Palin update: She still scares the crap out of GOP Establishment insiders
There's going to be an amusing showdown someday between the teabaggers and the old-line conservatives in the Republican Party. And it's looking like Sarah Palin is going to be the bone of contention:
A poll of GOP insiders suggests that ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has little support among the party's professional class -- and maybe that's just how she wants it.
In a survey of 109 party leaders, political professionals and pundits, Palin finished 5th on the list of candidates most likely to win the party's '12 WH nomination. Ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney (R) was the overwhelming choice of the
Voters were asked to rank 5 candidates in the order of likeliness to capture the GOP nod. The results:
Likely To Win WH'12 Nomination (First place votes)
Ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney 81 points (62%)
MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty 46 (9%)
Sen. John Thune 38 (12%)
MS Gov. Haley Barbour 28 (6%)
IN Gov. Mitch Daniels 25
Ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin 25
And it's clear that Palin is aligning herself with the Tea Partiers, eschewing the annual CPAC convention and instead lining herself up to speak at the Tea Party convention instead. Of course, as Dave Weigel reports, it doesn't hurt that the latter is a much better-paying gig:
“I’d speculate that Palin’s making at least $35,000 or $50,000, with $50,000 being more likely” said Eric Odom, executive director of the American Liberty Alliance, which is doing a promotional exchange for the convention. “I mean, Glenn Beck charges $60,000, $70,000 and a private jet.” He wasn’t planning this part of the convention, but he supported the Palin booking and argued that the convention was “as grassroots as it gets.”
Still, no one disputes that Palin is getting a healthy fee for appearing at the conference — and that’s a big difference between this and CPAC.
“We don’t pay honorarium, travel or hotel expenses for any speakers, past or future,” said Lisa de Pasquale, the director of CPAC.
While the cheapest ticket to the Tea Party Convention–one that doesn’t include the final banquet and dinner speech from Palin–costs $349, a basic CPAC ticket costs $175.
Ah, yes, nothing like sucker-punch populism.
In other Palin news, we also learn from Politico that her debate coaches feared they were headed for an "epic debacle." It wasn't, of course, so "not a debacle" is now the standard for a successful GOP performance.
That Palin speaking to the teabaggers is about anything but the money. If CPAC offered her more, she'd suddenly decide it's in her better interest to speak there.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
"In other Palin news, we also learn from Politico that her debate coaches feared they were headed for an "epic debacle." It wasn't, of course, so "not a debacle" is now the standard for a successful GOP performance."
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
if you play to the lowest common denominator, you get--the lowest common denominator.
Hope they enjoy the show. They've bought and paid for it themselves. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch.
The fun thing is that the GOP did this to themselves. They figured that bringing a women to the 2008 prez ticket would be a hit for those pissed off that Hillary didn't win the primary.
Palin is going to fracture the GOP in an epic battle between the old guard and the teabagging whackjobs. This is going to be fun to watch (just so long she doesn't actually win anything).
the token Steele
the token Palin
fox tea party
get the popcorn
far left loon >.<
There's no reason for her to quit short of the 2012 Republican National Convention.
I think she may have enough support to win a state or two, especially when the teabaggers realize Romney, Huckabee, Jindal, et al ... all sound like the government they distrust and despise.
So Sarah will be at the RNC, brokering a deal. If she doesn't influence the actual delegate count, she'll still carry weight at the ballot box.
Though, like the doofs who are heeding Michelle Bachmann's anti-Census cry, maybe the teabaggers will get ticked off and not vote.
"They figured that bringing a women to the 2008 prez ticket would be a hit for those pissed off that Hillary didn't win the primary."
Not just that, but that Republicans wanted someone dumb and "hot", not smart.
"Palin update: She still scares the crap out of GOP Establishment insiders"
And me too. The idea that she could hold a position of any authority should scare the crap out of any thinking person.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
... they know her base consists of the half-wits they courted and brought into the fold. Now, they can't be rid of them in any way that doesn't mean pain and suffering.
Is there for his friends. The State of MN comes second...maybe third. The poor are left in the dirt.
Jeanne
people who ran for office at least tried to put the state first. They thought of it as a whole. How do you do what is best for the state as a whole. Somewhere along the line that mentality got replaced with what is best for MY voters, the voters who voted me in. It's a really gross mentality. Pawlenty and Palin are guilty of this.
