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The Alaska governor, a shock choice by Mr McCain, 72, as his running mate, was due to return to her remote home state after the Republican convention but is now considered such a draw on the campaign trail that she is being kept at his side in swing states. At the same time, Mrs Palin, 44 and a governor for just 20 months, is being heavily insulated. Thus far, all her stump speeches have been from a teleprompter whereas Mr McCain, Barack Obama and his running mate Joe Biden all speak extemporaneously. Mrs Palin was the only one of four...

Dear Mr. Auster, Just wanted to let you know how much I have enjoyed reading the commentary and analyses posted on your web site since Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain's running mate. Some of the commentary has been spot on and some has been unimaginably off base. As one who has known this young woman and her husband since they were teenagers in high school (Todd's father and stepmother live across the street from me.), I can confirm that both are very normal people. However, I would like to caution you and your readers that some, if not...

The fact is the far-left liberals don't know how to respond to strong, conservative female political leaders. They hail Hillary, but try to impale Palin. But Sarah has sparred with these cultural combatants before and left the ring without a scratch. In fact, Sarah is so tough that a new tongue-in-cheek website, has been built exclusively for her that parallels the Chuck Norris Fact folklore website and Internet proliferation. It gives some mythical yet complimentary "facts" about Sarah Palin's life, potential, character and career. Here are three of my favorites: Fact: Sarah Palin once carved a perfect likeness of the...

The way John McCain handled his running mate Sarah Palin's Big Moment at the GOP convention in St. Paul tells us one of two things about the man. Either he's extremely lucky or he would have made one hell of a general. If his handling of the vice presidential rollout doesn't demonstrate a finely tuned strategic sense, what could? We know a few things about McCain's choice of Palin for his running mate with some certainty. We know, for instance, that he met with her and liked her. We know he decided that many would-be Hillary voters could be won...

The Christian book publisher Zondervan is coming out with a biography of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The Grand Rapids-area company says the book about Alaska's 44-year-old governor goes on sale Oct. 10 and is called "Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader." Zondervan chief executive Moe Girkins says in a news release that "regardless of your political persuasion, it is clear that Sarah Palin has quickly electrified the 2008 election." The Grand Rapids Press says author Joe Hilley is a lawyer and writer of Christian novels. Zondervan is based in Kent County's Cascade Township.

EP News--- Family Research Council Tony Perkins said, “It’s obviously an outstanding choice. Very smart. Very strategic. Those who might have voted for Obama only because they wanted to be a part of something historic can now vote for the Republicans for the same reason.” Richard Viguerie, the conservative icon who has been brutally critical of McCain, was even more effusive, “She’s perfect.” Setting aside the doctrine of original sin for a moment, religious conservatives do think the selection of Sarah Palin as the vice presidential candidate is pretty near perfect. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and...

Amy's Column When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin referred to herself as "just your average hockey mom," she instantly connected with thousands of people. The reference reminded me of 1996's soccer moms and their perceived impact on the presidential election between Bob Dole and Bill Clinton. Debates still rage about whether or not terms like "soccer moms" or "hockey moms" really refer to a single homogenous group. I don't think they do. But all sports moms — regardless of political affiliation — share some common experiences and concerns. Labeling yourself a sports mom — or dad for that matter — immediately...

Palin Interview Goes to ABC News By Katharine Q. Seelye Sarah Speaks! Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, has agreed to a television interview, with ABC News. The pending interview was first reported by The Associated Press and has been confirmed by the campaign of Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee. An ABC executive, who also confirmed the interview, said that the network would announce it shortly. The executive also said that the date and time that it would air were still being worked out. ABC’s Charlie Gibson is scheduled to interview Ms. Palin in Alaska sometime...

John McCain was not her dream pick. Only a year ago, when the Republican primaries were just beginning, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told NEWSWEEK that she wasn't enthusiastic about anyone in the GOP field. McCain was languishing at 7 percent in the polls. Mike Huckabee was reduced to playing his electric bass to get attention. Palin, driving with a NEWSWEEK reporter along the highway from Anchorage to Wasilla, said she could understand why the country was enthralled by the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. "When you talk about the Republican Party needing appealing candidates, darn right they do!"...

