Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Andrew Malcolm to discuss the 2012 GOP field, the power of the hat, and more. Then Pejman Yousefzadeh talks about Newt Gingrich’s bid for President. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email | Read More »
Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Scott Conroy, a reporter for Real Clear Politics, to talk about Sarah Palin’s early groundwork in Iowa, then by John C. Goodman, President and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, to discuss the vote to repeal Obamacare. We’re brought to you | Read More »
Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed In today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss Tim Geithner’s trip to the G-20 Summit, and Sarah Palin’s battle with the Federal Reserve. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. You can find our iTunes feed at CoffeeandMarkets.com. If you’d like | Read More »
One of the few moments in the debate between Republican Joe Biden and Democrat Sarah Palin (follow the link) when I raised my eyebrow and said, “That sounds off” from either side – on the whole, there were only a few exaggerations during the evening – came when Joe Biden mentioned the the idea that both he and Obama had warned against the Bush administration’s | Read More »
Jen Rubin, one of the most diligent and perceptive writers in the ‘sphere, has this to say about the NYTimes latest hit piece: In just the first few paragraphs you have testimony that she was “effective and accessible.” So where are we going here? Well, despite the testimony that she was ”accessible,” others find her “secretive” and inclined to put a premium on “loyalty.” The | Read More »
Note: Head on over to FRCAction to view streaming video of this weekend’s conference. You want proof about how successful the Sarah Palin pick has been in coalescing and motivating the socially conservative base of the GOP? Look no further than the subdued schedule today at the FRCAction Values Voter conference in Washington, DC. A year ago, the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit propelled | Read More »
Jennifer Rubin posts on something that’s a truly significant moment: The great Sally Quinn recants her position on Sarah Palin. Quinn had been one of Palin’s biggest critics in the days leading up to her speech (read her column here). But yesterday in an interview with Bill O’Reilly, she declared: “I was wrong about her.” I thought that she was amazing. in her speech. She | Read More »
One of the most pointed accusations Sarah Palin lodged against Barack Obama was the fact that, despite not authoring a single significant piece of legislation, he’s found the time to write two memoirs. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in | Read More »
I wrote about Andrew Sullivan’s descent into madness here. But Sullivan shows no signs of stopping even as his colleagues at The Atlantic recoil in horror. In fact, he keeps digging a deeper hole, now claiming that what happened to John Edwards was a different issue entirely because he wasn’t running for president any more, but Sullivan’s own baseless and profoundly insulting attacks on Sarah | Read More »
Yesterday Moe and I with his colleagues in respected corners of the news media who had disparaged Sarah Palin, relying on the rantings from the foulest corners of the blogosphere as the basis for their articles. Douthat’s disappointment – along with that of his colleagues McArdle and Goldberg – turned slowly into outrage over the course of the day, as it became clear that much | Read More »
The Nielsen numbers are out, and wow, they are good. Sarah Palin’s speech, despite being carried on only six channels compared to Obama’s ten, despite the lack of a huge venue or months of hype, was viewed by only a million fewer people than Barack Obama’s Speech o’ the Century. Via Clayton, a few notable facts: Palin beat Obama in Persons 55+ (reliable voters!) and | Read More »
So the best attacks the Democrats can muster against Sarah Palin’s epic speech is a twin version of the same spiel: 1) Sarah Palin did not write her speech. 2) Sarah Palin did not talk about education or health care in her speech. Ha-ha. /Nelson The first attack is just silly on its face. Every politician with national stature has speechwriters – every single one. | Read More »
Here’s tonight’s biopic video of Sarah Palin. It’s all right, I guess – but the voice seems off. I think it’s John Voight, who’s been around here a bit as a supporter of McCain. It’s funny: in the McCain set up, Robert Duvall is the patriotic video voice, Voight the inspirational video voice, and Powers Boothe is the “Be afraid. Be very afraid. Vote McCain. | Read More »
Jen Rubin nails it: It’s the media’s own dang fault that last night was such a huge success. Oh, and yes – even they have to admit it now.
Moe has already pointed out Ross Douthat’s creeping suspicion that these people who surround him are not particularly balanced or friendly to ideologies other than their own. But we shouldn’t leave it there – it’s actually gotten more pronounced in the hours since the initial revelations. Read Ross’s followups here, here,, and here. Ross, we love you as a wise brother. But it’s high time | Read More »
It’s going to be the numbers in Colorado. It’s a critical swing state. Barack went to the mountaintop there. But they care deeply about the energy issue. They’ve got big cities, but they also have a lot of rural/suburban areas. They’ve got a pretty stark political divide. Obama won, but it was a caucus, not a primary. Sarah Palin’s speech was aimed squarely at swing | Read More »
Gov. Palin’s speech was directed not just at the audience in the chamber, but at the Clinton primary voters across the Midwest who could hear much in this speech that they could agree with. It did so by reframing, in powerful terms, the conservative reaction to the political tide of the sexual revolution and liberal feminism. Where Hillary Clinton framed her cracking of the glass | Read More »
“My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We’ve got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – [my campaign has] a budget of about three times that just for the month.” “This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the | Read More »
Over at PalinFacts.com, Mike Turk is encouraging everyone on Twitter and elsewhere to engage in some running Sarah Palin facts during tonight’s speech. Feel free to jump on in.
You know things are getting a little out of hand when even Lindsay Lohan notices. So, yeah – it’s out of hand. But be thankful at least that this hilarious overreach has led to what may be the smartest column Joe Trippi has ever written (I know, I didn’t think he had it in him either). It’s a fundamental rejection of the idea, popular in | Read More »
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