Sarah Palin Facts
Posted on August 31, 2008 at 9:50 pmIn the tradition of Chuck Norris and Fred Thompson, a new meme has emerged in celebration of John McCain’s Veep selection — Sarah Palin Facts. Some of my favorites:
When Sarah Palin attends ritual blood orgies, she always brings the most delicious ambrosia salad. - Three of Sarah Palin’s five kids came out sideways - she never flinched.
- The Russians sold Alaska to America because Sarah Palin would not submit to autocracy.
- Sarah Palin once bit the head off a live Osprey snatched from the air as it tried to fly off with a fish she caught.
- We don’t know who would win in a Chuck Norris - Sarah Palin cage match because they’ve never invented a cage that can hold Sarah Palin.
- Sarah Palin is the “other” whom Yoda spoke about.
- The Arctic Circle runs through Alaska so the Sun can have some relief from Sarah Palin’s bright glare.
- Sarah Palin’s finishing move in the VP debate will be pulling Biden’s still beating heart from his chest & taking a bite.
- Sarah Palin makes Andrew Sullivan regret some key life choices.
- Sarah Palin will give birth to the man who will lead humanity’s war against the machines.
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Palin Chatter Dump
Posted on at 9:29 pmJon Wright analyzes the reasons Gov Sarah Palin was picked to join Join McCain’s Presidential ticket:
She’s a “movement conservative”, the sort of hard-right blend of social conservatism (anti-choice, creationist) with squishy pseudo-libertarian mercantilist economics that reassures the Fred Thompson crowd. In other words, she’s like Marsha Blackburn, except she’s a woman.
Les Jones explains why McCain chose wisely:
Voters haven’t elected a Senator to be president since JFK in 1960, yet the Obama-Biden ticket has two of them. The pattern for the past 30 years is that Americans vote for the ticket with a governor and a Senator, though it’s usually the governor for the presidential slot and the Senator for the veep slot. In that sense McCain has set up the classic winning ticket that voters like.
McCain chose well.
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Anatomy Of A Meme
Posted on at 8:46 pmJackson Baker on how “the talk” gets started:
Those that hit and make a lasting impact are generally those that are well targeted. Clinton of the loose zipper and Dan “Mr. Potatoe” Quayle of the anti-gravity brain are cases in point. (Warren G. Harding, he of the ‘normalcy’ neologism, qualified in both those categories.)
“Mythologies,” we said a few lines back. To call something a “myth” doesn’t belie it. Ask Carl Jung. (OK, his ghost.) But political memes, like some myths, can start out as malicious (or self-serving) fabrications or as the careless templates of a lazy press pack.
“Mean Bob Dole,” a truly bizarre way to tag an exemplar of both wit and warmth, was a clear case of the latter, while “Al Gore the Inventor of the Internet” ended up as a press meme but started out at some V-2 base near Peenemunde. The pedigree of “Barack Obama the celebrity” was similar.
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Blogging The RNC
Posted on at 8:36 pmRob Huddleston will be in the house and he’s laying down some ground rules:
I am not a credentialed blogger for the Republican National Convention, and that is probably a good thing. I’ve been credentialed on many other occasions, and, rightly or wrongly, being designated as such can have an effect on one’s blogging of events. This way, I can retain my objectivity, and, as regular readers know of my past (some would say constant) criticisms of the Republican Party, I will not be afraid to dish out some smack if it is called for. (I read a few of the blogs that covered the Democratic National Convention, and I’m convinced that some of them would have happily reported the bright side of even the most despicable actions if the offenders at the DNC would have been Democrats. Objectivity was out the window to the point where their “reports” were nothing more than Astroturf press releases from the Democratic Party.) My aim is to stay clear of that obstacle. The downside of not being credentialed is that my posts will be either very late at night or very early in the morning. Only credentialed bloggers and media can carry their laptops past security, so my blogging will be tethered to my hotel.
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Dark Nights: Op Research In Tennessee Politics
Posted on at 7:27 pmErik Schelzig runs down the role of opposition research in Tennessee politics:
Bredesen said he takes to heart the advice of his original political adviser, Joe Napolitan.
“He told me way back when that his rule about negative campaigning was a) don’t negative campaign, and b) if you do, make it hurt,” Bredesen said.
Bob Corney, a former state Democratic Party official, said finding potentially damaging information alone isn’t always enough to earn an advantage.
“Sometimes it’s how you polish it,” said Corney, also a former Bredesen aide. “It’s a dark art, but it’s an art.”
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McCain Cuts First Day Convention Activites Short, Paul Convo Still A Go
Posted on at 6:34 pmFrom the Hill:
Republicans will hold an abreviated “business only” convention meeting on Monday at John McCain’s request.
McCain announced Sunday that most activities will be suspended on the first day of the Republican National Convention so the country could focus on Hurricane Gustav.
“We will proceed with the convention tomorrow but it will be abriviated,” said Mike Miller, director of operations for the convention.
He said that delegates will meet to elect convention officiers, ratify rules and approve the party platform because they are critical to the nominating process.
The convention will open as scheduled at 3 p.m CT and will meet until approximately 5:30 p.m. CT. There will be no roll call of delegates.
“We will proceed with the convention tomorrow but it will be abriviated,” said Mike Miller, director of operations for the convention.
He said that delegates will meet to elect convention officiers, ratify rules and approve the party platform because they are critical to the nominating process.
The convention will open as scheduled at 3 p.m CT and will meet until approximately 5:30 p.m. CT. There will be no roll call of delegates.
Ron Paul’s rump convo will go on without abbreviation.
