For his part McDaniel has pulled out the big guns:
Supporters of McDaniel are spending the final days of the campaign reminding Mississippians of the number of tea party-affiliated stars who have embraced McDaniel — including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum.
And yes by big guns I mean a guy whose name cannot be Googled, and a woman whose own "big guns" change shape and size so often that nobody knows from one day to the next if she will show up as Dolly Parton's twin or a prepubescent teenager of either sex.
Of course Sarah Palin is doing her best to make THIS ONE actually win.
Why just this week she lent her voice to some robo-calls on McDaniel's behalf:
Scrolling through social media it seems robocalls by Sarah Palin supporting Chris McDaniel for US Senate riled a number of Mississippians' ire Sunday and for good reason: such activity isn't allowed on Sundays in the Magnolia State.
As Henry Barbour tweeted: "Just got robo call from @SarahPalinUSA pd for by McDaniel campaign. Too bad these calls are illegal in MS on Sunday"
Yep, helping just as well as usual.
Not that McDaniel even needs Sarah Palin around to scuttle his campaign, he has other supporters helping to do that already:
Police say a conservative blogger and three other men, including a local Tea Party official, conspired to photograph 72-year-old Rose Cochran in the Mississippi nursing home where she has lived since 2000. She suffers from progressive dementia and is under hospice care.
Now, just days before Tuesday's Republican primary, the photo scandal dominates talk radio — and the candidates' campaign ad war.
But hey, it's not like McDaniel's chances are completely gone right?
And all of that talk about a Palin curse, well that's just talk. Curses do not really exist.
Do they?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/02/mitt-romney-picks-the-winners-in-2014.html
ReplyDelete'Wherever there are winners in politics, there are inevitably losers, and the biggest loser so far in the 2014 cycle has been Palin, who has seen just two of the six candidates she’s endorsed win their primaries.
DeleteWhile Palin still draws crowds and media attention whenever she stumps for a candidate, gone are the days of 2010, when a Palin endorsement could rocket a lagging campaign from the middle of the pack to the front.
Although Palin backed primary winners Ben Sasse for Nebraska senator and Greg Abbott for Texas governor this year, her highest-profile picks have flopped. Palin went to Georgia to stump for Karen Handel, but Handel finished a distant third in the Senate primary. Other Palin also-rans were Katrina Pierson, who challenged Texas Rep. Pete Sessions; Taylor Griffin, the primary challenger for Rep. Walter Jones in North Carolina; and Lizbeth Benacquisto, who lost the April special election in Florida to replace Rep. Trey Radel. Although they all trumpeted their “Mama Grizzly” get at the time, a nod from Palin just didn’t matter enough to make a difference in the end.'
"While Palin still draws crowds and media attention"
DeleteMedia attention...yes.
Crowds...not so much. But the likes of the Daily Beast and other media are so addicted to her that they can't admit it.
Same with the pee pond. The crowds, they say! WHAT crowds, say I.
DeleteSorry to be O/T but this is worth the read. Well done Geoffrey.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/peddling-palins-snake-oil_b_5429754.html
'What people conveniently forget is that Palin was under serious siege as governor before McCain plucked her from oblivion. She had just fired the beloved Commissioner of Public Safety, Walt Monegan, in what was clearly an act of political vengeance. She had already fired many from the inner circle that had first helped to get her elected governor -- John Bitney, Christopher Clark, Paul Fuhs, and Mike Tibbles.
DeleteIt didn't begin in Juneau. As Mayor of Wasilla, Palin betrayed the likes of police chief Irl Stambaugh, her campaign manager Laura Chase, and her onetime political ally John Stein. She stuck the stiletto in the backs of several Alaska icons, including Wally Hickel, Ted Stevens, and Frank and Lisa Murkowski. Sooner or later, Palin burned everyone with whom she came in contact, including her onetime hatchet man Frank Bailey. Palin's political road-kill extended all the way from Juneau to the Matanuska Valley and back thru Anchorage again.
She's like the Arctic plague.'
6:08, I see you beat me to the punch, it was a great article, now I need Gryph or anybody to explain who is Nolan-Partnow
DeleteGeoffrey Dunn on Nolan-Partnow's fawning series of reviews of Amazing America and her assertion that there exists "a kinder, gentler Sarah Palin": "It's unadulterated bullshit from beginning to end." And he backs it up with names and details.
