According to RedState’s Erick Erickson, the anti-Palin stories come from a pro-Romney cabal that hates the idea of Palin 2012. Erickson writes:
“At this moment, however, it is absolutely clear — there is an effort, organized or not, by supporters of Mitt Romney to harm the reputation of Governor Sarah Palin. [. . .] there are Romney supporters now working on John McCain’s campaign who are, in fact, indisputably out to damage Sarah Palin’s reputation. I am not just convinced of it. I know it to be fact.” [RedState]
Maybe these are the same people who are allegedly distributing their resumes in the private sector a week before the election. [Politico]
Earlier today RedState’s Directors denounced anyone and everyone on the right who collaborated against McCain-Palin through what they call “destructive criticism.” [RedState] Just hit the refresh button if RedState doesn’t load, as it tends to display an “Internal 500 server error” message or something like that.
Obama:
Slate reveals that it is in the tank for Obama (but is that really a surprise?). [Slate] The McCain campaign suspects the same is true for the Los Angeles Times and probably the entire press. [Politico] Anyways, the Smoking Gun website has a .gif that summarizes one of latest Obama stories, so here it is:
GOP candidates for Congress have started asking voters if they really want an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress to go with the now all but certain Obama presidency. [CNN]
…but are we so sure that Obama is going to win? Leaked secret Diebold video reveals the truth about Joe the Plumber and the planned election heist:
Running the names “obama” and “jesus” through Google Fight reveals that they have the same number of searches. Coincidence? We think not. [CNN, Google Fight]
According to the Star Tribune the title belongs to Rosella Sonsteby, a 92-year-old woman running for mayor of Andover, Minnesota. She is almost as old as McCain and considers Ron Paul her hero. Why didn’t she run for POTUS? [Star Tribune]
…or at least the caption on a photo says that Letterman said so. [CNN]
Apparently McCain has decided to make amends by doing his 10000th late-night comedy appearance with Letterman rather than Jon Stewart. Will McCain admit to having made a mistake in not choosing Hilton?
Since basically everyone agrees that Sarah Palin bombed her first CBS interview and her initial folksy appeal dwindles daily, the McCain campaign today brought John McCain and Palin together to hold a joint interview with Katie Couric (read: Palin really screwed up). Behold how our once future president from the year 2000 blames “gotcha journalism” for Palin’s apparent gaffe:
Given that we are less than a week from the only VP debate, the campaign has sent Palin to McCain Intro 101debate camp to make sure she can say things other than Alaska is next to Russia. We at K/P remember fondly our time in summer camps years ago…making friends, roasting marshmallows, and preparing to debate Joe Biden on foreign policy and the economy. We hope that by the end of camp she will realize she made a mistake and confused John McCain for Ron Paul.
We will liveblog the VP debate, probably from Mather House or Wasillastan. Stay tuned!
McCain senior domestic policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin said Tuesday the BlackBerry mobile e-mail device was a “miracle that John McCain helped create.”
Holtz-Eakin should watch out. Calling it a “miracle” goes into St. Barack territory.
Ron Paul received five votes and Mitt Romney got two. Then someone made a call for “unanimous support,” the hundreds of Ron Paul supporters/secret delegates never appeared, and John S. McCain was nominated to less-than-thundering hoorays (what is the deal with this “S” stuff, anyways?). There was one moment during Sarah Palin’s speech when security removed a woman doing the peace sign from the convention center, but she was probably lost or something.
We will liveblog McCain’s speech tomorrow. Stay tuned!
HM the King, Barack I, will appoint The Hon. John McCain as the leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition soon after the coronation, which was postponed to January next year. [CNN]
How many times have we mentioned that King Barack is The Chosen One? [YouTube]
The Ron Paul Rocket will be the first mission to really put a man on the the Moon, because the Apollo “landings” were carefully orchestrated hoaxes. [RPSSG, courtesy of Wonkette]
The IOC insults China’s intelligence by claiming that they unilaterally censored the media’s Internet access without an implicit deal condoning the restrictions. [BBC]
Speaking of China, the only reason the country is hosting the Olympics is because it has a small penis. [Newsweek]
Here, Reuters forgets to mention the standard formula for determining whether an eclipse is a good or bad omen: an unforeseen eclipse is bad—one predicted in advance is good. [Reuters]
Jesse Ventura will speak at St. Ron Paul’s counterconvention. Rockie Lynne (we confess: we’ve never heard of this guy before) will perform, and Tucker Carlson is the emcee. Where is Lyndon LaRouche? [AP/Google, Rally for the Republic]
One sacred rule of the international community is that a government must not negotiate a treaty which it cannot reasonably expect to ratify. Then it’s no surprise that the Doha round of talks collapsed, and we’re all just twiddling our thumbs waiting for the One. [IHT, AFP/Google, YouTube]
But hey, who needs Doha Round when globalization is already here? [WP]
Reverend Jesse Jackson (D-Opportunism) wants to crack some nuts. Bill O’Reilly takes the time to mention how awesome Fox News really is and why it’s better than liberal satanic channels CNN and MSOlbermanNBC.
Iran’s army uses the most advanced military technology, Photoshop.
John McCain’s economic adviser says that America has become “a nation of whiners.”McCain promises to banish the freedom-hater to anti-American Belarus. Perhaps to a secret CIA prison. Hopefully.