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McCain Didn’t Comb The Archives Of Palin’s Hometown Newspaper
Posted on at 6:26 pmFrom Huffington Post:
On Saturday, a Democrat tasked with opposition research contacted the Huffington Post with this piece of information: as of this weekend, the McCain campaign had not gone through old newspaper articles from the Valley Frontiersman, Palin’s hometown newspaper.
How does he know? The paper’s (massive) archives are not online. And when he went to research past content, he was told he was the first to inquire.
“No one else had requested access before,” said the source. “It’s unbelievable. We were the only people to do that, which means the McCain camp didn’t.”
The Frontiersman did not immediately confirm the revelation.
MORE: Ambinder.
Three Times More Fred: Thompson To Pinch-Hit For Arnold At Convention
Posted on at 6:00 pmVia the Weekly Standard:
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is skipping the Republican National Convention this week in Minnesota to manage an ongoing budget dispute in Sacramento. Republican officials say Fred Thompson will take his place in the prime-time lineup Monday night and onetime presidential candidate will have nearly three times longer to speak than he was originally given for his speech on Tuesday.
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Governor Sarah Palin On Ron Paul: “He’s Cool”
Posted on at 5:52 pmMTV Street Team: Well, a lot of students asked me to ask you, Ron Paul, cult-following in Alaska….
Governor Sarah Palin: He’s cool. He’s a good guy. He’s a good guy. He’s so independent. He’s independent of like the party machine, I’m like, right on, so am I. The party machinery, on both sides of the party, ya know, Americans are tiring of the incessant partisanship that gets in the way of just doing the right thing for this country.
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Who Won The Republican Primary In State Senate District 28?
Posted on at 5:18 pmMick Wright wants to know:
No Republicans filed to run against Tennessee Senate Democratic leader Jim Kyle in District 28 this year. The Shelby County Election Commission recorded 80 write-in votes in the August primary election, but the Tennessee Dept. of State Elections Division seems to assume there was no winner. How many write-in votes does a candidate need in order to win? Or are they even really counted at all? Why isn’t the list of write-in candidates available online?
Further discussion in the comment thread.
God Always Delivers
Posted on at 4:39 pmIlissa Gold takes note of some divine retribution which may befall a few religious conservatives this week.
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Counting The Days
Posted on at 4:34 pmKavon Nikard puts the experience argument against Sarah Palin in a bit of perspective:
Barack Obama was a U.S. Senator for 754 days before he began his full-time run for the Presidency.
Sarah Palin was Governor of Alaska for 603 days before she began her campaign for the Vice-Presidency.
As the head of his Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, Obama never held a meeting on Afghanistan. As the Governor of Alaska, Gov. Palin is the CiC of the Alaska Nation Guard.
Both of candidates have made trips to the Middle East during their time in office.
So tell me, how exactly Obama’s 151 day advantage make him more qualified to be CiC than Sarah Palin, the person who occupies the #2 spot on the GOP ticket?
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Pat Buchanan Claims Sarah Palin As A “Brigader”
Posted on at 4:15 pmThe McCain/Palin camp is distancing:
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Making New Friends
Posted on at 4:08 pm
TNGOP Chair Robin Smith with Prinscella Smith of Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions at the Republican National Convention. Photo by Ken Whitehouse.
UPDATE: Ilissa Gold LOLCats the photo.
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Nashville’s Old Timey Poster Shop Finds New Life In Politics
Posted on at 3:51 pmFrom Naomi Snyder:
After years of financial struggle, Hatch Show Print is booming.
CNN hired the business — whose designers handcraft posters using wood or metal blocks in much the same way printers did for hundreds of years— to design and create nearly all of its promotional materials for its presidential election coverage. Belmont University will hand out Hatch Show Print posters to everyone who attends the upcoming presidential debate on the college campus.
Clients from Nike to Neil Young have been ordering posters from the shop. The Ryman Auditorium continues to offer a Hatch Show poster to all its artists to go with each show and be sold to concertgoers. Hatch Show has been doing the Ryman’s posters since at least the 1920s, and its vintage designs have become an integral part of Nashville’s image.
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Sarah Palin, Maverick With Antiwar Tendencies?
Posted on at 3:37 pmFrom the New Yorker:
So the possibility that Obama might win Alaska did not worry Palin: “Turning maybe purple in the state means, to me, it’s more independent, it’s not the obsessive partisanship that gets in the way of doing what’s right for this state, and I think on a national level that’s what we’re gonna see.” And she added, “That’s why McCain is the candidate for the G.O.P.—because he’s been known as the maverick, as the conduit for some change.” In the state’s Republican caucus, McCain came in fourth, trailing Ron Paul. “I always looked at Senator McCain just as a Joe Blow public member, looking from the outside in,” she said. “He’s been buttin’ heads with Republicans for years, and that’s a healthy place to be.” Then again, on McCain’s signature issue—the prosecution of the war in Iraq—she did not sound so gung-ho. Her son is a soldier, and she said, “I’m a mom, and my son is going to get deployed in September, and we better have a real clear plan for this war. And it better not have to do with oil and dependence on foreign energy.”
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The Tipoff
Posted on at 3:30 pmInstapundit reveals how one could have anticipated the Sarah Palin Veep announcement:
‘At approximately 5 p.m. ET (Thursday), the company’s analysts noticed a spike in the editing traffic to Palin’s Wiki page, and that some of the same Wiki users appeared to be making changes to McCain’s page.’”
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Metro’s Republican Convenes
Posted on at 3:19 pm
Mayor Karl Dean’s Legislative Director Toby Compton takes a little time off from Metro affairs to volunteer at the Republican National Convention. Compton is on the left (in this picture anyway), Kevin Phillips of Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock is in the middle and former Sundquistista Jennifer Hatten is on the right. Photo by Ken Whitehouse.
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