Friday, February 03, 2012

Sarah Palin and the influence of the Tea Party fizzles out.

"When I tell my monkeys to fly, by God and Todd, that is what I expect them to do!"
Courtesy of The New York Times:

In October, Sarah Palin announced that she would not run for president in 2012, ending the media frenzy around her potential candidacy even as she vowed to remain politically active and influential. 

“I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets,” she wrote in an e-mail to her supporters. 

Just over three months later, her attempts to wield influence in the presidential campaign the way she did during the 2010 midterm elections have largely fizzled. 

And the Tea Party movement that she helped to turn into a powerful political force in 2010 has so far displayed little impact on the course of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign. 

Over the last two weeks, Ms. Palin has urged voters in South Carolina and Florida to vote for Newt Gingrich as a way of striking back against the Republican establishment in Washington and against liberals. 

“If for no other reason, rage against the machine, vote for Newt. Annoy a liberal. Vote Newt. Keep this vetting process going, keep the debate going,” Ms. Palin said on Fox News two days before Tuesday’s primary in Florida. 

And how did that work out for the Grizzled Mama and the bloviating windbag?

But in the contest between the Tea Party’s Sarah Palin and that establishment on Tuesday, the establishment won decisively. 

Not only did Mr. Gingrich lose badly to Mitt Romney after Ms. Palin’s public pronouncement, but he even lost over all among supporters of the Tea Party, a plurality of whom apparently rejected Ms. Palin’s call to arms for the supporters of that movement.

What? Do you mean that the Teabaggers dared to defy their queen?

Well it's about damn time!

I think most of us who have been following politics for any amount of time realized that the Teabaggers  were a flash in the pan. They were essentially the John Birch Society (With a few KKK members thrown in) reborn. Really nothing new at all.

They had a profound effect on the Republican Party, and the 2010 election, because the GOP was weak and easily bullied into submission.  But since then the establishment Republicans, the ones that the Grizzled Mama keeps railing against, have learned how damaging it can be to let the inmates run the asylum.

So now, having outlived their usefulness, the Teabaggers find themselves being ushered from the hallways of power and back out into the streets where they belong, and where they can continue to proselytize the end of the world, the end of America, and the fact that Obama is the Anti-Christ,  to their hearts content.

If they get too cold I am sure that Sarah Palin, who is also now persona non grata in Washington, would happily invite them into her Wasilla home, where they can warm themselves by the fake fire backdrop that she uses for her Fox interviews.

Unless of course she no longer finds them useful either.

72 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:07 AM

    Fix typo in header. Influnce s/b Influence.

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  2. Anonymous4:09 AM

    This is less about Sarah Palin and more about the lunacy of them all. Of course she and the tea baggers have made everything so much nastier and ignorant. But when do any of these Republican clown car candidates ever have to explain themselves. I want to know the specifics of what they are talking about. On Jon Stewart's show two nights ago we saw, on the one hand, Mitt Romney ranting about what goes on in the "faculty lounge" and, on the other hand, Newt planning to "repeal" laws that have been passed in the last three years that prevent people from practicing their religion. I want someone to press them each on what they are talking about - specifics please.

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  3. Anonymous4:10 AM

    Sarah's time has passed. She is has-been, thank goodness.

    History will count her amongst its dirty little footnotes, notably only for the hate she stirred-up.

    May she fade into the shadows, from whence she came. May her influence continue to shrivel.

    If we are lucky, Fox will drop her and her voice will not sour the airwaves much longer.

    Bye-bye, Sarah, bye-bye. Good riddance. You overstayed your welcome by overplaying the hand you were dealt.

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  4. Anonymous4:29 AM

    Sarah is real busy trying to figure out how to keep suckers donating to SarahPAC...

    Dumb tea party folks are the most likely donors to fund her family vacation bus trips...

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  5. Anonymous4:32 AM

    Somebody tell the dopey bitch that liberals aren't annoyed by Gingrich votes.He would be easier to defeat then Romney.I think Romney is unelectable also too though.Obama 2012.

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  6. Anonymous4:35 AM

    You know, I've come to believe that it is simply impossible to capture an image of this woman when she is not pointing or scowling in a fit of impotent rage.

    Looks like that task just got a little more difficult. Heh.

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  7. Anonymous4:47 AM

    Seems to me that voting Democrat or Republican is enough to get $arah's panties in a wad. That said, her implosion is most certainly imminent.

    How's that "annoy a liberal" thingy workin' out for ya, dumb-ass?

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  8. angela5:05 AM

    Palin and the baggers are fake as hell. They were angry republicans bought and paid for and she's a pissed off, paid for idiotic diva. But the astroturf actually started believing their press. So when democrats stayed home in 2010 . . . . The crazy started to fly.

    What will be fun is when she goes to CPAC and screeches for the idiot tea-bagger conservatives who will go nuts for her and beg her to run. There will be retching and slobber all over her feet. She'll belch hate about President Obama (which is all she really can do) and they'll all but take their clothes off and dance around the burnt furniture. She'll try to pander to all them and all the networks will interrupt their regularly scheduled programs to force the Grossly Grizzled One on us—again. She's dumb, but so are those who think she is anything but a loud meat puppet.

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  9. I’ve been waiting for this; when the Evangelicals (now tea baggers) get shoved back into the fringes of religion where they belong. With their extreme ideas and intolerance, they have no place in politics.

    For a lot of years, Americans thought they were a harmless joke. I knew better.

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  10. Anonymous5:18 AM

    Yep. They are going down in 2012. Send them all back home, the maniacs!

    Won't it be interesting to see how Sarah Palin finds a way to satisfy her relentless drive for attention, though? She's got FOX still, but I mean besides that...

    This shrill harpy will have an awfully hard time sustaining her high profile, unless she reinvents herself and changes either her message or her venue (home shopping network, anyone?).

    She could try to be a televangelist or start up some fundamentalist congregation somewhere (after being properly ordained as a minster, haha), but I don't think she has any real credibility on that score, whatever anyone thinks of these folks. I doubt she has even entered a church in months to years.

    How's her family, btw? What's happening with them? Sad to say, her nutty reality show train-wreck of a clan are probably her only remaining ticket to fame and money. Politics and organized religion are out for her.

    Maybe she could have a true change of heart, though, and start up a charity or something. Doubtful she could be sincere about anything, or resist her corruption/cronyism/grifting tendencies. She'd find a way to turn it into a cover for making money.

    Thing is, this woman is such a megalomaniac, it's not like she could really just fade away like some others.

    We will all be forced to stay tuned, I am sure, whether we like it or not. She's just like that ;-).

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  11. A. J. Billings5:33 AM

    And the worst of the worst of the prejudiced and ignorant Teabaggers is Col Allen West.

    This bastard decided that his fellow US citizens should "get the hell out" because he doesn't like their politics

    Yeah, he's a Rill "Merican, like Savage Sister $arah, the *unt that posted gun sites on Gabby Gifford's home district in Arizona.

    Them Tparty typs ain't no sissies is dey?
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/28/allen-west-liberals-get-out-florida-primary-2012_n_1239247.html

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  12. Calli Pygian5:41 AM

    O/T, but I finally watched the SP/ J.Pirro clip... omg so funny- particularly so at the end after Pirro truncated her diatribe- look at SP's physical action and face- I swear she swore and shot up out of her chair, probably followed by a string of vituperations and merciless throwing of furniture and other set props.

    Made my day. She is insane. :)

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  13. Anonymous5:53 AM

    I love Sarah Palin. She and her fellow crazies have made the Republicans unelectable in 2012. Americans enjoy watching the crazy but we don't vote for it.

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  14. imnofred5:58 AM

    While she is pretty much irrelevant, except to the Fox News crowd, she feels that she is still a major player in the political arena.

    I hardly ever see her get mentioned on other cable outlets except by Ed, Rachel, and Lawrence O'Donnell, and they are just making fun of some of the stupid nonsense that she spews.

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  15. Nancy In New York5:58 AM

    Gawd, she looks so stupid in that picture!

    Of course the tea party is melting, melting.. like the witch that conjured them up in the first place.

    They were never a real grassroots movement. They were a manufactured Koch brothers/Dick Armey movement of angry, old white republicans who were spitting mad that a black guy was in the White House.
    Scarah raised them from the dead with her klan rallies because she put a pretty face on racism and made it acceptable for the least persecuted in society (white, old people with money) to rise up from their segways and scream "persecution." Problem is, they had nothing to complain about! That's why when asked a question about their so called movement, not one of them could answer what the fuck their problem was in any kind of articulate, thoughtful manner. (Unlike the people in the OWS movement,
    who know exactly what they're protesting and can 9 times out of 10 can coherently express it).

    Stupid Sarah blew her chance. Instead of being a uniter despite political differences that people may have, she went for the lowest common denominator and fed into people's worst traits. Every day she's on the national stage her true rotten nature is exposed.

    Good riddance to the fake Tea Party and to their Queen Bagger also, too. She (and they) are despicable to the core.

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  16. Anonymous5:59 AM

    still can't get over Gingrich being an outsider.

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  17. Anonymous6:00 AM

    And what's this, Sarah never met the president? Now that is funny. That makes the picture of her being blocked as she was inches away from him even better.