DeleteI too say, well done, Geoffrey!
If you go back and read all of Nolan-Partnow's reviews of "Sarah Palin's Amazing America" you'll see that she is very heavy on the snark and very light on the praise.
DeleteThis last review comes across as somewhat fawning but at its heart contains lots of barbed derision and snark. Many commenters were unhappy with her snarky reviews so I think with this last one she buried her snark very deeply and if one hasn't read the previous 11 reviews one would think she is heaping praise on Palin when in fact she is stabbing a knife in her back.
Yep, tomorrow is a big day for Sarah as the primaries for two more of her loser endorsements are decided...
ReplyDeleteJoni Ernst, Iowa
Steve Lonegan, New Jersey
Unfortunately, that horrible Ernst women is favored to win the primary. She is awful! I don't know a thing about her Democratic opponent and his/her chances though.
DeleteThe sleazier they are, the more she likes 'em. Ernst and Lonegan are prime examples.
DeleteErnst has a lot of nerve denigrating hogs. The resemblance is not easy to ignore.
DeleteTyphoid Sarah
ReplyDeleteDunn calls her the Arctic Plague!
DeleteOMG, this woman is practically wanting to suck Palin's tits or something. What gushing bullshit she writes!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.alaskadispatch.com/authors/677785
Total snark reviews that the bots and baggers will not comprehend.
DeleteThere is a photo in The Clarion Ledger of Sarah at a McDaniels rally and in that photo you can plainly see her bra through her sheer black top. The article in The Clarion Ledger is titled Palin On Stump For Mc Daniels, what kind of 50 year old woman dresses like this? A narcissist? of coarse that dried up idiot thinks she is really a hot couger! Mc Daniels wife better watch out old Sarah only pulls this kind of stunt for a chosen few. Also too she got PAID to do a 60 second radio ad for him,Surprise! all the Tea Party fools are paying her. That's not a political Pac she has going on it's her own private slush fund.
ReplyDelete"what kind of 50 year old woman dresses like this?" can be said about anything Sarah Palin chooses to wear. The stick figure kids shirt on the Philly "vacation", the green wrap jacket covering the over inflated upper frontals, now this black sheer outfit with the orchid growing out of her armpit, accessorized with a honking cowboy belt buckle and cross to match. The Teaparty fools are too stupid to realize they're her slush fund.
DeleteBut she's ALWAYS good for a laugh or two!
I hope you're right. I live in MS and this guy (McDaniel) scares me. He just might win and that would be a further step back into the 19the century for MS. There are a lot of McDaniel campaign signs in my neighbor's yards. I'd love to see the Democrat win but that hasn't happened for decades. Former Rep. Travis Childers (D) isn't much better than his Republican opponents. He describes himself as a "conservative Democrat". I am an Independent/Progressive leaning way more left than a majority of voters here. MS citizens will keep on voting against their best interests and I have to live with the fallout...
ReplyDeleteHe might be easier for the Dem to beat than would be Cochran.
DeleteSometimes as a Texan the only thing that gives me peace is the thought that I don't live in MS.
DeleteSince you are from Mississippi here is a question. I saw online several comments that if Cochran wins he will serve a year or two and quit. Hailey Barber and Governor Phildo will be picking his replacement. Is this likely? Is Cochran that kind of a sleeze to pull this?
DeleteThat's a bad picture of Palin. She totally looks fake and puppet-like in an ugly kind of way--like a scary movie puppet.
ReplyDeleteSarah's ears look deformed. Don't know why she tucks her hair behind her ears.
DeleteIt's actually just a true picture. Evil is as evil does. Have you seen a lovely picture of her EVER? NO, because her thoughts and actions are mean and ignorant.
DeleteWith those giant ears Mrs. Palin had no choice but to be a Republican...
DeleteContrast her natural nastiness with Angleina Jolie's new Disney film, Maleficent. Saw it today and it blew me away, the backstory behind this disney villianess explains a lot. Pretty close to Sarah's in one respect, narcissism is ugly and to the bone. Somehow Angelina manages to bring out the inner demons. The woman is absolutely stunning.
DeleteOperation American Spring is still happening: Their numbers are up, maybe 11 people
ReplyDeletehttp://freakoutnation.com/2014/06/02/operation-american-spring-is-still-happening-their-numbers-are-up-maybe-11-people/
Is this the scumbag that staff was breaking into a nursing home to get pics of his opponents ill wife?
