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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Rocks the Republican Convention
Originally posted 09/05/2008 02:00PM
The View co-host and well-known Republican enthusiast Elisabeth Hasselbeck spent the day wowing delegates at the Republican National Convention Thursday.
Hasselbeck, 31, served as the official emcee at a luncheon for Cindy McCain just hours before John McCain's big speech. Hasselbeck also showed off vintage-style "McCain '08" T-shirts she designed herself, and spent time on the floor of the convention taping a segment that will air on Monday, Sept. 8, on The View.
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John McCain Picks Up on Theme of Change
Originally posted 09/05/2008 08:00AM
Senator John McCain accepted his party's nomination at the Republican National Convention Thursday in St. Paul with a reach-out to Democrats and independents.
"Despite our differences, much more unites us than divides us," McCain, 72, said in a nod to his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama. "We are fellow Americans, an association that means more to me than any other."
Picking up his opponent's theme of change, the Arizona senator, promising to move beyond "partisan rancor," also vowed to remake Washington – by lowering taxes and stripping the fat from government spending, while mounting a strong national defense.
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INSIDE STORY: Meet Todd Palin, Alaska's 'First Dude'
Originally posted 09/04/2008 06:20PM
At Tailgaters sports bar in Wasilla, Alaska, the crowd cheered when the six televisions showed Gov. Sarah Palin at the GOP Convention on Wednesday night – and beamed with pride when the cameras focused on her husband, Todd.
"That," said bar patron Martin Chapoton, "is our 'First Dude.' "
Alaskans embrace Todd Palin as one of their own: a tough, blue-collar outdoorsman who calloused his hands with two decades of hard work at the North Slope oil fields and the Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishery – and who has earned a reputation for steely nerves and endurance as a championship snowmobile racer.
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Boyfriend Has 'Bristol' Tattooed on Ring Finger
Originally posted 09/04/2008 03:15PM
As her mother, Sarah Palin, addressed her constituents at the Republican National Convention, 17-year-old Bristol Palin held hands in the family VIP box with her fiancé, Levi Johnston.
But Bristol's hand wasn't the only thing Johnson was displaying on his fingers. As TV cameras were able to reveal, the 18-year-old hockey player is also sporting a tattoo that reads "Bristol" – located exactly where a wedding ring would go.
The young couple's relationship has been embraced by their families, and Johnston joined the entire family onstage after Palin's primetime speech Wednesday.
But one person, who knows what it's like to be in the spotlight, has sympathy for all the attention on Bristol, who is five-months pregnant. "I just feel for her because even just two weeks ago, she was completely anonymous," John McCain's daughter Meghan McCain, 23, told PEOPLE Wednesday. "She's a very sweet girl and [Johnston] is very nice. My heart goes out to them."
– Stephen M. Silverman
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Hockey Moms Turn Out for Sarah Palin
Originally posted 09/03/2008 11:30PM
GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin let her hair down Wednesday, wowing the Republican National Convention with a spunky punch at critics of her experience – and a coupon-clipping approach to government waste.
Palin, the two-year governor of Alaska, boasted that she cleaned house when she took over the governor's mansion. "That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay," she said. "And I thought we could muddle through without the governor’s personal chef – although I've got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her."
The crowd of die-hard Republicans went wild for Palin, 44. The entire Michigan delegation donned hockey jerseys in solidarity with the self-described "Hockey Mom." Departing from her text, Palin gave those raucous fans a shout-out. "I gotta love the hockey moms. You know what they say about the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."
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Meghan McCain Muses on Possible White House Life
Originally posted 09/03/2008 09:45AM
Has John McCain's daughter, Meghan, already put dibs on a White House bedroom?
That was the question put to the 23-year-old by a cub reporter from
Nickelodeon Tuesday, as the would-be First Daughter unveiled My Dad, John McCain, her illustrated children's book about her
father's life story.
"No," McCain replied to the bedroom query. "But Jenna Bush did show me her room in the White House and it's beautiful." She added with a laugh, "But they're smaller than you might think!"
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Law & Order's Fred Thompson Defends Sarah Palin
Originally posted 09/03/2008 09:15AM
Former Sen. Fred Thompson came to the defense of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Tuesday night.
In his folksy, prime-time address to the Republican National Committee, Thompson, the actor-turned-senator-turned-actor said Palin, GOP presidential candidate John McCain's choice for vice president, could surely stand up to "Washington pundits and media big shots" attacking her and her family after her disclosure that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.
Of Palin, Thompson said: "She has run a municipality and she has run a state. And I can say without fear of contradiction that she is the only nominee in the history of either party who knows how to properly field dress a moose ... with the possible exception of Teddy Roosevelt."
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Laura Bush Delivers Feisty GOP 'Straight Talk'
Originally posted 09/02/2008 11:30PM
Forget those public approval ratings. To Laura, husband George Bush is still “the man I love."
The First Lady made her do-over address to the Republican National Convention Tuesday, after her Monday address was canceled in deference to the threat of Hurricane Gustav to Gulf Coast residents. Sounding feisty, Mrs. Bush borrowed Republican John McCain’s “Straight Talk” motto – and targeted Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign theme of change – as she defended her husband’s eight-year record in the White House.
“America is in the middle of a heated campaign,” she said, “… but you haven’t heard very many facts.”
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John Rich Sings Political Anthem for John McCain
Originally posted 09/02/2008 07:30PM
John Rich is proud of his role as one of the most visible and well-known entertainers at the Republican National Convention this week.
"I'm a young conservative guy and there aren't many of us around," Rich, half of the duo Big & Rich, said before performing his political anthem, "Raisin' McCain," at a benefit for Red Cross Hurricane Relief on Monday night.
Rich, 34, has been campaigning with John McCain and plans to continue through the November election. "I'm very deliberately trying to be out there with my ideas and my music," Rich says. "I respect McCain for his heroism over the years. He stands for the things I value and there aren't many young conservatives like me who make it into the media, so I'm trying to do my part."
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Bristol Palin's Boyfriend Going to GOP Convention
Originally posted 09/02/2008 07:00PM
Levi Johnston, the boyfriend of Sarah Palin's 17-year-old pregnant daughter Bristol, is going to join the Palin family at the Republican National Convention, according to his mother.
Sherry Johnston told reporters that Levi left Alaska on Tuesday to fly to St. Paul, Minn., according to the Associated Press.
GOP vice presidential candidate Palin announced Monday that her daughter is five months pregnant and plans to marry the baby's 18-year-old father.
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