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McCain’s choice of Palin follows Bill Kristol’s lead.
Think Progress — Earlier today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) surprised many people by selecting Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. But not everyone may have been surprised. In June, Fox News ran a segment predicting that “gas prices will plummet” immediately when “John McCain announces his VP pick.” Fox’s ridiculous claim was based solely on Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol’s prediction that McCain might pick Palin as his VP. Watch it: Kristol also predicted that if McCain did choose Palin, she would “persuade him that we have to drill in ANWR and ...

Who Championed Palin?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Kristol, Beck, Barnes.

Meet Sarah Palin: The Video Compilation
Electric Venom — America, meet Sarah Palin. • Sarah Palin’s resume vs. Barack Obama’s. • Sarah Palin on Larry Kudrow’s show explaining her position on drilling ANWAR. • Palin explains the reason for firing her former brother-in-law in “trooper-gate”. • Gov. Palin’s reaction to the Exxon Valdez decision. • Palin’s pledge that pregnancy with Trig wouldn’t slow her down. • Glenn Beck in awe of Palin’s quick ...

In Praise of Two Pundits
Power Line — Lots of commentators have done excellent work during this election cycle, but I want to single out two for special praise. The first is Bill Kristol. Punditry is notoriously a business in which being wrong carries few penalties, but Kristol deserves recognition for being right on some very big issues. He was one of the first to support John McCain as a "national greatness" conservative. Long after just about everyone else gave McCain up for dead, he is now the front-runner for the Presidency. Kristol was also among the first to champion Governor Sarah Palin as a Vice Presidential nominee, as in this interview: Finally, I was part of a small group who had dinner with Kristol ...

The Kristol-Palin Connection
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — She was his creation, in many ways: a "project" to be controlled and exploited.