Karl v. Sarah: why is this happening?
August 25, 2011
Uh-oh: if you haven’t been watching “How the GOP Swings in the Wind,” you might have missed the new episode, in which Karl says Sarah was mean to him by opining that despite his hard-earned credentials as one of the biggest buffoons of the 21st Century, he has no right to talk about her ambitions, even though she is an even bigger buffoon. (Note to self: check whether there is such a word as “buffooness.”)
To give you a quick update:
Sarah said she might or might not run for president.
Karl said she probably would, and she might even announce on Sept. 3.
Sarah said that she might or might not, but that even if she did, she wouldn’t say so on Sept. 3, because that might make Karl look smart.
Karl said–and he said it to Sarah’s best gal pal, Greta Van Susteren, on Sarah’s own station, Fox News–
“I never said she is going to declare..I’m mystified. Look she is all upset about this, saying I’m trying to sabotage her in some way. And how dare I speculate on her future. If she doesn’t want to be speculated about as a potential candidate, there’s an easy way to end the speculation: say ‘I’m not running.’ …I’m saying the schedule leads me to believe she is going to be a candidate. I’m not privy to her thought-making process. It is a sign of enormous thin skin (that) if we speculate about her she would be upset.”
The concept of a potential Republican presidential candidate with “enormous thin skin” sort of scares me. Makes me think of an elephant that suffers from both hemophilia and psoriasis.
But I can’t help but hope we’ll all have front-row seats as this final round of Fox News’s Extreme Paintball plays out.
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50 Responses to “Karl v. Sarah: why is this happening?”
As much as I would like to applaud Rove for his observation about Palin, he probably has someone far worse on his dance card. I’ve read rumors that Perry is on the outs with the Bush team and I really can’t see him supporting Romney or Bachmann so it’s a big guess who he will anoint. Something tells me he may be paving a path for Jeb Bush due to the failure of the current GOP/TP roster to gain widespread support among their fragmented base.
This is funny! Ok, ball is in Sarah’s court – who is she going to swing at now? They are both idiots, but I do believe that Karl Rove has a bigger bat.
I was thinking that if you don’t want Sarah to run (as Karl has made clear he does not), all he has to do is announce on FOX news that she will announce on her next appearance. Everybody get that? Sarah, who will not be told what she is doing, might be influenced by Karl telling her what she is doing.
It makes no sense, but that is Sarah. Personally, I think she has a lot to lose by running (imagine Sarah in a debate), but she certainly needs an excuse not to run. And perhaps that will Joe’s book which I am told (according to commenters on this blog) is rising in the Amazon ranking with each passing day.
My more pressing question, now that Sarah is not the threat that I once thought, is this; how does one find out the book ranking? I am less than social security age, but getting there and I just don’t get it. What button do I click to find out the Amazon or any other book ranking?
Correction: middle paragraph – And perhaps that will BE Joe’s book.
On the main order page for “The Rogue” on Amazon, scroll down past the book description, special offers, etc. until your reach Product Details.
The last line on Product Details is Amazon Bestsellers Rank.
Haha! Or elephantiasis!
Ohhh, she is so tiresome. She wants the attention, and then gets mad when she gets it, tries to portray herself as the poor, put-upon Sarah.
One of the things that I have come to despise over the years is manipulators, and I refuse to buy into it any longer. I don’t care who it is, but especially if it’s Palin.
Greta has Rove on and asks the question why Palin gets so much media attention, Then Karl answers with a comment that is sure to get Sarah more attention . If Palin responds in a snark on twitter, Facebook or at Sarahpac (possibly on Friday) then that will carry her through another weekend and it goes on and on.. Of course,
(I assume Fox, Rove and Greta will feel/hear the wrath of Palin’s followers.
I think Rove is trying to desperately save what is left of the Republican Party as he knows it. And Palin is hell bent on destroying it which I think she will do ,or will at least leave it in a chaotic mess, partly out of revenge and partly out of just wanting her way.
Dear carollt,
Click on the amazon listing for the book, then scroll down to “product information,” where you’ll find the name of the publisher, the ISBN number, and other pertinent information, including the amazon sales number.
There seems to a rumour flying around that her real target is the soon to be vacant Arizona Senate seat. If there is any truth in that it would seem to confirm that she is indeed as mad as a screech owl.
Who’s the buffooniest of them all?
Don’t under-estimate Karl Rove. Like the Tundra Turd, he has no scruples, but he does have a rather finely tuned brain, something Sarah lacks.
The current crop is swinging in wind. I saw tonight that some are still trying to trot out Jeb Bush. Given the current GOP gang, he doesn’t look that bad, sorry to say. Huntsman is the only one with functional brain cells and limited baggage, but acknowledging science hurts you with the dominionists.
