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Jewish Democrats have started to hit Sarah Palin hard for her association with former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, which seems to have amounted to her being seen wearing a Buchanan button in 1996. Here's Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida: John McCain's decision to select a vice ...
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Damnit, Chris Mathews was Wrong
Ace of Spades HQ — Damnit, Chris Mathews was Wrong And after I apologized to him. This bullshit began when oppo researchers quickly dug up a picture of Palin wearing a Buchanan button. From that, Matthews concluded that she was a Pitchfork Pat torch-bearer. Not so. The entire case is based on a 1999 AP article, which described her as "sporting a Buchanan button" at a Buchanan visit to the town of which she was mayor. She promptly responded to the story in a letter to the editor, that "the article may have left your readers with the perception that I am endorsing this candidate, as opposed to ...

Heart-ache: Palin wants creationism taught in public schools?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... she said. “He would show us fossils and say, ‘How old do you think these are?’” I don’t know how to parse all that — she’s happy to let it come up in classroom discussion so long as it’s introduced by kids’ questions and not the teacher himself, I guess — but as long as she doesn’t want to add it to the curriculum I can’t believe she’ll have any problem with independents. In any case, creationism’s not what this election’s about. What this election’s about is whether Palin supported a guy nine years ago who’s still — ...

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"She Just Is Not Ready to Be Commander-in-Chief"
corner.nationalreview.com 8/29/2008 — Pat Buchanan on MSNBC just now, about Sarah Palin. I'm liable to agree, but, how is she any less qualified than Barack Obama, who is the actual presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket?
Palin not on 1996 Buchanan list
politico.com 8/30/2008 — A Republican seeking to defend Sarah Palin from association with Pat Buchanan sends over a long press release from Jan. 17, 1996, listing his top Alaska supporters. Palin's name doesn't appear as a "brigader" — as Buchanan described ...
McCain Camp Denies that Sarah Palin was a Member of the Buchanan Brigades in the 1990s
blogs.abcnews.com 8/31/2008 — A meme is developing out there among liberals that Gov. Sarah Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan in the 1990s, a charge that the McCain-Palin campaign strongly denies. The evidence is the following, as first noticed by "The Nation":...
Buchanan update
politico.com 8/31/2008 — McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb, who declined last night to comment on Palin's relationship with Pat Buchanan, today denies it to ABC : Governor Palin has never worked for any effort to elect Pat Buchanan -- that assertion is completely false. As ...
Buchanan: Palin was a "brigader for me" in '96
politico.com 8/30/2008 — Perhaps Rep. Robert Wexler's instincts were right here, and the Obama campaign will likely drive this one home with the Jewish community in Florida and Ohio: Palin and her husband, says former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan , was a ...
Palin '96
politico.com 9/1/2008 — After looking into it, McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb says that Sarah Palin supported Steve Forbes, not Pat Buchanan, in 1996, contrary to what Buchanan said on "Hardball."
Sarah Palin, Not a Buchananite
weeklystandard.com 9/2/2008 — On MSNBC's Hardball Friday, Pat Buchanan said that Sarah Palin and her husband "were at a fundraiser for me" back in 1996. Politico 's Ben Smith noted that there is no record that Palin donated to Buchanan. In a new post, Smith reports that, ...
Good News and Bad News
susiemadrak.com 8/29/2008 — Pat Buchanan calls Obama’s speech the finest he’s ever heard. The bad news is, he liked it because “it isn’t a liberal speech.
Was Sarah Palin a Buchananite?
weeklystandard.com 9/2/2008 — Christopher Hayes, an editor at The Nation and adoring fan of Rev. Jeremiah Wright , claims that Sarah Palin was a Buchananite based on an AP report that Palin wore a Buchanan button to a Buchanan campaign event in 1999 in the town of Wasilla where ...
Did McCain Just Throw A Dart At A Boardful Of Republican Pols To Come Up With Palin?
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com 9/1/2008 — Palin endorsed Pat Buchanan in the 2000 GOP primary-- instead of John McCain. And McCain doesn't even know her-- neither do any of his close associates. Lindsey Graham seems to think that she's qualified for a job that puts her a heartbeat away from ...
