Sarah Palin, a former Alaska Gov. and reality TV star, turned down an invitation today to the New Hampshire primary debate on June 13. In her place, seven declared or soon-to-be declared candidates for the Republican presidential nomination will take to the stage for a debate hosted by CNN’s John King. The debate will feature Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Although Santorum and Bachmann have not yet declared their candidacy, they are expected to do so soon.
An invitation to the debate was given to Mitch Daniels, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Jon Huntsman, Palin and Donald Trump. However, Huckabee, Daniels, and Trump have already dropped out of the 2012 presidential race and will not be attending the debate. Palin, who is currently on her “One Nation” bus tour, turned down the invitation to the debate. In response to the invitation, Palin said: “That’s quite soon. So, no I don’t think I’m going to be there. Thank you for asking though,” reports WMUR.
"No I don’t think I’m going to be there." I think that just about sums it up, don't you?
We can all disagree about whether Palin will run, or not run, and how long she will stay in if she decides the former, but what is NOT up for discussion is whether or not she will debate.
She will not!
In fact, she cannot! The ONLY way she can maintain her quickly dissolving facade of competence is to stay as far away from those actually qualified for the job of President as humanly possible.
Getting on a stage with all of them would be the end of her scam, and she knows it.
First time posting.....I honestly don't understand why people speculate that this woman might run.....she is just playing with the media....not answering directly to keep the spotlight on herself.....it's pathetic and clever at the same time....Klondike kardashian indeed....
ReplyDeleteThat's too bad. It would expose her for the fake she is to a wider audience. Not that her cult watches CNN but there are the Independents and rest of uswho enjoy seeing her squirm and that queasy wink. ;)
ReplyDelete“That’s quite soon. So, no I don’t think I’m going to be there. Thank you for asking though,”
ReplyDeleteIn Palin speak.
"Are you flippin' kidding me? I'm as dumb as a bag of hair and I'm tryin' to effing make money here from the stupid people so I can pay off my family so they'll keep hangin' around me. Anyway, answerin' questions and knowin' stuff is elitist and the Koch's haven't come up with a way somebody can feed me answers from a remote location. Get outta my way, I'm better than you".
She's not stupid. She's ignorant. And pretty soon even her bots are going to question her courage. If she can't have the camera exclusively focused on her, she won't participate in anything. She simply cannot stand competition, despite her protestations to the contrary.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, I love your oblique approach. The "facade of competence" was a scintillation I missed.
ReplyDeleteAll I have ever seen is a "facade of incompetence."
You mean her performance on explaining what Paul Revere did for the Second Amendment isn't indicative of her Q&A prowess?
ReplyDeleteShe'd nail a debate.
I'll say it again and often, The whole Palin "Sideshow" is a preview for her real intent ! Sarah Palin is going to run for John Kyl's Senate seat !! Where I believe she will spend the next few years learning government and if she can stay relevant she'll go for all the marbles in 2016 or 20 !! I know that presupposes that the seat is hers to take, But we're talking Arizona here, Not exactly the baston of the informed.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin simply does not possess the mental or verbal skills needed to participate in a political debate.
ReplyDeleteBesides that, her only response to a question is to answer it with a lie, so what's the point?
Asking a mentally unstable person to take part in a debate seems like a terribly unfair thing to do.
Palin, due to her personality, is not vested in her competency. Her MO is to malign, invalidate and control destroying the competency of others while grandiosely and fictitiously spinning her and her family an opposite extreme.
ReplyDeleteShe will say any lie, confabulated about everyone including her children (combat vet!) distortion and other people. Pay attention to her patterns. She incessantly puts it out there everyone but her lies and makes things up. She projects her personality disordered behaviors onto others.
My sister said that by portraying men as pedophiles, tales of gang rape, voyeur of Piper she masterfully gets peoples attention. That also maintains as the Palin fily mbers and Heaths (track excluded) lie, con, wield entitlement they escalate the narrative haters lie and make things up seeking to destroy them. He'll their behaviors are self and other destructive.
Ex: what kind of parent rejects who their child is lying he is a combat vet? A sick crazy bitch and sick spouse. Impressing people to be envied and admired is the goal, not value, worth or honor of even the children. It is self self serving so people say the mother is amazing!
