So Doug, as a onetime member of the right-wing intelligentsia, can you tell us how much of the squabbling among the conservative chattering classes over the Palin nomination is just a continuation of the ongoing battle between paleocons and neocons?
Jim F.
-- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: ...but at least he saved us from having to look at Joe the Senator.
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 �lite 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."
>
> "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."
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