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You’ve got to admire Sarah Palin’s cunning — even if your eardrums can’t take her squeal. If Newt Gingrich wins Saturday in South Carolina, she can claim total credit. She just endorsed him — sort of. If he even gets close — and he’s closer to Mitt Romney in two new polls — she can point to her last-minute vote of confidence. “If I had to vote in South Carolina,” she told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday, “in order to keep things going, I would vote for Newt.” If things don’t go well, hey, she’s got lots of wiggle...

Ms. “You Betcha” really outdid herself Friday. In a breathless, rambling, manic and, let’s be honest here, downright nutty address outside her Wasilla home, the self-described “pit bull with lipstick” shocked and amused the political world by announcing she’s quitting, mid-term, as Alaska’s governor. Why?

It’s been such fun watching the right-wing white boys sputtering over the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, a Hispanic woman nominated by a black man! “Our world domination’s slip, slip, slipping away,” you can almost hear them whimper. “What to do?”

When will Mitt Romney begin his push to outlaw divorce - the fate of 50 percent of American marriages? When will he launch his campaign to eradicate out-of-wedlock births? Nearly 70 percent of black babies and 40 percent of white babies are born to unwed mothers, the government reports. Surely any moment now. We know this because on Sunday, in a speech made downtown but broadcast to millions of Christian conservatives nationwide, Romney issued an impassioned plea on behalf of . . . the children. “Every child deserves a mother and a father,” he said. And he called gay marriage...

You could call Sheila Leavitt a nutty, annoying, unrelenting Newton leftie who home-schools the kids and raises chickens to share eggs with neighbors, not to eat. She is, of course, a vegetarian. I see her as one of those rare people who puts their convictions on parade, then faces uneasy consequences. Like the beefy, mad, middle-aged guy who followed her around the Esplanade yesterday, before dawn, tearing down her ``Impeach Bush'' posters as fast as she put them up. Or the trucker she said rear-ended her at a Mass Pike toll booth, sending her head into the steering wheel of...

Mitt should be whomping foe - why isn't he? by Margery Eagan Thursday, October 31, 2002 Mitt Romney should be whomping Shannon O'Brien. He so outclassed her Tuesday night. He was even-keeled, commanding, unflappable, in control. ``Let me complete it, and then you can ask me, all right?'' Romney said barely 10 minutes into Tuesday night's debate when - yet again - O'Brien interrupted him mid-sentence. But it wasn't just her interrupting. It was how she did it. She did it with an omnipresent smirk that was both odd and, to use Romney's much-discussed adjective, ``unbecoming,'' a word maiden-lady aunts...