A new nationwide survey of Republican voters finds that support for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to win the GOP's 2012 presidential nomination has fallen by one-third since March, sliding from 18 points to 12 points. Palin is now running in fourth place for the nomination behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
In all three Clarus polls testing the 2012 nomination strength of a changing roster of potential candidates, Romney and Huckabee have topped the GOP field.
Wow! Sarah is now trailing behind the Mormon, the hick, and the philanderer. That must leave an especially bad taste in the mouths of her supporters. But like I said, the more people SEE Sarah, the more they KNOW Sarah, and that does not HELP Sarah.
By the way, I wonder what is up with Palin's Facebook writer? I mean Palin has been getting her ass handed to her pretty much everyday and not a peep since the Tuesday attempt to ride on Ted Stevens coattails one last time. Come on RAM! Time to earn that $22,000 that SarahPAC pays you every three months.
By the way, since I am on the topic of Palin right now, let me take a moment to say that I have no sympathy whatsoever for THIS idiot. He fucked up big time.
I am, however, wondering why nobody seems to care as much that he also fantasized about the death of Levi Johnston. I mean where is the outcry over that? After all, if hell freezes over, he might be the new mayor of Wasilla.
Hate to admit it, but I shared the exact same thought as that guy. Just didn't put it on my FB page.
ReplyDeleteAs for Levi, he's been hanging around the Palins for way too long. The retard, media whore, I'll do any damn thing for money mentality rubbed right onto him.
Let 'em all destroy themselves.
Good riddens fruitnuts!
Do you suppose with her recent little episode in Homer, the Levi thing, primary results, etc., she's just finally come totally unhinged and they are trying to figure out how to deal with it??!! Or....all the ghost writers got thrown under the bus with everyone else she disposed of previously!
ReplyDeletePat Buchanan didn't resign when he said tod should kill Levi.
ReplyDeleteIf she were smart she would smile all the way to the bank and realize the millions she has sucked out of her believers will provide her & Todd with a long and easy life in Alaska. go home, shut up, and don't work at something you don't want to do for the rest of your life.
ReplyDeleteIn "real" rural America that's winning the lottery big time.
But what happens to people once they see the bright lights?
She'll crash & burn like so many sports stars and kid stars.
Oh...did I preface this by suggesting she was smart?
I read he resigned after he apologized for his thoughtless remarks. An idiot no doubt, but one with an active conscience.
ReplyDeleteFor all the ill-will and ignorance SP expresses, I wish her a long life. (Behind bars, where she belongs.)
You know...and I think I can visualize the end of this movie.
ReplyDeleteSarah and Levi; blood shot eyes...looking pretty ragged after all they've been through, but together again, maybe sitting partly naked together under an old gray wool army blanket, on a cold windswept Alaskan rocky beach,looking off towards Russia, sharing a warm bottle of Old Duke, thinking back to when they thought a million dollars would be all they would ever need to live in the wilds of Alaska....forever...
But now all they have is each other......
alone and cold
except for the warm bottle of Old Duke they share....
Couldn't agree with you more about Timothy Horrigan's resignation. If nothing else, he showed appallingly poor judgment to make such a stupid comment in writing on a public page. I found it irritating that so many on the left acted like it was no big deal because the 'right does it all the time.' That's exactly why it IS a big deal. They have the market cornered on vile remarks and we need to let 'em have it, not try to match them ugly comment for ugly comment. We can and have always done better and I would hate to see us get down and grovel in the dirt with them.
ReplyDeleteSatan has been working overtime. Time to mobilize the prayer warriors!
ReplyDeleteThat's the reality show they should make. A day in the life of a Sarah Palin prayer warrior.
I went to the C4peepond they of course are in denial. Sarah picks from the heart blah blah blah.She would have to have a heart but I digress. A lot good that does if you endorse people and they don't win. Deal is a crook and Handel couldn't beat him. Should be an easy Democratic win.
ReplyDeleteI'm not real sure why this guy had to resign? What he said wasn't any worse than things Palin herself has said.
