Bachus made his remarks on Nov. 4 at the monthly luncheon meeting of the South Shelby Chamber of Commerce, held at the Columbiana United Methodist Church.
“The Senate would be Republican today except for states (in which Palin endorsed candidates) like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware,” Bachus said. “Sarah Palin cost us control of the Senate.”
He said Tea Party candidates did well in U.S. House races, but in the U.S. Senate races, “They didn’t do well at all.”
I think most of us knew that sometime after the midterms this was inevitable. There should have been little doubt that the Republicans would start thinking about 2012 and begin working out how to remove the Sarah Palin albatross from around their neck.
Sure she is good for attracting attention and bringing in the money, but no serious Republican wants her anywhere near the Presidential election.
And just in case you think they are not getting serious about addressing the Palin problem perhaps you would be interested to know that operatives from certain prominent Republicans have already made a few discreet phone calls to people in the know up here in our fair state.
Get your popcorn ready kids, the show that is about to start is the one we have all been waiting for.
Please please please
ReplyDeleteman I have no respect for these people. they're 2 years too late.
ReplyDeletethey will get their asses kicked in 2012, and that's what they get for letting this ignoramus run amuck for the past 2 years.
oh, noes!!
ReplyDeletePlease please let Sarah run in 2012! If only for the sheer entertainment, it would be priceless! Can you just see her in a televised debate, answering real questions, even softballs?
ugh, ugh, what do I read? uhhh...everything!
I would so hate to be deprived this spectacle.
Please Republicans, don't take her down!
But if they admit that Sarah is a negative pull...can they let her go?
ReplyDeleteWe can hope.
Yeah, well, they didn't get their asses kicked in 2010, and she's been running amuck for the past two years. Follow the money.
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to this takedown, however. It is way overdue. Pass the popcorn...can I have red licorace too?
The peetards must be howling tonight. Okay, to be fair, they howl every night.
ReplyDelete"the show that is about to start is the one we have all been waiting for."
ReplyDeleteChills!
I agree with emrysa but also feel that, if this does go down (fingers crossed), better late than never!
I so agree, emrysa -- it's 2 years too late. How shameful that the Republicans, beginning with McCain, knowingly allowed Sarah Palin to flourish like cancer for their own political gain, to the great detriment of our political process and our country. NOW they want to muzzle her! Well, better late than never, and I'll have my popcorn out, but really, how dishonorable, contemptible, cynical, and self-serving. Unforgivable.
ReplyDeleteI think what they are pissed about too was that Palin's endorsements were/are paid for either by the candidate or Republican coffers (her legal affairs). She basically was a whore. Bring on the IrS please.
ReplyDeleteThese expedient dumb asses are stewing in juices of their own making. They just couldn't resist over-reaching and misunderstanding their own sexism. Any male exhibiting the temperament, character, and ignorance of Palin would have been muzzled long ago. They couldn't resist the temptation to use sex and a frontier mythology to sell a completely hokum "product". Well, enjoy the legacy guys. She's yours.
ReplyDeleteOh, I hope so.
ReplyDeleteGood news I guess Gryphen. I'll believe it when I see it!
ReplyDeleteI did have a few minutes of pity for Sarah because yes these men are sexist pigs and they did use her. But my sympathy for Miss Winky Winky did not last of course and its about time people stood up to her. She's a psychopath.
I don't think she's going to go down easily though. Watch and see. She has zero insight and will blame everyone else!
Can you just see it in the distance...a Palin envisioning themselves as a "Ross Perot" candidate or worse "Ralph Nader". a rogue running against the mainstream candidates a la third party.
ReplyDeleteSarah will run as a Tea Party candidate challenging the GOP and Dems. Heck, she may even do the "write-In" thing with her tribe of enthralled, breathless bots.
Not to worry though cause that will split the GOP vote which is unacceptable..... Sarah has to be taken down and Lord knows who all is going down with her...not gonna be pretty. Sarah will just not stop on her own...no way no how.
I wonder how she liked being used by the GOP this election cycle?
How ungrateful they are....
If anything, it was DeMint who "cost" wingnuts the Senate. Put another way, not all of our great nation is as backwards as South Carolina. Thank God!
ReplyDeletePopcorn at the ready. Let the games begin!
ReplyDeleteYou know, these people need to pull on their big boy/big girl panties and take the blame for themselves. If they were too stupid to see what Democrats and thinking Republicans could see, it's their own darn fault. I live in Alaska and had little trouble seeing Sarah Palin for who she really is pretty quickly. I have to admit that as a Republican, I tried to be in denial, but that only works for so long when you have more than two brain cells to rub together.
ReplyDeleteThe yayhoos who bought into Palin's particular brand of bs hook, line and sinker deserve what they get. And they have no right blaming her for it.
Just knew they would be the ones to successfully derail her political ambitions for good. It's poetic justice.
ReplyDeleteEven better, the damage she has done - and John McCain, Bill Kristol, et al, for foisting her off on us in the first place - will be hardest to undo for the GOP itself. Even more poetic.
They have the goods on her, and anything they don't have they will be sure to get.
Sarah, time to refer to plan d, e, or f.
ok...let me get serious and see if you are too.
ReplyDeletei realize you can keep this place going cause who doesnt like bizarre palin?
but you need to back up what you say if you want to be taken serious, i think.
so tell people like me why palin has been able to get away with everything you claim she has in her closet.
the reason i ask is simple.
like them or not the leaders and shakers of the republican party are not stupid.
they know full well everything and more about palin yet you claim they still push her forward.
so one simple question, 2 parts.."who is behind palin and why did they choose someone this bizarre to push on the people knowing i will assume everything you do?".
someone had a site claiming a group of people ran the world.
i asked him to send me their names and he removed me from the site.
see my point?
The reason? It may be possible to have an utterly insane Congressional district (Bachmann), but less likely to have an entire insane state. When you widen the pool of voters, sanity is more likely to prevail.
ReplyDeleteOK Gryphen, Here you go again hinting at "things" happening. What does this really mean? I am sure there have been many calls to Alaska over the last several months and more as she gears up to make her official announcement. So what more do they expect learn at this point?
ReplyDeleteWah-Hoo! It's about time.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to hear about those discreet phone calls. Did any of the call recipients say "what took you so long?"
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite pieces of evidence is Palin crossing her legs tightly then leaning forward 7 weeks before supposedly birthing a 6+lb baby. It was a Newsweek interview and the video is still there on palindecptions. But perhaps, you, Gryphen, have even better stuff. We all know there's tons of evidence.
Also if you happen to answer a phone call from a discreet operative, tell them a little less discretion and a whale of a lot more action is expected. There's no time to lose, the primaries are coming up and Palin is getting cockier every day.
Oh, it's way too late to put the toothpaste back in the tube. Palin will be the death of them all.
ReplyDeleteMedia Matters blog had an article stating it looks very clear that Murdoch is pushing Palin for Prez...time for the real Mamma Grizzles in Alaska to rise up and growl, take down Sarah the Faux!
ReplyDeleteUh oh, I feel a Facebook rant coming on...
ReplyDeleteDon't forget, she has had quite awhile to cover stuff up and has done a good job....nothing has stuck to her here in Alaska.
ReplyDeleteShe could care less what folks say about her - as long as she is in the public eye...or so it appears.
They are going to have to have gotten the stuff together while she ran for VP. I just want to see her and Toad in orange outfits and in jail. There are so many things she's had a hand in here in Alaska...would be interesting if they could prove that baby is not hers. The birth certificate w/the State of AK is probably held under-cover.
This is going to be fun to watch there is no doubt. She has really become a pain in the ass to most of us here in Alaska - as well as Toad. Feel so sorry for her kids having her as a less than fine example for parenting. She's a fake and fraud!
This news comes at a great time, as SP and Michael Steele are saying to "ignore anonymous sources."
ReplyDeleteANONYMOUS NO MORE - Gotcha quittypants!
