Majority of Wall Street Journal readers say Sarah will run//UPDATE: My opinion? She won’t run because she’s scared
August 15, 2011
I really don’t have a horse in this race. My most recent horse was Cape Blanco, who won the Arlington Million in Chicago on Saturday, paying $6.20.
But in the interest of delivering the full, unbiased story here, I must report that the current Wall Street Journal poll shows that more than 51 percent of respondents still believe Sarah will declare her candidacy for president.
I know how many of you ridicule this possibility.
Tunnel vision (i.e. blocking from your view anything you do not want to have to contemplate) can result from talking to–whether in person or online–only those who already share your opinion. You’ll find plenty of them among the commenters here.
I work hard to avoid tunnel vision, because it’s a fatal condition for a nonfiction writer.
I force myself to remain open to all possibilities, no matter how abhorrent some may seem.
Anything is possible, no matter how much we might wish otherwise.
Boy Scout Motto: Be Prepared.
UPDATE:
My opinion–which is worth no more than anyone else’s, but because it’s my blog, and because THE ROGUE will be published six weeks from tomorrow, I guess I have the right to express it–is that Sarah Palin will not run for president.
My opinion is that she’ll never run for any political office ever again.
Why?
Because she’s too scared to do so.
Too scared that this time round she’d be shown up for what she is, and for what she never was.
Like her husband, Sarah is basically a bully and a coward.
THE ROGUE will deliver chapter and verse on that point.
And on many others.
Watch this space.
Sarah has already squeezed far more golden eggs out of the American body politic than she could ever have envisioned, even in her wildest Christian Dominionist dreams.
She quit when she wasn’t ahead: as Alaska governor.
So why not quit when she is ahead: as the Great American Grifter.
The day she says she’s not going to run is the day the post-mortems begin: why did we ever pay attention to her in the first place?
I suspect that six FIVE weeks from tomorrow TODAY THE ROGUE will become the focus of that discussion. It’s a book almost as much about the pusillanimity of mainstream media as it is about the prevarications of Sarah Palin.
But make no mistake: the spotlight shines on Sarah. And it sure don’t make her look pretty.
Mark Twain would have loved Sarah. Not as a person, but as a subject.
H.L. Mencken would have loved her, too.
As would have A.J. Liebling. He would have delighted in writing about the wayward bunch of clueless Beltway sheep who’ve spent the past three years flocking after Sarah, scorning her even as they’ve enabled her.
And my great friend and mentor Jimmy Breslin also would write memorably about her, except that in recent years Jimmy has chosen to write about better people, such as Mafia informers.
Incidentally, someday soon–even if nobody pays me to do it–I’m going to write about all that Jimmy Breslin did for me back when I was a kid in Philadelphia who nobody knew. Jimmy was the best newspaperman in America during the second half of the 20th Century. He was also the most generous and caring colleague I’ve ever known. What he taught me about reporting and writing I could not put in one volume, even writing as tight as he does. But–as Jimmy knows best of all–the golden days of American journalism are way behind us.
Now there’s no one left to love Sarah as a subject but me.
What a sorry fate: not for her, but for journalism, and for America.
Look up the name Murray Kempton.
I might give a year of my life to read a Murray Kempton column about Sarah Palin.
She’s gotten as far as she has because so few of us remain to show her up for what she is.
Let’s take the old Irish phrase applied to John F. Kennedy at the time of his assassination–“Johnny, we hardly knew ye”–and apply it to Sarah.
It would read:
“Sarah, we knew ye all too well.”
She won’t run for president because she’s scared of what would happen to her if she did.
In the end, she’s just a trash-talking coward who’s going to take the easy way out.
Just close the door behind you, Sarah. We don’t want to see the likes of you again.
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161 Responses to “Majority of Wall Street Journal readers say Sarah will run//UPDATE: My opinion? She won’t run because she’s scared”
I am with the 51%. Sarah will run for the Republican nomination.
Nah… don’t think the grifter will run. Definitely will not. She can’t bear to lose and won’t risk taking a tremendously big spanking. Forty nine percent can’t possibly be wrong!
Percy Sledge: You are basing your judgment of how Sarah makes decision while under the false assumption that she is sane and rational. She is neither. All bets are off.
I think it’s still possible, but unlikely. Why? She just doesn’t want to work that hard.
She’s not rational, no. But she’s far too lazy to do the work a campaign would require. She will, however, keep her fan club in suspense for several months longer.
But. Will she realize she is too lazy? If it depends on anything, it depends on who irritates her and how she thinks she can best get revenge. By running? By not running? There is no rubric that can predict her volatility.
If she does it will be on a whim. I think she wanted to but things went negative:
Revere Bus Tour and Undefeated movie. Logically she knows it takes work and she doesn’t have a chance of winning. She hasn’t raised campaign funds or put together a staff she can trust.
However she may get the whim one day and run to prove the naysayers wrong or get bored and in need of stimulation.
I’m in the camp that says she will not run. However it would be entertaining to see her in action. Her snarky ways would would be a blogger and cable networks dream!
She has accepted a paid speaking engagement with Hannity for early October with the next GOP debate being a week later. She’s not running, she’s still trying to make money.
Here’s the thing Joe. If Palin was to enter, it would not create shockwaves because Michele Bachmann entered first. Bachmann, well both Bachmanns are nuts. In the case of Michele, she is no different that Sarah Palin. Everything she says could come right out of the mouth of Sarah Palin. If Sarah wanted to be president, she made the biggest blunder of her political life by allowing Bachmann to declare first. Now, America has its crazy in the race. Adding a second crazy won’t make much noise.
being open to something does not mean you agree with it.
and saying you don’t believe palin will run does not mean you have tunnel vision.
I never comment based on what I hope for but on what I see as real.
could palin the horror announce she wants to run?
sure but its meaningless at this point.
she would be fighting for the same crowd as perry and bachmann without a team behind her and without the support of anyone except maybe hannity at fox news.
would she open herself up to the ridicule that would surely follow by her refusals to participate in debates or even to make campaign stops?
remember running for president is non stop everyday and requires many staff and support personnel.
palin has failed to extend her support one inch after 2 years of controlling her image.
there is no reason to believe she is being encouraged by anyone that counts to get involved now.
announcing a run at this point may fit in with her delusional mentality but like everything else she has tried to convince people that she is a serious plausible candidate , it will never be taken serious.
Mr. McGinnis.
I don’t fear a Palin candidacy. Even if she runs. she is such an inferior intellect and so bloody thin skinned she wouldn’t survive the republican primary.
I’m glad you are exposing her but she isn’t going to be the Republican nominee. Not that Bachmann or Perry are much better. Michelle Goldberg has a great column today about the Christian dominionism that they are tied to.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/14/dominionism-michele-bachmann-and-rick-perry-s-dangerous-religious-bond.html
That is scary enough, but we don’t have anything directly to fear from the snowbilly.
Having just viewed the video footage from Hannity in Iowa when he “spontaneously” asked the crowd around him if they want sp to run. The crowd all yelled “NO” much to the surprise of the “fair and balanced” Hannity and his panel. Frank Luntz then stepped in to show us how to ask questions to get the answers they want to then promote the story line of their choosing.
I myself go back and forth and forth and back trying to sort out if sp will run or not. We see and know all the reasons we believe that would absolutely keep any sane person from exposing herself/family to the scrutiny that would follow an announcement of candidacy. Especially if there are too too many skeletons in too many closets.
sp as is pointed out here and on other blogs does not appear to have a sense of reality that extends beyond her own immediate and narcissistic needs/desires…………….so…………it is anyone’s guess at this point.
does she protect whatever she can and not run-hoping that “the rogue” doesn’t blow up all of her secrets and she can live a life with occasional speaking engagements while living off of her millions but lose her followers and fade into obscurity or does she run and risk everything just to make sure her followers stay with her so she can continue to milk them of money and maintain the adoration they provide?
We can all speculate. Not one of though has the ego to be a politician nor the mental illness of sp to really be able to get inside her thought processes. We like her cult of followers will have to wait it out. For myself, the waiting is not excruciating in any way at all……….I have other things to focus on-like making sure Barack Obama gets re elected and that a Michele Bachman, Rick Perry or Mitt Romney do not get in the white house. If sp runs, I/we will need to work just as hard to make sure she doesn’t get anywhere close to being our president.
