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I’m getting sick of the rewriting of 2008 presidential campaign history as K Street Republicans continue to assault Sarah Palin in the fear that a similarly conservative Republican will rise to the top of the VP sweepstakes.   It has been so fashionable in D.C. Republican circles to bash the Palin nomination as a mistake, ill-conceived or even disastrous, that even Dick Chaney has gotten into the act.   These self-serving attempts to change history are nothing more than a smear campaign designed to influence the Romney VP pick by obscuring the truth that the choice of Sarah Palin to...

I've been assuming for a while that Sarah Palin is fairly likely to run for president, and reasonably likely to get the nomination if she does, and then if the economy is still bad she could win and then the country will crumble and suffer some apocalyptic disaster and the survivors will envy the dead. Anyway, Jonathan Martin has a terrific piece collecting some reporting about the flakiness, bordering on total dysfunctionality, of Palin's political operation. This is a huge relief: Take, for example, the case of Palin’s interaction with the campaign of Sen. Chuck Grassley, an iconic figure in...

Mitt Romney has a big early lead for the 2012 GOP contest, while more immediately Kelly Ayotte leads for the Senate and John Stephen for Governor in this year's races. PRESIDENT – NEW HAMPSHIRE – GOP PRIMARY (PPP) Mitt Romney 39% Sarah Palin 13% Newt Gingrich 11% Mike Huckabee 11% Ron Paul 7% Tim Pawlenty 1% Haley Barbour 1% Rick Santorum 1%