It's getting so I don't even know what I feel about her anymore. It is just so sad, watching her and her family's fall into destruction and self-immolation. Having neither pride of healthy accomplishments and values, nor any shred of humility or shame, the whole spectacle leaves me feeling sad, for her and her family, and for us all, who deserve better from aspiring leaders. This isn't fun anymore, or funny. Like other disasters, the sarastorm only leaves injury and hurt. And a horrid mess to be cleaned up by grieving survivors. Sarah, you are a sad, sad spectacle, and don't have even the sensitivity to realise it. You are going nowhere, and taking those you should be caring for with you, and that right fast. I really wish you could make it stop, if not for you, then for the rest of us, who ultimately lose just abit of ourselves while watching your trainwreck. In the words of another Sarah: Make. It. Stop. Please.. For the sake of all you claim to care for. For love of God. For love of country. For your family, and the family of man. Just Make. It. Stop.
ReplyDeleteI doubt that the ones debating are really "qualified" to be president. The more I see of Palin, the more disgusted I am at Fox. How stupid did Ailes and Murdoch have to be to pay this brainless twit $1 million a year? This is proof positive that Fox is not a legitimate news channel. They seem to hire the dumbest people. Why didn't they promote Victoria Jackson for president? It would have cost less, plus she is not the sole support of a whole group of needy family members. She certainly would have been every bit as "entertaining" as $carah.
ReplyDeleteSarah, you would not survive in a debate...............and the whole world knows it.
ReplyDeleteThe not campaign educational tour family vacation was revealing. It revealed the Palin daughters believe the mothers lies and share her opposite reality the nonvacation is a family vacation. The media ruined it all their fault. Mom is a victim pursued despite both parents having an agenda and on the news baiting and controlling the one of a kind follow the tacky bus tour, chase me.
ReplyDeletePalin will spin how nice and gracious she was to the media ruining the family vacation. The kids are enraged at the media. Reality check: your parents set you up, pulled the rug out, she took perverted pleasure at your expense and dad is all for it.
Imagine, if you will, a debate with President Obama. He'd have his hands full with trying not to laugh out loud at her ridiculous confabulations and prevarications. Joe Biden wouldn't be able to keep it together and good thing he doesn't have to try.
ReplyDeleteI hope Mittens or Huntsman gets their chance at her. In fact, since she'll never debate anyone face-to-face, I hope they just do what she does; say it anyway. Call her out. Make her respond in her social media. Nobody but her sycophants read that drivel anyway. The mainstream public has had it with her. She's no politician, she is a private citizen, half-term quitting ex-governor. Why does the media continue to force her into our living rooms? Who is paying for this farce? Follow the money.
Oh, and I can't WAIT for the e-mails!
"That's quite soon." ......just give me a few years to prepare and I'll get back to ya.
ReplyDeleteKinda busy now shrink-wrapping one the the misbehaving little bastards to roll out on my next gig.
She won't debate, ever. She is nothing more than a snark machine and that's her role in life. Add in sending money because she's still hot to a certain demographic and she can make a nice living doing nothing more than threatening to run for office. I don't think she'll run for Kyl's senate seat. For one thing she might end up running against Gabby and believe me she hasn't got the guts to debate Gabby or even speak of her directly. In fact just Gabby's mere presence in AZ would most likely doom Sara's hopes for election. Gabby was elected to her position from a very conservative district so she can span across party lines. Add in the empathy vote and being able to stand there alive and in effect telling Sara her hate machine didn't win and Sara would lose. She can make more money winking and tongue flicking anyway. After he ridiculous showing on her "vacation" do we really think she's going to allow herself to be in a position where she might have to answer questions? Explain anything? Like Paul Revere? Or why her family dropped out one by one from the "family" vacation?
ReplyDeleteYeh, but in the age of the "Nice rack and tight blouse" how does any potentail "real" candidate grab the spotlight?
ReplyDeleteBP in OR
Great analysis Gryphen!
ReplyDeleteI still wish more reporters would either stop talking about her or else talk about how unqualified she is.