I appreciate your time and efforts Joe Mcginnis to keep us abreast of all of the unsavory developments in the ongoing story of sp. Won’t it be oh so lovely when we no longer even have to think about her? Won’t it be so wonderful for you to blog about Bruce Springsteen? I for one will continue to follow you and your thoughts should you continue this blog. It is good to have someone provoking thought:)
peace
Sarah Palin tour comes to abrupt halt, AGAIN:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61435.html
Maybe not Republican nomination, independent maybe? She almost has to in order to keep her ever-dwindling cult followers. I agree with others that she’s much too lazy to run a serious campaign and she’ll find an victimization excuse to drop out. She’s already got that started with her “LSM will attack my family” stuff.
That being said, with her blatant narcissism, she needs the attention, she needs that money coming in all the way to 2016 and beyond if she can. Her “come hither” attire, winking, licking of lips, rubbing her thigh…..like high school… “will she put out or won’t she?” The AGING sex kitten with nothing else going for her, and she gets money for it. There’s a word for that.
What has $arah done with Trig?
Sitting in my car and can’t wait to get home to my computer to reply.
1 – Chuckie says she does NOT make the decisions.
2 – possibly the decision makers are still watching and waiting and testing the wind.
3 – DIEBOLD
Sarah has quite a dilemma considering all the pesky skeletons rattling around in her closet. Nicole Wallace said she has information about Sarah which she’ll make public if Sarah chooses to run. Will Sarah decide to avoid having Nicole spill the beans or does she believe God will protect her from her skeletons? At least she has some control over the beans Nicole is holding but she’s powerless over the publication of ‘The Rogue.’ The more damning the revelations in ‘The Rogue,’ the more likely I think it is that Sarah will feel forced to declare her candidacy even if it’s only to put on the pretense that the revelations aren’t true.
I would love to see a presidential campaign run by $arah & Todd Palin. Now THAT would be fun.
I know anything can happen, and Sarah has certainly done some startling, off-the-wall things. Quitting the governorship was one.
But Sarah’s star was on the rise at that time, and it has done NOTHING but fall lately. The black and white polka dot toes say she isn’t running. She doesn’t want to work that hard. She wants to show up, shake hands, hear people say how wonderful she is, and say how bad everyone else is.
The only way she’ll run is if she thinks she can play the victim card constantly, which she can’t do. With Bachmann going on MTP and FTN, Perry’s un-quitted gubernatorial terms, she can’t compete except in snark. Granted, she has snark in spades, but the constant attention of a presidential bid will only make her appear small because of it.
I say that either way … run or not run…. she will continue to make a fool out of herself!
Sadly Trig was put in a institution once his days as Palin’s prop was at an end. This is what the people did to children that was mentally disabled back in the day.
joe joe joe, love your update!!!! i think what you write/think/say is worth a lot. sp is your subject……..you have devoted too much of your life to the subject of her to not think your opinion of her is not worth anything.
you made me smile and feel hopeful about our future.
oh and this line “It’s a book almost as much about the pusillanimity of mainstream media as it is about the prevarications of Sarah Palin.”
i LOVE that you occasionally make me look up a word!!!! thank you thank you thank you!!! love language and love learning and whether it is your intent or not, you require and allow us to be our better students/teachers.
peace to you and yours. peace to the world.
p.s. i think an intelligent author of integrity who still maintains a degree of humbleness after receiving multiple honors and awards is INDEED worthy of being pursued by reporters. i believe such an author is in fact more worthy of pursuit than an empty headed, heartless, souless, lying, grifting, ugly spirited nobody who has been manufactured by a complicit media. for what my thoughts are worth.
I could see Palin not running but endorsing Herman Cain for revenge against Bachmann and Perry. Revenge seems to drive Sarah and I don’t think it would bother her at all to destroy the Republican Party.
Nicole Wallace should make the info known regardless!
Here is my take.
Some people especially after Joe’s book and possibility Levi’s and the Movie are not going to let her “Fade away”.
I am one of those.
She has perpetuated so many more abuse of power in the years since troopergate.
For example:
The Personnel board…the HANDPICKED personal board let her slide on ALMOST all ETHICS complaints.
She is to this day using SOA IT dept to attack blogs with DoS. (Yes Sarah FBI knows) 🙂
She has selectively harassed certain people who showed up at PUBLIC book signings,IN AK and had people thrown out, COSTCO for one, and Menard Sports center.
She had a poor dem kid who “Guessed” her stupid Pawords by looking at her wiki page yet her kids,
Track: Bus Vandalism
Not to mention she brags she “hacked” Randy Rudriges computer.
Willow: 30K vandalism sex & drug party at the house of the Morlocks “thrilla killa from wailla” gets off scott free.
She signs into law a kickback for all filming in AK knowing full well she planed a “Reality” show (Bailey’s book-Bristol.. “they’ll see some shit”!)
Shay Tripp, Anchorage police dept lies to cover the Palins ass and won’t return her “Evidence”.
Sherry Johnston was quit possibly & probabily set up by the Palins.
Now there are Countless more!
The truth is if sarah runs Troopergate will look “lite” by comparison of all the shit she has racked up.
I will not be happy until she is led away in pink handcuff with her bitch bump on her head.
So she will not win either way.
Maila Littenman has tried to get someone to deal with her complaint, NOTHING.
The Sate of AK is so damn corrupt…I don’t think the Leg & SENATE will cover for her THIS time around.
Whether she runs or not, I’m going to start a email campaign to investigate Sarah Palin and The SOA.
Thanks, Joe, for your well-written observations.
I have two opinions about the GOP parking lot circus and attendant sideshows, one being that within the next few weeks (by the middle of October) Michele Bachmann will drop out for “personal reasons”.
The second is that Sarah will announce she is running and may travel around a bit to flush more money out of her sheep, but somewhere down that road she will suddenly drop out for “personal reasons.”
I’m with you, Tom, especially the point about how Sarah has failed to extend her support one inch. In fact, it seems to have receded. A great deal. This is especially illustrated through the lack of interest in “The Undefeated”.
She can still attract a lot of attention, sure. But that is because she is a freaking center ring circus act.
Sarah might be insane enough to throw her hat in the ring, for about 10 minutes, just to appease her bots. But she is watching the scrutiny that Bachmann AND her husband have already received. She has so much more dirt and Joe will be a big help in exposing this. So once it started, she would quit faster than Pawlenty did. I am quite sure.
She knows she best just try and continue to find the grifting opportunities, as dwindling as they no doubt will be. (Though notice, those $100,000 speaking ops sure don’t seem to be a weekly or even monthly thing for her!)
I had my nose in my dictionary too, for those two words!!! Thanks, Joe, for expanding our knowledge.
I don’t think she will ever run but I don’t think she will ever say that she is not running. She’ll just let the clock run out.
Well Mr. McG, I am glad you finally said that. I feel exactly the same. Notwithstanding her contentious “roguery” and her narcissism, I agree for all the same reasons you wrote and THEN some. I don’t think Gabrielle Giffords will EVER be forgotten. Nor innocent little Trig. As usual, she’s done HERSELF in.
The biggest mistake she ever made was to enter into the “public domain” in rabid pursuit of recognition. In the end, she didn’t fool the Alaskan’s and she will not fool the rest of the population. Just those unfortunate enough to love superficially anything that will seemingly uplift them from their immense doldrums so that they can feel someone is “just like them”. They don’t understand that sarah palin’s kind of charm is only a mask.
I will repeat what so many are saying and that is I am so glad that you took on this monster. We all thank you more than immensely.
Here’s the question I have. Is it possible, or even legal, for someone who is in the process of registering their personal name as a TRADEMARK to run for President?
I mean, that would mean everything in the world related to her own, personal name, would also be tied to potentially using that mark in trade – not in public service.
I think many researchers might be missing the point. When she made that step of submitting her information to register her own name as a trademark, she totally jumped the shark and can never be considered a political candidate of any kind again, at least not if she is combining the use of her personal/professional name with registering it as a trademark.
Joe, I personally think that you’re baiting her and it may work. You are probably on the top of her list of People I Hate Most. I think that if she knew you had said she would not run, then she would attempt a run just to make you look bad. And then after your book comes out, she can say that she has to quit since you have created such a negative image of her that she is getting threats — and with all the care for her family, she must put them first, yadda, yadda, as they say.. .. you are such a BAD GUY… at least that is what she will try to get in, all the while still saying she needs money to keep her family safe from people like you. I think you are correct that she is a coward and a bully. I am so glad that you got to know her as you did so that I did not to know her any better. Peace to you and all those seeking the truth..
