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Sen. John McCain's daughter Meghan McCain, who has crafted an image for herself as a voice for young Republicans, took on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement on ABC's "The View" on Monday. --snip-- McCain also took a shot at the Tea Party convention, where Palin was the keynote speaker last weekend. The convention also featured former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), who said in his speech, "People who could not spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House -- name is Barack Hussein Obama." Tancredo added, "Thank God John...

Can her fans really relate to quitting job, making millions? It was nearly a year ago when I first saw "How's that Hope and Change Working Out For You?" on a bumper sticker. As I said at the time, that's maybe the most cynical slogan of the century. Of course it's legit to criticize President Obama and his policies, but there's something so snarky about that phrase -- as if to say, "You don't have a job? You're still without health care? Obama wasn't able to heal the sick, change water into wine, bring peace and harmony to the world?...

"And Sarah Palin knows that it is okay to call someone a retard if like Rush you clearly don't mean it."

EXCERPT Democrats should also give Republicans plenty of room to do themselves in. By openly declaring themselves for sale to Wall Street, Republicans are displaying the kind of crony capitalism that drives Americans to form Tea Parties. Ironically, this doesn't seem to bother Sarah Palin. Faced with a choice between subsidizing the banks and poor kids, she went with the banks, warning the Tea Party activists that the Obama administration is "taking over" everything, including "health care, student loans." With views like that, she won't have any trouble getting speaking gigs at $100,000 a shot. (The writer is editor of...

Sarah Palin received a rock star’s welcome at the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference where she spoke before the first of two sold-out shows at the Redding Convention Center monday. That’s 4,000 people who paid between $54 for a balcony seat to $74 for a floor seat. I had a floor seat - second row, so near the tower of speakers that I followed the example of people around me and wadded tissue in my right ear to reduce the volume.

Sarah Palin dominated the news this weekend with a flurry of appearances, from her keynote speech to the Tea Party national convention in Nashville, campaigning for Gov. Rick Perry in Texas, and an appearance on Fox News Sunday, her first Sunday morning interview. With Obama's job approval in the mid-to-upper 40s and Democrats nervous about the mid-terms, the political cognoscenti want to know: Will Palin run in 2012? My sense is that Palin has not made a decision about running for president, but as she told Chris Wallace on Fox she has not foreclosed that option. In the meantime, she...

Here is video of Bill O'Reilly debating Politico's Jim VandeHei last night about the bias in the Mainstream Media against Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Movement. O'Reilly said they had done research and found that out of thousands of reports in the Mainstream Media on the Tea Party Movement, "only two" had been positive. VandeHei defended the Mainstream Press against O'Reilly and Fox News' Executive Bill Sammon, who reportedly said that the Mainstream Media hate Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Movement. VandeHei asked O'Reilly, "How does he know?" O'Reilly responded, "Because we have eyes, Jim." O'Reilly did a...

Here is video of First Lady Michelle Obama reacting to criticism by Sarah Palin and others by saying she believes "my husband has done a phenomenal job" during his first year in office. She was reacting to Sarah Palin's question to Americans, "How's that Hopey Changey stuff working out for you." Michelle Obama also said she is very "proud" of her husband and the job he is doing. . . . (VIDEO)

The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here. 1. Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the...

"It looks like the [warming] empire strikes back. Obama is attempting to engineer a global warming bailout. This is a classic response of the federal government: Bail out a corrupt and dying industry," Marc Morano, editor of the watchdog site ClimateDepot.com, tells Inside the Beltway.

Michelle Obama defended her husband against some of his most vocal critics, saying President Obama did a "phenomenal" job this year and that change is a long-term process. First lady Michelle Obama responds to Sarah Palin's recent biting remarks, saying her husband has done a "phenomenal job." I think my husband has done a phenomenal job staying on course, looking his critics in the eye, coming up with clear solutions against staying the course," Michelle Obama told Robin Roberts in an exclusive morning television interview on "Good Morning America." "That's what leadership is. But people have the right to criticize...

