Some time ago, in one of my many railings against our president-elect, I noted that, once upon a time, even echt-dirty fingernail Republican Sarah Palin was a die-hard free-trader. Well, it looks like Sarah’s fingernails are still dirty, and her heart, and her free-trade principles, still true, for she’s risen up in rightuous wrath against…
Tag: Sarah Palin
A tear for Sarah Palin
The Divine Sarah cannot catch a break, can she? Not with the media around to trash her for every little thing she says. Not the mainstream media, of course. They’ve more or less lost track of her. It’s the conservative media that’s pissing all over her. Listen to what that mean Byron York at the…
Confusing confusions: Daniel Larison’s “The confusion of the anti-START hawks”
Over at the American Conservative, which isn’t entirely Pat Buchanan being stupid, Daniel Larison struggles to understand Sarah Palin and the other opponents of the START treaty. Apparently, the Russians have been moving some tactical nuclear weapons around (maybe), and Sarah and her kind are claiming that this is a deal-breaker. Dan is puzzled by…
Bailin’ Palin
In a recent poll of influential DC blogs, Literature R Us came in dead last. No one of any consequence reads this blog. So if you thought you were a person of consequence, well, you just got some bad news. Nonetheless, I’m going to give you my opinion of why Sarah Palin bailed. Because she’s…
Lowering the Bar
Over at the Weekly Standard, Stephen F. “Dick Cheney is stunning” Hayes is chatting with Sarah Palin. Stevo’s a definite Palinite, but, as he tells us, he’s not afraid to ask the tough questions: I started by asking her about the question of the day–whether the federal government should bail out the Big Three automakers….
The Apostasy of Anne, the Sadness of Sarah
Anne Applebaum’s slapdown of John McCain, which I heartily praised here, is causing some heartburn on the Right. “There have been a number of absurd reasons given recently by self-described conservatives who are endorsing the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate in his bid for the presidency, but none are quite as unconvincing as…
Anne Hits a Winner, Cohen Goes For the Jugular
I’ve been fairly hard on Anne Applebaum over the past few years, finding her if not actually neo-con then certainly neo-con-ish, tending to treat all foreign policy issues as a matter of toughness and will. “If we just stand up to the Russians/Taliban/Iranians/etc. then we’ll win!” The question of whether it’s worth traveling half-way around…