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Felon Ted Stevens Endorses Sarah Palin

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:54:36 +0000

So Sarah Palin keeps some unsavory company. Here’s the video of the endorsement she sought, and recieved, from Senator and convicted felon Ted Stevens.

Alaska's Biggest Newspaper Endorses… Obama?

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:56:33 +0000

Poor Sarah Palin. She has gone from approval ratings as Governor that once soared like an eagle. Now they’ve plummeted as if she’d been shot from a helicopter.

And now this. The Alaska newspaper with the biggest circulation, the Anchorage Daily News, has looked past Palin’s ticket to endorse Obama-Biden.

Sarah’s popularity in her own state has been hurt by the negative style of campaigning of the McCain-Palin ticket, the concern that she looks foolish and unprepared in the harsh glare of the national spotlight, worry that she reflects badly on Alaska, and the revelations of petty vindictiveness from the Troopergate scandal.

Republican pundits like Ed Rollins believe that after a presumed McCain-Palin loss that Sarah Palin will work the national rubber chicken circuit to raise money for Republican candidates, and gain some seasoning that could position her for a run again in 2012 at the top of the ticket.

Personally I think there’s little chance of that. I still think that the Republicans will bundle her off back to Alaska. I’m sure she’d continue to play well to the Christian Right, but that the establishment wing of the party will see her only as a reminder of one of the main reasons that the party lost the White House.

But I’m willing to concede that I may have (in the words of George HW Bush) misunderestimated her. For the sake of more material about which to write and continued interest in this site, I almost hope she sticks around for a while.

Bush's Press Secretary Is Voting Obama-Biden

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:43:44 +0000

Given his scathing book about the Bush administration he once served and the brokenness of Washington politics, I suppose it’s not a huge surprise that Scott McClellan, former Press Secretary for President Bush, is voting for Obama-Biden.

Still, McClellan’s formal announcement earlier today on the new “T.L. Hughley Breaks The News” comedy show on CNN, is still striking in that moderate Republicans seem to be breaking more strongly away from McCain-Palin.

I have to believe that it’s for many of the same reasons that Colin Powell endorsed Obama:

Obama is a transformative historic figure
McCain’s campaign has been unsteady
McCain has cozied up to the right wing of the Republican party
Palin highlights the extent to which McCain has bought into the “win-at-all-costs” mentality
Palin’s selection demonstrates how much beholden the Republican party is to the religious right.

View the interview here: