So, (you e-mailed me), How is Mr. Obama's Presidential Cabinet shaping up?

....let's us go back in time.

...way back!

and listen to Ernie Kovaks, Jack Lemmon and Edie Adams (Mrs. K.) as 

THE 

NAIROBI

TRIO

!

Of course Tina Fey will be back....who else can parody Sarah Palin? NOBODY.

who dat on the left? TINA FEY!

Did Tina Fey out-Palin Palin on 'Saturday Night Live'? - Sep 14, 2008-- Chicago Tribune
"I scratched and clawed through mud and barbed wire and you just glided in on a dog sled wearing your pageant sash and your Tina Fey glasses. ..."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/GAM.20080915.DIARY15/TPStory/TPComment

Funny skit. Good job, SNL!

But this is funny -- Will Farrell is a very sicko guy:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/gina-gershon-parodies-sar_n_125522.html

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next up: catfight! catfight!

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PR Newswire: Palin-Tol-Ogy - the Newsweek cover story

NEWSWEEK Cover: Palin-Tol-Ogy

From Her Race for Mayor to the 'Troopergate' Controversy: An In-Depth Look at the Governor, Hockey Mom, Hunter, Reformer, Pro-Life, 'Regular Red State Gal' Palin Didn't Always Regard Former Brother-In-Law as Bad Guy; Penned 2000 Reference Letter Calling Him 'A FINE ROLE MODEL'

Last update: 1:02 p.m. EDT Sept. 7, 2008

NEW YORK, Sept 07, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a self-described hockey Mom who hunts moose, juggles BlackBerrys and kids. She is also riven with contradictions and complexities. Palin is a reformer, but faces allegations of exerting improper influence in city and state government. A self-styled regular Red State gal, she is relentlessly driven, a politician of epic ambition who is running against a Washington establishment that, if elected, she will inevitably join, and even rule over.

In the September 15 Newsweek cover package, "Palin-tol-ogy," (on newsstands Monday, September 8), San Francisco Bureau Chief Karen Breslau and Washington Bureau Chief Jeffrey Bartholet plumb Palin's record for a better understanding of how she sees the world and where she stands on issues.

In the wake of her nomination, so many dirt-diggers were clamoring to get into the city hall of Wasilla, Palin's hometown, that the mayor, Dianne Keller, started a number system for out-of-towners to take turns. But the media's need for details about Palin mirrors a national hunger to know more about the 44-year-old governor who has improbably shaken up an already tumultuous race for the White House. The country was introduced to her and her family over the Labor Day weekend and through the Republican National Convention. Now, however, it's time to figure out not only who she is but what she's done and what she believes. Palin's personal story taps one of the great American myths -- the hardy woman of the frontier, God-fearing and determined to succeed against the odds. But as with most political biographies, the rougher edges have been burnished. To her critics, she's also shallow, opportunistic and even corrupt herself.

Palin's sense of personal mission may be rooted in her religious upbringing. She was raised a devout Christian, attending an Assembly of God church from the age of 4 until she was 38, and baptized in the cold waters of Alaska's Little Beaver Lake when she was 12. Formed in such a milieu, it is not surprising that someone like Palin would have a heightened sense of self, and of the possibilities of self, for she was taught from her earliest days that she could be directly moved by God. Friends say the Ten Commandments imbued her with a strong sense of right and wrong. Even now, when she talks about complex political matters, she sometimes speaks in religious terms. To a church gathering, she described a $30 billion natural-gas pipeline project, backed by state tax money, as "God's will." Similarly, she said the war in Iraq was "a task that is from God ... That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for -- that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."

Palin won her first election as Wasilla mayor with help and financial support from conservative groups. Some of her positions are clear: she's pro-life, opposing abortion in all cases except when the mother's life is in danger. She opposes same-sex marriage and favors teaching creationism alongside evolution in schools. But she hasn't pushed for legislative changes in any of those areas. Her reputation is built largely on standing up to corruption. But she's also regarded by political opponents as vindictive and petty, and has been known to mix personal interests in her own political life, leading to charges of hypocrisy. The issue likely to get the most press in the coming months is "Troopergate." This concerns Palin's former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, and her alleged attempts to get him kicked off the state police force. Critics say she abused her power. Defenders say she was trying to protect her family against someone who posed a danger.

