Sarah loves to give “thumbs-up” to the men at her rallies who think she’s HOT, but the men in her own life aren’t nearly so happy about the male attention she’s garnered.

Sarah Palin gets speech ideas from her Starbucks mocha cups. Last week Palin learned, via Madeline Albright, via Starbucks, that there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women. Actually, the original quote was about women who don’t help other women, but nevermind.

Looks Sarah Palin has been doing some reading.

At a rally last week she quoted former Secretary of State Madeline Albright…albeit from bon mot inscribed on her Starbucks Mocha cup. Palin said it was providential how that quote got printed on that cup just in time for her to read it. “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women,” Palin said.

Voight says Palin would make a great commander-in-chief, Palin plugs Starbucks and thinks there are Reagan Democrats. Welcome to Los Angeles. Or at least a suburb.

We at Firedoglake have been busy planning a delightful collection of dishes, appropriate to enjoy during the Vice Presidential debates, based on the candidates and their foibles. You can also nibble on them during a viewing of Larry’s Flynt’s latest oeuvre: Amuse bouche de Biden– filet of sole with balsamic vinagrette (place whole piece in [...]

Katie Couric’s interviews with Sarah Palin made a feeble boost in CBS’s ratings this week, gaining the CBS Evening News only about 10 percent in audience from the previous week. The newscast averaged just under 6 million viewers for the week, up from 5.44 million. Worse, the ratings were actually down from the same week [...]

According to the New York Times, the increasingly failing Sarah Palin is off in  Sedona, Arizona getting polished, primped and prepped for the debate by McCain campaign Pygmalions, including Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s chief foreign policy aide; Mark Wallace, a deputy campaign manager for Mr. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign; and Nicolle Wallace,  a former Bush communications [...]

Pandering to Israeli president Peres, Palin says she only has an Israeli flag in her office. But, wait there’s the Stars’nStripes!

The McCain campaign tried to ban most of the traveling press from Sarah Palin’s meetings with foreign leaders in New York today. Initially, the campaign announced that journalists who communicate primarily with words would banned from the event. Only still photogs and TV crews would be allowed in.

Sen. Ted Stevens asked for permission to periodically skip out on his corruption trial in order to address the current financial meltdown.