Sarah Palin's Endorsement Woes Continue

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin continued her sour streak in the endorsement game Tuesday night, with two more of her candidates, Clint Didier and Rita Meyer, falling to their establishment rivals.

August has been a rotten month for the Palin brand. Last week, Karen Handel lost her runoff bid for Georgia's GOP gubernatorial nomination despite heavy efforts from Palin. Colorado's Bob McConnell also lost that same day in a Republican Congressional primary. The week before that, CeCe Heil of Tennessee fell flat in her Congressional primary, just seven days after Todd Tiahrt failed to win a tight Senate primary in Kansas.

Palin's lone success this month was in backing Tom Emmer, but he was running in a no-contest primary to lock up the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Minnesota. According to the first round of post-primary polling, Democrat Mark Dayton leads Emmer by nine points.

The former vice presidential candidate will get to test her name again next week in a primary day that could prove huge for Palin. With elections in Alaska, Arizona and Florida, four Palin-backed candidates, including former running mate John McCain and Alaska Tea Party upstart Joe Miller, will head to the polls.

Four-term Senator John McCain is looking likely to successfully fend off a primary challenge mounted by former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, while Joe Miller's path to Alaska's GOP Senate nomination has been complicated by serious fundraising deficiencies and internal campaign drama involving the wife of a staffer threatening a radio show host.

Take a look back at a list of Sarah Palin's unsuccessful endorsements and vote on the biggest fail.

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[marilyn 63]

06:51 PM on 10/09/2010

the press have to long gotten away with making Palin a STAR like dumbness is really (giggle) cool!! and all these teabaggers that think like her stepped forward and said allright!! our insanity is in. and we have been steadily subjected to the most racis,t hateful, dumb, ridiculous ,country dumming down sayings ever. none of these teabaggers are fit to run the senate. the house. be a governor or house speaker(Boener) THIS IS THE DUMBEST BAT CRAP CRAZY YEAR EVER!! THANKS MEDIA!!

[Ninotchka KS]

02:33 PM on 08/23/2010

Oh Eric, I have to wonder if you aren't reality-challenged. This article documents the fact that your media-diva is like an albatross around the necks of many repug hopefuls.

In other words (that you may understand), she is a loser.

And a quitter (not so tough, when the going gets tough, ya know).

And a scam artist, grifter and without a doubt, an obsessive liar. All of these are hard facts, backed up through either video, tweets and facebook comments and bona-fide reported actions.

Now your comments for Palin are on a par with a fourth grader. And maybe that's your emotional level.... If so, then your lack of comprehension is more easily understood.

[Freesia2]

12:13 PM on 08/22/2010

Sarah's next big hurdle is trying to get Joe Miller, Tea Bagger par excellence, elected in Alaska on Tuesday. She's twittering for money from her rubes. According to Alaska political insiders - he's going to get trounced.

And it strikes me that, as with all things Palin, there's just so many classy people involved in her fight for "rill Amurkans". This is the wife of Joe Miller's campaign manager. I'm sure you'll be impressed by her eloquence and professionalism which as we all know is a hallmark of Sarah Palin, Inc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EJS5GpxDH0

[GDJ]

08:22 AM on 08/23/2010

I just ran across your post and I have to say, after watching Joe Millers campaign manager wife, that I am amazed that these people in public life show such an amazing lack of class. And that there are so many of these loyalists that consider these tea baggers to be the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread.

[Freesia2]

11:30 AM on 08/23/2010

They finally have a club they can belong to, where ignorance is smart and bigotry is socially acceptable. The Tea Baggers represent a place for white tr@sh to gather where the white sheet dress code isn't required and where the leaders don't hold their elections in the woods - but appear right there on the "television machine". They're in heaven.

[eric-914]

11:07 AM on 08/23/2010

Teabagger? What are you, 11?
It's time to grow up.

[Freesia2]

11:25 AM on 08/23/2010

Thank you for sharing - "Cartman".

[shilparules]

09:25 AM on 08/22/2010

Gov. Sarah Palin endorses only the strong, the proud, the brave. In this age of craven compromise, some voters settle for less than the best. Still, Sarah stands tall.

[CJWebber]

06:09 PM on 09/26/2010

Perhaps it has something to do with her 4" heels.

[R Davis]

07:02 AM on 08/22/2010

This demonstrates Palin's inability to agree sense what the voters want.

[eric-914]

11:07 AM on 08/23/2010

agree sense?

