RightChange Ad: 'Call Me Senator'

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We don't care who y'are, this is funny:


- JP

California Steaming: Fiorina Leads Boxer for First Time in Senate Race

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From John McCormack at TWS Blog comes news that Carly Fiorina, bolstered with an endorsement from Sarah Palin, has taken the lead for the first time in her bid to unseat liberal California Senator Barbara Boxer:

Noxer is trailing Republican challenger Carly Fiorina by 2 points--47% to 45%--in a new SurveyUSA poll of likely voters released this evening. Fiorina has been closing in on Boxer--cutting the Democrat's lead from six, to five, to four, to three points in the last four polls--but this is the first public poll showing Fiorina in the lead.

Read McCormack's orginal post, complete with links, right here.

- JP

Liberal Media Hypocrisy: Mocking Palin Good; Mocking Boxer Bad

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Examiner Devonia Smith blogs from Dallas with yet another textbook example of left wing media hypocrisy:

Left wing Media boobs are pushing their hypocritical agenda again. This time they are busy criticizing Carly Fiorina for her joke about Barbara Boxer's hair - the same media that recently spent days mocking Sarah Palin about whether she had a breast enlargement. Are both an example of left-wing media bias gotcha journalism targeting conservatives?

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Fiorina has been labeled by the left as "a mean girl, catty, tart and unpleasant" and asked repeatedly if she intends to apologize. Where are the calls for apology for unending personal mockery about Palin - everything from her hair, the glasses she wears, her heels, her religion, her intelligence, her family, the way she talks to most recently her boobs? Sarah has been called a saint and a sinner and a dim-wit.

Yet one off the cuff remark about Boxer's hair and Carley is crucified. Obviously, Palin is not a left wing media darling and Boxer is.

The dying lamestream media doesn't understand that an increasingly skeptical public is tired of its biased propaganda and is no longer buying. Or perhaps the mediots do realize it, but they're counting on Obama and the Democrat-controlled to bail them out and save their jobs. Either way, they're playing a very risky game. They would face better odds against any casino in Las Vegas.

- JP

Sarahcuda Bites for Sunday, June 13, 2010

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Road Trip: A Sunday morning tweet from Gov. Palin:

"Driving beautiful states, feeling America's heart meeting folks along the way;hit Canada yest 4 drive home! Reading Mark Steyn's article now"

Aunt Katie's Back Yard: Nice photo gallery with 54 shots of Sarah Palin, family and Clint Didier, courtesy of Jim Forbes here.

Thoughts and Prayers: The governor reached out via Twitter Saturday to those in Arkansas hit by flash flooding which killed at least 18 with up to two dozen missing.

More on Mama Grizzlies: Articles by Susan Milligan in The Boston Globe, Ramesh Ponnuru in the The New York Times and Marjorie Dannenfelser at AOL's Politics Daily.

Silly Liberal Trix: Another Palin tweet:

"BarbBoxer sez'greatest security threat'is WEATHER.Not nukes,or unsustainable debt leading 2 insolvency?Silly Senator,glad theres competition"

Remembering Reagan: And via Facebook:

"Twenty-three years ago today, Ronald Reagan delivered this famous address at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. Two years later, the Wall he insisted be torn down, came down."

(Links added)

- JP

Sarah Palin Won't Back Down

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Though some of her supporters aren't happy about it, Sarah Palin won't back down from her endorsement of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in the California GOP U.S. Senate primary:

"The governor is never one to go with the flow," Jason Recher, a spokesman for Palin said, explaining that the former Alaska governor respects the differing opinions but is sticking by her choice. "She is a very independent person, and she shakes things up in establishments -- including grassroots establishments -- all the time."

The former Republican vice presidential candidate made the endorsement on her Facebook page, saying Fiorina's experience running a major corporation is sorely lacking in Washington.

In the Thursday posting, Palin called Fiorina a "Commonsense Conservative" who has the potential to beat "liberal" Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in November.

After some of her Facebook fans posted comments asking Gov. Palin to change her endorsement, she posted an update:

She listed reasons for her support, including the endorsement of Fiorina by National Right to Life and the California Pro-Life Council.

"She is pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-military and pro-strict border security and against amnesty," Palin wrote. "Carly is also a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. Like me, she is a member of the (National Rifle Association), has a 100 percent NRA rating, and she and her husband are gun owners."

Fiorina is essentially in a two-person race with former congressman Tom Campbell, a liberal Republican who is leading in most polls. DeVore is lagging far behind, and his campaign is strapped for cash. This bodes ill for DeVore in a hypothetical general election match up with well-financed liberal Democrat Boxer.

- JP