outsidethebeltway.com - 11/10/2008
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Two lawyer-bloggers who I’ve followed for years are upset with me for buying into the “Sarah Palin was in over her head” meme. Xrlq accused me of drinking “the anti-Palin Kool-Aid” for buying into claims that Palin didn’t know which countries were in NAFTA ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 11/8/2008
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corner.nationalreview.com —
I talked to Steve Biegun, the former Bush
NSC aid who briefed Sarah Palin on foreign policy,...
and he considers the leaks against her on the international stuff "absurd." He says there's no way she didn't know Africa was a continent, and whoever is ...
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Palin and Africa, Etc.
adn.com - 11/10/2008
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adn.com —
Gov. Sarah Palin blames the Bush administration for
the failure of the McCain-Palin ticket, thinks people need...
to move on from the so-called "Troopergate" controversy and has no regrets about accepting state per diem cash for time spent at her home in ...
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Palin reflects on her run
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From the Language Police blotter: "dilemma"
The Reality-Based Community —
... Properly speaking, a "dilemma" is a logical situation, not a practical one. When Hank Paulson had to decide between betraying his ideology with a bailout and risking the collapse of the financial markets by letting Lehmann Brothers go down, that wasn't a dilemma: that was just a tough choice. A dilemma is a situation in which one of two propositions must be true, and either one wrecks your argument. For example: Either the nasty stuff about Sarah Palin the McCainiacs are leaking to the press is true, or it is false. If it's false, McCain chose a bunch of backstabbing liars ...
On the Future of the GOP
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
... into the new communism, but it is ultimately a difficult analogy to make for a number of reasons.
So, at least one portion of the Reaganite glue is not available for use. The other major portion, tax-cutting, isn’t as viable as it may initial seem, as the next post in the series will argue.
In terms of the series, next-up: income taxes.
Also worth noting, some posts over at OTB by James Joyner on the subject of what’s next for the GOP:
Palin Derangement Syndrome
Republican Party’s Future
Fixing the GOP Redux ...
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blogs.abcnews.com 10/28/2008 — Allies of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are now trying to throw McCain aide Nicolle Wallace under the proverbial bus, and as they do so those in McCain’s circle are wary of the impact on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., himself. Since...
AP: Palin put kids on state tab
swamppolitics.com 10/22/2008 — by James OIiphant
The Associated Press is moving a story that says that as Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin charged the state some $21,000 in expenses for her children's travel as she conducted official state business.
But Alaska law is unclear ...
Palin's Medical Records II
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 10/20/2008 —
According to the NYT today , the Palin campaign has refused to give any interviews or provide any documents with respect to Sarah Palin's health records. Like her refusal to hold a press conference in the campaign, this makes Palin uniquely ...
Palin First
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/1/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings Speaking of Palin rallies in Florida -- which I did earlier -- it seems that, like Palin rallies elsewhere, they're all about... Sarah Palin : At a boisterous Sarah Palin rally in Polk City, Florida on Saturday afternoon, one name was surprisingly absent from the ...
Getting Palin wrong, coming and going
powerlineblog.com 10/18/2008 — Peggy Noonan continues to tie herself in knots over Sarah Palin. During the Republican convention, Noonan wrote a column in which she argued that Palin represents "a real and present danger to the American left" which therefore needs to "kill" her. ...
AP INVESTIGATION: Alaska funded Palin kids' travel
huffingtonpost.com 10/22/2008 — ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
The charges ...
What’s Next for Sarah Palin?
bloggernews.net 11/8/2008 — I’ve given my take the latest Palin controversy here and here, and outside of that I’m done. I make it a rule not put too much faith in “unnamed sources” (especially when one of the people rumoured to be an “unnamed ...
AP INVESTIGATION: Palin pipeline terms curbed bids
huffingtonpost.com 10/26/2008 — ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin's signature accomplishment _ a contract to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48 _ emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties ...
Dem groups claim Obama win
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Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/10/2008
Politico - John F. Kennedy famously said that "victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan," an adage born out over the last three days as reporters' inboxes have overflowed with e-mails from advocacy groups boasting of their role in ...
Bush keeping Obama up to speed on G20:Treasury —
Reuters: Politics 11/10/2008
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The U.S. administration of President George W. Bush is keeping President-elect Barack Obama's economic team "up to speed" on what will be discussed at next weekend's G20 financial summit in Washington, a U.S. Treasury official ...
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