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| At one time a political force in America now reduced to mere shadow of her former self. |
Courtesy of
McClatchy DC:
Sarah Palin has lost the magic. The defeat of her choice Tuesday in a Republican Senate primary in her home state of Alaska capped a primary season in which her favored candidates have stumbled across the nation.
A referendum to restore Palin’s signature achievement from her time as Alaska governor, a state tax on oil companies, was also headed toward defeat following Tuesday’s voting, dealing a double whammy loss to Palin in her home state and highlighting her declining influence.
Only four of the 15 congressional candidates endorsed by Palin nationwide this year have won their primaries, a far worse record than the previous two elections, when Palin played a role as kingmaker and her approval was eagerly sought by candidates looking for an edge with Republican voters.
Palin remains talented at raising money. “But her influence on the actual political process is diminishing rapidly,” said John Feehery, a Republican political consultant and former aide to GOP leadership in the House of Representatives.
The article points out that Palin had recently endorsed Joe Miller, who went to down in defeat on Tuesday, as well as Ballot Measure 1 that was supposed to reinstate the oil tax that Palin championed before being selected as McCain's VP choice.
Those are the only two things that Palin endorsed up here this election cycle, and they both went down in flames.
It then goes on to discuss Palin's extremely low poll ratings in Alaska, and her transition from politician to reality show "star."
McClatchy goes on from there to take note of her lack of success in the endorsement game this time around:
Palin backed failed attempts to unseat incumbent Sens. Thad Cochran in Mississippi and Lamar Alexander in Tennessee. Her Senate picks in Oklahoma, Minnesota and Georgia all failed to advance beyond the Republican primary as well.
Palin had more success with her Nebraska pick, following Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., in endorsing Ben Sasse’s successful campaign for the GOP Senate nomination.
Palin also joined Mitt Romney and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida in stumping for Joni Ernst, who won the Republican Senate primary in Iowa, and she endorsed heavily favored Sen. Tim Scott in South Carolina.
Just one of Palin’s choices for the U.S. House, Barry Loudermilk in Georgia, won the Republican primary election. Palin‘s picks for the House lost in Texas, North Carolina, New Jersey, Florida and Georgia.
A message left with SarahPAC asking about the endorsed candidates’ struggles was not returned.
I think that last line is my favorite.
So finally it appears that the so-called "lamestream media" has taken note of Palin's incredible losing streak and her lack of political intuition. About time.
Of course that is not the only place where Palin is failin'.
I noticed just yesterday that the
YouTube page that had been posting all of her Sarah Palin Channel video has been taken down, which indicates that either despite its name it was NOT actually the "Official Sarah Palin" YouTube account, or that Palin felt that she would never get subscribers if the content were free on line in other places so she had it taken down.
Whatever the case it's gone now.
So currently the only way to see Palin's rants is to pay the subscription fee and watch them on her
channel website blog.
Which is another way of saying that we don't have to watch them. And as you know I won't and I imagine that there are few others that will either.
Let's see how long she can last, shall we?
