GOP Not Pailing Around With Palin

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FROM THE JOSHUA BLOG: http://thejoshuablogs.blogspot.com/2009/07/conservadems-rotflol-thanks-but-no.html

Conservadems ROTFLOL: Thanks, but no thanks, Sarah.
Sarah Palin is a joke. Her own party doesn't want her campaigning for them (say nutter Gov. Rick Perry in TX). Rep. Heath Shuler, Rep. John Barrow, Sen. Mark Pryor & Sen. Ben Nelson - some of the most conservative Democrats there are don't want or need your help.

Rep. Heath Shuler via Politico:

“I don’t think so,” said Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler, who hails from the conservative far western reaches of North Carolina.

“You know, look,” Shuler continued, clearing his throat, “there may be things we agree on, but there’s a lot of things we disagree on. I’m satisfied by me campaigning for myself in my own district. I don’t need somebody else from, you know — to come into my district.”
So, no help from Alaska?

“I don’t think so,” Shuler said, smiling and glancing over at the friends he was showing around the Capitol.

Rep John Barrow via Politico:
Rep. John Barrow, who represents a number of rural counties around Augusta and Savannah, Ga., was already walking quickly out of a Democratic Caucus meeting when asked about a Palin visit.

“That’s a new one on me,” Barrow said. “I don’t think she wants to campaign for me.”
Happily getting into an elevator and away from the question, he added: “It’s really not for me to make suggestions to Ms. Palin; she’s got enough to worry about.”

Sen. Mark Pryor via Politico:
“I don’t know,” Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor said with a good-natured laugh. “I usually don’t ask people to come campaign for me. I hadn’t really thought about that possibility.”
And how would Palin play in Arkansas, a state the GOP ticket carried by 20 points last year?
“I think, like a lot of places, she has some people that really like her and, you know — but overall, I’m not sure how she’d do there,” Pryor said, before ducking into a Democratic Caucus luncheon.

Sen. Ben Nelson via Politico:
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, perhaps the most conservative Democrat in the upper chamber, might as well have been asked if he wanted self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to bring a bit of Burlington to North Platte.

“I don’t have very many of my colleagues campaign for me,” Nelson responded quickly. “I generally have been out on my own doing it: two terms as governor, now two terms in the Senate.”

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Ivy League Student Infiltrates Falwell's Liberty University

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from: the joshua blog April 22, 2009

Release the Hound! Ivy League Student 'Infiltrates' Falwell's Liberty University To Write Book

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Good for him. Good for society in general. Expose these lunatics.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Kevin Roose managed to blend in during his single semester at Liberty University, attending lectures on the myth of evolution and the sin of homosexuality, and joining fellow students on a mission trip to evangelize partyers on spring break.
Roose had transferred to the Virginia campus from Brown University in Providence, a famously liberal member of the Ivy League. His Liberty classmates knew about the switch, but he kept something more important hidden: He planned to write a book about his experience at the school founded by fundamentalist preacher Jerry Falwell.
Each conversation about salvation or hand-wringing debate about premarital sex was unwitting fodder for Roose's recently published book: "The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University."
"As a responsible American citizen, I couldn't just ignore the fact that there are a lot of Christian college students out there," said Roose, 21, now a Brown senior. "If I wanted my education to be well-rounded, I had to branch out and include these people that I just really had no exposure to."