Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Well, well, well… Somebody’s just a wee bit touchy, wouldn’t you say? For anybody out there who still has a shred of respect for John McCain, I have a clip for you. Matt Lauer talked to Senator McCain who just returned from an [...]

OK, ladies and gents.  Sunday Night – 60 Minutes.  Former McCain campaign advisor and Sarah Palin’s favorite Going Rogue whipping boy Steve Schmidt will be interviewed.  Along with him will be the two authors of the forthcoming book Game Changer, about the 2008 presidential campaign.  Hundreds of Democratic and Republican insiders were interviewed for what [...]

Now, some of you may have read that headline and thought to yourselves immediately that there must be some epic battle brewing between the evil claymation vulture who attempts to keep Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer from ushering in the new year in the 1976 TV movie; and the embodiment of a benevolent symbiote and secret identity [...]

That’s right, none other than Carly “Ship Them Jobs Overseas” Fiorina is humbly grovelling for the endorsement of Sarah Palin.  She will be running for the U.S. Senate against the three term Democratic Senator from California, Barbara Boxer.  When asked if she thought Sarah Palin would endorse her bid for Senate or that of her [...]

Page 254 (Posted previously in sneak peek) A TV station in Alaska was willing to spend any amount to get a local reporter on the scene of the nomination to ask “simple, softball scripted questions,” but the campaign wouldn’t allow it. She was hoping the national media would pick up on the simple softball scripted [...]

Once again a great beginning. Page 105-106 It’s the middle of winter, and ten degrees below zero. It’s nighttime and it’s dark. It’s Thompson Pass on the way to Valdez. Driving is “treacherous” and this area has very little traffic, hazardous conditions, and an average snow dump of 50 feet in the winter. Sarah Palin [...]

[This article is cross-posted at The Huffington Post. Read it HERE] After the McCain Palin ticket went down in a ball of flames last year, there was a strange period of time when we didn’t quite know what to do.  Palin lost.  She was back in Alaska, slogging through the dull days as governor, attempting [...]

Every morning when I sit down before the glowing screen with my mug of high-octane liquid sunshine, I wonder what will be revealed. There’s never a dull day, really, and more often than not there’s at least one thing that really surprises me. This morning it was an email from one of the bidders on [...]

The sock puppet strikes again. Twice in 24 hours someone calling themselves “Sarah Palin” has written a statement on her Facebook page. I’m pleased that the White House is finally responding to Republican health care ideas instead of pretending they don’t exist.[1] But in doing so President Obama should follow his own sound advice and [...]

Things are buzzing here at Mudflats Central this morning.  Something’s come out of the Number Crunchery Department!  They’re usually pretty quiet over there. We see a light on late at night down the hall, and we hear all kinds of paper shuffling and clacking keyboards and adding machine tape, but we’re never quite sure what’s [...]

Boots?  Check. Shovel?  Check. Aspirin?  Check. Flask?  Check. OK, looks like we’re ready to go on a field trip, and shovel our way through yesterday’s press release from Kristan Cole, trustee for The Alaska Fund Trust (aka Sarah Palin’s legal defense fund).  Stick with me and don’t get separated, or we may never find you [...]

OK folks, here we go.  Rub your palms briskly on your face, and shake out your arms.  The Palin transition begins… So, last February, Sarah Palin appointed someone to be third in line for the governor’s office.  That someone was Wasilla High School pal Joe Schmidt, Commissioner of the Department of Corrections.  An odd choice [...]

There’s a bit of sage advice that most politicians take to heart:  Rise above the fray.  President Obama is a great example of how this works.  Sarah Palin and spokeswoman Meg Stapleton are a great example of why the advice exists in the first place, and as we have seen before, they are main characters [...]

$600,000. That’s the growing pile of legal debt that Sarah Palin claims to have incurred since last summer. We don’t actually know that for a fact, nor do we know how these legal bills are itemized, or even for whom, because like so many things in the Palin administration,  (leaning over and whispering in your [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve had a good episode of Mudflats Theatre.  This one’s a romance, although I don’t know if it’s a good “date night” movie. The scene opens in the bedroom. (I promise, this is rated G….well….PG) We see a couple in bed.  They are wrapped in a sheet.  She’s nestled in [...]