How To Run For President In 2012: Rule #2

As Fred points out in this post, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (a conservative Republican) is vying to supplant Kaleefornia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (a less-conservative Republican) as the nation’s symbolic green governor. I don’t see it as triangulation. I see it as an essential component for both winning the Republican nomination and taking on Barry “Killing [...]

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Palin triangulates

Or is this satire? Mind you, this comes from the not-unconservative GOP governor of Alaska:
Last week, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called a news conference to announce “a future where, ideally, 50% of Alaska’s electricity is generated from renewable resources by 2025.”
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Palin’s 50% goal one-ups California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who touts himself as the nation’s [...]

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The GOP’s Vision Problem

While the candidates for GOP Party Chair are deluding themselves into thinking that they’re dazzling the base with their dubious “Look! I can Twitter!” accomplishments, Mark Krikorian over at NRO has his finger on the pulse:
With Republicans shut out of power, now is the time to take a new look at their approach to immigration, [...]

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On the GOP chief executives

As this Newsweek piece reminds us, there are still 21 of them. I’m really not in the mood to talk about Bobby Jindal right now, since for the first time in my life a key figure in the Republican Party is younger than me, and I’m still stinging from the blow. (They don’t [...]

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And by “green” we don’t mean “ker-ching”

Hawaii’s governor has announced plans to create an extensive electric-car-charging network by 2012, in an effort to wean the islands off of high-priced oil.
The plan, unveiled today by Republican governor Linda Lingle, calls for a public-private partnership with Better Place, a company that develops infrastructure to support electric vehicles. The Silicon Valley start-up, which made [...]

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Gobble, gobble

There is by my count exactly one possible subject fitting a Thanksgiving Politiwatch dispatch, and I’m not going anywhere near it (boredom, BTW, not trepidation). It’s Turkeygate.
Maybe Tobias wants to step up to the plate, or maybe some of our readers do. But as for me, I’m slated for tryptophan overload [...]

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