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It's here, finally. Who noticed?
Blah3 Feed — While FASCISM is knocking down your house, you're out the backyard obsessing about whose child it couldn't have been. WTF!??! ...sorry folks, I just had to drop this in, because from where I am sitting, it sure looks like you're being fucked over with a broken broomstick time and time again!!!

Palin As "EveryWoman"
QandO — As reported by Byron York at the RNC: When the day’s business was over, I drifted around the Colorado and Ohio delegations — two critical swing states — to get a feel for the delegates’ reaction. In the Colorado section, I ran into Sue Sharkey, from Windsor. When I asked what she thought, her reaction was not about Palin but herself. “For me personally, it hit my heart this morning,” Sharkey told me, “because I was a 17 year-old girl, just like Sarah Palin’s daughter, and I had — I was in those shoes. And my son is with me, who will be 35 ...

No Quiet During the Storm
Opinionator — ... may hold for Palin’s unexpected national candidacy — the travails of the Palin family probably seem awfully familiar to many average Americans. It is this averageness that makes her such a politically promising running mate for John McCain — and such a dangerous opponent for Democrats. Many voters will find it easy to identify with her family’s struggles — a significant advantage in an election where the voting calculus is so unusually and intensely personal. (National Review’s Byron York has similar thoughts .) Gateway Pundit, one of the conservative bloggers at the ...

Why the Palin Baby Story Matters
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] I have a new story about reaction to the Palin baby story among the delegates here in St. Paul. The bottom line: Delegates seem to love Palin. And when you start talking to them, you never know what you'll find: When the day s business was over, I drifted around the Colorado and Ohio delegations two critical swing states to get a feel for the delegates reaction. In the Colorado section, I ran into Sue Sharkey, from Windsor. When I asked what she thought, her reaction was not about Palin but herself."For me personally, it hit my heart this morning, Sharkey told me, ...

It Matters
Right Wing Nation — Just not in the way they think: Everybody had heard the rumors, spread on The Atlantic and DailyKos websites, that Palin’s fifth child, Trig, born last April, was not really hers — that Trig was really Palin’s 17 year-old daughter’s child, and Palin faked pregnancy to cover up her daughter’s condition. None of that was true, they all knew. But the top McCain staffers revealed that a story would be breaking on the wires in a few hours reporting that Palin’s daughter, Bristol, is, in fact, pregnant now. The father is Bristol’s boyfriend, the ...

A "teachable moment"
Daimnation! — ... Many of the attacks against Palin have been way over the line, and only serve to make her look like a more sympathetic candidate. (According to Byron York, evangelicals at the GOP convention - many of whom became evangelicals because of family crises, like unplanned pregnancy - are rallying around the nominee.) But that doesn't mean she should get a pass on this issue. ...

Two More Shorters For The Price Of One
Sadly, No! — Shorter Byron York: Why the Palin Baby Story Matters The Republican base was skeptical about John McCain’s presidential credentials until he made the statesmanlike move of adding a pregnant teenager to the ticket. Shorter Frank Gaffney: Palin’s Experience For now, we can only guess whether Sarah Palin is a member in good standing of our little bugfuck crazy cult of shitting ourselves over America’s impending ...

Remainders: "Transpartisan"
Jonathan Martin's Blog — ... Bounds/ Campbell Brown showdown from yesterday, Charles Gibson will interview McCain this week. Kate Phillips offers an obvious but remarkable reminder: Joe Lieberman was the vice presidential nominee 8 years ago. The New York Times raises questions about the vetting process. Goldfarb fires back by calling it a "fiction." Michael Crowley calls the McCain campaign the most sarcastic campaign ever. Byron York reveals the Bristol rollout -- the McCain campaign gave the heads up to 40 culturally ...

Dissecting Leftism — ... on Palin's side. And McCain's. This is a group that has been skeptical of McCain in the past. Now, it's probably fair to say that he has never been more popular among evangelicals than he is at this moment. Whether that will last, or whether Palin will cost McCain support among other voters, is not yet clear. But within the confines of the Republican Convention, McCain's surprising choice of Palin - and the equally surprising news about her family - is paying off. More here ************************* ELSEWHERE Palin consistency: "Sarah ...