She doesn’t trust anybody and she’s way too paranoid because she has so many damn secrets to keep hidden. I hope you’re right Joe but if she doesn’t run she risks the anger of her bots. Don’t you think they’ll turn on her after donating their money with anticipation of her being their candidate? Rick Perry now in the mix and getting the support and money from the Koch brothers and big oil may deter her also. I can’t see the establishment GOP’s getting behind her since she quit and proven herself to be an idiot. All the moderate Republicans I know hate her and think she’s stupid and deranged. Like I’ve said before if it came down to a choice of Palin or Obama, they’d choose Obama.
C4P, was promoting that poll, so I would not take too much notice of it . Any poll that comes up with her name on it they are directed there. Its a bit like dancing with the stars vote as many times as you like.
I agree with you Jo, I don’t think she’ll run too many skeletons in the cupboard.
Please don’t say that. Please. As the mom of a special-needs adult child, it rips my heart out to think someone could do that to another human being. But a child? That person would have a special reservation in Hell waiting for them. I can’t comprehend that even she’d do something that treacherous.
Well, yes, everything you say is correct. But the biggest factor I believe is that she does not have, and has never had, any big money connections in any political circles. That is the great divide that really savvy politicians manage to cross. The WGE was never able to sell herself to the buyers who really count.
I always had the feeling she was an AIP plant in the Republican Party.
Royko, Joe. That’s who I would give a year of my life away for a Sarah column.
I agree she is a bully and a coward, and that she probably won’t run. I don’t think she has considered how bad she is going to look when she declares she’s not running. it will become obvious to everyone that she intentionally strung people along, trying to take the spotlight from others and grifting as much $$ as she could. no matter what excuse she uses, she’s going to look bad. even the media-attacks-on-my-family excuse won’t favor her, because it will be even more obvious that she made up her mind a long time ago. she’s been bitching about that for 3 years.
I don’t think Palin will run. I do think she’ll campaign for whoever is elected on the republican side. In her own mind she’ll think she’s the nominee and end up making more violence in this country then she did in 2008. I can hear her now campaigning for, lets say Perry. Palin would be stumping, “When I’m President I’ll look at the lay of the land with common sense solution..She’ll sure have her Bots confused, they’d be crazy enough to think she was really running.We have to remember she did say the Palin/ McCain ticket. One more thing, Palin, Bauchman and Perry remind me of the Charles Manson family. This is one wacky bunch.They must have been on some strong stuff because their brains are melted. I can see one wacko running but 3. UNBELIEVABLE. Moe, Larry and Curly.
I don’t mean to be cruel, but I find it disrespectful for a mother of a special needs child to be bouncing around the country and she don’t have the child with her. What’s worse is that the father who is just tagging along could have his son while Sarah is doing whatever it is she is doing but you never see Todd with the boy. The Palins chose to be public yet no one has seen Trig.
I think she’ll announce but quit when she can’t take the heat and, of course, play the victim card. She doesn’t want to risk losing the adoration and money she gets from the bots. Those people are downright mean and nasty. They’ll feel betrayed if she doesn’t get in the race and these are not reasonable thinking people.
She will run, if only to appease her bots. I think she fears them at this point. Fears their anger, fears their loss of monetary support, fears loosing their applause and unconditional love.
She will SHUT DOWN on MSM. No interviews. One-way only communication. She will continue to hide behind Facebook and Twitter. And if she never “formerly” declares, she can stay on Faux however long she wants, and continue to “campaign” just as she has for the past three months. An Unofficial Official candidate.
She will not necessarily run on the GOP ticket, and she will certainly not win the GOP nomination. She will withdraw early, claiming “family concerns”. She may call herself a write-in candidate, and not actively campaign at all – or she may actively declare. Who knows. But one thing is for sure: she’ll continue lobbing hate bombs at Obama and the Dems from the safety of her FB & Twitter bunkers.
Hopefully he’s back with his real mom and family.
Joe, as far as her being scared, well she has a lot to be scared of. I’m sure Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace have a few juicy bits of information they’d love to share if she gets in the race.
I am beginning to agree with Joe, but mainly because once she announces, her PAC comes under federal election laws, AND she loses her Fox income and podium for bashing the government. Plus she has hinted that her family has been ‘through a lot,’ when before it’s always how tough-skinned they are. She is readying an excuse for not running. But it’s fear of the money drying up and being scrutinized more than anything else.
Thanks so much for the update Joe! My thoughts exactly. She’s a coward. Also I don’t think any one running In the GOP field would want her endorsement either. Kingmaker? Not a chance in hell. The Thrilla from Wasilla is a campaign Killer!
Absolutely agree. She hasn’t got the guts, won’t spend the money and is bone lazy.
I still think she will enter the race.
I think she will do it very late, so she can skip the debates and all the hard work. She’s a rogue remember?
She will say her people are urging her and she will do it. SheShe she has no policies and cannot speak intelligently, she will isolate herself further from the GOP but, she keep those donations(free money) coming!
She will enter late so she can keep her name in the news. If she splits the vote and the republican loses, then she is toast.
Does anyone think Perry would ask her to be his VP and would she run with him?
Internet polls about Sarah mean NOTHING. Don’t you know that every single day Sarah’s flying monkey team sends out email directives SPECIFICALLY on internet polls? So they all go over to whatever polls are up that day on any internet site (including Hollywood celebrity-type polls) and vote with their multiple identities. It’s Dancing With The Stars for them still. Find them and you will see what I mean – for example, “Who will be our next president? Obama or Palin?” Palin usually “wins” the internet polls because her faithful cheating bots get up early & to work at their keyboards laughing while eating oatmeal & prunes about how they are scaring all the libruls.
I agree that Palin is too scared to run – she might have to publicly debate and she knows she will lose because she can’t help but say stupid things and has no clue HOW to run a country. I could be wrong. But even if she does run just think how many in the Party of No are gonna be pissed off! She will fracture the GOP as has been predicted all along and it will be hilarious to watch.
That Kardashian girl who is getting married wanted a wedding like the British Royals. What is she famous for? Being a celebrity who has done nothing but be a celebrity famous for her big butt.
Same with Sarah.
I forgot to add last sentence:
Famous for being a celebrity who has done nothing but be a celebrity famous for her big butt and because she was a friend of someone other famous celebrity….I think it was Paris Hilton? Someone like that.
“and because THE ROGUE will be published six weeks from tomorrow” — say it isn’t so! By my count it’s five weeks to the release of your best seller and it can’t get here soon enough.
If she is still planning to run, then Saturday and Sunday must have been a real shock to her. Sarah’s Magical Bus Tour had only one–count ’em, ONE–media outlet chasing her. Kinda hard to complain about the things the LSM say about you when they ignore you like yesterday’s news.
I’ve thought for three years she was running. On Friday with Hannity, she sounded so high on herself, so smug, I thought she was running. Then I see that she’s signed up to do that gig in October, and I think, she’s not running.
Yes, she has no money, no organization, no big backers; all she has is chutzpa and more skeletons than a plague hole. But those are logical issues, and we all know that logic and Sarah are not on speaking terms. Perhaps she’s thinking she’ll be called in after the others have all knocked each other out and be given the crown at the last minute. She’s that delusional.
If she is running, what is she waiting for? Yes, she wanted to avoid scrutiny for as long as possible. Yes, she wanted to avoid losing the straw poll. But what event could she possibly use, now, to launch her candidacy without looking lame? Perry just stole her thunder.
This post was beautifully written, one of the reasons I know “the Rogue” will be a brilliant story of the phenomenon that is Sarah Palin. Also, Joe, I think you’ve thrown down the gauntlet to the ex-half-gov of
Alaska–that state up there where Putin rears his head—and it’s going to be exciting to see what she really does, how her bots react, and how much your book will reveal about her!
I agree with Mercede Johnston, she won’t run because she would have a mental breakdown.
Whether $P runs or not, Dominionism is running at the front of the pack. Joe has said he covers that topic thoroughly in The Rogue. Now it needs to be exposed in the other right wing whackos who may take the nomination. I fear the MSM is not up to the task.
Palin has set up her escape plan repeating her lies spun that facts about her are lies and people are out to destroy her and her kids.
She would never endorse Cain. Sarah doesn’t “mess with black men.”
http://mostlywater.org/node/55664
She’s climbing into bed with Glenn Beck so I see both of them starting a cult similar to David Koresch and Waco! That’s MY prediction! 🙂
You’re right, Puzzle Pieces. And speaking of puzzles, Joe’s book release is only 5 more New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles away. I’ve always wanted to see how far Sarah would get with one of those. HA!
Being one of those who was personally attacked by Sarah Palin and her minions, at work, I am in agreement that she is nothing; nothing but a coward and a bully.
