Even for CNN this is low. According to NewsBusters, CNN’s “Politicians who fell from grace in 2008″ year in review includes Sarah Palin.

CNN features corruption mired Rod Blagojevich, the sex crazed Elliot Spitzer and John Edwards, and the criminal bribe taker Ted Stevens among four others. Each of these men in the CNN list have either been convicted of criminal actions, are indicted for corruption, lost their positions, been drummed out of their party, or are soon to face jail time. Among these eight criminals, however, is a name that doesn’t belong among this class of serial abuser of the public trust. It won’t be shocking to note that among the worst sex criminals, bribe takers, liars and thieves in politics for 2008, CNN ridiculously included the name of Governor Sarah Palin.

Palin, however, has done nothing remotely like what these other political ner-do-wells have done. She did not take bribes, she did not indulge in sexual dalliances with co-workers or call girls, she did not get booted from her party or lose her job as Governor. She is not under indictment nor does she face jail time, yet CNN includes her in a list with Rob Blagojevich, John Edwards, Kwame Kilpatrick, Larry Langford, Tim Maloney, Elliot Spitzer and Ted Stevens.  Read full story.

The bookies give Sarah Palin a slight edge over Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee to win the 2012 Republican Presidential Nomination. But to win the nomination, she’d have to run. Unless Obama’s job performance is so abysmal that the media and most Americans stop driking Kool Aid, that’s not likely. As pointed out by Allahpundit at HotAir.com:

We’ve been over this. Barring a catastrophic first term, The One will be heavily favored for reelection, leading young’uns like Jindal and Palin to bow out and bide their time until 2016. (Even Palinistas as devout as Coulter agree that she should wait, as do you guys.) Mitt might run since he’d be 69 and facing a crowded, charismatic field in 2016, but unless he stands a real chance to win, I figure he’ll pass too in the interest of avoiding further expense and aggravation. Result: A Huckabee-Pawlenty snoozefest, leading grassroots conservatives to tear at their hair in anguish and boredom until some dark horse like Mark Sanford jumps in to make things moderately more interesting. Exit question one: Can you feel the excitement? Exit question two: Might Mitt run, conceivably, out of some sense of party loyalty even if he thought he was likely to lose?

As we found out in 2008, the economy is always an issue and having a candidate that actually understands economics would be winning strategy. But hey, what do I know?

Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals and moderates can all agree that 2008 was an interesting year, to say the least. Who would have thought the New York Football Giants would have bested the New England Patriots in the Superbowl? If you thought that would be the strangest thing to happen this year you don’t follow politics too closely.

2008 kicked off in the midst of the Presidential primary season. Democrats bickered over who cared more about the impoverished and who wanted our troops out of Iraq sooner. Republicans went back and forth, each claiming to be the most conservative, while Republican voters kept wondering how they could channel Ronald Reagan. Read the rest of this entry »

What is it with libs? Can’t they be good winners? They’ve won the Presidency, House and Senate. You’d think they’d be happy and call it a day. They’re the ones who accuse conservatives of being mean spirited, partisan and intollerant and turn around and vilify anyone who disagrees with them.

They’re almost as deranged over Sarah Palin as they are over President Bush. Newsweek Magazine is supposed to be a news source, yet they continue to trash Sarah Palin.  They derided Sarah Palin and even took a swipe at her daughter, Bristol in their year end edition. Read analysis at Newsbusters.

Palin Derangement Syndrome has spread across the ocean to Great Britain where a fashion writer named her the worst dressed of 2008. Of course the same writer lauded Michelle Obama as a goddess married to a sex god. This is simply ridiculous. I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but come on. Sarah Palin always looked fabulous out there on the campaign trail.

But to those suffering from Palin Derangement Syndrome, anything and everything about Sarah Palin is fair game. Her family, her clothes, her accent. They’re so blinded by hatred, to them Governor Palin isn’t even human. She could be Mother Teresa and they would still find reason to lampoon her regularly.

I have a feeling that Sarah Palin will have the last laugh, though. Her 2009 calendar is a best seller at Amazon.com. Perhaps Palin Derangement Syndrome isn’t as contagious as Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Despite all the evidence that stimulus spending doesn’t stimulate the Fed continues to print money and the politicians continue to spend it. Have the Republicans forgotten the lessons of Ronald Reagan and supply side economics? Perhaps they should use the Christmas break to bone up on economics and come out with a strategy to put the brakes on Obama’s new economic plan. (Not that it will be easy, since George Bush did such a great job of setting the table for him.)

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, despite being renounced by his own corrupt party, refuses to resign. I can almost understand why. Wasn’t he just doing what they do in Illinois, and New York for that matter? And speaking of New York, Kathleen Parker simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to bash Sarah Palin, even while mildly criticizing Princess Caroline. Maybe Ms. Parker doesn’t have a grasp of the havoc US senators are capable of causing.

It’s reported that Oprah Winfrey can’t stand to be away from Barack Obama, so she’s looking to purchase a $50 million Georgetown mansion. Not that I begrudge anyone being able to purchase such a home, but when those people support a candidate who wants to “spread the wealth” it’s a bit offensive.

Big spending and high taxes haven’t done anything good for the state of New York. Businesses have shut down and children grow up and leave the state because it’s unaffordable. Which makes it puzzling that Governor Paterson would propose increasing an average New York family’s taxes by almost $4000 per year. After the state government’s driven all the producers and tax payers out of New York, who will be left to pay the tab for the welfare recipients left behind?

One has to wonder what the heck happened to the Republican party. They used to stand for low taxes and small government. These days they’re nearly indistinguishable from the democrats. Even if they do manage a miraculous comeback, what sort of mess will they be coming back to?

