They always take her bait!
GO SARAH!
Posted on 08/16/2012 8:27:06 PM PDT by Bratch
Thanks to Gov. Palin, The Democrats are Stuck with Uncle Joe – Update: Jay Carney Takes a Swipe at Palin
Posted on August 16 2012 - 2:37 AM - Posted by: Steve Flesher
Don’t look to Andrea Saul or Kevin Madden to be this clever.
But even I have to admit, when Palin threw out a suggestion to the Obama campaign Tuesday night with Greta Van Susteren to replace Joe Biden, I scratched my head. In response to Biden’s latest “disgusting comment,” Palin said the following:
Greta if that’s not the nail in the coffin — really the strategists there in the Obama campaign have got to look at a diplomatic way of replacing Joe Biden on the ticket with Hillary and I don’t want to throw out that suggestion and have them actually accept the suggestion because then an Obama and Hillary Clinton ticket would have a darn good chance of winning but really Joe Biden really drags down that ticket.
Immediately, the liberals at Mediaite responded by posting the headline – and their liberal commenters had a field day. Similarly, the Huffington Post covered it, and 2,768 hysterical comments later, the liberals are still ranting. Other mainstream outlets like ABC covered it as well. McCain even came out to say it, too!
Obama came out today to respond, dismissed the idea, and further attempted to pathetically excuse Biden’s “chains” remark.
In less than a day, Palin set a trend. Liberals were even crankier than usual and Republicans were unexpectedly quiet. After all, she literally suggested what would be beneficial to Obama.
As we all know, Obama is a drag. We also know that Romney’s been lackluster. Neither has been able to energize their bases. That changed for Romney when he announced Paul Ryan as his V.P. nominee. Suddenly donations poured in. After a full day, Romney managed to raise $3.5M! No, it’s not the $7M McCain raised after announcing Palin but still, it’s a larger surge of energy than Obama has yet to capture in 2012′s campaign.
Further, Romney and Ryan got rallies which were impressive in size –like the crowd of 10K in North Carolina! Again, not really the 60K Palin got in Florida, but it’s still more energy than Obama has been able to gin up this year. As it stands now, Romney and Ryan have a clearer shot than ever before of picking up some battleground states and putting themselves on a path to victory and moving us a step further to better days for America.
If Obama decided he needed a wild card to energize his base, what’s he going to do? Take advice from Sarah Palin? How would his base respond? The following article which describes Palin as a “smart political operator” via the Hayride says it pretty well:
So just in case the Democrats might think about making a switch to Hillary, along comes Sarah Palin to suggest it.
And now they can’t do it even if they wanted to. Obama can’t be seen as taking advice from Sarah Palin.
[…]
So she’s helping the Romney ticket by writing Biden off. The Romney ticket wants Biden right where he is.
You can read the whole thing here.
So thanks to Palin, it appears that Obama is (for the lack of a better phrase) chained to Joe Biden for this go around.
The response from the left is not at all conspicuous. Enjoy!
Update by Stacy: Jay Carney took a swipe at John McCain and Governor Palin during his press conference today, after being questioned about the possibility of Joe Biden leaving the Democrat ticket. He responded:
“One place I would not go for advice on presidential running mates is John McCain.”
I’m sure they wouldn’t, considering that the record of the person John McCain did pick in 2008, doesn’t fit with the overall strategy of the Obama administration. No, a person who cut spending by 9.5%, reduced earmarks by 80%, used the line item veto to reduce spending, encouraged energy development while taking taking on oil industry cronies, wouldn’t be a good match for the modern Democrat party under Obama.
The important thing about Carney’s remark is that the Obama campaign is now completely stuck with crazy uncle Joe for the 2012 election cycle.
(H/T: John Frank)
Update II by Stacy: Here’s proof that noted David Dewhurst backer, Michael Reagan shouldn’t be listened to in Republican circles. This morning, he tweeted out the following:
Someone tell McCain and Palin just shut up about Hillary replacing Biden.Ok I will!Shut up!
For one thing, that was extremely rude, but more importantly, it’s politically ignorant. Regardless if there were ever any active talks with Democrats about replacing Joe Biden, that option is now off the table for good. The card has been removed from the deck by Governor Palin, with some help from her old running mate.
Another aspect that Michael isn’t considering is that it is good for Republicans to have Joe Biden in the news. Extremely good in fact. Our Vice President is a walking gaffe machine. He makes the administration look bad. Getting the media to stop talking about Romney’s tax returns, and turning the focus back on to Joe is a win for the Romney campaign.
