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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Unforgivable of John &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strike style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;McCain&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt; Kerry To have Placed Utterly Reprehensible &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strike style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Palin &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Edwards Potentially A Heartbeat From Presidency (Fixed)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;There, I have fixed the meme the left has run with for the last four years. Whenever Sarah Palin says anything newsworthy out come the leftist gang of snide commentators, and one of their favorite remarks is to damn John McCain with faint praise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;This&amp;nbsp;usually&amp;nbsp;runs along the lines of "McCain is a patriot, sure, but I will&amp;nbsp;never&amp;nbsp;forgive him for placing that dingbat a heartbeat away from the presidency."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Not that anyone cares whether the&amp;nbsp;commentator&amp;nbsp;forgives McCain of course, and of course that preamble is just a set-up to then go on to attack Palin, whilst at the same time seeming generous-which fools nobody.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;That Palin was a highly competent governor, took on the entrenched corrupt elements, kept McCain's&amp;nbsp;faltering&amp;nbsp;campaign above Obama's in the polls and, according to CNN's exit&amp;nbsp;polling&amp;nbsp;had a positive effect on voters choice in 2008 is ignored of course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;What is also ignored-totally is a genuine case of an&amp;nbsp;incompetent&amp;nbsp;and reprehensible person being chosen by the&amp;nbsp;Democrats&amp;nbsp;in 2004. If Kerry had won, the truly faulty John Edwards would have been a heartbeat away from the presidency-and in that office the pressures and dangers&amp;nbsp;could&amp;nbsp;cause anything to happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;To have such a morally flawed person chosen as a potential president escapes the leftist commentators, who prefer to ignore &amp;nbsp;it, or if they do say anything, it is along the lines of "well all politicians do it, not just the Dem's." They then proceed to attack Palin, who,&amp;nbsp;compared&amp;nbsp;to Edwards, is a saint. And, as to which was more qualified to have been vice-president, Palin is to Edwards as Washington is Jimmy Carter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;In the meantime the left continues on with their childish Palin bashing, using McCain as their foil whilst Edwards continues on with &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/john-edwards-juror-flirts-him-123557524--abc-news-topstories.html"&gt;the reported womanizing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Just to prove I am not making this up and ANYTHING is possible when the media reports on Sarah Palin...well, words fail me in this instance (which is a first)!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;From SIFY News Site &lt;a href="http://www.sify.com/news/sarah-palin-s-ex-fiance-levi-johnston-broke-and-living-with-mum-news-international-mfzlOkagceg.html?scategory=international"&gt;AT THIS LINK&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;which apparently doesn't bother to check its headline writers, which makes one wonder about the accuracy of any items in the media,&amp;nbsp;especially&amp;nbsp;where a Palin is concerned.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;I note the "exercise your brain" advert-perhaps the editors&amp;nbsp;should&amp;nbsp;undertake a course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Editor Eric Dondero, a Texas voter "enthusiastically&amp;nbsp;endorses" Ted Cruz's candidacy which&amp;nbsp;candidacy&amp;nbsp;received&amp;nbsp;the endorsement of Sarah Palin.&lt;br /&gt;
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From Eric Dondero:&lt;br /&gt;
It's getting down to the wire in the hotly contested Texas Senate GOP primary to replace retiring Sen. Kay B. Hutchison. Most observers agree, Lt. Governor Dewhurst is likely to squeek by in the first round, but then faces a very tough challenge in the run-off against likely 2nd place finisher Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz.&lt;br /&gt;
In this latest ad, Sarah Palin affirms her support.&lt;br /&gt;
Pro-defense libertarians may be wondering where he stands on foreign policy. The race has been much more about budgetary matters. And there appears to be few differences between the candidates on military/defense. Cruz has expressed skepticism of nation-building at taxpayer expense, he does recognize the threat of Islamism.&lt;br /&gt;
In a Memorial Day&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.voicesempower.com/special-thank-you-to-our-us-veterans-ted-cruz/" style="color: #b22234; text-decoration: none;"&gt;video message&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;just released by the Cruz campaign he asserts:&lt;blockquote&gt;
These are American’s Veterans…&lt;br /&gt;
In World War ll they fought Tyranny…..&lt;br /&gt;
During the Cold War they battled Communism…….&lt;br /&gt;
In our Generation they Serve Valiantly to Defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism……..&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Editor's note - As a Texas voter, I enthusiastically endorse Ted Cruz for US Senate.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Christian&amp;nbsp;heroine,&amp;nbsp;young&amp;nbsp;Madeleine&amp;nbsp;McCauley, is now receiving, much&amp;nbsp;warranted, plaudits for her unshakeable stance for life. This young lady exemplifies the very best in American youth, and as such has of course received death threats from the radical left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;There is an uplifting video of Madeleine on Fox, and her personal story of how she met and was inspired by Sarah Palin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tiny.cc/as2tew"&gt;&amp;nbsp;AT THIS LINK&lt;/a&gt; -unmissable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Now the evangelical website &lt;a href="http://kingdominsight.ning.com/forum/topics/2691844:Topic:90226"&gt;"Kingdom Insight" &lt;/a&gt;(to&amp;nbsp;which&amp;nbsp;I am a subscriber) celebrates her;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The battle for life- for Madeleine McAulay&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;I am watching before my very eyes a battle being fought surrounding a 16 year old girl,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;&lt;u style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;"&gt;Madeleine McAulay.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;As you are reading this, you may be thinking I am talking about the struggle between the progressive ‘trolls’ as they are commonly being called, and the innocence of a young girl boldy proclaiming her voice, standing up for Godly principles.&amp;nbsp; Or, if you are of a different political persuasion, I might be describing the battle between decency and common sense and the bigotry of a naïve, ignorant girl who does not understand the hate she is spewing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;But I am not describing either battle, I am describing a battle in the girl herself, and I see it unfolding here, live, on Twitter.&amp;nbsp; The buzz built around this girl as she was featured on a local Fox news station after her bold youtube video where she proclaimed against the right of homosexuals to marry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;But more, she proclaimed herself to be a ‘Christian Conservative’, marked herself as being separate, distinct from the typical political operative, proclaiming her guiding light in Christ.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;The buzz built.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;The ‘trolls’ came out to silence this Christian voice.&amp;nbsp; The very work of their assaults served to lift this girl up further, not tear her down, not silence her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;The buzz built.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;I came upon this buzz by accident.&amp;nbsp; I discovered a college-age girl on Twitter who had just recently had an article accepted by our local newspaper.&amp;nbsp; I noticed she was a Sarah Palin supporter and thought she might like to get in contact with someone I knew who knew Madeleine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;I soon discovered the girl I was trying to connect was already a member of Team Sarah and already connected to Madeleine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;In this effort to connect, I stumbled upon something rarely seen up close, the stepping out for the first time on a world stage by a new voice, Madeleine McAuley.&amp;nbsp; I saw her, through Twitter, preparing for that step, an appearance on Fox and Friends, a 3 minute spot.&amp;nbsp; The mere fact that she was going to appear on Fox and Friends further amped up the progressive ‘trolls’.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;The buzz built.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Then, the comment heard round the world- at least it might be for Madeleine, the comment that may have brought together the perfect narrative for a conservative movement desperate for martyrs, for courageous ‘victims’ to combat the parade of courageous ‘victims’ the progressives have to offer, the anti-Sandra Fluke, if you will.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;The buzz built.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://kingdominsight.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-battle-for-life-for-madeleine-mcaulay" style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" target="_self"&gt;Read the full ar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://kingdominsight.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-battle-for-life-for-madeleine-mcaulay" style="font-size: 1em; position: static !important;" target="_self"&gt;ticle her&lt;/a&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;England&amp;nbsp;has no kidney bank, but it does have a&amp;nbsp;Liverpool.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;All the toilets in&amp;nbsp;New York's police stations have been stolen.&amp;nbsp;The police have nothing to go on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;Haunted French pancakes give me the crêpes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;Velcro — what a rip off!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;A cartoonist was found dead in his home.&amp;nbsp;Details are sketchy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;Venison for dinner again? Oh deer!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;The earthquake in&amp;nbsp;Washington&amp;nbsp;obviously was the government's fault.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;Be kind to your dentist.&amp;nbsp;He has fillings, too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;I don't enjoy computer jokes; not one bit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Meeting Sarah Palin Against All Odds&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://faithhopeandpolitics.com/meeting-sarah-palin-against-all-odds/" style="color: #999999;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #999999;"&gt;by&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="meta-author" style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; color: #999999; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1e3240; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.1em; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;MADELEINE MCAULAY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://faithhopeandpolitics.com/meeting-sarah-palin-against-all-odds/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;(AT THIS LINK)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://faithhopeandpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Meeting-Sarah-Palin.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; color: #a3000e; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-596" height="245" src="http://faithhopeandpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Meeting-Sarah-Palin-300x169.jpg" style="background-color: #ebebeb; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-width: 1px; display: block; height: auto !important; margin: 0px auto 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Meeting Sarah Palin" width="424" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;I was sitting in the hotel lounge chatting with a fellow conservative, at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference; we were discussing the day’s events, and our shared love for Governor Sarah Palin, when suddenly a mob of people were gathering outside of the lounge, shouting and carrying on. I assumed it was a GOP Presidential Candidate, or some other “important” person, but when someone yelled out, “It’s Palin”, I immediately jumped out of my seat, and rushed over to see if it was true. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;It was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;If you know me well, then you are aware that Sarah Palin is my inspiration for being involved in politics and you can probably imagine how excited I was to find out I was only a few feet away from her. But there was a slight problem- How the heck was I going to get close to her?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Security was everywhere and the mob had grown quite large, with people shouting and taking pictures. I had pretty much settled with the fact that I wasn’t going to get any closer, but suddenly I had an idea. I let my eyes search around the huge room, scanning to see if there was any way around all of the people. When it all seemed hopeless, I caught a glimpse of where the security in front of the Palin’s were going, and without any further thought, I made my way to them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;It turns out a few other people had come up with the same idea, but I was not going to let them get in my way. I pushed my way (politely of course) to the front of the line. The security, by this point, began to lock arms and create a human wall. Bristol and Willow Palin walked frantically by, while the security blocked. But as they left, I caught a glimpse of their mom, my inspiration, Sarah Palin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;I know it sounds very drama filled, and crazy, and believe me, it was!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;As I stood directly in front of the security guards, Sarah began to get closer, and the crowd began to push. I quickly pulled out my phone and began to get a video. All I wanted was a smile, or maybe even a handshake, but as she got closer and closer I decided I wanted something more. I wanted a picture.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;I wracked my brain trying to figure out a way to get her attention, and as she started to walk by I was determined to make it happen. I took a deep breath, hopefully to gain some courage, and then shouted, “I am 16! Can I please get a picture?” There was a slight pause that made me think it was hopeless, but suddenly Sarah whips her hair around, and with her unique Alaskan accent says, “Of Course!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;One of the security guards, obviously frustrated said, “Okay. Let her through.” The rest of the guards obliged, unhooked their arms, and one took my phone. Sarah wrapped her arm around my waist and we both smiled for the picture.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;It only lasted a few seconds, but I swear those were the best few seconds of my life!