Rick Perry!! The scary dude is ahead of Romney and is now the top candidate in several polls.
This is wonderful entertainment! Sarah and her cluster of Palin worshipers versus the GOP’s top dirty trickster.
Palin seems to be the type of person who can’t let something like this go.. she must have the last word.
But she and her contingent of kool aid drinkers had better take caution in engaging this Rove character.. this man is world class trouble when he sets his plan in place.
I’ve been expecting something like this to happen for months now, especially after he remarked about her quitting as Alaska governor and the Palins all aflutter and firing back at him at the time.
“The Undefeated” Wasilla hotshot, has now entered the big leagues and it should be a hoot to watch this dust up unfold.
I’m with the ones who think Rove is manipulating Sarah. Whether she winds up announcing or not, she looks like a fool for playing coy. And Sarah is the kind of person who will do exactly what other people say she will not, just to “prove” that she’s all mavericky and independent. Plus, she won’t even do the things she has committed to- like that Republican Women’s thing she ditched a year ago.
I think a lot of her problem, aside from her terminal oppositional defiance disorder, is that there are days when she simply doesn’t function well, where it’s hard for her to get out of bed and get her clothes on, let alone go out and campaign.
I’m from Florida. Jeb Bush IS that bad; have you forgotten the Terry Schiavo case. Of course, Rick Scott is worse.
Could the current political circus possibly become any more buffoonerized than it already has? A public spat between Karl Rove and Sarah Palin has got to be the sweetest thing we’ll ever enjoy in three years of watching her deal with the crap she brings down upon herself.
For the record, I think Rove’s intention is manipulate Palin to declare what she’s doing- and calling her on the coy game she’s playing but not doing so.
Whatever happens, Joe will probably bed up selling lots of books, so it’s all good.
Hey, that’s another way to manipulate Sarah- brag about one of her so-called enemies making money without her consent.
Poor Karl.
From being a king maker to doing the tango with palin in 4 short years, oh how high the mighty have fallen!!!
It doesn’t really matter if she’s running or not. She will never be president. Period. End of story.
Love this comment by Rove..
“It is a sign of enormous thin skin that if we speculate about her she gets upset, and I suspect if we didn’t speculate about her, she’d be upset and try and find a way to get us to speculate about her.”
Could it be said any better?!!
“It is a sign of enormous thin skin (that) if we speculate about her she would be upset.”
There’s the rub, if you can’t say anything nice and glowing about Sarah, than you are a hater and out to destroy her family?
Any Alaskan with a concern about her conduct who would go to the lengths to file an ethics complaint were diminished by the power of the Chief Executives press office, immediately judging them as opposition tactics or frivolous. As long as her office designated all ethics complaints as such, people who liked the governor but didn’t pay attention to the meat of the complaints, all considered the filings as a political agenda – ignoring the crux of the problem. Sarah Palin and her found power and found money. With either, she is a dangerous, malevolent force.
http://www.examiner.com/progressive-in-anchorage/palin-chief-of-staff-attempts-to-smear-government-watchdog
Palin is right! How dare he speculate on her grifting!
Rove tried to rush her into an artificial “sell-by date” and she didn’t bite. A con man trying to bully a grifter!
Palin can tease and get in the way all she wants without Rove’s permission. She’s not depending on him for campaign contributions after all.
No, she ain’t running.
I watched the clip of the Susteren-Rove inquisition and the funniest bit is the way Fox rushed to a “News Alert”, when it became obvious Rove wasn’t going to stop bashing Miss Sarah.
Oh, and comments over at GretaWire about Rove calling Palin thin-skinned are hilarious.
All I can say is that Sarah’s true nature became apparent the moment she was busted stuffing her shopping bags full as soon as she got her hands on someone else’s credit card. Everyone with common sense knows that you can’t trust a person like that, nor can you rely on them for anything (which she proved in no time by quitting her job as governor.)
I am looking forward to reading the book! I hope there’s a kindle version I can download as soon as it becomes available.
Thank you thank you. How a particular book sells can be very telling for any number of reasons.
I positively adore how he repeated those magic words, over and over: “thin-skinned… thin skinned…. thin skinned”.
IMO, Greta LET him run with it. She’s the host; she could have put a stop to his speech at any point – but she didn’t. Why?
That’s my guess too & has been for awhile. Many have Bush fatigue, but look at the current line up. It makes Jeb look like a real prince. I think he will be the saner RNC’s Hail Mary.
Greta made little to no attempt to stop him; she asked him one question, and he took off. She tried to redirect him back to the question ONCE (how come when someone tries to redirect Sarah back to the question asked she cries foul?). But ultimately Greta LET HIM run with it. As I said above to another poster above, she as the host COULD HAVE put a stop to it, but did not. Why?
