BREAKING: SARAH PALIN TO STOP LYING WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER, MAYBE
So here’s the thing: we have the Branchflower report.  The whole world has the Branchflower report.  The findings are spelled out as clear as can be.   How then does Gov. Palin think she can get away with telling straight up lies about what the report actually says?  ABC News: “Palin Makes Troopergate Assertions that Are Flatly False.” At one point this weekend Palin said: “Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing,” Palin said, R

Sarah Palin's Advice For Lady Politicians: Ignore Mean Old Media
Here’s some funny-in-retrospect advice to Hillary Clinton from Sarah Palin! She was at some conference thing in March 2008, five months away from McCain’s doomed decision to make her his running mate, when Karen Breslau of Newsweek asked her about Hillary getting beat up in the primary battle against Obama. With the wisdom and experience of a single year as Alaska’s governor and no national profile at all, Sarah Palin tells Hillary Clinton to quit whining about the media,...

McCain vows to whip Obama’s ‘you know what’
AP - Republican John McCain vowed Sunday to "whip" Democratic rival Barack Obama’s "you-know-what" when the two presidential candidates meet Wednesday in their final televised debate. McCain made that pledge as top advisers said he is weighing new economic proposals to help the nation weather the financial crisis. The Arizona senator refused to answer a reporter’s question Sunday about what plans he might be considering. Addressing several dozen volunteers at his campaign headquarters outside

McCain to Rectify Letterman Rejection
In what was a costly PR error in someone’s strategy judgment John McCain ditched the David Letterman show last minute a few weeks ago claiming that he was on his way to sort out the country’s financial crisis.  This advice had to have come from a rookie strategist because anyone with any sense would know the outcome given that David Letterman is a very sharp comedian who isn’t that fond of the Republican party, especially its current President, as it is.  Surely someone in the McCain camp has been w

Sarah Palin quits as Alaska governor
Sarah Palin, John McCain's surprise VP pick a mere 10 months ago, is leaving the office of the Alaska governor. The hockey mom said Friday that she is resigning, giving a confused, rambling speech from her lakeside home in Wasilla. Palin said indignantly she had fallen victim to the "politics of personal destruction," including "frivolous" ethics probes and "mean-spirited" cracks about her kids. "I love my job and I love Alaska, and it hurts to make this choice," the 45-year-old Republican said. "B

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will resign
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Republican John McCain's vice presidential running mate in 2008, said on Friday she will resign this month and will not run for re-election as governor.

John McCain Says Sarah Palin To Play Leadership Role As Ex-Governor
Republican Senator John McCain expressed support for his former presidential running mate, Sarah Palin, on Saturday as Washington speculated about why the Alaska governor abruptly announced her resignation. McCain made the comment a day after Palin stunned the political world by announcing she is stepping down with 18 months left in her term. McCain had plucked Palin from obscurity to make her his vice presidential running mate in last year's presidential campaign, won by Democrat Barack Obama....

John McCain Picks Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as Running Mate
John McCain has chosen his running mate: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin . The 44-year-old -- who was elected governor just two years ago after serving as mayor of Wasilla (pop. 6,715) -- will be the first woman nominated by the Republican Party to run on a national ticket. "She's exactly who this country needs to help me fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second," McCain, who turned 72-years-old Friday, said at a rally attended by 15,000 flag-waving supporters at Wright...

Sarah Palin Will Not Re-run for Governor of Alaska
Several media sources are now reporting that former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin will not run for re-election as the Governor of Alaska. Governor Sarah Palin, who has been a media firestorm target since her run for vice president alongside former Republican presidential candidate John McCain, will not run for re-election - and it's been reported that she will step down from her position as Alaskan Governor next month. According to Sarah Palin's husband Todd, Sarah wants to...

Todd S. Purdum on Sarah Palin
Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her story. But what Alaska’s charismatic governor wants the public to know about herself doesn’t always jibe with reality. As John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick, the author tracks the signs—political and personal—that Palin was...

Tales Of Schadenfreude & Sniping From McCain/Palin Campaign Continue [Crappy Hour]
We just can't get enough when it comes to witnessing Republicans eating their own! Luckily, there's more news on that front, so, this morning, the HuffPo 's Jason Linkins and I gleefully review the latest, greatest backbiting tearing apart the GOP. Crappy Hour with Jason Linkins, July 1, 2009

Acting Like a Petulant Child Did Not Endear Sarah Palin to Her Handlers [Campaigns]
During the McCain campaign, Roveian media strategist Steve Schmidt proved that he was a shitty Roveian media strategist. He was also responsible for the Palin pick. But he quickly grew to regret that.

Meghan McCain Talks Book: Just Wrote Palin Chapter, Wants Hillary Duff For Movie Version
Daily Beast blogger spoke to the Daily News about her upcoming book — and the eventual movie version — Monday night at a benefit in New York. McCain — who has previously said Sarah Palin is the only topic she will not speak out on — told the newspaper that she just wrote a chapter about her dad's former running mate. "I just wrote a chapter about her, so she'll definitely be in [the movie], too. But I don't know who would play her," McCain said. The blogger and political...