Does the Angry Left really want to launch a culture war over Sarah Palin? Fine. Lock and load. That's the feeling of many conservatives who until last week were lukewarm at best about the prospect of a John McCain presidency. The unhinged malice of the cultural left's assault on the Alaska governor's personal life has focused their minds and stirred their hearts. Ms. Palin's astonishingly poised and confident performance in her convention speech proves that this Iron Lady is not about to quail before the judgment of her would-be betters. Neither will conservatives. If they were indifferent or hostile to...

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden made the morning show rounds on Thursday to respond to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s convention speech, and journalists at NBC, MSNBC, ABC and CNN all encouraged Biden to strongly confront his Republican counterpart, as if Palin has been enjoying some sort of honeymoon from criticism over the past few days. CNN’s John Roberts pressed Biden: “Before her speech last night you said that you were not going to attack Governor Palin. Are you feeling a little differently this morning?” NBC’s Matt Lauer similarly pleaded: “Sarah Palin made a speech last night...It was tough. It...

Obama offers Palin a game of hoops7 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrat White House nominee Barack Obama on Sunday offered to go one-on-one with Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin -- but only on the basketball court. Obama, 47, who blows off steam on the campaign trail with games of pickup hoops, however joked that he wouldn't take on the Alaska governor -- and experienced hunter -- with a gun. "She looks like she's got some game, she played in high school," Obama said of Palin's basketball talents on ABC "This Week." "You know, I know she's a sharpshooter,...

Biden Says Palin's Gender Doesn't Change His Debate GamePosted by Ryan Corsaro September 7, 2008, 5:41 PM (KALISPELL, MT.) - Joe Biden says he’s not expecting anything different from what he’s used to in taking on Sarah Palin in the upcoming vice presidential debate. “I’ve got to say, I find it fascinating. It seems like the only people in the room that think that debating a woman is going to be fundamentally different are people who don’t hang around with smart women,” Biden said aboard his campaign plane as he traveled to Montana today. “I mean, you know, the idea...

Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (DE) 12/18/2007 Inclusion of Iraq and Afghanistan Military Operations Funding with the Consolidated Appropriations HR 2764 NV (no vote) Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (70 - 25) 10/01/2007 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 HR 1585 NV (no vote) Bill Passed - Senate (92 - 3) 10/18/2007 Prohibiting Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions S Amdt 3330 NV (no vote) Amendment Rejected - Senate (41 - 52) 09/10/2007 Bridge Repair Funding S Amdt 2792 NV (no vote) Amendment Adopted - Senate (60 - 33) 04/18/2005 Future Military Funding for Iraq Amendment HR 1268...

Best-selling author and top conservative commentator Ann Coulter says John McCain’s choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate has finally won the Arizona senator she’s previously scorned her support -- sort of. In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.com, Coulter reacted to the emergence of Palin on the national political scene with enthusiasm -- and her biting wit. When Newsmax asked her opinion of the treatment being accorded Palin by the mainstream media, the feminists and the left, she told us: “The last woman I saw treated this badly by the mainstream media was … let’s see now …...

Drudge: NY Times Prepares To Front Expose on Palin's Baby...Developing...

Judging from the ludicrous attempts by Democrats and their liberal house organs that pass themselves off as the news media, the selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as McCain’s Vice President was a good choice; a very, very, good choice.   Whereas Democrats criticize McCain as “another George Bush”, this cannot be said of Palin. The fact is Governor Palin is more conservative than Bush or McCain and adds conservative substance to the campaign; something sorely lacking by McCain himself. For this reason the news media is striving mightily to discredit Palin in other ways while ignoring her conservative credentials....

Democratic Vice Presidential aspirant Joe Biden will hold a town hall meeting in Columbia on Tuesday. The event will be at the ARC at 9:30 am on Tuesday. Click on the link below for more info. ADDENDUM: Here is information about picking up tickets for the event. People who wish to attend should go to the following locations at the stated times: Columbia Campaign for Change HQ 22 S 9th Street Columbia MO 65201 Sunday, September 7th 6pm-9pm Monday, September 8th 9am-5pm Jefferson City Office for Change 301 Ash Street Jefferson City , MO Sunday, September 7th 6pm-9pm Monday, September...

