
11-08-2008, 10:27 AM
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Dubbed Queen Bee by Annie
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Palin in spotlight as Republicans turn on each other
I can't help being entertained by this:
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Palin in spotlight as Republicans turn on each other
Right tears itself apart in pinning blame for McCain's defeat
by Oliver Burkeman
As the implosion of the defeated Republican campaign continued yesterday, the landscape of American conservatism was dotted with signs that these were very strange times indeed.
Rush Limbaugh, behemoth of rightwing radio, took to the airwaves to declare war on two enemies: Barack Obama and the Republican party. Bloggers at FreeRepublic.com, an internet hub for conservatives, announced a boycott of Fox News and John McCain's aides fell over one another to leak embarrassing details about the campaign to the press.
Liberals, indulging in what the writer Andrew Sullivan termed "Palinfreude", were presented with a smorgasbord, ranging from the tale of how McCain's pro-Palin foreign policy adviser had his Blackberry confiscated in the closing days of the race, to how the party had paid for Todd Palin's silk boxer shorts.
The fighting consuming the McCain and Palin camps threatened to derail broader efforts to overhaul the Republican party after Tuesday's decisive defeat, for which some insiders blamed Sarah Palin. Veterans of the right gathered in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, on Thursday for a summit on the movement's future, but even as they did so, the blame went on.
Palin in spotlight as Republicans turn on each other | World news | The Guardian
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I feel sorry for the decent Republicans who are seeing their party implode, but if the party hadn't tried to pander to the lowest common denominator it wouldn't have happened.
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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson
Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."
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