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Where Are All the GOP 2012 Candidates? Blame Sarah Palin
By David Corn - Politics DailyThe politerati are all a-flutter. Why are there no GOP presidential candidates yet? There sure are plenty -- it seems like dozens -- of 2012 wannabes. But so far not one of the conventional possible contenders (probable or improbable) have officially tossed a hat (or checkbook) into the ring. By this point in the 2008 campaign, much of the Democratic and Republican field was in place -- or close to it. John Edwards (remember him?) announced his run for the presidency on Dec. 26, 2006, at an event with kids in flood-ravaged New Orleans. Hillary Rodham Clinton lifted off with a Web video posted ...
Opinion: GOP -- Beware Myths About Palin and McCain
By Michael Medved - AOL News(Dec. 8) -- As Republicans consider their presidential options for 2012, they ought to discard two dangerously misleading pieces of conventional wisdom: that Sarah Palin and her tea party supporters represent a triumphant, even dominant force in American politics, and that more centrist, veteran GOP officeholders exert little appeal to the electorate. National results in the last two election cycles conclusively disprove both assumptions: Palin's power as king (or queen) maker in 2010 produced spotty, unreliable results. And Sen. John McCain ran a stronger race and drew more votes in 2008 ...
Sarah Palin Keeps a Tight Rein on Staff, but Her Daughters Lack Supervision
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyRelated Stories Bristol Palin Battles the DWTS Conspiracy Theories Mean Girl Alert: Is Meghan McCain Jealous of Bristol Palin? While elsewhere a prince and a well-educated commoner have captured the world's attention, the Sarah Palin clan will not let the posh have their moment. In a rare interview with the "lamestream media" for this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, the will she or won't she? 2012 presidential contender tells reporter Robert Draper that she is indeed exploring a run for the country's highest elected office. Draper describes the conspicuously lean and loyal ...
'Parker Spitzer' Shows Promise (When You Don't Have to Avert Your Eyes)
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyCNN calls its new prime-time show "Parker Spitzer," but it's really all about Eliot Spitzer and his rehabilitation, with columnist Kathleen Parker playing his combative but supportive television wife. All I can say after watching the premiere Monday night is that James Carville and Mary Matalin do it better, but the format has promise -- or rather some aspects of it do. Spitzer calls himself a recovering politician, which means he still loves the sound of his own voice, and in the show's "Opening Argument," he advised President Obama to fire Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, concluding ...
Rush Limbaugh, Pastor Terry Jones Were High School Classmates
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyTerry Jones, the Florida pastor threatening to burn a Koran tomorrow on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, was a high school classmate of Rush Limbaugh. The Cape Central High School (Missouri) website has the perhaps unsurprising coincidence front and center, noting: "Rush Limbaugh USED to be Cape Girardeau's most prominent export. One of his classmates from the Central High School Class of 1969 is dominating the news right now: Terry Jones, the Gainesville, FL, preacher who is threatening to hold an 'International Burn a Koran Day' on September 11." Gregg Hopkins, a Cape Central ...
Haley Barbour's No-Regrets Style: Edith Piaf with a Mississippi Accent
By Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily"The name Mod Squad was not a reference to the 1960s TV show . . . but an acronym for 'Merchants of Death.' Since they were the chief spokespeople for the tobacco, alcohol and firearms industries, it seemed to fit." -- "Thank You for Smoking," by Christopher Buckley On my way to a Wednesday reporters' breakfast with two-term Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, I remembered that passage from one of the great comic novels about the malleable ethics of Washington. Three years after the Buckley satire was published in 1994, Barbour -- then a tobacco lobbyist -- snuck a $50-billion tax ...
Joe Miller Fears Lisa Murkowski Will Push Legal Battle for Alaska Senate Seat
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFairbanks lawyer Joe Miller, the Sarah Palin favorite who holds a slim lead in the undecided Alaska Republican Senate primary, says he fears incumbent Lisa Murkowski will push a protracted legal battle to keep her seat, pulling "an Al Franken, if you will." Miller's mention of Franken is a reference to the 2008 Senate election in Minnesota, which was so close the outcome was disputed in court for months. But his singling out of Democrat Franken was somewhat puzzling, as it was the incumbent Republican, Norm Coleman, who trailed during the court review and legal wrangling. In other words, it ...
Sarah Palin Nemesis Levi Johnston Plans Run for Office in Wasilla, Alaska
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyLevi Johnston, Bristol Palin's estranged lover and the father of her son, may be taking a cue from his un-mother-in-law, Sarah Palin, and running for public office in Wasilla, Alaska. Johnston, who is all of 20, is seriously considering running for mayor or city council in the Anchorage suburb, his manager, Tank Jones, told the AP, confirming a report in Variety Magazine. If it happens, it apparently would be part of a reality TV show, although Jones insisted, "This is not a spoof, this is jot a joke." He'll have plenty of time to publicly make up his mind since the next mayoral election is ...
NYC Mayor Defends Aide's Jab at Palin Mosque Tweet
By Mara Gay - AOL News(July 20) -- New York City Michael Bloomberg says his aide had a right to use Twitter to hit back against Sarah Palin's criticism of a proposed mosque near ground zero. "I will defend her right to speak her mind," the mayor said Monday. The war of tweets began Sunday when Palin called the mosque an "unnecessary provocation" on her Twitter feed. "Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts," she wrote. "Pls reject it in interest of healing." Ben Hider, Getty Images New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended his aide on Monday ...
Opinion: Refudiate This: Sarah Gets Shakespeare
By Matthew Biberman - AOL News(July 19) -- My friend and grad school adviser Stanley Fish sent shock waves through the blogosphere when he praised Sarah Palin's book. "I wouldn't count myself a fan in the sense of being a supporter," he wrote in a review, still "I found it compelling and very well done." Given the howls of objections that Fish received, I feel some trepidation in weighing in on the current flap over Palin's use of the word "refudiate" in a recent tweet. The former Alaska governor wrote: "Ground Zero Mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart as it does our throughout the heartland? Peaceful ...
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