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The picture may not be perfect; it’s blurry and in sepia (which I am still trying to figure out how that happened), but no matter what, it will be a picture I will cherish forever!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;I guess it is only appropriate to end with what I have always said-&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Governor Sarah Palin is the one who inspired me to get involved, and Barack Obama is the reason I am involved.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 24px;"&gt;And here is the brave and forthright Madeleine today fighting for&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 24px;"&gt;her&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 24px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Christian principles whilst&amp;nbsp;receiving&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 24px;"&gt;death&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 24px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;threats&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And this from The Blaze (READ THE FULL STORY &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/16-year-old-conservative-girl-receives-death-threats-after-posting-gay-marriage-youtube-video/screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-1-32-24-pm/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;AT THIS LINK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/16-year-old-conservative-girl-receives-death-threats-after-posting-gay-marriage-youtube-video/screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-1-32-24-pm/" rel="attachment wp-att-320767" style="border: 0px; color: #ff2323; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;" target="_self"&gt;&lt;img alt="Madeleine McAulay, 16, Talks About Death Threats and Vulgur Responses to Gay Marriage YouTube Video on Fox" class="size-large wp-image-320767" height="349" src="http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Screen-shot-2012-05-23-at-1.32.24-PM-620x349.png" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 5px 5px 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Madeline McAulay" width="620" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Madeleine McAulay, a sixteen-year-old Christian conservative from North Carolina, is speaking out today after receiving a litany of death threats and vile responses for publicly espousing her views on gay marriage.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;One of the most famous blog's "The Other McCain" which touts (with good reason) its masthead personality Robert Stacy McCain as "The World's Most Interesting Blogger" has a fascinating piece by Internet guru "Smitty'. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;The articles reveals an envisaged appearance on Bristol Palin's upcoming reality show "Life's a Tripp" by the redoubtable McCain and postulates the hapless&amp;nbsp;Levi Johnston might be the worse for wear should this&amp;nbsp; appearance eventuate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;This is a fascinating possibility and for the original article plus an amazing further post on the possible danger to McCain's well-being by a alleged crazed leftist please go to his site and give him your&amp;nbsp; written and even more importantly, financial, support.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://theothermccain.com/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;AT THIS LINK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Posted on &lt;/b&gt;| May 22, 2012 | &lt;a data-disqus-identifier="71710 http://theothermccain.com/?p=71710" href="http://theothermccain.com/2012/05/22/bristol-palin-to-get-reality-show-stacy-mccain-content-with-surreality-show/#disqus_thread" title="Comment on Bristol Palin To Get Reality Show; Stacy McCain Content With Surreality Show"&gt;2 Comments and 0 Reactions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
by &lt;em&gt;Smitty&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Via &lt;a href="http://www.memeorandum.com/120522/p107#a120522p107" target="_blank"&gt;Memeorandum&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/05/coming-soon-bristol-palins-reality-show-124204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Politico&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/05/coming-soon-bristol-palins-reality-show-124204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Bristol Palin&lt;/a&gt;: Life’s a Tripp, premiering Tuesday, June 19, at 10pm ET/PT with back-to-back episodes. Two new episodes will subsequently air every Tuesday, showcasing Bristol’s journey growing into womanhood with her young son, Tripp.&lt;br /&gt;
With never-before-granted access to Bristol’s real-life experiences, the show follows her everyday life as a single mother living under intense media scrutiny that comes from her lineage as the daughter of former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
I want to see the episode where she’s out to dinner and Stacy McCain, now &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9hrV1KIx4" target="_blank"&gt;The World’s Most Interesting Blogger&lt;/a&gt; (mosquitos do not bite, him out of respect), saves her from being accosted by Levi Johnston.&lt;br /&gt;
McCain takes Johnston to task for being a standing insult to manhood of Obama-esque proportions. Johnston breaks down crying at the description of what McCain would do to him, were one of McCain’s daughters to receive such despicable treatment. Levi eventually requires hospitalization to recover from contusions suffered due to the impact of McCain’s verbal onslaught, and actually sends a thank-you note to Todd Palin for showing more mercy.&lt;br /&gt;
Hmmm. I seem to bear some animus toward Johnston.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Here is&amp;nbsp;Sarah&amp;nbsp;Palin's newly released robo call for the&amp;nbsp;candidate&amp;nbsp;she has endorsed, Ted Cruz, for GOP senator from&amp;nbsp;Texas&amp;nbsp;for the May 29th primary campaign.&amp;nbsp;Followed&amp;nbsp;by the striking new poll after Palin's endorsement of him which puts Cruz within single digits of the lead&amp;nbsp;after&amp;nbsp;commencing&amp;nbsp;his&amp;nbsp;race at only 3% support.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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And here is the &amp;nbsp;latest polling as reported by The Texas Tribune &lt;a href="http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-elections/uttt-poll-runoff-prospects-loom-us-senate-races/"&gt;AT THIS LINK&lt;/a&gt; from their UT/TT Poll published May 21st.Ted Cruz is now within single digits of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst who for so long, until the endorsement by Palin, was the presumed winner and poll leader. Eve if Cruz does&amp;nbsp;not&amp;nbsp;catch up within the&amp;nbsp;remaining&amp;nbsp;days till the poll he stands a great chance of coming out on top in the run off&lt;br /&gt;
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The Cruz rise follows on from palin's remarkable success in&amp;nbsp;assisting&amp;nbsp;conservative candidates, who were&amp;nbsp;outsiders&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;initially&amp;nbsp;polling lowly, into becoming winners. Richard Mourdock in Indiana and Deb&amp;nbsp;Fischer in&amp;nbsp;Nebraska&amp;nbsp;are the two latest whom even palin's enemies have&amp;nbsp;grudgingly&amp;nbsp;admitted were&amp;nbsp;assisted&amp;nbsp;into the winners circle. if Cruz is the last in the recent trifecta then his win will be perhaps the most remarkable of palin's picks and her place as&amp;nbsp;king maker&amp;nbsp;will have to be accepted by the punditry.&lt;/div&gt;
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January 2011 Dewhurst 23% Cruz 3% (Dewhurst +20)&lt;/div&gt;
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July 2011 Dewhurst 40% Cruz 11% (Dewhurst +29)&lt;/div&gt;
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September 2011 Dewhust 41% Cruz 12% &amp;nbsp;(Dewhurst +29&lt;/div&gt;
