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div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/28416/PalinPAC.jpg” alt=”" width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”The front page of Sarah Palin’s site urges citizen action against government corruption. Wait. Maybe it’s on a different page. A different site? On her Twitter account?

WASHINGTON — An innovative study released on Monday by a Facebook advertising firm suggests that Republican candidates can best attract online clicks with ads aimed at President Barack Obama generally rather than about the economy or other specific issues. It also confirms that Sarah Palin continues to be a bigger magnet for online pageviews than the other announced- and potential-Republican presidential hopefuls. Conventional polls attempt to sample members of some larger population and measure their political attitudes by asking questions.

Around the same time Representative Weiner was dealing with the fallout of an apparent Twitter hack, Republican Ohio House Speaker William G. Batchelder also had a Twitter problem : an “unknown intruder” hacked into his official account. The hacker didn’t post lewd photos of the 68-year-old politician, but the offender did engage in some pro-Democratic tweeting. Batchelder’s response? “Well, I won’t do any more of this … Twittering? We’ll avoid that at all cost.

Excellent detailed piece on Sarah Palin by journalist Michael Joseph Gross in the October 2010 issue of Vanity Fair …
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A Democrat has quit the New Hampshire legislature joking on Facebook about the
death of Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's former vice presidential
candidate.

ATLANTA — Dueling endorsements from Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich could help decide a crowded Republican primary for Georgia governor Tuesday. Palin’s nod to former Secretary of State Karen Handel has helped her surge to the top of the polls in recent days, while ex-congressman Nathan Deal could benefit from the backing of Gingrich. The two served together in the U.S. House. On the Democratic side, one-term former Gov. Roy Barnes is facing the first electoral test in his comeback bid.

Whoops, did I say “grizzly mammas?” Well, there’s nothing plural about this show. It’s “Momma Grizzly.” If Sarah Palin’s new web video is about a stampede of new conservative female candidates, try to find one in the piece. If the video is about female empowerment, there’s little doubt as to who’s on the power trip (or the Momma Bear). As Digby writes: She is not a serious politician. She is a political celebrity/entrepreneur, collecting money from her fans to fund herself and sell her brand.