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Tag: Sarah Palin
Biden backs Owens, slams Limbaugh in heated New York race
WATERTOWN, N.Y. – Rallying support for Democratic congressional candidate Bill Owens before Tuesday’s special election in NY-23, Vice President Joe Biden today told a mostly full room at the North Side Improvement League to “teach a lesson” to right-wing activists. Ideological activists, said Biden, forced Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava out of the race because they couldn’t brook “dissent with their neoconservative views.”
Palin insta-memoir ‘Going Rogue’ priced to sell at $9
Former governor Sarah Palin completed her memoir in four months. She knew what she wanted to say, apparently, and had Lynn Vincent, a senior...
Palin: Colorado/Western-style outspoken leader or clumsy fibber?
A Politico story promoted by Rocky Mountain Right reports that Arapahoe County GOP chairman David Kerber stated that Sarah Palin was a model of...
Sarah Palin’s insta-book and the future of journalism
Sarah Palin finished her memoir four months after reaching a book deal. That's fast. Maybe too fast. Or maybe too slow!
Roughly two weeks...
WashPo versus DenPo on ‘rising’ Republican Josh Penry
Today, Washington Post writer Chris Cillizza featured Colorado Republican state senator Josh Penry in his series "The Rising," which profiles up-and-coming politicians across the...
Bachmann: ‘Slit our wrists, be blood brothers’ to beat health care...
DENVER -- In a fiery speech that had her conservative Colorado audience cheering, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann railed against the dangers of health care reform and other Democratic initiatives, warning the proposals “have the strength to destroy this country forever.”
“This cannot pass,” the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.”
Lightning-rod U.S. Rep. Bachmann seeks wider appeal in Colorado
Colorado played host over the weekend to U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who Sean Hannity of Fox News recently called "the second-most hated Republican woman," ranking her as a compliment directly behind former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
On Saturday, Bachmann spoke at the Steamboat Institute's inaugural "Freedom Conference" in Steamboat Springs. And on Monday afternoon, the libertarian-leaning Independence Institute is hosting a Bachmann talk in Denver at the Athletic Club.
Conservative blogger says Beauprez out, Norton in for 2010 Senate race
Prominent conservative blogger Ben DeGrow writes Monday afternoon that former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez won't be taking on Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet next...
‘Birthers’ prefer Palin
Public Policy Polling breaks down its latest surveys on the “birther” conspiracies and the 2012 GOP presidential field and finds that former Alaska Gov....
Palin’s death panel and her CNN apologist
On CNN today, conservative pundit Larry Elder agreed that Sarah Palin's "death panel" comments (see below) were "over the top." Good. But then he...