The governor of Alaska spent some time in her kitchen this weekend makin’ moose chili and moose hot dogs. Then she sat down with a local reporter and blabbed out a series of words that were mostly English but made zero sense. We will miss her, sort of! She said that no Republican could have won this election, because George Bush has spent the last eight years figuratively standing on the balcony of the nightclub of the Republican brand and drunkenly pissing on the heads of people like Sarah Palin. MORE »

Mark McKinnon is the saddest of sad Republicans in all the sad land. This weekend he sadly penned a column for Tina Brown’s Toothsome Amphigory Concerning Certain Swamp Monsters about how his old friend John McCain was forced, by the economy, to run a mean campaign about nothing. Also, John McCain is Seabiscuit and Barack Obama is Secretariat. That means Obama, like FDR, will win the “Triple Crown” of the Presidency (i.e. polio). MORE »

Charming hairfaced news-geek Lothario Chuck Todd said all sorts of amazing things on Hardball last night about how John McCain and Sarah Palin appear to despise each other, and how their campaign staff are all tired and annoyed and full of hate for the world, and so on. It was wondrously candid! (Chuck Todd is in the tank, obviously.) Of course this morning the blog he co-authors had to run an unattributed sort-of retraction. Full text after the jump. MORE »

You know who’s happy about Mark Penn finally quitting/getting fired from the Clinton campaign? Everyone except Barack Obama, who considered Penn his ace in the hole for winning this whole endless election. But now that we won’t have that old unctuous creep to kick around anymore, let’s see what the rest of the Internetosphere is saying about the Numbers Swami Who Fell To Earth. MORE »

Hillary Clinton hasn’t even lost the nomination yet, but that hasn’t kept her underlings from turning on each other like a pack of angry gerbils. And now that they don’t have Patti Solis Doyle to kick around anymore, who’s the next target? Why, it’s the “message guru” who’s so good at what he does that nobody understands him! MORE »

So how many times has the Clinton campaign been declared over? Like 30? Today we have another slew of opinions about how and why Hillary has totally blown it, and a few lonely numbers that suggest she, like the T-1000, has yet to meet her own personal vat of molten metal. MORE »

Why has Hillary Clinton, the scrappiest, most battle-scarred political veteran in American history, failed to find traction with a certain small demographic (residents of 22 primary states)? Her many advisors and supporters have a rainbow of opinions as diverse as America itself! MORE »