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January 2012 Dewhurst 36% Cruz 18% (Dewhurst +18)&lt;/div&gt;
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Dewhurst 38% Cruz 26% (Dewhurst +12)&lt;/div&gt;
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PALIN&amp;nbsp;ENDORSES&amp;nbsp;CRUZ MAY 10th CRUZ CAMPAIGN REPORTS MASSIVE INTEREST&lt;/div&gt;
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Dewhurst 40% Cruz 31% (Dewhurst +9)&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;When I was about 14 my Uncle took me to the&amp;nbsp;Apollo&amp;nbsp;Theater in Harlem where they had an all night revue as I wanted to see Bo Diddley&amp;nbsp;who was headlining. Innocent and different days! We got there at midnight and we were the only white people in the whole theater, but nobody noticed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;I can't remember who the other acts were except for, I believe, the mighty Ruth Brown but it didn't matter for when Bo came on (with his very bored looking drummer) he blew the place away. He was at the height of his huge vocal power and of course his guitar work was astonishing&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;with its raw, hard driving&amp;nbsp;rhythm&amp;nbsp;and volume&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;. This was before he&amp;nbsp;became, sadly in my opinion, a bit,square guitar/Duchess gimmicky. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;It has stayed with me as a wonderful memory the rest of my life both for the ethos of time and place,which will never be repeated, and for the fabulous&amp;nbsp;performance. There is a clip of the 1958 original version of his "Mona" (on a 78rpm!) at the bottom of the page which conveys some idea of &amp;nbsp;his power.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;The recording of one of his signature songs "I'm A Man" gives some, only some, idea of his vocal power and early&amp;nbsp;restrained&amp;nbsp;guitar work, and the harmonica backing is superb. It is&amp;nbsp;interesting&amp;nbsp;to compare his version to other great artists. For me Muddy Waters version is&amp;nbsp;outstanding&amp;nbsp;down home and earthy and his voice is of course powerful but there is a "thickness" to his tone and a little to much of the 1940's Jazz shouter for my taste and the version is "clubby".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;The Hendrix version is new to me and nothing special. The Chuck Berry version is, as with so much of his work, a delight and delivered with a wink rather than with the libidinousness which is usual&amp;nbsp;encountered&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;this&amp;nbsp;song. Actually Chuck can do no wrong, it is a great piece of performance art but the song&amp;nbsp;should&amp;nbsp;be, in my opinion,&amp;nbsp;delivered&amp;nbsp;in a more earthy manner.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;But these are immortal artists singing an immortal song each in their own way and as far as which is best... to each his/her own but for me Bo is the man&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;She electrified the crowd that night and sent fear into the heart of the left. Vice presidential candidates were not suppose to carry the presidential candidate but this was obviously not an ordinary VP pick. As the elated crowds left the convention floor the media and the left wing political apparatus went into high gear with one thing in mind, destroy Sarah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;Throughout the summer huge crowds followed the messiah around and sang his hosannas. When McCain spoke people came but the crowds were dull and the energy low but not when Sarah showed up. Wherever she went the atmosphere came alive.&amp;nbsp; Her crowds matched the messiahs in both numbers and enthusiasm. He was the aloof and untouchable media darling, she was a gun toting firebrand that knew what real work was. If Obama had a picture of someone in his head when he complained about the guns and God crowd it would of looked a lot like Sarah Palin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://theconservativeminddotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/palin-crowd-composite.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1788" height="334" src="http://theconservativeminddotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/palin-crowd-composite.jpg?w=529&amp;amp;h=334" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0.5em auto 1.625em; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="Palin Crowd composite" width="529" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Everywhere she went the crowds followed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The fact is before she entered the campaign McCain was an underdog of underdogs. Carrying an 800 pound gorilla called Bush on his back and facing a Democratic candidate with unparalleled enthusiasm from the party faithful the race seemed lost before it began. After Sarah joined the team his polls rose and even put him ahead. Never in the history of politics had a VP pick been such a game changer. Never in modern history had on candidates choice for VP been so reviled by the opposing party and the press alike.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;A partial explanation of the mad dog response to Sarah Palin may be found in Obama’s total lack of qualifications. The fact that he was so under qualified and totally lacking in experience meant that his supporters had to keep the spotlight off of him. Add to that the enthusiasm for Sarah meant she was the main threat, not McCain. The natural strategy then was to make her the center of debate as a smoke screen to hide their candidate behind. The media would make sure that Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience was not the issue but Palin’s was. The Democrats and their Media cohorts would collaborate to make the race about the VP pick of the opposing party thus avoid the spotlight being shown on their candidates losing record and radical past. His gaffs would be hidden behind hers (whether real or hyped as such). They would concentrate nearly exclusively on her to protect him. This of course explains some of the media Palin bashing craze but not all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;Everywhere in the press she was decried as a nobody, a lightweight and dumb. That she didn’t have the resume to be president was the tagline they were selling.&amp;nbsp; A woman that had risen from soccer mom, to mayor, to chairing the Alaska Oil and Conservation Commission to being the youngest and one of the most&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/07/who-is-the-real-sarah-palin" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Who is the real Sarah Palin"&gt;successful governors&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in Alaskan history was a lightweight and dumb? A person with a resume that made the Democratic presidential candidate look like a hayseed farmer in comparison wasn’t experienced enough? The fact was her&lt;a href="http://thecypresstimes.pointsoftouch.com/2010/06/09/sarah-palins-executive-experience-real-and-spectacular/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Sarah Palin's executive experiance"&gt;resume was thick&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/elisabethmeinecke/2011/06/06/think_you_know_sarah_palin_think_again/page/full/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="So you think you know Sarah"&gt;her accomplishments were many&lt;/a&gt;. Her main sin it seemed was having charisma and a following that seemed to be on the precipice of toppling the Democratic messiah. If Sarah had one weakness it was the fact she had no experience with the snake pit that was national politics, something she would soon find rectified.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;Quickly she was the victim of unprecedented, vile and sick personal attacks. It was suggested her son Trig should of been aborted, commentators and a late night host suggested her daughter’s were sluts and on CNN it was even suggested Sarah herself should be gang raped by a group of black guys. She was viciously attacked and her children were put to open ridicule. Her every little misstep was amplified and blown up as emblematic of her intelligence while her opponents gaffes, much greater in number, were ignored.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;Where was the simple lines of decency the press was normally not inclined to cross? What about the unwritten rule that candidate’s children were off limits? It seemed that Sarah Palin was an unprecedented candidate and to the media that meant she deserved unprecedented treatment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;In fact even when she triumphed like in her debates with Biden the press made it look like Biden was brilliant. Time after time her points were on target, her interpretation of the constitution correct and time after time Biden blew it but the mainstream media acted as if she was the one failing. When the Democratic Juggernaut that was the Obama candidacy began to dominate the polls the press blamed Sarah for dragging McCain down. There seems an unwritten directive had come down that no chance to blame and humiliate Sarah Palin was to be passed on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;The fact is the only reason the 2008 campaign was even a race at all is because Palin was on the ticket. McCain steadfastly refused to engage Obama’s drug infused, radical past and his total lack of experience. As the financial crisis loomed he passed on hanging the subprime mess on the necks of the Democrats (which, since they originated with Fanny and Freddie, was something they richly deserved). In one debate he seemed to almost concede the election when he chided has followers not to fear Obama. Unwilling to fight with all the weapons he had at his disposal, all the while carrying the Bush legacy on his back, the campaign became a train wreck. It seemed as though he did not really want to win. As it turned out it was to be one of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/07/media-and-political-permanent-class-attempt-to-rewrite-2008-election" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Schmidtt Failed"&gt;worst run campaigns&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;in modern history. A campaign trying to fight hope and change by making its presidential candidate appear tired and weary. If McCain ever had a chance against the Democratic juggernaut it was because of Sarah, not in spite of her. When the election results were in there were no surprises.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;Most vice presidential nominees fade away after the election is lost.&amp;nbsp; Who remembers the running mates of a Goldwater, Mondale or Dole? Usually the losing VP pick fades back into the woodwork unless they regain notoriety on their own. Of course Sarah Palin was not your normal vice presidential candidate and the press was about to let Sarah go back to national obscurity. Apparently they wanted to make sure she would never threaten them again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;When Sarah Palin went back to being Governor of Alaska the left wing media followed.&amp;nbsp; The constant harassment she and her family experienced during the campaign continued unabated. Reporters camped out at her doorstep, a journalist bought the house next door just to be able to dig up dirt and a never ending list of frivolous lawsuits where filed against her as Governor. It seemed that the Democrats and their main stream media allies recognized that Sarah Palin would become their worst nightmare if they did not totally destroy her first. Unfortunately for them they had underestimated the lady from Wasilla.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;Unconventional and unpredictable, Palin decided it was time to fight back.&amp;nbsp; If they would not leave her family and her state alone than she would throw down the gloves and take the fight to them. She resigned as Governor to be able to go to war full time. True to her nature, she would go on to fight a political guerrilla war against the establishment and the what she called “the lame brain media”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://theconservativeminddotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/tea-party-crowd-2010-2.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1838" height="238" src="http://theconservativeminddotnet.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/tea-party-crowd-2010-2.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=238" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(221, 221, 221); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 4px 4px 12px; display: inline; float: left; height: auto; left: -4px; margin: 0.5em 1.666em 1.625em 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Tea Party Crowd 2010 2" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;She added strength and membership to a newly formed movement called the Tea Party, she took on speaking engagements and she endorsed candidates. She also became a bigger thorn than ever in the Democrats side.&amp;nbsp; 2010 was a Republican year and in many ways it was Sarah Palin’s year too. Every candidate she endorsed rose in the polls and most won!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;Today her popularity among grass roots Republicans is as strong as ever as is her opposition by the most of the media, Democrats and even the Republican good-ole-boy network. Her&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/sarah-palin-revisited/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Sarah Palin Revisited"&gt;speech at CPAC&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;brought the house down and showed the world why she is a power to be reckoned with. Today her endorsement is one of the most coveted among conservatives candidates. The primary candidates she is endorsing are going from obscurity to front runner often on the power of her endorsement alone!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;Today the hate for her among the left is still going strong. The Democratic party faithful get deranged and spew the nonsensical Sarah talking points of the leadership at the mention of her name. The media still disparages her every move. (Something the did to Reagan too, but less effectively) Despite all of this she still matters. Her impact on the elections of 2012 is already assured by the primary victory of Debby Fischer and the rising star of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/14/palin-makes-cruz-campaign-sun-spot-hot" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Sarah Boosts Cruz"&gt;Ted Cruz&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;, both because Sarah Palin saw in them something she liked. The history of 2012 is still being written but if initial results are any indication Sarah Palin is likely to have another banner year. The vice presidential candidate that came out of nowhere and changed everything&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/16/sarah-palin-pitbull-mama-grizzly-and-kingmaker" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Grizzly and king maker"&gt;still matters&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;At the &lt;a href="http://conservatives4palin.com/2012/05/open-thread-306.html"&gt;Conservatives4Palin&lt;/a&gt; site the&amp;nbsp;remarkable&amp;nbsp;person titled "Palin45potus" has expressed breathless enthusiasm to work "24-7" for Mitt&amp;nbsp;Romney,&amp;nbsp;apparently&amp;nbsp;being so inspired by him, and the dogged support both he, and his team, have shown Sarah Palin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Here is Palin45potus's own words of admiration and the Top Ten&amp;nbsp;reasons&amp;nbsp;which led to such avid dedication.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"He
is the greatest thing that has ever happened to the GOP, and we are
just so gosh-darned lucky to have him.&amp;nbsp;I know I'm so excited to
get to working 24-7 for him. &amp;nbsp;And alongside all those wonderful
Romney supporters.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Especially since they've been so supportive of Sarah Palin."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Since he's such a staunch conservative...severe even!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
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&lt;i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;Remember
how he came to Sarah Palin's defense after she was accused of being
an accessory to murder?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="western"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Remember
how hard he worked for McCain - Palin back in 2008?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Remember
how he championed the TEA Party before it was fashionable to do so?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Remember
how he put his credibility on the line to help unknown conservatives
to get their "Day in the sun?"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Remember
when he flew down to South Carolina to defend Nikki Haley from the
charges leveled at her by weasels who were in league with Mike
Huckabee, that wonderful Christian?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee;"&gt;Remember
how he stood up and said unequivocally "No More!" when his
Super-Pac in Florida was carpet-bombing the state with insidious
slanderous lies about Newt Gingrich?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="western"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Remember
how he led the charge against the dirty tactics that the Obama-crats
resorted to in passing Obama-care?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="western"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Remember
when he stood up and manfully admitted that Romney-care might have
been a mistake, given the results that we've seen in Massachusetts?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="western"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Remember
when he stood up to Obama before it was considered safe to do so,
back in 2009?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Here's Matthew Dowd at this link;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/what-palin-can-teach-obama-about-seizing-the-moment/"&gt; ABC News The Note;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;"What Palin Can Teach Obama About&amp;nbsp;Seizing&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;Moment"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;I have at times questioned Palin’s qualifications, knowledge and discipline as well as her desire to be a celebrity more than a leader, but she has an intuitive feel for politics.&amp;nbsp; She knows how to make gut decisions — and at times these have definitely paid off for her. They certainly did in her involvement in the Republican primary for the open Senate seat in Nebraska.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;And further (emphasis mine) You can read the whole article at the link above.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Many folks criticize Palin for the fact that her history of helping candidates has succeeded only about half of the time. In my view,&lt;b&gt; this is an incredible record,&lt;/b&gt; since she almost always backs underdogs and candidates with seemingly no chance of success.&amp;nbsp; Palin does this because she makes decisions from the gut. Yes, she makes mistakes, but she also knows how to take advantage of a moment when it presents itself."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Now that Palin is safely out of harms way for the left (so they think-wait until she takes to the hustings in the Fall for the GOP nominee) they can safely start to dismantle the various memes they have falsly created since 2008-which process has been well underway since Palin's pick in Indiana, Mourdock, won the GOP senate primary and is in full swing since underdog Deb Fischer's stunning win in Nebraska.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;They have to do this revamp because the influence of Palin is so obvious and so string that to take any other stance (except for the dead-enders like &lt;a href="http://conservatives4palin.com/2012/05/dave-weigels-predictable-pathetic-response-to-deb-fischers-win.html"&gt;the laughable Weigel) &lt;/a&gt;would make the media look so ridiculous that any future attempt at denigration would be seen for what it was.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;At the end of the day the voters have shown that in the long run the&amp;nbsp;media's&amp;nbsp;doleful influence is&amp;nbsp;negligible.&amp;nbsp;After a long and hard battle by Palin (and her supporters) to get the truth&amp;nbsp;about&amp;nbsp;her out from under the media smokescreen has finally reached the public her truth and her&amp;nbsp;common-sense&amp;nbsp;conservatism&amp;nbsp;message is not only resonating but changing the&amp;nbsp;political&amp;nbsp;scene.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Palin was right, once again, when she said she didn't need a title to make a difference. The media and their Dem allies thought that by bringing her down they won but that was a short term&amp;nbsp;pyrrhic&amp;nbsp;victory&amp;nbsp;as will be seen in the years ahead.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;That the radical left is&amp;nbsp;elitist&amp;nbsp;is proven so&amp;nbsp;often&amp;nbsp;it is a sealed in stone truth. That is the nature of&amp;nbsp;socialism&amp;nbsp;from its foundation. &amp;nbsp;Major socialist revolutions were led by middle to upper class elites who, as they knew better than the&amp;nbsp;common&amp;nbsp;herd,&amp;nbsp;instituted&amp;nbsp;a no dissidence&amp;nbsp;regime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky et al are just a few examples.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;This&amp;nbsp;elitism&amp;nbsp;continues on in the watered down leftism in its radical American version as typified by sites like "Daily Kos." When the working class, especially union members don't meet the herd mentality required by the intelligentsia, then some of the egotists are puzzled by the&amp;nbsp;phenomenon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Fortunately there are members of &lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/17/1092538/-Wisconsin-Polling-PPP-vs-Marquette"&gt;the left at Kos&lt;/a&gt; who can put them right. Anyone in a union who doesn't agree with the elitist line-in this instance that Governor Walker of Wisconsin must be beaten all costs is a moron and against "n*gg*rs and Sp*cks."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 36pt;"&gt;How to wash a cat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Put both lids of the toilet up and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the water in the bowl...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. In one smooth movement put the cat in the toilet and close the lid. You may need to stand on the lid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. At this point the cat will self agitate and make ample suds. Never mind the noises that come from the toilet, the cat is actually enjoying this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a 'Power-Wash' and 'Rinse'.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Have someone open the front door of your home. Be sure that there are no people between the bathroom and the front door.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;At last we have an example of the lefts "new&amp;nbsp;civility" (as&amp;nbsp;ordered&amp;nbsp;by President Obama) and it is directed to a Palin!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;A personage named Erin Gloria Ryan at the mass market leftist "Jezebel" site has told her fellow lefties to, well&amp;nbsp;just&amp;nbsp;cut it out with the death threats, and the fat comments and the "you should have been aborted" comments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Not,&amp;nbsp;apparently&amp;nbsp;because such things are&amp;nbsp;childish, uncivil, pathetic and a good example of what passes for dialogue from the left, but because wishing someone dead&amp;nbsp;just&amp;nbsp;plays&amp;nbsp;into their fiendish conservatives hands!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Ryan's column, entitled "Please stop contributing to Bristol&amp;nbsp;Palin's&amp;nbsp;persecution complex" &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20allowfullscreen=%22%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20height=%22315%22%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/embed/EfAke32AC8g%22%20width=%22560%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E"&gt;AT THIS LINK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;is&amp;nbsp;utterly&amp;nbsp;juvenile, filled with&amp;nbsp;unproven&amp;nbsp;taunts&amp;nbsp;"(Palin is a "homophobe") and cursing. The premise that calling for&amp;nbsp;someone's&amp;nbsp;death is wrong because it gives them a political edge is barbaric. But apart&amp;nbsp;from&amp;nbsp;that the most ridiculous&amp;nbsp;statement&amp;nbsp;is this;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;"Not only is wishing death on someone tacky as fuck, it gives people like Bristol ammunition. If there's anything a Palin loves, it's taking one example of extreme behavior from the left, building it into a giant hollow straw man, and then stuffing it full of everyone who disagrees with her — if one person is telling Bristol to light herself on fire, they all are!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;"One example" Ms. Ryan? The amount of "extreme&amp;nbsp;behaviour&amp;nbsp;from the left against the Palin's over the last four years would run, literally&amp;nbsp;in the millions of examples. Take a look at the&amp;nbsp;comments&amp;nbsp;section at Huffington Post when an article about a Palin appears.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Better yet how about the bedmate of Jezebel, the execrable "Wonkette" which had all its advertising cancelled because they ran an article&amp;nbsp;calling&amp;nbsp;Palin's son a "retard". Or this person who called for Sarah Plain &amp;nbsp;to be "offed"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://recovering-liberal.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/detective-workthe-new-face-of-civility.html"&gt;AT THIS LINK&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;How about the&amp;nbsp;relentless&amp;nbsp;campaign&amp;nbsp;by leftists (started by the&amp;nbsp;equally&amp;nbsp;vile Daily Kos" which attacked Palin for supposedly creating&amp;nbsp;fiction&amp;nbsp;that her son Trig was&amp;nbsp;not&amp;nbsp;really hers? If Ms. Ryan received &amp;nbsp;1% of the trash thrown at her that the Palin's have she would understand what it means to be victimized. As it is she has given yet another example of leftist doublethink.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;To his credit and especially as &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755884/vp/47453349#47453349"&gt;this is MSNBC&lt;/a&gt; Rev. Sharpton gives a wide ranging and&amp;nbsp;interesting&amp;nbsp;look at "Palin's power" after &amp;nbsp;her picks for Indiana and Nebraska won against the&amp;nbsp;establishment.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Dana Milbank adds the usual leftist Washington Post bias, but all in all it is an interesting view from the left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Sadly Sharpton&amp;nbsp;drags&amp;nbsp;out "the most recent poll showing Palin at 28% unfavorable" which is ancient but that is one&amp;nbsp;of the few real negatives from him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;This must &lt;a href="http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/power-panel-can-sarah-palins-support-make-or-break-a-gop-candidates-race"&gt;take the cake&lt;/a&gt; for leftist&amp;nbsp;begrudging&amp;nbsp;condescension&amp;nbsp;towards Palin-and that&amp;nbsp;is&amp;nbsp;saying something! Palin will be pleased to know she is apparently&amp;nbsp;carving&amp;nbsp;out a career of sorts and may, just may, have a future in journalism like these&amp;nbsp;magnificent&amp;nbsp;stalwarts of independent&amp;nbsp;thinking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Cenk asks his Power Panel — James Poulos of The Daily Caller and Benjy Sarlin from Talking Points Memo — how much of an impact Sarah Palin’s robo-calls supporting Deb Fischer affected the Nebraska GOP primary for Senate, which Fischer ultimately won. “Give her some credit,” Poulos says. “There is evidence that Palin’s endorsement didn’t hurt.” Sarlin says, “There’s so much going on already, it’s hard to tell what the decisive factor was.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3940594402534627681-7756544379417408569?l=recovering-liberal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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From The Daily Mail-a&amp;nbsp;positive&amp;nbsp;piece on the Palin's for a change with a delightful mother and child photograph. You can read the whole piece &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2145092/Lifes-Tripp-Bristol-Palin-son-3-promo-photograph-new-reality-show.html"&gt;AT THIS LINK&lt;/a&gt;. Has the media decided to, finally, give the Palin's a fair go (after&amp;nbsp;she is safely, for them, no threat to Obama)? Yesterday saw the very positive article on Sarah from a self-confessed liberal "Palin my new BFF" &lt;a href="http://recovering-liberal.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/hell-freezes-over-lib-journalist-i-was.html"&gt;AT THIS LINK&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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First look: Bristol Palin and three-year-old son in promotional photograph for new reality show Life's a Tripp&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;Her reality show promised to feature 'a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;daughter, a mother and a young woman making her way in the world,' when it was announced earlier this year.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;And, judging by a new promotional photograph, Bristol Palin's cute-as-a-button son Tripp will also be playing a major part in the forthcoming Lifetime programme, entitled 'Life's A Tripp.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The picture features the smiling daughter of Sarah Palin crouching down next to the blonde three-year-old who is equally cheery.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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First look: Bristol Palin and her cute son Tripp in a promotional photograph for her new reality show&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;The show will chronicle Bristol and Tripp's journey from her hometown in Wasilla, Alaska to Los Angeles, where they move after Bristol lands a job with a non-profit organisation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;'I was game for it,' the 21-year-old tells&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tvguide.com/News/Bristol-Palin-Reality-Show-1047529.aspx" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;TV Guide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.2em;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;'I wanted to show how down-to-earth my family and I are.'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Mike Flynn, former government affairs director for the Reason Foundation and now a Breitbart.com contributor,&lt;a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/15/palin-effect-fischer-wins-nebraska-primary?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BigGovernment+%28Big+Government%29" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;writes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that Gov. Palin's late endorsement of state Senator Deb Fischer in Nebraska's GOP primary for the U.S. Senate "shook up the race" and "made all the difference" in Fiuscher's stunning upset victory Tuesday:&lt;br /&gt;
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I follow politics very closely, yet I hadn't heard of the Fischer candidacy until Palin's endorsement. National tea party groups like FreedomWorks had put all their resources behind Stenburg, with nary a thought about Fischer. A good reminder that these groups aren't as plugged into the grassroots as they like to claim.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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"Just two weeks ago, the battle for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska was between state Attorney General Jim Bruning and state Treasurer Don Stenburg. Neither inspired the growing base of conservative voters. They were, to be charitable, standard conservative-ish career politicians. Mama Grizzly Sarah Palin shook up the race with a late endorsement of state Senator Debby Fischer. It made all the difference"&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;a class="thickbox" href="http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/wp-content/gallery/conservatives/rino-republicans.jpg" rel="" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: none;" title=""&gt;&lt;img alt="rino-republicans" class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none" src="http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/wp-content/gallery/conservatives/thumbs/thumbs_rino-republicans.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Wow. The Tea Party really is dead isn’t it? As if Richard Mourdock’s crushing of RINO old fart Dick Lugar didn’t send the pink slime media, establishment RINOs, and Marxist Democrats a message, maybe this will.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://twitchy.com/2012/05/15/nebraska-gop-senate-primary-nail-biter-as-fischer-takes-the-lead/" style="color: #2255aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Nebraska held their primaries tonight&lt;/a&gt;. Mitt Romney of course won the GOP nomination for president. But out of no where, Tea Party candidate Deb Fischer won the Republican Senate nomination after being endorsed by Sarah Palin and Herman Cain. Next up is Texas on May 29th where Ted Cruz needs to beat RINO establishment David Dewhurst, next month Dan Liljenquist needs to beat RINO dinosaur Orrin Hatch&lt;/div&gt;
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Here's JOSHUA PUNDIT IS A GLEEFUL MOOD. Read the rest&lt;a href="http://joshuapundit.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/sarah-palin-strikes-again-as-deb.html"&gt; AT THIS LINK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I was wondering how the left could possibly denigrate the power of Sarah Palin after having mounted the ridiculous "Sarah Who? and "Palin is now&amp;nbsp;irrelevant" memes. They did a trial run of "well perhaps palin's endorsement can help win a primary&amp;nbsp;campaign&amp;nbsp;but it wont work in the general&amp;nbsp;elections"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #242424; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;Sadly for them and that theme it fell like a lead balloon when it was&amp;nbsp;pointed&amp;nbsp;out that so far 62% of Palin's picks who made it to general elections beat their Dem&amp;nbsp;opponents. Nice try but no cigar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #242424; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;So now what for the left? they have&amp;nbsp;completely&amp;nbsp;shot their bolt as far as running down Palin and her family with the McGinniss hatchet job. The "Game Change" movie disaster was seen for what it was right from the start, a failed attempt to&amp;nbsp;destroy&amp;nbsp;Palin's presidential run-which of course never took place. the "Palin is an idiot meme who doesn't know&amp;nbsp;Africa&amp;nbsp;is a&amp;nbsp;continent&amp;nbsp;is pretty stale as anyone can see she is highly intelligent and well spoken/read via her&amp;nbsp;various&amp;nbsp;speeches and&amp;nbsp;television&amp;nbsp;appearances.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #242424; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;So enter the new leftist attack. from Daily Kos &lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/16/1092053/-NB-SEN-Palin-endorsed-candidate-to-face-Bob-Kerrey"&gt;AT THIS LINK &lt;/a&gt;Yes, they admit that Palin made&amp;nbsp;Fischer's&amp;nbsp;win possible but apparently that is all to the good for the left. It seems that what was totally rejected by the&amp;nbsp;Nebraskan&amp;nbsp;voters, the Obama&amp;nbsp;administration and&amp;nbsp;especially&amp;nbsp;its Obamacare, is what they will vote for in November!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i style="color: #242424; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"In a major upset, State Senator Deb Fischer tallied 40% of the Nebraska GOP US Senate Primary vote to earn the right to face ex-Senator Bob Kerrey in the race to replace retiring Ben Nelson. Kerrey has been lagging way behind the expected GOP candidate, so perhaps this is the break he was waiting for--now he can run against Sarah Palin directly. I can see the ads now: "The War Hero vs. Palin's Puppet: Who Do you Trust?". &amp;nbsp;This win literally came out of nowhere, and it was only with Palin's robocalls that Fischer could win this nomination.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;It's a race between a candidate who says Democrats should not be afraid to vote for good Replublican ideas and Republicans should not be afraid to vote for good Demcratic ideas. He favors retaining ObamaCare, Fischer vows to repeal it. &amp;nbsp;Fischer is a far right candidate from the Palin wing. &amp;nbsp;The race is on in Nebraska--and we may have been given a wonderful gift, courtesy of our friend Sarah Palin."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Kudos to Laura Goldman a self professed liberal writing a honest, from the heart, and unbiased article "Sarah Palin, This&amp;nbsp;Liberal's&amp;nbsp;New BFF" in a journal that has been&amp;nbsp;notable&amp;nbsp;for its&amp;nbsp;vociferous&amp;nbsp;attacks on Sarah Palin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Goldman met Palin, who she describes as her new BFF, at the recent SALT conference where Palin was a keynote speaker. As has been the case in every instance I have seen where people, from left and right, who have met Palin she, Goodman, uses most of the terms that such encounters engender.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Goldman; "I was surprised to find her intelligent, nice, knows the names of newspapers that she reads" and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;"she was&amp;nbsp;not&amp;nbsp;a primadonna in any way, had no problem having her photograph taken with me (twice) and is even more&amp;nbsp;beautiful&amp;nbsp;in person".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;The most telling part of the article is Goldman saying "Whilst I do not agree with her positions it is pretty clear that she has been unfairly maligned by the press"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;That is an honest&amp;nbsp;statement&amp;nbsp;in every&amp;nbsp;respect&amp;nbsp;and it shows that&amp;nbsp;liberals&amp;nbsp;need not be cast in one basket as unreasonable. it is just sad that it has to take a chance&amp;nbsp;encounter&amp;nbsp;with the real Palin&amp;nbsp;not&amp;nbsp;dispel&amp;nbsp;the terrible malignity that the leftist media has&amp;nbsp;partaken&amp;nbsp;in in their disgusting&amp;nbsp;caricaturization of&amp;nbsp;this woman.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Hats of to&amp;nbsp;Laura&amp;nbsp;Goldman&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;whether&amp;nbsp;she likes it or not she is my new BF and is also, as she describes Palin, &amp;nbsp;beautiful&amp;nbsp;(inside and out.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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