Palin, however, didn't always regard Wooten as a bad guy. Newsweek has obtained a reference letter she wrote for Wooten in January 2000. She described his good works as a volunteer in local police and youth auxiliary programs: "I have witnessed Mike's gift of calm and kindness toward many young kids here in Wasilla. I have never seen him raise his voice, nor lose patience, nor become aggitated [sic] in the presence of any child." She called him a "fine role model." The following year, he married Palin's sister Molly. But the couple broke up in April 2005 and fought a bitter custody battle. Governor Palin, her husband, Todd, and close aides are now embroiled in what has become a public controversy: they're the subject of an official investigation, ordered by the Alaska State Legislature, into allegations that they may have made improper or possibly illegal efforts to get Wooten disciplined, and even fired. (Palin says she is innocent of any wrongdoing.)

Also in the cover package:

Chief Political Correspondent Howard Fineman writes that although Palin is a tough opponent, the Democrats will need to tread carefully when coming after her. Democrats are determined to attack her credibility, and "the first -- and for Democrats, the most obvious -- way to do so is on abortion. Palin doesn't believe in abortion even in cases of rape or incest," he writes. Still, the real task of hunting Palin belongs to Biden, who "is as deeply informed on the issues as any member of the Senate, but he has a tendency to want to prove it at length." A friend of Biden's told Newsweek, "He has to be careful not to come off as heavy-handed."

Special Correspondent Jacob Weisberg writes that "pragmatic Republicans have been trying to figure out how the party can become a 'big tent,' making room for a pro-choice as well as a pro-life faction. Until recently, the modernizers included John McCain," he writes. "But renewed evangelical dominance of the Republican Party in the George W. Bush years has pushed McCain in just the opposite direction ... It explains how McCain ended up with a wildly underqualified running mate in Sarah Palin, instead of his preferred pro-choice veep picks, Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge."

Assistant Managing Editor Kathy Deveny writes an essay on why she likes Sarah Palin. "If I'm really honest with myself, I'm mostly just happy that there's another woman on the national political stage. I think it's good for my 8-year-old daughter, who has called Hillary Clinton her idol. She doesn't love Hillary because of her health-care policy or pro-choice stance: she loves Hillary because she thinks girls rule. The more powerful women there are on the national stage, the better it is for all women, because this is a game of numbers," she writes. (Read the cover package at http://www.newsweek.com/ )

Cover: An Apostle of Alaska
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157696

What Happened to Family Values?
Jacob Weisberg
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157554

Howard Fineman
Beware the Barracuda
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157697

Kathleen Deveny
Confessions of a Secret Sarah Admirer
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157555

SOURCE Newsweek http://www.newsweek.msnbc.com/

Copyright (C) 2008 PR Newswire. All rights reserved

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While Obama sends out the "Hillary contingent" to temper "the Palin effect", I ponder about NYT OP-ED "The Mirrored Ceiling" and ask, "why bother?"

(((((Read this Warner broad, and then cry, girls, cry your eyes out:

I'll start from the center:)))))

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/the-mirrored-ceiling/?em

"But in the past, it was possible to fill that need through empathetic connection. Few Depression-era voters could “relate” to Franklin Roosevelt’s patrician background, notes historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. “It was his ability to connect to them that made them feel they could connect to him,” she told me in a phone interview.

"The age of television, Goodwin believes, has made the demand for connection more immediate and intense. But never before George W. Bush did it quite reach the beer-drinking level of familiarity. “Now it’s all about being able to see your life story in the candidate, rather than the candidate, with empathy, being able to relate to you.”

"There’s a fine line between likability and demagoguery. Both thrive upon manipulation and least-common-denominator politics. These days, I fear, this need for direct mirroring — and thus this susceptibility to all sorts of low-level tripe — is particularly acute among women, who are perhaps reaching historic lows in their comfort levels with themselves and their choices.
"Just look at how quickly the reaction to Palin devolved into what The Times this week called the “Mommy Wars: Special Campaign Edition.” Much of the talk about Palin (like the emoting about Hillary Clinton before her) ultimately came down to this: is she like me or not like me? If she’s not like me, can I like her? And what kind of child care does she have?

“This election is not about issues,” Rick Davis, John McCain’s campaign manager said this week. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.” That’s a scary thought. For the takeaway is so often base, a reflection more of people’s fears and insecurities than of our hopes and dreams.