Palin Campaign Emails!
Sarah Palin’s 2008 campaign emails are exposed in a new Vanity Fair issue. The Palin campaign emails are from the final three weeks before the 2009 Election. As CBS and Vanity Fair explain the eamils allegedly show frustration by Palin with McCain’s aides over treatment of her campaign. Yet, if you are expecting some great reads, they really aren’t. They just show Palin at times displeased. One such Palin email reads: “Pls get in front of that ridiculous issue...

Palin resignation dooms presidential pipe dream
Sarah Palin's bizarre bailout dooms her chances of ever being President, Republican mandarins said Friday - but she was already finished. The Alaska governor's disastrous star turn as John McCain 's running mate, followed by her lurching, controversial encore on the national scene, had already sealed her fate - except, perhaps, with the GOP 's most far-right wing. Still, the experts were unanimously stunned to hear her walk off the job with 16 months left in her term - shrinking her résumé...

Factbox - Sarah Palin Among Possible Republican Presidential Candidat
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said on Friday she will resign this month and will not run for re-election as governor amid speculation that she will seek the Republican party's nomination for president in 2012. Palin was Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate in last year's election and rallied the party's conservative base. Following is a list of Republicans seen as potential candidates for their party's nomination in 2012. No candidate has announced that he or she will run...

Chuck Todd, Mike Murphy Discuss GOP's 'Circular Firing Squad' Over Sarah Palin (VIDEO)
The sniping between McCain staffers and Palin defenders has only gotten worse since Todd Purdum's lengthy Vanity Fair article slamming Sarah Palin came out. Now Politico's Jonathan Martin has come out with a piece in which the sniping has blown up into an all-out war inside the Republican party. The piece is filled with on-the-record quotes from high-level and high-profile Republicans bashing each other, most prominently Bill Kristol going after McCain presidential campaign manager Steve...

FBI says Palin isn't under investigation
The FBI is taking the unusual step of declaring Gov. Sarah Palin is not under investigation, as Palin herself left for Western Alaska and communicated to the world through her Twitter account. Click to enlarge Radio talk show host and blogger Shannyn Moore held a press conference in Anchorage July 5, 2009, in response to claims by Gov. Sarah Palin's attorney that Moore has defamed the governor. Story tools Comments ( 0 ) E-mail a friend Print Share on Facebook Digg this Seed Newsvine Send link...

Sarah Palin's father-in-law had no idea she would resign as Alaska's governor
Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin resigned as the governor of Alaska on Friday before the holiday weekend in the US. Palin said she was resigning because she wanted to avoid the “lame duck” status she would have held before the next Gubernatorial election in November, and transferred power to her Lieutenant Governor. She easily could have run for re-election, but it’s thought that she’s choosing to enter politics on a national level again, and there’s...

Palin must save her Yahoo mails, says judge
Anchorage (Alaska), Oct.13 (ANI): An Anchorage judge has ordered Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to preserve e-mails from private accounts she has used to conduct state business. Superior Court Judge Craig Stowers on Friday also ordered Alaska's attorney general to recover messages from a Yahoo.com account of Palin's that was breached by hackers last month. That break-in prompted Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign to order closed at least one additional private account Palin maintained. The j

Tina Fey Is On Her Way "To Ruining Sarah Palin's Political Career" [Palindroning]
Oh the New York Post, will your clever wordplay never cease? This morning the erudite paper of record wonders whether Sarah Palin has been "swift-butted" because for weeks now, she's been the butt of Tina Fey's jokes. "Tina Fey is well on her way to ruining Sarah Palin's political career," according to Lawrence University American Studies prof Jerald Podair. "In a political culture that takes its cues from popular culture, a good impersonator may be worth a million votes." But, as Conn College government pr

Palin to appear on SNL
The Alaskan governor and vice-presidential candidate is set to appear on “Saturday Night Live” Oct. 25, according to Cindy Adams at The New York Post. Palin will appear alongside “Mad Men” star and host John Hamm.Time has already been penciled in for rehearsal time the Friday before. Adams claims the beauty queen wants to do it. Fortunately for Palin and unfortunately for the Democratic Party, as long as she has a sense of humor, this appearance will do nothing but good for her. It&

Rove: Palin resignation part of a 'risky strategy'
One of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's potential presidential rivals said Sunday that her abrupt resignation won't help her dodge scrutiny. President George W. Bush's chief political adviser said her strategy is, at best, unclear. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Palin's announcement that she would not seek a second term — and leave office before finishing her first — simply doesn't make sense in a conventional political setting. Karl Rove, a longtime Bush counselor, said Palin has...

Rove Calls Palin's Resignation 'Risky'
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