When Independents and Democrats join forces to oust you from your Senate seat that is when you get desperate. Even desperate enough to call Sarah Palin for help. Update!

"Oh god, what have I done?

This from The Wichita Eagle:

Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and a possible 2016 presidential candidate, will come to Wichita on Sept. 29 to stump for U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts in a tight Senate race that has drawn national attention. 

Bush, the son and brother of the former presidents, will join the three-term senator at a luncheon at Murfin Stables, 14525 E. 13th St. Cost for attendees ranges from $100 up to $2,600 for a seat at the head table, according to the invitation. 

On Thursday, Roberts will be joined by a special guest at the Independence Historical Museum and Art Center in Independence, Kan. A source close to the campaign said that guest is Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska who served as running mate in 2008 for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. 

Okay now I might understand calling in Jeb Bush, who despite his brother's abysmal presidency still for some reason retains a certain amount of gravitas with the Republican party, but Sarah Palin?

Yes Pat Roberts, and indeed the entire Republican party, is in a blind panic after Democratic challenger,Chad Taylor, dropped out of the race in order to give the more popular Independent candidate, Greg Orman, a better shot at beating Roberts, but isn't this kind of like trying to stop a migraine by putting a loaded gun to your head?

Just in case you are wondering if Roberts was flying Palin down, because we all know that she does not use her own money to travel, I would guess that her travel arrangements have already been made by Lifechoices Heath Network, who have invited her down to lie about her experiences as the mother of a child with Down syndrome.

Well if Palin has the effect on the Roberts campaign that she usually has on campaigns then he might just as well start packing his things and preparing to move out of his Senate office now.

Update: Speaking of Palin the National Enquirer has a new piece about the brawl, that quotes our old friend Geoffrey Dunn:  

The former Alaska governor and ex-vice presidential candidate recently said in a TV interview that she wouldn’t rule out a 2016 presidential run, adding she’d “never say never” to an Oval Office bid. 

But after the Sept. 6 melee at a house party in Anchorage, political analyst Geoffrey Dunn, author of the best-selling book “The Lies of Sarah Palin,” told The ENQUIRER the fight “only confirms the national 
perception of Sarah as a trailer-trash diva! 

“In my opinion, it shatters any pretense she has of running for president or any other high office.”

Though it is nice to see Geoffrey weighing in on this, I kind of think he is screwing with the Enquirer a little here. 

I seem to remember that he and I discussed how unlikely it would be that Palin would ever seriously take a run at the White House even before Joe's book came out. And afterward we both agreed that she was done politically.

So I imagine that the Enquirer called up to ask Geoffrey's opinion on how this would affect her chances and he simply played along.

Palin's name came up again in an article discussing the firing of Eric Thompson over at the Daily Mail.

It is essentially all the same stuff we have been discussing here for two weeks now, but again it is nice to see that the media is still paying attention to this story.