Palin

Smart Politics crunches the numbers and finds that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), newly minted as the Democrats’ “enemy No. 1″ makes a cable news appearance every 9.1 days. The chart is revealing:

Ezra Klein talks to Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), the senator who wants end-of-life planning in the health care bill, and who inadvertently inspired Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), then conservative blogger Sarah Palin, to allege that the bill would put old people to death.
I just had a phone call where someone said Sarah Palin’s web site [...]

The former and all-but-certain future GOP presidential candidate is coming out next March with a book tentatively titled “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness.” Motoko Rich reports that it will give us Romney’s “views on how to create a stronger economy, military and families, and his vision on jobs, education, health care, energy and [...]

The final Hays Research Poll on former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) finds her popularity with Alaskans tumbling just into negative territory; 48 percent of voters view her favorably, 47 percent view her unfavorably. It’s a strikingly polarized survey, with a similar one-point gap between the people who view her “very unfavorably” and “very favorably”—31-30.
Before she [...]

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said goodbye to her constituents Sunday afternoon and handed off the baton to Lieutenant Gov. Sean Parnell. Explaining her puzzling move, Palin cited her inability to get anything done as a lame duck — though her term would have ended in about a year and a half.
After a few jabs [...]

Suddenly, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s abrupt resignation announcement might make a bit more sense.
An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by accepting private donations to pay her legal debts.
The report obtained by The Associated Press says Palin is securing unwarranted benefits and receiving improper gifts through the [...]

A new tweet from the governor of Alaska reveals her choice of reading material; the new, bestselling book from the legal-minded conservative radio host.

Jonathan Martin follows up on Ralph Z. Hallow’s story about Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) being willing to campaign for Democrats by … asking a bunch of Democrats if they’d want to campaign alongside Palin. “She’s deeply unpopular within their own party,” Martin says, understating the matter, “but in the socially conservative, often rural districts or [...]

Via Greg Sargent, the Rasmussen Reports poll on 2012 Republican candidates finds most Republican voters trusting Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) on national security and former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) on the economy. Another item from the poll: the possible candidates that have been getting a lot of friendly coverage are less popular than media punching [...]

She’d have to move to Anchorage, of course, but is it too soon to talk about State Sen. Sylvia Allen (R-Ariz.) as a possible governor of Alaska?