...follow in Game Change, their chronicle of the 2008 presidential election, come out with dignity intact. After all, the election unfolded in a series of increasingly sordid scandals, from Reverend Wright to all that was Sarah Palin; the news that Edwards had fathered a child out of wedlock while campaigning was just the icing on the already-salacious cake. In that sense, Heilemann and Halperin’s tome is nothing more than a longer version of the s...
...question whose side Paul Ryan is on, and the president rightly criticized it in a Tuesday speech— calling the plan a “Trojan Horse”— surely making millionaires wish Obama would just leave well enough alone. Sarah Palin plays Katie Couric On Tuesday, Sarah Palin co-hosted the “Today Show” on NBC. The former governor of Alaska was likely recruited to beat the ratings of “Good Morning America,” which also gained a new host on Tuesday wi...
There has been much buzz recently regarding who the GOP nominee will choose as a running mate, and rightfully so; as John McCain showed in 2008, the vice presidential pick can make or break a candidacy. In McCain’s case, even though Sarah Palin energized a formerly unenthusiastic base, her presence in the race ultimately led to Barack Obama winning in a landslide because the discussion became almost solely about Palin and her flaws, rather than...
...t the person at the head of the ticket. All of these objectives are essential to the presumptive Republican nominee’s effort to win the White House. But due to Senator John McCain’s imprudent choice in the last contest, Sarah Palin, the selection this time around will be scrutinized even closer than it has been in the past. As he has stressed over and over again in interviews, Romney will choose someone who is prepared to be president should some...
...sues that nobody raises because they had already been addressed pretty sufficiently for most people. Let’s hope Rick Santorum keeps winning hearts so that he can take the White House in 2016! Vice President who? What do Sarah Palin and Herman Cain have in common? Very little, actually, but they’ve both been in the news again lately for their opinion on who Mitt Romney’s vice presidential candidate will be. Both Cain and Palin think that Florida R...
...Wisconsin into play and likely into the GOP column. Having served seven terms in the House of Representatives, Ryan’s record is well-known and so the chance that the press (or the Democrats, for that matter) will uncover any Palin-esque skeletons is minimal. However, tapping Ryan does bring one potential danger: The president will attempt to use Ryan’s budget against him and thereby direct public attention away from his own failed economic polic...
...in 2008, an estimated “5 million women and men received services through 4,500 community-based clinics,” inside such as Planned Parenthood clinics. Nonetheless, many prominent Republican presidential candidates, such as Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney, have publicly exclaimed that defunding Planned Parenthood will be one of the main components of their respective campaign platforms. The overarching impetus behind the push to defund Planned Parenthood...
...ll—are strikingly similar to some of the political demands of today’s Tea Party. The scripted speeches that Jackson gives about taking back the government for the people could have been stolen from the podium at a Sarah Palin rally. The people demand that the “Washington elite” pay attention to what is going on in other parts of the country outside of wealthy New England. They feel threatened by outsiders. Jackson introduces him...
...nt of discourse, they’re all about style. It doesn’t matter that in a seminar you make no sense; it’s about how you look good when you’re not making sense. That’s why last year’s decision by the GOP to spend $150,000 on Sarah Palin’s clothing should not be derided; it was a choice rooted in the noble American tradition. Bring on 2012....
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