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Early voting hours expanded in Florida.
What’s the catch, they ask? Why would the Republican governor of Florida do this when early voters so far are for Obama 60-40? This is the state of the 2000 election and hanging chads and Katherine Harris. This can’t possibly be good for Democrats, right?
Wrong. It’s possible he thinks this [...]

More embezzlement against the state of Alaska for kids’ trips
Says Bristol is a good example for young girls/women
$150,000 on clothes for the “hockey mom” family spent by RNC
She was apparently foisted on McCain by a bunch of middle-aged conservative magazine guys on a Republican booze-cruise who got hot for her.

Think there wasn’t a major gaffe? I’m not sure how much people are going to like that she was nasty about Biden’s dead wife.
Also, Alaska court refuses to stop Troopergate.
Having said that, this will be the last Palin Deathwatch unless, like a zombie, I revive it yet again. If they didn’t off her by now, [...]

Of course no matter what happens, the spin will be that Palin wasn’t that bad. If she manages not to self destruct it still may not change the narrative of her as an idiot and an extremist.
But will it change the polls? I doubt it. Her negatives might go down, but it wont have a [...]

SNL: Katie, I’d like to use a life line.

Fareed Zakaria calls for Palin’s ouster. Of course, he’s an America hating A-rab. (Inconveniently, though, he is right of center).

Bob Herbert at NYT.
The McCain people have shown themselves predictably unpredictable. Pushing hard from all sides to remove Sarah Palin under normal circumstances would be a superb attack on McCain. The problem is, he might do it. I understand all the arguments for why he wouldn’t do that.
But I only want to hear that from [...]

Kathleen Parker, conservative columnist, calls for her resignation.

It’s becoming fairly clear to me that McCain’s high-risk stunt this week was all about trying to delay Palin’s debate. It’s not even a question of a Bush/Gore/Kerry “expectations” game. She’s bound to just completely fuck up—and Biden can just answer and be polite, not attack, chuckle, do a Gore groan or anything.
At this point, [...]

Watch her read the notes and then watch the smack down of Wolfie at the end.

Contestant No. 8 Sarah Palin is losing fans…at the National Review!

If this is really just shenanigans to get the VP debate cancelled, and you’re not afraid of a bunch of shenanigans, why not simply dump Palin? Well, they need evangelicals and that would rip the party apart. But she’s tanking so hard that they may just have to pull out all the stops.
This is becoming [...]

This is so fucking disgusting I can’t handle it.

Newsweek.

Sarah Palin action figure! Damn it’s only a 12″ plastic figure.  I’m waiting for the blow up doll with “lifelike” orifaces.

The Washington Post has the article.

This pretty much scares the shit out of me.
Cell-phone anointing? I mean, come on.  Either these people are taking something stronger than I ever saw in college (by a few orders or magnitude) or they are just nucking futs.  This is what we want to be a heartbeat away, Caribou Barbie Possessed By the “Spirit”?
UPDATE: [...]

If by that do you mean would I be saying the same exact things if she weren’t a woman the answer is yes, some of the criticisms are altered to reflect the fact of her gender, like the use of the pronoun ’she’.
But I have always been an equal opportunity attack dog, and here the [...]

Alaska Police Union Files Complaint Against Palin
Don’t forget that she was also Field Marshall of the Alaska Police and routinely sent them on raids against Canadian communists.

What’s the difference between Odysseus and a hockey mom? Lipstick.
Field Marshall Palin started her career at (1) Hawaii Pacific University, then to (2) North Idaho College, near where Mark Fuhrman lives, then to (3) the University of Idaho, then to (4) Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska (which I hear is the Harvard of the North), [...]

Palin delivers snarky substance free cuntiness in speech.

McClatchy.
But according to St. McCain this makes her more qualified than Obama who’s never “been south of the border.”
Is the media going to call bullshit on this, or let the Republicans say anything they want as usual?