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Palin is consolidating her position as the most powerful person in the Republican party. She signed a deal reportedly worth millions to be featured in an eight-episode series about Alaska on TLC, and she'll add that gig to her richly compensated duties at Fox News, where she is an occasional political pundit. She has another book on the way, following the best seller Going Rogue, and numerous private speaking engagements. She remains hotly in demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Her Party Now | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...same time, she is maneuvering for position as the race for 2012 warms up. Palin is making time to help a roster of Republican candidates between now and November. She laughs off the notion that rough language might incite further acts of aggression against Democrats; instead, she's put crosshair markings on her Facebook page to identify lawmakers she has targeted for defeat in the fall election. Quippy and tart, she mocks the "lamestream media" for distracting voters by distorting GOP positions. And by carefully controlling her own visibility, she has become more irresistible as cable-news and viral content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Her Party Now | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...party's nomination for a fifth term. She earnestly and at times poignantly argued that McCain is a true Tea Party conservative. She said the movement is short on battle-tested, experienced veterans in Congress to take the fight to the Democrats alongside younger firebrands like Republican Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown and Palin herself. "We need new blood," she said, "but we also need heroes and statesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Her Party Now | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...they collected e-mail addresses for follow-up contact, raised several hundred thousand dollars and attracted the kind of crowds and media coverage that McCain can no longer bring in on his own. And the Senator continued his conversion from a maverick unafraid to compromise with Democrats to a Republican determined to thwart Obama's agenda, starting with overturning the new health care law. "It's going to be repealed and replaced, and it's going to be done soon," McCain thundered. "It will not stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Her Party Now | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...Adding to the current ugliness are accusations from some Democrats that the violence has been incited by the angry rhetoric of Republicans and antigovernment Tea Party activists, who cheered protesters inside the House chamber on the evening the health care bill was passed. Just after the vote, the Republican National Committee launched a "Fire Nancy Pelosi" website that showed her roasting in the flames of hell; the fundraising effort raised more than $1 million in 48 hours. Representative Steve Driehaus, an Ohio Democrat, took exception when House minority leader John Boehner, a fellow Ohioan, said Driehaus "may be a dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care's Ugly Aftermath: The Death Threats Mount | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

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