They are still elevating her based on her novelty as a fad. Are they all so afraid that if they tell the truth then they will not be allowed to cover her anymore?
Or are they having too much fun chasing a story around, trying to be the one to get the celebrity to notice them and answer a question?
They are trivializing the office of president and I wish more real reporters would talk about that. They could start by talking about her inability to debate.
That's for bloody sure. Should she agree to "debate" it would be anything but! She would repeat her "Can I call you Joe" performance of giving pre-scripted non-answers.
ReplyDeleteHer bots are still chanting .. "Fight like a girl and Game on"..
ReplyDeleteMaybe skipping debates will make them realize her words are as hollow as her soul.
Well, I did it. I broke down and went to sea of pee. Had to read how they were going to spin the Paul Revere ride and it's hilariously grim. In fact they are painting her as knowing MORE about the history of the ride and other things around the coming of the regulars such that Palin is actually more knowledgeable than most PhD's in American history. She could make Shelby Foote look stupid on the Civil War. They are digging up small quotes from 1790 books about Paul Revere's detention and other obscure but not cited tomes stating that Paul did many rides throughout the countryside and many times the townspeople rang bells to warn of the regulars impending arrival or that in one case the British were, in fact, going to confiscate arms and gunpowder. They take the tiniest fact, twist it to suit their needs, then claim that Sara was simply summarizing the many faceted actions of Revere into a succinct summary for her ten year old daughter. Oh my God. And the good news is they shred people who come there and present reasonable arguments. One gut was hysterical - "I'm an INDEPENDENT who has lived through both Republican and Democratic Presidents, too many democrats" - ooops. You lost your Independent label when you admit you prefer Republicans to Democrats - that makes you Republican. Or do you imply you INDEPENDENTLY always favor the Republican? Ok, done forever at the Sea of Pee. Those folks must get their kool-aid on a monthly revolving order.
ReplyDeletei glanced at c4p,, they say her version of history is right and everyone else is wrong.
ReplyDeletego figger,,
bill in belize
Also too, getting on stage would change the FEC rules for her ability to use SARAPAC funds for whatever purpose she sees fit, and it will also cancel her Fox contract.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/sarah-palin-s-bus-tour-legal-under-election-laws
Of course, Palin is not going to debate because she knows she will be outsmarted and outclassed by just about anyone who debates her. She is counting on the cult of personality and her fading looks to carry her through life, just as they always have. It's absolutely sickening that the media plays along with her idiotic nonsense. Of course, they have their own agenda. I firmly believe that they would love to see her run, which is one of the reasons they keep conferring an undeserved dignity and status on her. I'm glad I don't visit the C4P
ReplyDeletewebsite, because it's bad enough just reading the accounts from folks who have visited that site. Those folks are stuck on stupid, and they are just as much in need of a mental health intervention as their idol is. Whatever the GOP establishment and FOX Noise don't like about her, they have only themselves to blame. People who lie down with dogs will wake up with fleas.
June 13 doesnt give her enough time to bone up on a few of the topics that might come up in a presidential debate such as: national security, the economy, NATO, Human rights, the political crises in Yemen, Libya, Bahrain and other middle eastern countries, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, health care reform, Pakistan, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, energy policy, education, infrastructure upgrades, transportation, congressional gridlock, the IMF, food safety and security, water shortages, FEMA and disaster preparedness, climate change, jobs and unemployment insurance, the national debt, mental health care, wounded veterans care, and climate change, among many other topics. (and those are just the ones she knows absolutely nothing about but thinks she does...) I would estimate conservatively - no, make that batshit crazy TEA PARTY conservatively - that it would take the kids a few weeks just to print the Wikipedia pages on each topic! Seriously, even if she really wanted a forum to publicly display her ignorance, June 13 is much too soon. In fact, with her bizzy, bizzy schedule on the ol' vacation trail the earliest she'd even be available to consider debating anyone would be Summer of 2013 and that's stretching it. But good luck with that, Lulu.
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't think she will be there? That's not a no. I would not be shocked if she showed up at the last moment (in a short dress, showing off her legs) demanding to be included because that is her style.