"We’re not likely to get a worthy female president anytime soon. "


((((Thanks, alot. )))))


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News Flash! Joe Lieberman, national security experts briefing Palin on foreign policy

Lieberman briefing Palin on policy

12:00 AM CDT on Friday, September 5, 2008

The Washington Post

Joe Lieberman is among several national security experts helping brief Sarah Palin on foreign policy issues as she prepares to hit the campaign trail while cramming for a debate with her Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, in less than a month, McCain campaign officials said. Campaign officials called Ms. Palin a quick study who has sound judgment. But privately, some in the GOP foreign-policy establishment voiced concern that Mr. McCain has turned to a relative neophyte on national security.

((( Good! Even playing field. Hear, hear! )))

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What about us? Women cry foul and are swinging to Big John McCain -- "do you blame us?"

The delegates may go to Barack, but the votes will go to McCain.

Here's why:

from Radio Netherlands, and right on target.

Mad women
Why some Hillary supporters will vote for John McCain
By political editor John Tyler
23-08-2008

The Democratic Party's Convention which is expected to nominated Barack Obama as the party's presidential contender opens in Denver on Monday. Obama has picked Delaware Senator Joseph R Biden as his running mate. Not all Democrats are happy about Obama's nomination, however.

Many supporters of Hillary Clinton say they will not vote for Barack Obama, and plan to sit out the election in November. Others go even further, saying they will vote for Obama's opponent, Republican John McCain. Are they just sore losers, or is there something else going on?

Clinton's presidential campaign energized many people in the women's rights community. A woman had never climbed so high in American politics, and no presidential candidate had put such a priority on women's issues. An example from her Obama endorsement speech in June:"To build that future that I see, we must make sure that women and men alike understand the struggles of their grandmothers and their mothers and that women enjoy equal opportunities, equal pay and equal respect."

New York Congresswoman Caroline Maloney was an enthusiastic supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. While Mrs Maloney now supports the Democratic Party's likely nominee, Barack Obama, she understands why so many women in the Democratic Party are still unhappy: "It showed a great level of sexism and when you saw the great hope and then the sexism and the misogyny in our culture, it was really upsetting to many people."

Backsliding. Maloney points to backsliding, especially in the last 8 years, in a number of areas affecting women, including abortion rights, birth control, equal pay for equal work, and domestic violence. She, like many others, thought Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign would be a chance to turn things around. But the opposite happened, says Marcia Pappas of the National Organization for Women, one of the main women's organizations in the US. Clinton's loss in the Democratic Primary, and reactions to her campaign, only reminded women of their own inequality.Many felt the treatment of Clinton was a microcosm of how women are treated in general.

----Hillary was criticized for the way she dressed, for the size of her ankles, and for not being sufficiently warm or feminine. One male pundit even said she reminds all men of their first wives. And in the end, a man with much less experience got the job, something else many women identify with. According to women's activist Marcia Pappas this culminated in a rage. ----Hillary supporters are saying: if the Democratic party isn't going to denounce that kind of behaviour against one of their own, how are we to respond? For many women their response is: a vote for McCain.

Support for McCain: There aren't any hard figures on how many Hillary Clinton supporter's will go so far as to vote for John McCain (pictured left). But the internet is full of Hillary supporters rallying support for McCain. Caroline Cook is one such voter. Isn't it against her interest - as a woman interested in equal rights - to vote for John McCain? She said:
"That is precisely why I'm voting for John McCain. Well-behaved women rarely make history. I want to send a message to the Democratic Party from women. When you disrespect us, when you deny an overqualified candidate, there will be repercussions." The last two US presidential elections hinged on relatively few votes in crucial swing states. This year's election could turn on women who feel shut out by the Democratic Party. Then again, some still hope for a miracle. Hillary's name will be read out during the nominating process at the convention in Denver, and her votes will be counted. The delegates to the convention are not legally bound to vote for either candidate, they can change their mind at any time... We'll know more in a couple of days.

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She ain't sung yet -- I mean the FAT lady - and Obama is just the "presumptive" dem nom

from Politico (of course, where half the reporters are from WAPO!)

Rep.: Half of House Dems may vote Hillary at DNC
By AMIE PARNES & BEN SMITH 8/15/08 5:58 PM EST


On Friday, the Obama campaign confirmed that the floor vote in Denver, intended to assuage Clinton supporters still stewing over her narrow loss, will be conducted as a state-by-state roll call.


Rep. Loretta Sanchez says she’s happy for the chance to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Democratic National Convention — and she predicts that as many as half of the Democrats in the House could join her.

Just how many former Clinton supporters will vote for the former first lady during the symbolic first ballot is anybody’s guess, but each of them will be called upon to do so — whether they want to or not.

On Friday, the Obama campaign confirmed that the floor vote in Denver, intended to assuage Clinton supporters still stewing over her narrow loss, will be conducted as a state-by-state roll call. Under proposed convention bylaws, delegates would be forced to register their votes on a tally sheet with the convention secretary — the rules could be altered or suspended before the start of the convention.

“By putting her name in nomination, you're putting people on the spot,” said former delegate counter Matt Seyfang, adding a second potential drawback: “Having a roll call ... just chews into your broadcast time.”

Lower-key options were available. For example, Clinton’s name could have been entered into nomination, followed by laudatory speeches, ending with her release of delegates to Obama and proposal that he be nomination by acclamation, Seyfang said.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the “mechanics” of the roll call vote are still being worked out, but he conceded that Clinton probably will garner many votes on the first ballot.

For Obama’s camp, the roll call is a ritual that will defuse any potential tension with Clinton or her supporters without affecting the outcome or the theater of Obama’s dramatic nomination.

Said Sanchez: “I believe there are a lot of supporters for Hillary among the superdelegates, especially now that they’ve agreed to place her name in nomination. I think half the House Democrats would probably be Hillary supporters, especially women. ... I felt she was the most experienced and the best candidate and I still feel that way.”

Clinton herself has said she plans to vote for Obama.

A longtime Clinton adviser said it was “crazy” to guess at numbers but estimated that the former first lady would garner between 600 and 1,200 delegates — considerably short of the approximately 1,800 she had collected at the time of her departure from the race in early June.

“It’s a bizarre strategy,” said one Democratic strategist of the roll call. “It could backfire and show that her influence is waning. Chances are, she’s not going to have as many delegates vote for her on the floor as she had in the primary.”

Indeed, many Hillary diehards, including at least one member of the New York delegation, are reluctant to vote for Clinton after switching over to Obama.

“I think that most superdelegates, including myself, are going for Obama,” said New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, who campaigned with Clinton around the country. “I made my decision for Obama, and I’m not switching again.”

Other onetime Clinton backers are reluctant to reverse course for fear of angering their black constituents.

“My boss is totally conflicted about it — and pissed Hillary is putting us in this position,” said a congressional staffer for another New York House member. “We still haven’t made up our mind and I don’t know when we are going to.”

Another New York delegate, speaking on condition of anonymity, predicted that as much as 30 percent to 40 percent of the New York delegation would pick Clinton over Obama during the symbolic vote.

[ but ]

Obama’s decision to accept a roll call vote, which came after weeks of talks with the Clinton camp, doesn’t mean he’ll let the process get out of hand, observers say.

[ and ]

“The convention is about nominating Barack, so his people want to speed through the vote as fast as possible so it won’t take too much TV time,” said a Democratic delegate who plans to vote for Clinton. “They also want to avoid a scenario where she’s leading at any point.”

Additional reporting by Glenn Thrush.

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"White Mama" Hill does not have "starring role" on DRUDGE - wuzzup with that? She is getting a roll call at the Dem convention

She hired her own film crew, too, and p.r. man in tow, + make up artist (Max Factor back from the dead), it is time for her close-up anyway

Hillary Clinton taps her own video production team for Democratic convention
By THOMAS DeFRANK -- DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
Thursday, August 14th 2008, 1:56 AM

WASHINGTON - She's already snagged plum speaking gigs for herself, her husband and their daughter, so what else does Hillary Clinton want at the Denver convention?

Her own production team for the introductory video.

Democratic officials told the Daily News Wednesday that the video preceding Hillary's Aug. 26 prime-talk talk will be produced by Arkansas pals Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, best known for creating the TV sitcom "Designing Women."

These officials said that while many other convention speakers will also rate videos, Clinton negotiators insisted on Hillary having her own video team instead of letting Barack Obama's convention planners handle the production.

Thomason and his wife aren't exactly strangers to the convention game; they produced "The Man from Hope," the widely-acclaimed video biography of Bill Clinton premiering at the 1992 Democratic national convention.

Harry Thomason is the more controversial of the pair: he was involved in the firing of White House travel office employees in President Clinton's first term, testified before a grand jury investigating the Monica Lewinsky scandal and lobbied Bill Clinton to pardon two Arkansas

men in the final hours of his presidency.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_obama

and then....

Clinton to be nominated at Democratic convention Reuters - 6 hours ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton will be symbolically put forward as a presidential candidate at the Democratic convention later this month even ...

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Thank you, Lizz Winstead!

"We are living in interesting times, when a comedy writer can have a better campaign platform than either of our two Presidential Candidates" --Lizz Winstead on Elliott in the Morning, DC 101 FM Radio (my son listens to it!) 08-08-2008 around 8:10 AM EST

The writers: Adam McKay and Chris Henley ("Knocked Up")

The actress: Paris Hilton

The website: Are you one of the 5 Mil who viewed it? AHA!

The Platform: Energy Analysis and Bipartisanship

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The Dems say that John Edwards has some Xsplainin' to do*--(SHOCKING BABY PICTURES!)

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/exclusive_john_edwards_love_child_photos/celebrity/65258

*((( If Mr. Edwards wants to speak at the DEM Convention with Lady MacBeth-Clinton & Co. later this month )))

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is it over....yet? If Russert says it's over, does a FAT lady have to sing to get her off the political stage?

Russert (Key of Bb, please! )

Our republican candidate is a shell of the man he was in 2000, before Bush ate him for lunch. And now, with gas prices soaring to $4.00, we need McCain OUT!

Eugene McCarthy has come back as a mulatto, but times have changed. They have really changed. Or have they?

it's
deja
vu
all
over
again,
yogi
bear!


1968!






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Dick Morris says: (Hillary), It's over.

Can Dick Morris be believed in the venerable "THE HILL", the insider mag for congressmen and senators EVERYWHERE?

since i am that gal with the flat midwestern twang, too, i just sat up. and read.
after all, 5 years ago on fox, my hubby and i sat up when morris predicted that hillary would run.

if anyone knows, it is morris. he was there. he advised bill and hill.

now morris (and carvey) think mrs. c. needs to....go away...but pun-dits like lil' johnnny (pale man) gibson thinks that howard dean want to fix the fla. stuff so she gets the election! he went so far to say it on the air! imagine that.

(((OH! Obama, do something! but you may not have to.)))

who reads my weblog? uh-oh.

http://thehill.com/dick-morris/its-over-2008-03-06.html

Dick Morris
It’s over
By Dick Morris
Posted: 03/06/08 06:02 PM [ET]
The real message of Tuesday’s primaries is not that Hillary won. It’s that she didn’t win by enough.
The race is over.
The results are already clear. Obama will go to the Democratic Convention with a lead of between 100 and 200 elected delegates. The remaining question is: What will the superdelegates do then? But is that really a question? Will the leaders of the Democratic Party be complicit in its destruction? Will they really kindle a civil war by denying the nomination to the man who won the most elected delegates? No way. They well understand that to do so would be to throw away the party’s chances of victory and to stigmatize it among African-Americans and young people for the rest of their lives. The Democratic Party took 20 years to recover from the traumas of 1968 and it is not about to trigger a similar bloodletting this year.
John McCain’s nomination guarantees that the superdelegates wouldn’t dare. A perfectly acceptable alternative for most Democrats, McCain would harvest so large a proportion of Obama’s votes if Hillary steals the nomination that he would probably win. Even putting Obama on the ticket would not allay the anger of his supporters; it would just make him complicit in the robbery.
Will Hillary win Pennsylvania? Who cares? Even if she were to sweep the remaining primaries and caucuses by 10 points, she would move just 60 votes closer to Obama’s total of elected delegates. And she won’t sweep them all. Even if Hillary wins Pennsylvania, the largest prize up for grabs, Obama will probably win North Carolina, which is almost as large. He’s likely to win Mississippi and Wyoming and has a good shot in Oregon and Indiana. The most likely result of these coming contests is that Obama will be roughly where he is now, about 140 elected delegates ahead of Hillary.
Suppose that Hillary will carry those states by enough to offset Obama’s delegate lead. The proportional representation system makes a knockout impossible and so mutes relatively narrow victories as to make them almost inconsequential. Little Vermont, with 600,000 people, gave Obama a net gain of four delegates, half of what Hillary won from the Texas primary, a state with 20 million residents. Even after Hillary won big-state victories in Ohio and Texas, she drew only 20 closer to Obama’s total of elected delegates.
Hillary won’t withdraw. That much is for sure. The tantalizing notion that 800 insiders can offset a season of primaries and caucuses will drive both Clintons to ever-escalating rhetoric. Will their attacks hurt Obama? Likely all they will achieve is to give him needed experience in the cut and thrust of media politics.
Left out of the entire equation is poor John McCain. Unable to get a word in edgewise and unsure of which Democrat to attack, he will have to watch from the sidelines as Hillary and Obama hog the headlines. If the superdelegates deliver the nomination to Hillary in the dead of night without leaving fingerprints at the crime scene, McCain’s nomination will be worth having. If Obama prevails, it won’t be worth the paper on which it is written. The giant killer, Obama will have soared to new heights of popularity and McCain won’t be able to bring him back to Earth in the nine weeks that will remain. Suggestion for Obama:
The next time Hillary uses the recycled red phone ad, counter with one of your own. When the phone rings in the middle of the night, have a woman’s voice, with a flat Midwestern accent, answer it and say, “Hold on” into the receiver. Then she should shout, “Bill! It’s for you!”
Because with Hillary’s complete lack of any meaningful experience in foreign affairs, and her lack of the “testing” that she boldly claims, she’ll be yelling for Bill.

Morris, a former adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of Outrage. To get all of Dick Morris’s and Eileen McGann’s columns for free by email, go to http://www.dickmorris.com/ .

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Ann Coulter will campaign for Hillary Clinton - and I will EAT my desktop!

WHY do they ("the media") allow this shrike on national cable television? WHY WHY WHY????? She writes this book, plugs it shamelessly (nice dress, etc., ad nauseum), but jumps on the BASH McCain Bandwagon with Mark Levin, El Rush-BLOW, and the merry GOP henchman and voila! -- I [heart] Hillary, "I'm a Hillary girl now!"- Either this is a BAD Publicity stunt, and/or it further propels evil john mccain into the Oval Office - whooosh! He's got the Nom! Get over it!

And trust me, at one time I truly, deeply admired her, for her balls to the walls, f___ you mentality. It made her famous!

http://highvizpr.blogspot.com/2005/04/ann-coulter-on-cover-of-time-ultimate.html
and the Columba Journalism Review made sure that they let me know about it!

Come to think of it, the shrike is alright! There may be that method to her spinning madness....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327605,00.html

Ann Coulter on McCain and Conservatives
Friday, February 01, 2008

This is a rush transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," January 31, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: And Senator John McCain is gaining momentum, but not all conservatives are jumping for joy. Senator McCain is a polarizing candidate for many. And critics point to his stance on immigration, his work with Russ Feingold. But with a potential Hillary Clinton candidacy on the Democratic side of the aisle, will true conservatives eventually fall in line and support the Arizona senator?

Joining us now, author of the "New York Times" best seller, "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd be Republicans," our friend Ann Coulter. How are you?

ANN COULTER, AUTHOR, "IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS": Fine, thank you.
HANNITY: I'm standing on substance here.
COULTER: Yes.
HANNITY: It's immigration. It's limits on free speech. It's not supporting tax cuts.
COULTER: It's Anwar. It's torture at Guantanamo.
HANNITY: Class warfare rhetoric. It's interrogations. It's Guantanamo. It's Anwar. These are not small issues to conservatives.
COULTER: No, and if you're looking at substance rather than whether it's an R or D after his name, manifestly, if our's candidate than Hillary's going to be our girl, Sean, because she's more conservative than he is. I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism. I absolutely believe that.
HANNITY: That's the one area I disagree with you.
COULTER: No, yes, we're going to sign up together. Let me explain that point on terrorism.
HANNITY: You'd vote for Hillary —
COULTER: I will campaign for her if it's McCain.
HANNITY: If Hillary is watching tonight, you just got an endorsement —
COLMES: I just heard the word no.
COULTER: I was touched when she cried. That part isn't true. But the rest of it is true. He has led the fight against — well, as you say, interrogations. I say torture at Guantanamo. She hasn't done that. She hasn't taken a position in front.
HANNITY: Without interrupting you, let me give you one distinction — that's what liberals do to you. Let me give you one distinction, he did support the war —
COULTER: So did Hillary.
HANNITY: But he stayed with it. He supported the surge. I didn't like his criticisms of Rumsfeld, but he was right —
COULTER: OK, let's get to him supporting the surge. He keeps going on and on about how he was the only Republican who supported the surge and other Republicans attacked him. It was so awful how he was attacked. It was worse than being held in a tiger cage.
I looked up the record. Republicans all supported the surge. He's not only not the only one who supported the surge, I promise you no Republican attacked him for this. And you know why he's saying that, Sean, because he keeps saying it at every debate, I'm the only one. I was attacked by Republicans. He's confusing Republicans with his liberal friends. They're the ones who attacked him for it, his real friends.
HANNITY: Hillary Clinton, if she gets her way, will nationalize health care. She's going to pull the troops out of Iraq.
COULTER: I don't think she will.
HANNITY: That's what she's saying she's going to do. She says in a hundred days she's immediately going to begin to pull out.
(CROSS TALK)
COULTER: She's running in a Democratic primary. He's running in the Republican primary, and their positions are about that far apart. When George Bush said at the State of the Union Address that the surge is working in Iraq, Obama sat on his hands, Kennedy sat on his hands, Hillary leapt up and applauded that we are winning in the surge and that the surge is working in Iraq.
She gave much better answers in those debates when Democrats like Obama and Biden were saying what do we do? What do we do if three cities are attacked. She said, I will find who did it and I will go after them.
HANNITY: You want to sit back.
(CROSS TALK)
ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Can I just say something — Ann -
(CROSS TALK)
COULTER: Hillary is absolutely more conservative.
COLMES: My work is done. My work is done.
COULTER: Moreover, she lies less than John McCain. I'm a Hillary girl now. She lies less than John McCain. She's smarter than John McCain, so that when she's caught shamelessly lying, at least the Clintons know they've been caught lying. McCain is so stupid, he doesn't even know he's been caught.
COLMES: Go. In fact, could you fill in for me next week? Let me get this straight, would you vote for Hillary Clinton?
COULTER: Yes.
COLMES: You would actually go in a voting booth —
COULTER: If it's close and the candidate is John McCain, because John McCain is not only bad for Republicanism, which he definitely is. He is bad for —
(CROSS TALK)
COLMES: Can I tell you the last thing that Hillary Clinton wants? Ann Coulter's endorsement.
COULTER: Even now he's running as a Republican, he won't give up on amnesty. At that debate the other not —
(CROSS TALK)
COULTER: I'm serious.
COLMES: I know, but let me get serious for a second, because so far I haven't. Look, are you telling me — look at all the people endorsing McCain. I'm not talking about Johnny come lately Republicans. Nancy Reagan is wrong? Rick Perry is wrong? Arnold is wrong? Charlie Crist is wrong?
COULTER: Other than Nancy Reagan —
(CROSS TALK)
COULTER: I will explain. It's not that they're wrong. Other than Nancy Reagan, and by the way we loved Nancy Reagan for loving Ron Reagan. We didn't love her for her political persuasion.
(CROSS TALK)
COLMES: All of these people are off the beat.
COULTER: I'm trying to answer the question. Stop talking. I'm moving Nancy Reagan to the side, and I'm saying all the rest of these political endorsements mean one thing; they think he's the front runner. They want a job in his administration. Nothing means less than an endorsement from someone who wants a position.
COLMES: They're all hoes just looking for a job?
COULTER: No, but they all do want jobs.
COLMES: I'm giving her the opportunity —
COULTER: They do all want jobs. It's good to be friends with the king. Some people —
HANNITY: Will you be careful.
COULTER: Some people don't care about being the king.

