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We just can't get enough when it comes to witnessing Republicans eating their own! Luckily, there's more news on that front, so, this morning, the HuffPo's Jason Linkins and I gleefully review the latest, greatest backbiting tearing apart the GOP. More »
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For a campaign that has whined about sexism in the media, it ends up being awfully ironic when you read how the dudely McCain advisers chose Palin because she would look good on magazine covers or when the men in charge of the campaign try to pin Wardrobe-gate on the other visible woman in the campaign. Luckily for us (and for her), McCain aide Nicolle Wallace doesn't suffer fools lightly, or in silence. Someone else who doesn't give a shit what you want her to do is Swampland's Ana Marie Cox, who joins us from the campaign trail with wit, bacon and tales of zombies. It is almost Halloween, after all. More »
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I've written before about how this election feels like the year in high school that I got breasts and boys started paying attention to me. You'd think that this was the year that women finally proved that they can get elected to office, will show up to vote and care about politics, even though all those things have been true for a long, long time. Apparently, though, this is new information to the political and media establishments, if a spate of stories late this week are any indication. More »
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Readers of this weekend's New York Times Magazine might be forgiven if, upon reading Robert Draper's cover story on the McCain campaign, they check their calendars to make sure they didn't miss voting in the 2008 Presidential election. It reads more like an evisceration of a failed Presidential campaign than an exploration of the tactics-not-strategy of a struggling campaign. Well, if nothing else Steve Schmidt will have yet another reason to call the Times "an organization that is completely, totally 150 percent in the tank for the Democratic candidate"! More »
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Earlier this week, I praised Sarah Palin for embracing the term "feminist" when so many young women shun the f-word. Well I am reneging my praise, because now she's taking the term and using it as a tool for petty divisiveness. Yesterday at a rally in Nevada, Governor Palin criticized Barack Obama for being a "faux feminist" according to the New York Times, because he didn't choose Hillary Clinton as a running mate. “Our opponents think they have the women’s vote all locked up, which is a little presumptuous since only our side has a woman on the ticket,” she said yesterday. Really, Sarah? Really? You're beating that old PUMA drum? Oh now it's on. When you combine this with John McCain's recent assertion that he chose Palin to counter the "liberal feminist agenda," this amounts to a concerted, yet completely absurd effort on the GOP's part to get women to vote for them. More »
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• This is an actual direct mail piece from the Virginia Republican Party, encouraging people to vote against "evil." I encourage people to vote against evil, too — the kind of evil that would stoke racial fears to win an election. [Mark Halperin]
• Also, please vote against the kind of evil that thinks it's funny to put a picture of Obama on a fake food stamp adorned with fried chicken and watermelon. That would be the evil that comes out of the California group Chaffey Community Republican Women [The Press Enterprise]
• Or the kind that suggests that Obama's mother would've aborted him had she the legal right to, so he should consider taking away that right from other people. [National Review]

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With the first Presidential debates and a week of Pali-blunders under our collective belts, it was time to breathe easy and have a few drinks this weekend in honor of Maureen Dowd having been kicked off the "Straight" Talk Express for talking less straight than either John McCain or Sarah Palin. But then there were polls! Rumors of a new October surprise that could keep Bush from bombing another country! And a trip to Geno's in Philly, even though everyone knows Pat's is the place to be because Geno's is biased against non-English speakers (but, presumably, Germans and Italians would get a pass). Luckily, my friend Kay Steiger, who blogs for Campus Progress, is here to help me parse all that and appreciate the occasional reference to Britney Spears. More »
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Yesterday, John McCain announced a temporary end to partisan politicking and asked Barack Obama to join him in holding hands, singing "Kumbaya" and postponing the Presidential debates until Congressional intervention ends the financial crisis, which most economists agree will be some time next year at the earliest. Who needs to know where candidates stand, anyway? There's a crisis people! Luckily, Spencer Ackerman and I are able to stop laughing at the thought that McCain is doing this for any reasons other than partisan politics and his fear of debating Barack Obama — just long enough to get through a conversation about the "strategy" behind the decision, partner-swapping, Bill Kristol's masturbatory epistles to the GOP and what McCain is doing instead of praying for a terrorist attack to save his campaign. More »
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John McCain has attempted a couple of times to hit Barack Obama for his ties to lobbyists who worked for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Of course, it's long been known that McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, had his own ties — but the New York Times reports today that those ties aren't exactly past tense. Davis has been on a leave of absence from his lobbying firm since 2006, but Freddie Mac kept paying that firm $15K a month until recently — and as a partner/equity holder, Davis continued to benefit from that money. The McCain camp denies this, naturally, but there's only so many times that Steve Schmidt can call them in the tank before people stop listening. [Time, NY Times, Time, NY Times] More »
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John McCain's senior campaign adviser, Steve Schmidt (seen here with the cardboard cutout the GOP plans to use to fill McCain's position after his death or descent into full dementia) has decided that it's not enough to campaign against Barack Obama, he's got to campaign against The Media to win the election. Luckily Spencer Ackerman just came back from an actual war zone and I am all full of piss and vinegar so we attack back in defense of partisans, rags and the women who will be on them soon. We spank Bill Clinton just a little (but not so much that he'd like it), embrace WaPo columnist George Will, and then go after Jonah Goldberg, who thinks that the only racists in America are Democrats. (Sometimes, attacking conservatives is just too easy!) More »
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Another endless day that starts in Crap dawns in St. Paul, but luckily my soon-to-be-embedded friend Spencer Ackerman is (virtually) here to help me understand why some GOP makeup artist slathered Joe Lieberman in this much pancake foundation and — worse — how I spent 20 minutes staring at his ass instead of his made-up mug. That, plus at least 2 dick jokes, one blow job reference and nearly as much torture as Fred Thompson brought to his speech, are after the jump. More »
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Although on Thursday Moe and I decided that the McCain ad featuring Paris Hilton was simply dumb, it is now clear that it is all part of McCain's evil genius. While we were so busy watching Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, we were missing the subliminal message that Obama is the Antichrist! No, really, people actually believe that. So, after the jump — and once he has his Al Haig moment out of the way — I await the Rapture with Spencer Ackerman, with whom I talk about Gwyneth Paltrow's paltry contribution to the end of all Hope, arugula, our favorite iced teas, elitism, Duncan McCloud, Eric Cantor, a shirtless Obama, and my loose morals. More »
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