    She always brags about going rogue when in reality all she amounts to is an obnoxious loud mouth who's willing to call attention to herself. Her future will consist of occasional headlines such as "Sarah Palin, Former VP candidate, Checks into Rehab" and "Sarah Palin Fails Attempt at Pursuing a Career in Broadcasting".

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  18. Not What You Want to Hear6:05 AM

    Gryphen: "So now, having outlived their usefulness, the Teabaggers find themselves being ushered from the hallways of power and back out into the streets where they belong..."

    Yes, and the "Tea Party" candidates they elected in 2010 are doing a lot of that ushering. Once they got into office, they were done with the rubes who helped them win. Instead of trumpeting their "Tea Party values" these opportunists are now trying to brand themselves as "center right." They don't want to touch the Tea Party brand with a ten foot pole.

    And I find that hilarious.

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  19. Not What You Want to Hear6:08 AM

    Anon 4:10 am: "Sarah's time has passed. She is has-been, thank goodness."

    Not exactly. She hasn't quite finished bringing about the end of the Republican Party yet. As a progressive, this is something I'm more than happy to give her all the time in the world she needs to accomplish.

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  20. Nancy in Naples6:09 AM

    Hope this is not going to happen, but I am wondering why Faux has been flooding their programming with Sarah. I was shocked she was on with Billo. I didn't think she would ever be allowed on his show.
    Could Roger Ailes be aiding and abetting Sarah to try a run at a brokered convention? Seems to me she was out of the loop after her October announcement, them BAM, here she is again weighing in almost everyday now. What is going on?

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  21. Smirnonn6:14 AM

    Irrelevance looks good on Wa$chilla DeVile.

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  22. One or two more states and she might be able to figure out which elephant she should pin the tail on. If it's Mittens, all she has to say is that she felt 'threatened' by Tawd's rogue endorsement of Newt and was afraid to cross him. Then to back up her story, all she would have to do is find a real scary and threatening photo of him in which he is not holding her purse.

    Why doesn't she simply admit her next four year's income depends on President Obama's re-election?

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  23. Anonymous6:20 AM

    Every day there are fewer Tea Traitors, since they are aging out of the populace. If the conservatives can't find a larger tent, they will return to a regional party, whence they came.

    - newmeximan

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  24. Anonymous6:22 AM

    $arah Paylin = Carrie Nation

    Stirred a group up to pursue a moral cause, only to have it repealed later.

    Both are footnotes.

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  25. Anonymous6:30 AM

    Influence? Sarah Palin?

    Palin is nothing more than a beggar, liar and thieving con artist!

    Letters were sent out "SEND SARAH YOUR BEST MAYBE SHE WILL RUN". Palin never intended to run, she knew the letters went out and said nothing till her dumbass followers sent her their best. After collecting what she could, Sarah then announced that she was not running.

    In these hard economic times you would of thought a decent person would return the money collected under false pretenses, but not Sarah. Sarah the lying begging thieving con artist pocketed that money.

    Looking at SarahPac's report where did all that money go? As mayor and governor, Sarah fooled her little flock but now out there with the big boys, Sarah had to do more than just smile, wink and pass out yearly Alaskan checks like the neighborhood drug lord passing out Thanksgiving turkeys from the back of a truck in the ghettos to buy their loyalty and keep her masses happy and grateful.

    Sarah had to be educated about everything. The McCain campaign was over, Sarah did not have any McCain advisors to teach her about the world so Sarah had to pay a lot of SarahPac money to consultants/advisors and unknown LLCs. Who were the LLcs? They also included relatives paid to stuff envelopes and lick stamps and I betcha they weren't paid minimum wage! Some would call this money laundering.

    SarahPac money is drying up so now you will see how much advise Sarah can afford. We have seen what Sarah can do when she dressed herself and fixes her own hair!

    Sarah's influence doesn't mean a hill of beans to anyone anymore. Sarah's is like the two cent carnival scammer that has moved during the night from Wasilla, to the state of Alaska to the lower 48 and onto FOX once she has collected what she could get.

    Sorta like what Bristol did with Candies abstinence speeches, DWTS and her book tour. Once people caught onto the game, the carnival returned home to Wasilla to buy houses.

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  26. wyandotte6:31 AM

    i just wanted to touch on the 'vote for newt, annoy a liberal' statement. people voting for newt wouldn't annoy me at all. ;oD

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  27. Anonymous6:33 AM

    In her delusional mind she thinks she is a maverick (whatever that is- lol). But, she is still a puppet, whether she knows it or not. We may not like Fox (unfair and unbalanced), but they have political savvy and know how to push her buttons and when/where to use her. Her staff are milking her. SarahPAC pays their salaries. Everyone is using her. If she were a stronger person, she would go get treatment and salvage her life before she loses everything.

