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"My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand." This was former revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers back in his old Weather Underground days, right? Imagine what Sarah Palin is going to do with this incendiary quote as she tears into Barack Obama this week. Only one problem. The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that's the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year....

John McCain is collapsing in the polls in Florida and other swing states, but Sarah Palin, God bless her, has a solution. "For me, the heels are on, the gloves are off," she announced at high noon Monday to a group of Republican donors at the Naples Beach Club.... Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned...

Likely voters nationwide: Obama: 53 percent McCain: 45 percent A new national poll suggests Barack Obama is widening his edge over John McCain in the race for the White House. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll out Monday afternoon suggests that the country's financial crisis, record low approval ratings for President Bush, and a drop in the public's perception of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin all appear to be contributing factors in Obama’s gains among voters....

Remember how conservatives had their undies in bundle over Gwen Ifill moderating Thursday's Veep debate? Well, some on the left are worrying about Tom Brokaw as moderator of Tuesday night's throwdown. There's already a Boot Brokaw online petition. The suggested replacements? Charlie Rose or Bill Moyers. Why? Some are ticked because he led the effort internally at the Peacock to remove Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann from both commentating and anchoring big election events. And he has served as what some call "shuttle diplomacy" with the McCain campaign, promising them they could get fair coverage from NBC. And MoveOn started...

Virginia Republicans are warning that John McCain's prospects for winning a state that has been in the GOP column in every presidential election since 1964 could be in jeopardy. With Barack Obama treating the Old Dominion like a battleground state and reliable polls showing a margin-of-error race there, some are cautioning that McCain is making a critical mistake by allowing the Democratic nominee to outpace him in terms of visits and resources committed.... Together, McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, have held just one campaign event in Virginia. And the campaign has taken its ads off the pricey Washington,...

Main Bullet Points: Palin Trips Up on Troop Levels Biden Fudges on Troop Funding Palin's False Tax Claims Biden's False Defense Palin's Health Care Hooey McCain in Spain? Palin's Small Business Balderdash Defense Disagreements Killing Afghan Civilians? Out of Context? McCain in the Vanguard of Mortgage Reform? And There's More...

Early in last night's vice-presidential debate, Sarah Palin said that she might not answer the questions as moderator Gwen Ifill posed them. This was the Alaska governor's way of saying she was going to stick to the talking points she had stuffed into her head, no matter what the subject. When Palin described John McCain's health-care plan, she talked about his offer of a $5,000 tax credit so families could buy insurance. She failed to mention that McCain would pay for the credit by taxing existing insurance benefits. Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden -- politely -- pounced on her omission,...

On September 22nd, while doing a Google search for photos of the McCain-Palin rally in Media, PA that day, I discovered that the Obama Campaign website had announced a protest of that rally. I posted what I had found on this thread. Tonight, while reading and commenting on the FR Live Debate thread, I came across a comment by FReeper 1066AD: To: EagleandLibertySarah Palin is in Dallas, TX tomorrow (Friday) for a fundraiser at the Fairmont.The unwashed are promising a demo..... 3,411 posted on 10/02/2008 8:59:20 PM PDT by 1066AD Well, remembering what I had found a couple of weeks...

Sarah Palin has committed yet another political blunder after claiming she had held talks with a British ambassador - talks that never actually took place. In an answer to questions about her foreign policy experience ahead of tonight's make-or-break vice presidential TV debate, her aides listed numerous contacts with foreign officials - including Britain's ambassador to Washington, Sir Nigel Sheinwald. However the meeting never occurred....

Florida Republican leaders hastily convened a top secret meeting this week to grapple with Sen. John McCain's sagging performance in this must-win state. Their fears were confirmed Wednesday when four new polls showed Sen. Barack Obama leading, a reversal from just a few weeks ago when McCain was opening up an advantage.... One of the concerns has been the relationship between grass roots volunteers across the state and far fewer paid campaign staffers. Complaints range from not getting yard signs quickly enough to knowing who will speak at events and overall manpower coordination.... McCain supporter and former Republican Party of...

