Sarah Palin
Another Exploration Into the Crazy Roots Of Palin Hatred
The Battle Hymn Of Sarah Palin
The Battle Hymn of Sarah Palin: Say what you will about pro-Obama kitsch, but it had high production values. This is what happens when the entire cultural elite is affiliated with one party. There has to be somebody out there who can write a better song about Sarah Palin. READ MORE >>
Decision Time
The GOP Establishment Against Sarah Palin
Here's Wall Street Journal editorial page writer and conservative movement apparatchik Stephen Moore writing up the Draft Mike Pence movement: READ MORE >>
Mortal Coil
Nice Speech, But We Won't Be Coming Together
The President’s speech last night was beautiful but ultimately, a magnificent punt. It was brave for Obama to crisply dismiss the idea that partisan rhetoric is what drove Jared Loughner to kill, given how much currency that idea now has among the bien-pensant kinds of people who elected him. But for the next thread to be that we must be more “civil” in our discourse because it’s what those killed on Saturday would have wanted represents a willfully Shirley Temple perspective on what political debate consists of. READ MORE >>
Lord Help Me, I'm Defending Palin
Okay, it's a little over the top for Sarah Palin to accuse her critics of "blood libel." But she does have a basic point. She had nothing to do with Jared Loughner. He was not an extremist who embraced some radical version of her ideas. And her use of targets to identify districts Republicans were, um, targetting is not exceptional or prone to incite anybody. READ MORE >>
After Tucson, A Reality Check
Sarah Palin's Missed Presidential Moment
Yeah, okay, I’ll write about her. But really only because I want to quote Ta-Nehisi Coates: I would never put gun-sights on the districts of my political opponents. Should violence break out, I don’t even want to be in the conversation as a factor--contributing or causal. We may never know what caused Loughner to snap. But at night, I’d like the security of knowing that it could not have possibly been me. Perhaps Sarah Palin has that sense of security. I can’t know. READ MORE >>
What If Barbara Jordan Had Said 'Don't Retreat, Reload'?
Does anybody truly believe, even in the wake of something as hideous as what happened in Tucson last weekend, that we can do something as quixotic and indefinable as policing incendiary language on the web? I get it if calling for this is about politics. But is anybody really thinking that this debate is about something real? READ MORE >>
