Ben Domenech thinks that this means that Palin is already running for 2012.  If so, good for her.  She's breaking free of McCain's handlers and it looks like she's even annoying them a bit:

On Sunday night, she twice took questions from reporters, the first time on an airport tarmac without her press staff’s knowledge.

After landing in Colorado Springs late Sunday, Ms. Palin marched over to a local television crew and began answering questions on camera, sending the traveling press corps sprinting in pursuit, and her press staff scrambling.

“Get Tracey,” one campaign aide barked into his headset, calling for Tracey Schmitt, Ms. Palin’s ever-watchful spokeswoman, who rushed over to supervise the impromptu press conference. (Ms. Schmitt, looking distressed, tried several times to cut it off with a terse “Thank you!” in between questions, to no avail.)

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What we were saying ages ago, Charlie Black, warning McCain that Palin was his only chance at winning the election,

“I’m told that Charlie Black told McCain, ‘If you pick anyone else, you’re going to lose. But if you pick Palin you may win.’ ”

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Remember, Joe Biden always stands up for the little guy, even when he's making fun of him.  Here he is talking to Jay Leno(emphasis mine):

Let me put it this way:  I don't know — the neighborhood I grew up, even the neighborhood I live in now, which is a really nice neighborhood, I don't know many plumbers who are making $250,000 a year and worried about it.  We're kind of worried about Joe the fireman, Joe the policeman, Joe the real plumber with a license.

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Please don't install Gov. Palin as RNC Chairwoman if Obama is elected in November.

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A few weeks ago I said that I had decided I needed to read Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals."  And yes, I have been way too lazy to actually do that. 

Well, on Mark Levin's show today, he read sections of "Rules for Radicals" and then presented them alongside statements by both Barack and Michelle Obama. 

That part occurs in the first hour, but the whole thing is worth a listen.  (The audio is here...it's the October 14, 2008 show.)

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Christopher Buckley has resigned from National Review.  Says Buckley,

When he offered his resignation to the magazine’s editors, “I was sort of hoping for, ‘Well, let’s think about it,’ ” Buckley said. “But to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.”

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The people at Pete Olson's campaign have created a great site tracking the positions on Nick Lampson's (Texas-22) campaign page and comparing it to his record in Congress.  What they've found is that when Lampson say he support's something, it's a highly nuanced claim indeed. 

For example, while he told a constituent this summer that he had consistently voted for opening ANWR and the outer continental shelf for drilling, his record shows that he voted against both of these issues eleven times. 

The site even has audio of Rep. Lampson ranting against oil companies. 

So, if you're in Texas' 22nd Congressional District, or know someone who is, make sure they explore this site.  Lampson's constituents deserve to know Lampson's actual record in Congress, instead of the pretend record he posts on his website. 

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Here are the prepared remarks from her rally in Johnstown, Penn. today.  A sampling:

It’s hard to think of many issues that could possibly be more important than who is protected in law and who isn’t – who is granted life and who is denied it. So when our opponent, Senator Obama, speaks about questions of life, I listen very carefully.

I listened when he defended his unconditional support for unlimited abortions. He said that a woman shouldn’t have to be – quote – “punished with a baby.” He said that right here in Johnstown –“punished with a baby” – and it’s about time we called him on it. The more I hear from Senator Obama, the more I understand why he is so vague and evasive on the subject. Americans need to see his record for what it is. It’s not negative or mean-spirited to talk to about his record. Whatever party you belong to, there are facts you need to know.

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Rick Moran says that criticizing Obama for his connections with Ayers is an "exercise in futility", because the voters don't care, because the economy is all that is on their minds.  Yes and no.  If people are hoping that Ayers is going to be Willie Horton or the Swift Boats, they probably are deluding themselves...admittedly stranger things have happened, but I'm guessing it isn't going to happen.  It's also not an "exercise in futility" either. 

Odds are, we aren't going to see a singular successful line of attack.  This is going to have to be won bit by bit, person by person.  We have to do whatever we can to make people aware of what Obama is, and how radical he is.  Elections in the modern era are often won simply on how likable a candidate is, and Obama, in the shallowest sense, is likable.  Not likable for us, because we know what he actually is, but for others, the first guy in this parody is a good example of that principle at work,

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Interview with Hawkins, he also talks about the Obama campaign's effort to shut down his interview by bombarding the phone lines of a radio station.  If you're looking for a book about Obama, ignore that truther crank Corsi, go with Freddoso.

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I agree that McCain should let her be authentically her.  Hold a press conference and say something like "Gov. Palin and I don't agree on everything.  Like a large family, not everyone in the Republican Party agrees on every policy.  Etc., etc."

