First Read (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
From NBC's Mark MurrayThe Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is trying its best to squeeze every ounce out of the Mark Kirk-Sarah Palin story. A quick recap: First, the Washington Post's Cillizza got his hands on Kirk's letter to Palin friend Fred Malek, inquiring if Palin might endorse the Illinois congressman in his Senate primary. Then, as we reported earlier today, one of Kirk's conservative...
Peoria Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
You know how moderate U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk supposedly asked Sarah Palin for an endorsement. Rick Miller discovered it never happened: I probably should’ve known better than to believe the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza yesterday when he wrote… Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk penned a memo to Republican poobah Fred Malek hoping to secure an endorsement from [...]
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The CW take, courtesy of SNL's Seth Meyers, is that Sarah Palin's brand problems contributed to the defeat of the candidate she backed in the very special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District. But Republican candidates know who butters their bread. There are signs today that, far from taking Hoffman's defeat as evidence that voters are anxious about attempts to run a hard right candidacy,...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Memo asks power broker Fred Malek to get Palin to 'say something quick and decisive' in support On Monday, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk dodged questions on whether he would want controversial former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to help him raise campaign cash.
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Once upon a time, Mark Kirk was a "moderate" Republican who held a Democratic-leaning seat just north of Chicago. Party leaders, knowing Illinois doesn't elect wingnuts, heavily recruited Kirk, calculating (correctly) that he was the Republican with the best political profile to win the state. Then the teabaggers showed up, and Kirk can't run fast enough to the Right . Illinois Rep. Mark...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) penned a memo to Republican strategist Fred Malek hoping to secure an endorsement from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) for his U.S. Senate candidacy, reports The Fix . "Kirk's memo is tangible evidence of the power of Palin's endorsement in a Republican primary. Kirk, a moderate by voting record in the House, is clearly very concerned about the negative impact a Palin...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Get ready for lots of Sarah Palin. The former Alaska governor has a book, "Going Rogue: An American Life," coming out next month. And that's not all she's got planned. Palin is also launching a new political group, which will be called Stand Up for Our Country, the New York Post's Cindy Adams reported earlier this week. The Wall Street Journal has confirmed the report, quoting Tim Crawford,...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
This story by Dan Balz of the Washington Post contains quotes from two Republican strategists, for lack of a better description, that make a good deal of sense to me (I don't know where either stands in the great Palin divide). The first comes from pollster Neil Newhouse. He says: "It's unquestionable that [Palin] has a future in the GOP, but it's a bit more in doubt whether she has a future...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
Chris Cillizza's big deal is making lists, the ten closest Senate campaigns or what have you. At times these lists aim at determining who the winners and the losers are from a particular political event. Today, the event in question was the resignation of Sarah Palin. Here's who Cillizza thinks benefits and suffers from the weekend's news: Winners: Mark Sanford, Mitt Romney, Don Young, Fred Malek...
The Note (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Sarah Palin intends to continue to be helpful to other Republicans and is leaving her political options open even with today’s announcement that she'll soon resign, Fred Malek, a veteran Republican operative and a key political adviser to Gov. Sarah Palin, tells ABC News.
Red State (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
JUNE 11, 2009 Sign up to get the morning briefing by email here. 1. We Can Stop the European Bank Bailout Call Congress 2. US News: GOP Spanking Democrats in Recruiting But the GOP is dying. The media told us so. 3. Congress Pays For “Las Vegas Is So Gay” Ad Campaign Your tax dollars at work thanks to Disney. 4. Fred Malek: Why Bob McDonnell Will Win Virginia What it Can Mean for the Republican...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
Newsmakers 1972 by dday Fox News Sunday opened today with the question "Are we saving the economy or heading toward socialism," (By the way, we're not ) featuring such pearls as Richard Shelby blaming the Obama Administration for legislation passed in the fall of 2008, during, um, the Bush Administration. But I was more interested in one member of the panel, Fred Malek, listed as the head...
PoliGazette (Free subscription) | 05/20/2009
In a post for his blog, GOP Kingmaker Fred Malek, argues that Governor Mitt Romney is the hands down favorite for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 2012. Romney, Malek writes, has "the established organization, fundraising network, time, and talent to get the nomination this time."
Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 05/20/2009
…ever stop to notice that Fred Malek, the first prominent Republican to endorse Mitt Romney for 2012, is the same guy who pulled off the infamous “Jew count” — which led to the demotion of two Jewish employees — at the Bureau of Labor Statistics under Richard Nixon? Then again, the traditional media largely [...]
Politico (Free subscription) | 05/20/2009
Fred Malek, a heavyweight fundraiser, singles out Romney as the GOP's leading contender in 2012.
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