Peggy Noonan on Palin: ‘It’s Over’

Staff / Truthdig Sep 4, 2008 The hot mike phenomenon continues to yield fruit. Here Peggy Noonan and former McCain strategist Mike Murphy lament the Palin pick, while they think no one is listening. As Taegan Goddard points out, Noonan contradicts her own column with the statement, "It's over." Update 2: Noonan strikes back Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Palin’s Alaska Reaps the Windfall Profits McCain Decries

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Sep 3, 2008 Welcome to the People's Republic of Alaska, where every resident this year will get a $3,200 payout, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of Sarah Palin, the state's Republican governor. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Privacy, Pregnancy and Double Standards

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Sep 3, 2008 Pregnancy is indeed private, but the Republican meeting in St. Paul, Minn., would put decisions about pregnancy in the hands of the government and replace sex information with disinformation. No, you don't have to pass judgment on a 17-year-old to pass judgment on these unrelenting policymakers. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Palin Cut Funds for Teen Moms

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2008 As governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, now the mother of a pregnant teen, cut state funds that would have helped house and support teenage mothers. This on top of the news that both Palin and John McCain have opposed teen pregnancy prevention programs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Schlafly, Ingraham Team Up for Palin at RNC

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2008 It was a lineup designed to bring women at the Republican National Convention ever forward and onward into the year 1800, but alas, Sarah Palin couldn't make it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Introducing Sarah Palin, Minus a Few Key Details

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2008 Here's the hopeful commercial the McCain campaign recently released to introduce Sarah Palin to voters around the country, featuring a hopeful soundtrack and bittersweet reminders of a more hopeful time in the McCain presidential campaign -- as in, five days ago -- when Palin was really, really new to McCain too! Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

More Nuggets From the Palin Gold Mine

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2008 While the webloids are busy looking into the drinking habits of young Bristol Palin, The Huffington Post has a disturbing report on Ma Palin's right-wing church: "Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell and said that Jesus 'operated from that position of war mode' ". Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

McCain’s Big Gamble Raising Big Issues

Staff / Truthdig Sep 2, 2008 John McCain wanted to shake things up with his unexpected nomination of an unknown "outsider," at least when it came to the political scene in Washington -- but by Tuesday, as reports about issues from Sarah Palin's home life and professional past circulated in the media, some McCain allies (and certainly many detractors) wondered how much his unconventional move might cost his campaign. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

So Much for ‘Country First’

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Sep 2, 2008 John McCain and his supporters have been lecturing us about the grave and urgent dangers our country faces -- Islamic fundamentalism, the resurgence of Russia and other geopolitical threats. In a menacing world, McCain says, he will keep America safe. So, at 72 and with a history of cancer, how could McCain choose a vice presidential nominee who has, let's face it, zero experience in foreign affairs? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

McCain Wanted Lieberman, but Chose a Question Mark

Staff / Truthdig Sep 2, 2008 As little as two days before he made his VP announcement, John McCain wanted to pick friend and Democratic turncoat Joe Lieberman, according to a report in The New York Times. But as in so many other decisions in his campaign, the alleged maverick caved to the far right of his party, which threatened to sink a McCain-Lieberman ticket at the convention. In the end he chose a woman he barely knew. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

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Palin the Secessionist?

Staff / Truthdig Sep 2, 2008 If it seems like Sarah Palin Day, that's because the McCain campaign decided to do the bulk of its news dumping during the holiday. On top of her husband's DUI, her unmarried teen daughter's pregnancy and her own state trooper issues, we now know about this bizarre nugget: Sarah Palin and her husband, according to the group's chair, were once members of the Alaskan Independence Party, a political party that seeks a vote on Alaska withdrawing from the union. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )