Republicans and democrats


Guy Rundle: Rundle08: Palin fails to take crazed fans to another level

If the ‘show the real McCain’ push is fantastical, then the idea of ‘unleashing Palin’ is equivalent to thinking that that lap dancer really liked you, writes Guy Rundle.

Guy Rundle: Rundle08: Grit your remaining teeth John and get on with it

Obama was widely picked as the winner, but only in the sense that McCain had to, I dunno, glass him or something, to get a win, writes Guy Rundle.

Sarah Palin: V-agra of the people

The neoconservative and big business Republicans, and their supporters in places like Australia, may find that Palin is every bit as much the outsider she claims to be, writes Bernard Keane.

Guy Rundle: Rundle08: North to Alaska, the last American frontier

Alaska preserves the image of America as the land of free enterprise and individual effort, while quietly carrying on as a quasi-socialist fiefdom of socila dividends and big money patronage, writes Guy Rundle.