Sarah has herself a real dilemma. On the one hand, over the last few days she got a taste of what sitting on the sidelines for the next year will feel like and you can be certain she didn’t like it at all. She is dying to be the center of attention and is miserable that almost no one covered anything about her wacky bus tour shenanigans in Iowa. If she doesn’t run, she will be a wallflower and utterly miserable.
On the other hand, she most certainly does not want to do the hard work or play by the rules or be organized as is required of a serious candidate. (She also may be somewhat aware that the Repugs will not be nice to her should she jump in or that family skeletons may be revealed, but personally, I doubt that. She isn’t self-aware enough to understand either of those possibilities.) She clearly doesn’t actually want to win the presidency if she couldn’t handle the AK governorship even she must realize she could never be president. If she runs in the GOP primary, she will have to conform and will be miserable.
What she wants to do is: 1. Receive a lot of attention. 2. Be able to say outrageous snarky and derogatory things about our president and anyone else she doesn’t like. 3. Have rallies and give speeches to adoring masses. 4. Not have anybody tell her what she can and cannot do. 5. Be a victim.
The only way she can rectify her conflicting desires is to run as a third party candidate. She imagines that she will receive attention and draw huge crowds, she will continue with the snark even if locked in a padded cell, Todd and she will be running the show (to the amusement of all, no doubt), and she will whine up a storm of victimhood like never before. I can hear her now: I can’t be in the debate, they won’t let me. The two party system is keeping me out. The LSM won’t cover me just because I am a third party.
It’s the only way she can get what she wants.
I think he has been institutionalized, too.
You’re being too kind when you say she has “chutzpa”…it’s the bully in her that comes out and we all know that most bullies are cowards.
I truly believe that in the narcissistic delusional world that Palin inhabits surrounded only by her equally delusional sycophants, she seriously expected a scenario to play out in which the Republicans would flounder aimlessly without a strong candidate and eventually they would all coming begging for her to run and ‘save’ the party.
Unfortunately for Sarah two things happened that have caused her delusional fantasy to go seriously awry: Those would be Thing One: ‘Crazy Eyes’ Bachmann & Thing Two: ‘Scary’ Perry.
Although both of them are as crazy and scary as Sarah I think they are actually beating Sarah at her own game. And they appear to be so much better coiffed while doing so. And for all the right-wing crazies who would love Sarah to run but know in their heart of hearts that she really is too unstable (and stupid) to be the local dogcatcher, let alone the leader of the free world, they can vote for Perry with a clear conscience because he is ‘ril’ politician. IMHO, I think Palin is toast. I also think Bachmann will be toast very soon. Perry OTOH worries me a bit. If the media protects him as they protected Palin this country is in for some serious pain.
But exposing Palin for the complete fraud she is, is still very important, because right behind her are two more complete frauds who need to be exposed.
Joe: Looking forward to your book!!!
I remember reading a post on IM that someone who supposedly is in know said Trig doesn’t like Sarah and is somewhat uncontrollable around her. This person said Trig hits Sarah and it’s not surprising because she’s hardly ever around him and isn’t the nurturing type. I think they have him stashed away with a nanny or a very close relative.
I think she might stick her toe in the race for a couple of minutes…
just long enough to release some ready made bullshit about how Obama and the LSM…
are attacking her family, blah, blah, blah…
We all know her routine…
She’ll cry victim…
Beg for donations…
and quit one more time.
She will run. She thinks that god has a special role for her and she is destined to be president during the apocalypse. She will run as an independent and never give an interview or debate.
She won’t run. She has nothing to offer that Rick Perry and Michelle Bachman don’t already offer the tea party right wingers. Her time has passed.
That being said, I am glad Joe that you will be writing “as much about the pusillanimity of mainstream media as it is about the prevarications of Sarah Palin.” Because it’s not really about Palin. It’s about the decline of the Fourth Estate. They failed to do their job with Bush (weapons of mass destruction, anyone?), failed to do their job with Palin and now will fail to do their job with Rick Perry. God help us all.
I don’t believe she will run. I agree that she has too many skeletons and if she announces they will be uncovered this time.
As regards the poll. C4P have been talking about it all weekend and urging each other to vote.
Remember DTWS and Bristol’s votes!
Just reading your reply got my blood boiling again; I am frustrated that she seems to be getting away with all of this! Why is no one investigating; why isn’t the media reporting especially regarding Trig!!!
Also to concur with curiouser above; I believe that she is scared due to the skeletons in her closet; but I am cautious with my belief as she may be delusional enough to believe that maybe God will PROTECT HER FROM HER SKELETONS!!
So who knows… if running to shine a light on her skeletons in the MAIN STREAM MEDIA, then I welcome a run by The Delusional; I want to hear the end of that witch!
I am very relieved to see that THE ROGUE will include the story of the great media fail. At no time has the media ever done its due diligence when reporting on the Queen.
I still think that Sarah will run. She does not live in the rational world and does not do what rational people would. I think it is killing her to see Bachmann and Perry become the new darlings of the Republican nomination process. In her mind, it should be her up there on the stage with the adoring crowds.
Sarah has never been properly vetted and I would bet that THE ROGUE will serve that purpose. For once in my life, I am looking forward to late September and the end of summer. And if, as I suspect, the wait is driving the Queen crazy (crazier I should say), all the better.
I think she’ll announce that she won’t run for President because other candidates adequately express her interests. Then she’ll focus her time and money on electing state politicians, and Senators and Representatives.
So, she can still pull in PAC money from the true believers, tease a variety of teabaggers who’re running for office about whether she’ll do a fundraiser for them, or actually give them some money for their campaigns, and thus, while not a major figure, remain a force in the election. The odds are, if she spreads herself thinly enough, some of her candidates will win and she’ll claim credit for x number of true believers seeded throughout the country.
Then they’ll owe her something, or think they do, and she expands her nationwide touring and grifting for a few more years. She won’t get a lot of media attention, but, locally, she’ll still draw enough true believers, if she aims right, to make up crowds substantial enough to satisfy her endless thirst for celebrity and money.
Joe, I agree with you. I believe that within the pathological, twisted world she resides, she has a sense of entitlement to power; and would love to have it handed to her by her adoring zombie -followers. But, she is too lazy and cowardly to fight for it. Bully/Coward sums it up.
I agree with your update Mr. McGinniss. I think Sarah doesn’t want the accountability that comes with being a candidate. She knows she would lose, and she would rather be a king maker and make money.
Why the late September book release date?
If this question has been answered I missed it. The motive for the release date surely was carefully calculated — premeditated, as it were — and Joe and his publisher know what it is.
Did they reckon that by late September the usual summer declaration scrambling would begin to be sorted by the media? That vacations would be over, the kids in school, and the weather more conducive to settling in with a non-fiction book? That after a month or so of reviews, if favorable, sales would increase as Christmas gift-purchasing season begins? Or is there some historical significance to the date, like the anniversary of some past event or some event slated to begin around that time? None of the above?
I’ve followed the coverage of Palin’s antics since the day I heard of her VP nomination and frankly I don’t believe there is anything more about which to speculate; proof is what is lacking, and if proof has been hiding in the book, why?
I expect it will be a compelling story crafted by a skilled and articulate writer, historically predictive and another credit to the author’s ability to engage readers. Shockingly revealing? “Nail in the coffin?” I doubt it. But someone who calls out a pussy press as “pusillanimous” and Palin’s lies as “prevarications” perhaps presents a provocative prose portrait by one of the educated elite currently under attack.
On the other hand, WTF, maybe it’s just more jealous wee-wee sprayed by a hater 😉
I think (as Sarah reads all these blogs) that now that you’ve challenged her and said that she is too much of a bully and a coward to run, this will be a challenge she just can’t resist. She probably WILL jump into the race, but drop out quickly, just to prove you, and other bloggers she detests, wrong. Sarah only operates on two speeds: hate and spite. And most often, the one she spites the most is herself (and unfortunately, her family). Before now, I did not think that she would run, but–because she is so stubborn, so perverse, so SPITEFUL–she probably will declare, partly to appease the rabid cult that follows her (which I’m sure by now she is slightly fearful of, and with good reason), but mainly to do the opposite of what you predict. I kind of wish she wouldn’t take the bait, but of course, she will. It’s fun to watch her dance, in response to what she reads on the blogs, but I am sick of this crazy woman’s hold on the American people’s attention. She needs to get off the stage NOW.
You, like Gryphen and other brave bloggers, are pretty much pulling all Sarah’s strings by now.
The majority of voters in that poll probably came straight from c4p.
I call that not only does Palin not enter the race, I predict she will ultimately endorse Mitt Romney. She’s already on record as saying she would do support him, and that she is in the “anyone but Obama” camp. Plus, she’s clearly a corporate puppet, and Mitt Romney is the chosen candidate for that camp.
Mark my words, there will be great attention in the near future to how Sarah Palin was able to pull off one of the biggest hoaxes in politics ever.
Joe, you’re taunting her aren’t you? Too funny.
If she decides to run, watch to see if she still asks for money to go to SarahPAC. That is her personal slush fund, which a presidential PAC is not. Then we know the running is just for attention and the money will be hers.
That is what I think also. It sounds like a ‘double dog dare’ for her to run.
Joe, you had me at this: ” It’s a book almost as much about the pusillanimity of mainstream media…”
I’ve been saying for years that she’s benefited from the media, and they actually were nowhere near as hard on her as they should have been. A liberal woman carrying on the way she did with a disabled baby and pregnant daughter in tow would have been laughed out of the field.
They have been very cowardly in exposing her, simply because they’re so afraid of being accused of bias. This is precisely why Sarah’s always playing up her victimhood. She knows the more she does it, the more the media is afraid to expose her. It’s sickening.
Her “toughness” is fake. She is full of false bravado, and she knows it.
Amen, and amen, and amen @Sherry Stewart. It will be fine with me if/when $arah and her disgusting father disappear from human view. And the hidden ‘rulers’ aren’t going to be brought to justice by normal human agencies. But those Diebold voting machines infuriate me! We CAN do something about that. I just don’t know where we could start, or how to trigger any kind of effective action.
As the time she has left to string people on ticks steadily toward zero, I still find myself on the fence. First, we can all agree that, A) Sarah doesn’t want the JOB, B) Sarah loves titles, C) Sarah loves money and attention, D) Sarah hates Obama, and E) Sarah is nuts. It is these elements that make it so difficult to actually predict what she will do. I am fairly certain that her advisors have told her she doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in the general election (barring any more diebold tinkering). Her delusions tell her otherwise. We know that, if she were president, she would hire people to do her job, just like she did as mayor, and THAT delusion, that she wouldn’t have to actually do any work, keeps her other delusion, that she can beat Obama, alive. But she knows that she will have to give up the lucrative Fox job if she runs, and that she will actually have to make and spend money for a campaign. I think that annoys her. She has a weird relationship with money. She is also still irked about being the VP candidate in the last election instead of the head of the ticket. I’m pretty sure that sometime during that campaign she started imagining that SHE was the head of the ticket. It was pretty obvious in her behavior and words. Her OTHER delusion is that she could run a campaign without ever talking to people or media who don’t already support her. Watching her doppelganger make the rounds of Sunday shows and having to answer tough questions (not tough enough) may have put cracks in that delusion. She also knows that all of her gates will be revisited with much more intense scrutiny if she runs. In spite of her bluffing, we all know she will take some serious hits if that happens. So there are lots of reasons she shouldn’t run. But that brings us back to the crazy. Sarah is unpredictable because she is flippin’ nuts. The other thing at play here is the depth of Sarah’s delusion concerning her personal image. I imagine her advisors have told her to wait for 2016 when she doesn’t have to go up against Obama. Does she believe she can maintain a level of relevance and get enough botox/lipo/lifts to still have a shot in 2016? Who knows. Personally, I can’t wait for her poor diet, menopause, and too much bodywork to have an even more negative effect on her than what we’ve already seen. Even with millions to spend on pushing the aging process away, I just have this feeling that she will age badly. Her diet, lifestyle, and genetics say so. If she were president, it would be hard to get enough seclusion time to get that turkey neck fixed, get some real boobs, get her sun/tanbed damaged skin fixed, etc.
Anyway, I’m leaning toward, but not entirely committed to, her not running. I think Bachmann was a bit of a game changer for her. She may have accepted finally that running is not a good idea. We know for sure that she has one definite reason for dragging out the decision as long as possible. Money. If she says yes, the Fox money stops. If she says no, the PAC money dwindles to a trickle.
Pam, I agree. The first thing I thought when I read this great article is that Sarah always seems to want to go for a dare even when it is completely against her best interests and it appears that Joe is daring her to run. As much as I wish the Palins would just get sucked back into the netherworld from whence they came, Sarah tossing her hat into the ring would provide countless hours of entertainment watching the implosion. It would also bring about most of the answers to all the questions so many of us have.
Take a good look at Rick Perry. Then, shut your eyes and listen to him. Then picture him at the Iowa State Fair talkin’ the talk and walkin’ the walk. He had that foot planted on that straw bale and his khaki draped manhood splayed out there as he worked the crowd. He was charmin’ and winkin’ up the little ol’ ladies on the Midway. He’s like one of those designer dogs where you cross a poodle with a labrador retriever and get a labradoodle. “Sweet Jezuz!” He’s the spawn of a Bush Palin cross…some sorta hunting dog pitbull mix. The kind of dog that will point and find your bird but eat it for lunch also, too.
Helen–I was just reading through the comments before I posted to see if anyone else mentioned Mike Royko. I totally agree with you!
Agree with your comment and I’m on the fence too, crazy, delusional people do crazy things. Sarah is like a drug addict and her father and Todd have been her enablers. She cares nothing about the kids welfare, they are just props to her, to be used when needed. She is thin skinned and a coward and uses Todd as the bully, like with the lady from Alaska at the fair, he played the whinny victim. I think they both believe they are entitled and they actually believe the BS and lies they tell and if anyone goes against them you are a hater and harming their family..
Well she run? I don’t think even Sarah knows what she’s doing from day to day..and Todd loves being the “bully man” and just goes along for the ride and excepts the perks, doubt if he or the kids have any say in that family.
I totally agree that she would be clueless quite literally with a NYT Sunday puzzle. The TV page crossword with celebrity names is more up her alley. In either event, I’m sure she’d be a-cheating to complete either!
It may be the only way she can get what she wants but I have to think that the Republicans won’t let her get away with this option either. It would split off just enough of the far right to kill any chance at winning an election against President Obama. Either way, if there are truly people out there waiting to spill the beans on our favorite Quitter, they’ll finally decide to do the right thing.
You may be correct. I predict that she’ll be surprised when President Obama never mentions her name.
I loved Mike Royko too, but as a Philly boy I gotta’ put in for Sandy Grady!
If scara runs……hmmmmm…..I think it depends on how pissed off she is at the repugs. She could really shake things up for them if she were to run as an independent. She would suck all of the attention away from the front runner and insure a win for Obama. She hates so much that a 2nd term for Obama handed to them by her would be her greatest revenge. She would stay in it just long enough to make the mess and then find a reason to back out. By doing this she appeases her bots, keeps the money train flowing, and bites the hand that fed her for so long. Under her breath she says to herself, if you want to fuck me over…..I’ll show you. She won’t care about how she looks because she does not possess the gene for embarrassment. In the end her followers will still support her for being a hero and taking on the Machine. Can you imagine Palin, Perry and Bachman…………my brain hurts just thinking about it, but what fun we would all have!
Eyes open or shut, I hear Rickie Perry and see Desi Arnaz; when I hear Lizzie Cheney, all I can see is Lucille Ball.
That’s Lucille Ball as in the brains of the operation.
I went to a memorial service for a good and decent man on Monday. Charley Vanderbilt, may you rest in peace. Your family, your friends and your community valued you.
As is my habit I randomly opened the bible and read this in Proverbs 6:12 to 15. during the memorial service..
“A scoundral and a villain goes around with crooked speech. Winking the eyes, shuffling the feeet.. Pointing the fingers.. With perverted mind devising evil.. Continually sowing discord..”
Written well over 2,000 years ago. And men and women like Todd and Sarah Palin have not evolved. They are as they always were.. Despicable and loathsome opportunists.
Felix, you make a lot of sense. It’s definitely what The Grifter Granny should do, but in some ways I hope she is as pig headed as usual and doesn’t do the common sense thing anyone else with her limitations would do. Run 3rd party, $arah! You know you want to!
I agree strongly with your first statement, Elizabeth. She absolutely sees herself as a “savior” and expects other people to see how special and wonderful she is. She wants others to come to her, hat in hand and beg her for favors. I think she is secretly dismayed at how popular Rick Perry currently seems to be. She know that Mitt Romney needs help, and that is why she rushed up to New Hampshire, hoping that Mittens would come a courtin’,
I think she will run. For ten minutes. (You don’t need to spend money or have a good team in place, if you plan to quit.)
