Coincidental? I think not, especially when there are several other related sites also with the same IP and same webserver. However, I wouldn’t be able to say that it is proof positive based on the information given… Just as LGF stated in their article.

Oh, and dnsstuff.com will give you all that information without going through Google. It’s a lot faster.

To wit, anyone with a web page could forward visitors to that web page on to Redstate. They could, if they wished, put up some odious URL, run some Google ads to attract people, and have it redirect here. That people ended up here would say nothing about Redstate’s knowledge of or participation in the original URL.

That applies to anyone, and could apply here.

Again, I don’t know what’s going on with the sites referenced, but the fact that you end up at an Obama destination is a good bit short of proof of Obama campaign involvement in the originating URL.

http://www.selfseo.com/findipaddressofa_website.php

The IP address of SARAHPALINGAYRIGHTS.COM is 74.208.74.232
The IP address 74.208.74.232 is assigned to Great Britain (UK)

The IP address of barackobama.COM is 66.39.143.229
The IP address 66.39.143.229 is assigned to United States

The IP address of fightthesmears.COM is 216.239.36.21
The IP address 216.239.36.21 is assigned to United States

There are other ways to check IP addresses. If you have the time, you can do it from your command line using the PING command.

Couple of other things.

One, it would be easy and credible for a misguided Obama supporter to put up this site on their own. It would be a good bit harder given the centralized Obama IT structure to get access to the main Obama campaign server. If it turns out, against the evidence I see so far, to actually be on the Obama server, that would be a pretty big deal. The domain seems to have been registered and the site launched August 29, btw.

Two, the argument the page makes is misleading. To avoid wasting state fees on litigation she would have lost, Palin vetoed a bill that certainly would have been overturned by the courts. It says nothing about her position on gay rights. As a policy matter, she has been consistent in opposing gay marriage or any preferences.

I’m sure your cogent analysis would be useful at LGF where that discussion is underway.

I invite you to google domain tracing techniques. Its very easy to find the origination.

The BarackObama.com site, for which the fightthesmears is just a subdomain, seems to be hosted at domaincontrol.com.

It would be beyond idiotic for the Obama campaign to do this, given their support of gay rights and Palin’s rather clear opposition to gay rights. That’s not to say that it is automatically untrue, because people in campaigns rather frequently do idiotic things.

I think it is a very serious allegation, it is well in line with what we know of the Obama campaign, and it needs to be investigated.

And thanks for making me the subject of the second comment you’ve made in your 15 minutes since registration.

Just want to keep us on the right side of things. This site, to me anyway, has a higher standard than Little Green Footballs.

Not to fret, we have enough to knock him with already.