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Tensions between McCain and Palin camps come to light - Los Angeles Times
Tensions between McCain and Palin camps come to light - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Phoenix -- Sarah Palin left the national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role on the ticket flared as aides to John McCain disclosed new details about her expensive wardrobe purchases and revealed that a Republican Party lawyer would be dispatched to Alaska to ...
Internal Battles Divided McCain and Palin Camps
Internal Battles Divided McCain and Palin Camps
nytimes.com — The airing of tensions between advisers to John McCain and those of Sarah Palin provide a revealing... coda. > (more) Internal Battles Divided McCain and Palin Camps
How Internal Battles Divided the McCain and Palin Camps
How Internal Battles Divided the McCain and Palin Camps
nytimes.com — The increasingly public airing of tensions between advisers of John McCain and those of Sarah Palin provide... a revealing coda to the ill-fated McCain-Palin ticket. > (more) How Internal Battles Divided the McCain and Palin Camps
GOP ticket split over condom use - Los Angeles Times
articles.latimes.com — Teen pregnancy and sex education were thrust into the spotlight this week when Republican vice presidential nominee... Sarah Palin revealed that her 17-year-old daughter is five months pregnant. Palin’s running mate, John McCain, and the GOP platform say ... (more) GOP ticket split over condom use - Los Angeles Times
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No Mandate & No Scapegoat Needed
blonde sagacity — ... Any McCain staffer named for trashing Palin should be blacklisted from ever running a national campaign again. Not in some great allegiance to Sarah Palin, but for defacing what could have been a valiant effort in the face of impossible odds. ...

Party’s over for Palin: GOP goes to collect leftovers from her shopping spree.
Think Progress — After controversy erupted over Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) largely unauthorized spending spree, Palin announced that she would no longer be wearing the expensive clothing: “Those clothes, they are not my property. … I’m not taking them with me.” However, it seems that a few items did make it back to Alaska with her, and the GOP is coming to reclaim them: Sarah Palin left the national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role on the ticket flared as aides to John McCain disclosed new details about her ...

Come back when you grow up girl
SteveAudio — The Wasilla Hillbillies won't ever learn. Even the Republican Party is pissed (from today's LATimes): Sarah Palin left the national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role on the ticket flared as aides to John McCain disclosed new details about her expensive wardrobe purchases and revealed that a Republican Party lawyer would be dispatched to Alaska to inventory and retrieve the clothes still in her possession. The Republican Party, long home to panty-sniffing perverts and hypocrites, now has an official Panty Sniffing ...

Thursday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... showing the counties that became more Democratic this year? * A Republican lawyer is on route to Alaska to pick up some of Sarah Palin's expensive clothes. * And finally, Chris Matthews' journalistic reputation ...

Lipstick on THEIR Pig
Hoffmania! — ... They're going to repossess her wardrobe, dontcha know. Sarah Palin left the national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role on the ticket flared as aides to John McCain disclosed new details about her expensive wardrobe purchases and revealed that a Republican Party lawyer would be dispatched to Alaska to inventory and retrieve the clothes still in her possession. ...

Your Lengthy Guide To The Insane McCain-Palin Cold War
Wonkette » top — ... to a Canadian cartoon version of Nicolas Sarkozy who asked her dirty questions for a number of minutes, on the radio. This was greenlit by her foreign policy adviser, Steve Biegun, and no one else was informed. She openly talked about her 2012 ambitions. She did a whole bunch of other things that we cannot remember, but they were all terribly embarrassing for both the campaign and America. This meant many more anonymous calls to the journalistic reporters. One adviser told a reporter that Sarah Palin was a “whack job.” This important information was disseminated in ...

Newsweek dishes new dirt on Palin and Nicolle Wallace
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... her foreign policy credentials, as she suggested to Charlie Gibson. Those are the questions that killed her, not anything having to do with, say, naming the deputy prime minister of Kazakhstan. The LA Times has new dirt too , related mainly to the shopping expenses, and unsurprisingly it’s linked (indirectly) to Schmidt, Rick Davis, and Nicolle Wallace. Here’s an ...

The furor over Sarah Palin
Betsy's Page — Whenever a presidential campaign loses decisively, it must be very tough for the aides who are wondering if they'll ever get a job again. So I can well understand the worries that the McCain aides have and their desire to lash out and blame someone else for the mistakes that they and John McCain made. But it is so totally stupid on many levels for them to be leaking stories about Sarah Palin . They started it in th elast weeks of the campaign. They are embarrassing not only Palin, but McCain. If they're hoping that, by casting blame for the loss on Palin, that they'll clear ...

RNC Send Lawyer to Alaska To Recover 150K Palin Clothing
Politicol News — ... Now days after the election, the RNC has sent a lawyer to Alaska to inventory and repossess the clothing she still kept from the campaign. See: LA Times ...

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... for a registered domestic partnership under the statute as now written. The same would apply to a couple who has never cohabited. However, any conversion statute of the kind that Eugene suggests could simply provide an exception for any such cases. So these differences, while real, would likely have only minimal impact on any statutory conversion plan of the sort that Eugene has suggested. +++++++ Very slight difference beetween domestic partnership and traditional marriage. Tensions between McCain and Palin camps come to light - Los Angeles Times Reporting ...

links for 2008-11-08
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: Saul_Alinsky gaymarriage) Tensions between McCain and Palin camps come to light - Los Angeles Times Reporting from Phoenix — Sarah Palin left the national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role on the ticket ...

Will Palin Replace Cheney As Viral Neoconservatism’s New Host?
The Moderate Voice — ... Foreign policy is indeed not the Alaska governor’s strong suit, but then she doesn’t have one save for that snappy red number with the gold buttons that she bought on the Republican National Committee’s dime at a high-end Minneapolis department store, one of the $150,000-plus in profligate purchases for she and her tribe that a party lawyer reportedly has been dispatched to Alaska to inventory and retrieve. ...

Did Palin Use GOP Funds To Buy Her Children Underwear?
Think Progress — ... Palin, however, did take some clothes with her. The Republican party is planning to dispatch a lawyer to Alaska to “inventory and retrieve the clothes still in her possession.” According to Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, the governor spent the weekend ...

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