Why am I just now posting this?  Because when Mitt Romney gets out in front of you on something, you know you've lingered too long:

"Holding Sarah Palin to just three interviews and microscopically focusing on each interview I think has been a mistake," Romney said. "I think they'd be a lot wiser to let Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin. Let her talk to the media, let her talk to people."

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Guess who wins?  Mark Levin is ripping Bill O'Reilly a new one for his screed today. 

The audio will be up here soon enough.

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Yeah, I'm gonna make you head over there to read it.  It's just that good. 

(Also, it's nearly dinner time, and I'm lazy.)

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I told you Obama would struggle in PA.  People aren't buying his New Left BS, and that includes a good number of the blue-collar Democrats.  Obama is still up by 2, but he's been hemorrhaging support here, and I'm betting that if the McCain campaign is willing to put the time in, they can take the state.  If nothing else, Obama would be forced to shift resources to a state he thought he would hold a few months ago.  Another thing to consider is that historically, Democrats don't win without PA.  If Obama were to win without PA, he'd be the first Democrat to do it since Truman. 

The reason Obama's struggling and I think McCain can take the state is because Obama is of the New Left.  I've written about this before, Pennsylvanians are decidedly not of the New Left outside of Philly and its suburbs, parts of Pittsburgh and some other pockets.  Most of the rest of the Democrats here are older style Democrats, they are religious, often Catholic, pro-life, they hunt, fish and like shooting, and they are traditionalist, culturally speaking.  Many of them are blue-collar and work in failing industries or industries being outsourced. 

These voters have to decide in every election if the left's threat to their culture or the right's threat to their wallet(from their perspective) is the bigger threat.  Obama's solidly New Left record on cultural issues made him suspect in many of their eyes.  The "bitter" comments confirmed that. 

Obama did eventually see his numbers climb back up after he defeated Hillary, but I think that can be attributed to ambivalence.  These voters vote Democrat first, so when they go to neutral in their favorability, they're gonna support the Democrat by default. 

Sarah Palin was a gamechanger, I believe.  She doesn't just mouth support and platitudes to their lifestyle, she actively lives it, and her presence is going to be a constant reminder that Obama and Biden are culturally hostile.  The sneering and condescending reaction from the elite of the Democrat establishment, talking heads, media and nutroots is just driving that wedge deeper, and I think these polls are showing the damage being caused by this.  Should get interesting.  Beyond that, Obama's weakness in the state may help people like Lou Barletta and Chris Hackett, who are both trying to take Democrats seats.

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Hawkins, who graciously lets me make a mess of his other website and drive away readers, has some good roundups at his place, the highlights of the Palin speech, and some reactions from the right.

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Over the past year or two, the level of respect I held for Peggy Noonan has dropped.  Indeed, in the past few months, it has nearly dissipated entirely.  I find her writing and the thinking expressed in those writings to be increasingly erratic, she's no longer the eloquent thinker for conservatism she once was.

She almost improved her standing with me in her WSJ opinion piece this morning.  Allah even linked the piece this morning in it's own post, praising it.  I almost wrote about it too, but I hesitated given how flaky Noonan has been over the past few months.  Turns out my instincts were right.  A tape of Noonan talking on open mic with some of her Beltway buddies was leaked to TPM,

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Over at Moron Central, Ace makes the argument that Excitable Andy has gone too far with his embrace of "Trig trutherism," and that conservative bloggers should swear off linking to anything he writes from now on.  I don't know if any of the bloggers here have ever linked to any of Sullivan's posts, but I agree with Ace.

Andrew Sullivan was one of the first bloggers I read on a regular basis, and I used to have a great deal of respect for him, even when I didn't agree with what he wrote all of the time, but he's descended into the worst kind of hackery over the last few years, and I agree witgh Ace when he says "He should be blogging at the Daily Kos."  He's not just attacking Sarah Palin here, he's attacking her innocent teenage daughter and infant son as well, and that's beyond reprehensible.

So I say, yes, let's join in on this ban.  As I wrote in the comments over there, he's dead to me.  If you disagree, let me know in the comments.

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S. Weasel breaks down negative campaigning as only she can.

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Bob Novak is truly one of the greats, so that makes his health problems and subsequent discontinuation of his column that much more tragic.

I got to see him up close and personal once at one of Americans for Tax Reform's Wednesday meetings. He was promoting his then new memoir The Prince of Darkness, and was every bit as nice as you'd think he would be (unless you're a raving Leftist, then he was nicer).

I wish him and his family well.

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