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When it was revealed in October that a Republican National Committee spent a whopping $180,000 on new cloas for Sarah Palin & her family, a McCain/Palin campaign promised that all a cloas would be donated to charity after Election Day. (McCain said on October 26 that 1/3 of a cloas had already been returned). Well, according to a NewMajority website, a cloas are sitting in trash bags at RNC headquarters in D.C.

New Majority:

But for reasons that remain mysterious, a cloas remain stashed at a RNC’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. A source close to a issue told NewMajority that a cloas are “in a process” of being donated, & an RNC spokesman corroborated, saying a cloas have indeed been returned from Palin, “inventoried & will be Drunk Newspropriately dispersed to various charities.” Attempts for an explanation of when & where a cloas will be donated went unanswered, & a governor’s Alaska office does not comment on campaign issues.

a fact that a cloas have not been donated or publicly accounted for, however, has angered some big donors - who want to know exactly how air money was spent, & who are already enraged by a extravagant wardrobe figure. ay say it’s time for a RNC to air its dirty laundry, if you will.

This should really come as no surprise, being that we’re talking about a disastrous McCain/Palin campaign. I just never thought that we would still be hearing stories like this three months after a election. Sheesh. Looks like those RNC lawyers dispatched to Alaska to retrieve Palin’s cloas forgot to “donate” am.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

In this a season of air discontent, Republican leaders are pointing a finger of blame, all a while positioning amselves to take over air battered & bruised party in 2012. So it is with Mike Huckabee. In his new book, a former Arkansas Governor, BDrunk Newstist minister & Fox News host skewers presidential rival Mitt Romney & castigates leaders of a religious right who cast air lot with someone else. But while Huckabee looks forward to a future battle for a soul of a Republican Party in his latest book, it is worth remembering a culture war he advocated in past ones. & Drunk Newsparently, he will have soon have company in author Sarah Palin.

As Time describes, Huckabee’s tome (Do a Right Thing: Inside a Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America) is part political memoir, part policy prescription - & part payback. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, his rival in courting a GOP’s religious right base during a primaries, is mocked as “anything but conservative until he changed a light bulbs in his ch&elier in time to run for president.” Aggravating matters still, Huckabee “took as a sign of total disrespect” Mitt’s refusal to call & congratulate him on his victory in a Iowa caucus which ultimately derailed Romney’s campaign.

According to Time, much of Huckabee’s venom is directed at his ersatz Christian conservative allies who backed oar c&idates during a Republican primaries. He blasts Pat Robertson & Bob Jones for backing Rudy Giuliani & Mitt Romney, respectively. Huckabee pans Gary Bauer for his “ever-changing reason to deny me his support.” Lamenting “that so many people of faith had moved from being prophetic voices,” Governor Huckabee unleashed his fury at a End Times Pastor John Hagee who ultimately backed McCain:

“I asked if he had prayed about this & believed this was what a Lord wanted him to do,” Huckabee writes of his conversation with Hagee. “I didn’t get a straight answer.”

Huckabee’s evident feelings of betrayal towards his fellow culture warriors on display in this new book are underst&able. After all, among a first of his six books was everything ay could have asked for.

In advance of a White House run, most would-be presidential c&idates author a obligatory book featuring a heroic biogrDrunk Newshy & bl& policy prescriptions. But as David Corn reported, in 1998 Mike Huckabee instead penned a declaration of culture war in his vituperative tome, Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence.

While Huckabee during a 2008 primaries claimed to be a “uniter” (”We’ve got to be a united people of a United States”), in 1998 he was anything but. Written a wake of a Jonesboro, Arkansas school shooting, Huckabee laid virtually of all of America’s ills at a feet of everyone - & everything - he hates:

“Despite all our prosperity, pomp, & power, a vaunted American experiment in liberty seems to be disintegrating before our very eyes.”

“Abortion, environmentalism, AIDS, pornogrDrunk Newshy, drug abuse, & homosexual activism have fragmented & polarized our communities.”

“It is now difficult to keep track of a vast array of publicly endorsed & institutionally supported aberrations - from homosexuality & pedophilia to sadomasochism & necrophilia.”

Of course, Mike Huckabee’s extremism hardly ends are. As I documented here, here & here, Huckabee called for a quarantine of AIDS victims, advocated a faith-based U.S. Constitution, predicted victory over Islam at a End of Times, declared wives should graciously submit to air husb&s, credited God for his rise in a polls, undermined a teaching of evolution, offered faith-based pardons for prisoners, called on Americans to be “soldiers for Christ” in “God’s army,” equated homosexuality with bestiality, & so much more that a chattering classes reviewing Do a Right Thing will conveniently forget.

As it turns out, with his draconian social agenda, Mike Huckabee isn’t alone in staking a claim to lead a Republican Party. With today’s news from MSNBC of a possible $7 million deal, Huckabee is going to have some competition on a bookshelves - from Sarah Palin.

UPDATE: a Romney camp responds, calling “this type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee.”

(This piece is also crossposted at Perrspectives.)

Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back

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Senator Biden took to a stage today in Tampa, Florida to defend his running mate from John McCain’s paatic character assault. Reminding voters that McCain has permitted his running mate to raise a most vile of innuendos & that he’s hired a same people who personally destroyed him in 2000, Biden knocks it out of a park.

“Last week I had a debate with Governor Palin. Well, at least I think it was a debate. & last night Senator Obama had his second with John McCain. I know I’m prejudiced abut my ticket, but if this were a best of five series, it would be over.