Here is a video clip of Politico's Jim VandeHei on The O'Reilly Factor last night, where he actually tried to defend the Mainstream Media's treatment of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Movement. O'Reilly was making the case that the Mainstream Media hate Palin and the Tea Party Movement. VandeHei criticized Fox News' Bill Sammon for having made that same assertion. VandeHei actually said there is no real evidence to support the bias against Palin and the Tea Party Movement! O'Reilly said "we have eyes!" Anyone who wants to see the truth knows that VandeHei was completely wrong. . ....

Mindi Davidson was "quite nervous" at the thought of meeting Sarah Palin on Friday night, but she wasn't daunted long. "Once you start talking to her, it's like talking to someone that you've known forever," Davidson said. Sharing the head table at the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, Davidson found she has a lot in common with Palin, despite her being a national Republican icon, former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate. Before Palin took command of the packed Salina Bicentennial Center arena -- with about 6,000 in attendance -- she engaged in "mainly just family" talk...

Former V.P. hopeful and FNC contributor Sarah Palin told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace that if she didn't run for president she'd do the best "darn good job" as a reporter. Well it turns out that Palin, with all her dang, darn, heck, hell no, bull-stuff and you betcha's earned Wallace his best show ratings ever this past Sunday in his six years hosting the show. She explained the e-mail "issue" involving her husband, Todd, whom she referred to as "Alaska's first dude," she re-issued her call for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to resign for using...

Former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's appearance before the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville Saturday night gave plenty of red meat to the attendees, such as calling President Obama "a charismatic guy with a Teleprompter."

No one has vested more hope in the tea-party move ment than the Democrats. For all the scorn and abuse they've heaped on the tea-partiers, they've counted on them for salvation. The tea-partiers would push the GOP out of the mainstream. They'd tar the party with their bumptious extremism. They'd stoke a Republican civil war. The tea-partiers would, in short, redeem the Obama administration's political fortunes no matter what. This was the oft-repeated theory, shot through with a perverse hopefulness and woeful misunderstanding. One wonders if Democrats can overcome their contempt for the tea-partiers -- whom they call "tea baggers,"...

National columnist and founder of the popular blog Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller, appeared on 'The View's' Joy Behar's new show on Monday to discuss Sarah Palin. As expected, the Behar take on Palin is, as usual, disrespectful and vitriolic. The entire portion of the show featuring Behar's Palin-bash and Geller's response can be viewed on video. It is interesting that Leftwing Hollywood types such as Behar will quickly harp on Palin's 'prompt-words' written on her hand while totally ignoring Barack Obama's constant reliance on the teleprompter, even when addressing elementary school children. For going on 36 hours now, following Palin's...

Matthews: "Is she a balloon head?"

The cold weather is creating a number of unintended consequences for new energy designs. First, snow accumulating on LED traffic light bulbs wouldn’t melt because the lights failed to heat up resulting in car accidents, and in some instances, death. In Minnesota, the weather resulted in wind turbines freezing and thus not turning even if it is windy. This local news story has the details: But that’s not the only problem with wind power. It’s not the economic savior the government thought it would be. The stimulus money is failing to create the clean energy jobs the White House said...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called studies supporting global climate change a "bunch of snake oil science" Monday during a rare appearance in California, a state that has been at the forefront of environmental regulations. Palin spoke before a logging conference in Redding, a town of 90,000 about 160 miles north of the state capital. The media were barred from the event, but The Associated Press bought a $74 ticket to attend. Palin said California's heavy regulatory environment makes it difficult for businesses to succeed, a point that is shared by many business leaders in the state. She criticized what...

Andrew Sullivan, the journalist and blogger, who flirted for many years with conservatism and the Republican party, has become the most reliable chronicler of the hyperbolic comings and goings of Sarah Palin. Sullivan is one of the few journalists who, almost from the beginning, has taken Palin seriously and kept up a warning drumbeat about a political phenomenon that has already turned her into the leader of the American opposition party. His minute-by-minute catalogue of Palin’s $100,000 speech the other day to the Tea Party conventioneers—of whom, Sullivan rightly points out, she is the de facto head—is a horrifying and...

