Palin supported Pat Buchanan in 2000

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Also:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Palin_on_Israel.html?showall

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If she supported Buchanan in 1996, she's a definite FF in my book.  Only candidate I would have supported over Perot that year.

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The article is from 1999. Didn't Buchannan start out running for the GOP nomination (again) in 2000? I'm sure she ended up supporting Bush when Buchannan left the party. Again, this doesn't mean she suddenly stopped liking Buchannan.

Yes, Buchanan started off running again in 1999, but I think ended his campaign sometime late in the year.  Or it may have been 2000 when Bush/McCain looked inevitable.

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Well, Buchanan certainly wasn't going to play well in Florida.

he did play almost suspiciously well in Palm Beach in 2000.  any theories on that?

lol

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Buchanan's comments supposedly have to do with 1996, not 2000.  Additionally, there appears to be no campaign contributions to Buchanan at all during this time period, as this article mentions.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Buchanan_Palin_was_a_brigader_for_me_in_96.html?showall

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She could have been both.

Forbes drops out in 2000, she jumps on the Buchanan train.

It clearly was in 1996, if it was at all, not 2000, when Pat jumped ship. Still, getting near Pat is toxic to me, whatever the year may have been.

Well, the likely answer is that she was with Buchanan or Forbes in 1996, because those are the only two who competed in the Alaska caucuses that year.

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Without any real evidence showing that she was actually involved in Buchanan's campaign, other than Pat's singular statement, this issue will die a simple death on this forum.

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So we're allowed to spread rumors because we don't know if they're true or not?

These are the same people that went nuts whenever called Obama a Muslim... 

You guys are nothing but hypocrites. Seriously.

Hmm, I think he meant that he is internally glad. Not that he condoned it.

Reading comprehension is obviously not your strong suit.  Please look at this part of the comment again.

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If that's not condoning it, I don't know what is.

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good god

all these palin topics getting 100+ posts

insanity

When I went out for dinner this evening, all the NYC types were talking about Palin.  I must've overheard her name mentioned at least 6-7 times.

Most amusing line was a guy was talking to his girlfriend, saying good things about Palin.  Finally, he said "I think she's quite good-looking and intelligent, much like you are dear."  Girlfriend was not pleased.

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I'm wondering at what point Obama supporters are going to start embarrassing other Obama supporters with crap like that.

funny.  But really, I'm about done with beating my head against a wall.

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I'm wondering at what point Obama supporters are going to start embarrassing other Obama supporters with crap like that.

funny.  But really, I'm about done with beating my head against a wall.

If you're upset with negative attacks and shocked by people "condoning" surrogates spreading false rumors about nominees, vote for change and a new kind of politics. Obama-Biden '08. Yes we can.

You assume that this is what my comment refers to.  But it doesn't.

Politics is war and rumors are part of war.  I have no problems with the spread of rumors that Obama is a muslim or Palin is an anti-semite.  The public sphere tends to filter these rumors out over time and those who actually believe the rumors probably wanted to believe them anyway.

Rather, in this situation my annoyance is with a person condoning the behavior and then another remarking that his comments aren't condoning the behavior.  I am rather intolerant towards stupidity.  And yes, I am somewhat of a grammar nazi.