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So much for criticizing her inexperience: “Palin to meet world leaders, Bono.”

Now if he will get back in the studio and finish their next album. Enough delays!

21 September 2008 @ 8:34 pm | No comments

The horror: Canadian doctor warns Sarah Palin’s decision to have Down baby could reduce abortions.

But a senior Canadian doctor is now expressing concerns that such a prominent public role model as the governor of Alaska and potential vice president of the United States completing a Down syndrome pregnancy may prompt other women to make the same decision against abortion because of that genetic abnormality. And thereby reduce the number of abortions.

[via Kathryn at T&S]

11 September 2008 @ 10:35 pm | No comments

I Thought Utah Democrats Didn’t Like the Political Exploitation of the Mormon Church

4 September 2008 @ 5:08 am | 21 comments

I thought Utah Democrats didn’t like the exploitation of the Mormon Church for politics.

The Utah Democratic Party charged this week that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is a “devout member of an anti-Mormon denomination” and questioned whether LDS faithful should vote for her.

But Palin is not a member of the church the Democrats are referencing, that church denies it is anti-Mormon and there’s no evidence of any anti-Mormon rhetoric from its pulpit.

Now, Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Holland is backing off the statement.

“We do not plan on making her religion an issue,” Holland said Wednesday afternoon, adding he had not seen the news release, which includes a quote by him along with several questions.

The pertinent one: “Will Republicans of the LDS faith vote for Sarah Palin, a devout member of an anti-Mormon denomination?”

Romney Rules Out 2012?

3 September 2008 @ 1:55 am | 6 comments

Mitt Romney spoke to the Utah GOP delegation yesterday and said he wasn’t interested in running in 2012 or in even a cabinet spot in a McCain administration.

After his speech, Romney told reporters he planned to continue campaigning for the GOP even after November. But he said “no thanks” to another run for the White House, even though he said his own campaign was a good experience despite some mistakes — which he declined to elaborate.

“I do not anticipate doing it again. It’s hard to imagine something like that,” Romney said.

The same goes for a spot in a McCain Cabinet, he said, because of what he saw when his father, the late George Romney, served as President Nixon’s secretary of housing and urban development.

“I really would not enjoy being in the Cabinet,” Romney said.

We’ll see, but I’m surprised to hear him so down on both prospects. And if so, why the heck is still subjecting himself to this:

Romney Hearts Huckabee

Romney Hearts Huckabee

Poltics is truly the most christian of professions. After being defeated in the primaries by a guy who hates you, strung along as his loyal surrogate to not be picked as VP, keep stumping for the guy but then, to make nice with Mike Huckabee?!

To quote Homer Simpson, “This man has turned every cheek on his body.”

Sadly, this is not an Onion story.

The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.

I was going to write a post about the impropriety of running on a national ticket with a four-month old baby but between this weekend’s insane lefty blog rumor-mongering and now this, I think I’ll wait.

1 September 2008 @ 10:49 am | 1 comment

This just may be after-the-fact story control from the McCain campaign, but the Washington Post reports that Romney was never a serious consideration and Palin was on the short list since February:

McCain’s advisers conducted interviews with a number of the prospective choices, but McCain did not. Most he knew well enough to have a sense of their personalities, policy positions and character. Among those who never met personally with McCain was Romney. The two men had waged a bitter and often-personal battle for the Republican nomination and when the primaries ended, Romney seemed an unlikely choice because of their distant personal relationship. . .

Spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Romney harbors no ill feelings toward McCain, having never believed he would be the running mate. “It never seemed likely to us because they disagreed on some issues during the primaries, and there were so many other good Republicans to choose from, including Sarah Palin,” he said. But some close associates said that Romney’s advisers were angry about having been strung along until the last minute.

31 August 2008 @ 5:51 pm | No comments

Who says she’s not qualified? She reads a TelePrompTer at least as well as He does.

Who would have known . . .

[via Hot Air]

30 August 2008 @ 4:57 pm | No comments