Iowans Recoil at Prospect of Paying for Palin

Mama Grizzly urges conservatives to keep fighting

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin promised conservatives that soon they'll "all be dancing ." With election day looming, it seems she's polishing her dancing shoes. "Victory is at hand," she told the crowd at a fundraiser in Florida. But she warned it's not yet time to gloat. "The momentum is with us, but now is not the time to let up. It ain't over till it's over—we can't get cocky about this yet." More»

If it's what the people want, she says

(NEWSER) - Add this to the will-she or won't-she debate: Sarah Palin tells Fox News that she'd be willing to "give it a shot" if the public wanted her to run for president in 2012. "If the American people were to be ready for someone who is willing to shake it up ... and if they happen to think I was the one, if it were best for my family and for our country, of course I would give it a shot." More»

Shut up about 'nutty' O'Donnell, climb on Tea Party express, she warns

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin warned Karl Rove yesterday to "buck up" and get with the Tea Party program after he lashed Delaware Senate primary winner Christine O'Donnell and her "nutty" ideas. "To those who say that the GOP nominee is not electable and that they're not even going to try, well I say, 'Buck up, buck up," Palin told Fox News . Karl Rove needs to "realize that the time for primary debate is over and it's time for unity—we need to go forth and conquer for the American people," she added. Rove has been one of the most outspoken conservative critics of O'Donnell. More»

Klein and Broder say she's a populist tour de force

(NEWSER) - Joe Klein and David Broder remain wowed by Sarah Palin's Tea Party performance and weigh in with dovetailing columns today that place her at the head of the GOP class for 2012. In Time , Klein blasts the speech itself as "inspired drivel" full of gross simplifications. "But I will not deride. Because brilliance must be respected, especially when it involves marketing in an era when image almost always passes for substance." More»

(NEWSER) - So now Sarah Palin alleges that President Obama's "death panels" might have killed Trig had they been in place. "Where to start?" wonders Joan Walsh in Salon. "Palin's entire statement is so ignorant, so bollixed rhetorically and morally, it hurts to read it." Most "health care screamers are sadly uninformed," she writes. But unlike most, Palin was a candidate for vice president, which "shows the Republican Party has arrived at a point of abject shame." More»