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  28. Anonymous6:38 AM

    The tea party formed because we have a Black democrat as president. It's backlash from a group of imbeciles who voted for Bush and are belatedly unhappy with him, tinged with racism. They are a side show. Look at the tea party favorites who we're voted into office in 2010. They are lunatics and/or ineffective nothings. The fact that the president is Black (actually mixed race, but that doesn't matter to these people) allowed their anger and stupidity to boil to the surface. The catalyst was Sarah Palin when Obama was a candidate. He was set up as the scary, maybe Muslim, Black guy who wanted to take away your freedom. This turned into manical (and sometimes tearful) cries of "I want my country back!" when the president won in a landslide.

    The tea party is a shameful episode in our country's history.

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  29. Sally in MI6:42 AM

    So Mitt knows about Trig. Gingrich promised her the moon (you didn't think he meant a job for her in DC did you?) and he's done. Santorum couldn't possibly want Sarah and her illegitimate grandkids soiling his space. So who's left? I guess she could always join the now nearly silent Glenn Beck on the radio. She wouldn't even have to wear a wig for that. Of course, he may endorse fellow Mormon Romney too. Maybe Sarah ought to quit while she still has her millions stashed in the coffee cans in the garage. And when is that snow race for Tawd? Will all the chillins' make an appearance?

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  30. Anonymous6:44 AM

    One-term president?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn4hijKmMNk&feature=player_embedded#!

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  31. Nancy In New York6:47 AM

    "And what's this, Sarah never met the president? Now that is funny. That makes the picture of her being blocked as she was inches away from him even better."

    She's never actually met him? Really?? That makes her stalker like actions even more hilarious.

    She's like the character of Annie from Misery. Only without the restraint and class.

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  32. Anonymous6:48 AM

    Incredible that the tea party brand was used by both extremes. They were led astray by the self-promoted leaders that made a fortune off of them; and they were used as bait to taunt the liberals, to taunt the establishment, all on their own dime, by their donations, and time and energy. They paid top dollar for those fancy speaking conventions of their favorite teaparty king/queen. They paid for transportation to all the rallies, meetings, fundraisers, all the while opening their wallets once more.

    These people were used, exploited. Many didn't have the time to educate themselves about who they were trusting and yielded to those like Palin, and what did they reap from those sacrifices? Sarah has ridden on their backs and earned a nice fortune, with homes, businesses, and a comfortable lifestyle for her and her family.

    This PAC system and the political fundraising machine needs to be investimated and reformatted. It can easily be a money machine for the con artists.

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  33. Anonymous6:50 AM

    Game Changer is around the corner... Turn off the lights the party is over...

    Time for Sarah to live off the investments of her con game like Bristol is doing.

    Todd and Willow never could get their scam off the ground... those loosers!

    How sad, Piper will either need to learn to say paper or plastic or hook a local boy with a bun in the oven like Grandma Sally and mama Sarah did. Bristol? She can breed with the best of them, but not talented enough to keep her babies daddy...

    Folks... Sarah Palin's money grifting well has dried up!

    Well there still may be a few small stragglers out there... SEND SARAH PALIN YOUR BEST and she may run in 2016 or 2020 or 2024 or.....

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  34. Anonymous6:53 AM

    I'm with you Wyandotte! Vote for Gingrich! Believe me, it won't annoy this liberal.

    Can't wait for the REAL debates. Obama will sweep the floor with any of 'em, all of 'em, them too.

    Once again, Sarah's cheering for the losing team. So much for "undefeated"! LOL

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  35. Anonymous6:58 AM

    Looking at the agenda for the CPAC convention Sarah's speaking at next week (cpac2012.conservative.org/)...

    Day 1: 12:30
    The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the pursuit of diversity is weakening the American Identity

    Racists much?

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  36. Anonymous7:02 AM

    Haha. I think Sarah's chance of being on the "Apprentice" just got quashed, unless she begs Donald to let her on. She'll have to endorse Mitt if she wants to make him happy.

    I'd say in about a week, she'll do a complete u-turn and endorse Mitt.

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  37. Anonymous7:03 AM

    Sarah doomed herself with her Crosshairs map, calls to "RELOAD" and "TAKE THEM OUT" and then the Blood Libel speech. Even the fringe TeaBaggers saw how mentally unbalanced Sarah was and were embarrassed to listen to or support her. Must hurt to have people who belong in an asylum themselves reject you.

    Too late for the victims in Tucson.