ReplyDeleteThe c of p also praised her for "refudiate." please. None of these folks will last; no one lasts with Pakin for the long haul. I'm reading Bailey's book now & it's amazing how many former supporters are thrown under the Palin bus to Nowhere. Also amazing is how Sarah & Todd are NOT close at all--rarely in the same town, even. It does seem now as if they are already divorced, sharing custody of kids & seeing their grandkids.
ReplyDeleteShe'll continue this scam through 2016/2020, the media will continue to allow her..she has no intention of ever running for President, but every attention of draining her followers bank accounts. I'm going to renew my faith in America, and believe that the majority of people can see through her scam. She'll always have her fringe support, but no-one saw huge throngs of crowds waiting for her. There was more press than actual people at places she stopped on the bus tour. Also, there are elements within the Republican party that will not allow her to disrupt the Republican processes as much as she thinks she can. The next few months are going to be very interesting.
ReplyDeletequeen esther doesn't have to debate. she knows God will find a way. she is THAT fucking deluded.
ReplyDeleteOverMountainMan, have you been to Arizona? Not everyone is stupid. I'm so sick of the elitest things people say about Arizona. I've lived all over the country-Boston,NYC, San Francisco, Portland, Minneapolis and more and this is the best lifestyle of them all. I have 2 doctorate degrees. Am I stupid? Do you think i have dumb friends? Anyhow, Sarah is NOT going to run for Kyls seat. I will bet you a million dollars. A senator makes 200,000 a year approximately. Sarah is making a million from Fox alone. She doesn't want to learn. She could have been doing that the last 3 years learning and she hasn't. She hated being governor, Senator is more work. I'm telling you there is NO WAY.
ReplyDeleteSo Sarah met with the Donald so that they can both run as independents?
ReplyDelete"Sarah Palin warned the Republican Party tonight that they better get their act together or there will be a third party rise up and challenge the establishment GOP.
Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity were discussing recent remarks by Donald Trump"
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/06/sarah-palin-warns-gop-of-third-party-threat-video/
I am for third party.. Says the about me me me Woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHyBS9SAg-k&feature=player_embedded
Good lord Sarah. We can see through your brain. Your goal is to announce in August oe September, so that you can avoind all debates, and destroy the GOP candidates? What a fraud dangerous crown. And you espect all of to trust you to be in the oval office. So you are copying the old version. How the Wig party was wiped out by GOP party? Good lack Crasy woman.
This is for Bots.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/975102156001/sarah-palin-on-hannity/#/v/975102162001/is-she-running/?playlist_id=87937
Your quitter is not serious about running. She is serious about getting all your change, so that she can buy more properties for herself. She is laughing at your stupidity all the way to the bank.
Wise up
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/sarah-palin-calls-non-candidacy-liberating-but-still-has-fire-in-the-belly.html
Is she running?
ReplyDeletehttp://video.foxnews.com/v/975102156001/sarah-palin-on-hannity/#/v/975102162001/is-she-running/?playlist_id=87937
Sarah Palin is not running for anything and is now looking like the Lone Selfish GOP / Teabagger Bank Robber.
ReplyDeleteWhat do I mean. Right now Sarah is only worried about filling The Bank of SarahPac before she says she is not running. I admit I can't stand her and I don't care if she fleeces her followers for all their money because once she announces she is not running her followers can't donate to the real GOP candidates because Sarah conned and robbed those poor dumb toothless Sons of Itches.
You Go Girl!
I read where somebody said Sarah Palin does not think of her kids and only thinks of herself and I tell ya all this stuff Sarah is doing is going to back fire on her kids. We all hate Sarah because she is conning folks out of their hard earned money during these hard bad economic times and once these ignorant people find out Sarah is pulling a Christine O'Donnell on them and is paying her bills and buying property on their dime, they will turn on Sarah and her offsprings. History will remember the name Palin as the crooked selfish bastards they are.
ReplyDeleteMark my words Sarah...
Karma is a bitch.