Pat Buchanan: Obama Shares My Position on Iran
weeklystandard.com 9/3/2008 — From the McCain Report : In light of the smearing of Governor Palin by Obama surrogate Robert Wexler and Obama spokesman Mark Bubriski, both of whom alleged Palin was a supporter of Patrick Buchanan and therefore a "Nazi sympathizer," this ...
She's a hit
corner.nationalreview.com 8/29/2008 — I'm getting tons of mail like this: Sarah is real!!! What a fabulous contrast with Obama, who is not real. Sarah is from America. Obama is not. Sarah gives me hope for America, because of who she is, not because of any group she 'represents.' More ...
Palin a huge hit at the Clinton Forum.--
volokh.com 8/29/2008 — You would not believe how the Sarah Palin pick is playing out at the Hillary Clinton Forum (tip to a VC commenter). In order, these are all the posts on the...
Palin Probe Could Mean Election-Eve Trouble for McCain
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 8/29/2008 — It looks like John McCain's new running mate, Sarah Palin, could be hit with some decidedly negative PR at the worst possible time. The Alaska legislature's investigation of whether Governor Palin improperly fired a state employee is scheduled to ...
Palin on “Troopergate” and abortion
themoderatevoice.com 8/30/2008 — We’re not even eight hours into the era of the McCain - Palin ticket, but I am quickly becoming more and more convinced that John McCain had previously decided upon T-Paw or Romney but hit the panic button and selected Sarah Palin after ...
Palin: A Dangerous and Intelligent Choice
correntewire.com 8/30/2008 — I hope you can forgive me, despite my undeserving nature, for some unspecific and overly personal posting of late. I’m going to try to correct that, and here I’ll start. Resolved: Palin was a hit out of the park sort of choice for ...
Flailin at Palin
julescrittenden.com 8/30/2008 — A picture's worth a thousand words as NYT kicks off its hit on Palin. Cutline: "Decidedly Alaskan touch." Subtext: "Right-wing yokel belongs to endangered species death cult." Here's the rest, which wants make sure you know she's no acceptable ...
Morning Joe, Pat and the Nazi Smear
time-blog.com 9/3/2008 — Rep. Robert Wexler made a big mistake yesterday, calling Pat Buchanan an admirer of Hitler and a "Nazi sympathizer," trying to link him with Sarah Palin. The Obama campaign went and mystifyingly...
It's okay kids, she doesn't really mean it!Blue Gal
ABC : McCain-Palin campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb writes: "Governor Palin has never worked for any effort to elect Pat Buchanan -- that assertion is completely false. As Mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin did attend an event with Mr. Buchanan in her home town where reports described her ...
Palin and Buchanan, II ("Timeline"):The Volokh Conspiracy
July 17, 1999: AP reports on Pat Buchanan visit to Wasilla, AK. The reporter notes that "among those sporting Buchanan buttons were Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin and state Sen. Jerry Ward,...
Palin's buddy Pat Buchanan on womenAMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
More of the views that apparently attracted McCain's VP choice, Sarah Palin, to Pat Buchanan: 2007: "The rise of women to power in a civilization is very often the mark of its decline." -- Pat Buchanan, On The McLaughlin Group, July 6, 2007 1983: "Rail as they will against ‘discrimination,’ ...
So is this what McCain means by putting country first?AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
"I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first." - Pat Buchanan , Meet the Press Interview. September 12, 1999. Buchanan is the guy Sarah Palin, McCain's VP choice, supported for president. Brings a whole new meaning to ...
Palin supported anti-Semitic Pat Buchanan for presidentAMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
1. McCain is 72 years old. 2. He's had 4 bouts of cancer. 3. His VP choice has no experience in foreign policy or national security whatsoever. 4. She wanted anti-Semite Pat Buchanan to be president . It doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess how good a friend of Israel, and Jews more ...
Would Palin Still Carry A Pitchfork For Pat?Wonk Room
Chris Hayes reports that Sarah Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan’s 2000 presidential bid. Quoting from a 1999 AP story: Pat Buchanan brought his conservative message of a smaller government and an America First foreign policy to Fairbanks and Wasilla on Friday as he continued a ...
