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SC: Obama can play with majority of GOP field The general election numbers out of South Carolina, published on Thursday by our polling pals at PPP, are the prime example of two trends that have defined this summer’s understanding of the 2012 presidential campaign. Specifically, these two points: 1) Barack Obama’s numbers, at present, are pretty awful for a president seeking reelection; and 2) the GOP’s field of contenders and pretenders, by and large, are in a shockingly bad position to do anything about it.

Morris Reid: Sarah Palin will never be the Republican Party's presidential
nominee.

Sarah Palin’s Sleight of Hand

Liberals had a blast mocking Sarah Palin last weekend when she was caught addressing the Tea Party Convention with a cheat sheet scrawled on her hand. Even the president’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, couldn’t resist getting into the act and treated a White House briefing to a Palin hand gag of his own.

Sarah Palin’s column today in the Washington Post calling for President Obama to boycott the Copenhagen summit is pure malarkey. Which is why the Post was absolutely right to print it.

Over at TPM , Brian Beutler has come up with his top five “hysterical Republican whoppers and talking points.” Agree, disagree, or do you have your own top five (or ten, or twenty, or …)? Number Five: Paul Ryan Draws Line On Graph Back in the Spring, when Democrats were putting together the federal budget, House Budget Committee ranking member Paul Ryan (R-WI) released a much-mocked Republican alternative … his numbers weren’t based on any analysis at all.

Sarah Palin vs. Pit Bull

"Going Rogue: An American Life" presents Sarah Palin's distorted view of politics and reality.
Excerpts from Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue have been released by several news agencies and other sources who have received advanced copies. Here are the first ten lies from Palin’s memoirs:

Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman appeared with former Governor Sarah Palin on Septmber 22, 2008 in Media, Pennsylvania.

It’s a Grand Old Purging as moderate’s ouster spotlights Republican dysfunction
Since the GOP nominee dropped out of the race in New York's 23rd Congressional District amid pressure from conservative leaders, Dede Scozzafava has been swept into the national political conversation.
Gouverneur, N.Y. — Over Halloween weekend, Dede Scozzafava morphed from a rosy-cheeked Republican mom to a political figure of speech.
“My name’s a verb now,” she said.

Wingnuts of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but election … after election … after election.