I'm thinking we all ought to just kick back and see which (if any) Republicans & baggers come to her defense.
ReplyDeleteAnyone?
Crickets...
5:26 Anonymous says "the leaders and shakers of the republican party are not stupid"
ReplyDeleteEr, this is an incorrect statement. They are truly very stupid. The proof being that they were willing to put the obviously exceedingly stupid Sarah Palin a troubled heartbeat from the presidency of the USA.
Bachus is giving Sarah entirely too much credit. Some of the responsibility for the Tea Party comes from Glenn Beck, other Fox fools who were pushing the Tea Party people, and some of the associated nasty groups.
ReplyDeleteIf Sarah is responsible for dividing the GOP and driving out moderates, and losing elections, then let the fun begin. If the GOP realizes that Sarah is a liability and they go after her, the people in the Pee Pond won't know who they should hate. Can they eat their own?
Do-Dah! The countdown begins.
ReplyDeleteThe beauty of this is that if the GOP takes her down, they will piss off all of her TP followers. Those true believers will turn on the GOP big time even if they are outraged by what they find out about Sarah because they will be angry at whomever makes them face their own stupidity and gullibility.
ReplyDeleteMy, my, my. Maybe Sarah and her fans will take down the GOP and their desire to have the corporate government they are paid to deliver. Go SP fans - the GOP has been planning this for a while and have been using you. We tried to warn you!
Actually, she didn't. Two of her buttheads lost and the Dems have 53. Nice math, congressman. Miller's going to lose but Murkowski'll caucus with the GOP.
ReplyDeleteYour popcorn will be stale long before she is taken down by the governmen power-brokers. Republicans are not interested in outing Palin. They only want to get the goods on her to hold in reserve till the final days of the 2012 campaign. Then they will make a back room deal forcing her withdrawal and her minions votes in exchange for an appointment to Secretary of the Interior handling the nation's natural resources. "Drill Baby Drill", "Mine Baby Mine". She will be their operative. Corporations will control land, water and air. And we will be at their mercy. Which by the way they don't have.
ReplyDeleteIf any outing of SP is forthcoming, it will have to be by the "little people".
The RepoCons and Bushies, in order to regain control of the their agenda have to reign in the TeePeeers.
ReplyDeleteThe Baggers that lost, lost because the Republicans allowed factory reject quality candidates to run. Some of them won, many made such fools of themselves that they ended snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
The failure was the RNC's but they can blame Sarah and weaken her at the same time. Sarah has been playing the Republicans and the TeePeeers off against each other and now it's pay back time.
The trend that I was most interested in was what would happen in the last weeks when moderates, independents, green party, and many libertarians finally began making their choices.
The margin of error in many races was not precise enough to give an accurate ideas of any shifts less that around 5%. But in several races we saw that the last minute decisions were apparently coming down on the side of more moderate/liberal candidates. So, for example, Angle's apparent 5% lead was really not only not +5%+ it was -5% because the majority of late decisions went against her.
The Republicans saw the same numbers and they know they will have to get control of the mavfreaks well before the 2012 primaries. They will do everything in their power to keep their strangle hold on the conservative powerhouse. Sarah be warned their bus is a lot bigger than yours. Lots more room under their meat grinder.
Thank God.
ReplyDeleteFunny, sounds like a belated "vet" is underway.
ReplyDeleteOT, but there was a preview for DWTS on this evening and when Bristol's image flashed on the screen, husband, who knows nothing about the Wasilla hillbillys and doesn't watch DWTS, said "is she pregnant?"
ReplyDeletehere's the thing: by saying this, they are giving her a tremendous amount of power.
ReplyDeleteto state outright that she is capable of making or breaking anything; that she holds that many voters in her hands, is not wise.
also 2, like it or not, this makes people feel sympathetic toward her. Every time they do this, she will play the SEXISM card.
if it begins to look like the Good Ol' Boys are ganging up on the Little Lady ...
