Sarah Barracuda

what OP-ED columnist Gail Collins called Sarah Palin in The New York Times

Caribou Barbie

This is, what, according to Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, critics call Sarah Palin. In the same article, she also refers to her as “Valentino Barbie” and “Eliza Doolittle“, but stresses that “She [Sarah Palin] is so naturally good-looking, there is no need to gild the Last Frontier lily.”

Rovian

= aggressive, or, as considered by the Democrats, dirty, e.g. “Rovian tactics”, named after Carl Rove, the former presidential adviser to George W. Bush

cf. The New York Times

Palinism

“a philosophy delivered without a passport and with a view (on a clear day) of Russia”, quoted from The New York Times

“From an inspirational notion, however flawed in execution, that has buttressed the global spread of liberty, American exceptionalism has morphed into the fortress of those who see themselves threatened by ‘one-worlders’ (read Barack Obama) and who believe it’s more important to know how to dress moose than find Mumbai.”

ibid.

First Dude

That’s Todd Palin, accourding to the Washington Post.

PUMA

Party Unity My Ass

quoted from: Slate Magazine

Hillary Harridan

“a creepy literary type [... of] irrational, emotional, self-referential women”

quoted from: Slate Magazine

Corrupticut

Connecticut, as it’s called after recent scandals, cf. New York Times

Bush & McCain

“President Bush pledged Sunday to assist Sen. John McCain’s campaign for the presidency assuming he wins the Republican Party nomination.”

cf. Los Angeles Times

I’m wondering what McCain thinks about that offer – if he really thinks it’s a help??!! Or if it might have all the potential to finally destroy his hopes for the presidency.

the fighting is becoming dirty

It’s still a long ways to the presidential election, but already the fighting is becoming dirty and the mud-slinging has begun, cf. “Recently, there have been waves of robocalls in South Carolina repeatedly attacking ‘Barack Hussein Obama.’”

quoted from The Los Angeles Times

cf. also: “Here’s what Mr. Young, who is black and a former ambassador to the United Nations, had to say last month in an interview posted online: ‘Bill is every bit as black as Barack. He’s probably gone with more black women than Barack.’”

quoted from The New York Times