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February 1, 2008, 5:22 AM
Would that he would do it officially . . . - Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP
February 1, 2008, 4:49 AM

January 31, 2008, 3:34 PM
John Edwards Drops Out, Endorses McCain - Scrappleface

GOP TO EDWARDS: HOW MUCH FOR THAT CONCESSION SPEECH? January 30, 2008 - The Democrats are trying to give away an election they should win in a walk by nominating someone with real problems -- like, for example, a first-term senator with a 100 percent rating from Americans for Democratic Action and whose middle name is "Hussein." But we won't let them. The bright side of the Florida debacle is that I no longer fear Hillary Clinton. (I mean in terms of her becoming president -- on a personal level, she's still a little creepy.) I'd rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. With Hillary, we'll get the same ruinous liberal policies with none of the responsibility. Also, McCain lies a lot, which is really more a specialty of the Democrats. Recently, McCain responded to Mitt Romney's statement that he understood the economy based on his many years in the private sector by claiming Romney had said a military career is not a "real job." McCain's neurotic boast that he is the only Republican who supported the surge is beginning to sound as insane as Bill Clinton's claim to being the "first black president" -- although less insulting to blacks. As with the Clintons, you find yourself looking up such tedious facts as this, which ran a week after Bush announced the surge: "On the morning of Bush's address, Romney endorsed a troop surge." -- The National Journal, Jan. 13, 2007 And yet for the 4 billionth time, at the Jan. 5, 2008, Republican debate, McCain bragged about his own raw courage in supporting the surge despite (apocryphal) Republican attacks, saying: "I said at the time that Gen. Petraeus and his strategy must be employed, and I was criticized by Republicans at that time. And that was a low point, but I stuck to it. I didn't change." A review of contemporaneous news stories about the surge clearly demonstrates that the only Republicans who were so much as "skeptical" of the surge consisted of a few oddball liberal Republicans such as Sens. Gordon Smith, Norm Coleman and Olympia Snowe. They certainly weren't attacking McCain, their standard-bearer in liberal Republicanism. But even if they were, it was a "low point" for McCain being "criticized" by the likes of Olympia Snowe? In point of fact, McCain didn't even stand up to the milquetoasts. In April 2007, when Democrats in the Senate passed a bill funding the troops but also requiring a rapid withdrawal, "moderate" Republicans Smith and Chuck Hagel voted with the Democrats. McCain and Lindsey Graham skipped the vote. But like the Democrats, McCain thinks if he simply says something over and over again, he can make people believe it's true. Thus again at the South Carolina debate on Jan. 10, McCain was proclaiming that he was "the only one on this stage" who supported the surge. Since he would deny it about two minutes later, here is exactly what Mr. Straight Talk said about the surge: "I supported that; I argued for it. I'm the only one on this stage that did. And I condemn the Rumsfeld strategy before that." The next question went to Giuliani and -- amid great flattery -- Giuliani noted that he also supported Bush's surge "the night of the president's speech." Mr. Straight Talk contradicted Giuliani, saying: "Not at the time." Again, Giuliani said: "The night of the president's speech, I was on television. I supported the surge. I've supported it throughout." To which McCain finally said he didn't mean that he was "the only one on this stage" who supported the surge. So by "the only one on this stage," McCain really meant, "one of several people on this stage." OK, great. Now tell us your definition of the word "is," Senator. I know Republicans have been trained not to go prostrate at Ivy League degrees, but do we have to admire stupidity? Mr. Straight Talk also announced at that same debate: "One of the reasons why I won in New Hampshire is because I went there and told them the truth." That and the fact that Democrats were allowed to vote in the Republican primary. Even in the Florida primary, allegedly limited to Republicans, McCain lost among Republicans. (Seventeen percent of the Republican primary voters in Florida called themselves "Independents.") That helps, but why would any Republican vote for McCain? At least under President Hillary, Republicans in Congress would know that they're supposed to fight back. When President McCain proposes the same ideas -- tax hikes, liberal judges and Social Security for illegals -- Republicans in Congress will support "our" president -- just as they supported, if only briefly, Bush's great ideas on amnesty and Harriet Miers. You need little flags like that for Republicans since, as we know from the recent unpleasantness in Florida, Republicans are unalterably stupid. Republicans who vote for McCain are trying to be cute, like the Democrats were four years ago by voting for the "pragmatic" candidate, Vietnam vet John Kerry. This will turn out to be precisely as clever a gambit as nominating Kerry was, the brilliance of which was revealed on Election Day 2004.

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Oh, how I love those Southern Boys - (Psst: I married two of them!) - My crush, Al Gore, who shoulda been prez, gets an Oscar movie nom!

That's just as cool! Hollywood meets Washington again!

I still have the autograph (in gold leaf!) you sent me in 1994, sir!
Tipper forgive me, but your husband ROCKS MY WORLD!

SEE:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/23/D8MR39K01.html

"Al Gore "thrilled" by Oscar Nom"--AP

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