/31/2008 — **Update: TV's Alan Colmes Says Palin's Neglect Caused Down's Syndrome Birth!!** As I reported earlier , the scurrilous claim that McCain vice presidential pick Governor Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy with a Down's Syndrome child is beginning to ...

Palin's travels
politico.com 8/31/2008 — Sarah Palin's abrupt appearance on the national stage sparked an enormous array of questions, one of which is: Has she ever traveled abroad. I asked her new spokeswoman, Maria Comella, who noted Palin visited Germany and Kuwait in 2007 to visit ...

Gallup Daily: Obama-Biden Ticket Leads by 6 Points
gallup.com 8/31/2008 — The Democratic presidential ticket of Obama-Biden holds a six percentage point lead over the Republican McCain-Palin ticket, 48% to 42%, in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Thursday to Saturday. This includes two days of interviews after Obama's ...

Cindy McCain Defends Palin’s Credentials — FOXNews.com 8/31/2008
Cindy McCain said Sunday that Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin understands what’s at stake in national security issues in part because she is governor of Alaska, located some 300 miles from Russia. The wife of soon-to-be GOP ...

McCain Surrogates Tout Palin As More Experienced Than Obama — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 8/31/2008
Laura Meckler reports from Minnesota on the presidential race. The McCain campaign appears to have settled on a unified response to charges that running mate Sarah Palin has virtually no foreign policy experience, very little experience on ...

Dodd and Daschle: McCain 'buckled' to extreme right — CNN Political Ticker 8/31/2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Senator Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle became the latest prominent Democrats to slam John McCain's choice of a vice presidential running mate, both saying that the Arizona senator ...

McCain: Changes Will be Made to GOP Convention Program — FOXNews.com 8/31/2008
John McCain said Sunday dramatic changes will be made to the the Republican National Convention in response to Hurricane Gustav, which churns towards the Gulf Coast with potentially deadly force. McCain was in Mississippi with his wife, Cindy, and ...

McCain defends Palin's experience level — CNN Political Ticker 8/31/2008
(CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain on Sunday defended the experience level and judgment of his recently-chosen running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The 44-year-old Palin is a first-term governor, and her previous ...