Didn’t we see a very cute picture of Trig with Tripp not too long ago? Was that a day away from the institution (or at it?)? Really, unless you know of Trig’s whereabouts, no reason to spread the Trig’s-in-an-institution rumor. He could be many other places. All we know is he’s not with Sarah and Todd on yet another excursion, and they claim to be his loving parents. That’s bad enough in itself. I’ve always wondered…do they miss him during these long periods away? Do they talk to him daily, maybe email him some pix? I remember lots of heartache when I was away from my toddler–NEVER as long as the Palins are away from Trig. I think SP never truly bonded with Trig, but I thought Todd did, for a while. What whining bitch he is, as demonstrated so well in his exchange with the AK woman in Iowa. When she complained about Scarah quitting, he comes at her like the bully asshole he is and says in his best high-register voice, “What would you have done? Tell me, what would you have done?” Why is his voice so high? Anyway, I just think institution conjures up too many negative images to be treated as fact if it’s only a rumor.
Sorry, I’ve never been good at math. Publication day is as it has always been, September 20. That’s five weeks from today, not six.
–Joe
Nasty, You have some ‘splainin’ to do……..
Liz Cheney seems to be a very calculating and humorless person and I don’t think it is an act. She is one of those Golden Retrievers that bite.
Sarah Palin is a lamestream politician- and that’s what a national campaign would show.
Besides being a liar, a hypocrite, and pathological.
The NYT Sunday crossword puzzles are the only ones worth working, IMO. Love ’em!
Herman Cain better pray he doesn’t get a Palin endorsement which would be the death knell for his campaign.
Love Proverbs – concise and to the point. Paints a clear picture, don’t it?? =D
If it was required that she have to take a drug screen~ she wouldn’t do it.
I swear $arah is either a Meth Addict or a Coke Whore. $he fits the whole profile.
And if she is one of those, they would surely make her Mental Health Issues that much worse.
Palin will run – she wants the money and she can’t stand to not be in the spotlight. She’ll run then quit early.
Either way – she’s irrelevant. She’ll do some sort of weird announcement that’s not an announcement but a wink and a nod to her supporters who will freak out and donate madly on her behalf. She’ll raise some money, generate some buzz for a while and just when the heat gets turned up, she’ll “regretfully” quit. Then collect more sympathy money. And maybe another book, another reality show, back on Fox…..the whole nine yards. Perry, Bachmann and Romney will just have to ride out the sideshow distraction until the primaries.
I do not think she will run. There is no big money to back her and not only has she dissed the GOP establishment, but has also dissed the organizers. Sarah got ahead of herself thinking that all she has to do is say she is running and the media will do the rest. Perry will make mince meat of her.
She and Beck will work together to make money through hate and racism, that’s their gig.
Remember Tod/Sarah were always talking about the Palin brand…..it was very revealing what he said to the CNN reporter….something to the effect that even though the pundits had written her out, the media was still there. They also thought that the crowd they walked through at the fair was all for Sarah. If the Undefeated had played well she would have run. She is a lazy coward,whose walls are falling down.
Let’s face it Sarah got as far because of her looks and a willing media. I have lost all respect for MSM media,especially how they have aided Sarah in spewing all that hate and bile.
It certainly will be entertaining if she does decide to go rogue with a third party run.
I don’t think the Republicans will be able to do much about her, just as they haven’t up to now. Attacking her directly just doesn’t work because she is a woman and plays the victim. It’s what has protected her so far. The best they’ll be able to do is marginalize her, which they have already succeeded in doing to some degree. From Palin’s point of view, the fear of what they could do won’t stop her; her ego is too huge for that. She probably thinks that any new proof of babygate or whatever will roll off her, just like earlier evidence has. I think she honestly believes that after all she’s been through, nothing worse could be done.
She won’t get many votes, but she’ll keep her name in the news more by being a third party candidate than any other. She also will update her resume, so to speak, in that she’ll be identified for years to come as a 2012 presidential candidate and can continue with speaking and punditry gigs to keep the money coming in after 2012. If she doesn’t run, she’ll soon be a nobody and she cannot live with that.
I do owe Lucy an apology, don’t I? Didn’t even think about those aspersions I’m casting on her. Mea culpa.
Just plain got caught up in Certain (‘Rill) Americans wanting back to the ’50s and wanting their Mommy and Daddy, and just how nicely the Perry/Cheney ticket will pander to their fondest wishes.
I think she could be angling for another nomination as Vice President. Romney would ask her for the same reasons cynical reasons McCain did. Perry wouldn’t necessarily need her for those reasons, but if it got close he might strike a deal with her for an endorsement that would push him across the line. It would keep her in or near the spotlight but without actually having to do anything but attack, attack, attack which she has shown she has a gift for. Or, maybe it isn’t VP, but some other job that would keep her in the public’s eye, like, gulp, Secretary of State or U.N. Ambassador.
That, while covering the less insane remaining among the GOP by having a, yes, calculating brain in the offering.
Agreed. One would have to be blind and deaf not to notice she is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. My former hair dresser was addicted to prescription pain killers and demonstrated the same behavior as sarah.
I had to quit going to her because as bizarre & confused as she acted she was oblivious to her behavior.
Thanks Grammy97.
Of course we can do it – it takes passion, determination, and organization. It takes leadership – someone or ones to stimulate the organization part. It takes promotion, publicity, long hours and little sleep. Speaking for myself, I have a ranch to run, people to coordinate, many pressing jobs each day to keep crops watered and picked and processed and/or sold at our Farmers’ Market. Then there is my desk (no, don’t look!) piled with ignored paperwork. I am supposed to be writing 2 books. Hah!
My point: we all care deeply, but the tasks in front of us daily take our energy and attention, so who can pick up the reins, provide leadership, and guide this horse. It has taken 30 years (?) longer I suspect, for the Dominionists to climb those seven mountains to reach the position they are in now. Infiltration takes time.
One thing we can do is 1) be awake ourselves and 2) wake up as many people as possible, hopefully without proselytizing or using snark along the way. Instead of wasting energy fighting what is wrong, we build and create a new way – together.
This blog is a good example – a self-made community with a shared level of consciousness that is capable of creating a new clean approach to these old tired ways of running the country/world. I truly believe that a new day IS coming, but it won’t float down out of the sky. Like apples on an apple tree, the fruit comes from the inside out, and is there in invisible form long before even the blossom appears. We CAN do it.
Well said, Sqrtneg!
“She thinks that god has a special role for her and she is destined to be president during the apocalypse.”
She may think that she is destined to be resident to SET OFF the apocalypse.
resident president.
a second possibility would be she might be fishing for a second VP nomination. That would allow her to pretend she already had relevant experience and give her license to attack. Notice how she is careful to not dis’ Romney. Could that be because he would be the one most likely to need her to pull the crazies back in line?
It would cost her too much money. She’s is a coward, a know nothing, and money grubbing whore.
Palin: Liar. Quitter. Coward. Hypocrite. Ignoramus. Incompetent. Fraud.
Sarah Palin is the biggest hoax in American political history.
We know, Sarah. We know.
Heaven forbid!!! She’s qualified for absolutely NOTHING!
Little known outside NY: The Monday puzzle in the NYT is the easiest of the week and Saturday is the hardest. They dial it back to about the Thursday level for the big Sunday puzzle.
After the way she behaved and performed on the McCain ticket, Romney would have to be psychotic to nominate her as VP. Seriously, the entire nation would laugh in unison. Then proceed to vote for Obama.
NO ONE has forgotten the Couric or Gibson interviews. No one. Palin was an unmitigated disaster. And all those aides she pissed off? Oh you can bet they’ve let their insights on Palin be known a while ago. She doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the VP nod to any campaign.
And if the GOP Nominee makes such a stupendous mistake as giving the VP slot to Palin then they deserve to have their asses handed to them. Like John McCain did.
Saw him in the news – on the hay – standing w/his legs spread – so manly! (NOT!). The guy makes me want to barf!
Perry doesn’t need Palin’s endorsement – he’s got more than enough fundraising clout to bring in money by the bucket full. He’s a gung-ho Texas Evangelical – it don’t get more fundie than that. The man held a prayer rally for heaven sakes! Bachmann doesn’t need Palin either – she’s Tea Party darling and has enough crazy bona fides to hold her own plus evangelical appeal. Romney wouldn’t be that stupid – he can always nominate Huckabee or Pawlenty or Christie. Heck – depending on if Romney wins the GOP Nom, he can even nominate Perry or Bachmann! ALL the evangelical cred, much less stupid. They’re just as good in attack mode.
Palin is irrelevant. She knows it. We all know it. The GOP Candidates know it. Obama knows it. The only ones still hanging out for her to “announce” are her stupid supporters. Sucks to be them.