ReplyDeleteYep!
DeleteYeah, I guess we really wouldn't even notice, but how would any of us like being photographed after 13 years in hospice for dementia. The only good point if he wins is that he will be easier for the dems to beat than the incumbent is.
Delete@9:11am
DeleteActually I think it falls into elder abuse and I hope they are convicted.
It's a breech of privacy and against the hippa laws.
DeleteNew Geoffrey Dunn article on SP:
ReplyDelete"In the arc of Sarah Palin's meteoric rise to fame following her acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention and her equally meteoric crash a short time later during her infamous interviews with Katie Couric and Charles Gibson -- a crash that has repeated itself over and over again in the six long years since -- there's been a troubling and ultimately duplicitous narrative sprung up by some commentators out of Alaska, where Palin was briefly a popular governor, and it goes something like this: that Sarah Palin was a beloved figure and a committed political crusader before her Cinderella appearance on the national stage, plucked out of obscurity, such as it was, by John McCain's bumbling and beleaguered presidential campaign."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/peddling-palins-snake-oil_b_5429754.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
The article should have said Todd Palin was briefly a popular co-governor.
DeleteJust curious, is "Geoffrey" pronounced the same as "Jeffry"?
Delete10:23
DeleteMost Geoffreys pronounce it "Joffrey", not sure about Mr. Dunn though.
@10:33am
DeleteYes, same pronunciation as Jeffrey or Jeffery, too.
Gryphen, as you know, I've been studying this endorsement phenomenon from a pointy-headed ivory tower academic perspective and I wanted to share the preliminary results of the rather comprehensive research:
ReplyDeleteIt turns out that The Screechy Wretch(tm) was simply not good enough - no good at all - in the early days of her political endeavors. (Technically it's too brief to call it a career) The term "woefully inadequate" does not fully describe her awfulness.
In the current setting where you might expect to see some change, no change could be found in the data and we have to, therefore, conclude she is simply not good enough today. The boffins refer to this state as one being "a complete waste of skin".
Now, here's where it gets REALLY interesting. It turns out that according to the most sophisticated political prognostication models - that have been backtracked at nearly 98% accuracy all the way back to the days of Augustus Caesar, emperor of the Roman Empire and inventor of the caesar salad - that in all the time left in the universe - estimated to be a trillion trillion trillion years give or take about 6-9 months - she will never, ever, ever, never ever be good enough.
And thus we scientifically close the book on The Worst Person In The History of America, The Screechy Wretch(tm) for all eternity.
I'll be selling the version of final report ($875 ebook version) of the study on the website www.stoppullingmylegwillya.com when it's complete.
How did Sarah Palin become the mayor of Wasilla and the governor of Alaska? All you have to do is listen to her word salad and you would say "WTF"?
DeleteBeldar - if that's even your real name, which seriously, it almost can't be - you totally screwed up that last paragraph. Did you really think no one would call you out on it??
DeleteI feel sorry for you. smh
To summarize Dr. Beldar J. Conehead's scientific research:
Delete"The Screechy Wretch(tm) was simply not good enough - no good at all - in the early days"
"she is simply not good enough today"
"she will never, ever, ever, never ever be good enough."
I vaguely recall one of SW's emails that documents that she, too, herself, came to the same 'not good enough' conclusion many years ago and her staff responded with the expected gushing expressions of love and admiration.
The Screeching RETCH is a flop, true. However, I think she needs to be coupled with the other destroyer of everything intelligent in the USA, G. W. Bush. They should share the banner of incompetance, jumbled speech, coke addled brain malfunctions. In other words, typical republican "stars", eh?
DeleteBeldar, congrats on your retirement from your honorable profession as an LLC. Your legacy will remind us always that "LLC's are people, too".
DeleteCan you make it a kindle coffee table book and just charge a couple hundred more? That's a lot of research and hard work, would be a shame to have it sit on a shelf between "Where's Waldo?" and "War and Peace".
DeleteWherever you find someone inappropriately dressed it's always Sarah Palin, isn't it? How does she do it? Who out of her expensive PAC consultants is advising her on skanky wardrobe?
