Bristol Palin doesn't think anyone should be encouraging Mitt Romney to make a safer VP pick than John McCain did in 2008. "Mom answered the call to serve her country, energized the base, and inspired millions," she wrote in a new blog post . "Plus, she did it with good humor and grace. I dont know what else she couldve reasonably be expected to do." Bristol criticizes outlets like the Washington Post and Talking Points Memo that warn Romney against choosing another rogue running mate. She goes on to defend her mom's short but memorable time on the campaign trail: Take a good look at this list of polls. Shortly after Senator McCain picked my mom, the polls turned favorable. But he lost the lead for good the week he suspended his campaign, and we never got it back. Not in a single poll. But even then, my Mom helped. A lot. She raised millions of dollars that helped us fight hard until the last moment. And Senator McCa

By Mark Whittington | Yahoo! Contributor Network 21 mins ago COMMENTARY | Sen. Richard Lugar , R-Ind., has served in the Senate for six terms and would like to have a seventh as a capstone of a long career of public service. Sarah Palin suggests the 80-year -old senator be denied that privilege. Lugar is in the fight of his political life, facing a primary challenge from Richard Mourdock, the state treasurer. Mourdock is a tea party favorite, while many believe Lugar has been in Washington for too long, making too many of the compromises such as voting for bailouts that irk American conservatives. Lugar is also unfortunate to be the first office holder to be designated to have his career ended in this election cycle, with the exception of President Barack Obama by Sarah Palin. Using the tried and true strategy from 2010, Palin is asserting her power by offering her endorsement. Thanks to his tea party support, a poll showed Mourdock leading Lugar by five points, according to the W

By Rachel Rose Hartman Political Reporter By Rachel Rose Hartman | The Ticket Fri, Apr 27, 2012 Palin (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Sarah Palin on Friday afternoon publicly endorsed Republican challenger Richard Mourdock who's taking on longtime lawmaker Dick Lugar in the Indiana Senate race. She published the following on her Facebook page: Richard Mourdock is the conservative choice for Indiana.Senator Lugar's 36 years of service as a Senator are appreciated, but it's time for the torch to pass to conservative leadership in Washington that promises to rein in government spending now. Lugar is in the electoral fight of his life this year : It's his first primary challenge since his election to the Senate in 1976. Mourdock, the state treasurer, has strong backing from the tea party and other groups who argue Lugar has become too moderate to represent the state. Soon after Palin's endorsement went live j! ust befo re 3 p.m. ET, Lugar's campaign blasted out an ema

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaking during a previous trip to Alabama in 2010. (AP Photo/Jamie Martin) BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told an enthusiastic gathering of Christian women today that they should follow Alabama's state motto and dare to defend their rights. "I'm not just talking about our political rights, but the rights we are given as a daughter of God," the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate told women this afternoon at the Extraordinary Women's Conference in Birmingham. "He trusts us with the responsibility to live big, to live bold, to live passionately and to live vibrantly so we can effect change to the world around us," she said. Palin was the keynote speaker at the two-day gathering organized by the Virginia-based group, Extraordinary Women. Speakers discussed their own faith journeys, based on the theme "passionate faith." Palin used examples from her political and personal life, as well

Sarah Palin Photo: Reuters ABC2, 8.30pm This is a remarkable achievement by British documentary maker Nick Broomfield. He manages to make Sarah Palin a sympathetic figure while turning one of the great political stories of the past decade into a dull, self-indulgent film. Broomfield has made scores of documentaries and a recurring motif is his inability to secure an interview. From Tracking Down Maggie through to Kurt & Courtney and now You Betcha! , Broomfield affects a bumbling, hapless persona, thwarted at every turn as he tries to get close to his subject. Meanwhile, he interviews every disaffected former colleague and unhinged family member he can find. It's unedifying, dishonest and ultimately unsatisfying filmmaking. Advertisement: Story continues below Here he stalks Palin's home town of Wasilla, Alaska, interviewing anyone who'll talk to him. Some of the comments from those who worked with Palin on the local council and later when she was state governor are d

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Sarah Palin lashed out at the Obama Administration in a Facebook post on Wednesday, attacking regulations she says would ban children from working on family farms. Tapping into her Alaska roots and 4-H past, Palin called the rules a "nonsensical intrusion into our lives and livelihoods." The Labor Department is working on new child labor laws to limit certain types of agricultural work , and Palin is not the first Republican to try to block the effort. Last month Republicans in both the House and Senate introduced bills that would preempt the regulations, and some Democrats in agricultural states have joined them. A cornerstone of the opposition argument is Palin's notion that the laws would disrupt a rural way of life by preventing kids from helping out with family farm work. But as HuffPost's Dave Jamieson reported, the laws would only protect children from types of labor deemed too dangerous and would not apply to children working

By Maggie Gallagher | Maggie Gallagher 35 mins ago Sarah Palin was the first to recognize the problem: By participating in President Obama 's signature education initiative, the Common Core Standards , Alaska would lose control over its own curriculum. On May 31, 2009, then-Gov. Palin announced Alaska would adopt a "watch and wait" attitude: "If this initiative produces useful results, Alaska will remain free to incorporate them," Gov. Palin said, adding that "high expectations are not always created by new, mandated federal standards written on paper. They are created in the home, the community and the classroom." Texas Gov. Rick Perry , to his credit, was the next to recognize a federal boondoggle when he saw one: "I will not commit Texas taxpayers to unfunded federal obligations or to the adoption of unproven, cost-prohibitive national standards and tests," Gov. Perry wrote in a Jan. 13, 2010, letter to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Dun

In a not-so-swift swift-boat attack on Barack Obama, Sarah Palin tried to link the Secret Service sex scandal to the presidents ability to manage this nations affairs. But she succeeds only in demonstrating how fuzzy her knowledge is of the government she came close to being a heartbeat away from running. Palin told Fox News Greta Van Susteren that the Secret Service agents inappropriate contact with Colombian prostitutes was a symptom of a government run amok and Obamas poor management skills. Then Palin offered up this bit of nonsense as proof of her contention: The No. 1 thing that he is responsible for is ... violating Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution in not having a budget. What shes talking about is the section of the Constitution that spells out the responsibility of Congress, not the president, to appropriate money spent by all branches of the federal government. That clause of the Constitution does not mandate creation of a federal budget. It do

By Mark Whittington | Yahoo! Contributor Network 1 hr 14 mins ago COMMENTARY | A lot of the reason Sarah Palin is the most powerful female politician on the planet is her uncanny ability to get people to react to the least thing she has to say. That even includes things she didn't say, according to Real Clear Politics. President Barack Obama 's spokesman, Jay Carney , suggested Palin had "politicized" the war in Afghanistan . He could not name any specific case in which she has done so. Like every public figure, Palin has had a few things to say about Afghanistan , as well as a number of other issues, from time to time. In February, she opined the Afghan Army ought to apologize for a rash of murders of American service personnel by Afghan troops, according to Townhall. She noted President Obama had apologized for an inadvertent burning of a Quran that had been desecrated by Taliban prisoners, thus sparking the murder rampage. It should be noted candidate Obama in