You go girl. I've been reading now on almost every site that you NAILED the real story of Paul Revere and that the Lamestream media, history books and all other stories about Paul Revere are WRONG, all based on an obscure letter written by Paul Revere after the fact that says indeed he did warn the British we were coming for them and he DID ride to protect the colonists from the British trying to take away our guns. One source tipped the source, YouTube. Apparently there is a video on there that sort of, kind of makes these points. So it that what Sara did? Go to YouTube before she went on her tour and watch a few video's. Or is that too much of a stretch. I can just see her in some summit meeting asking to be excused to so she can go pull up something on google or youtube
ReplyDeleteOT, Bill Maher did the most incredible little commentary on her, great watching
Sarah stays in the media as long as she has not announced whether or not she is running. That way, they can keep asking her the same question, and she loves the tease.
ReplyDeleteIf Sarah runs, she will run by face book, twitter, and Fox interviews. She has shown in one week that she still hasn't learned anything since Katie Couric asked her what she reads. The answer is Nothing at all. The only people who can vote for her are as dumb as she is. I hope that people in the US are smarter than that.
BWAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA
ReplyDeleteof course she won't debate!
har har har
What an idiot.
hee hee hee har har har
that makes my day.
What a buffoon.
OT. I read the stretch of plausible explanation at C4P re Paul Revere's ride.
ReplyDeleteMy question is when people put a gun to someone's head demanding answers or perish by brains blown out... Just how do they spin "in essence" Revere warned the British?
The scary part is cult followers also project. They bent, twisted fact declaring the media twisted Palin's words. A confession at gun point is not riding clanging bells gun shots warning the British.
What a bunch of fixers. Praise the chosen one in glory of her teaching history. Scary stuff!
Sarah Jones @ Politicususa is projecting a 3rd Party Run
ReplyDeletesnip] The GOP doesn’t want Sarah Palin to run, and not just because her negatives are so large, but because she isn’t reliable and they know this. It’s not that they are against running a puppet, but a person who is as erratic as Palin can’t be controlled and hence, she’s not going to be their choice. [end snip
more @ http://www.politicususa.com/en/sarah-palin-warning-gop
7:25AM If she announces she is off Fox. They have to terminate her contract or give equal time to everyone else. They won't do that so out she goes along with her pay check. She can't get any more $ from Fox unless it is a campaign donation and those are limited to a certain amount of money. Money can be funneled to other entities via Fox's labyrinthine contacts, but it would all be on paper and in public. We all know $carah hates things on paper....
ReplyDeleteBeldar Conehead, I LOVE your changing middle names, as well as the comments!
ReplyDeleteNo, she won't be able to join the debate on June 13.
ReplyDeleteBut she may just come up with some kind of appearance, just to step on the candidates' publicity, like she did to Romney.
I wish the media would get a clue about this grifter.
We have got to get people to stop paying attention to her.If she were ignored she would go away and everyone could go back to taking care of their own lives.She says all this ignorant tripe just because she knows it gets her ink.I'm pretty sure she knows Paul Revere wasn't going around shooting guns up in the air and ringing bells and whatever other stupid things she has him doing but she knows it draws attention to her and she cannot be embarassed.This has been going on for far too long for it to be a coincidence.Her operating theory is there's no such thing as bad publicity and her followers eat this crap up.This woman needs to be ignored,that is what will finally be the death of her.
ReplyDeleteThe woman is way in over her head, she has no knowledge of anything and is breathtakingly stupid.
ReplyDeleteAll of her comments are just word salad with a few chosen words all thrown in; her father was a school teacher but she is dumb as a lump of coal.
Dunn's book goes into detail how the McCain campaign got completely fooled by her in their quest to come up with someone to beat the democratic ticket. They never fully vetted her and never made calls to republican elders in Alaska. They thought she would be knowledgeable because of all the jobs she had held.
It didn't take very long for McCann's handlers to find out that she was totally uneducated and lacking a basic knowledge of foreign policy or current affairs. It also didn't take long after she was picked that those around her found out that she was a compulsive liar and that everything was all about me, me, me Sarah.
When did she get manners? She's been so "polite" with the media while showing the world what an egocentric sociopath she is, and what a fine job she's doing raising a ten year old.
ReplyDeletePresidential material?
Even without her there, the debate should proove to be a yawnfest.
