Posted on 11/13/2013 7:22:33 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Tuesday afternoon on The Laura Ingraham Show, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took a swing at her former running mate, Sen. John McCain, after he likened the tea party movement to hobbits from the Lord of the Rings series.
Though host Laura Ingraham referred to McCain’s words as “recent,” they were actually from a House speech in 2011, after that year’s debt ceiling crisis. Republicans who “failed to raise the debt ceiling” could escape all the blame, and “the tea party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor,” the senator mocked. “This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into GOP Senate nominees.”
“I’m a hobbit then,” Palin retorted Tuesday. “I’m a proud hobbit then.”
“The tea party movement, it’s not a party,” she continued. “If the GOP machine continues to try to marginalize that tea party patriot, who is doing all the hard work to get Republicans re-elected, then the establishment will go the way of the Whigs.”
Palin warned that such rhetoric could cause an even greater surge in grassroots outrage towards the mainstream Republican Party.
“The establishment within the major political parties in our nation, the self-proclaimed best and brightest, have been calling the shots for far too long,” she concluded, “and they’ve gotten us into the problems that we’re facing today.”
And the Hobbits won!
You have a home in Arizona: Run against him in 2016. You’ll wipe the floor with him.
Im a proud Hobbit too..and McCain can go F himself..I would love to tell him that personally
It’s about time she poked Juan in the eye.
Gigolo John McCain better be careful. He doesn’t know how to deal with a real woman, as opposed to a spoiled rotten, drug-addled Daddy’s princess with piles of money.
“The tea party movement, it’s not a party,” she continued. “If the GOP machine continues to try to marginalize that tea party patriot, who is doing all the hard work to get Republicans re-elected, then the establishment will go the way of the Whigs.”
Sarah HAS been lurking on F.R.!
About time!
Go Sarah. :D
About f’ing time.
“then the establishment will go the way of the Whigs.”
THIS is the ANSWER.
The rank and file out here may not change our beliefs, but very soon we should take back control of the Republican party then rebrand it. It’s time to get rid of McCain and the rest of the party leaders, change the name of the party and put up the political eqiv of “Under New Management” on the front door.
Thank you for endorsing this a$$hole, Sarah. Too bad you didn’t see the light earlier.
If McCain and/or his RNC/Beltway handlers had let Palin go after obozo and REALLY VET the SOB, we MIGHT have been spared this 5+ year national demolition program.
Sarah seems to be more Elvish, to me.
I’m kinda big for a Hobbit myself. But since I have not had a tagline in a while....
I like that!
No matter one’s personal opinion of Sarah Palin’s electability, every conservative should give thanks that she did not “shut up and slink back” to the hinterlands, which is exactly what McCain and the establishment expected of her. God bless this woman for having more testosterone than a Capitol Building full of “Republicans”.
Hobbits populate this country and democrats and wannabe democrats (RINOs like McCain) will be learning that in the months and years ahead.
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