Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Friday, August 29, 2008

Hail Mary Pass

By Ron Beasley



This makes no sense:



Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Is McCain's Choice for VP



James Joyner's reaction:

She�s going to make us pine for the days of Dan Quayle, methinks.

I guess the only way the McCain campaign thought they could draw attention away from the successful Democratic convention was to do something really stupid.  More from James Joyner:

I�d never heard of Palin before the VP buzz started on the blogs a while back. She�s supposedly an excellent campaigner. And, obviously, her youth and gender make her a bold pick. Ultimately, though, I think she doesn�t make sense. If you�re running on �the country�s security is too important to be run by neophytes,� you can�t have one as next in line.



While Joe Biden was, twice, an awful presidential candidate, he�s a plausible president. Sarah Palin is not.

And do they really think they can pick up Hillary Clinton supporters with a social conservative woman who if anything is the anti-Hillary?



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  1. CernigAugust 29, 2008 at 5:11 AM

    Hi Ron,
    While Palin's inexperienced she's no idiot. I've a feeling Quayle comparisons are setting Biden up for a debate fall. If she exceeds very low expectations and he only matches very high ones, the mainstream will paint her as the winner.
    Regards, C

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  2. Jack TannerAugust 29, 2008 at 7:21 AM

    Unlike Obama McCain didn't have to choose someone to make up for his lack of experience and ability.

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