I see this grouper face pictures of Palin a lot. Today I looked and looked at it. Tried to put my mouth in that position. Thought about when such a face would appear on myself. During a speech? While talking about a sensitive subject I felt deeply about? When talking about terrorists? In every scenario I thought of, I could never produce that kind of major frown. Sarah, anybody ever tell you that scrunching your face like that repeatedly will be very bad for your facelift.
ReplyDeleteIts so simple.
ReplyDeleteSenator--App $200,000 per year
Potus----App $400,000 per year
To run for either she has to give up-
SarahPac-App $5,000,000 per year
Fox News-App $1,000,000 per year
Do the math
mommom
Big Yawn said...
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't think she will be there? That's not a no. I would not be shocked if she showed up at the last moment (in a short dress, showing off her legs) demanding to be included because that is her style.
6:24 AM
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You may be on to something. Maybe she's waiting to find out if they will all be seated on a raised stage with chairs, so that she can make sure that her skirt is hiked up to maximum hooha exposure level to enable her to "win" the debate.
Debates are for people who are trying to win. As you know she isn't in it to win it. Prepping for debates hurts her brain and there's no money in it. She's in it for the money and attention.
ReplyDeleteanon 8:06 Sarah may not be embarrassed, but she can't handle ridicule. That is what she has been getting over Paul Revere. The "bots" apparently have dug up what is essentially the real story, but that is not what Sarah said. The British were going after the Colonists' guns, sort of. They were going after an armory that had, if I remember correctly, two cannon. Anyway, Sarah is back in AZ "regrouping and rescheduling" ie: our ridicule got to her.
ReplyDeleteSarah thinks that debate is what you ketch da fish with. she sticks debate in de bucket!
ReplyDeleteIt's about time for Aunt Katie to turn up and get Sarah Palin back in mental shape for the trail. Aunt Katie pulled a book tour off and she's the Palin/Heath clan's secret weapon.
ReplyDeletePiper is ok for everyday patching together mentally unstable Sarah Palin, but the 4 day "family vacation" via billboard bus was out of control from day one.
Sarah Palin is AZ now having her meds adjusted and her ego stroked. Just a couple of days and the puppet will be ready to hit the "trail" again.
Sarah Palin's current stratospheric level of word salad precludes even being in the same state as the debate, unless her medication are radically altered.
mommom, you're right about the incentive for $arah P Heath to continue living off the handouts, easy money and you don't have to really work for it. The bots don't realize that they are encouraging their goddess NOT to run since they keep donating to %arahPac and are enabling her panhandling lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteIf she isn't going to be at the debates, where will her bus be on the day of the debates? She will do whatever she can to draw attention away from the debates - coincidence, of course.
ReplyDeletePalin = COWARD
ReplyDeleteWhen has Palin ever "been there"?!?
ReplyDeleteI am deeply offended that you don't think Sarah could hold her own in a debate! In fact, I'm quite certain she would be able to answer EVERY question presented to her. She would simply say that she would apply "time-tested, common sense solutions"---an answer which, happily for Sarah, is multipurpose answer which can be used to answer any and all questions put before her.
ReplyDeleteShe thought the campaign contributions for McCain/Palin should have been used for the VP campaign. She truly is an idiot: she loved working the campaign line and winking to the men and people calling her name. The entire campaign was all about me, me, me Sarah. She totally freaked out a vast majority of the republican party with her power grab and she constantly stabbed her advisers in the back.
ReplyDeleteShe can't go to any debate that might ask her what Paul Revere did. (Of course now she probably knows. She's googled it.)
ReplyDeleteBut they might ask about Betsy Ross. (Who sewed George Washington's first uniform with the coat turned back so he could get at his gun holster. That's where we get the word turn coat.)
She is just so gawd awful stupid. I think I know why the media continues to be enchanted with her. You never know when the next coffee spewing twisted history statement is going to leave her lips and they want to make sure they're there to get the footage.
That Paul Revere moment is priceless. And it will play over and over and over.
Would the American people really be that dumb? To vote this moron into the White House? Or into any political office? (Okay. there is Michelle Bachmann, but I think even her days are numbered.)