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As part of my ongoing Trump campaign biography, I thought it would be interesting to see what so-called "conservatives" had to say about Sarah Palin in 2008. Turns out, it's not much different than what they have said about Trump (i.e., hatred): Remember how the so-called conservative media treated Sarah Palin in 2008? Charles Krauthammer wrote, “with Palin, the case against Obama evaporates.” Palin’s choice, he claimed, “negates the theme of readiness” to assume the office. Referring to her as a “wing-nut candidate,” Krathammer wrote of Palin’s “inevitable liabilities” due to the fact that any “unvetted neophyte has ‘issues,’” such...

July 7, 2009 4:00 A.M. I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin The Republicans bring a knife to a gunfight, and lose again. One of the most terrifying moments of my political life came last summer at the Republican convention in St. Paul. No, I don’t mean seeing John McCain careering around the Xcel Energy Center like Eyegore in Young Frankenstein, his face frozen in a Lon Chaney Sr. rictus grin as he reached across the aisle to his erstwhile friends in the media and got his hand bitten off. Rather, I’m referring to the aftermath of Sarah Palin’s outrageous...

Send In the ClownsYippee! We've all got a front-row seat at the three-ring Stupid Party circus. Am I the only potato who levitated from his couch last week when my favorite cartoon character, Mr. Newt, announced to a breathlessly waiting world that he and his running mate, Callista, were forming an “exploratory committee” for a possible presidential run next year? There he was, waddling along and grinning from ear to ear, good old SpongeBob SquarePants himself, coyly flirting with the wingnut electorate like an aging Sally Rand who left her fan collection back at the Casa di Riposo. I was...

Even if you should retake Congress this fall, don’t get your hopes up. I suppose you wingnuts are starting to feel pretty good about yourselves and your chances in November. You’ve managed to claw your way back from the electoral abyss by basically doing nothing, saying no, and not being even remotely related to Barack Hussein Obama II.Big whoop.So we blew it — so what? Any fool could have predicted that when you elect a president whose stellar résumé includes playing second-string basketball at the Punahou School in hoops-mad Honolulu and never writing a word for the Harvard Law...

‘If we could exhume the Founders and, before we put them all on trial for crimes against humanity, could ask them how many laws they would have considered enough, and then showed them the Federal Register alone, they’d all hop back into their graves and commence spinning.” That is the unique voice of one David Kahane, who was originally published — discovered — by National Review Online. He’s a Hollywood liberal who has a habit of sharing way too much about the rules by which they live to a conservative audience. Kahane is actually a pseudonym for Michael Walsh, a...

July 07, 2009, 4:00 a.m. I Still Hate You, Sarah PalinThe Republicans bring a knife to a gunfight, and lose again. By David Kahane One of the most terrifying moments of my political life came last summer at the Republican convention in St. Paul. No, I don’t mean seeing John McCain careering around the Xcel Energy Center like Eyegore in Young Frankenstein, his face frozen in a Lon Chaney Sr. rictus grin as he reached across the aisle to his erstwhile friends in the media and got his hand bitten off. Rather, I’m referring to the aftermath of Sarah...

That is my favorite line from David Kahane’s new piece over at NRO. Mostly because it’s the kind of non-sequiturish afterthought that I append in my speech all the time…a kind of verbal tic where one of the LPIMH hijacks the conversation for 10 seconds and throws everybody off the scent. I judge whether a person can keep up with me by whether or not he can follow my train of thought as it leaves the track every now and then. David Kahane is like that a lot when he writes, which is just one reason I like him. Go...