From The Note:
> Is this how hockey moms run? Jane Mayer charts Palin's political
> rise in The New Yorker. Palin "owes more to members of the
> Washington élite than her rhetoric has suggested," Mayer writes.
> "Upon being elected governor of Alaska, Palin began developing
> relationships with Washington insiders, who later championed the
> idea of putting her on the 2008 ticket."
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> "McCain was intent on naming his fellow-senator Joe Lieberman,"
> Mayer reports. But, according to David Keene, the chairman of the
> American Conservative Union, "McCain was scared off." Says a
> longtime friend: "[Bill] Kristol was out there shaking the pompoms."