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Sarah Palin was the only major party candidate on the 2008 ballot with executive experience. Palin was the chief executive of a state canvassing more than 586,000 square miles -- Texas has 269,000 -- that borders Canada and Russia, with a budget of $6.6 billion. Approximately 85 percent of Alaska's budget hinges on oil production. Her resume includes being chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Soon after becoming governor, Palin sold the state's private jet for $2.1 million that her predecessor purchased and billed Alaskans for. She defeated that sitting Republican governor in a primary. Palin used...

In front of an Alaskan backdrop of mountains and a lake, Sarah Palin had a busy, busy night on television Friday. She found time to tweak a fellow Republican, dismiss the president, and scold a top rated Fox News talk show host. Palin opened by questioning New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's toughness and attacking President Barack Obama for naivete. After that, she preached about cutting various government programs to Bill O'Reilly before telling him not to interrupt her. All in a night's work. On America's Nightly Scoreboard, host David Asman informed Palin that Christie had told Fox Business News that...

If you thought you heard the last from Chris Matthews today after being called out by Michael Reagan and reviewed by The Washington Post, well think again because today on Hardball he was leading the charge on a brand new Sarah Palin hit parade. With the assist from liberal commentators Cynthia Tucker and David Corn, the subject of tell-all books on Palin was the invitation for Matthews, Tucker and Corn to unleash fire. Matthews, clearly enjoying the conversation, described the segment as the “candy” of the evening. Tucker agreed and said “I love the fact that this woman is so...

ROCK HILL, S.C. — As Sarah Palin wonders whether to run for president, she might want to talk to people in places such as South Carolina. She'd find her star fading, and her prospects daunting. Republicans still like her, but now they openly question whether she could or should be nominated for president, let alone elected. At a recent gathering in South Carolina, the site of a crucial early presidential primary next year, party activists said the former Alaska governor didn't have the experience, the knowledge of issues or the ability to get beyond folksy slang and bumper-sticker generalities that...

With apparently nothing better to report on, the latest gold mine for liberal bloggers Tuesday was the discovery of a “secret” Facebook profile page which may or may not belong to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. (It doesn’t.) The profile was uncovered by the super-journalists at Wonkette who speculated Palin created the private “fake” account in order to bolster her public Facebook profile. Using a private Gmail address leaked with a manuscript from one of Palin’s former aides, Wonkette stumbled upon the Facebook profile named “Lou Sarah.” Palin’s middle name is “Louise”, the blog notes. The blog site then goes...

Washington Post owned Slate.com used a crude misogynist wordplay to call Sarah Palin a c*** in a headline for an article published Tuesday about a supposed secret Sarah Palin Facebook account.The headline reads: Sarah Palin Uses Alternate Facebook Accunt To Praise Sarah PalinThe article, posted in Slate's "Slatest" section, is based on an article from Wonkette titled, Sarah Palin Has Secret ‘Lou Sarah’ Facebook Account To Praise Other Sarah Palin Facebook Account, that in a rare show of class for Wonkette does not use the sexist slur in the article.Two commmenters at Slatest criticized Slate for the slur with one...

They most certainly do, huh? I mean, Chris Matthews and his dome-sized head will spend an entire show on the Minnesota congresswoman. He and his lib pals are obsessed with her. We caught up with Congresswoman Bachmann at CPAC and asked her why she drives the left crazy. Here’s her response: (video at link)

CHRIS MATTHEWS: "Is she like Muammar Gaddafi, she doesn't know the world around her?"

Lawrence O'Donnell Attacks Ann Coulter for Saying Liberals Give Less to Charity Than Conservatives By Noel Sheppard | December 22, 2010 | 00:33 Lawrence O'Donnell on Tuesday made a federal case out of Ann Coulter's quite accurate claim that liberals give less to charity than conservatives."The Last Word" host might have raised this issue to draw attention to a charity he's supporting (video follows with partial transcript and commentary): LAWRENCE O’DONNELL, HOST: Time for tonight’s Rewrite. It all started with a column by Bill O’Reilly which included a reference to Jesus Christ’s attitude toward charity. Then Comedy Central’s theologian-in-chief Stephen...

Jack Stuef predicts Palin's campaign strategy: She knows she can’t win, but she needs to be in the presidential conversation to make her money. So she’s probably going to refuse to go to Iowa and New Hampshire so she can take her message to the whole country, i.e., the places that will pay her tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to say her catchphrases for an hour and pose with conservative men on oxygen tanks who want nothing more in the world than to f*** her. It’s the dream of every little girl in America to run such a...