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by hilzoy Hurricane Gustav is projected to make landfall tomorrow morning. Our thoughts are with the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. There’s good information on the weather at Jeff Masters’ blog and Weather Nerd; and on New Orleans at NOLA.com’s Hurricane blog and Best of New Orleans. The latter reports that things … Read more
by hilzoy This is amazing: “On Saturday, a Democrat tasked with opposition research contacted the Huffington Post with this piece of information: as of this weekend, the McCain campaign had not gone through old newspaper articles from the Valley Frontiersman, Palin’s hometown newspaper. How does he know? The paper’s (massive) archives are not online. And … Read more
by publius I want to elaborate a bit on Hilzoy’s arguments below. One of the more frustrating arguments I’ve been hearing is that Palin has more experience than Obama — in particular, more “executive” experience. I’m sorry, but that argument is absurd — though it’s not immediately obvious why. After all, she was a mayor … Read more
by hilzoy On the McCain Report, Michael Goldfarb writes that Sarah Palin “has more executive experience than Barack Obama and Joe Biden put together”, a point that, by some strange coincidence, has popped up all over the conservative blogs. I think that the idea that Palin has an advantage over Obama in this area is … Read more
by publius One of the many fascinating aspects of the Palin nomination is the grass roots’ enthusiasm for her. It’s tempting to see the excitement among the social conservative base strictly through the lens of abortion politics. That is, you might think that the excitement over such an unknown, inexperienced first-term governor is evidence that … Read more
by hilzoy Now that I’m back from the convention, and have transferred all my backed up stuff onto my new computer (sigh), I’ve finally had a chance to sit down and consider McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate. I was in an airplane during her speech yesterday, but I saw her speak … Read more
by publius Well, probably not my last. But yes, as I noted in an earlier post, I was wrong about the VP coverage — guilty as charged. In my defense though, I wasn’t expecting such a crazy selection. I doubt Pawlenty or Romney would have generated anything close to this much coverage.
by publius I didn’t have a chance to write about Palin today (unlike Eric, some people have to work), so I’ve been chewing it over this afternoon. The more I think about it, the more insane it seems. McCain might well have lost the presidency today. Curiously though, the base is all in. Their enthusiasm … Read more
Key Grip: Eric Martin Happy Labor Day weekend. In the spirit of the holiday, I’ve scaled back the rant. One request: If you call me on the phone, you do not get to ask "Who is this?" before identifying yourself. It was you that called me for the love o’ god? One regret: Summer? Sob. … Read more
by Eric Martin Sarah Palin last month addressing speculation that the McCain campaign was considering her for the vice presidential slot: As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? Sigh. Video … Read more