The amount of money the state of Alaska and news organizations are spending on the Sarah Palin e-mails — copying costs, shipping costs (or flight costs), man-hour costs, and opportunity costs — should inspire some skull-clutching. It’s all the more extravagant considering how much of the content has been redacted, how old the e-mails …
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Michele Bachmann’s Legendary Loud-Mouthed Campaign Guru
Ed Rollins, a veteran strategist newly attached to Rep. Michele Bachmann, has a deceptively simple LinkedIn profile. Only two jobs are publicly listed: his current position as a fellow for CNN and Hofstra University and a stint …
Ouch
Below is the Friday cover of New Hampshire’s largest paper, the Union Leader. For the story on Mitt Romney’s official announcement that he’s running for President, you have to turn to page A3.
She’s Back: Sarah Palin Returns to the Spotlight
With the media chasing Sarah Palin’s tour bus up the East Coast and buzz about her presidential prospects renewed, TIME’s Feifei Sun looks at the former Alaska governor’s exploits on the trail in 2011
Why Sarah Palin and Donald Trump Get Along So Well
It had to happen. The gravitational tug was too intense. Like two massive stars colliding, Donald Trump and Sarah Palin, the hybrid king and queen of the political-entertainment, have come together and declared common …
The Most Misused Song in GOP Politics: Van Halen’s “Right Now”
If Republicans are on the campaign trail, Van Halen is back in vogue. For years, Republican candidates and politicians have been using Van Halen’s song, Right Now, as the walk-in jingle at rallies and events. The first time I recorded its use was November 5, 2006, when then-President George W. Bush used the tune to enter a rally in …
On Global Warming, No Clear Skies For Most 2012 GOP Contenders
When news broke of Jon Huntsman’s serious consideration of a run for president last month, several conservative pundits, including the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, dismissed the former Utah governor’s chances by pointing to his moderate record on global warming, which they predicted would play poorly among the GOP’s conservative …
Nevermind Tim Pawlenty’s Announcement Of A Future Announcement, Let’s Look At The 2012 GOP Maps
At 3 p.m. today, anyone with a working Facebook account can get exclusive access to an announcement that has already been announced, setting the stage for further announcements about Tim Pawlenty’s desire to be President of the United States. Such is the absurdity of modern presidential politics that candidates create news events out of …
Sarah Palin Wins On National Security, Mitt Romney Hurts On Social Issues
Gallup keeps bringing the hits. Today it has a breakdown of early Republican primary polls by the top issues among potential voters. First the qualification: Primary polls this early are poor indicators of results. At this point in 2007, Rudy Giuliani led the GOP field and Hillary Clinton had a virtual lock on the Democratic nomination. …
Blood Libel or No, The Political Climate Is Still Poisonous
Sarah Palin, once again, demonstrated her ability to rile both the left and right by uttering a few words from the last frontier. Now the ideological tribes will retreat to their clubhouses–Fox News, MSNBC, the political blogs–to stir themselves to outrage debating whether “blood libel,” a term historically reserved for a particularly …
Hey Sarah Palin and Jon Stewart: Let’s End All This Gosh, Gee, Humble-Me, Humorous-Me Stuff
Sarah Palin has started another Facebook flame war, this time with a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. On Monday, Sudeep Reddy took issue with a line from a recent Palin critique of the Federal Reserve’s new program of quantitative easing: “Everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly …
She’s Baaaaaaack!
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Pawlenty Goes Rogue
The Minnesota governor/2012 aspirant’s upcoming book features a cover that looks mighty familiar. I guess Palin’s success is worth emulating.