Uppity snowbilly breeder. What, did they cancel “former beauty queen night” at the doublewide grotto? I mean, why aren’t you off tending to that head of cabbage you refused to abort? BAD HOCKEY MOM! From the WaPo’s The Trail: Speaking before a crowd of a few thousand supporters in an airport hangar, GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin continued to question Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s patriotism and commitment to fair

Still early, but I figured I’d get out in front of this thing, so I spent the morning having my pens and pencils registered with the local writers’ unions. Interestingly, they all look the same after having paid their dues and purchased their obligatory buttons. But when we got back home, one of my mechanical pencils stopped writing midway through a sentence and demanded a 15-minute break and a separate

From the AP: The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election. A senior law enforcement official confirmed the investigation to The Associated Press on Thursday. A second senior law enforcement official says the FBI was looking at results of recent raids on ACORN offices in several states for any evidence of a coordinated national scam. Both

Via Byron York, here’s Markos instructing the troops: I’ve been making the case the last couple of weeks that we can’t just focus on winning in November, but that we have an imperative to take advantage of a historic opportunity to break the conservative movement’s backs and crush their spirits. In the White House, that means getting Obama a broad popular and geographic mandate for change. In the House, that

Not surprised at all by this, but TalkLeft is quick out of the box with the dark suggestion that Joe Wurzelbacher — Joe the Plumber — is a racist who inadvertently let the mask slip and his white supremacist face show. Had something to do with bald head, I bet: Via Politico: In Katie Couric’s post debate interview with Joe the Plumber […] Joe said Obama has a “tap dance…almost

Available here, courtesy LA Times blog.

Short of McCain’s stopping in mid debate to look Obama directly in the eye and inform him that “the handsome suit I’m wearing this evening is made from the skin of Mark Rudd, and my tie is the tongue of Bernadine Dohrne,” I don’t think it much matters — though I suppose there’s always the chance Obama might slip up and answer a question about taxes with, “bitches best have

From FOX News Special Report with Brit Hume, a round table discussion on how the “racism” charge has been used in this campaign. And to the plate steps Charles Krauthammer, who doesn’t mince words: When John McCain runs an ad with a white woman, Paris Hilton in it, he is accused of racism. He runs an ad with Franklin Raines, the former head of Fannie Mae in it, who is

Marc Ambinder: “Let’s call it what it is: Obama porn.”

From the AP: U.S. Rep. John Murtha says his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama’s victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points. The 17-term Democratic congressman tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story posted Wednesday on its Web site that, as he put it: “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area.” He says it’s taken time for