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ABC Tries to Con America Into Believing that Sarah Palin Will Run for President
PoliticusUSA ^ | August 18, 2013 | Jason Easley

Posted on 08/18/2013 3:47:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The mainstream media refuses to give it up. ABC News is trying to fool people into believing that Sarah Palin will be a presidential candidate. Check out this graphic and see it for yourself.

Before RNC Chairman Reince Priebus was interviewed on This Week, ABC aired a pre-recorded video package with the announcer saying at the end, “There’s no shortage of prospective Republican candidates, and that makes it even more challenging for the party to resolve its ideological divide.”

So let’s take a look at who ABC News thinks is a potential Republican presidential candidate:

Ted Cruz? Check.

Donald Trump? Seriously, ABC? Donald Trump?

Marco Rubio? Check.

Chris Christie? Check.

Rick Santorum? Check.

Rand Paul? Thanks to Jesse Benton, we already know that he is running.

Scott Walker? Check.

Nikki Haley? (ABC has to pretend that a woman might run on the Republican side, but we all know it is going be a Viagra festival.)

Paul Ryan? Looking more doubtful by the day, but check.

Wait a second. Who is that in the lower right hand corner?

Yep. ABC News listed Sarah Palin as a potential 2016 presidential candidate.

I guess it all depends on how one defines potential candidate, but I suspect that the odds are higher that Donald Trump will run for president before Sarah Palin ever does.

The lamestream media has got to stop helping Sarah Palin run her con game.

When her SarahPAC starts running low on cash, like clockwork Palin begins rumbling that she might run for some office. Few in the mainstream press seem to notice that Palin spends virtually none of the money that her PAC raises on promoting and donating to candidates. The vast majority of SarahPAC’s expenditures go towards funding Sarah Palin’s lifestyle.

Responsible media outlets need to stop furthering the illusion that Sarah Palin will ever run for anything again. Promoting Palin is just as irresponsible as promoting Donald Trump’s annual Apprentice promotional tour disguised as a presidential campaign. It is necessary to to discuss what Trump and Palin because they speak to the narrow minded bigots in the Republican Party, but the media can do so without feeding into their agenda of greed and personal financial gain.

Sarah Palin is a potential presidential candidate in the same way that the ghost of Ronald Reagan and Curt Schilling bloody sock are presidential candidates. In other words, she isn’t a potential presidential candidate. Alaska doesn’t want her. The nation doesn’t want her, and the media needs to stop bitterly clinging to the idea that washed up has been Sarah Palin has any kind of future in politics.

No matter how much the media keeps pushing the myth of a Palin comeback, it is never going to happen.


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Someone's having a hissy fit.
1 posted on 08/18/2013 3:47:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Slow news weekend.


2 posted on 08/18/2013 3:50:58 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The democrat war on women continues...


3 posted on 08/18/2013 3:53:04 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep, more PDS ... they are scared spitless of her.


4 posted on 08/18/2013 3:53:43 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate." George F. Will)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She’s the Tim Tebow of politics.


5 posted on 08/18/2013 3:53:58 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The left has to attack Palin.

She is the absolute, 100% effective anti-Hillary.

Which means to this single voice out here in America, she will run.

:D


6 posted on 08/18/2013 3:59:26 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah Palin lives in Jason Easley’s head, rent free!


7 posted on 08/18/2013 4:00:50 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It wasn't the Rodeo Clown's act, it was the crowd reaction they could't take.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Another Midol moment for Ms. Easely.


8 posted on 08/18/2013 4:05:06 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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9 posted on 08/18/2013 4:08:45 PM PDT by Bratch
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Trump and Palin because they speak to the narrow minded bigots in the Republican Party

I guess I am now a narrow minded bigot. I have discovered lately that I am racist, prejudice, and keeping minorities from being successful. I guess now I have to add narrow minded bigot to my resume.

10 posted on 08/18/2013 4:09:56 PM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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Trump and Palin because they speak to the narrow minded bigots in the Republican Party

I guess I am now a narrow minded bigot. I have discovered lately that I am racist, prejudice, and keeping minorities from being successful. I guess now I have to add narrow minded bigot to my resume.

11 posted on 08/18/2013 4:10:10 PM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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Trump and Palin because they speak to the narrow minded bigots in the Republican Party

I guess I am now a narrow minded bigot. I have discovered lately that I am racist, prejudice, and keeping minorities from being successful. I guess now I have to add narrow minded bigot to my resume.

12 posted on 08/18/2013 4:10:15 PM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Admin Moderator; All
Why are we giving PoliticusUSA - a blog run by a Media Matters staffer - all these CLICKS, dammit?

BAN THEM from FR!

13 posted on 08/18/2013 4:12:38 PM PDT by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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I hope she doesn't run as an (R).

We need a Cow Moose Party...


14 posted on 08/18/2013 4:12:50 PM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any good army needs a reserve. Probably the very best thing Sarah Palin can do for Republicans is to somehow sabotage Hillary’s campaign. So the question becomes how can she do this?

If she can pull it off, she could name her cabinet seat.


15 posted on 08/18/2013 4:13:26 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Be Brave! Fear is just the opposite of Nar!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hate to see this garbage starting already. Good grief we have a very important election in the fall of 2014 to deal with first.

Some of these people may very well be totally irrelevant or even gone from this earth three years from now.


16 posted on 08/18/2013 4:14:06 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: montag813; Admin Moderator

If you were to “ban” everything written by a non-conservative you might have four threads a day.


17 posted on 08/18/2013 4:15:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: Tammy8
I Am A Racist
18 posted on 08/18/2013 4:15:50 PM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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To: bigdaddy45

You are right.


19 posted on 08/18/2013 4:22:20 PM PDT by Alex in chains
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To: bigdaddy45

She’s the Tim Tebow of politics.

How insulting to Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin is an accomplished person. Tim Tebow is a 1/2 decent (probably too much credit) Quarterback.


20 posted on 08/18/2013 4:22:34 PM PDT by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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