And on the PUMA thing, I really think it has been blown out of proportion by the media and McCain's campaign. I mean really how many Democratic women are going to vote for McCain because they are pissy Clinton didn't get nominated, not very many at all I don't think.

Most of the polls I've seen have shown Obama with some ridiculous advantage among women, consistently hovering around 20 points ahead of McCain. So, yeah, I'm fairly skeptical of the actual size or impact of PUMAPAC.

Shakesville also reported on an ABC article about PUMAPAC that discussed the whole "movement" seriously and uncritically but mentioned, almost parenthetically, that one of the founders and biggest talkers is a lifelong Republican who'd given something like 20K to the R's this election cycle and then gave Hillary 2K after Super Tuesday. So, not exactly the scorned and bitter long-time Dem the article portrayed her as.

I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?"

Her views on this don't seem to extend to gay people.

Her views on this don't seem to extend to gay people.

That's a lifestyle choice.

What's the "Biden is a Misogynist" thing? Did he call his wife a cunt?

He's going to be arguing with a woman on national TV, and (I presume) wiping the floor with her. Rather than admit their candidate is a millionare wingnut with no experience, I predict that the GOP will play up the fact that she's a woman and Joe Biden is a big mean meanieface for disagreeing with her..

What if someone has Downs Syndrome AND is gay?

Trig Paxson Van Palin

Oh for the love of little green apples. That poor child.

Shakesville also reported on an ABC article about PUMAPAC that discussed the whole "movement" seriously and uncritically but mentioned, almost parenthetically, that one of the founders and biggest talkers is a lifelong Republican who'd given something like 20K to the R's this election cycle and then gave Hillary 2K after Super Tuesday. So, not exactly the scorned and bitter long-time Dem the article portrayed her as.

JZ, do you have a link for that? Sounds like great material for my friend's McCain comic.

[link]

How did Palin get her money? Inherited it?

Also, I agree with Jessica that PUMA just smells of a NeoCon front, much like the Swift-Boaters.

lisah, here's the ABC article: [link]

The 20K/2K donor Shakesville pinpointed -- which I misremembered from my first quick read, it's actually 40K /2K -- is Danit Aharon, mentioned on the second page of the 3-page story; the FEC "check contributions by individual donor" page is here [link] and confirms her impressive donations this year to McCain. I'm too lazy to do it now, but I expect that culling all the names from that article and running them through the FEC search would bring a lot of similar results.