Amen to that. Time for this fella to grow up and recognize "it ain't all waitin' on you... That's vanity."
"I try to make a fresh pot at least once a week, even if there's some left over..."
Posted on 01/03/2012 6:32:07 PM PST by reformjoy
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Editorial by John Ziegler
Sarah Palin: Selfish, Hypocritical, Sellout
1/3/2012
As surreal as it may be, after spending over two years and several thousand dollars defending Sarah Palin at great personal cost, I now find myself in the bizarre position (three years to the day from starting the journey to Wasilla to do the interview of record on her 2008 VP run) of being perhaps the only conservative commentator willing to point out that Palin has now clearly revealed herself to be a selfish, hypocritical, sellout.
While she was doing her presidential tease (an act that I actually bought because I didn’t think she was capable of such contemptible deceit), I wrote an extremely long essay for the Daily Caller detailing why I thought a Palin run would be horrible for the cause of beating President Obama. At that time, I was roundly (and wrongly) criticized for betraying her, when in actuality I was being very kind to her personally and sincerely trying to save her from embarrassment.
Back then, I still honestly liked and admired her as a person. The events since then strongly indicate that I was totally wrong to give her the benefit of the doubt as a person. I don’t know if the unprecedented and unfair circumstances that she has had to deal with since 2008 have changed her, or if, like Tiger Woods, I was simply completely fooled by her from the beginning. But I do now know that she is worthy of a heck of a lot more contempt than portions of the base and the vast majority of the conservative media are currently holding her in.
A quick glance of the most recent past may help the scales fall off of your eyes like they finally did for me.
First, she not only put her supporters through an incredibly selfish presidential “tease” that she clearly contrived from the beginning, but when she finally revealed her deception, she did so on the Mark Levin radio show. This was inexplicable not because she didn’t do it on Fox News (which got some media attention), but because she broke her nationally televised promise to make the announcement on the Bob & Mark Show out of Anchorage.
This may not seem like a big deal at first, but keep in mind she made a huge production on the finale of her Alaskan reality show that Bob & Mark would be the first to know about her plans. Apparently, by the time she was ready to say “never mind,” rebuilding her Alaskan “ice cred” was no longer seen as very important. Neither was her loyalty to two long-time supporters and friends. Bob & Mark are just two of many people I personally know who have sacrificed for her only to be left by the side of the road for no apparent reason.
Then there is that matter that her political action committee sent out a fundraising e-mail the week before her “decision” which overtly sent the message that supporters could help her pull the trigger on a presidential run by donating immediately.
Obviously when that was sent out, Palin knew she was not running for president and yet when she was asked (ironically, only by Bob and Mark) whether her PAC would return the hard-earned money her supporters surely thought was going to a particular cause, she lamely claimed that people who donated to her PAC did not think they were donating to her prospective campaign. Unbelievably, no one else in the media (on either side) called her on this outrage.
Then there is the issue of her endorsement of another candidate for the Republican nomination. I have never understood how any political commentator could ever not make an endorsement in a presidential primary on their side of the ideological fence, but when you are Sarah Palin and you claim that you “don’t need a title to impact change,” such an omission is particularly incomprehensible.
After all, if she won’t exert her power in a Republican presidential primary, when would/could she ever?
The reality is that Palin hasn’t endorsed for the same reason she didn’t run. She knows that she has almost no influence and a remarkably small base and she is smart enough to not use her stick because she knows doing so will reveal how tiny it really is. She has basically decided it is better for her TV career to still be thought of as somewhat potent, than to be exposed as being essentially impotent (a word, interestingly, she likes to use from time to time).
This non act of cowardice and selfishness was bad enough, but then today on Fox News Palin had the gall to essentially call for Michele Bachmann to get out of the race and endorse someone else.
For me this was the very final straw. I don’t even like Bachmann, but I was immediately livid.
Where does Palin get off telling the only woman who (unlike her) had the guts to get in the race to endorse someone else when she hasn’t had the courage to do that herself? The multiple levels of hypocrisy here would be staggering even for a liberal, but for a conservative they are simply off the charts. Then, finally, lost amid her attacks of Bachmann (whom she surely sees as a potential future rival for air time on Fox News) was her defense of none other than that total fraud and publicity whore Donald Trump.
In perhaps the dumbest stance she has ever taken, Palin called for those who are upset at Trump for threatening to run as a third-party candidate to “shut up.”
