Early last week, I had a chat with a well-connected Democrat who said that the inside scoop on the McCain camp is that there is a growing disagreement between Palin and McCain on strategy, and that she’s begun to pull away and form her own alliances in hopes of a 2012 run.
This individual is trustworthy, [...]

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Michael Brendan Dougherty blogs about the questions that arise with a possible President Palin:
Conor Friedersdorf outlines a frightening post-election crisis that involves truck bombs, Putin, and a dead president. The he asks: would you feel confident with Sarah Palin at the helm?
Phil Klein, rightly responds that he would be pretty scared no matter who was [...]

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Sarah Palin has a credibility problem.
In her interviews, she tried to provide answers to questions when she clearly didn’t have them. What came out instead was an odd, twisted, mish-mash of words that more closely resembled the management wisdom of David Brent than that of a future Vice President.
Some have characterized this as dishonesty, and [...]

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Jeff Culbreath on the debate:
Sarah Palin passed the test, but did she rescue a faltering campaign? I don’t think so. Unfortunately it is the Obama-Biden ticket that is campaigning on ideas and policies (bad ones), and the McCain-Palin ticket that is campaigning on image and identity. I think even the average American voter, who isn’t too bright, can see the [...]

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Pundits are weighing in.
Peggy Noonan gushes:
She killed. She had him at “Nice to meet you. Hey, can I call you Joe?” She was the star. He was the second male lead, the good-natured best friend of the leading man. She was not petrified but peppy.
[snip]
The heart of her message was a complete populist pitch. “Joe [...]

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I’m impressed. I was wrong in my predictions about Palin’s performance.
Palin stood much to lose by putting in a poor showing tonight, but that didn’t happen. This debate will likely quiet some of the criticisms of Palin’s competency, and it should. She put many fears to rest tonight, and while her inexperience still showed, it [...]

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Obama’s massive campaign contributions are starting to come under scrutiny. Put me down for “unsurprised” that there turns out to be something very fishy going on.
More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small donors whose names the Obama campaign won’t disclose.
And questions have arisen about millions more [...]

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I’m going to put away my Palin drum until after the debate. I’m beginning to sound like a broken record. I thought that in honor of the ceasefire, I’d offer up what I think is a very reasonable and even optimistic take on the McCain Veep - an open letter posed by the editors of [...]

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This is a longer clip from the series of interview questions Gov. Palin has fielded from Katie Couric. There are fewer awkward moments here  (with the notable exception of Palin’s inability to cite a single news source she reads with specificity) and some notable comments on life issues near the end of the interview.
It’s worth [...]

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BUSTED! The Washington Times reports that Nancy Pelosi paid husband with PAC funds - a process she (unsuccessfully) sought to make illegal last year:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband’s real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with [...]

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