Polls in five crucial battleground states in the race for the White House released Wednesday suggest that Sen. Barack Obama is making some major gains. The CNN/Time Magazine/Opinion Research Corp. polls of likely voters in Florida, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada and Virginia suggest a shift toward the Democratic presidential nominee. In Florida, the state that decided the 2000 presidential election, 51 percent of likely voters say Obama, D-Illinois, is their choice for president, with 47 percent backing Republican presidential nominee John McCain....

Today, the National Stonewall Democrats issued the following statement in response by accusations from Governor Sarah Palin that sexual orientation is a choice: "John McCain chose a poor running mate, but he did not choose his sexual orientation. This is another example of why we need a pro-equality President like Barack Obama in the White House. For Governor Palin to suggest that individuals randomly choose their sexual orientation based on nothing but a whim is wrong and it repeats the talking points of the anti-gay special interests which continue to control the McCain/Palin campaign and the Republican Party."...

A month after Gov. Sarah Palin joined Senator John McCain’s ticket to a burst of excitement and anticipation among Republicans, she heads into a critical debate facing challenges from conservatives about her credentials, signs that her popularity is slipping and evidence that Republicans are worried about how much help she will be for Mr. McCain in November.... "I think she has pretty thoroughly — and probably irretrievably — proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States," David Frum, a former speechwriter for President Bush who is now a conservative columnist, said in...

Bob Barr has finally sensed his opening. With Senator McCain calling for Friday's debate to be postponed, the former Georgia congressman and Libertarian Party nominee says he is eager to fill in as a replacement. "Given Senator McCain's political stunt to avoid the debate, I ask that Friday's debate moves forward without him, as I am more than willing to step in to participate," Mr. Barr said in a statement this morning...

Republicans seem lost as a party and here's one solution to bring them back into focus, since the Democrats are falling all over themselves to lose. They are LOSING NATIONALLY ergo Republicans need a WINNING NATIONAL STRATEGY. Hello, MR. NEWT redux...

It’s not news that Hillary Clinton has a bad taste in fashion, and many have blamed her for an absence of any sense of style. Hillary simply doesn’t care and continues to terrify us with totally unflattering blazers and pants. To read more

The presidential campaign currently underway has missed the historically rare opportunity to engage the candidates for president in a serious discussion about how they would respond to a very likely impending recession brought on by twin banking and currency crises. Usually financial crises -- and the recessions that often follow -- appear without much warning. But today, while of course the future never can be predicted with certainty, the evidence is accumulating to suggest that the United States soon may be facing something similar to Japan's experience in the late 1980s and 1990s. As described by Franklin Allen and Douglas...

There have been more than a few recent articles and editorials attempting to affix blame for the demise of the Republican Party. Peggy Noonan blames President Bush. Rush Limbaugh believes a McCain nomination will kill the party. However, even in a worse case scenario, the Republican Party will probably stagger along for several years much like the last decade of the Whigs. Conservative Republicans should probably be more concerned about the impending demise of the conservative movement within the party. Some individuals can be blamed more than others, but this folly has many fathers. The latest blow to conservatives has...

by The Times-Picayune Monday January 21, 2008, 6:38 PM By Chris Kirkham West Bank bureau He's the staunchly anti-war candidate in a crowded Republican field. Pundits and pollsters have written him off as a long shot for the presidential nomination. His campaign organizers say he's the victim of "media blackout." But for the 600 Ron Paul supporters spilling out of a Kenner hotel conference room Monday, none of that mattered. On the eve of the Republican Party caucuses in Louisiana, the slight Republican congressman from Texas outlined his unconventional presidential platform, touching on everything from abolishing the Federal Reserve to...

Time to Move On...From Hillary William Kristol Fri Dec 14, 9:43 PM ET Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 15 - 12/24/2007 - The defining moment of the Democratic presidential campaign so far came during the Des Moines Register debate, December 13, at 2:10 P.M. Central time. Q: Senator Obama, you have Bill Clinton's former national security adviser, State Department policy director, and Navy secretary, among others, advising you. With relatively little foreign policy experience of your own, how will you rely on so many Clinton advisers and still deliver the kind of break from the past that you're...