Possibly my new favorite Palin quote
"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, McCain-Palin 2008, mocking others, Sarah
Code
Is there any doubt? At the rate things are going, lipstick will be all there is to distinguish the McCain campaign from the mud-wallow in which it is happily immersing itself.
It's safe to say that anyone
this ad appeals to is from a culture I can't relate to at all.
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, McCain-Palin 2008
Birth control?
As an exercise, try figuring out Sarah's views about birth control. Does she believe adults should have access to the means of birth control they choose? It would be nice if someone could explore this.
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, McCain-Palin 2008
Sarah
I missed the last half of the speech. Did she get around to "uppity"? I think there are reasons for her selection that no one in the media wants to talk about.
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, McCain-Palin 2008, Sarah
Governor, you're no Harry Truman
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, McCain-Palin 2008
I was thinking someone needed to track down this actuarial information
The actuarial tables on the Social Security Administration website suggest that there is a better than 10% chance that McCain will die during his first term in office. Needless to say, the Reaper's scything only grows more insistent thereafter. Should President McCain survive his first term and get elected to a second, there is a 27% chance that Palin will become the first female U.S. president by 2015. If we take into account McCain's medical history and the pressures of the presidency, the odds probably increase considerably that this bright-eyed Alaskan will become the most powerful woman in history. - Sam Harris, Op-Ed, Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2008
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, McCain-Palin 2008
Why should I be in a position of debating with myself about the authenticity of this photo?

Inauthentic, btw.
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, McCain-Palin 2008
Pick first, vet later
Aides to Mr. McCain said they had a team on the ground in Alaska now to look more thoroughly into Ms. Palin’s background. A Republican with ties to the campaign said the team assigned to vet Ms. Palin in Alaska had not arrived there until Thursday, a day before Mr. McCain stunned the political world with his vice-presidential choice. The campaign was still calling Republican operatives as late as Sunday night asking them to go to Alaska to deal with the unexpected candidacy of Ms. Palin. - New York Times, September 1, 2008
Unbelievable. Read the whole article.
Labels: John McCain, McCain-Palin 2008
Bristol's choice
Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin's five children with her husband Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, according to aides of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, the aides said. - Reuters, September 1, 2008
Are they implying that a 17-year-old girl is entitled to decide the outcome of her pregnancy?
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, emphasis mine, McCain-Palin 2008
McCain-Palin
This was a show on ABC starring Geena Davis.
Labels: 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain, McCain-Palin 2008