September 2008

Right Out of Blagojevich’s Playbook

ArchPundit September 3, 2008 0 Comment

Kids as shields:

Let’s be clear about what’s happening here. Overwhelmingly, reporters are pressing eminently reasonable questions — her role in troopergate, her lack of experience, her connections to the AIP, her history of earmarking and lobbyists, etc. Meanwhile, the McCain campaign is going absolutely non-stop about Palin’s daughter. It is unmistakable.

Ummm…other than a couple non-front page diaries, this isn’t even getting much in the blogosphere.  I could care less about the her daughter or her son or so forth, but putting this out instead of answering the hundreds of questions while Palin is in seclusion tells me the campaign is desperate to change the subject.

Perhaps Palin’s Preacher is Right

ArchPundit September 3, 2008 0 Comment

It is surely a sign of the apocalypse that Daily Kos has Gibbs on the front page in a positive story again.

Meg Whitman–Not So Much on the Sexism

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRxVT1fS8DU[/youtube]

Just Weird

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From Eric

But, prompted by an item on Ben Smith’s blog at Politico, I found in Nexis the following portion of an  interview Palin gave in June, 2005, to Joseph Ditzeler of the Anchorage Daily News:

Q: I noticed there was a new business license acquired in the Mat-Su* under your name.

A: Rouge Cou, it’s a classy way of saying redneck. It’s a French word, rouge is red, cou is neck. It’s for marketing and consulting, in case I wanted to go that route, I’d have my ducks all lined up and have a business license. I just was granted that business license.

Q: You’re not actively pursuing a business, it’s setting aside the rights, the name, rather?

A: It was to, again, get my ducks lined up, because I would like to, with some of the endeavors that I have going on right now, there comes a time when one desires to be paid for them!

[Fran Drescher voice]classy[/Fran Drescher voice]

Speaking of Vice Presidential Candidates

ArchPundit September 3, 2008 0 Comment

Has Baar finally given up on the Al Gore will be the VP or Presidential candidate meme he kept pushing for months? Awfully quiet on that issue?

Durbin Steps on the Message

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Not so hot of an argument:

“It is dramatically different,” said Durbin, a Democrat from Springfield. “It isn’t even close.”

Nor does Durbin agree with the characterization that Palin’s experience as governor means she is more prepared than the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden to take over as vice president or, if needed, as president.

“How you could possibly draw a parallel between that experience as Alaska governor and being a vice president or even president of the United States is a stretch, as far as I’m concerned,” he said

Rich covers the basic problem well:

That’s just a blatant insult to Alaska. Yes, it has fewer residents than Lake County. But remember what Barack Obama said just last week in Denver? “Change doesn’t come from Washington, it comes to Washington.” This tack by Durbin just doesn’t jibe with last week’s message.

But it’s deeper than that.  It’s not that she’s just the Governor of Alaska, it’s that she appears to have no background on foreign policy whatsoever, no background on defense issues, no background on anything besides social conservative issues and oil.  Being Governor of Alaska could be a fine place to springboard from using it as a tool to learn those issues and expand one’s background. Palin has done nothing of the sort.

Double Standards Not So Good With Judges

ArchPundit September 3, 2008 0 Comment

When you operate a group with ties to violence, it’s not out of line to point out you operate a group with ties to violence:

I’ve covered the background of the Pro-Life Action League before

And I’ve written of their threats to sue Twombley and Planned Parenthood here and here.

Via Progress Illinois

It’s Not A Canned Speech That Matters

ArchPundit September 3, 2008 0 Comment

It’s when will Palin submit to full scale interviews with the press.  She’s a fairly good speaker and giving a canned speech isn’t going to be hard for her–the telling issue is that the McCain camp has put her in seclusion until after the speech–and even then, when the interviews might come are an open question.

Why? You ask?
I think explaining what she is doing filing an ethics complaint against herself would be all sorts of fun to explain.

Gamechanger indeed!

Deep Thought

ArchPundit September 2, 2008 0 Comment

John McCain is the new Judy Barr Topinka