josh orton who apparently did not get enough of the medias palin feeding frenzy reacts to the news that palin is going back to alaska and is snubbing the media by urging traditional media get thee to alaska i urge the opposite media ignore palin. my advice is both what i want as a democrat and legitimate advice for the media. as a dem i would much rather the media cover mccain and the fact h...
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ooops written 2 hours ago as a draft diary. i do have something more to say than matt did.questions schmestions nicole wallace of the mccain campaign asks why palin should talk to the press when she can talk to the american peoplejay carney dumped on by wallace is not so sureits important to them the american people to know if palin can handle herself in an environment that isnt controlled and san...
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now hes really done it in his rousing endorsement of john mccain and sarah palin at the rnc on tuesday sen. joe lieberman may have pissed off his own party for the last time. the connecticut democrats criticism of barack obama was not surprising given his longtime support for mccain but the highprofile venue made his betrayal that much worse. lieberman may be punished by being stripped of his co...
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update from mydd rightwing writer peggy noonan discussing the choice of sarah palin with chuck todd says offcamera msnbc its over. the absurd gop attempt to sell gov. sarah palin and former mayor of wasilla alaska and compare her intelligence and heft to that of hillary clinton is provoking a backlash from hillary supporters. here is the text of an email from a genuinely frightened alaska resi...
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lets review in three days sarah palin has managed to rack up a slew of scandals and controversies troopergate the abuse of her power to get a former brother in law fired bridge to nowhere she claims to have opposed it but shes on record supporting it pregnant daughter her 17 year old unmarried daughter is pregnant i heard whispers the father is 24 she was a member of the alaska independence...
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i realize this is getting too much palin at once on this site but i just gotta organize my thoughts on whats going on here and right now this is my main thought im sorry to any national and local blogger pushing this but are you trying to hurt the democratic party lets count the proven selfevident ways that palin is a poor choice for vice president. betcha we can get to double digits without even ...
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a lot of people are writing some excellent stuff about sarah palin john mccains vice presidential selection so i wanted to gather what i could and post it as a roundup below. first i want to say a couple of things about the coverage of palin. the palins parenting choices and that of their children are off limits because they really have nothing to do with her qualifications or her positions on...
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while republican senators and gop candidates for senate have done all they can to avoid attending the republican national convention a number of democratic candidates for senate proudly attended and spoke at the democratic national convention. here are some highlights.dscc chair chuck schumer barack obama cannot do it alone. without a strong democratic majority in the senate his ambitious agenda w...
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many conservative pundits were not impressed by john mccains selection of sarah palin as his running mate since her glaring lack of experience undercuts mccains main message against barack obama. on the plus side for mccain just about everyone agreed that putting an antiabortion motheroffive on the ticket would delight the evangelical christians who were so crucial to george bushs reelection.altho...
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mcsame has made his choice. there are certainly more qualified republican women that mcsame passed over. its gotta sting that mccain passed over romney and others for someone with a resume like this. full lineup and a tribute to those not qualified enough for mccain below......
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sarah palin is a total wingnutpat buchanan brought his conservative message of a smaller government and an america first foreign policy to fairbanks and wasilla on friday as he continued a campaign swing through alaska. buchanans strong message championing states rights resonated with the roughly 85 people gathered for an interior republican luncheon in fairbanks. ... among those sporting buchanan...
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republicans are ecstatic. its a new race today. democrats are blindsided and scared and the obama campaign went straight into attack mode. republicans say its noteworthy that on the week commemorating the 88th anniversary of women getting the right to vote with mccain making a groundbreaking vp pick the obama campaigns first response was to attack not congratulate alaska gov. sarah palin or ackn...
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three years ago today hurricane katrina came ashore for a second time in the gulf coast for john mccains 69th birthday. here he was that day celebrating with president bush. the birthday presumably and not the hurricane.this year john mccain wanted a vice presidential candidate for his birthday. he picked gov. sarah fluffy palin who apparently doesnt know what shed even do in the job shes now aspi...
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i look forward to how the gop explains that gov. palin is ready to be president. meanwhil e here is a tiny bit of palinbashing since it is friday. the kindest thing progressive alaska can say is that shes photogenic. note the vogue cover is photoshopped reality is boring. whats the right historical parallel jonathan singer mydd sarah palin is spiro agnew harriet miers pace scarboroug h d...
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image by getty images via daylife brilliant mccain picks palin as vp running mate sarah palin is the gov of alaska what an excellent choice. could this mean president palin in 48 years i first learned about gov. palin on kudlow and co. she is a very interesting person young smart and well spoken. is this the beginning of the end for obama related articles by zemanta knocking down other possib...
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couldnt happen to a nicer bunch of guys more deserving group of assholes. this analysis nails it. on the economy. on personal liberty. on americas place in the world. the gop is dead wrong.......
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here at the democratic nation convention your days can be an exhausting frazzle of handshakes business cards traffic and running from tear gas. so when the convention center empties out at nine the bars start to fill up fast. heres some photos from our nights out in denver with the america haters... a sea of people in attendance at some babykilling party or something. i was kind of drunk but if i...
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crossposted from reality window the nattering nabobs at msnbc blew it last night. cnn caught on part way through. and hurrah for cspan and pbs the only tv channels to have the good sense to allow viewers to watch all of the convention speakers. john kerry stepped up to the podium after bill clinton had raised the energy level in the hall and knocked one out of the park. josh marshall calle...
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...re lined up to see hillary clinton address them prior to todays roll call vote. earlier today delegates began casting ballots and according to the ap clinton delegates are moving toward obama.http www.mydd.c omstory200 8827152723 121......
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speaker pelosi has just hit the floor and the presidential nominating process has begun. dolores huerta is making the nominating speech for hillary clinton right now. people are pretty rapidly taking their seats.its important to note that a roll call vote is a completely perfunctory and normal process. some may have been outraged by the fact of a roll call but its wholly unsurprising and will end ...
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fairbanks mayor jim whitacker just offered his endorsement of barack obama. which is the second night in a row that an elected republican has strongly endorsed barack obama. whitacker made clear that he is first and foremost an american and while he isnt here to talk ill of john mccain but that barack obama is best able to meet americas challenges and seize americas opportunities. he described oba...
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iowas most prominent pundit david yepsen wrote a piece in the des moines register warning that it would be perilous for the presidential candidates to ignore rural america at their parties nominating conventions.his column inspired me to look into what barack obama and john mccain are offering voters outside major cities and suburbs. what i found is after the jump. from yepsens columnim not talki...
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