Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks says that although Sarah Palin has some admirable qualities, she is — generally speaking — a total dumbfuck.  Actually, he wasn’t that vulgar — he just called her a “cancer” on the Republican party: [youtube...

How good was Barack Obama’s debate performance last night? This morning, he released an ad that does little more than rebroadcast his exchange with McCain on healthcare.  It’s devastating: This ad goes beyond an appeal to independent and undecided voters. One would have to believe that there are hard-working Republicans who may feel that McCain...

Ever wondered what it might’ve been like to attend a George Wallace rally? Dana Milbank gives us a glimpse with his account of a Palin event in Clearwater, Florida: Barack Obama, she told 8,000 fans at a rally here Monday afternoon, “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist!” This followed her earlier accusation...

How insulting to suggest that the checkout girl at Wal-Mart who went to five colleges in six years to get her four year degree couldn’t run the most powerful country in the world just as well as, say the former president of the Harvard Law Review. This is just the kind of liberal Eastern elitism that values useless qualities like knowledge, wisdom,...

The McCain campaign knows how to pick its Florida journalists. Yesterday, it permitted Sarah Palin to speak for eight full minutes to WFLA-Tampa reporter Keith Cate.   Cate asked not one follow-up, pressed Palin on not one detail, and challenged her on not one of her answers.  On the other hand, he did allow her to run out the clock with non sequiturs,...

Karen Hughes is a former counselor to George W. Bush.  She supports John McCain and thinks that Barack Obama doesn’t really know what’s wrong with the economy.  That’s important, she said on Larry King last night, because “if you misdiagnose a problem, you can never fix it.”  [youtube 0sGQGlOorN0] Sarah Palin, the woman Hughes...