Chris Christie is poised to run. V.P. for Romney? I don’t like him, but he did something I do respect. Called the crazies on their behavior, and called them just that CRAZIES. He could pull in the tea bagging crowd because of his actions in New Jersey.
Palin has become toxic chum. Even the sharks won’t bite.
Bit by bit by stupid bit she has screwed herself. And the idiot doesn’t even know how she did it since she is one whacked out cat. LOL I haz cheezeburger has a great Black Cross eyed Basement cat with his claws unsheathed going crazy. “It was all fun and games till the barbiturates ran out.” Or something like that.
Sarah in full attack mode.
It is over.
Ed, you could be right. I’m convinced that in in her delusional NPD Queen heart she is dying to be President, but in her delusional NPD Queen mind maybe she is willing to settle for another shot at the glory of being #2 on a ticket. Maybe the strategy is to let the announced candidates take on each other, keeping herself above the fray. She would clearly do nothing to help, and everything to hurt, a Perry campaign. But one can imagine she’s convinced herself otherwise. One can certainly imagine her fantasies about joining Romney on a ticket: the appeal she might imagine she would have to him. Not to mention complimenting his pretty boy looks so nicely. King and Queen of the prom! I don’t believe that any candidate with 1/4 of a brain would fail to recognize how much of a liability she would be, so I don’t in a million years see her getting tapped. But one can imagine the schemes bouncing around that mostly vacant delusional skull of hers.
$arah Palin is obviously insane. She lives in a state of delusion: every unspeakable, blasphemous statement the Dominionists have made to her and about her are absolute truth to her. She is not capable of making a rational decision about whether to run or not. She has incredible financial obligations burgeoning from her years of living on the edge of the law. The financial pressure could easily impel her to announce that she’s running. But there are other people making her decisions: people who have the power to cut off her money. Or worse.
I’ve started praying for that awful woman to be given supernatural protection. Not that I care if she lives. But she would make a terrific martyr for the extreme right, just in case the election appears to be headed for another Obama win. And if the Fox monolith publishes the right code words, she could be the trigger for a genuine insurrection that could prevent our elections. Yes, I have frequently tried to calculate what the worst possible case could be. Can’t be prepared if you haven’t even imagined it.
Alaska is the only state that does not operate an institution for the developmentally disabled. It is 100 percent home care, which may include group homes. If Trig is in an institution (which I seriously doubt), it is not in Alaska.
Sqrtneg1 – Sounds like an “imaginary” campaign. 😉
That would be a team made in heaven because we could quit worrying that Perry would become President.
Well, we’ve already had a Bull Moose Party in this country. What would Sarah’s party be? The Bull Moosecrap Party? The Moose Bullcrap Party? H’mmm. Let me work up a few concept storyboards and I’ll get back to you.
The last thing in the world I’d want to do is defend Sarah Palin, but I will point out that when she dragged him around the country during her book tour, many of us were criticizing her since Trig obviously wasn’t getting the daily therapy he needed to optimize his potential. Now she’s not dragging him with her, I’m not going to criticize her for that because
1. Trig has enough challenges in his life without having to cope with Sarah and her needs.
2. Anybody he’s with is probably going to be more loving and nurturing than Sarah could possibly be, which can only be helpful to him.
3. He has a better chance of getting the therapy he needs if he’s staying in one location.
I’ve always thought that eventually, Trig would end up in an institution of some sort- a group home or a special needs school. If that’s the case, he probably has a regular life and a healthy diet- at least better than crunchwraps. I look for an eventual statement that Trig has matriculated in a boarding school specializing in the educational needs of special-needs children and providing a safe, 24/7 environment of care provided by trained educational assistants who are actively encouraged to continue their training in education.
And then Sarah will blow it by commenting that the locks look good and the yard is fenced.
She’ll kinda-sorta run. I think she realizes she’ll never get a party nomination, but she may be dense enough to think she can run as an Independent. She’ll run a half-assed campaign and then quit and start talking about who she’ll throw her support behind. “I sure hope my supporters will keep on being involved and looking to leaders for accountability so that they can make their votes count for something like real Americans should be thinking and expecting, you know, that their Presidents and Senators can accomplish what they say they can do and real Americans want… you betcha, I’ll tell you who I think they should vote for, after I’ve prayed some more..PIPER! Piper, come here and pray with Mommy.”
There has been rampant speculation about her obvious substance use/abuse.
One person who seemed to have some insider info said she’s on prescription
Adderall,
http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/only-you-can-prevent-fires/
Adderall is comprised basically of amphetamine salts and derivatives, which would explain her constant lip licking, tongue actions, irritability, hyperactive state,
living on diet soda, and aggressive and unpredictable behavior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall
Regarding Palin: “To get ahead, to go along… (she) had to join the Republican Party… ( at 6:00 in video)
How Ron Paul infiltrated the Republican Party to get started what he wanted to get done” (begins @ 8:00).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NK2sFJebGc
It’s possible. Who knows what this crazy idiot is thinking. However, I don’t think she wants to be second fiddle to anybody. She hated the minders from the ’08 campaign and she has gotten considerably more headstrong since then. I do think it is clear she is looking for a shortcut, a way to get that limelight she craves but without the discipline she can’t or won’t abide.
The just plain ‘Crap Party’ sounds suitable to me. 😉
However, I think it’ll either be the ‘Tea Party’ or ‘One Nation’ that she is using for her bus ‘tour’.
Fame is a bitch and Sarah is caught in it. Delusional yet outwardly putting on the bravery. The shell is easily cracked however. She’s brooding as we speak. She’ll try to recover, as she always does, staying quiet for a bit and then BAM back with a vengeance. I try to reason why I care to follow this grifter. I think I’m waiting for the final curtain call; the have to watch a train wreck; all that but, at the end of the day I want to see a fraud exposed. Just that. Simply.
Fame is a bitch and Sarah is caught in it. Delusional yet outwardly putting on the bravery. The shell is easily cracked however. She’s brooding as we speak. She’ll try to recover, as she always does, staying quiet for a bit and then BAM back with a vengeance. I try to reason why I care to follow this grifter. I think I’m waiting for the final curtain call; the need to watch the train wreck; all that but, at the end of the day I want to see a fraud exposed. Just that. Simply.
I think you’re right on the money here dmoreno. Her bots love to say we and Obama fear her. Bwah hah hah! It’s the GOP who are sweating her big time. They really want the 2012 election, finishing off the middle and working class, seniors and disabled will be so much easier for them while we are so vulnerable with the sinking economy and the wars ablazing. They can’t risk her spoiling their fun.
If she can find a way to game the system for more money, she might try to run. Becoming irrelevant is anathema to her nature. She MUST be the center of attention at all times.
Sorry for the double post but working on an iPhone in rural AL. With that said I checked out c4p and they are pitiful on number of comments. The higher number of comments are a few faithful yacking back and forth. I thought this was a movement! It’s like a hundred folks at most from my first look. WTF? I thought the grifter was more than this pitiful bunch….LMAO.
I read him in the NY Daily News as a little girl growing up on Long Island. He seriously molded my political views. He died when I was in graduate school and it made me sad. His best line when writing about a rival newspaper “No self respecting fish would be wrapped in a Murdoch paper” The prescience is mind-boggeling.
Sarah Palin does not want to be president because you would have to be smart and that circus act Todd and Sarah did as co-governor and co-mayor will not work as co-president.
My guess is if Sarah wants to stay in the public eyes and hold office it will be as vice president because it is more of a ceremonial position and everybody knows Sarah hates to work.
In keeping with Joe’s “Sarah is a scared coward” theme, don’t miss Malia Littman’s hilarious 35 reasons why Palin quit the latest leg of her Narcissism on Display tour:
http://malialitman.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/sarah-palin-aborts-the-born-again-bus-tour-again/
She won’t run. And in her recent interview she gave the clearest picture yet of her backing out. Isn’t the WSJ owned by Murdoch? Why would I expect anything realist out of that?
It’s always been financially beneficial for Palin to ramp up the hype that she might run, she’s been doing that since she quit on Alaska, and that’s a long time. But it was even more beneficial for the media to hype her up. It’s no coincidence that as the media now shifts their focus to Bachmann and Perry, that Sarah is being seen as less of a likely candidate than before. They’ve been propping her up all this time, and without their help, she can’t get the attention.
There was only one moment when I thought she might run, and that was when Trump announced and dropped out. I thought she might pull a Trump, but so much time has gone by now that that tantalizing idea has left her.
