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Shotgun Wedding No More

By Matthew DeLong 12/30/08 8:45 AM

People.com reports that Bristol Palin, daughter of former GOP vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, gave birth over the weekend.


Murkowski to Palin: Hands Off My Senate Seat

By Laura McGann 12/2/08 3:54 PM

Now that Sen. Ted Stevens is out of the Senate, nixing a chance for a special election in Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin might be eyeing another potential seat — Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska), Politico reports.
Murkowski, appointed to the Senate in 2002 by her father when he took office as governor of Alaska, is up for [...]


Stumping for Chambliss, Palin Draws Fans From Other States

By Laura McGann 12/2/08 1:02 PM

Is Gov. Sarah Palin the best thing going for the GOP these days?
A local TV network in Georgia reports that Palin attracted fans from as far away as New Mexico to hear her stump for Sen. Saxby Chambliss in today’s run-off election, even though they can’t vote in Georgia.


Palin Sells Campaign Duds on eBay, Nets $1 Million

By Bruce McCall 11/12/08 6:33 AM

Papers have reportedly been filed for a new corporation to cash in on her fame with myriad money-making projects. One is Black Ice, a consulting firm specializing in personal vendettas.


Palin Strikes Back

By Harry Shearer 11/11/08 12:35 PM

John McCain, Palin aides assert, has no idea of the location of the Tlingit Indian reservation, nor any idea how, when or why the Eagle Dance is performed.


Behind the Scheunemann Firing

By Spencer Ackerman 11/6/08 10:12 AM

Last week, according to CNN, the McCain campaign quietly fired its senior foreign-policy adviser, the neoconservative d-lister Randy Scheunemann, in a move that entirely escaped the campaign coverage. Scheunemann’s alleged offense was his alleged griping to Bill Kristol of the neoconservative Weekly Standard and The New York Times about dysfunctionality in the campaign and to [...]


Palin’s Post-Election Plans

By Bruce McCall 11/5/08 12:50 PM

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sees a memoir, a chain of “Sarah Palin’s Shoot ‘n’ Sizzle” firing ranges and a for-profit think tank, The Sarah Palin Foundation” among the many options in her future. And there’s always 2012 in the big picture.


Palin Releases Medical History Letter

By Matthew DeLong 11/4/08 9:50 AM

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently caught her staff by surprise last month when she told NBC’s Brian Williams she would release her medical records to the public.
With the records still unreleased this week, and no indication from the McCain campaign that they would be forthcoming, several media outlets began to wonder aloud if the campaign [...]


Former Secretary of State Says Palin Not Ready

By Matthew DeLong 10/31/08 11:08 AM

With a new CBS/New York Times poll finding that 59 percent of registered voters don’t think Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is ready to be vice president, one of Sen. John McCain’s most prominent supporters is publicly saying what much of the rest of the country seems to be thinking.
During an interview with National Public Radio [...]


Palin Excitement Spreads to Speechwriter

By Aaron Wiener 10/31/08 10:56 AM

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, on the trail with John McCain, parses another speech by Gov. Sarah Palin. She notes that Palin’s speechwriter, perhaps in an effort to reduce the candidate’s deviations from the script, has adopted her conversational — and emphatic — tone in the prepared statements, packing them chock full of exclamation points.


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