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  38. Anonymous7:10 AM

    SarahPac money is drying up so now you will see how much advise Sarah can afford. We have seen what Sarah can do when she dressed herself and fixes her own hair!

    xxxxxxxxx

    Ya forgot we seen what Sarah can do when she doesn't read speeches prepared for her by a real college journalism degree graduate.

    We get that illiterate word salad retard jibberish that is the Palin trademark.

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  39. Anonymous7:17 AM

    I think that the regulars in GOP gave up on Palin when she quit her job as governor to cash in. Yes, Ailes and Murdoch bought Sarah with the hopes that her celebrity would be great for Fox ratings. By keeping her in the public eye, she could be a possible candidate in 2012.

    Karl Rove saw through her when he said that she should study the issues and write a book. He didn't mean a chatty, ill written biography to be sold via campaign styled bus tour. He meant a serious book that addressed issues and give Sarah some much needed gravitas. A year later, Karl announced that having a reality TV show was not the road to the Oval Office.

    The Republicans may have dazzled with the prospects of a rock star candidate, but Sarah could not learn one single thing, and she couldn't even follow order. Blood libel sealed the deal; going rogue is not the way to get the backing of the Republicans. Sarah's campaign style family vacation sealed the deal. Minutes after attending a lecture about Paul Revere, Sarah came out with her own version of American History, ringing those bells and firing those warning shots.

    The only place that would have Sarah was at the far right fringe of the GOP, the Tea Party, standing alongside Glenn Beck, spouting crazy stuff on Fox to keep the race going and generate ratings. (Who is going to watch once the candidate is chosen?) That doesn't mean that Sarah will fade away from the political scene anytime soon. They will still use her to juice up the ratings through November 2012. Let me see, isn't her contract up in 2013? By then, it will be time for a DWTS revival.

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  40. Anonymous7:19 AM

    I can't believe that Sarah had the gall to organize that bus trip that plowed up the northeast with PAC money, no doubt tea party members' money, to imply she might be running, only to cut the tour, pretend it would continue later in the summer, then, cancel it altogether. She never apologized to her donors, never explained any reasons for the cancellation, never acknowledged any disappointment or apologetic sentiments through her facebook. But she still managed to fool them for more donations to help her decide to run.

    She criticizes President Obama on his "felled" economic policies, and she swims through OPM like it's nothing. Did it ever occur to her that many tea partiers are still scratching their heads about that bus tour and wondering where their dividends from that investment went?

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  41. Sarah Palin and the tea baggers are nothing less than the wild dingoes of the Republican Party: ganging up on, bringing down, devouring, and ultimately turning to shit anything and everything that resembles a sane and sensible idea in American politics.

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  42. "Anon @ 4:35 AM said...You know, I've come to believe that it is simply impossible to capture an image of this woman when she is not pointing or scowling in a fit of impotent rage.

    Looks like that task just got a little more difficult. Heh."


    Well, we might have to go back to those halcyon days of private-jetting book sellin' 'n rakin' in money by the bucketful to see her in a good mood and lookin' good...

    ...But when you look at how Jan Brewer looks when SHE'S selling books, you know these two crones are twins separated only by hair color and dry air.

    http://bit.ly/zZUlrJ

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  43. Anonymous7:46 AM

    Folks... Sarah Palin's money grifting well has dried up!

    Well there still may be a few small stragglers out there... SEND SARAH PALIN YOUR BEST and she may run in 2016 or 2020 or 2024 or.....

    6:50 AM


    If there are a few broke minnows left out and there, Sarah will be able to reel them in.

    Sarah loves broke minnows... next to her mash potatoes!

    If Sarah can smell a penny in your pocket you can expect a wink, a smile and an envelope that reads

    "SEND SARAH PALIN YOUR BEST and she may run... run some time in your children's children's children's future"

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  44. Just paid a visit to the Insane Asylum AKA as "Crazies4Palin"....looks like they are deep in the well of delusions and have NO intentions of coming out!

    Some of the patients are quoting scriptures...mainly the women folk...and the old men on there are basically sticking with sending her money and picturing her in the White House butt ass naked...YUCK!! I told ya' the drugs at that hospital are top of the line!!

    They are also begging others to send money to BaldyPac for her birthday which is the same day as her "screech" at CPAC!

    That Brian "Bootyhole" character claims he sent her 100 dollars and he's going to send her more to "show his support"!

    I truly think RAM is earning her cheddar posting on there under all the different names....I guess that's part of her "duties" as her "internet defender"!

    Oh yeah...FYI...they did away with the "FLAG" button over there...apparently it was being used for EVERY comment that was critical of Baldy and the moderator got tired! LOL!!!

