Sarah Palin filled out a Linkedin thing, and it is half-full (half-empty?) of lies, but also it’s Palin so this shouldn’t be news, per se. Ehh, so like for example, she went to literally four other schools before graduating from the University of Idaho but doesn’t list them all here. And right, it’s actually beyond disingenuous to recommend that the other Linkedin people contact her for “expertise requests,” because what, suddenly “quitting shit” is a form of artisanry? [Linkedin, Political Carnival]

HA! What have we here, buried in this nothing news item about Tim Pawlenty going to headline the “Ronald Reagan Dinner,” the proceeds of which benefit Republicans In Iowa, or Republicans From Iowa, or Republicans Without Iowa, something like that. Ummm… voila: “In July, organizers of the event had said they had tried to line up former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee.” It is too bad that the Iowa Republicans were unable to convince, with money, their first choice of speaker and instead had to settle for someone who did not quit their governorship. Tim Pawlenty this is embarrassing! Do not do this! [Des Moines Register via Ben Smith]

John McCain’s former TUFF-TALKING campaign strategist Steve Schmidt—whose job it was to knowingly tell outrageous lies in attempts to try to manipulate an entire nation into electing Sarah Palin, some sort of mystical and feared Loch Ness character who figures prominently in the oral histories of the moose community—has changed his mind. He has changed his mind, ladies and gentleman, about Sarah Palin. MORE »

It looks like Sarah Palin is ruining the caliente Miami vacay for all the other Republican governors, and they just hate her for it. Mostly it was Thursday’s linguistics-defying speech, which some anonymous Republican governors have correctly deemed retarded. They say Palin has been selfishly “sucking up all the media oxygen,” which is against the rules of Beach Week, and that she should not appear to be in any leadership position. Oh, and no Beach Week hook-ups count. Former Party Chairman Haley Barbour said the media has plenty of oxygen for all Republican governors to suck, etc., and dismissed the notion with a charming confederate epigram, as is his wont. [CNN Political Ticker]

Dudes… she is a gem. Sarah Palin. She gave a press conference yesterday — her first national press conference, ever — as part of the Republican Governors’ Association conference in the latest move for her nascent 2012 campaign. MORE »