Carney has come up with the obvious tabloid headline: “The Juno of Juneau” UPDATE: Commenter Jarais points out Gawker beat us to it.
Best case scenario is that this statement from Todd and Sarah Palin: “We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had [...]
People in St. Paul seem to be taking McCain’s call for restraint pretty seriously, so I feel a little bad for observing this, but I sort of loved it when he explained, “we need to take off our Republican hats and put on our American hats” — because conventions, in the end, are all about [...]
Bill Kristol gives me a cameo role in his NY Times column today: Time’s Joe Klein remarked disapprovingly that McCain didn’t know Palin well and had never worked with her. He noted by contrast “that when Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, House Speaker Tip O’Neill, who had worked with Ferraro, was not only [...]
My story on the McCain campaign’s efforts to “Seize the Stormy Moment” is here. To wit: “John McCain can’t stop the storm, but his campaign is determined to make the most of it by using it to rebrand a new generation of Republicans as leaders who govern effectively and rise above partisanship.”
We always write that running mates don’t really move votes, but I’m increasingly convinced that Sarah Palin is the exception. Bill Kristol (who appears to have spent more time with Palin than McCain did before selecting her) sums up the stakes for McCain: If Palin turns out not be up to the challenge for which [...]
