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...time, only 27 states and Washington, D.C., honored the holiday. Most famously, all three Arizona House Republicans including current Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain, voted against the bill in '83. The state did not vote in favor of recognizing the holiday until 1992, not only rejecting pleas from Reagan and then Arizona governor Evan Mecham but also losing the NFL's support when the league moved Super Bowl XXVII from Sun Devil Stadium, in Tempe, to California in protest. Arizona was not the only state openly contemptuous of federal law. In 2000, 17 years after...
With the publication of our book, Game Change, and the appearance of Schmidt on 60 Minutes in a piece discussing our reporting, a sharper portrait of Palin has begun to surface, one that is often startling and sometimes shocking. We learned that Palin was scarcely vetted by McCain's lawyers before being placed on the Republican ticket. We learned more about her substantive deficiencies, which were even more dramatic than those that had previously been reported: her lack of understanding about why there are two Koreas, her ignorance about the function of the Federal Reserve, her belief that Saddam Hussein...
That other McCain aides have kept quiet for so long about Palin owes to two factors. The first is loyalty to McCain. With his hatred of infighting, desire to put the campaign behind him and perhaps awareness of his complicity in foisting Palin on the world, the erstwhile Republican nominee has encouraged his people to stifle their criticisms and play down their disagreements with her, even though the direction Palin's vision for the future direction of the GOP is diametrically opposed to McCain...
...version of reality to go largely unchallenged - and her rise to continue unchecked. There is perhaps a related factor: a recent Washington Post poll found that Republicans regard Palin as the front runner for their party's 2012 nomination and that she best represents the GOP's values - besting McCain on that score...
...McCain, meanwhile, is still trying to enforce a no-look-back zone on the facts in our book and on his presidential bid. Palin, after all, was a bet that didn't pay off - and probably backfired - for the Arizona Republican. Understandably, McCain isn't keen to admit he played a poor hand. During a Jan. 12 appearance on the Today show, he was asked by Matt Lauer if it was true that his campaign had done only a cursory background check on Palin before selecting her as his running mate. McCain disavowed responsibility for the process used to scrutinize...