Those who say there's no media bias aren't saying anything right now. They're laying low. First, my own minor mea culpa: A week ago, I wrote that Barack Obama had enjoyed little or no bump in the polls from the first nights of the Democratic National Convention. Then came a bump after all, thanks mainly to his high-flying acceptance speech and ringing endorsements from Bill and Hillary Clinton. Now on to the latest epidemic of media bias. Obama and David Axelrod, his chief strategist, are privately furious over the endless attacks, snide comments and second-guessing about John McCain's choice of...

Direct to the point, without bias. A story you'll never see reported accurately in MSM.

Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin will break her media silence this week in an interview with ABC News, the McCain campaign said Sunday. The decision could begin to cure what was increasingly becoming a distraction for the campaign. Palin, who famously dissed the mainstream media in her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention but has nonetheless dominated recent press coverage of presidential race, was the only one of the four major candidates missing from the Sunday airwaves. Since the convention, the McCain campaign has largely shielded her from the press, and she has only made public appearances...

What is Sarah Palin? What is her mission? Why did the Republican strategy elite–never known for stupidity or for honor, pick Palin? Palin herself tells us in every speech and interview she gives: “I’m a soccer mom. Do you know the definition of a soccer mom? A pit bull with lipstick.” Mainstream media wake up: Sarah Palin is telling you: Her role in the campaign is simple: Pit Bull. By the way, Pit Bull is how she won election in her little town. She won 617-413 based on a campaign that hinged on ideological issues and her proposed ban of...

Gov. Sarah Palin will sit down with ABC News' Charlie Gibson for her first interview since winning the Republican vice presidential nomination, the network's news division confirmed today. Palin accepted the nomination to be Sen. John McCain's running mate 10 days ago, but has yet to submit to questions from reporters covering the election.<> The Alaskan governor was taunted by the spokesman of her Democratic counterpart, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, for not submitting to a grilling by the press. Reporters covering Biden gave the candidate a cardboard cutout of McCain, and Biden spokesman David Wade promptly used the gag to...

It's never a surprise when Hollywood stars hate on conservatives. And the stars are certainly coming out to bash Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. What better place to do so than at the fabulous Huffington Post? Up first was Jamie Lee Curtis with this Wednesday posting (emphasis added, readers are warned to prepare themselves for some truly insipid nonsense): The scariest thing I hear about the Palin nomination was that she would appeal to voters because they would be able to relate to her and she to them. I get that. There are many places where relatability is key....

The colorful former Mayor of San Francisco (no need to add the "D" here) and Speaker of the California State Assembly is spot on. The Democrats are in trouble. Sarah Palin has totally changed the dynamics of this campaign. Period. Palin's speech to the GOP National Convention on Wednesday has set it up so that the Republicans are now on offense and Democrats are on defense. And we don't do well on defense. Suddenly, Palin and John McCain are the mavericks and Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the status quo, in a year when you don't want to be...

Two days ago, the morons over at MSNBC had their panties in a twist saying that the Mavericuda campaign was hiding Sarah Palin in Alaska to avoid the media. Funny, they could have called Charles Gibson over at ABC who was offered an interview several days ago. Yeah, why would ABC confirm the offer a couple of days ago? Let’s let Fleeing Scaredycat Dipshit governor story just hang out there.

<p>My colleagues in the American liberal press had little to fear at the start of the week. Their charismatic candidate was ahead in virtually every poll. George W Bush was so unpopular that conservatives were scrambling around for reasons not to invite the Republican President to the Republican convention.</p>

Look At The Bags Under His Eyes, And The Makeup Makes Him Look Worse

Under pressure for being shielded for questioning, Sarah Palin has a agreed to sit down with Charles Gibson of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” according to an ABC News official. No other interviews are scheduled. It will be the first TV interview for Palin since she was named 10 days ago as running mate to John McCain. Palin had planned to return to Alaska this weekend but is so popular on the stump that she is going to stay out a few more days before returning home. One of her sons deploys to Iraq on Thursday. Palin plans to sit down...