I’ve said for 3 years now, that because she quit the governorship she can’t possibly run. RAM said the same thing. Rove made rumbles that she might, meaning the GOP might see her as a useful tool, but now that Bachmann and Perry are in full swing, and the Tea Party has served their function and are now running their course, clearly there’s no point in the GOP dragging her out.
Joe,
Don’t you think that she will have to enter this race at some point, so she can keep her followers?
Why should they continue to support her (financially) if she is not going to run? She is set financially, she has her gig on Fox. Her latest ethics charge is being covered by the state, the others were too and she had a PAC for that.
She will become irrelevant unless she runs for something or is appointed to a position.
My greatest fear is Perry will ask her to run as VP. There is no reason to worry about his health and she will surely appeal to his base. She will also go great with his hair!!!
Agree. Don’t forget her “may I call you Joe” to then Senator Biden. Such disrespect. Her failure to answer any questions, in fact told Gwen Iffel sp? she was not going to answer her questions, and got away with it.
She won’t run. The press won’t let babygate slide a second time — she knows that. She’s been pretty lucky so far. She may have a severe narcissistic disorder, but she’s not clinically nuts — she’s rational enough to see the sword over her head.
She’ll run and for one reason only: Narcissism. She cannot help herself from her own default setting. Then perhaps the GOP will let her run with it for one reason only: Seeing that they cannot win in 2012, they will wrap the loss around her neck and ostensibly the entire teaparty movement with it and finally shove the wing off the cliff. The only way the GOP can find viability again is to use the crazies as an example of what not to do. They’ll all become a post Palin anecdote, much like the Goldwater era.
I used to think fear of Babygate would send her slinking off into the shadows – not so sure anymore! Seriously, she has gotten away with it thus far – she knows what to use to shut the inquiries down and there is not one reason she should fear exposure. Nobody in the loop who knows the truth is ever going to step forward, unless they fear Sarah as President more than they fear Sarah herself.
Look at the other “gates” and the same rules apply.
Grammy97, thank you for your prayers. As contemptible as that wretched woman is, I have never for a second wished her physical harm. I only wish for truth to be known, and justice done, amen.
I think she is burning through her money as fast as it comes in. Her two addictions are 1. attention and 2. money. Reason and “it will be hard work” are not her concerns; she will jump in for ten minutes and then quit.
Why spend money or put together a team if your plan is to quit the moment the process is a little bit hard or uncomfortable? Her goal is to stay famous and rake in money.
P.S. I had to smile at an earlier comment saying the folks that are most “scared” of the Quitter are establishment Republicans. Yes, they created their own Frankenstein. It LIVES! And it wants revenge! Run, Bill Kristol, run!
There can be a vanishingly fine line between “severe NPD” and “clinically nuts.” I’ve watched another “clinically sane” NPD Queen be mostly rational about any number of things, and then as bad as a heroin junkie chasing their next limelight fix. I’m guessing the GOP strategists are scrambling to find a way to keep the fixes coming, i.e. ones like the Fox gig, that do not involve running for office. The tricky part might be keeping the ‘bots loyal if she doesn’t run — that, or successfully shifting their allegiances to a more electable candidate.
ha look who is complaining: Thanks to her DUMB old dad!
Sarah Palin Is a Tease!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/16/meghan-mccain-on-why-sarah-palin-is-such-a-tease.html
LOL. Thought I was finished even thinking about politics, but it looks like Perry is the serious threat. Palin is now passe. Michele will fade.
Considering the rumors about Perry I figured, noooooo way can he get away with it. B. Austin outed the non pregnant Palin picture at the Museum late in March 2008. Perhaps B. Austin is a Perry plant. But the Austin papers have been outing Perry for years now.
What is true and what isn’t? I don’t know.
Yet, seeing how deftly he handled Palin in that one telling video where he pushes her onto the stage podium and then shoves her aside like the dumb barbie doll she is, it is very obvious he has the brute force of someone used to getting his own way. An alpha type.
Palin is a battered Caribou Barbie, and Perry isn’t placid guy Ken. He’ll have his own action figure, and his fundi Texas bots buy it.
At least in Texas.
The New York paper I just leafed through takes him seriously. Another Perry looks like a president type of nonsense I won’t even bother to read.
That is what it has come to. “HE LOOKS LIKE A PRESIDENT?”
@lilly lily: Outing Perry? As the rumor that he’s gay? It really hasn’t been in the news. Just stays on the fringes in blogs and whatnot. The main paper, the Austin American Statesman, which is the daily paper, their reporters have never been able to get any proof. And I know they’ve tried. Then, there’s the tabloid, once-a-week paper, the Austin Chronicle, had at least one article written back in the early part of the decade, but really nothing came of it. The rumor of Perry being gay really hasn’t been covered. The first and only time I heard about it was back in 2005 when a co-worker came and told me about some ‘big announcement’ that was going to be made by the governor’s office. Nothing was ever done.
The gay rumor has been dogging Perry since the 80’s apparently, but no one will go on record.
Because he’s so anti-gay, IMHO he’s either gay or bi, that’s the way it usually works. Those that scream the loudest usually have something to hide…
I’m not sure you are right about that. How do you know she is not completely insane?
Only a truly insane person would lie nonstop to millions of Americans while smiling and taking money from them.
It’s much more than just being a grifter. Sarah seems to have NO ability to self-analyze and then to modify her behavior when she realizes it’s off. That is how normal people operate. Most people can admit when they are wrong and can apologize.
We have never seen Sarah apologize or even admit she made a mistake.
I mean what is the definition of ” clinically nuts?” She behaves and operates like someone with NPD. That is a really severe perstonality disorder, one that cannot be cured with psychiatric help. She wouldn’t improve from medicine or therapy unless she had anxiety or depression too. That part could be helped but not the distorted way she views the world around her. I’m not a psychologist but I know a lot about NPD. If you ever were involved with one, you would quickly see how insane they are.
I also think she really believes God has chosen her and in her mind, she would win with ” his” help and guidance.
I don’t think this is an act-she believes a lot of crazy religious things many would find out there.
I think she’s dying to run for president but I bet some higher ups in the Republican party have warned her that they will tell all her dirty secrets. Just a guess though. I have a feeling Joe will touch on her questionable sanity in his book.
Perry thinks he can brazen it out, but he’s running with the big dogs now and may soon wish he’d stayed on the porch. He’s got some nasty secrets. Hell, his public record is a gold mine. And he’s such an arrogant, dimwitted braying ass that he’ll step on his dick every damn day.
Joe, Do you think it is at all possible that she won’t run because legally she can’t? I often wonder if the FBI cut a deal with Sarah in regards to the inside info she had on men like Ted Stevens. I had a lot of friends in law enforcement and in the FBI and in Homeland security and when we brainstorm this makes the most sense to us. I also think it was one of the reasons she stepped down from being govenor. This is all just a theory, specualtion based off behavior of not just her but of the local police and local FBI in regards to her. Sometimes when a person has certain immunity they run amuck and there isn;t anything anyone or agency can do about it. I think she sold out.
I’d love to hear a psychologist’s take on all of this. Having watched a NPD Queen at work, it strikes me as a sort of selective insanity: the ability to create reality on one’s very own planet, whatever suits one’s own purposes at the time; the ability to lie as casually as one breathes. One example: explaining to a small group of people, with all apparent sincerity, that you’re so incredibly busy at work that you can hardly ever take a few hours off, when 3/4 of the group KNOWS you’ve spent 1/3-1/2 of the past year dealing with the never-ending melodrama otherwise known as your personal life (knows because you’ve talked to them about it). And yet I don’t believe this person would come close to meeting the legal definition of insanity.
But Palin isn’t pleading insanity as a defense at a murder trial (yet), so I guess the question is, does Palin have command of enough of her marbles to realize that running for President would be a spectacular disaster? On this I’m also less sure than Brad that the answer is yes.
The longer time passes, to me, the less benefit there is for her to announce. She’s already sucked what money there is to be had from her base, and they are beginning to expect her NOT to run. Pretty clever – change the expectation, and by the time you admit you’re not running, it’s like a whisper, not a bomb going off. This is not that much different, if you think about it, than her stint as governor. She road that horse exactly as far as she wanted to, not one foot further. She’s doing the same thing now with this fake presidential run.
It will also be highly lucrative for both of them, at least initially, then their dueling egos will get in the way of any future success. They both have to be in the spotlight and neither will give in to the other for any major portion of the time despite the money involved. Their need to be adored will always come first with both of them although I think $arah might hold the edge on that egotistical trait. Their biggest problem will be coming up with a name for their “church” since $arah insists on always being first as seen recently in her roadtrips to Iowa & New Hampshire.