A Nightmare Before Christmas - Peter Schiff doesn’t see the economy improving any time soon. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men won’t be able to print enough money to stop the bleeding.

Money-pit - The UAW’s gold plated golf course - Michelle Malkin wonders if the CEO’s are willing to give up their jets if the union bosses will give up their resort. Good question.

Records show Caroline Kennedy failed to cast her vote many times since 1988 - Why is this not surprising?

Postponing Reality - Thomas Sowell recognizes that sooner or later reality has a way of catching up to us.

Palin: No pay raise for me, thanks - Walking the walk!

Newt Gingrich and George Will on Paul Weirich - RIP

H/T Hot Air

This is priceless. Scarborough takes the media to task for sending swarms of investigators to Wasilla, Alaska to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin, yet didn’t investigate Barack Obama’s background at all. The media fails to report anything about Obama until Obama tells them what to report. The media’s defense: instinct.

Are journalism schools teaching students to forget fact finding and just wing it on instinct?

Remember all the criticism heaped on Sarah Palin, you know, former Mayor and Energy Commissioner and now sitting Governor of Alaska. She was too inexperienced to be our Vice President. So why aren’t those same people up in arms about Caroline Kennedy attempting to be appointed to Hillary Clinton’s senate seat? What has Caroline done other than being born into the right family. Has anyone else out there just had it with the legacy politics? Enough already!

You’d think the media and the left would get over Sarah Palin. The election’s over and she’s back to being Governor of Alaska. Yet they just can’t help themselves. It must be that she remains so popular, they feel the need to keep getting their digs in. They’ve transferred Bush Derangement Syndrome to Sarah Palin.

According to NewsBusters “Chris Matthews actually praised Sarah Palin for her ability to draw a crowd and even pegged her as the early frontrunner for the GOP nod in 2012, ‘Who’s gonna beat her?’ However the MSNBC host, later admitted giving Palin that much credit took a lot out of him as he confessed to a guest panelist: ‘This is really hard to do this, to salute Sarah Palin.”

Then Ed Rendell, at the governors’ convention said “Look, she has a right to be here,” Rendell said. “I think she has great instincts. She’s not a genius, but she has very good political instincts.” Read full story.

Of course she had a right to be at the governors’ convention-she’s a governor! And Ed Rendell’s one to talk about being a genius and political instincts. Give me a break. The problem they have is that Sarah Palin is refreshing and she energizes the Republican base, something no one else has been able do in quite a while. Look what she did for Saxby Chambliss.

If she never runs on a Presidential ticket again, the woman is still someone to be reckoned with. Even Oprah seems to recognize that. After snubbing Palin during the campaign, now Oprah’s whining because Sarah Palin hasn’t agreed to an interview. Good for Sarah!

Barbara Walters loves the lead up to her “Ten Most Fascinating People” special. She reveals the nine runners-up and keeps the most fascinating character a secret until the very end of the show. This year was no different, but I doubt anyone was surprised. In case you’ve been visiting another planet for the past two years, she chose Barack Obama.

What she should have done was tell people ahead of time “You know Barack Obama is going to be the most fascinating, but the other nine will be kept secret until the show airs.” That would have been more suspensful.

As expected, Barbara Walters treated celebrities like they’re Einstein and conservatives like they’re some sort of strange curiosity. She took one of Rush Limbaugh’s comments out of context and when he praised Sarah Palin, Walters called Palin uninformed. She and Tina Fey shared a few smug moments while Tina Fey continued her demeaning impersonation of Sarah Palin. To cap things off before the big finale, with a beaming smile on her face, Walters basically called Sarah Palin a loser.

Then it was on to heaping praise on “The One.” No surprise there, just more of the same.

Poor Joe Biden. Towards the end of the campaign he was shoved in the corner in the hopes of keeping him from publicly inserting his foot in his mouth. It appears that’s still the case. Nobody’s paying attention to him, so he asked Sarah Palin to go out for a walk. Is he hoping the governor’s ongoing popularity will rub off?

I just hope they don’t keep Mr. Biden bottled up for long. He’s the gift that keeps on giving.

Greg Gutfeld enjoyed Sarah Palin’s turkey slaughter interview. As did I! Where do people think their Thanksgiving turkeys come from?

Moderate Democrate John Dingell’s out as Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Henry Waxman’s in, which doesn’t bode well for the business community.

John McCain and Barack Obama met earlier this week. I was thinking “Now McCain can go back to being a Democrat.” Apparently, I wasn’t the only one thinking that.

Barack Obama has named Tim Geithner as his pick for Treasury Secretary and Bill Richardson for Commerce. The market reacted positively. Whether that holds up next week is unknown. Didn’t Geithner have a hand in the bailout of AIG?

There may be a rift between Nancy Pelosi and the new adminstration. It’s been reported that Obama supports a pre-packaged bankruptcy for the US automakers (who reject the idea), while Pelosi says bankruptcy should be taken off the table. This could be interesting.

It’s almost official, Hillary Clinton will be our next Secretary of State. I wonder who will take her place in the Senate. I need a Tagamet.

Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey and during a post-pardon interview another turkey met his maker. I don’t understand the big deal. Where do people thing their Thanksgiving turkeys come from?

Five million people are expected to descend on Washington DC for Barack Obama’s inauguration. Why does the thought of 5 Million people in one place conjure up images of the Super Dome after Hurricane Katrina? All I can say is “Good luck, folks.”

This is just creepy. Letterman was talking to Katie Couric about Sarah Palin and couldn’t stop himself from making denigrating comments about the Governor. In addition to being a shill for the Democratic Party, David Letterman is also a pig.