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Earmarks! Get your earmarks!

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On September 11, 2008

For starters, I’ll simply vow that if the essence of this campaign distills down to earmarks — and if that becomes the McCain-Palin route to victory — I will join the Alaska Independ

Worst. Candidate. Ever.

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On September 10, 2008
Jesus, make it stop: More than 40 million people tuned in last week to listen to the speech from Palin, the 44-year-old, first-term governor whom McCain announced as his surprise vice presidential pick just days before. Since then, that basic script is all anyone has heard from her publicly, and her only interaction with the […]

Red state feminism

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On September 9, 2008

There’s a lot of this kind of thing going around right now (shorter version: she can bring home the salmon and fry it up in a pan). Indeed it’s being claimed that “Palin’s supe

The Strawman Archetype

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On September 7, 2008
Oh, sure, it’s been done on American blogs too. But “decent” uber-wanker Nick Cohen gives us the full Republican-ressentiment script. Claim: “On the other, liberal journalists turned [Palin’s] family into an object of sexual disgust: inbred rednecks who had stumbled out of Deliverance.” Omitted: a single name or concrete example. Presumed reason: some Guy With […]

I defer to H. L Mencken

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On September 7, 2008

And P.T Barnum. For several weeks the McCain campaign has been running this ad pretty much non-stop in Colorado. Today we got this: COLORADO SPRINGS — The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin

Everything is a Lefty Smear

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On September 6, 2008

Steve M. says just about all that needs to be said about this piece in the Times, wherein we learn that throughout her adult life, Sarah Palin has been distinguished among other things — wait fo

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