My suspicion is that the McCain campaign doesn't really care that Palin undermines McCain's case for experience, because they're not planning to use that argument anymore. They've decided that the experience argument is ineffective against Obama's change message, and they're more or less giving it up. Moreover, they know how to respond to attacks on Palin's total lack of qualification for the office, and are in fact inviting those attacks as a way to build sympathy with working class independent voters. That's where Palin's value lies."

Via Matt Yglesias, MSNBC pundits this morning discussed potential running mates for John Mccain and whether there is a “glass ceiling” for unmarried individuals in politics. After Andrea Mitchell floated Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL) as an example, Joe Scarborough noted that Crist is engaged. Chuck Todd suggested the engagement may be staged so Crist can be Vice President

8:05 pm – Gay sex party in Men's Restroom hosted by Senator Larry Craig
9:05 pm – Guest speaker ex-Florida Congressman Mark Foley 'Joys with Young Boys'
10:00 pm – Gay sex party in Men's Room hosted by Ken Mehlman and Geraldo Rivera

NAMPA, Idaho - A manager says seven Hallmark greeting card stores in the Treasure Valley will not carry the company's new same-sex marriage cards.

Cassi Jacobsen, an assistant manager for the Jordan's Hallmark store in Nampa's Karcher Mall, says the family that owns the seven area stores has decided against carrying the new line of greeting cards. She said the owners were out of town and not immediately available for comment.

'Apparently in Denver, they have made it a low priority to make arrests for people who are smoking pot, caught with pot, whatever,' said Gretchen Carlson. 'So, what's the concern now? They think that because all the security is coming to the city, there's gonna be more arrests for people who are smoking pot?'

At which point, Briggs asserted that the news implied 'a lot of pot smokers are coming to town.'

Sadly, 2008 is looking much like the last two elections, where a compliant media joins forces with chest thumping evangelicals and closeted homosexuals to further degrade America's greatness. If McCain is inaugurated, we will all be invited to the barbecue on his million-dollar Arizona ranch, blissfully unaware that our future is the roasting pig with a rotten apple sticking out of its bloated mouth.

Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jane Hamsher, Juan Cole, Gore Vidal, Robert Greenwald, Matt Stoller and others headline a letter to be delivered to Barack Obama before the Democratic National Convention.

Let's take a civics quiz. In Congress which is worse: being corrupt or being gay? Time is up. Pencils down. If you answered being gay, you've been paying attention, class. Of the 10 Commandments, it is much better to break the one about stealing than the one about sex.

This teaching moment comes to you courtesy of His Holiness, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who took a powder from reporters crowded into the Capitol this week after the indictment of Ted Stevens, the Senate's longest-serving Republican and once third in line to the presidency.

You would think McConnell had been ambushed by the National Enquirer. He punted, saying he had just learned of the news and would ``have more to say about it later.'' In less than 30 seconds, he was gone.

No disgust. No outrage. No pressure on Stevens to skulk back to his much-improved chalet in Alaska.

Contrast this with McConnell's instant reaction upon finding out that Senator Larry Craig had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for disorderly conduct stemming from a foot-tapping encounter with an undercover cop in a Minneapolis restroom.

That, McConnell said, was a ``serious matter'' that he immediately referred to the Ethics Committee. He vowed he would look at ``other aspects of the case to determine if additional action is required,'' with the implication that tarring and feathering Craig might not be harsh enough.

[Wounded Iraq war veteran Eric] Alva spoke of his lost leg and how he 'nearly died to secure rights for others that I myself was not free to enjoy.'

My panic was based on another local legislator, Dan White, sneaking a gun into City Hall in November, 1978 and murdering a friend of mine, San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, and Mayor George Moscone, the father of another friend. It was a traumatic day for the entire city of San Francisco but especially for the gay community, Harvey having been the first openly gay man elected to any high profile office in America.

As a Congressional panel hears the case for, and against, repeal of the controversial 1993 military policy preventing gay and lesbian personnel from serving openly, some Republican representatives maintain that the policy ought to remain in place.

Among those supporting the status quo is Senator Larry Craig (R-ID). 'Current policy has served us well,' Senator Craig told CNSNews.com. 'I think we ought to sustain it. I see no evidence that it should be repealed.'

"If we lose California, if they defeat the marriage amendment, I’m afraid that the culture war is over and Christians have lost,” said [The American Family Association's Don] Wildmon, “I’ve never said that publicly until now—but that’s just the reality of the fact."

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."