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PALIN LEADS IN NEW 2012 poll. Sarah Palin:22.2% Mitt Romney: 19.4% Newt Gingrich: 12% Mike Huckabee 11% Scott Brown: 5.4% Tim Pawlenty:4.9% Jeb Bush: 3.9% http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/palin-poll-zogby-romney/2010/01/27/id/348220

Sarah Palin turned down an invitation to speak at CPAC this year. The governor does not want to be associated with scandal-plagued organizer David Keene. The Politico reported: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Pain is turning down an invitation to speak at one high-profile conservative gathering while accepting another. Palin is declining an invitation to address the Conservative Political Action Conference next month because, a source said, she does not want to be affiliated with the longtime organizer of the traditional movement confab. At issue is the role of David Keene, head of the American Conservative Union which organizes CPAC. In...

At 7:45, your quote of the day. Something for (almost) everyone here: For the left, smoking-gun proof that she’s a fringe character, and for Birthers, smoking-gun proof that their concerns are mainstream. As for righties like me and Ed (and Glenn Beck) who think this particular science is well settled, tomorrow should be a fun media day. I wonder if she realized when she said this that it’ll follow her around from now on.

Billy and Franklin Graham met and dined with Sarah Palin at their home yesterday, Charlotte Observer also reports that Graham got a call on Nov. 12 from President Obama... charlotteobserver.com Sarah Palin, the hottest name in the Republican Party, took a detour from her book-signing tour Sunday to dine with Billy Graham at his mountaintop home in Montreat. "He's followed her career and likes her strong stand on faith," said son Franklin Graham, who was present for the 2 1/2-hour get-together. "Daddy feels God was using her to wake America up." The former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential...

Don’t jump to conclusions. It’s not that the retailers are closed-minded. It’s their customers who are closed-minded. Well, okay. Some of the retailers are closed-minded too. “Our customers are thinking people,” said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. “They’re not into reading drivel.” There’s not a single copy on the shelf. Embretson said no one has asked for it except for one guy, who was kidding. “He said he wanted to look at it but he also said he didn’t really want to read it,” Embretson said. “Anyway, he certainly didn’t want to buy it. I think...

The release of Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue" (HarperCollins, 2009) has brought out not only the Palin bashers, but also, of course,has increased chatter about whether she will be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012. What's missing so far in the "professional" chatter - which ranges from the snide and petty to the more substantive about her future - is whether she or any other potential candidate has grasped what conservative newspaper editor Seth Lipsky describes so astutely as America's "constitutional moment." Thanks in great part to the new, alternative and social media,people are talking and writing about the Constitution-certainly...

WASHINGTON (CNN)– Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who came under fire from some conservatives for endorsing Dede Scozzafava in next week's special Congressional election in New York, is now backing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.

Sarah Palin Endorses Hoffman

David Kelly's home office in Briargate is a typical middle-aged guy's hideout. It has a computer, two desks, books stacked floor to ceiling and maps on the walls. But at the foot of one desk sit a couple boxes filled with buttons and bumper stickers promoting Sarah Palin as a 2012 presidential candidate. The full-time library district worker spends up to 20 hours a week collecting money and mailing political paraphernalia as part of his federal political action committee's effort to persuade Palin to run.

Forty-eight days before the release and she’s already topped Dan Brown’s latest conspiracy-theory casserole at both top retailers. To put that in perspective, note that the book doesn’t even have a cover yet. So much for the Page Six hit piece about demand for her being slack. No way to tell yet, obviously, whether the monster launch will have legs or whether it’ll deflate a bit next week after Palinistas are all done ordering their advance copies. But if it goes on to become a mega-seller, it’s a game-changer insofar as it’ll establish her unquestionably as the most prominent Republican...

1. Opinion: Sarah Palin: Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care 2. Opinion: Read the Union Health-Care Label 3. Opinion: Rove: Obama's Big Political Gamble 4. Obama Makes His Health Pitch 5. Jobs Takes Stage at Apple Event 6. Opinion: Norman Podhoretz: Why Are Jews Liberals? 7. Opinion: Henninger: It's Still the Economy, Stupid 8. Opinion: Obama Doubles Down 9. Rep. Wilson's 'Lie' Yell Sparks Backlash 10. iPhone Apps Help Users Find Way ---- ...and 3rd most emailed. Not bad for a "dumb undereducated hick" from outside the Beltway, or whatever it is liberal are calling her these days. btw,...

In the tales about vampires, it was learned how they create the "undead" and how they can be eliminated by a stake through the heart. It would appear that in the case of Sarah Palin, the passionate left has created an undead; she keeps coming back. In Gail Collins' column, "Levi's very public revenge," she continues to sink her fangs into her constant target by using tacky images of an individual and a family situation. But, know what? She describes people and situations we meet and know every day. The fine family nonachievers who flunk out of school, the ones...

Sarah Palin’s Facebook page has gained more than 300,000 new supporters in the last two months. She gained over 100,000 of these in the last week. As of this writing, she has over 800,000 supporters. This article includes a chart comparing her supporters to those of other 2012 Presidential hopefuls. Sarah Palin's Facebook Popularity Soars

Here's a metric that might get your attention. Here in these doggiest of August days, Sarah Palin's Facebook page has accumulated roughly the same number of brand new supporters in the last week as Mitt Romney and Bobby Jindal each have in total. That's gotta sting.

Oddly enough, Andy Ostray of The Huffington Post, had nothing but almost great things to say about Governor Palin. Are we starting to see even the left seeing the power of Palin? Simply posting notes on her Facebook page and she is changing national policy and putting the White House on the defense. Imprerssive to say the least, according to Andy Ostroy. As the debate over Obama's health-care overhaul intensifies, one thing has become quite clear: it took former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin just three weeks into 'retirement' to prove that when it comes to major domestic policy, she is...

We don't subscribe to the notion recently floated by Rick Moran  in "Did Sarah Palin just 'Pwn' the media with divorce rumors?" that the Gryphen-Zaki meltdown over the weekend was the result of an elaborate Rovian setup brilliantly planned and executed by Sarah Palin: It's too pat, the pieces fit too nicely together (an "explanation" for why she resigned) not to raise alarms with real journalists. So I think there is at least the possibility, that either someone in the Palin camp with an ax to grind with the media - or, less likely, Palin herself - whispered a few...

John Hawkins, of Pajamas Media, Townhall and blogger of Conservative Grapevine and Right Wing News wrote a piece about the idiots on the left and right attacking Sarah Palin: Why Sarah Palin Fans Feel Betrayed. He describes the double standard the political and media world has with liberals verse conservatives. But he also gives a warning to critics on the right as they are assisting the liberal media tear down the biggest star: Then along came Sarah Palin, whom most conservatives viewed as the lone bright spot of the 2008 campaign. Here’s a woman that many conservatives identify with not...