http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:34:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We don't subscribe to the notion recently floated by Rick Moran in "Did Sarah Palin just 'Pwn' the media with divorce rumors?" The theory holds that the Gryphen-Zaki meltdown over the weekend was the result of an elaborate Rovian-style setup brilliantly planned and executed by Sarah Palin: It's too pat, the ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/08/04/palin-hatin-bloggers-and-the-wyle-e-coyote-effect/ This isn't a diary; this is a call to action. Bill Whittle has made a video in which he explains why the left, the media and Vichy Republicans joined in a de facto Axis of Elites to try to destroy Sarah Palin. This is must-see PJTV, and it's made out of ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/27/you-must-see-this-bill-whittle-video/ Last November, I received an offer that I couldn't refuse. Erick Erickson invited me to become one of what Newsweek called "his cohorts": "Erickson and his team of 25 core contributors—a regular-folks crew that includes a construction worker and a stay-at-home dad—also pick candidates to back in key state-level races and ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/22/im-proud-to-have-been-an-erickson-cohort/ Although it has yet to see combat in the air, the F-22 Raptor air superiority fighter is the object of an intense dogfight on Capitol Hill. The debate has made for some strange bedfellows. On one side, there are the antis - the Pentagon, Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/17/the-dogfight-over-the-f-22a-raptor/ Hi, Billy Mays here, coming to you from beyond the grave for Jobs That Matter. Near double-digit unemployment got you down? Out of work since that  temp job as a census-taking clown? Don't despair, you can work for *ObamaCare! We need change like never before -- on the economy, climate change and WAIT ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/16/here-are-those-jobs-obama-promised-you/ To: Linda Kellen Biegel, a.k.a "Celtic Diva" Re: Ethics Violation As you can see from the attached photograph, this federal employee is in clear violation of Sec. 2635.101 of the Standards Of Ethical Conduct For Employees Of The Executive Branch, Subpart A, "General Provisions" - which states: (8) Employees shall act impartially and not ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/15/memo-to-linda-kellen-biegel/ That's right, five months -- not six --  bacause as Allah notes at Hot Air -- SarahPAC wasn’t fully operational until the end of January: "By comparison, Romney’s PAC raised $1.4 million through the end of May, but then fundraising is pretty much Mitt’s full-time gig these days and he already ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/13/sarahpac-raised-733000-in-five-months/ Well, that didn't take long. Those of us who expected the Democrats, with control over three DC houses -- House,  Senate and White House -- to blow it didn't expect it happen so quickly. But it seems that the donkey party, by misinterpreting their 2008 election victory as a mandate ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/11/poll-voters-trust-gop-over-dems-on-8-of-10-key-issues/ David Frum has now pontificated on the Palin resignation, so the Vichy wing of the Republican Party can stop holding its collective breath and exhale. "On reflection" Frum has it all figured out. It's all about the money: "2009-2011 will be her peak years for speaking fees. If she runs for president ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/11/flea-fly-foe-frum/ Like ex-senators and former presidents, ex-governors retain their honorific titles, so Sarah Palin will still be addressed as "Governor Palin" after she officially turns the reigns of her office over to Sean Parnell July 26. The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate has never been much of a stickler for that ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/08/you-can-still-call-her-governor-after-july-26/ Gov. Sarah Palin granted interviews to the legacy media yesterday, and each outlet added its own spin to its presentation of the story. One thing is obvious from watching the various videos and reading the stories: they don't get it. Palin had to scold NBC's Andrea Mitchell, for instance. "You're ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/07/palin-to-andrea-mitchell-youre-not-listening-to-me/ In the wake of Gov. Sarah Palin's announcement that she will resign her office before the end of the month, she has been the target of considerable crtiticism from the punditocracy on both the left and the right who sneer that "she abandoned her post." John Podhoretz says the charge ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/06/exploding-the-she-abandoned-her-post-meme/ From Gov. Palin via Twitter: See letter from my attorney on baseless allegations of past 24hrs @ http://tinyurl.com/l4ct5n(excerpt) The Palin-hating left has been salivating this weekend over lies that began at an Alaska ankle biter website, percolated up to the national nutroots and got mentioned on several major liberal media outlets. At Conservatives ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/05/why-shes-resigning-a-warrior-must-be-mobile/ If Sarah Palin had intended to make media heads collectively explode, she couldn't have planned it better. She called a press conference on short notice, then announced that not only would she not seek a second term as Alaska's governor, but she intended to resign later this month. All that ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/03/sarahs-satisfaction/ From anchorage television station KTUU: WASILLA, Alaska -- Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her home Friday morning. The governor gave no reason why she will resign, but there has been much speculation that she intends to run for the ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/03/breaking-gov-sarah-palin-wont-seek-a-second-term/ From the National Archives: Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/03/the-declaration-of-independence/ David Frum has done conservatives a great favor, and we should be thankful. The favor is not that he has written another negative piece about Gov. Palin. No, that's nothing new for Frum, who has been bashing the governor since she stepped up onto the national stage. Frum's gift to ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/02/frum-demonstrates-why-vichy-republicans-will-kill-the-gop/ Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board chairman H.R. Crawford told the panel at its Wednesday meeting that he heard some congresscritters talking about removing President Ronald Reagan's name from DC's airport. MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton tried to minimize the fallout that is already hitting the ground inside the Beltway: “It was just a ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/02/petty-democrats-want-to-remove-reagans-name-from-airport/ Back in December at a meeting with the nation's governors, then vice President-Elect Joe Biden asked Governor  Sarah Palin for help in attracting some attention: "I might point out, as I told you, we walked in. Since the race is over, no one pays attention to me at all," Biden joked ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/01/poor-joe-biden-cant-even-fill-a-room/ Twenty years after the United States removed Manuel Noriega from power, and with the recent focus on Honduras, Panama has been well below the radar for most Americans: But it is a strategically important country that is playing a growing role in global trade. Indeed, it is estimated that 5 percent ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/01/panama-will-swear-in-a-new-president-today/