Of course Sarah Palin is much cuter than Dick Cheney. As the must-have Republican political button from St. Paul put it: "Hottest VP from Coldest State." And it sounds like she's better with a gun than the vice president, who accidentally shot a friend while on a hunting trip in South Texas. But lots of folks are beginning to draw a parallel between Cheney, with his secret meetings on energy policy, and Palin, the pistol-packing soccer Mom who took on -- and beat -- the political establishment in Alaska. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, in an interview today with ABC's...

WITH fresh polls confirming Sarah Palin has thrust John McCain back into the presidential race, Barack Obama yesterday broke his silence on the omnipresent Republican vice-presidential candidate, directly attacking her for the first time. The Democrat, who has seen his lead over Senator McCain fall into a virtual dead-heat after last week's Republican national convention, condemned Ms Palin for accepting so-called earmarks - federal funds for often questionable local projects - while a mayor in Alaska but opposing them now. "I know the Governor of Alaska has been, you know, saying she is (supporting) change," Senator Obama said at a...

Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, called his rival Sarah Palin a “tough, smart women”, but said the election will come down to the presidential candidates. “You know, it's early in the process and the voters are going to make judgments about Sarah Palin and Joe Biden,” said the Delaware senator, making his 42nd appearance Sunday on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’. “But the truth is they're mostly going to make judgments about Barack Obama and John McCain.” Biden said Palin delivered “a number” of great lines during her introduction at the Republican National Convention, but said Americans still...

An Apostle of Alaska We know the outlines—the moose-hunting mom who juggles BlackBerrys and kids. But what does she believe? The real Sarah Palin. John McCain was not her dream pick. Only a year ago, when the Republican primaries were just beginning, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told NEWSWEEK that she wasn't enthusiastic about anyone in the GOP field. McCain was languishing at 7 percent in the polls. Mike Huckabee was reduced to playing his electric bass to get attention. Palin, driving with a NEWSWEEK reporter along the highway from Anchorage to Wasilla, said she could understand why the country...

In Sarah Palin, John McCain has found the perfect all-American match for Imperious Nancy and her Democrat enablers, who prefer to make the Capitol posh and green and fried-food-free, rather than deal with the people’s actual need of a government that works in their interest...

WHAT TO do about the war, what to do about the economy, what to do about those rimless glasses and that saucy updo? Style has never been more important than it is in this election. That's not just because this high-stakes political contest is being watched by a tabloid and celebrity-obsessed culture. It's also because this election now has so many powerful women on the national stage who are putting their message across with vastly different style strategies. For months, we've seen how polarizing style can be, dissecting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's gender-neutral pantsuits, Cindy McCain's $300,000 Oscar de la...

WASILLA, Alaska -- One Friday in June, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joined the chief of the state prison system on a tour of the Point MacKenzie Correctional Farm, a 90-minute drive north of Anchorage. It was a routine visit but for the presence of the governor's infant son, Trig. Palin held her baby in her arms as the warden drove a short distance around the facility, said corrections director Joe Schmidt, who sat next to Palin. A few days later, the governor got a warning from her public safety commissioner that someone had complained that she did not strap Trig...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Republican vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin is offering her first televised interview to ABC News in the coming week in Alaska.

Obama on Palin: She???s better with guns Mike Allen 50 minutes ago Either one would be the shoot-off of the century. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is offering to go one-on-one with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the basketball court, but says he’ll leave the other kind of shooting – with an actual gun – to her. In an interview taped for ABC’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos read a question from a viewer in Union City, Pa.: "Would you go one-on-one with Sarah Palin?" Encouraging Obama to play along, Stephanopoulos threw out her nickname as a high-school basketball player –...

The Republicans are, to swipe a phrase from that other campaign, all fired up and ready to go. They are more fired up than they've been since Ronald Reagan's Morning in America in 1980, only this time their hopes are pinned not on a controversial former California governor but a controversial Alaska governor. The GOP, per its convention, is running a hiding-in-plain sight, anti-incumbent incumbent campaign that essentially has it running against itself, which isn't half as painful as its sounds and which, in many corners of America, may just work. In St. Paul last week, Sarah Palin won the...

