Can you say “amateur hour”? Can you say “freak show”? Is this what the GOP has become? Sad.

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According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don’t care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace — in an appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough’s show — the American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve to know) from Palin’s scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads.

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Few groups have spread as much public lands misinformation as the BRC.

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“We’re used to getting half the loaf,” said Brian Hawthorne, public lands policy director for the BlueRibbon Coalition. “But here the Forest Service said half a loaf was our worst-case scenario, and then gave us only two slices.”

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The latest Time/CNN polls in three key battleground states shows Sen. Barack Obama widening his lead in Minnesota and Iowa while holding tight in Ohio.

Minnesota: Obama 53%, McCain 41%

Iowa: Obama 55%, McCain 40%

Ohio: Obama 47%, McCain 45%

Shocking video of the Republican VP Pick Sarah Palin addressing the Alaskan Independence Party convention(AIP).

AIP’s position on federal public land:

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The AIP seeks the complete repatriation of the public lands, held by the federal government, to the state and people of Alaska in conformance with Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17, of the federal constitution.

AIP also fully supports R.S. 2477. You can read more of the party platform at this link.

And the stories just keep flowing from the disastrous anti-conservation Palin VP pick. I guess this is what happens when you don’t vet your pick.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, twice registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fierce states’ rights group that wants to turn all federal lands in Alaska back to the state. Sarah Palin herself was never a member of the party, according to state officials.

I’m sure all the people waiting in line at the grocery store will get a kick out of this.

Senator McCain…..can you say “ooops”?

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HUNTINGTON — A youth leader from Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church will visit Marshall University’s campus on Friday, Sept. 12, to promote the protection of the Monongahela National Forest.

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Perhaps the saddest aspect of Palin’s disgusting record on environmental issues is the fact that it’s hardly even being mentioned in the debate about her nomination. Most of the focus, for an audience of suckers weaned on celebrity gossip, seems to be about her mothering skills, her daughter’s pregnancy and whether she was Miss Congeniality or just a runner-up in some beauty pageant. The fact that she makes her living helping to wipe out whole species, poison productive watersheds and play to the stupidest great-white-hunter fantasies of her constituency hardly seems worth a mention.