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Yesterday news broke that Willow Palin, the 16 year old daughter of 1/2 term governor Sarah, took to Facebook in a homophobic slur rant against someone who complained about Palin’s reality show:

During the premiere of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" Sunday night -- a boy named Tre who went to school with the Palin kids wrote a status update that read, "Sarah Palin's Alaska, is failing so hard right now."

The comment sparked an intense response from Willow -- who replied on the boy's wall, "Haha your so gay. I have no idea who you are, But what I've seen pictures of, your disgusting ... My sister had a kid and is still hot."

Willow followed up that comment with another that read, "Tre stfu. Your such a f**got."

Bristol Palin also got in on the smacktalk -- writing a message to Tre saying, "You're running your mouth just to talk sh*t."

This sparked the GOP to come to the defense of Willow, writing this off as “kids being kids”. Here’s the statement from Tammy Bruce of GOProud:

“Willow Palin is a 16 year old girl who, like all 16 year olds is going to make mistakes and say things she shouldn’t have. This, however, has nothing to do with Willow Palin or the substance of what she said on Facebook. The ‘slur’ used here is one you could hear on the streets of West Hollywood or Chelsea every day of the week.  Apparently, it’s only a ‘homophobic slur’ when it comes from the daughter of a conservative female leader.  Make no mistake; this is all about destroying Sarah Palin by any means necessary.

Rasmussen
polling has a new poll out that is putting Bush at a 46% approval rating. This
of course is sending the pundits into a glory spin.
Newsmax
has already picked up on this poll and is calling it Bush's rebound.

So why does Rasmussen put Bush so high. Well
let's look at the break down of responses:

This is an example of how you can manipulate a poll. Most pollsters ask
simply if you approve or disapprove of the President's job. This of course adds
an extra factor into the data. If this question was asked with only the two
options chances are his approval rating would be much lower.

 It should also be noted that Rasmussen's lowest rating for Bush has
only been 43%. His approval rating was also this high a month ago during the
Mier's nomination and all other problems.  Their numbers are way off base
from all the other main stream polls.

Of course this doesn't sway the opinion of sites like NewsMax. They even
praise this as being a more reliable poll over
Newsweek. Here
is their explanation why:

US News and World Reports is taken to topic the buzzing rumors of the net as
they apply to the future of Dick Cheney.

White House Watch: Cheney resignation
rumors fly

Charlie Archambault for USN&WR

Posted 10/18/05 By Paul Bedard

Sparked by today's Washington Post story that suggests Vice President
Cheney's office is involved in the Plame-CIA spy link investigation,
government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice
president might step aside and that President Bush would elevate Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice.

"It's certainly an interesting but I still think highly doubtful
scenario," said a Bush insider. "And if that should happen," added the
official, "there will undoubtedly be those who believe the whole thing was
orchestrated – another brilliant Machiavellian move by the VP."

Said another Bush associate of the rumor, "Yes. This is not good." The
rumor spread so fast that some Republicans by late morning were already
drawing up reasons why Rice couldn't get the job or run for president in
2008.

"Isn't she pro-choice?" asked a key Senate Republican aide. Many White
House insiders, however, said the Post story and reports that the
investigation was coming to a close had officials instead more focused on
who would be dragged into the affair and if top aides would be indicted and
forced to resign.

"Folks on the inside and near inside are holding their breath and
wondering what's next," said a Bush adviser. But, he added, they aren't
focused on the future of the vice president. "Not that, at least not
seriously," he said.