These people never stop generating the laughs. There are thirty inches of snow in Washington, DC. Here in Macon, Georgia, an area global warming scientists have long predicted would become a desert, we are 24 inches into a rain surplus in the past 365 calendar days. You know what this all means right? We need a new federal agency to “study and report on the changing climate.” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA’s National Weather Service...

During his State of the Union Address President Obama gave us hope that the US would finally tap its own resources to make us energy independent: But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies Sadly like most of the promises coming from this President this pledge came with an expiration...

Redding, CA - Speaking at a logging conference in northern California tonight, Sarah Palin ripped studies supporting global-warming theories as a “bunch of snake oil science.” The former Alaska governor touted her climate-change-doubter credentials at the event—from which media were barred, though the AP procured a $74 ticket for its reporter—noting her attempts to declaw federal action to characterize the polar bear as an endangered species.

Loud laughter followed Palin’s references to “lame-stream media” and jeers accompanied every reference to global warming. Enthusiastic boos followed a reference to Nancy Pelosi. She endeared herself to the logging conference crowd by holding her hand up to show what was written on the palm of her hand: “Loggers rock!” - an apparent dig at “lame-stream media” who recently ridiculed her for writing memory prompts on her hand. And toward the end of her talk she complimented logging industry folks when she referred to an administration that talks about green jobs. “You guys were doing green jobs before green jobs...

Sarah Palin received a rock star’s welcome at the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference where she spoke before the first of two sold-out shows at the Redding Convention Center this afternoon. That’s 4,000 people who paid between $54 for a balcony seat to $74 for a floor seat. I had a floor seat - second row, so near the tower of speakers that I followed the example of people around me and wadded tissue in my right ear to reduce the volume. Even so, I heard every word and felt the crowd’s jostling adoration as they cheered and applauded throughout Palin’s...

SARAH Palin hogged the headlines, but it was still a good weekend for Barack Obama - because Sarah Palin hogged the headlines. A poll taken late last week gave the hockey mom from Wasilla a five-point lead over the next most popular contender for the 2012 Republican nomination - Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor. Her speech to the Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee, was covered by every network and newspaper from the liberal mainstream media that the Tea Party movement affects to despise. Her attack on Obama's record on national security was taken seriously by pundits, who agree...

Matthew Continetti, among others, aptly detailed in his book The Persection of Sarah Palin the media’s Sarah Palin hate-fest, which raged throughout the campaign. That campaign — the media’s, not Palin’s — included not a small amount of hyper-sexualized language and imagery. Her reappearance at the Tea Party Convention has set off a new round of such slobbery commentary. Andrew Sullivan, for one — who gained much notoriety for his his gynecological scavenger hunt during the campaign — has left off where he began with what should be, but no longer is, shockingly offensive droolery about the former governor and...

In last night's open thread, Tommy Report posted a picture of Governor Palin at Rick Perry's rally mocking the media elites by writing the words "Hi Mom" on her hand. Below is another picture of Governor Palin toying with the hapless left in a manner reminiscent of a barn cat toying with a mouse it just caught:

Things can get awkward when protesters have to put down their placards and tackle the business of building an organization — networking online and recruiting reliable volunteers, precinct captains and even candidates. The transition is even more uncomfortable when undertaken in the glare of the national media spotlight, as the national tea-party movement attempted to do at its first convention, held in Tennessee over the weekend. As with any protest movement, consensus proved elusive in two days of debate, but they seemed to agree on five key points: 1. Don't Tread on Me The tea-party folks are innately suspicious of...

