Posted on 09/20/2014 2:37:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Talk about stretching your 15 minutes of fame into an hour. I cannot understand for the life of me why Sarah Palin is still talked about, listened to, reported on, or even thought about. The former Governor and former Vice Presidential candidate resigned from office back in 2009 and suffered one of the most crushing losses in a national election when she and Senator John McCain took on Barack Obama back in 2008, six years ago. Yet, with no public office, no real platform, no official position with the Party and no real legacy nationally or in Alaska, she still makes news as a political "pundit" of sorts.
I don’t get it.
The only thing I can attest it to is that she and her family are like some dysfunctional reality show family that the media and public just can’t turn away from. Sort of like a grown up Honey Boo Boo or political Duck Dynasty. But that doesn’t explain FOX News and others who still have her on to get her opinion on real political issues as if they take her seriously somehow. And to some on the right, the Tea Party right, she seems to be something of a spokesperson. Palin even has her own PAC, political action committee, called SarahPAC, while formed back in the heyday of her political fame in 2009, it is still going. Its stated mission is to “build America's future by supporting fresh ideas and candidates who share our vision for reform and innovation.” On the PAC’s website the big banner today calls on her supporters to help her “reverse Obama’s destructive policies” and “help send REAL conservatives to fix them.”
That down-home, folksy persona still seems to appeal to the Tea PARTY, despite Palin never accomplishing anything of significance to note. Well, except for having the uncanny ability to keep her name in the news. Forget Honey Boo Boo, she’s more like a political Kim Kardashian, famous for being famous.
Palin’s latest headliner-grabber came from a much publicized brawl earlier this month when the whole Palin clan, including Sarah, Bristol, the son, Track, and Sarah’s husband, Todd, were involved in some major altercation at a party in Anchorage. One witness recalls Bristol throwing a hook and there are reports of Todd standing in the middle of the street shirtless flipping off party guests after they were asked to leave. Sarah Palin was reportedly heard yelling ‘Do you know who I am?” during the ruckus.
Wow.
And this is the face of the Tea Party? If the Tea Party wants to continue to be relevant in politics they really should find someone else to be their standard bearer. How in the world can they be taken seriously when the person they put on the pedestal is someone better fit for a reality show than a political discussion about leading America? The alarm clock on her 15 minutes must surely be ringing loudly by now. No more hitting the snooze button. It’s time to wake up and move on.
Curious, without Sarah Palin what these idiots would have to write about.
Went to college with a girl actually named Honey Zipper.
Without Palin, what would you write about? You don’t write about anything else.
criticize, marginalize, demonize, criminalize.
Oh believe me Ms Chrysler Summer gets it. She may not want what Palin has to offer but she gets the fact that a lot of people do and that Palin makes a lot of sense a lot of the time and has been proven right on foreign policy and internal matters.
They hate her because she is good, beautiful, smart, female and conservative - it’s all part of the left’s War on Smart Women!
Not sayin’ a damn thing. Just sitting here with popcorn.
And you do that by writing articles like this?
Because Barry Obama has been such a smashing success we should just ignore Sarah Palin or any other person with common sense, right?
Waddaya wanna bet “Chrysler Summer” is an ever so sophisticated (snicker) supporter of Hillary Clinton?
Ain't gonna happen. May she always live inside liberals heads.
>>> I don’t get it. <<<
It doesn’t seem to me this person (quote) GET (unquote) Sarah Palin in the first place. From the beginning.
If *she* had shown some proof of that (a Palin supporter before), then ‘why won’t Sarah Palin go away’ article might make some little sense.
The left in France had a similar problem. A psychiatrist even coined the new disorder, the Sarkosy obsession disorder.
Oh, I think you get it, Chrysler Summer.
Petty little article. I wonder if Ms Summer is the gal who called CPS on her neighbor for letting her kids play outside.
It’s simple.
To hold the view that killing a baby is ok, while attempting to simultaneously occupy the moral high ground is a psychological high-wire act...for all liberals.
Here comes Sarah, who, among other things....HAS THAT CHILD.
She destabilizes their sense of self-worth, makes them feel dirty. Sarah Palin literally drives them crazy.
Thus the vitriol.
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