Whiplash!: Pat Buchanan flip-flops on Palin in record timeCrooks and Liars
Early Friday morning, when Sarah Palin’s name was floated as a possible VP pick, Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough couldn’t have been any more against it: Scarborough compares Palin to Harriet Miers, saying it would be “condescending” towards women and a huge ...
Buchanan smears Palin?Classical Values
I don't know whether Palin ever supported Buchanan, but what about this?A meme is developing out there among liberals that Gov. Sarah Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan in the 1990s, a charge that the McCain-Palin campaign strongly denies....
Sarah Palin And Pat BuchananRedState: Conservative News and Community
Yet another indication that there was no particular relationship between the two that was or is of any note whatsoever. Key passage: This information is all available on Lexis. Anyone who continues to push the "Sarah Palin supported Pat Buchanan in 2000" line is either willfully ...
Palin and Pat Buchanan:The Volokh Conspiracy
The left blogosphere, and Jewish Democrats, are promoting the idea that Palin supported Pat Buchanan for President in 2000. Their sole evidence is that Lexis reveals that when Buchanan came to...
Sara Paleo?Unqualified Offerings
Scott McConnell tries to see the bright side at @TAC. Ultimately, John McCain passed over neocon darling Joe Lieberman for the veep spot. For her part, Palin was a Pat Buchanan campaigner in 1996 and "perhaps in 2000 as well." (Looks like she was with Buchanan through at least 1999.) ...
Uch, mir!The Reality-Based Community
I'm starting to feel sorry for John McCain. Now it turns out that Sarah Palin was one of Pat Buchanan's "Pitchfork Brigade" in 1996. We have that from no less an authority than ... Pat Buchanan. No doubt McCain didn't know this, any more than he knew any of the things he should have known ...
Palin Is The Perfect Conservative / Republican PickOpen Left - Front Page
Sarah Palin is a total wingnut : "Pat Buchanan brought his conservative message of a smaller government and an America First foreign policy to Fairbanks and Wasilla on Friday as he continued a campaign swing through Alaska. Buchanan's strong message championing states rights resonated with the ...
VP Palin: A Pat Buchanan SupporterTPMCafe
This is great. Not only is she the least qualified candidate for national office in decades, not only is she virulently anti-choice and anti-environmentalist, she's a Pat Buchanan supporter. At least with Joe Lieberman, Mc Cain could have picked up my Aunt fanny in Miami. Now she's ...
Bonus Quote of the DayTaegan Goddard's Political Wire
"I think this is the biggest political gamble, just about, in all of American history." -- Pat Buchanan, quoted by The Guardian , on Sen. John McCain's pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
A Very Dour Chris Matthews Very Concerned About ExperienceAce of Spades HQ
A particularly despicable claim was asking Pat Buchanan if he thought Sarah Palin, who he asserted was a big supporter of Pitchfork Pat and in particular of his "anti-gay" policies (without evidence! -- he was just taking her social conservatism...
Palin, Buchanan Fan?The Stump
The Nation's Chris Hayes makes an interesting catch: Remember when Pat Buchanan ran a number of hard-right, fringe campaigns for president in the late 1980s, 1990s and 2000? Well, guess who was supporting him. From an AP report in 1999: "Pat Buchanan brought his conservative message of ...
Scarborough and Buchanan Ridicule The Thought Of Palin Being On The TicketThe Democratic Daily
As if the bombs dropping every day here and elsewhere aren’t enough, pundits Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan, who are generally conservative, are talking on their TV show about the possibility of Sarah Palin being named as a VP running mate.They simply said it wouldn’t work and ...
Buchanan: "Palin Was My Brigader"The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Behn Smith considers the impact, if any.
Scarborough, Buchanan Completely Reverse Positions On Palin In Just Four DaysThink Progress
Today, Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan enthusiastically endorsed Gov. Sarah Palin, praising her experience compared to Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) and slamming criticism of her as sexist attempts to “destroy this woman”: BUCHANAN: Maybe she doesn’t have the foreign ...
Palin’s Husband Was Member of Third PartyFOXNews.com
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, twice registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fierce states’ rights group that wants to turn all federal lands in Alaska back to the state. Sarah Palin herself was never a ...