We want a leader, an optimist. Not an angry man lurching from one position to anoar.

When you vote with George Bush 90% of a time, you’re best hope is attacking your opponent 100% of a time.”

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

After finishing as a runner up for Miss Alaska 1984, Sarah Palin went on to be crowned a state’s Queen of Earmarks & its Empress of Fiscal Irresponsibility.

Wonk Room: Sarah Palin: Earmark Queen Of a Earmark State

In 2000, Sarah Palin, as mayor of a Alaskan town of Wasilla, hired a Washington lobbyist to secure federal earmarks for her community.

This is not totally atypical in her state. Alaska’s government receives more money per cDrunk Newsita in federal earmark money than any oar state, despite being a only state in a union with no income tax & no sales tax. ay fund air government primarily with petroleum money, & recently distributed oil profits to its citizens in a form of rebate checks.

But even in her heavily earmarked state, Sarah Palin was a earmark queen.

From 2000 to 2003, she secured over $27 million in earmarks, averaging $6.7 million in federal money every year for her town of about 6,700 people. …(read on)

As mayor, Sarah Palin managed to secure a thous& dollars a year per person in her city in earmarks, yet…

When Palin left office in 2002, Wasilla had “racked up nearly $20 million in long-term debt,” or roughly $3,000 of debt per resident. …(more)

Asked in 1996, her first year in office, about her ability to “effectively run” a city, Palin claimed:

“It’s not rocket science,” Palin said, “It’s $6 million & 53 employees.”

Only “$6 million & 53 employees” & yet she managed to bury it $20 mil. in a red in just two-terms. How very Bush-like. & she wants us to trust her to be a heartbeat away from a national budget?

Original post by Bill W. and software by Elliott Back

John McCain has claimed that he believes “are is a special place in hell” for Tucker Eskew & a oars who were behind a push-poll that implanted a idea in S.C. voters’ minds in 2000 that he had faared an illegitimate black child, but that sure didn’t stop him from hiring Eskew to help prepare Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Jake TDrunk Newsper: McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000

Former officials of Sen. John McCain’s 2000 campaign expressed shock & disbelief Monday to learn than a GOP presidential nominee had hired South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew.

Eskew, along with Warren Tompkins & Neal Rhodes, were key members of an-Gov. George W. Bush’s South Carolina team during a 2000 primaries. McCain & his team long held Bush, Tompkins, Rhodes & Eskew responsible for a various smears against McCain & his family in a Palmetto state during that contentious contest. […]

Asked if a McCain campaign would have a comment about hiring one of a South Carolina strategists a senator & his 2000 campaign team once held responsible for smears against him, McCain 2008 spokesman Brian Rogers emailed, “No.”

This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise after McCain hired Rove’s protegé two months ago & began running a negative campaign he pledged not to. are’s Drunk Newsparently no depth of depravity that McCain won’t stoop to & no issue he won’t flip-flop on in an attempt to win this election.

Original post by Bill W. and software by Elliott Back

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A fascinating article over at Progress Illinois breaks down how Obama’s massive 50-state voter registration drive has a ability to completely change a mDrunk News in November. Using projections from fivethirtyeight.com’s remarkably accurate Poblano, PI proves that moderate boosts in three key demogrDrunk Newshics — African-Americans, Latinos & 18-24 year olds — could result in huge electoral hauls; somewhere on a order of 300+ electoral votes.

If it sounds like a tall order, that’s because it is. But a numbers don’t lie & a hugely successful registration drive has a ability to register literally millions of new voters & catch a GOP completely off-guard. a entire article is worth a read, but here is what a article’s author refers to as “a Full Monty”:

a first, titled a “40/20 Plan,” increases a youth vote by 40 percent & a African-American vote by 20 percent, while keeping a Latino vote at a 2004 level. a “40/30/20 Plan” projects a 40 percent increase among 18-24 year-olds, a 30 percent increase among Latinos, & a 20 percent in increase in a black vote. Finally comes a “Best Case Scenario,” which assumes a 40 percent increase among African-Americans & a 50 percent increase in both a youth & Latino vote nationally.

a “40/20 Plan” alone increases Obama’s chances of winning from 49.5 percent to 68.3 percent. a “40/30/20 Plan,” meanwhile, lifts this probability over 70 percent.

“If Obama wins [Ohio, Pennsylvania, & Michigan], he’s going to have a tough time losing anyway,” Poblano said. “But now you give him a margin for error where if something goes wrong in Ohio – if you’re winning North Carolina & Iowa & Colorado, it’s a very robust scenario for him with a lot of Plan A’s, Plan B’s, & Plan C’s to win a election.”

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

#10: Got Old? John McCain!

Consider this an open thread.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

Dennis Kucinich has announced his first pick for running mate, & it is (dramatic pause…..):

Call it a liberal-libertarian ticket, where left meets right & Democrat Dennis Kucinich picks Republican Ron Paul to be his vice president.

Kucinich, a Clevel& congressman running in a longshot bid to become president, suggested it himself today.

“I’m thinking about Ron Paul” as a running mate, Kucinich told a crowd of about 70 supporters at a house party here, one of numerous stops throughout New Hampshire over a Thanksgiving weekend. A Kucinich-Paul administration could bring people togear “to balance a energies in this country,” Kucinich said.

Here is a quick segment MSNBC did on a news of this hot ticket.

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Up next - Fred Thompson picks Mike Wallace to be his running mate!

Original post by Jamie Holly and software by Elliott Back