    And as far as the Teabaggars...those jokers time have passed and all they have left to show for it is a bald headed Ex-Gov who charged them a damn arm and a leg every time they asked her stank ass to speak on their behalf...in other words...the whore has moved on to bigger fish!

    Hey...a grifters gotta grift!

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  45. Anonymous8:32 AM

    @7:10 I also wondered why Sarah didn't practice and read the speeches that were written for her. She was carefully rehearsed fort he Republican Convention speech, but after that, she fell apart. There are actors who can look a a script, give it a quick read through and deliver it perfectly. In addition to coaching, they have control over their voice. They have an innate sense of timing. They inner poise and control.

    Sarah does not fit this description. I don't think that she can read and process material. I know that moments after hearing a lecture on Paul Revere, she came out and repeated a version so garbled that one would have to wonder if there are serious mental issues preventing her from actually learning something. We all learned that story in school, one if by land, two if by sea, there were no ringing bells or warning shots.

    When I see Sarah on TV, her first statement is a "Hello" and the name of the Fox host. She says it in a low register. After the first question, her voice becomes shrill and she cannot finish a sentence. There is an actual sound of panic in her voice as she struggles to read the cues, remember the talking points, and get her own emotional statement out there. Steve Schmidt discovered this during the first two weeks of the 2008 campaign. She cannot learn. She cannot read. She cannot process information. And, once the charm goes, there is not much else there except a frightened woman afraid of being discovered, so she covers it up with bravado.

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  46. lilly lily8:48 AM

    She is arrested at the second stage of development.

    Palin is stuck with "What's in it for me?" stage, or "If you'll scratch my back, I'll think about scratching yours...Maybe I will, and maybe I won't...so don't count on it." and of course, everyone has to know what I did for you...and how powerful I am.

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  47. Anonymous9:46 AM

    Actually, what WAS new with the Tea Party was that they managed to focus their (apparent) message on taxes and "freedoms" and sucker in a lot of non-birchers. But time, facts and behavior have not been kind to the TP and most of those non-birchers are moving on to more rational points on the compass.

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  48. Anonymous9:55 AM

    How's that endorsy-preachy thing workin' out?

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  49. @8:32 Anonymous

    Well said. I have found that while in some cases that sort of inability to learn and process information can be rooted in a learning disability, it is often rooted in substance abuse.

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  50. Anonymous10:42 AM

    Great post! I loved every word.

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  51. @6:22 Interesting comparison.

    My favorite bar is named after Carrie Nation - it's kinda like if they named a library or school after Sarah Palin

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  52. Anonymous11:15 AM

    A creepy walk down memory lane.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piAz71WF2yQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHhyTD2Mqc0&feature=BFa&list=ULpiAz71WF2yQ&lf=mfu_in_order

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hxt44vlCL4&feature=BFa&list=ULNHhyTD2Mqc0&lf=mfu_in_order

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqn12Y8RCSg&feature=BFa&list=UL3hxt44vlCL4&lf=mfu_in_order

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSwECsMEFqo&feature=BFa&list=ULCqn12Y8RCSg&lf=mfu_in_order

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  53. Anonymous11:25 AM

    Tea Baggers are Birchers with a new name. PLEASE run again that little photo of Sarah reading her John Birch newsletter while mayor of Wasilla. (It also appears that she was attempting to be the queen of 1980’s fashion in that photo! I guess that’s what she thought the job was all about, but nobody told her she was all dressed up with nowhere to go until she got there, thus the need to widen her political horizons. It is just flat out sad she didn’t just get a job at the make-up counter at Nordies and save us all the heartache!)

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  54. Anonymous11:29 AM

    Ailes is establishment.

    Murdoch/Ailes are behind Romney.

    That is why they trotted SP out to repeatedly fawn over Newt. She is the soap in the pepper and soap experiment. Introduce her into the political environment and people are repelled in the opposite direction. Fox will play up the rift between baggers and establishment for ratings. But don't be fooled. Romney is their boy.

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  55. Anonymous11:50 AM

    I'll bet Palin backs out of CPAC. I think she's too debilitated by chemicals and fear to come out of her bunker.

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  56. mudkitten12:26 PM

    Great opinion column on the state of the GOP in today's Seattle Times:

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2017408502_lance03.html

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  57. Anonymous12:37 PM

    Good analysis, 8:32 AM.

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  58. Anonymous12:40 PM

    "...Sarah does not fit this description. I don't think that she can read and process material. I know that moments after hearing a lecture on Paul Revere, she came out and repeated a version so garbled that one would have to wonder if there are serious mental issues preventing her from actually learning something..."

    ????????????

