Warning, watching this video of McCain/Palin supporters outside an event in Ohio will cause you to question your faith in humanity.
There is something seriously wrong with these people.
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Via Chris Orr comes word of potentially the greatest book to be published on the 2008 Presidential election: Hugh Hewitt’s “How Sarah Palin Won the Election … and Saved America”. Doesn’t that sound like a book you’d like to read? Unfortunately it looks like it won’t be published:
One campaign book that has already bitten the dust is right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt’s How Sarah Palin Won the Election … and Saved America, which the literary agent Curtis Yates sent to publishers in New York last week.
When Media Mob reached Mr. Yates by phone on Monday, he’d already given up on trying to sell the book.
“The idea was to tell the story behind the effect that Sarah Palin has had on this election and how it is and why it is that she has basically turned the election around for McCain and why it is that she is resonating with so many people in the country,” he said. “The intent was to finish the book by a week after the election, and to have it out before the inauguration.”
Was that the plan regardless of who won?
“The book obviously presumed [a McCain-Palin victory],” Mr. Yates said, “but the theory was that her impact on this election will have a lasting effect regardless—that she’s not gonna go anywhere, that she’s just gonna be a figure in G.O.P. politics going forward.”
That crazy Hewitt. As Oliver notes, this is the same guy who’s last two books were about how the Republicans were about to have a permanent majority and how Mitt Romney was going to be the Republican nominee. I think that says all you need to know about Mr. Hewitt’s intelligence levels.
The third in a series in which I give props to a conservative for offering truly insightful political analysis. This time we have National Review’s Rich Lowry, commenting on last night’s Vice Presidential debate between Governor Palin and Senator Joe Biden. Here’s Lowry on Gov. Palin:
A very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. It’s one of the keys to the success of, say, a Bill O’Reilly, who comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can’t be learned; it’s either something you have or you don’t, and man, she’s got it.
Thank you Mr. Lowry for sticking to the substance of the debate.
FOTB The Cooler reminded me to post the Sarah Palin baby name generator. Came up with “Flack Gobbler Palin” for me.
Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign have been getting some attention of late (though not nearly enough) for their propensity for lying about things. Its quite a talent they have. Most of the coverage has focused on Palin’s lie about “stopping” the “Bridge to Nowhere”. This is almost worth another post so maybe I’ll whip one up in a bit but needless to say Palin was for the bridge until Congress stopped the earmark and then as Governor, Palin kept the money and spent it on other things. Palin’s repeated this lie 27 times now (and counting). But the Bridge to Nowhere lie isn’t my favorite Palin lie, the eBay one is.
During her convention speech, and pretty much every time she’s opened her mouth since, Palin bragged about putting the Alaska state plane on eBay. This is supposed to prove that she’s sooooo anti-government spending, etc.. Palin is always (sometimes) careful to say she “put it on eBay” rather then “sold it on eBay” and why is that? You probably guessed the answer already: because the plane didn’t get sold on eBay. Here’s the Washington Post:
In fact, the jet did not sell on eBay. It was sold to a businessman from Valdez named Larry Reynolds, who paid $2.1 million for the plane — shy of the $2.7 million purchase price — according to news reports at the time. Reynolds contributed to Palin’s campaign in 2006.
So the jet didn’t sell on eBay and the state lost $600,000 on the sale to a Palin contributor. Good to know. I wonder what Senator McCain, Mr. Straight Talk Express himself, has to say about the plane on eBay story:
“You know what I enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor, and sold it on eBay — and made a profit!”
I bet he did enjoy that! Too bad, as illustrated above, he’s completely wrong on pretty much all counts.
Dahlia Lithwick’s advice for Senator Biden on how to debate Governor Palin. Boils down to 1. Don’t act like Joe Biden and 2. treat her like a man.
In college I was perhaps not the greatest student. This was, in large part, due to an inability to complete pretty much any homework assignment, study for any test, or write any paper on time. It happens. If I was voting purely out of my affection for fellow mediocre students then it would be pretty obvious which ticket I would be supporting: Senator McCain and Governor Palin. You probably already know that Senator McCain finished the Naval Academy ranked #894 out of 899 classmates. But did you know that Governor Palin, on way to earning her undergraduate degree, transferred schools six times? Its true:
1. Palin matriculates as a freshman at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. She drops out “after a few weeks because of the constant rain there.”
2. Palin enrolls at Hawaii Pacific University, a private college in Honolulu, as a Business Administration major. She leaves after a semester.
3. Palin transfers to North Idaho College, a Coeur d’Alene community college. She completes two semesters as a General Studies Major.
4. Palin transfers to the University of Idaho as a sophomore, in the Journalism program
5. Palin transfers to to Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska and completes one semesters.
6. Palin heads back to the University of Idaho for three more semesters and graduates with a degree in Journalism.
I’m going to selfishly say that while I find this interesting it’s not really important.