ReplyDeleteWell Sarah should be higher up on the list--a twofer,
ReplyDeletereally. She's a hick and a philanderer (allegedly).
To Anonymous @ 1:28 PM
ReplyDelete...and all of a sudden they see Putin rearing his humungous head above Mt. Susitna, his eyes ablaze. Before Sarah and Levi can refudiate him, Putin swallows all of 'em, any of 'em up in a single gulp.
What about the christian right and their 'imprecatory' prayers? Praying to their god for the harm or death of others? Buchanan telling Todd to drown Levi?
ReplyDeleteCome on, who really gives a rat's ass. Words are words and actions speak much louder.
Many of us wish her and her family would "go away"; into the wild like Chris McCandless, or just disappear, no questions asked.
They are terrible people and that some wish them ill will is nothing different than what they pray for or think about their adversaries on a daily basis.
I for one am happy to see a Dem grow some "cojones"; unfortunately when Dem's grow some and say what they really think, they then must resign.
Hmm, ya think that's why it might be so difficult for Dems to hold the White House or either house of Congress for an appreciable among of time?
Random alert. Is Ivy Frye Bristol's rep? She accompanied her to Orlando. Just curious
ReplyDeleteI posted an important link on the Hillary article. I want everyone to read it for what it may be worth, so here it is again.
ReplyDeletehttp://tinyurl.com/2fcvxb3
Sorry I couldn't post it more timely but I was at work.
Agree with AkPetMom.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, this format of commenting is passe & stunts the growth of your blog. You ought to consider freedom of speech, & giving up censorship. An interactive format could GREATLY increase traffic at your site.
The guy resigned because it was the right thing to do. David Vitter, John Ensign, and Mark Sanford are just a few who come to mind who should do the same.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Bristol's in Orlando to confer with Heartbeat International, a pregnancy resource center.
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awwwww --- Her shining bright star steaking across the sky is starting to fall......
ReplyDeleteIt's about time!
Am wondering tho, if Former Half Governor, knowing what you know now... would you blink? Was it really Gods plan for YOU to lead the US? How do you know it wasn't Gods plan for Obama to become President?
Oooooh! So Sarah doesn't represent even the GOP any more (much less the whole United States). Well, well, well --- maybe she should have a little sit-down with her teenage daughter, and clue her in.
ReplyDeleteReality is coming, Palinbots. Get out your hankies to wipe your eyes.
great clip from the kids in the hall - they joke about canadian healthcare and sarah palin, as well as other things. gosh, i love these guys - they still look like kids at heart.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/11/kids-in-the-hall-talk-pal_n_679083.html
I'm in line with Anonymous @ 1:06 p.m. I also had the very same thought and wished so very much that it could have been true, but alas, she is just like my rotten son-in-law and just won't die. I'm not ashamed to admit that I felt this way because she is a rotten evil that will destroy this country or a terminal cancer that will infect every citizen or a wild beast that can't be controlled and will annihilate our country. So any metaphor you chose, you are totally aware of the fact that she is of no good whatsoever for this country, just like my ex-SIL.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I haven't seen any SarahPalinUSA tweets expressing outrage over the wished-for demise of poor Levi? He IS her grandson's father, in case she's forgotten.
ReplyDeleteIs it me or does it appear that Sarah has actually aged 10 years in less than two years?
ReplyDeleteif i think sarah palin is evil, why wouldn't i want evil gone?
ReplyDeleteIt helps to read what Horrigan said. He didn't wish her dead. Sarah and her friends pray that Obama dies. Yesterday I read that in a town hall meeting with Dini Rossi a supporter shouted "Patty Murray should be shot" and Rossi just warned her that the press was present. We've been hearing a lot worse out of the republicans and tea baggers for the past 2 years. Horrigan never should have apologized or stepped down. After hearing all the lies and hate that Palin speaks, I'm surprised you even mention it.
ReplyDeleteGREAT point, 1:13. Pat got pretty specific, too, in a really violent way.
