Category Archives: Sarah Palin 2012

That Palin Article

Unless you live under a rock, you know that Michael Jackson is dead and Todd Purdum has written an article for Vanity Fair about Sarah Palin. What does it say about the nature of modern American politics that a public … Continue reading

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Sarah Palin’s Base

Yesterday, fifteen protesters showed up to denounce David Letterman’s joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter (the nineteen-year old, not the fourteen-year old). Palin’s political base was on full display: The best way to counter this kind of Crazy™ is to give … Continue reading

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The Palin Trifecta

Sarah Palin yesterday: Since when can you get out of huge national debt by creating trillions of dollars of new debt? It all really is so backwards and skewed as to sound like absolute nonsense when some of this economic … Continue reading

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Sarah Palin’s Lost Cause

Sarah Palin was all over the cable news channels today inaugurating a new Lost Cause mythology to explain November’s electoral defeat: What do I mean by “Lost Cause?” Well, in America the best example is the southern mythology popularized in … Continue reading

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It’s Coming Down

California, Louisiana, Alaska. Three states with Republican governors aspiring to a 2012 presidential bid (although one would need a Constitutional amendment). All three are in a state of budgetary collapse. Tell me again why anyone is still listening to crap … Continue reading

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Is Palin Staking a Claim? (UPDATE)

Out of curiosity tonight, I checked every URL I could think of for Sarah Palin in 2012. They’re all “under construction.” The WHOis.com database shows them held privately, which basically says that some anonymous party has staked out the internet … Continue reading

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