    When I heard Sarah Palin asked "Can I call you Joe" because Palin kept saying "Joe O'Biden" instead of "Joe Biden" and when she said "Herb" Cain instead of "Herman" Cain, I thought she was just a fucking stupid retard.

    It now makes sense that Sarah Palin has CRS and DKS syndrome... "Can't Remember Shit disease" and "Don't Know Shit disease" because Sarah Palin is not just a fucking stupid retard.... Sarah Palin is a mentally challenged fucking stupid retard!

    This also explains why Track, Bristol and Willow keep on breeding even though they are underage and not married! Those Palin kids carry the CRS and DKS genes through their veins as well which also explains why those retards can't graduate high school, get into college or finish high school!

    I'm telling Alaska they really need to control the Heath-Palin species. Its like Mad Cow Disease... ya gotta stop that strain before its too late.

    I'm not saying Alaska has to put them down, but they do need to spade and neuter them retards before we have to close the lower 48 / Alaska borders due to Zombie Outbreak!

    We do not want to nuke Alaska to cleanse it of those Heaths and Palins bad genes, but if you leave us no choice then "Oh Well"!

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  59. Anonymous12:56 PM

    Steve Schmidt discovered this during the first two weeks of the 2008 campaign. She cannot learn. She cannot read. She cannot process information. And, once the charm goes, there is not much else there except a frightened woman afraid of being discovered, so she covers it up with bravado.

    8:32 AM


    Sarah Palin does not just cover up, FOX has to go out of its way to protect her. They have to give her soft ball questions, they stay away from Todd's pimping career, they stay away from Willow's pregnancy and Bristol's multiple pregnancies, they stayed away from her allegations that Track is a Combat Vet or that he has a child - not married - living with Sarah. FOX has stayed from questioning if Piper is in boarding school in hopes of getting her through high school without a baby. FOX won't question Sarah about her fake college degree or fake Tri-G birth or her fake marathon or fake titties or how her house was built or all the other "Gates" haunting Sarah.
    But LOL... FOX will ride the "President Obama doesn't have a birth certificate horse" to death!

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  60. Anonymous1:08 PM

    Sarah Palin started the tailspin downward when she refused to comply with the normal requirement for faking a pregnancy. That is, strap on the fake belly. She made an improbable story completely impossible to believe.

    Every action since then has been Sarah Palin trying to distract and divert attention. Among her many ploys was sexing up the Tea Party crowd with a come-hither look and hateful speech.

    But Sarah Palin can never stay on track for long. She's always trying to find a way to stir things up hoping that everyone will just forget babygate.

    No deal, Sarah.

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  61. Anonymous1:44 PM

    We do not want to nuke Alaska to cleanse it of those Heaths and Palins bad genes, but if you leave us no choice then "Oh Well"!

    12:40 PM


    If need to, I will infiltrate enemy lines and draw a giant gun sight cross hair right on top of the Palin Compound.....

    Just say the word and consider it done!

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  62. I have not even begun to read the comments yet, but I KNOW they are filled with Trolls.

    Thank you, Gryphen, for all that you do (so we don't have to!)

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  63. Anonymous1:56 PM

    Newt (aka Sarah) fans, make Sarah feel more relevant. Make a sizable contribution to SarahPAC now. A flood of money coming into her slush fund would brighten her day. Enable her to dither on with your generous donation:

    https://www.sarahpacdonate.com/

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  64. How it began...

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    The Story The Media WON'T TELL ... How John McCain Left His DYING WIFE For A WEALTHY TEENAGER
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    June 10, 2008: Presidential hopeful has a lot of explaining to do. Not for his politics, but for what he did to his first wife.

    MediaTakeOut.com has learned that McCain, whom the mainstream media portrays as a descent man - is far from it.

    In a report by the British paper the Daily Mail, McCain apparently left his wife while she was on her deathbed - for a teenage socialite.

    Here's how they report it:

    [McCain] was shot down over Hanoi in October 1967 on his 23rd mission over North Vietnam and was badly beaten by an angry mob when he was pulled, half-drowned from a lake.

    Over the next five-and-a-half years in the notorious Hoa Loa Prison he was regularly tortured and mistreated.

    It was in 1969 that Carol went to spend the Christmas holiday her third without McCain at her parents home.

    After dinner, she left to drop off some presents at a friend's house.

    It wasn't until some hours later that she was discovered, alone and in terrible pain, next to the wreckage of her car.

    She had been hurled through the windscreen.

    And after the accident, Carol was reportedly in bad shape - and McCain started playing the field:

    When McCain his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.

    But friends say privately he was appalled by the change in her appearance. At first, though, he was kind, assuring her: I don't look so good myself. It's fine.

    "I thought, of course, we would live happily ever after," says Carol. But as a war hero, McCain was moving in ever-more elevated circles.