"Sarah Palin is the honorary Queen Bee of the Tea Party convention. The Tea Party convention held this past weekend in Nashville wasn't the biggest such gathering (600 people) or the most representative (the ticket price was more than $500) but it did give the national media a pretty good angle on the views and direction of this disparate movement. First, it's clear the group has no leader, although Sarah Palin is certainly the honorary Queen Bee in the eyes of many attendees. Her Saturday night speech was given rapturous applause. Second, the Tea Partiers are unlikely to succumb to...

Just a year ago "tea party" was, for Americans, a term stuck in history, associated only with the glorious 1773 uprising in Boston. Now it pertains to a movement whose supporters – and their champion Sarah Palin – believe they can deliver another revolution against forces also seeking to ruin the country with high taxes and the big boot of intrusive government. A loose, grassroots coalition of disaffected conservatives, evangelicals and a smattering of libertarians, they have already helped derail Barack Obama's health care reform and kill plans for a carbon tax. Tea party volunteers and canvassers aided the capture...

When Palin’s book first came out, I remember Rush Limbaugh commenting that it was a great book on public policy. Others who commented on his comment took him to task for seeing something in the book that wasn’t there. At least that was what they said. Now that I’ve read it for myself, I can say that Rush was correct. No one disputes that the book is primarily autobiographical. The intent clearly is to reintroduce Palin to the public from her perspective rather than through the lens of her critics. Yet a significant part of who she is pertains to...

Joe Scarborough was surely right about one thing: he's going to take some flak . . . On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough said that Sarah Palin has been "lowering the bar" with her public pronouncements, asserting that she hasn't done the necessary homework to permit her to speak seriously on the issues. Joe also claimed that while "top conservatives" are afraid to take Palin on publicly, "behind the scenes" they are angry at her for her alleged lack of preparation.

Palin's Palm Holds the Answers by Mike Krumboltz Remember those quizzes you had on the state capitals back in junior high? Oh, the pressure! The temptation to write "Pierre, Olympia, Dover, Albany" on the inside of your hand was overwhelming, wasn't it? But you resisted. Maybe Sarah Palin should have done the same. The former vice presidential candidate seems to have been caught using curious crib notes during an interview this past weekend at the high-profile Tea Party Convention in Nashville. While speaking about her top political priorities, Ms. Palin gazed at her hand in a rather suspicious manner. Later,...

The crew of braying jackasses on Morning Joe today had much merriment with Sarah’s crib notes, as they continue to whistle past the graveyard of the coming annihilation of the Democrat Party this fall. And CNN explicitly compared Sarah’s palm to the TelePrompter of the United States. So… Hand vs. TOTUS – you be the judge! First the hand: And now ladies and gentlemen, the TelePrompter of the United States:

Liberals are predictable if nothing else. The new “horror” committed by Sarah Palin is that she wrote notes on her palm during her speech at the Tea Party Conference in Nashville this past Saturday. Apparently, to those on the left, this ranks right up there with other atrocities like owning a gun, believing in the constitution, reading a Bible or choosing life over abortion. What a monster Palin must be.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; - 1 Corinthians 1:27 I believe Sarah Palin is going to be a living example of this verse, to us as Christians and to the secular world of Hollywood, intellectuals and media elites. Through no fault of her own, she and her family have been viciously criticised, belittled, and slandered and yet, she continues to draw crowds and fans by the thousands. What is it...

Videos: "Rush was using satire, don't ya get it...Grow up!" Palin essentially says! (If you've already seen it, don't click on it) Rush did NOT use the "F" word....Rohm E. did! Her point....big difference!

I attended this past weekend’s National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and I came away feeling that I had seen something important. The Tea Party movement is part of something bigger: America’s Third Great Awakening. America’s prior Great Awakenings, in the 18th and 19th Centuries, were religious in nature. Unimpressed with self-serving, ossified, and often corrupt religious institutions, Americans responded with a bottom-up reassertion of faith, and independence. This time, it’s different. It’s not America’s churches and seminaries that are in trouble: It’s America’s politicians and parties. They’ve grown corrupt, venal, and out-of-touch with the values, and the people,...