ReplyDelete$carah does not need advice on her wardrobe, she follows her own inherited sense of style. Who can forget Chuckles Sr with the tee shirt "Hottest Governor from the Coldest State"? Pure class, however "Dumbest Governor from the Smallest State" (population wise) would have been more appropriate. Whoever told her those black hip huggers look good should be ashamed of themselves, unless they are waiting for the pants to fall down since she has no hips. I wonder if she thinks to herself, after appearing with the women dressed in proper attire "Well, too bad they are not HOT like me"
DeleteThe Tea Party of mean and stupid strikes again...
ReplyDeleteIs a curse distinguishable from simply making every possible wrong choice?
ReplyDeleteSarah, you resemble a washed-up pole dancer. Sadly, you are so much more that that: a liar, a racist, a middle-aged adolescent, an uneducated pretender, a crappy wife and mother... AND you resemble a washed-up pole dancer.
ReplyDeleteHere it is Monday noon easy coast time and c4p has only 27 comments-the day before a race in which their queen loon has endorsed. This above all else tells how she has sunk to near irrelevance!!!! Happy happy dance:)
ReplyDeleteI think the paid posters must have been laid off.
DeleteEveryone needs to read the segment that Geoffrey Dunn put up today regarding Sarah Palin! (Huffington Post) It's a solid reminder of the antics of SP and is outstanding!
ReplyDeleteYou will remember that he wrote the best seller "The Lies of Sarah Palin" (the untold story behind her relentless quest for power).
The book was published in May, 2011.
Dunn's book was by far the best tome on Palin's surprising rise to "fame" (notoriety, perhaps?) I just read it again last week.
DeleteThis is an excellent article about the Quitter Queen:
Deletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/peddling-palins-snake-oil_b_5429754.html
Love this quote: " She's detested both Inside and Outside, a mean-spirited, self-absorbed grifter out to make a cheap buck wherever she can. And here's the saddest part of the story: She doesn't give a damn about Alaska and never did."
I just read that HuffPo is only allowing comments through Facebook. Kind of weird, huh? First HuffPo is bought by AOL and now she's sold out to Zuckerberg? I realize that the site has been right wing for at least a few years but this really takes the cake, so to speak.
DeleteSince Andrew Breitbart was involved in the startup of Huffington Post and Arianna is friends with Newt and his latest wife, this is nothing new.
DeleteI dropped out of Huff Pooh once Arianna sold out. With the exception of a few bloggers, it's gone downhill.
Delete@9:51 - Dunn's column today is a thing of beauty, for sure!! Plain words, up-front, out there - he tells it like it is. I would absolutely love to be a fly on the wall after Caribou Barbie reads it (if she even can), or someone clues her in. Hahaha! Best read of the day, so far!
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/WYVeteran/status/473527709545426944
ReplyDeleteShe was for him, until she was against him. Classic Palin.
ewww what a getup. Gee, dress your age.
ReplyDeleteWe all know by now that the Tea Party is not grass roots, but instead it is organized and run by big businesses, like the Koch family. Sarah Palin is one of their spokespersons.
ReplyDeleteThe reason the Tea Party wants a smaller federal government is because the Koch's, etc..are cutting wages so low in the USA that average worker payroll taxes will not adequately support the government anymore, and when that happens (it is happening already), the Koch's and other 1 percenters will have to pay the tab. So they want to be pro-active and cut the size of government now, in anticipation of lower wages and a smaller middle class in the near future.
So they use words like "smaller government" "less regulation" "less entitlement spending" etc. to trick the really stupid into thinking a smaller government will be a good thing.
There are too many kids like Bristol, Willow and Track in our country who are not educated and will be lifetime low wage earners, meaning less payroll taxes for the federal government. We will have to make up the difference in revenue somehow, and that is when the one percent will finally have to pay their share. Veterans and wars cost a lot of money.
Get the baggers out of office ASAP. Good riddance.
Tomorrow's d day! Or should that be dd day? Lonegan has eye problems, Ernst is into pig testicles and this dipshit is embracing Santorum and Santrorum on Steroids (What's become of Sarah).
ReplyDeleteLove the new photo and accessories! She dusted off the old dollar store cross and slapped it over the valley to nowhere. She's got that trance like "Meth Becomes Her" look on her goofy puss. and she's got a fucking orchid growing out of her left armpit! What's that, a consolation prize or did she pick it up off someone's grave?