Sarah Palin
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008The new round of anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin is illuminating. These leakers must really want to hurt Palin. They are so incompetent that have hurt themselves more. They have proved to be untrustworty and disloyal. They are clearly poor political operatives to have begun all this self-serving leaking with two [...]
Palin wins by not losing; Can we focus on who Barack Obama is now please?
Friday, October 3rd, 2008I conducted a two person focus group, in real-time, over instant message, with two Democrats, one male and one female. Both were surprised by how well Palin did. I was surprised by how well everyone was saying Palin did, more than I was surprised by Palin’s performance.
I think Palin should send a [...]
Gwen Ifill My Pockets?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008VP debate moderator’s impartiality questioned
NEW YORK (AP) - PBS journalist Gwen Ifill, moderator of the upcoming vice presidential debate, dismissed conservative questions about her impartiality because she is writing a book that includes material on Barack Obama.
Ifill said Wednesday that she hasn’t even written her chapter on Obama for the book “The Breakthrough: Politics and [...]
McCain’s slogan fits: not ready to lead
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Here is what I wrote the morning McCain announced Sarah Palin,
I saw her about a month ago on Larry Kudlow’s TV show and I thought she did ok, not great, just ok. If that was my impression watching her in friendly territory, how will she do when really pressed?…
…The most overlooked question in all of [...]
McCain should put some lipstick on his misleading and dishonest ad
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Wow. I don’t pay attention to the campaign for one day and look what I missed. I just heard about the lipstick kerfuffle this morning. Now that I have seen the McCain ad, I have to say that I am disappointed that his campaign went so far to make this a serious [...]
The Weekly Standard’s Dean Barnett
Monday, September 8th, 2008Because the public has been clamoring for it, we invited Dean Barnett from The Weekly Standard back in to the studio last night. Dean sat in for the entire show and we had a great time, talking about The Anatomy of a Smear, how Andrew Sullivan has turned The Atlantic into The Enquirer, Palin [...]
Myths and realities of Palin’s record on social issues
Sunday, September 7th, 2008News Flash: There is lots of misinformation out there about Sarah Palin. By now, you know about the smears against her family. Here are a few of the distortions being pushed on her actual record on the issues.
Dean Barnett of The Weekly Standard, has a great post up titled, “Anatomy of a smear“. [...]
Sarah Palin and intellectual honesty on the right
Friday, September 5th, 2008John McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin has generated such enthusiasm that some on the right are so giddy with excitement, they are spinning so fast and furious they forget what they have stood for or said previously.
I’m excited by the Palin pick as well, but I’ve tried to remain honest about her strengths (which are considerable) and [...]
If you see Joe Biden today, give him a hug
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Did you catch Joe Biden making the rounds on the morning shows today? He obviously jumped out of bed this morning and said, “I have to start lowering expectations for the VP debate NOW!.” He looked like someone stole his puppy.
These quotes from his CNN live shot are representatibve of his morning,
“Boy she’s [...]
Palin delivers tonight, now comes the hard part
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008She was great. Confident, poised, solid. Some absolutely great zingers against Obama and Biden. Some deft clicker work showed great reviews on CBS from Jeff Greenfield, from CNN’s AC360, David Gergen and Amy Holmes, MSNBC’s Ann Curry and less surprisingly, the Fox News crew.
That said. As we’ve learned throughout [...]
