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Palin aide responds: 'Nobody’s sitting around talking about the 2008 campaign except for the people who lost it'

Sarah,unprepared ???what a shocker.Kinda like stink on ludefiske or limberger you can't get away from it! Reall y ? who gives a sh-t ? election is over books have been written - move on ---- move onto a topic like CRIMINAL SCUM RANGEL AND MURTHA ...

From BEN SMITH, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Steve Schmidt,  John McCain,  Sarah Palin

RNC backstory

The republican don't like Steele, of course they aren't going to credit him with thier success. They only picked him because he's black, just like mcCain picked Trisomy Palin because she's a woman.. Michael Steele IS the Chairman of the Republican ...

From BEN SMITH, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  White House,  Michael Steele,  Barack Obama

Steele loses communications director

RNC chairman Michael Steele, in a statement through a spokeswoman, confirms that Communications Director Trevor Francis has left the building, and describes his tenure at the RNC for part of this year as a "hiatus": “Trevor took a hiatus from a very ...

From BEN SMITH, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Michael Steele,  Trevor Francis,  U.S. Republican Party,  Sean Hannity,  Jon Stewart

Sanford charged

If responsible government is to reign supreme, South Carolina will boot this lying politician to the curb side Damn liberals won't even let the govener get a peice of ars! Our founding fathers would never of charged someone with a crime just for ...

From BEN SMITH, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John Edwards,  Charles Rangel

Cheney, at length

and Liberal Politico Foot Soldier Ben Smith dint like any of what cheney said...LOL Why is anybody listening to Cheney? Not Domestic Terror trials...Domestic Civil Constituional Rights Giving Trials of Foreign Terrorists.... BEn don't be a DITZ ...

From BEN SMITH, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Dick Cheney,  George W. Bush,  Rush Limbaugh,  Maureen Dowd

Since the summer, a new normal

There is no evidence that any group of Dems, especially liberal Dems are unhappy with Obama's performance. Critical is that moderate and even conservative Dems have not moved away since August. Angry conservative Reps are indeed very unhappy with ...

From BEN SMITH, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Dobbs: 'Yes is the answer'

Oh, please, please, can I be his campaign manager? Pretty please? God help us. Dobbs/Palin 2012. Beck or Limbaugh for Secretary of Education or HHS? Limbaugh or Beck head of DEA? I NEEDED A LAUGH TODAY see the movie 2012 | November 23, 2009 at 02:25 ...

From BEN SMITH, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Lou Dobbs,  Jerry Springer,  Harvard University

A purity resolution at the RNC

Almost every single one is simply a statement opposing the Democratic line. These aren't principles. They're "No's." Well, golly, anti-gay stuff has dropped to 8th place. What will the Christianist base of the GOP say about that? That's kinda harder ...

From BEN SMITH, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  FOX Broadcasting Company

Dept. of hard bargains

An entertaining addendum to the odd story of the "Obama Fried Chicken" logo getting airbrushed out of a hip-hop video airing on MTV: “The decision was made by the owner of the restaurant,” said Cordero, “who wouldn’t sign our location agreement unless ...

From BEN SMITH, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  MTV,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party

The politics of skin color

People tend to view members of their own political group more positively than members of a competing political group. In this article, we demonstrate that political partisanship influences people’s visual representations of a biracial political ...

From BEN SMITH, The Politico,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  National Academy of Sciences,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Senate

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