[DrMaxine]

05:07 PM on 08/21/2010

I am so sick of her.

[ProudMilVet]

11:50 PM on 08/21/2010

DrMaxine : Fanned & Faved !

[eric-914]

11:08 AM on 08/23/2010

Yes, fan the flames of hate!

[Billar]

03:51 PM on 08/21/2010

Am I the only one who thinks Palin's head is full of sawdust, cogs, springs and wheeels?

[ProudMilVet]

11:48 PM on 08/21/2010

Billar : You are not alone by a long shot ! # 288 & Faved !

[eric-914]

11:08 AM on 08/23/2010

Keep fanning those flames of hate!

[DorianBrandon]

01:59 PM on 08/21/2010

Palin - Woes. Both seem to go very well together.

[Jim in California]

01:55 PM on 08/21/2010

Palin is folksy (code word for stupid) and since no irony is lost on the GOP, she is now their super celebrity (remember when that was a bad thing during the campaign). Problem is for most of these GOP celebrities, it isn't about ideology, it's all about self-promotion. There's a lot of money these days in selling fear, hate and bigotry or just being outrageous. Just throw a little Jesus juice with that and you have a platform that becomes anti-Christian and anti-American if you disagree. Frightening to think what would have happened if Hitler would have used the Jesus card a little better.

[AAofM]

08:26 AM on 08/22/2010

Nah, I know folksy people and they are not stupid. Sarah is FAKESY, and that IS stupid!

[Littlewords]

12:26 PM on 08/21/2010

Another candidate mauled by the grizzled momma.

[conservativelady]

10:10 AM on 08/30/2010

If she is such a momma grizzly why isn't she a better mom? Why do her kids live like they were raised by a pack of liberals? Seems like Palin makes excuses for her kids and tries to hide the trouble they get into, so I guess in a sense, she is a Grizzly, but not for the reasons you think. There are plenty of liberal moms who try to cover up their kids wrongs too. The only problem I have with Palin's use of the term is the fact, that once again, she is painting a false image of herself as being traditional. There is nothing traditional about her. She is only Mamma Grizzly is the sense that she excuses and hides the wrongs of her kids. A good mother holds her cubs responsible and she doesn't abondone them to chase after her own dreams.

[iconoclast6]

11:43 AM on 08/21/2010

What John McCain Is Thinking Right Now:

"I coulda had class, Sarah! I coulda been a contender! I coulda been the President instead of a See_Nile lameduck planecrasher which is what I am. It was you, Sarah!"

[adp5188]

02:02 PM on 08/21/2010

the election would have gone very differently if mccain had chosen a competent runningmate.

[The Dood]

10:42 PM on 08/21/2010

doubt it

[eric-914]

11:09 AM on 08/23/2010

Doubt it. No one I know voted for McCain, though many did vote Republican.

[BillyClub]

11:20 AM on 08/21/2010

If Sarah Dearest keeps up her losing streak politicos will be paying her to endorse their opponent!

[138ratfink]

12:23 AM on 08/22/2010

She is the Democrats secret weapon for the up coming elections. All they need to do is flash some cash, and give her a pictures of the people she needs to endorse.

[GonzoLoungeLizard]

11:36 AM on 08/22/2010

Obama is the Repubs secret weapon. Except it's not so secret

[eric-914]

11:10 AM on 08/23/2010

Yeah, soon if she really starts to tank, she'll be sitting level w/ Obama!

[Holes]

11:09 AM on 08/21/2010

"In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. "

Phaedrus

[BocaMom]

08:58 AM on 08/21/2010

Sarah Palin in no President Obama when it comes to endorsements! I'll match the President's record against her any day!

[eric-914]

11:10 AM on 08/23/2010

Good luck!

[holyghostie]

08:57 AM on 08/21/2010

I hope nobody is foolish enough to buy her new book when it comes out.

[iconoclast6]

11:39 AM on 08/21/2010

PHOCKS hosts and megachurches will send in huge pre-orders, then give them away for free. Trust me, in another two years when people clean out their spare room or have to downsize to an apartment and get rid of stuff, this is one of those books that you'll see half a dozen copies on the shelf at every thrift store and library sale.

[eric-914]

11:11 AM on 08/23/2010

Wow, new levels of vulgarity from the muppet master.
Found a new low, did you?

[Callah]

08:00 PM on 09/22/2010

Or huge stacks of them in at the garbage dump........maybe given away to people to start campfires....like old Phone books.....