If you ask me (and a lot of others who inhabit a world that is arguably more real that that inhabited by Madden and his handful of readers), what this article attempts to hype as scandal is merely another reason to vote for the McCain - Palin ticket: Vote for her, get him too.

When I last heard a version of that refrain, the unelected person walking the corridors of power in her spouse's administration was the pant-suited Hillary. I didn't hear much then by way of criticism of unelected spouses from Team Madden or his readers. On the contrary, the idea of the unelected Hillary acting as crypto-President was heralded by breathless liberals as a bonus: "it's a a "twofor", we were told. But now that the shoe is on the other foot and the arrangement doesn't serve Salon's ideology, it's open season on the Palins, complete with electro-microscopic scrutiny of their expense accounts. (Query: How would Madden and his readers view examination of State Senator Obama's expense records by reporters from the National Enquirer?)

I happen to regard examination taxpayer money by elected officials as a good use of a reporter's time, but let's not stop with the "First Dude". Let's go on to vet Junket Joe Biden's expense records, all 36 or so years of them; and then lets finish up with an examination of the expense records of all the rest of those phony Beltway Patriots who do so much to lay up burdens on the rest of us while shouldering none themselves.

I would think he was hanging around with seemingly nothing to do but he was doing something for her pregnant self.

Yes, he is hot . If he has any brothers , they are welcome to hang around me when I work.

So predictable that the slinging now extends to Palin's first dude hubby. The entire article is so sneaky with an obvious intention to imply that Palin has a hubby puppeteer that directs and manages her governmental actions and affairs. Oh this is such a clear sexist messaging that Palin can't do much without the husband taking on a co-governer role. What? Another Hillary scenario rearing its head? The gal has a meddling husband as does Hillary and neither woman can control their spouses even though they have run campaigns, launched complex policy, been elected by entire states? Oh my, they are such damsels incapable of thinking on their own...

Ok, so you get the picture. I am tired of the heavy-handed media sexism that is being manufactured to intentionally malign and downgrade the sheer will and talent of these two great women candidates (political positions aside)

Stop this shit.

This sounds an awful lot like Hilary Clinton during the Clinton years. I hope the first dude isn't a Healthcare policy wonk.

John McCain is running for president. Obama doesn't need anyone else to get people excited to vote for him.

The GOP leadership was heard during the Convention saying that they are going to take off their "Republican Hats" and put on "American Hats," well this article explains why the Republican government has no respect for the public office---not for private use.

"Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy..." Lincoln's First Inaugural Address,1861. Sarah Palin's husband, Todd Palin is no Eleanor Roosevelt,the epitome of service to the American people.

Todd Palin supported anti-American party, but wants American tax payers to insure the Trans-Canada oil deal, if (hypothetical?)Transcanada has most of the energy supply to lower "48ers" i.e, us, and they secede---will we be at their mercy for price and supply?

This article is convoluted and opaque. Just what point is being made here, I don’t see one. Is this gossip? The writer hasn’t proved any influence that, and this is an incredulous term, “the first dude” has over Governor Palin’s work. This article is a waste of space that is meaningless and therefore should have never been published. Read it once more if you don’t believe me.

This article is convoluted and opaque. Just what point is being made here, I don’t see one. Is this gossip? The writer hasn’t proved any influence that, and this is an incredulous term, “the first dude” has over Governor Palin’s work. This article is a waste of space that is meaningless and therefore should have never been published. Read it once more if you don’t believe me.

I remember Bill Clinton being very up front about the two of them being a team, "two for the price of one" ....

If Sarah Palin is up front about that so be it. (That of course opens the door to questions about her Evangelicalism - is she subservient to him or not? Men are not hamstrung by such edicts as they profess their Godliness. She DID run as a mayor on a Christian platform.)

Who's watching the kids?

who's mindin' the moose?

You stole my questions. Yea whois watcing those children of the 'family values' family. Palin... just like Phyilis Schafley.

Instead of Rove and Cheney in the background pulling Bush's strings it will be Bonnie and Clyde ...uhhh, I meant Sarah and Todd pulling McCain's.

As if Michelle Obama hasn't created Barack. She was the one who attended those "church" meetings. It was her racial remarks and anger at the white folks and America that also made him who he is. I just cannot as a democrat look at Obama as anything but a Marxist and a sympathizer and pal of people like Ayers and Rezko.

"Every sperm is sacred.

Every sperm is great.

If a sperm is wasted,

God gets quite irate.

Let the heathen spill theirs

On the dusty ground.

God shall make them pay for

Each sperm that can't be found.

Every sperm is wanted.

Every sperm is good.

Every sperm is needed

In your neighbourhood.

Hindu, Taoist, Mormon,

Spill theirs just anywhere,

But God loves those who treat their

Semen with more care.

Every sperm is sacred.

Every sperm is good.

Every sperm is needed

In your neighbourhood!

Every sperm is useful.

Every sperm is fine.

God needs everybody's.

Mine! And mine! And mine!

Let the Pagan spill theirs

O'er mountain, hill, and plain.

God shall strike them down for

Each sperm that's spilt in vain.

Every sperm is sacred.

Every sperm is great.

If a sperm is wasted,

God gets quite iraaaaate!"

Look it up yourself if you don't believe me, these are Palin's exact words.