Et Tu Greta?
In honor of Sarah griftercuda, I proffer the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhMepzqJvIw
Please sing along with the appropriate modicum of respect.
Let’s remember these rats are all on the same side; they’re playin’ us, not each other. Was it FDR who said,
“Nothing in politics happenes by chance”? Wouldn’t be surprising to learn Rove & ‘she’ have an early a.m.
tete-a-tete every day via their blackberries.
There will be a Kindle version. It can be pre-ordered for delivery Sept. 20, publication day.
There will also be a version for the Nook. Same deal as the Kindle.
Thanks,
–Joe
I think the important part here why is Karl Rove goading palin rather then if palin will run.
Rove never does anything without a reason and I can’t quite figure out what his is to do this.
Perry appears to wide support, right now, of republicans. I’m wondering if rove and his group have something on perry that would knock him out of the race.
Will he, rove, play king maker again and get a shadow president(palin) in office only to have his people behind the scenes again?
Jeb Bush was supposed to be the bush that inherited the POTUS seat. He lost the governor’s race and Bush won Texas. the rest is history.
I’m not sure the country is ready for another bush in office!
Haha, did Roger Ailes put Rove up to this?
Plzzzzz, Julian, how insulting to cute little screech owls…altho I agree she does SCREECH whenever she opens her mouth.
Don’t forget Gov. Jeb Bush gave BUSH/CHENEY the White House by delivering Florida in the 2000 “election”. He and his goons were all over that heist.
Fox cut out the last few minutes in their transcript of the historic event. And people are too lazy to have viewed it?
So Faux censors Rove.
I especially love that old horror movie where the bigger and smarter evil monster rips the head off the equally evil but smaller and dumber monster and eats it for breakfast.
Yes, diz… I have a rather longstanding bet that Jeb Bush will come in by acclamation, and it does not make me feel good at all. He is just as “righteous” as the rest of them, but portrays a less strident facade. His wife is latina, he speaks the language, and that in itself will haul in votes. But his records in Florida shows his fundamental credentials, including the dismantling of the public education system via vouchers/home schooling during his term in office as governor.
May I lose that bet. I will happily buy dinners for my friends who almost five years ago thought I was nuts…
Yes, Outraged Mom… add an Outraged Grandmom to your list of those of us who agree with you.
I like your attitude, and analysis! The Palins: best soap opera around.
Exactly!
I don’t think Fox “censored” Rove – I think they genuinely wanted to go to the news bulletin of Jobs resigning as Apple CEO, and since they truncated the broadcast of the video they made the transcript match it. The part that was omitted was arguably pro-Palin – Rove stated that he thought Sarah could find a path to the nomination. So it doesn’t seem likely to me that a Palin Protection Program was what caused them to cut Rove off. Sometimes the stated reason is also the real reason.
Poor little Sarah. Someones talkin about her!
Some day she’ll realize mom ain’t at the front desk to go stomping off too, nor is dad teaching science in the same building… gosh, she keeps forgetting she ain’t in school anymore… tsk, tsk, tsk…
By the way, it isn’t the first time her skin has been described as “thin”. Wally Hickel noticed her skin condition as well.
Ivyfree, are you saying she has ODD sort of in jest based on her actions or was this something brought to light in one of the books? I am also curious, you say that there are days where ” she doesn’t function well, can barely get out of bed or put her clothes on” and I am wondering where this insider info came from? I haven’t read any of the other books but plan to read Joe’s. Where did u get this info on Palin from?
I think you are close to the mark.
Joe,
I think the word you’re looking for is “buffoonity” n. having the qualities of a buffoon. Used in a sentence, “She is a hot mess of buffoonity.”
I, too have thought for quite some time, that this was the plan. And it makes me very afraid. Expept for Romney, there are no Republican candidates who are remotely qualified, and we know that Romney has electability problems. So, as I’ve watched the clown parade of the horrifyingly inept, unbalanced and willfully ignorant declare their candidacy, with no sign of protest from the intelligent (if ruthless) members of the Republican elite, I’ve fearfullly suspected they were simpy waiting to declare that Jeb just had to run “for the good of the country.” I envision that Jeb will let them beg and plead for a while, saying he really isn’t seeking power. But he’ll aquiesce with noblesse oblige and run as the Republican savior. This is why, unlike so many Democrats, I have never done the happy dance at the thought of the Republican clowns versus Obama. God, I would so love to be wrong about this.
Re Rove’s motive… Palin enters race (ever so briefly.). Splits Bachmann’s supporters, and they both drop out. Perry now has strong lead. Rove is believed to hate Perry so… He pulls a turdblossom on Perry knocking him out of the race. Establishment man Romney is last big GOP candidate standing.