Sarah Palin

WATERTOWN, N.Y. — I don’t blog everything that Sarah Palin writes on Facebook, but her response to Vice President Joe Biden’s jab at her energy policy — made at a Bill Owens rally in Watertown — seems noteworthy. First, there’s the speed with which it went up. Second, there’s the phrase “Hoffman, Baby, Hoffman,” which [...]

Paul Bedard gets an early look at “The Persecution of Sarah Palin,” the second book by young Weekly Standard writer Matthew Continetti, which draws lessons about the media, feminism, and elitism from the former Alaska governor’s rapid rise and fall. In this excerpt, Continetti analyzes the meaning of Tina Fey’s iconic impersonation of Palin.
It was [...]

Greg Sargent noted this development in the New York 23rd Congressional District race earlier today, and I’ve got the full email MoveOn sent out asking its members to deny a victory for Sarah Palin by backing Bill Owens, the Democratic candidate in NY-23.
The email is below the jump. Here’s a response from Rob Ryan, a [...]

I’d forgotten that eight whole months had passed since the last CNN/Opinion Research poll on the possible GOP primary field. The toplines are good for Mike Huckabee, who has stayed popular and mostly uncontroversial (excepting his “Ted Kennedy would have died early under national health care” moment), and bad for Sarah Palin, who, in the [...]

John McCormack had the news first. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has largely stayed away from candidate endorsements this year, swung for the fences yesterday and endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in New York’s 23rd Congressional District.
Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald [...]

I’m a little late to this, but Ed Morrissey, one of the best conservative bloggers out there, has a must-read recap of this past weekend’s fifth annual Western CPAC. Morrissey was not impressed by the conference, and suspicious of the motives of many organizers.
While I had several great conversations with Floyd Brown and believe him [...]

Conservative fire-starter John Ziegler, the radio host and producer of the pro-Sarah Palin movie “Media Malpractice,” got booted from a panel at this weekend’s Western CPAC after badgering American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene about a few unpleasant items on his CV. (Specifically, Keene supported Sen. Arlen Specter before his party switch, and he talked [...]

This friendly Politico piece on Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) effort to “reshape the Republican Party in his own center-right image” doesn’t quite take the edge off of Steve Schmidt’s comments about Sarah Palin. The McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager, speaking yesterday in Washington:
Most politicians of prominence write a book. My honest view is that she would [...]

The release of the “Going Rogue” cover reveals two things. First: Sarah Palin’s celebrity and magnetic attraction for the media are in no danger of ending. Second: It’s a cover we’ve seen before.
Compare this:

To this:

John Cook at Gawker is going after Sarah Palin for collaborating with Lynn Vincent on her forthcoming book “Going Rogue.” As Charles Johnson noted, and as I reported back in May, Vincent has previously collaborated on political book with Robert Stacy McCain, a former Washington Times reporter who was characterized by a former co-worker as [...]