Jeanne
For cryin' out loud! If C&L and ALL the other progressive/liberal sites and shows would STOP giving this woman what she wants - publicity - there is a a very good chance she will GO AWAY!
JUST SAY NO to doing ANY more stories on the Aleutian Loser. Do a story on Noam Chomsky or Joseph Stiglitz or someone - ANYONE - who actually MATTERS.
I have thought the same way many times, screaming at my TV. It would be fine never to see those un-educated and their manipulators? But, they are still on fox and radio.
If we do not know what is happening outside our news, we would be like the “Tea party” group, uneducated white racist, who used the constitution has their motto while they have never read it.
I talk to a friend the other day, an educated chemistry teacher, retired and avid Rush as she said that she could not live without listening to him.
Somehow, I can't imagine not knowing what she was doing would make me a zombie, but I agree we need to know what the Right is saying. In her case, one sentence a month with no photo should suffice to avoid complete denial about current events. I can understand the O'Reilly, Rush, and Lieberman type posts - the difference being that she has no job, there is no reason TO pay attention to a damn thing she says or does. Do I care how much some nitwits are willing to shell out for her to come talk? No, not really. If she runs for office again, amp up the stories, absolutely, but for now? Let the Righties have her to themselves.
I have a friend like that too. Swears he doesn't get his views from Rush then launches into Talking Point City tirade straight from EIB. Gets touchy about it when I call him a Dittohead. But, what to do? He's my friend. Why let polar opposite political views get in the way?
I wholeheartedly believe it was marketing genius, devised by the devious sociologists on Madison Avenue.
Coke was losing marketshare to Pepsi, so they introduced the most unpalatable product imaginable under the Coca-Cola label.
Some time later, they brought back the same-old-same-old, and people celebrated it.
This is why we have Sarah Palin and Michael Steele. They are New Coke.
would be palatable? Yuck. I hope when he runs the press doesn't give him a free ride. He made his money the old fashioned way, buying companies, selling the assets and laying people off. He's slime of the highest order. But don't forget the sacrifice his sons made "serving" our country. Geez, I think I'm going to barf already.
The Republicans are scared of Palin, but they also know she serves a purpose. Her supporters are fucking idiots, and it can be hard to get fucking idiots to vote early and often. They would like for Palin to run against Romney, but to come in second or third. Know Knothing Knation will be rallied by her nonsense, and will turn out in droves to vote for Romney when she tells them to.
Meanwhile, unless someone genuine emerges, Romney is likely looked upon as the new savior, the next Ronnie Raygun. Hey Republicans, think you shoulda supported a real conservative instead of McCain? Now's your chance to vote for Romney again. He'll remind the country that big government is the problem, he looks like a mannequin, and if you feel bad about not voting for the minority candidate, no worries . . . Mitt's a religious minority.
I'm really not looking forward to 2012. Who in the world am I going to vote for?
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiFfUnimUH4
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2GsJkmv9l4&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uw2bqlxJX4
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JKvJaJKPPk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSFOcTtYPrA
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOFvxcfDEJo
Amiga version (not as great as the c-64 version tho)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
great sutures!
This totally vapid imbecile, can make more money in a single evening doing nothing more than lying to a group of Teabagger morons, than intelligent gifted college grads make in a year.
That just about sums up the current state of the U.S.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Combo breaker!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
LOL ALRIGHT ALREADY MAN WHATS THE PROBLEM!!!!!
Evet, the sitemonitor seems to have a major hardon for you tonight. What's up with that?? LOL
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Stop spamming about those fecking shoes, we do not fecking care. FFS!
;)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVBh8PLP_Lc
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HjIljJd-o0
Just once I'd like to be addressed as Sir. Without the "You are creating a scene"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3tWK2mNF_M
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
But it's not GOP insiders. It's those who would oppose Obama on many of numerous policy grounds. Palin wouldn't last ten weeks under scrutiny, if she made it past two. She's an unemployed grandmother with Facebook page. She couldn't complete two consecutive years of college let alone an actual job.
But she's a very shiny object. And scary to those who might question the very conservative policies of this administration.
"Go along with Obama, or you might get Palin!"
It's amazing how many will fall for that.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
... if the Democrats tank in 2010 or 2012, it'll be their own damned fault.
I mean, really - you disappoint me on FISA, you refuse to prosecute two war criminals named Bush and Cheney, you tap dance all over healthcare reform and make a habit of 'compromising' and 'bipartisanship' ...
... then you have the stones to ask me for my vote and financial support so you can strengthen a majority you can't even wrangle as is?
I'm compelled to vote - even when it's part of a corrupted and broken system - but I don't have to vote for the Democrat just because he's the lesser of two evils. (And I apologize to my fellow progressives, because I used to vote for Pelosi when I lived in her district. And I've voted for Feinstein, too.)
The system is so broken, so corrupted by corporate interests, neither party is capable of changing things for the better.
The leadership of the Democratic party seems to care about one thing:
Winning elections. The only reason that's important, is that elections line their pockets. They certainly don't seem to care about having a crack at improving things.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
Mittens has 62%. Ha ha ha ha. Pawlenty is next with 9%. Looks hurtin'.
far left loon >.<
Anyone got a clue?
I think that both we and the GOP establishment will no longer have to fret about Palin's future in politics. Sure, it'll just enforce the teabaggers' opinion of her but 10 to 15 percent of the voters aren't going to be electing a president anytime soon.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Only in Teabagger/Wingnut world can somebody get paid 50 grand to babble a few words and still call themselves "grassroots".
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
and that picture of her is particularly terrifying.
Run for your lives, people!
I guess Caribou Barbie was going for that "Sunset Blvd" "I'm ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille" kind of look. Pretty pathetic.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
It was years and years ago and Palin reminds me of just that. Especially with her unemployed husband acting as her personal thug. I think it's the Villagers' fascination with a train wreck as much as anything else why we still have to discuss her.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
I've always felt that there is a percentage of the villagers (especially the male ones) who are genuinely enamored of her. It reminds me of those pathetic guys who think that, because a waitress smiles and calls him "hon", that she really likes them. It's sad to watch so called "grown men" who are supposed to be objective commentators on the political scene, clearly thinking only with their male appendage when it comes to Sarah Palin.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
I've always felt that there is a percentage of the villagers (especially the male ones) who are genuinely enamored of her.
Wasn't it one of the Goldbergs who thought she had winked at just him? I don't remember. Laughter and vomiting usually drive specific names out of my memory.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
I think that was Jonah who said that if memory serves me correctly. And let's not forget William "the Bloody" Kristol is the prime mover behind getting Sarah P the vp slot. He still practically drools whenever her name is mentioned.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
He certainly never made it any secret that Palin gave him a stiffy, or would if he was capable of such.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Yeah, he's another one.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Really make me want to consider becoming Lesbian. It is proof positive that orientation is born not decided though. If those disgusting guys can't make me gay, it's just not possible.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Can I watch?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
No! Just NO!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
Rich LowohohOHOHOHHHHHHHHHGODSARAH!ry who gushed about how she seemed to wink at him on the television screen and how it made him sit up straighter and preen.
Pffft, where is the fucking bucket?
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
Sarah Palin is repulsive.
Her voice is like the whining of an over-revving engine. Her smile is fake. The twinkle in her eye is fake. The down-home folksy act is shallow.
And she's blisteringly ignorant and just plain stupid.
It must be a Republican thing: pretty, vapid, nice tits = hubba hubba.
Coulter, Crowley and Ingraham....
They wear their Christian crosses of gold...but only have Chicken Pox to trade....
face, not so much.
you know first thing i thought of when i saw that pic was the h.r. Geiger work on the Alien skulls. something about the way that hair has been worked... lol
at any rate shes a candidate for the acid spit + being queen bitch too. /shudders/ starbursts? not so much....
Turns out he may have committed voter fraud by voting in the Republican primary for Kennedy's replacement using his son's address. I don't think it'll get him any jail time but that's pretty damning for a politician with national ambitions. Besides, when the Republicans run a Mormon, it'll be a much different party than they have now.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
Will the Republicans be running a Mormon...
Or will the Mormons be running the Republicans?
of anything more embarrassing to America than Palin...
Hannity a close second...
My hope is that Palin becomes the candidate of the Teabaggers which are essential are knuckledragging racists and white trash.
The mainstream big-money GOP consider her a clown, and the split between them and the teabaggers will seriously splinter the party and keep them vulnerable.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
... Palin and, for example, Dubya, is that Dubya could be controlled. Sure, he made verbal gaffes, but he pretty much followed Cheney's lead.
Palin couldn't even hack coaching from McCain's staffers.
The best thing about this is most repubs are embarrassed by Palin... and they hate Romney!
I don't think the Repugs have to worry about her running for office , she's dumb as a box of rocks but with help smart enough to be cashing in on the even dumber in this country .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
or at least tea party en vogue.
i'll have my $100 pancake. thank you.
Is that we have people that are crazy enough to vote for this poor half baked mentally deficient person.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness and it is killing America!
and ended his campaign by telling people to vote for Clinton? He hated the elder Bush like the Plague.
I think the Wasilla Witch will be nominated to run on a Tea Party national ticket... and she will never drop out to "serve a higher cause," because SHE is the highest cause she can "see from her house..." up there... with Russia looming on the horizon. The Tea Party movement will drive a wooden stake into the vampire heart of the Republican Party in 2012.
With all his bluster and all his self aggrandizement and braggadocio such as, "I know how to win wars.", "I know how to catch Bin Laden." "I was there, I know (fill in the blank), making himself out to be the smartest, most popular and well known, most capable person on the face of the planet, wouldn't it be the height of JUSTICE if McCain turns out to be the ONE PERSON who can and does BRING DOWN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY with the one biggest BLUNDER of his LIFE by picking the insane, inept, Sarah, beauty pageant LOSER, Palin for his running mate?
A lot of the pundits and Republithugs are whooping it up over 3 retirements in the Dem party without mentioning many MORE in the Thug party, but they are all forgetting the Palin factor. She already caused one race to go to a Dem that would have gone to a Thug if only she hadn't interfered.
It looks to me, very much, and I'm sure, to others, that the Palin, teabag factor will clash with the loyalty oath factor and split the vote on the Thug side in two, giving many wins to Dems they wouldn't have been sure winners in, in the first place. One thing we know for sure, no teabagger would ever vote for a "librul" but an awful lot of them, also, won't vote for a loyalty oath shirker on their own side either.
NOW, put Ms. Failin Palin on the TICKET and Dems are a SLAM DUNK!
And the DEMS will do what for you? More corporate crap. That's what. We need more parties.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
No way in lleh Sarah is going to run for anything. She's got her dream gig. Posting someone else's twitts, someone else writing her books - and there will be more, going before like-leaning, imbecile-friendly talk radio and crowds and having hubby ban everybody else. And even if her "debate" coach could bring her up to a 10th grade level, (apologies to 10th graders) and with as accomodating as todays media is, at some pint she's gonna have to engage someone she would run against. And that would be her downfall. Maybe she is barely smart enough to know that. Or perhaps she is so taken with the money that she'd never risk losing it. Either way, no run for her.
If those are their 5 best chances in 2012, pick your poison. Palin is a fake and a liar she is the moronic rights queen. The rest of them are noted because they play to the tealaban morons. Romney is a slime ball that wears magic underpants and screws everyone over to make a buck. Let them run one of them I've got lots of popcorn and plenty of pot. Let the games begin.
Is a serious piece of work. She's using these tea-baggers and has no intention of running for anything.
Prediction: Within 4-8 years Sarah Palin will be history. After making her money on books and appearances she'll turn on her own supporters, abandon them, and live richly and comfortably in some secluded or at least exclusive location. She'll do plenty of damage to the GOP and the country as whole before she's done.
She makes me sick.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
That Palin as Bride of Frankenstein picture is priceless. Tells the whole story. Those idiots made her but now they can't kill her. Nice going, jerkweeds.
I've got it! By George, I think I've got it! Palin quit her governor's job, wrote that awful book, and went on tour, selling photos of herself with the faithful and charging big bucks for her speaking engagements as well specifically with the intent of getting the Repubs scared she'll run in '12. This way, she can get into the smoke filled rooms and say, "Hey, guys, for about fifty million, I will just disappear."
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
Comments are closed on this entry