Let me get this straight, a woman who agrees with Palin on almost everything should get out of the race and do something she herself wont do, but a liberal con-man who could easily insure the second term of Barack Obama (which she has said must be prevented at all costs) needs to be vigorously defended?
Astonishing. But not nearly as astounding as the reality that she will somehow get a pass on all of this from a conservative media that can be a corrupt and mindless as the liberal version is on its worst day.
I have made a lot of mistakes in my life, but right now (while I still stand by everything that is in my documentary “Media Malpractice”) it is difficult for me to imagine making a bigger one than believing that Sarah Palin was worthy of all that I have tried to do to defend her.
My wife warned me about her almost from the beginning of my Palin odyssey. She presciently told me, “once a beauty queen, always a beauty queen.”
It now appears that she was right. Sarah Palin is, at least now, all about Sarah Palin and not about the cause. After the events of the past few months you can clearly see that reality all the way in Russia from land in Alaska.
Exactly!! Some people forget how Michele had her hired goon go on TV and trash her..then didnt have the decency to even apologize to her. Bachmann proved to Palin right there what a two face she is. Look, I agree with Bachmann’s politics but she showed her true colors when she stabbed Palin in the back. Go to any Palin web site, no one there is rooting for Bachmann. They all can’t stand her
Is this the same John Ziegler that was sh!tcanned from KFI a few years ago? The one who whined and blamed everybody but himself for his demise?
Yeah, this idiot is calling out St. Sarah for defending Trump’s possible decision to run as an independent, thereby throwing the election to 0bama.
Sure, St. Sarah is horrifically wrong here, but how dare she be called out on this!
Sarah just didn’t want to carry the burden of the office on her shoulders and put her family through the meatgrinder of the lamestream media. I can’t blame her. She’ll be back though.
Not to burst your bubble but Rush had been talking up Santorum long before Sarah.
I lost a lot of respect for her over her McCain support for Senate, ut her recent media show before not running finished me off. If she ran I would have supported her, now I have my doubts.
However, I doubt she will ever run for office again.
You did not burst my bubble. Levin has been talking about Santorum as well.
Read before replying.
Amen to that. Time for this fella to grow up and recognize "it ain't all waitin' on you... That's vanity."
"I try to make a fresh pot at least once a week, even if there's some left over..."
Wow... He used to support Sarah by pointing out how she was merely embarrassing, but now thinks she’s a sell-out. Very convincing. What a pretentious, juvenile article. I wish Sarah HAD run - there are no actual candidates to get particularly excited about. Maybe she wouldn’t have won, though I think she might have, but it would certainly have been entertaining.
She never said that Donald Trump should run as an Independent? When the hell did she say that? She said last night that she respects his RIGHT to run as an Independent but if he did(Or if anyone else does) it will ensure an Obama victory. Yeah I get it, you hate her with your little “St. Sarah” crap..by the way, NO ONE has EVER called Sarah Palin a saint, not Sarah Palin, or any of her supporters, but at least be truthful about what she said
It sounded as if you were trying to give Palin all the credit.
This creepy fellow always seemed like a stalker to me.
"How you doin' Ellis?"
"You're lookin' at it."
I know.
I was...but u caught me. Fair enough!
.” My guess is, she wanted to keep the spotlight on her as long as possible.”
I think you’re right. I have been an avid fan of Sarah’s ever since the convention. She won my heart with her “talk like me” style. I, honest to God, thought we were experiencing the first female POTUS. She taught me one thing over the course of three years. Don’t be avid until it it counts. Look at the Cainiacs. They made utter fools of themselves too. Now he wants another shot at the limelight and former Cainiacs are saying, Yay! Where do we send the check?
I was never for Cain. I saw or heard something from him that I didn’t like early on. I wish Sarah had endorsed Governor Perry when Cain was accusing him of everything but murder. I wish Sarah had stepped up and been bold. Two all-American Governors praising America? It would have been one heck of a tonic. The time has passed. I still love her and I’m glad we experienced her. It was great. That said, I don’t care who she endorses now.
This bit shows what a douche Ziegler is. Who the hell is Bob & Mark? Levin is The Great One - a national show, with big time cred. Who on Earth cares about such petty nonsense besides this creep?
She strung people along by saying she wasn’t going to run and then she went and...
Didn’t run.
How dare she.
She never became my candidate, as my support for her was always conditional on her dropping McAmnesty, which never happened.
Palin isn’t nearly as nuts as her cult.
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