This week's Newsweek cover story, which details all the ways that Sarah Palin is "bad for the GOP—and for everybody else," is accompanied by a compelling stock photo: Palin striking a sassy pose in a pair of well-fitting shorts, courtesy of the former Alaska Governor's August Runner's World photo shoot (thanks to thinkpinkradio for the [...]

By all media accounts, Meghan McCain was "schooled," "taken to task," "murdered," "crucified," and "pwned" by Paul Begala on Real Time With Bill Maher over the weekend. Let's go to the tape!
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As you can see, Begala schooled, punished, crucified and murdered McCain in some sort of live televised pornographic snuff film! Given the creepy terminology [...]

The Huffington Post's Shannyn Moore has created this clever top-10 list of the worst sex jokes hurled at Sarah Palin and her daughters since last year's presidential campaign. The list, which includes jokes made by Conan O'Brien, Saturday Night Live, and Craig Ferguson, is hard to stomach. The A Rod thing is not the first [...]

While placing a simple rape joke in a pop song won't derail your music career, it could haunt you for decades and prevent you from becoming president, or anything else great ever. Below, five rape jokes that politicians wish they had never said—or, more likely, wish nobody ever heard.

Kevin at the Tidbits of My Life has published a portion of the speech Meghan McCain delivered at last week's annual Log Cabin Republican dinner. McCain's comments underlined her strong commitment to gay rights, Republicanism, black clothing, punk rock, and tattoos. "The person who stands before you is not confined within the mold of what [...]

Political-royalty-turned-blogger Meghan McCain has launched a new campaign to usher gay rights into her hip, young Republican fold—but the gay media is not biting.
In the Daily Beast this week, McCain calls gay rights "one of the [causes] closest to my heart," and insists that "if the Republican Party has any hope of gaining substantial support [...]

Cruuuuush heeeer
IF SHE DID RUN, HE WOULD CRUSH HER, a new poll finds [PDF]. "A new national [Public Policy Polling] poll finds that nominating Palin could be a death wish for the party, with Barack Obama leading Palin 55-35 in a hypothetical contest. The key reason Palin would lose to Obama by so much is [...]

Ugh.
Recently, a study was released by the Harvard Business School showing that "culturally conservative states are America's biggest purchasers of Internet pornography." The revelation gave D.C.'s liberal bloggers an opportunity to descend on their Republican prey like ruthless, moral vultures. Observe:

Just as the aging foreign leader circulates a grainy self-videotape to stave off rumors of his own death, so John McCain appeared on this week's Saturday Night Live in an attempt to prove that his campaign was still alive. McCain ribbed himself alongside pseudo running-mate Tina Fey in a show-opening mock infomercial and on [...]

If Bristol and Levi dress as Juno MacGuff and Paulie Bleeker for Halloween, I will vote for John McCain. Promise.