ReplyDeleteActually, what would have been appropriate is for SARAH to DEFEND Levi, the father of her grandson! She could have taken a very high road and made a statement about that. That would have been the mature, adult, motherly thing to do, but, no, not Sarah, she has to always be the victim.
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't hate to admit it. I definitely have had fantasies about Sarah and a rogue Mama Grizzly, teaching her the ways of the wicked wild...that would be real irony. Permanently disfigured, that popularity would most likely wane pretty damn fast. As far as having her for dinner...well, let's just say the bear kingdom knows red meat when they see it.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there's the fantasy of Sarah having her tongue removed by a traveling band of...well, I better stop now.
Everyone is talking about Steven Slater, the flight attendant who cursed at a passenger, grabbed two beers, and slid down the escape slide, which may be the best resignation ever. In fact he’s so good at quitting, they’re thinking about making him the next governor of Alaska.- Jimmy Kimmel
ReplyDeleteLet me get this straight. Sarah generated cries of "Kill him," referring to then presidential candidate Obama, and that was OK. Sarah ahd the Tea Party People have hurled some of the most degrading and disrespectful comments out there about Obama, and that's OK, too.
ReplyDeleteSome guy states something realist, that if something, anythng happened to Sarah, she would be frozen in time, glorified and martyred. His best point is that should not happen. Let her go on and on, endorsing failed candidates and issuing stupid ghost written statements, and she will kill herself off.
As for Levi as Mayor of Wasilla, I say Bring It On! If that dufuss can run Wasilla, it will totally discredit Sarah's term of office. If Levi can do it, any one can be the Mayor of Wasilla, even Sarah. It means that she wasn't so special after all.
What ever happened to the Palins' mountain climbing trip? And weren't they supposed to go fishing [not in Homer]. And wasn't Bristol on some family RV trip or something? What do they really do?
ReplyDeletePermanently disfigured,
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's better than dead.
I can wish and think ANTthing in my own mind, but if I say it in public, how am I no better than the TPers or extremists that spew vile threats everyday? That is what separates us from cavemen- we are supposed to have become, and act, like a civilized society.
ReplyDeleteDespite, or maybe because of the cosmetic surgery, in addition to all the stress that comes from being a complete and utter b*&tch, Sarah indeed looks like she's aged a decade in two years. Just the beginning of karmic retribution catching up to her for all her lies, deceits, malicious acts, and hateful rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, London, though we do not share an opinion on Bill Clinton. I'm more in commenter johncp's court.
ReplyDeleteMy point, however, is in this commennt, inasmuch as it is relevant to the victim Palin:
By macladac, August 4 at 7:50 am Link to this comment
“it was precisely Bill Clinton’s scandal that brought Bush and the Republicans to power.”
Not exactly.
As Bob Somerby says at his dailyhowler.com site, “when Gore began to campaign in March 1999, the press corps landed on him and his campaign like a cartel of sabre-toothed tigers. For the next twenty months, they staged what I have long described as a journalistic “war against Gore.” (Dan Kennedy, then Boston Phoenix press critic, once called it a “press corps wilding.”) No other modern White House candidate has ever been trashed in so thorough, or so baldly dishonest, a manner. As one studies this twenty-month war, a certain conclusion is hard to avoid: Given this campaign’s razor-thin outcome, it’s hard to believe that the press corps’ misconduct didn’t decide this election.”
Somerby is required reading for any progressive who wishes to understand how we got in the current mess. There is a link called “How He Got There” that is especially essential reading.
http://www.dailyhowler.com/ Now go do your homework!
Palin got the white glove treatment by the press. Only a few bloggers, Katie Couric, and Kathleen Parker had ANY guts. Still, Palin has played the victim sonata without end. We never heard Gore whine.
Thanks for the link, London, though we do not share an opinion on Bill Clinton. I'm more in commenter johncp's court.
ReplyDeleteMy point, however, is in this commennt, inasmuch as it is relevant to the victim Palin:
By macladac, August 4 at 7:50 am Link to this comment
“it was precisely Bill Clinton’s scandal that brought Bush and the Republicans to power.”
Not exactly.
As Bob Somerby says at his dailyhowler.com site, “when Gore began to campaign in March 1999, the press corps landed on him and his campaign like a cartel of sabre-toothed tigers. For the next twenty months, they staged what I have long described as a journalistic “war against Gore.” (Dan Kennedy, then Boston Phoenix press critic, once called it a “press corps wilding.”) No other modern White House candidate has ever been trashed in so thorough, or so baldly dishonest, a manner. As one studies this twenty-month war, a certain conclusion is hard to avoid: Given this campaign’s razor-thin outcome, it’s hard to believe that the press corps’ misconduct didn’t decide this election.”
Somerby is required reading for any progressive who wishes to understand how we got in the current mess. There is a link called “How He Got There” that is especially essential reading.
http://www.dailyhowler.com/ Now go do your homework!
Palin got the kid glove treatment by the PRESS. Only a few bloggers, Katie Couric, and Kathleen Parker had ANY guts. Still, Palin has played the victim sonata without end. We never heard Gore whine.
When Sarah gets fed up, she quits. So my question is, when she is ready to give up, what will she leave? Quit facebook? Quit Sarahpac? Fox? She hasn't said she's running for Prez, so she can't quit her campaign even though she's on one. She isn't employed. Who will she blame for her failure and what "job" will she leave? Maybe she will quit her handlers, or Todd?
ReplyDeleteAKPetMom @ 2:17 - you called it, the fundy Right prays for death of political and public figures all the time. Hell, their neighbors or people who leave the church or faith or whatnot.
ReplyDeleteThey are nasty, hateful and hypocritical folks that have Sarah's back.
After the fact checking that went into her halibut license, I think RAM is in a little bit of trouble.
ReplyDeleteOh, and does anyone know if AnninCA on Huff Po IS RAM????
If Levi knocks up Meghan McCain, can he have another 15 minutes of fame?
ReplyDeleteIf he knocks up Sarah, will he will get a lifetime of fame?
Get crack'n Levi
@ 5:27 pm:
ReplyDeleteI do not think anninca is ram. I think anninca is a paid poster (by whom I don't know) who goes by many socks and plays both sides of the fence. anninca was on huffy shilling for hillary long before anyone knew who palin was.
I don't go to huffpo much anymore, funny to hear that anninca is still skanking around there.
New info about the effects of Botox could explain a lot about Sarah: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37861005/ns/health-skin_and_beauty
ReplyDeleteAwww, they can all buy a Sarah Palin WTF calendar for 2011 to console themselves.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lighterside.com/product/sarah+palin+2011+wall+calendar.do?sortby=ourPicks
I agree with Gryph, despite what any polls say, Sarah is going to run. She doesn't believe them and called them "pickled" on a Fix News interview with Chris Wallace. Sarah is so delusional and her ego is so big that she refuses to believe that everybody doesn't like her. She reminds me of the general during the Iraq invasion that said that U.S. forces were nowhere near them but you could hear the bombs in the background.
ReplyDelete5:27, YES! I think you are right. RAM = Annoying AnnfromoCA.
ReplyDeleteThat woman is completely BLIND to facts. The bitterness she still feels after Obama won the primary is palpable in every comment she writes about him. What is she going to do if Hill runs as O's veep?Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahha!
Worse, she has a disciple/alterego: mrskorn.
really, i second the motion, gryphen. we "needs moar" interaction on this site.
ReplyDeleteAnnInCA also posted a lot on Taylor Marsh during the primary, constantly shilling for Hillary. And then, after Obama won the nomination, she turned into a PUMA. What ever happened to the PUMAs? You don't hear anything about them anymore. Do they love Sarah, or did the crazy stop with their obsession with Hillary. I always thought they were Repubs who'd decided to crossover and vote for a woman.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of religious preference as a deciding factor for political leaders:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/InternetAndTechnology/Article.aspx?id=184595&comm
Depressing.... if it works/worked.
Emyrsa - thanks for your answer.
ReplyDeleteYes, AnninCa is on Huffpo still, shilling for Palin in all the pretzel ways possible.
imnofred is right! She IS that delusional and her ego IS that big! She really believes she could win the presidency! And anyone who says otherwise has been listening to that evil Lame Stream Media again! God is opening the door for her to plow her way through right into the oval office.
ReplyDeleteGod have mercy on us!
Agree with all of those above who mentioned the "kill him" shouts at Sarah's rallies, the imprecatory prayers, targets on Dem politicians, and on and on. As well as the "2nd Amendment remedies". All of that was okay with the righties. When I heard about the plane crash, I knew some Dem somewhere would wish out loud that it was SP, also knew it would be a mistake.
ReplyDeleteI don't wish death on SP, her family or anybody else. Death hasn't diminished the influence of Reagan. Seems more fair somehow to tell the truth about somebody if they're still alive, still around to defend themselves. I want her to stick around at least until all the truth about her comes out.
And fortunately, death hasn't diminished the influence of MLK, Jr., Jack Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln.
Where is Sarah? No twitters. No FB rants. If she's been on Faux, I've missed it. Go dig out those "Where's Sarah" buttons. Without her banshee screeches to distract me, I have to listen to the absurdities of the other RWNJs.
London Bridges -- While reading the article you linked about Hillary, my blood ran cold. It reminded me of a recent article comparing Palin's lackluster parenting (as evidenced by Bristol's life as an unwed mom and her tabloid announcements of her engagement/unengagement/engagement/unengagement) with the Clinton's classy guidance (as demonstrated by Chelsea's advanced education and fairy-tale marriage).
ReplyDeletePutting both of those articles together, I realized how easy it would be for a public who is sick of Palin's antics to vote for Hillary. Yet, as your article shows, we must remember Hillary's flawed history. We cannot vote for Clinton just because we're appalled by Palin.
I'll post the URL again here:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/married_to_the_clinton_mob_20100803/
My question is, who's watching the kids?
ReplyDeleteWhen $P goes away, so does all the other drama and the quest for money from the others to live the lifestyle to which none of them were ever accustomed or entitled.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's harder to go down financially that it is to go up.
These people will be at each other's throats forever.
Granny Grisly is going to run. When she loses, she will point to voter fraud,rigged voting etc as she never takes the blame for anything. It will be fun to see her get ripped apart by other GOP hopeful's..
ReplyDeleteAnon@7:43 PM
ReplyDeleteRe your PUMA question
They are still limping along. See pumapacDOTorg. Funny thing the head of the PAC, Darragh Murphy, keeps receiving letters from the FEC for not filing her reports. She hasn't filed one for at least a year. Last report filed for period ended 03.31.2009 was filed late in June 2009.
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?C00451369
anon 6:45, interesting article about Botox inhibiting emotions. It sure isn't inhibiting Sarah's anger, though. Nothing can contain that.
ReplyDeleteThis is the woman who quits. It's what she does. She is not going to run for '12. She's in this for the $, folks. When the going gets tough (as it tends to in Presidential campaigns...), the wimp from Wasilla gets going.
ReplyDeleteShe won't make it to the first primary if she does "run".
I will say this for her, the old adage "quitters never prosper" didn't count on Palin.
Sure let him twist in the wind, it's not like our Governor of grace and compassion laughed at fat and cancer jokes against her hometown's own breast cancer survivor who was the sitting House Leader of the Alaska House of Representatives:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9AIDRGzUAw
And it's not like it was 'satire' or whatnot. It's not okay for an Obama guy to use the word "retarded" to describe something but if Limbaugh calls a majority of American citizens retarded over a dozen times it is protected speech.
It's not like she used the power of her office to systematically try and foil an ex brother-in-law's livelihood and dismiss concerned Alaskan citizens labeled as Haters and frivolous or use her hagiography to attack and belittle former supporters with no recourse.
No, Sarah deserves respect when she gives it.
In the words of cratewasher...
ReplyDelete"If you need Palin to win, you're already a loser."