The Sarah Palin perpetual denial machine

Sarah Palin held court for five minutes yesterday with a handful of representatives from the Alaskan media. The topic of the conversation was the Branchflower report, which held that Palin violated the Executive Branch Ethics Act by permitting…

Palin’s Ethics to Nowhere

I’ll have a longer piece soon about the Branchflower report.  Released yesterday evening, the “Troopergate” investigation concluded with the widely-expected judgment that while Gov. Sarah Palin did not violate any law in dismissing Commissioner Walt Monegan three months…

Palin cleared! Palin cleared!

Wow, this is a relief. I was beginning to think the Troopergate Tasergate investigation would wind up with some sort of illegitimate, laughably partisan judgment that discredits the very concept of—
Oh, for the love of–

Video: The McCain/Palin mob in Ohio

This is pathetic.

Ari Kelman at Edge of the American West had a fantastic post the other day evaluating the way in which the latest turn of the McCain campaign has recycled the sewage churned out by George Wallace…

‘Tasergate?’ Palin borrows silly phrases from right-wing blogs

The Republican VP candidate’s airborne exchange with reporters yesterday was a trip down memory lane, a brief glimpse back at the Sarah Palin we grew to love a few weeks ago. Like the rich deposits of oil that…

The emerging Democratic majority

Thomas Schaller writes at The American Prospect about the possibility that an oft-hyped Democratic electoral majority could at last be taking shape.

With Barack Obama as their presidential candidate and Howard Dean as party chief, and with widespread revulsion

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Everything old is new again: The McCain camp revives the Bill Ayers non-story

Apparently bereft of ideas, the McCain campaign has decided to revive the Bill Ayers non-story that worked so fantastically for Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary debates. Sarah Palin — who it’s safe to assume would be unable to…

The VP debate: From ‘Sarah Barracuda’ to ‘Sarah Macarena’

Sarah Palin’s advocates are understandably delighted by her performance in last night’s debate, which did not actually produce the widely-expected fiasco. Palin completed a surprising number of her sentences, and she showed evidence of having successfully assimilated lengthy portions of her stump speech. She was clearly excited to discover that she could recite the occasional facts and figures, and she drew attention to these achievements several times. It’s likely, though, that Palin’s surprisingly non-cringe-inducing performance will have minimal — if any — effect on the shape of the race.

Palin and Privacy

Sarah Palin thinks about the United States Constitution:

COURIC (to Palin): Do you think there’s an inherent right to privacy in the Constitution?
PALIN: I do. Yeah, I do.

Josh Marshall among others makes the obvious point,…

Palin: Don’t fight it, invite it!

Sarah Palin’s Sept. 30 interview with Hugh Hewitt demonstrates, among other things, that she’s equally goofy and incomprehensible in a situation where the risk of encountering actual journalism is approximately zero.