Jeffrey A. Setaro

Political & Cultural Commentary from a Constitutional Conservative.

Sarah Palin

What Sarah Palin Would Have Said

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The New York Sun has the speech Governor Palin would have given today had her appearance at a rally to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s appearance to the UN not been canceled. I am honored to be with you and with leaders from across this great country — leaders from different faiths and political parties […]

The Surge & Sarah…

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I was planning on taking a weekend hiatus from blogging for various reasons but I thought I’d take a short hiatus from my hiatus to point out a couple must reads. The first is Matthew Kaminski’s interview with retired general Jack Kean In the Wall Street Journal. Gen. Kean who was one of the officers […]

Palin E-mail Hack Follow-up – Updated

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Updates Below the Fold… As I mentioned yesterday the FBI and Secret Service have opened a criminal investigation into the unauthorized access of Sarah Palin’s private e-mail account. That investigation is undoubtedly progressing quietly outside the public view. According to media reports the Associated Press has refused a Secret Service request for copies of the […]

Sarah Palin’s Private E-mail Account Hacked – Updated

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Scroll For Updates… Network World and Wired are reporting that Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo mail account has been hacked and that screenshots of messages have been posted on various web sites. From Wired: Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo e-mail account was hacked, and some of its contents posted on the internet Wednesday. The internet […]

Palin’s Troopergate Response…

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I’ve been looking over the response filed by Thomas Van Flein, the attorney for Governor Palin, filed with the Alaska Personal Board yesterday. It seems clear to me that she had ample reason to fire her Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan. The filling makes it clear that Palin and her staff had become frustrated by […]

Gibson versus Palin – Round Two

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Scroll for Updates Over all Governor Palin did quite well last night, she was relaxed, confident and showed tremendous grace under pressure. I was disappointed in her answers on the economy though. Frankly I think she blew it. She didn’t do anything to differentiate the McCain campaign from Bush administration. She could have easily done […]

Never Assume Malice…

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Where incompetence will suffice… Personally, I’m inclined to ascribe both to Washington Post reporter Anne Kornblut. In a page one news story, she accuses Sarah Palin of asserting “that the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein helped al-Qaeda plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.” There’s just one problem that’s not what […]

Gibson Versus Palin – Round One

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Overall I thought Governor Palin more than held her own. The only really cringe worth moments were her answers to Gibson’s questions on the so called Bush Doctrine and Pakistan. She clearly didn’t know what Gibson meant by the Bush Doctrine and couldn’t answer the Pakistan question with anything more than platitudes about Islamic terrorism. […]

Something to Warm Your Heart…

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Now that the conventions are over and the campaign coverage is getting more and more intense, it’s good to take a break from hardcore politics. This story will warm your heart and put a lump in your throat. It comes from Tracy at Beyond the Pale: I try not to talk politics much on this […]

Lipstick, Pigs and Politics…

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I wasn’t going to jump into the fray over Barack Obama’s ‘Lipstick on a pig” comment… Frankly I don’t think they were intentionally or maliciously directed at Governor Palin. In politics though it’s not just what you say it’s what people hear. I understand the point Senator Obama was trying to make, I disagree with […]

Debunking Several Palin Myths…

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There’s whole host of false or misleading claims about Sarah Palin flying around the internet. Factcheck.org has laid waste to several of them though. Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn’t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years. She […]

The Gaffe That Wasn’t…

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The Huffington Post is reporting that Sarah Palin has made her first gaffe: Gov. Sarah Palin made her first potentially major gaffe during her time on the national scene while discussing the developments of the perilous housing market this past weekend. Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending […]