It's kind of sad, really.

The fact is, The Quitter's numbers are simply awful, with a December 2012 poll showing her 23 points underwater with the electorate. So whether or not she's able to shake down the rubes for her PAC (which this video is apparently signaling she's going to do) -- you wonder why Republican candidates would even want to be seen on the same stage as her at this point.

"She plays by her own rules," one of the soundbites of the video above says. Indeed.

And since she lost the presidential election in 2008, she's quit the governor's mansion halfway through her term, attached herself to a toxic political brand, failed as a reality TV star, and, most humiliating of all -- couldn't stop the Kenyan Marxist from winning re-election.

How's that playin' by your own rules stuff workin' out for ya there, Sarah?

Check out the allotted speaking times at CPAC that Conor Friedersdorf spotted.

Ted Cruz: 33-minute keynote speech
Sarah Palin: 16 minutes
Donald Trump: 14 minutes
Bobby Jindal: 13 minutes
Rand Paul: 13 minutes
Rick Perry: 13 minutes
Scott Walker: 13 minutes
Marco Rubio: 11 minutes
Paul Ryan: 11 minutes
Rick Santorum: 7 minutes

So, the first speech is by a guy who claims that Harvard Law School is crawling with "Communists" and dabbles in nutty UN conspiracy theories. Next up, the wildly unpopular former reality show star, half-term governor and loser of the 2008 election. After her, another wildly unpopular reality show star, birther, and failed presidential candidate.

Other speakers include the toxic NRA chief Wayne LaPierre, Teabagger Allen West, who just got bounced out of Congress for his own McCarthyism, and Fox clown Steven Crowder.

Elevating unpopular crazies doesn't seem like a great way to build political movements and win elections, but maybe that's just me.

Every time she opens her mouth or tweets, it's worth reminding people that Republicans voted to put this dingbat in the White House.

Oh, and if you thought that they'd finally figured out by now that she's nothing but a two-bit grifter -- guess again.

PS.
The diabetes rates in Red States are exploding. So keep chugging those Big Gulps while you yuk it up with Sarah, wingnuts.

What will Fox News do without Dick "Black Helicopters" Morris and Sarah Palin? And what are they still doing with Karl Rove?

It's now an article of faith among right-wingers like Matt Lewis that the hugely unpopular Sarah Palin was "destroyed" by liberals when she ran for Vice President. Somehow, apparently, liberals tricked Palin into making herself look like an idiot on national television, refusing to submit to a single press conference, and running a vicious, divisive campaign.

And the left's Operation Destroy Palin didn't end with the campaign.

Liberals engineered her quitting as governor before her term was complete, tricked her into starring in her own reality show (which was a bust), teaming up with the toxic Glenn Beck -- and then teasing the rubes for a year while she flirted with a presidential run, only to bail on them at the last minute.

For such a tiny minority in our Great Center-Right Nation, liberals sure are powerful, aren't they?

These are the same devious schemers, you see, that just forced Marco Rubio to babble about "theologians" when asked a 6th-grade level science question.

Right-wingers bathe in faux victimhood and martyrdom like pigs in filth.

The LA Times' somewhat low-rent version of Jennifer Rubin -- a writer named Charlotte Allen -- is jumping into the deep end of the pool, along with most of the GOP, after Romney's election loss, but she says she's got THE answer. She's found the new conservative savior.

No, she hasn't found a strain of the infection that turns everyone into zombies on The Walking Dead so Ronald Reagan can comeback and lead the nation. What might this be from the lady who says that women are raping themselves with their slutty Halloween costumes. Are you ready for it....tick, tick, tick,tick. OK: Welcome to Sarah Palin 2016!

Hey GOP, take the Palin cure

The Republican Party has been doing a lot of hand-wringing and finger-pointing since the presidential election. Half the conservative columnists and bloggers say the GOP lost because it overemphasized social issues such as abortion and gay marriage. The other half says the party didn't emphasize them enough. And everyone denounces Project ORCA, the campaign's attempt to turn out voters via technology.But I've got a suggestion for cutting short the GOP angst:Sarah Palin for president in 2016.You think I'm joking? Think again.

I told you, it's true. And here's her rationale for choosing Palin: Sarah attracted more voters than Romney.

A national exit poll conducted by CNN asked voters whether Palin was a factor in their voting. Of those who said yes, 56% voted for McCain versus 43% for Barack Obama.Furthermore, Mitt Romney, the GOP's anointed contender this year, got almost a million fewer votes than McCain did in 2008. (Meanwhile, President Obama, although winning reelection, lost far more voters than the Republicans, with nearly 7 million fewer voters checking his name on their ballots than did in 2008).

So of all people who voted in 2008 and were asked if Palin was a factor, 56% voted for McCain. I think she's trying to make the point that more people voted for McCain than Obama when St. Sarah was part of the equation, but her logic doesn't make any sense at all. I'm just guessing now, but most of the people who had Sarah in mind when voting were probably Republicans, right?

She then gives an equally ridiculous reason why Palin is the perfect choice for 2016 -- namely, she can use her kids as bait for single moms and war vets. Then she needs to do is hire a few wingnut gay bloggers to cover the gays. Evidently, there's no Latino-vote strategy here.

Then she does actually bring out the zombie Reagan fangirl love and concludes with this:

Some Republicans will say Palin has too much baggage from 2008, and we need to look for a new Sarah Palin. But I don't see what's wrong with the one we've got. Ever since the 1990s, Republicans have been looking for the next Ronald Reagan. Reagan is now revered in bipartisan circles, but during his presidency he was, like Palin, ridiculed by liberals. They cited "Bedtime for Bonzo" and sneered at his no-name college degree. Sarah Palin is the new Ronald Reagan: charming and affable and unwilling to back down if she's right. I can't see what's wrong with that.

I sure wish Sarah had acted in a few movies. We all remember Turkey in the Slaughterhouse. That was a big hit. And do you remember her in Bedtime For Sarah? How awful was that? Garbage you say? And what was that no name basketball player ... oh, never mind.

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In what may be the most honest appearance of her short-lived political career, Sarah Palin expressed her profound disappointment that the American people rejected her vision of a United States of Austerity with very, very big government intruding on every woman's uterus.

This interview was given before Ohio was called and Karl Rove melted down, but Sarah saw the handwriting on the wall and was willing to share her sad eyes and big hair with Fox viewers in order to prepare them for the impending apocalypse.

In the process, she mentioned the Supreme Court. Yes, the Supreme Court was always the elephant in the room, never at the forefront but always leaning on the minds of voters, who decided they weren't too comfortable with the prospect of a high court that ruled in favor of Huge Government For Women and small government for the poor, elderly, and disabled.

I confess to enjoying a bit of delicious joy at her heartbreak, even if I was distracted by what has to be the worst (and biggest) hair on the air Tuesday night. Poor Sarah was resigned, angst-filled, and for once, actually telling the audience something they didn't want to hear: Conservatives were not going to get their guy.

Listen to the undercurrents in this conversation. Fox was already setting up the next day's spin. When Greta asks Palin about what it means to have "no real mandate" and hammers on the division in the country, it sets up the narrative for what promises to be the Next Epic Showdown over the budget, taxes, and sequestration.

Even as Palin practically concedes the election for Mitt saying "a win is a win" and will determine the country's direction, she chides viewers, saying "I just cannot believe that Americans think incurring more debt is good...I can't believe Americans think it's okay not to follow the Constitution..."

Of course, these are not real concerns. They're the ginned-up concerns of billionaires who really want to convince in-the-bubble Fox viewers that they are somehow "right" on these things. It reeks of control and fear, which are the primary tools Fox and conservatives use to herd their viewers into a place where the unreal becomes real, where bogeymen lurk in every corner, and where the only truth is uttered on their airwaves.

Last night represented a real defeat of the Fox News messaging machine, and put Roger & Co. on the road to irrelevance. Over half of this country lives in a reality that is very different from the reality Fox creates. Now it's our job to help those disillusioned viewers step into the real world, in this time, and in this place.

How do you know Obama won last night? Because of rather sad, right-wing acting out like this.

Oh, and I'm still waiting for Sarah Palin to attack Coulter for using the word, 'retard.'

I know, I know -- IOKIYAR*.

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Is it too late for Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to write a check so Palin can parachute into the Republican National Convention, just like the Queen? Cuz the Democrats should pay for that.

Open thread below...

Over the weekend, Dick Cheney became a RINO.

It's true. His sin? Stating the obvious -- that McCain's choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate was a "mistake" because most voters didn't think she was qualified to be president.

Needless to say, this riled the rubes, and everyone from Michelle Malkin to Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds rushed to The Quitter's defense, the latter hilariously arguing that she had a better chance than McCain of beating Obama in the general.

But look at Liz Cheney's words carefully. She's not responding to what her father said -- that most Americans didn't think The Quitter was qualified to be president -- at all. She's just asserting the laughable claim that Palin is more qualified to be president than Obama and Joe Biden, because, well, just because she said so, damnit.

So, let's roll the tape. Did most Americans think Palin was qualified to be president or not?

Sarah Palin's impact on McCain's fortunes will no doubt be long debated, and the results of the exit polls are somewhat mixed. Fully 60% of Americans casting ballots said that Palin is not qualified to be president should it be necessary; 81% of these voters favored Obama.

A few years ago, wingnuts like Liz Cheney would've acknowledged the truth of Dick Cheney's statement, but blamed it on Katie Couric. But the level of feverish delusion in the GOP is such now that they simply ignore the fact that a clear majority of Americans don't think The Quitter was qualified to be president, and declare her unilaterally to be the Most Qualified Candidate Evah.

In other words, Palin's awesome--suck it, Dad!

Here's hoping drink their own Kool-Aid enough to nominate Liz and Sarah in '16.