In Reality, Palin Loves Earmarks

The McCain campaign boasts of her pork-cutting, but up close it looks more like a trim. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. She boasts of rejecting plans to build the notorious “Bridge to Nowhere,” a $389 [...]

Quote Of The Day

“You’ll be encouraged by the power of God’s love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality.”

- the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Sarah Palin has prayed for about six years.

PALIN: WRONG WOMAN, WRONG MESSAGE

Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

By Gloria Steinem
September 4, 2008

Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that
even the anti-feminist right wing — the folks with a headlock on the
Republican Party — are trying to appease [...]

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This Is Ridiculous But Consider The Source

Rudy Giuliani maintains that Sarah Palin is ready to lead the nation partly because she has managed a city…In an interview Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Giuliani was asked, “If she were the president on 9/11, you would have been confident?”

Giuliani responded: “I’d be confident that she’d be able to handle it. She’s been [...]

This Does Not Inspire Confidence

The McCain team has hastily assembled a team of former Bush White House aides to tutor the vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on foreign-policy issues, to write her speeches and to begin preparing her for her all-important Oct. 2 debate against Sen. Joe Biden.

Does McCain, a supposed foreign policy expert, really think that [...]