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struggle4progress

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6. ... In June 2007, a cruise hosted by the political journal The Weekly Standard set anchor
Tue May 22, 2012, 11:41 PM
May 2012

in Juneau, Alaska. Standard editors William Kristol and Fred Barnes then lunched with Governor Sarah Palin ... Kristol appeared on Fox News on June 30, 2008, confidently predicting that McCain would select Sarah Palin and as a public display of support, oil prices would miraculously fall ... Palin’s name appeared in 41 Weekly Standard articles since the Juneau meeting—starting with a paean entitled “ The Most Popular Governor” that ran right after the reception. Indeed, Kristol ... may have played a key role in McCain’s decision to tap Palin as his running mate ...
Palin's Talent Scout
Oct 10, 2008 3:33 AM EDT
Scott Horton
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/10/10/palins-talent-scout.html

Yesterday on Fox News Channel, Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol predicted that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has a bright future in American politics even if her ticket does not win today’s election. Kristol noted that Franklin Delano Roosevelt lost his bid for vice president in 1920 only to be elected president twelve years later...
Kristol: Palin ‘reminds me a lot of FDR.’
By Ryan Powers on Nov 4, 2008 at 11:32 am
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/11/04/31792/kristol-palin-fdr/


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