I’m an American, California born. It’s true my mother was English and that I was brought up here from early childhood and think myself exceptionally lucky to belong here; I feel as English as I think anyone possibly can. Yet all the same, America is the land of my forebears on my late father’s side. So I have always felt a strong sentimental attachment to the United States. I’ve felt proud of American achievements and generosity, and resented the unthinking antiAmericanism everywhere in Europe, ever since the first child in the playground of my first school shouted at me “Yanks...

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AFP) — US Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin took her first swipe at her Democratic counterpart Saturday, casting Joe Biden as a Washington insider incapable of change. "The choice a presidential nominee makes for a running mate says a lot about him," Palin told a flag-waving crowd at an airport hangar in the western state of Colorado. "Senator Biden can claim many chairmanships across many, many years in Washington and certain many friends in the Washington establishment, but even those admirers would not call him an agent of change." The Republican ticket, solidified just this past...

The Beautiful People just won’t let up on Sarah Palin. It’s become a regular “60 Minutes”/Texas Air National Guard feeding frenzy of bogus reporting out there. The whoppers about Palin are piled up so high in the moribund mainstream media that the wrinkly newsreaders have taken to blaming their most scurrilous, sexist screw-ups on those nefarious unnamed left-wing “bloggers” - you know, like Brian Williams. Why do the pampered poodles of the elite media loathe Sarah so much? Let’s go down the list.

Do not think of Sarah Palin as the Governor of Alaska. That obscures what matters. Focus on the qualities that enabled her to achieve such a position. Sarah Palin has always been a competitor and social activist. Not only has she always criticized what was but she had ideas as to how things should be. Rather than contending herself with sounding off she acted to make things better. Rather than joining someone else's bandwagon she created her own and invited others to get aboard. She gets things done. She is a natural manager and leader. At least that's the impression...

The Democrats are in trouble. Sarah Palin has totally changed the dynamics of this campaign. Period. Palin's speech to the GOP National Convention on Wednesday has set it up so that the Republicans are now on offense and Democrats are on defense. And we don't do well on defense. Suddenly, Palin and John McCain are the mavericks and Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the status quo, in a year when you don't want to be seen as defending the status quo. From taxes to oil drilling, Democrats are now going to have to start explaining their positions. Whenever you...

Our friends in the media just do not understand the popular following Sarah Palin has attracted. In an effort to help, I thought I should explain her popular appeal to them in terms even an Ivy League graduate could understand. If you consider yourself a member of the intelligentsia, think of Sarah's unexpectedly numerous admirers as a kind of tribe. We are going to examine a few of the the folkways of strange and foreign people. Think of them as exotic and it may help you stifle any revulsion you may feel at their differences from your own familiar accepted ways....

US Republican vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin took her first swipe at her Democratic counterpart today Joe Biden. She cast Biden as a Washington insider incapable of change. Snip . . .

Does the Angry Left really want to launch a culture war over Sarah Palin? Fine. Lock and load. That's the feeling of many conservatives who until last week were lukewarm at best about the prospect of a John McCain presidency. The unhinged malice of the cultural left's assault on the Alaska governor's personal life has focused their minds and stirred their hearts. Ms. Palin's astonishingly poised and confident performance in her convention speech proves that this Iron Lady is not about to quail before the judgment of her would-be betters. Neither will conservatives. If they were indifferent or hostile to...

Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin yesterday challenged the reform credentials of her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, contrasting his many years and many friends in Washington with her reputation as a reformist outsider. Yet as the McCain campaign attempted on its post-convention swing West to wrest the issue of "change" away from the Democrats, Barack Obama for the first time yesterday took a shot at Palin, scoffing at her boast that she's an anti-earmark "champion." Obama's former Democratic primary rival Hillary Rodham Clinton once again brushed aside questions about Palin yesterday as she marched with labor and stumped for Democrats in...

Greta Van Susteren aired a biography of Sarah Palin tonight. I saw only half of it, but the half that I saw was very good. Here is the link to the earlier thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076370/posts I believe it will reair tomorrow night at 8:00 pm ET, 5:00 PT. There is an interesting dynamic here. Her husband is John Coale, who was very prominent in Hillary Clinton's campaign. He is now backing McCain. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/prominent-clint.html