Bird’s-Eye View

The three most frequent things I heard about Sarah Palin last week were:

“She’s just like one of us.”
“Has anybody taken a close look at her record? People need to know about this stuff.”
“How soon before Tina Fey returns to SNL to spoof Palin?”

Ask and ye shall receive. Fey helped open the new SNL season last […]

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1:02 p.m.: McCain ends by saying rural Pennsylvanians are not “bitter” and clinging to their guns and religions because they’re disenchanted with government and the economy:
“Judeo-Christian values they hold dear is the strength of America. They’re the reason why the people in Georgia today are looking to America.”
Gettin’ on the Straight Talk Express. Keep checking […]

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American Spectator has a look at the hard road Chris Matthews of NBC has to walk if he wants to unseat U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in 2010.
I think Matthews’ tallest hurdle is Chris Matthews, and this article’s author, Jeffrey Lord, compares a Matthews campaign to that of Lynn Swann’s gubernatorial effort in 2006 (ironically including […]

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Okay, my Republican friends, let’s hear the outrage …

Sen. Arlen Specter said Wednesday he hopes to meet with Cuban President Raul Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a trip to Latin America in August.
“I’m a firm believer in dialogue,” the Pennsylvania Republican told reporters.
Or is it different since this involves a GOP lawmaker (albeit […]

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Our good friend G. Terry Madonna and his fellow pundit Michael L. Young have penned a column looking at the potential candidacy of Chris Matthews - yes, of MSNBC - against U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter.
That got us at the Nest thinking about what Matthews’ chances are of unseating Pennsylvania’s senior senator. Here are the hurdles we […]

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U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he thinks Pennsylvanians want a moderate in the White House as opposed to a political idealogue, and Specter’s pleased with John McCain as the Republican standard bearer.
Mr. Specter and Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican and his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, are known for taking positions that sometimes […]

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