- kellygrrrl
aklynne sez:
ReplyDelete"Yeah, well, they didn't get their asses kicked in 2010, and she's been running amuck for the past two years. Follow the money."
yes I know. they weren't going to get their asses kicked in 2010 because that's just the way the mid-terms historically work. they used sarah and everything else at their disposal to make gains in 2010.
2012 is not a mid-term and things are different. presidential election years are different.
Goodness, wouldn't it be great if Sarah took down Murdoch as well as split the GOP?
ReplyDeleteWhat I love is that neither Murdoch nor the GOP understand that Sarah is truly a believer in her own PR. I don't think she can sit down and shut up, step away, or play along like a good little girl to be told when to go to the bathroom, what to say, and how to say - not even for tons of money.
We all say she is in it for the money, but I think she truly feels she deserves the spotlight. They try to yank it away, and I think she will fight back. If they have dirt on her, I'm pretty sure she has dirt on them.
It will be interesting to see if she has the guts for fight the GOP. Murdoch could supply a lot of info on the key GOP players.
However, what Sarah may not realize that Murdoch never does anything because he likes someone. He's in it for himself so if he helps her, she will never be her own person again.
That's why, Sarah, your faith has the fables about the Devil or Satan. Those stories are trying to teach you about how some people are, Sarah. I think you've sold yourself to the proverbial Bad Guy.
Off topic for this thread but on for prior one: Olbermann back on the air Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteOMG, MSNBC blinked. Keith will be back on Tuesday! Over 300,000 people signed the petition!
ReplyDeleteYou know, it occurs to me...
ReplyDeleteTonight on 60 Minutes, Mr. Obama articulated his culpability for the welfare of his party, and that of America.
You know who else had a "The buck stops with me" moment of accountability on national television? That's right, Reagan.
Wonder what "shit-for-brains" thinks of THAT little parallel?
How can Sarah be the Tea Party candidate when so many leaders of the movement hate her? And many of the members who support her are so old and decrepit that I don't even know if they could survive until the next election - especially if their tea party winners get their way and start cutting social security and medicare benefits.
ReplyDeleteSarah better get the idea that she is going to pay for going rouge. All she's going to have left is the crazies. She'll be a tea party candidate at best if she doesn't get the message that she shouldn't run.
ReplyDeleteI think the sane Republicans realize that they are better off not reaching out to the fringiest of the fringe to be successful and credible.
Rick
The repug's mamas didn't read Brer Rabbit to them or they would have known that once you hug a tarbaby you can't let go and the more you hit and try to push her away the more you get tangled up in the black, sticky mess. Now would someone please bring a couple of feather pillows for the feathering.
ReplyDeleteanon6:18: I think you are right.
ReplyDeleteOr how about this: Rupert told SP a long time ago that she would do a few things, and then when he said so, she would bow out, and collect some more millions of dollars. And he will tell her when it's right for him and his pals, not necessarily when various Republican Congressmen (who are not in on the secret deal) say. And certainly not when a bunch of "little people" (that would be us) say. It might all be part of a plan to have someone refudiate her, and have her keep fighting, but all within a plan, the plan of the Kochs, Rupert, and pals. The plan that LOOKS like she is just bumbling along, doing her own thing, but she is on the firm leash of some fat-cat group.
How many times have we all said "okay, now its going to be all over in a few days." I don't believe she will ever be exposed anymore. I think the proof is in all that we have written about here and PROVED, and yet no acknowledgment by major media. Because no independent media is left.
And because exposing SP would also come too close to explaining why it took so long, and who knoew what and when, and their complicity in all of it. No, I think she will get away with it. All of it.
Say it ain't so, somebody.
--Amy1
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha! I can't wait to hear her stupid a$$ snarky reply. It's getting old for sure. Sarah is about to become old stale news. I just "pray" she is finally outed for the FRAUD she is. She's a total sociopathic retard nincompoop. What a beaytch.
ReplyDeletefollow_the_news
The end of Sarah's political career would make the most dramatic movie scene.... Four hours prior to the final Republican Presidential primary debate (she has refused involvement in the first three debates), Sarah is informed that she has to attend a meeting in the penthouse suite of the hotel. After refusing to rehearse for the debate, she is frantically trying to memorize international policy, economic principles, new Obama insults and her justification to attack Iran, Pakistan, Canada, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. She questions Rebecca about who has the authority to make her attend a meeting, but Rebecca promises several Dooney Burke purses if she follows her to the 23rd floor suite. Rebecca knocks quietly on the door, and it opens immediately to a 2000 square foot suite with eloquent furnishings. Despite the eloquence of the suite, Palin is immediately drawn to the men sitting at the large mahogany table on the right side of the room. Rupert Murdoch, Steve Schmidt, Michael Steel, Karl Rove, John Boehner and three unidentified men in dark suits stare intently her way. They've been waiting for her arrival. Murdoch beckons her to the table. In the middle of the table, Sarah sees a large manila envelope that makes her palms sweat and heart race. The men aren't welcoming her as they usually do, and this also puts her on edge. She knows something is very wrong. Murdoch tells her that information has been brought to his attention that reveals serious issues with her candidacy as he silently pushes the envelope towards her. She refuses to touch the envelope. He suggests that she tell her aides that she has a family emergency and needs to return to Wasilla immediately. Sarah realizes that they are demanding that she leave the race. Never one to be denied, she attempts to refudiate Murdoch. He is in no mood for one of her manic, diva moments so he states that the contents of the envelope will be released to every major news organization in the morning if she doesn't leave the race immediately. Steve Schmidt smiles ruthlessly; he has waited patiently for this moment for almost four years. Palin grabs the envelope and starts screaming her tired insults even though she realizes she is far beyond damaged goods. Murdoch immediately stands, grabs her arm forcefully and pushes her to the door as she continues her vitriolic tirade. When the door slams in her face, she is finally silent. Palin is left standing alone in the hall as Rebecca is asked into the room to hear the specific directions regarding damage control for Palin's demise.
ReplyDeleteEncouraging news. There should be enough skeletons in the closets to do this peacefully. Get ready to learn what was censored. Birth certificates would be a good start.
ReplyDeleteContinued...He is in no mood for one of her manic, diva moments so he states that the contents of the envelope will be released to every major news organization in the morning if she doesn't leave the race immediately. Steve Schmidt smiles ruthlessly; he has waited patiently for this moment for almost 4 years. Palin grabs the envelope and starts screaming her tired insults even though she realizes she is far beyond damaged goods. Murdoch immediately stands, grabs her arm forcefully and pushes her to the door as she continues her vitriolic tirade. When the door slams in her face, she is finally silent.
ReplyDeleteAs powerful as Rupert Murdoch may be, it doesn't mean he controls the universe. Telling Sarah when and how to run, giving her the red light or the green light, is all well and good - but she has to be electable. Even I am not paranoid enough to think he has rigged all the voting machines in the US! And if she is under fire from the GOP, even Rupert can't really protect her from everyone.
ReplyDeleteShe may always have a willing following, but they aren't enough to deliver a win and she would not make it through a national campaign in the first place.
Skeletons aside, the MSM and her opponents would make mincemeat of her the next time around. She has her memorized vague talking points stump speech and that's about it. She can't really defend it with any specifics or policy understanding. She quit her job as Governor. She has a short fuse and would likely say or do something stupid. She doesn't have the skills or the stamina, and her skin is too thin.
I know some truly hope she runs because she could be defeated so easily and Obama would be assured of a second term. I am not as comfortable with taking that chance, even given what I have written above.
When the gloves come off and part of the Republican party goes after Sarah they will use the usual tactics.
ReplyDeleteSarah knows these tactics, she sometimes uses some of them. Various charges and accusations will be made. Some in public, and some anonymously (perhaps why she'd like these to be ignored?). Some will be truthful, and based on facts, others probably not so much so.
Did Sarah ever hear McCain tell about the black baby story used against him in the 2000 South Carolina primary? That happened, the culprits? Well it was a Republican Primary... Here is an explanation with some good links.
http://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/karl-roves-black-baby-lie-about-mccain/
Republican politics are dirty and what is done to others sometimes comes back to bite.
Anyone thinking that all the facts on Sarah are either out or successfully hidden by her- YOU ARE WRONG. Why might they have not come out? Keep in mind that statutes of limitation for various activities have not yet run. Some of these things may require immunity to loosen the tongues.
The Dairygate dairy is 90 days late on it's loans again according to Halcro. Who was the governor that fired all seven members of the State Board of Agriculture and Conservation (who have authority over the Creamery Board)in June of 2007? Prior to appointing Franci Havemeister (highschool classmate who 'loved cows as a child'). Prior to additional shenanigans concerning the assets,financing and operation?
Look at what turned up on Joe Miller. This was in a few months. Haven't seen anything on the missing house and 40 acres (missing from various disclosure forms), but these things haven't gone away. Is Mrs. Joe Miller paid to be on the board that appoints judges? That is not on the form he filed if she is paid. There is more to come out on Joe too. Stay tuned.
An upcoming embarrassment for Sarah will be when the candidates that she endorsed and campaigned and fund raised for- begin to publicly disown and abandon her. Possibly even refudiate her! This will start to happen very soon. The pressure will be on, and the results of this will be seen before these candidates take office.
Amy1,
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain, and I'll say it isn't so. The major media are driven by profits, and don't want to go where they feel most of their readers/viewers aren't willing to go. It's herd instinct, not conspiracy. But the herd is turning, and when it does, people will be trampled. It happened to Joe McCarthy, and it will happen to Sarah Palin -- I should say it is happening.
"...but there was a preview for DWTS on this evening and when Bristol's image flashed on the screen..."
ReplyDeleteYa, I mentioned that on here mid week and asked if somebody could get a screen cap and post it. In that red t-shirt, she's got a hugh belly.
I lost count and the names of the GOP who went rogue on Palin.
ReplyDeletePalin's pink panties she got from Sheriff Barney Fife must be crawling up her crack.
Especially with the Champion of DWTS Brisket Palin not voting for the grifter's butt boy Joe Miller.
Yahooooo.....I can hardly wait!
ReplyDeleteI notice on this site that there is an ad for "Sarah Palin Live" business motivation type seminar in Atlanta tomorrow. Tickets are $4.95/person or $19.95 per business. WHAAA? Where are all the big bucks they used to charge to see her?
ReplyDeleteJohn McCain got the ball rolling re:Jack Abramoff takedown. Abramoff's minions were picked off and flipped one by one telling what they knew to the DOJ.
ReplyDeleteJohn McCain got the ball rolling re: Sarah Palin. Palin had the backing of Dobson, Franklin Graham, Murdoch...Koch Bros...etc.
Some big guys have a lot invested in Sarah. Wonder if the old GOP guard think it is time to cut the cord on the Bible pounders? After all the Supreme Court got the job done.
Anon 5:23 ... please do not paint ALL South Carolinians as ignorant and backwards just because we have a Deminted Senator. We are diverse in our personal and religious philosophies as well as our politics just like the people of Alaska, Ohio, Minnesota and Texas are. I do not see Alaskans as grifters, nor do I see Ohioans as obsessed with golfing and tanning beds, nor do I see Minnesotans as just pretty faces with no substance, nor do I see Texans as just big hair and air for brains. Every state has their embarrassments and criminal elements which can overshadow the sanity and progressiveness shared by it's people. As with other states,we in SC just seem to keep reelecting our embarrassments :-)
ReplyDeleteHell, at this rate, even *I'm* starting to miss Reagan and the Repubs of yesteryear. Holy shit, Batman! The lunatics really *have* taken over the asylum.
ReplyDeletewww.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2010/11/15/101115crte_television_franklin
ReplyDeleteGreat article about Palin's new reality show.
I wonder how much propaganda she will spew about global warming on the show.