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Murkowski to Palin: Hands Off My Senate Seat

By | 12.02.08 | 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 More…

Stumping for Chambliss, Palin Draws Fans From Other States

By | 12.02.08 | 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 More…

Palin Sells Campaign Duds on eBay, Nets $1 Million

By | 11.12.08 | 6:33 am

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made lemonade out of lemons today by auctioning off on the Internet the fancy wardrobe purchased for her failed vice-presidential run, and raking in more than a million dollars — which she immediately donated to the Needy Governors’ Winter Clothing Fund.

The feisty four-eyed political phenomenon More…

Palin Strikes Back

By | 11.11.08 | 12:35 pm

The stunning run of leaks against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin from the anonymous ranks of McCain campaign aides has finally elicited a response in kind. Members of the Palin entourage, who, while stunningly garbed in Dolce, would not allow their names to be used, have fired back against charges More…

Behind the Scheunemann Firing

By | 11.06.08 | 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 More…

Palin’s Post-Election Plans

By | 11.05.08 | 12:50 pm

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was more than prepared should terrorists and their sympathizers quit palling around long enough to throw the coming presidential election a curve and cheat her out of the vice presidency. She has already crafted a detailed plan for her future.

Step One is to resign as More…

Palin Releases Medical History Letter

By | 11.04.08 | 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 More…

Former Secretary of State Says Palin Not Ready

By | 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 More…

Palin Excitement Spreads to Speechwriter

By | 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 More…

Palin’s Improv Comedy

By | 10.29.08 | 5:36 pm

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, reporting from the McCain campaign trail, provides a transcript of Gov. Sarah Palin’s energy policy speech and highlights the many times Palin strays from the prepared, teleprompted remarks. For more on Palin’s deviation from the McCain campaign’s plans, in speeches and elsewhere, see Ana More…