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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2011 25 Comments

So says Sarah Palin's father in this interview with the BBC, because of death threats:In the kitchen of their Wasilla home, among an extraordinary collection of animal skins, skulls and bones, the spoils of a lifetime spent hunting and fishing, they told me that their...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on February 10, 2011 13 Comments

You get the empty room. (H/T Conor Rogers at Spark by The Politicizer):"Former Senator Rick Santorum ripped into Sarah Palin earlier this week for choosing supposed financial gain over attending CPAC. A friend sends over this (iPhone) photo of an embarrassingly empty Santorum speech. Perhaps...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2011 8 Comments

Now that Sarah Palin has invoked the 3 a.m. phone call (which she says went to an answering machine when Egypt was calling), it is worth looking at the original Hillary advertisement, which touched on the doubts so many have about Obama:Here is a version...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2011 7 Comments

We cannot avoid Palin Derangement Syndrome even when watching basketball:TNT says it is sorry.Update 1-29-2011:  From James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal (via Instapundit) comes what may be an even lower low, a school play in Missoula, Montana in which a reference to beheading...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2011 25 Comments

The Obama birth certificate controversy continues, with Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie starting and then abandoning efforts to release more documentation.  Claims in The Daily Caller and on Drudge that Abercrombie has admitted to a friend that the birth certificate is not on file (contrary to representations...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2011 7 Comments

I like Tim Pawlenty as a potential Republican nominee, although I still do not know enough about him or who else is running to say whether I would support him.  The comments from readers on Pawlenty were very informative.But I don't think this helps:Candidates need...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2011 62 Comments

If you have noticed, I am very intolerant of cheap shots and snide comments directed at Sarah Palin, particularly when those cheap shots and snide comments come from conservative bloggers and Republican politicians.Perhaps I react this way because when Palin Derangement Syndrome first struck this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2011 4 Comments

Mike Stopa was a candidate for Congress in the Republican primary in Massachusetts, and a focus of some posts here, including about his plan on how to dismantle Obamacare based on the experience in Massachusetts.Now Mike has written a column for The Boston Globe sure...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2011 47 Comments

I was going to write a post about Dana Milbank's attention-seeking column in The Washington Post about how he supposedly is going to stop writing about or even talking about Sarah Palin for the month of February.  The Milbank column really is a window into the mind of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2011 48 Comments

I have been addressing in some detail the assertion that Sarah Palin should not be seriously considered by Republican voters because Palin cannot win a general election, so I will not repeat myself.  Admittedly, I have been somewhat narrow in my focus, driven by circumstances that the "can't win" meme...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2011 28 Comments

A reading of We Just Witnessed The Media’s Test Run To Re-Elect Barack Obama, by Rush Limbaugh today. It sounds so much better when read out loud (video via The Right Scoop)(transcript here): And thanks also to Mark Levin for the kind words about the post: -------------------------------------------- Related Posts: John Hinderaker's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2011 38 Comments

I wrote yesterday about John Hinderaker's post at Powerline, Sarah Palin for President, Forget About It.While Hinderaker does not respond to my post, he does respond today to a reader letter which made many of the points I made.  Hinderaker's response is a call for realism,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2011 6 Comments

From an article about Sarah Palin's aides putting out feelers in Iowa (emphasis mine):A top official in the Iowa Tea Party who insisted on anonymity to avoid betraying Palin's trust told RealClearPolitics that a friend of SarahPAC met with him in person in Des Moines...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2011 19 Comments

To read some of the reviews telling Sarah Palin it's over as to any hope of winning a general election, you would think she would be down in the polls versus Obama by an enormous margin, particularly if a poll were taken in the days...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2011 40 Comments

On January 5, 2011, three days before the Tucson shooting, I warned that the mainstream media would mount Operation Demoralize:The mainstream media will undertake, and already has undertaken, a concerted effort to blame the Republican House for everything that goes wrong, for not living up...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 19, 2011 55 Comments

If Republicans want to know exactly what not to do to win in 2012, then follow advice similar to that offered by David Frum as to why Sarah Palin should "stop talking now" about the false accusations that she was responsible for the Tucson shooting:"There is no one left in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 18, 2011 6 Comments

Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York City, has come to the defense of Sarah Palin regarding her use of the term "blood libel" to describe the malicious and false accusations that Palin's electoral target map contributed to the Tucson shootings (emphasis mine):Today the phrase "blood libel"...

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