Just a question: with the Quotable Media going gaga over everything Sarah and what's in her hand and her head, has anyone actually made a criticism of anything she actually said last night?

Poll FReep needed Should Sarah Palin run for POTUS Currently 50-50

Hi Mom. That’s what Sarah Palin wrote on her hand today, technically, before speaking at a campaign rally for Rick Perry in Texas. “Hi Mom” can also be loosely translated as “F-U, Lefties”. Here’s what Sarah Palin did today, and why it’s not only brilliant, but it’s the chief reason this woman will be our 45th President. She hit the Left back, in a subtle way that drives them crazy. THAT, friends, is quite an art form. We respect everyone alive who practices this sort of Fu. Palin knew the Left, particularly the Huffington Post, has been trying to create...

"Run, Sarah, Run" was the echo of the crowd this weekend as Sarah Palin gave an energizing keynote speech at the Tea Party convention -- and it seems the former Alaska governor is strongly considering the advice. Speaking to Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," Palin said she would "certainly" consider a run for the presidency in 2012. "I would. I would if I believed that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family. Certainly, I would do so," she said.(continued)

PUBLIC SERVICE ALERT The Federal government is closed today in the National Capital Area. Please let me know if you notice. END PUBLIC SERVICE ALERT Here’s how you know, if you are the President of the United States, that things are going in the wrong direction. You have scheduled a speech to the Democratic National Committee meeting in Washington, DC. It snows about 20 inches in Washington, DC weakening your arguments for cap-and-trade legislation A car spins into the press van travelling with your motorcade You do the speech and generate headlines like this one from the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram:...

The left wing “news” network that couldn’t bother itself to cover the Christmas Day jihadi attack on America, interrupted its time honored weekend prison documentary marathon to cover Sarah Palin’s speech at the National Tea Party convention in Nashville. So compelling is Palin that MSNBC staffers braved a colossal global warming storm to get to the studio to carry her speech and provide MSNBC’s emblematic hallucinatory commentary. Forced to make do with whatever dregs could be hauled in from the blizzard, the Palin denigration was chaperoned by someone named Ed Schultz. First to offer his freakish assessment was perennial failure...

Self-confessed bulldog with lipstick and conservative hero Sarah Palin has started her 2012 campaign on a combative note. War with Iran and soon. This comes in the wake of Tehran yet again getting up the West’s noses with regard to their uranium enrichment programme. Palin advocated war with Iran in a recent interview with Fox news and added that the war card may well be Obamas safest bet for re-election in 2012. "Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decided really to come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to...

RIGHT ON— On Sunday the left went bonkers after they discovered that the TelePrompter-less former Governor Sarah Palin wrote notes on the palm of her left hand for her speech to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. The far left absolutely freaked over this non-issue rather than focus on her brilliant speech knocking the Obama Administration’s horrid record on economics and national defense. Today Sarah fired back… She wrote “Hi Mom!” on her palm during her campaign stop with Governor Rick Perry of Texas. Hah! Here’s one of the actual photos from Daylife. It’s not a fake:

Andrea Mitchell, identified by NBC News as the network's Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, this morning joined in the attacks on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin over the 2008 Republican party's vice-presidential nominee's use of notes written on her hand during an appearance at the Tea Party Nation convention in Nashville this past weekend.Appearing on MSNBC's the Daily Rundown, Mitchell lampooned Palin by holding up her hand with scribbling on her palm while castigating Palin for criticizing Barack Obama for his reliance on TelePrompTers.Co-host Chuck Todd, who can usually be found on his knees in front of Obama, surprisingly tried...

See Sarah Palin's complete speech to the National Tea Party Convention here: http://www.pjtv.com/video/Tea_Party_Convention_2010/_Sarah_Palin%27s_Complete_Tea_Party_Address%3A_The_People_vs_The_Powerful_(including_Breitbart%27s_Intro)/3070/;jsessionid=abcHC9Nz4XgKl5edzMUAs