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Professor, you have to watch the speech first. MoDo is off; Palin is more like Marge Gunderson . . . nice brand, by the way — she’ll kill in 2012 or 2016; before then, Kristen Wiig will kill as Palin.
Update: The Swankster comments:
Besides McCain’s compelling military biography, there hasn’t been a single specific item [...]

It’s obvious that the GOP found The Nasty right where they left it. What’s less clear is what the effect Palin’s speech will be. My sense is that the McCain campaign designed it to shore up the core of a party in serious danger of fracturing. If the delegates in the venue are any indication, [...]

Was it really only last Friday that McCain named Palin as his running mate? Seems like weeks already.

A less commented upon portion of the Politicos article in which McCain fails to count his houses. Said article also quotes McCain’s revised definition of wealth:
“I define rich in other ways besides income,” he said. “Some people are wealthy and rich in their lives and their children and their ability to educate them. Others are [...]

I woke up this morning to the thought — it may have been in a dream — that no one will watch the GOP convention.
We know this election is a referendum on Obama. Voters are deciding if they like him. If they don’t, the safe pick is the crusty old white dude. [...]

So it appears that John McCain has received tens of thousands of dollars from a shady oil tycoon who’s been sidestepping campaign finance laws (what’s the name of that law again? Oh, right) by routing money through working-class families all over the country.
Fortunately for McCain, his buddy Drudge has yet to write about this, so [...]

This is a pretty good representation of what happens when the GOP governing philosophy holds sway. Apparently the Governator decided to try to cut salaries for all state employees to minimum wage by Executive Order.
The Republican governor signed an executive order last week recommending the cut to minimum wage for most permanent state workers and [...]

Okay, yesterday. But it’s still really good:
Ted Stevens predates the State of Alaska. In 1953, he drove to Alaska Territory in a Buick, and–like a modern Al Swearingen–he built himself into a local luminary, successfully lobbied Congress to make Alaska a state, and then used his position on the Senate Appropriations Committee to transform [...]

I hadn’t realized that Senator Ted Stevens (R-Indicted) has his home in Girdwood.
I spent a few weeks in Girdwood a number of years ago, and based on the amount of a certain herbal smoke that consistently wafted through the air during my morning walks, the Senator’s evaluation of the Internet as a “series of [...]

Because this is when things just get silly*:
It’s expected to bring some 60,000 people to Louisville and some prominent political figures, including presidential candidate John McCain.
The NRA convention starts Friday at the Kentucky Exposition Center.
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The south wing was bustling with activity Thursday, the day before the National Rifle Association Convention opens in Louisville. [...]