Sarah Palin has that magic touch. Three of the four candidates she endorsed in Tuesday's Republican primary elections were victorious: California's Carly Fiorina, who'll be running against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer; South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley; and Terry Branstad, who seeks Iowa's governor's mansion. But just as John McCain learned in 2008, these victors will discover in November that Palin's magic is like Cinderella's carriage: Just when the party's getting hot it's pumpkin time.
Somehow, somewhere, someone ordained Palin the new head of the GOP, with special Tea Bag honors, and have deluded themselves into believing that who and what she touches today will mystically turn into November 2nd gold. Truth is, it'll be just the opposite. She's gonna single-handedly bring down the party's chances of winning back power. Just ask ole Johnny Boy.
Case in point Nevada, where Tea Party darling Sharron Angle won the GOP's nomination and will take on the highly vulnerable Majority Leader Harry Reid. Angle, widely believed to be the weakest of the three Republicans who vied for the spot, just handed Reid a gift; his best chance yet to retain his Senate seat. Reid's campaign, in an email Wednesday, is already painting her as the radical Lipton Loon she is: She wants to repeal health care reform; is against financial reform; seeks to cut Social Security benefits; and scoffs at global warming. Thank you Sarah Palin.
Over in South Carolina, Palin is betting that voters want to trade in their outgoing philandering Gov. Mark Sanford with the allegedly twice philandering Haley. Again I say, Thank You Sarah Palin.
Sarah and The Tea Baggers can crow all they want, and the mainstream media can stir this hyperbolic pot and make her out to be the Great Anointer, but her arctic awesomeness will last only as long as the primaries will allow. This is exhibition baseball folks, not the regular season. Just ask ole Johnny Boy. He got a firsthand dose of reality in terms of what mainstream Republicans and independents want. And...um....er....it wasn't Palin's brand of dim-witted, snarky, polarizing politics.
On the morning of November 3rd, Democrats across the country will be saying Thank You Sarah Palin. They might even toss in a heartfelt gracias as well to Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Newt, Bachmann and the inimitable tea-totin' team of Rand and Ron.
Oh, and here's a little vintage Palin to remind everyone just who we're talking about....
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Pundits like the thread's author are very effectively helping ensure a Palin win in 2012 by playing so much into her game. It's funny, Palin is dumb; no doubt. But fringies are dumber because they are helping her create teh narrative she needs to win better than her own fundy supporters could ever do.
to the comparable degree of awarding prom "Homecoming Queen" to a toad.
It's sad, it's embarrassing, it's angry, it's hilarious....It's the GOP!
And yes, Andy...it's true. Thank You Sarah Palin!!!
We should all be very afraid of Palin...not playing to her game by using fringy fury to elevate her to martyr status with teh right, which is what we have been doing since January 2009.
Same goes for both (R) governors of NJ and VA...
Commentary such as the above article also once again point out the duplicity of the Left. President Clinton can get a BJ in the Oval Office ("hey, that's his personal life") and commit perjury and that is "OK". Republican Candidate Haley gets merely accused of having an affair (by people associated with her opponent) and the Left is full of moral indignation.
One could go on but to what useful end.
The impeachment charges were perjury and obstruction of justice, the same charges that led to President Clinton being disbarred by the Arkansas Bar. Had you or I committed perjury, we would be in serious trouble and probably in jail.
Regards,
YOUR side made the rules...Impeach Clinton....and now YOUR side is found guilty of the same "crimes" and don't demand the same consequences.
You are the very definition of "hypocrisy"....it's YOUR faux morality that is the issue.
I wrote to close my initial entry, "One could go on but to what useful end." Given your reply above, that comment certainly was prescient.
Thanks for the ad hominem attack. Your comments pretty much make my case. I suppose I should thank you for that.
Obviously, you are interested in politics. Perhaps if you used complete sentences or conceived and then skillfully developed a substantial idea rather than striking out at others, we could all have an interesting dialogue. Perhaps you could thereby influence opinion in a positive fashion. Having read through some of your 4840 comments made on this site since June 2009, I suggest you might want to take a break and lay off politics for a while or at least go outside and take a couple of deep breaths.
Regards,
Sarah is like a reality show contestant, she is famous for NOTHING.
But you must watch her and treat her like combustible material. Handle it right and it doesn't do harm; drop your guard for a moment and it can all explode.
She has shifted her strategy from ebdorsing any old extremist wing nut to supporting more mainstream candidates (Fiorina, Branstead, Hailey.)
And when the author mocks Reid's opponent Angle for her views, the author lists views that are actually pretty mainstream for today's GOP.
I do not believe Hailey in SC is an adulterer and when the author makes silly remarks as he did in his piece about that, combined with his elitist, dismissive view about this very dangerous movement going on now in america that is moving mainstream, he becomes one of the matches that lights off that combustible material.,
Let me repeat for the knee jerkers and the one-line responders:
Reid's teabagger opponent expresses views that are mainstream GOP.
Reid's teabagger opponent expresses views that are mainstream GOP.
misrepresent American history, and spout conspiracies about our President being born in Kenya. Nope, not fringe at all.
Agree. Notice that Palin is not in politics. She'll never again hold elected office. She quit as governor, Murkowski won't move, Begich is still 4 years away, she's too divisive to run for president, she won't settle for a "smaller" office, she's having too much fun and making too much money as a celebrity to get back to the everyday world of politics. She'll continue to speak about politics, but as time moves on, so will her influence over political issues.
*CRICKETS*