    The he met Cindy McCain - a wealthy teenager whos dad had enough money to finance his political ambitions:

    In 1979, while still married to Carol he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.

    Here's what some of McCain's pals say happened:

    They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to "play the field".

    They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.

    McCain was then earning little more than $25,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections.

    Here's how one of McCain's former friends puts it:

    This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.

    Wonder if the mainstream press will go with this story...
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    http://cdn.mediatakeout.com/24232/the-story-the-media-won-t-tell-how-john-mccain-left-his-dying-wife-for-a-wealthy-teenager.html
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    Burn in hell, old man.

    And save a seat for Sarah.

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  65. Anonymous2:06 PM

    Here's the photo of Quitter reading John Birch:

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/09/18/603353/-Oops:-Photo-shows-Palin-reading-John-Birch-mag

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  66. "And what's this, Sarah never met the president? Now that is funny. That makes the picture of her being blocked as she was inches away from him even better."

    She's never actually met him? Really?? That makes her stalker like actions even more hilarious.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    What's REALLY funny is how Barack probably gave Biden SUCH a hard time for even having to DEAL with the Shrilla from Wasilla, right?

    Biden had to be like, How the hell did THIS happen?

    [Classic: When Obama and Biden find out Sarah Palin is the GOP VP selection:

    "Wow," said Obama, picking his jaw up off the floor. "Well, I guess she's change".

    But Biden looked confused. Swiveling his head, speaking for millions, he blurted out,

    "Who's Sarah Palin?"
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    "Game Change" - Halperin, Heilemann
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    bwahahahaha!!!

    Consider the short straw pulled, Joe~ May I call ya, Joe?

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  67. Anonymous3:06 PM

    http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/02/sarah-palin-elegantly-parodies-herself/48293/

    This is one strange photo

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  68. Anonymous3:46 PM

    ....FOX won't question Sarah about her fake college degree or fake Tri-G birth or her fake marathon or fake titties or...

    ?????????

    Piper: Mama why do people keep saying you have fake titties?

    Sarah: Well Piper, there was a time when all I had to do is wink, wear short skirts, wave, tell country jibberish and I got my way. But now that I'm old, my wonky eyes and winking makes people sick, my legs looks like cottage cheese and when I wave my arm and neck waddles so now mama has to revert to tricks to get the old men interested in me so I bought fake titties from the same place I bought my fake pregnancy belly.

    Piper: Mama is that why Bristol got fake titties, fake chin and lipo, to get men interested in her?

    Sarah: Sorta, ya see Bristol is looking for a daddy for her babies.

    Piper: Does that mean Willow will get fake titties too so she can get a daddy for her baby too?

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  69. Anonymous3:54 PM

    Burn in hell, old man.

    And save a seat for Sarah.

    2:00 PM


    WTF?

    No need to save Palin a seat.... She's got front row reserved box seats next to the furnace for her entire clan right next to Saddam, Bin Laden, Gingrinch, Boehner, Wilson... well Hell, the entire GOP has seats waiting for them.

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  70. http://www.theatlanticwire
    .com/politics/2012/02/sarah
    -palin-elegantly-parodies-
    herself/48293/

    This is one strange photo

    (Um, where is Creepy Chuckles looking?!?)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    The most skillful and witty parody of Sarah Palin's faux-modesty, clumsy and cliched language, and outsider-turned-insider punditry Friday was written by Palin herself.

    The National Review rounded up the Super Bowl predictions of several famous and D.C.-famous conservatives, and Palin's was among them:

    "Who would I choose? Well, for what it’s worth, just my two-cents — because my pick really isn’t worth a hill of beans and I trust Americans to choose their own favorite —

    I say, in order to keep this competitive battle going, to continue the needed vetting and debate, if I were there, I’d vote for Eli!"


    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    I swear, PALIN!

    KEEP YOUR DAMN CURSE OFF OF ELI!!!!!!!!!!!

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  71. Anita Winecooler7:07 PM

    She never had the tea party, because they never really organized into one group. Sharon Angle endorses Santorum, Sarah endorses Gingrich, Pizza Man and the Witch from delaware endorsed Romney, Even her bff and toupee mate endorses Romney. So what power does she wield in politics?

    Can anyone imagine her debate issues with, oh lets say, President Obama? She'll interject herself one way or the other, but she has so few true followers left, and lets face it, her Fox days are numbered.

    Even if they have a brokered convention, Sarah wouldn't make the cut.

    She "went rogue" one too many times, and there's so much dirt on her, she wouldn't Dare urn

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  72. Anonymous9:33 PM

    I hope Palin is not endorsing the New England Patriots.....

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