Meg Whitman, a national co-chair of the John McCain campaign, stepped a little off message Wednesday, calling the media coverage of vice presidential pick Sarah Palin "completely fair."
"I actually think it's completely fair for the media to vet Sarah Palin, just as they did Barack Obama and John Mccain and everyone else who is running for office," Whitman said during an appearance on Fox.
"You are running for the second highest office in the land. So I think it's the right thing to do."
Asked directly if sexism has played a role in the coverage of Palin, Whitman said, "I wouldn't say there really has."
Whitman's comment runs counter to most everything else said by Republican women since Palin was announced as McCain's running mate.
The U.S. government will continue to release oil from the nation's strategic reserves upon requests from oil companies in the wake of Hurricane Gustav, President Bush said today.
"Last night we got a request from a company doing business here in Louisiana and we met that request...So oil was released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Former White House advisor Karl Rove told Colorado delegates that their state would be at the center of the 2008 election at a breakfast Wednesday morning.
"I'm sorry to tell you, you are going to see an unending supply of television ads and people are going to be knocking on your doors and ringing your phones," Rove told the Colorado delegation gathered at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Minneapolis. "You are going to be asked to make an infinite number of phone calls and visit with your neighbors to register people and persuade people and then to get out to vote because Colorado is one of the two or three most important states in this year
Bristol Palin's pregnancy has put religious conservatives in a state of "euphoria" over John McCain's selection of her mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), as his running mate, an anti-abortion-rights leader tells The Hill.
"There's just a real sense of happiness and euphoria among the religions right" about Gov. Palin's VP candidacy, said Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry. Terry's group has staged anti-abortion-rights demonstrations at both the Democratic and Republican conventions.
"People are so excited about the governor that they're gonna vote from the bottom of the ticket up," Terry said.
When asked if that excitement was caused by news that 17 year-old Bristol Palin is five months pregnant and intends to carry the child to term, Terry said, "Yes, absolutely."
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) is readying for another presidential run, even if he isn't saying so, according to the Associated Press.
When asked Tuesday about another bid, Romney left himself some "wiggle room," writes Glen Johnson, who covered Romney's 2008 campaign for the wire service.
"That's not in my mind; that's not in my plans," Romney said.
Johnson also noted that Romney started his own political action committee, Free and Strong America, which plans to give money to Republican candidates.
Romney, who has ruled out serving in a Cabinet post, sounded less enthusiastic about another run when asked about it earlier in the week.
"I do not anticipate doing it again. It's hard to imagine doing that," he said Monday, according to Hotline On Call.
The floor at the Xcel Energy Center may soon get makeover.
Instead of delivering his acceptance speech before a giant screen with a waving American flag, John McCain may instead be surrounded by GOP delegates, Republican aides said in St. Paul Wednesday. While far from the theatrics of the Democratic Convention when Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech at an outdoor football stadium in Denver, the GOP is considering how to make the stage and podium more appealing for TV.
A spokesman for the Republican National Committee said that no announcement has been made on whether the stage will be changed.
Actor Jon Voight said Wednesday that 9/11 made him a Republican and said Hollywood "is not crazy" about him because he is supporting Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president.
Voight told Fox News that he had been becoming a Republican "little by little" over the years, but that the events of 9/11 clinched it.
Pressed on why more celebrities in Hollywood don't support Republicans, Voight said there are "quite a few" stars who work in the movie industry that back the GOP and predicted more would publicly announce their support of McCain before the election.
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