Finally, it was pure genius of Governor Palin to bring this up because it also reminded Hillary Clinton supporters what happened to her in 2008. Many of whom are still angry over the way she was treated by Obama’s people during that primary, and then snubbed as his vice presidential pick. Ripping the scab off of that wound is not good for Democrat unity before a major general election.
Bravo, Governor!
She’d go for it on the very day of the election -she doesn’t care, and she doesn't accept any rules or laws.
On the other hand, if she has to wait, she’ll wait.
But. Sharks have to swim to live. Hillary has to run to live. So if she’s not running
...she’s running.
She tells the truth by lying.
Also...( and I hate to be the 1st one to tell ya).but after reading your posts and your self written introduction.....You're still a democrat but in your favor, only a 1/2 useful idiot now.....Keep grinding my FRiend!!
What is brilliant of Sarah is she put the spotlight on Uncle Joe’s competency. There is also reverse psychology which causes the Dems to hunker down behind Uncle Joe, which makes them look just as stupid.
I could see it work out this way though:
There is a report that Obama had been putting out feelers a couple weeks ago to see if Hillary would be interested in replacing Biden. Apparently she wasn’t.
This report could have been planted so that if a change is made, and if Hillary suddenly changes her mind (or so they would have us believe), then the White House can say that this started long before Palin or McCain or anyone else of prominence brought it up. Obama led the way, he didn’t follow anyone’s lead. He saw signs that Biden was becoming more erratic, more forgetful. Also he worried that the strain of an intense re-election battle might worsen matters for his friend and VP.
Therefore Biden may at some point simply resign, citing noticeable lapses in his memory as evidenced by some of his recent gaffes (wrong state, wrong century). Saying that after much soul-searching he finally realized that he now is no longer fit to serve as President should the need arise, that the stress of campaigning was becoming too much. But most of all he believes that Hillary would be the perfect person to stand at Obama’s side during the difficult days ahead.
So then Hillary rides in to help save the day. Biden receives sympathy. The general public will say that Obama didn’t really have a choice, it was becoming apparent to everyone that a change needed to be made not only for the sake of the ticket but also for the country.
Am I the only one who sees this a self congratulatory action of Palin’s supporters? If Obama & Co. want to do it, and Hillary accepts the offer, they are gonna do it, with or without Palin’s suggestion. From what I read, Hillary doesn’t want it.
"Cheer up baby ... sez right here even Sarah thinks you'd be a better VP than Biden.
Besides, 2016 is just four short years away."
The only sand in the plans that you describe, that an outsider could have thrown in, would be the way that Palin did it.
She doesn’t control Obama’s decision, but she sure messed it up by putting herself into the mix if he does it.
Lots of people were saying that he was not competent the day he was chosen, so what? Rudy was just stating the obvious in light of the current string of gaffs. But it was Sarah who made the leap to suggest getting Hillary in there effectively killing the whole idea which was being foisted as she said it.
There is 'clever' and 'too clever, by half'. Think too; of the 'wine passing' in the "Princess Bride'; and this 'switching' by wits; may not yet; be over.
LOL!! You’re right.
All that and a mom of 5! I think she rattles Coulter’s cage. And the wuss men have someone catering to just them. .
That was Sarah's idea.
Rudy actually questioned Biden’s mental competence, not just his job competence and that his condition precludes his remaining in office. That’s a bit more than jokingly saying Hillary should take over.
I said competence. I think that would cover any aspect of it.
But the simple fact is he said nothing about Hillary, now did he? I knew Biden was a loon when watching the Clarence Thomas hearings. Does that make me more insightful than Rudy? I hardly think so.
I would wager that Sarah heard about the Hillary thing that we now know that Jarret was pushing. Maybe lots of other things we can speculate about, but did she not get all kinds of grief from the PDSers for giving the Obama folks a winning idea? When she said it, that was my knee jerk reaction but I quickly went to flip side mode and knew the arrogance of Obama;s bunch would never offer it after Sarah mentioned it.
Brilliant!
I love you, Sarah Palin. You deserve better than what the GOP establishment dishes out. You have more class, smarts and ability in your little finger than the whole sorry lot put together.
God bless you.
The best part about Carney’s remark is the knowledge that Sarah Palin could whoop his ass in an instant and leave him cowering and sobbing in a corner. Should she ever find herself in a room with him, she should quickly throw an arm up to fix her hair and watch him duck and dodge in the process.
Also sad that Michael Reagan once,several times said that when he see`s Sarah Palin he see`s his father in a skirt (I paraphrase)
He was right then, but wrong now.
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