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Lord, now I’m going to be afraid to fall asleep tonight. If McCain is elected are they going to come after me?

Just as black people using the N-word is different from white people using it, so criticizing a woman is one thing when a man does it and something else when a fellow female does. So we’re giving columnist Froma Harrop a pass on pulling no punches over Sarah Palin.
Besides that, we agree with her.
Harrop: “Palin […]

Isn’t it fun to find out all the things about the Palins that a vetting committee should have, but to do it at the same time as the McCain campaign? On the same day we find out that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, we get the news that her husband, […]

Bristol with her parents and youngest sister, Piper, in 2007
The 17-year-old daughter of vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin is pregnant. The big question is, is this her first or second child?
I’m sure you’ve seen the doubts raised that the elder Palins’ now 4-month-old fifth child is actually theirs. I’ll let you do your own […]

Among the choices on the the American Family Association’s online poll, “Who should McCain select as his running mate,” is Sen. Lindsey Graham, the mild-mannered militarist from South Carolina. Never married and 53, Graham is a member of John McCain’s posse.
Graham became nationally known during the Clinton impeachment when he served on the House […]

Jon noted that John McCain’s new “life begins at conception” stance is a move all the way to the extreme right of his previously maverick-esque position. This puts McCain squarely among the wingnuts who declare contraception to be abortion, because many types of birth control keep a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall. […]

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H/t: Thanks to Buck for forwarding this before he headed out to his hurricane bunker

MCCAIN: Could I — are we going to get back to the importance of Supreme Court Justices or should I mention –
WARREN: We will get to that.
MCCAIN: OK. All right. OK.
WARREN: You’re jumping ahead…
The McCain campaign is fighting hard against charges that McCain cheated on the rules of debate at a rightwing evangelical forum in […]

Did John McCain cheat by cribbing questions in advance at the rightwing megachurch forum Saturday night?
UPDATE

McCain apparently knew question about Supreme Court in advance

McCain operative Nicole Wallace vehemently denied claims that McCain heard Barack Obama being questioned, even though McCain was not sequestered in a “cone of silence,” as Rick Warren, the multimillionaire evangelist […]