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Paul Revere’s Revenge: Sarah Palin’s Approval Rating Sinks To 24%
The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll has some bad news for Sarah Palin. Thanks to Paul Revere, her orchestrated publicity tour over Memorial Day weekend managed to lower her approval rating to 24%.
Sarah Palin overall favorable rating is 24%. Her unfavorable rating is 54%. When the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll was last conducted in April, 9% of those surveyed had a very positive view of Palin. After Paul Revere that number is 7%. Her publicity blitz did cause people that have a very unfavorable view of her to drop from 41% to 38%, but this was offset by an increase in those who had a somewhat unfavorable view of her from 12% to 16%.
In a January 2011 CNN poll, Sarah Palin had a 38% approval rating. By March, a Bloomberg poll had her sinking to 28%. In an April Washington Post poll, Palin’s approval with tea partiers fell to 60%, and her disapproval rating overall shot up to 55%. Later that same month, the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll measured her approval rating at 25%.
To summarize, Sarah Palin’s approval rating when we began 2011 was 38%. It is now 24%. If the point of the bus tour was to make Palin more popular, then it was a gigantic fail on wheels. She may have been able to get something positive out of the bus tour until she was asked that gotcha question what did you do today? As soon as Palin answered with her revised history of Paul Revere’s ride, any shot at positive publicity was down the drain.
Some media outlets are blaming Palin fatigue for her low numbers, but how can we ever be tired of someone who never goes away? Sarah Palin is always there waving her arms and screaming look at me every minute of the day. If Palin wanted to rehab her image after the 2008 campaign, she should have gracefully exited the stage and laid low for a while. Sarah Palin doesn’t do graceful.
She is a traveling circus of ignorance and excuses. Put her on a bus and Sarah Palin is a mobile freak show that demands constant victimization. She thinks it is God’s will that she be president, and she isn’t going to let the fact that most of America can’t stand her stop her.
Palin already demonstrated how easy it is for her to upstage Romney. Don’t be surprised if she does it again, but that is a discussion for another time.
Today, Let’s ring those bells and fire those guns. It looks like Paul Revere has gotten his revenge, as Sarah Palin’s approval rating continues its downward slide to 24%.
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49 Responses to Paul Revere’s Revenge: Sarah Palin’s Approval Rating Sinks To 24%
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Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 15th, 2011 at 11:11 pm
She sure isnt helping herself by not getting into the race. If she is going to do it she needs to do it now. Otherwise she will be forgotten. And certainly already forgotten by some.
One of these days people like Romney who has a national platform will bash her for her mouth and the timing of her mouth. Once these 7 gigolos realize they dont need her she will no longer have any footing
Sarah Jones
Jun. 15th, 2011 at 11:26 pm
Oh, no, you must stop thinking like someone who would be selling ideas. Palin has to wait it out, lest she get vetted or asked a question. After the other candidates have shot each other down, she’ll be the last man standing- a winner by default, if you will, which is the only solution when you suffer from impostor syndrome.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 9:39 am
However the winnowing goes, the math looks favorable for Democracy :)
Reynardine
Jun. 15th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
Aside from Shitler’s very own winning personality, one of her greatest ass ets is her squads of Brown Shits, who invade every nook and cranny where the insufficiently right wing may be hiding, in order to gleichschalt their thinking through threats of future punishment (“We’ve added your name to our list…”). To know them is to love them all, and the more they display themselves, the more of us know more about them.
Sarah Jones
Jun. 15th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
They are a charming bunch. Speaking of them, we’re considering doing the occasional column full of the hate mail we receive, which is frankly perhaps more instructive re the right wing than anything their leaders say.
Y’all can pick your favs and mock the poor grammar SBUSITITNWEU WITH ANGEY CAOPIAL LETTERS!@I*!Y@
Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 15th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Oh yeah do it do it! I love hate mail!
Sarah Jones
Jun. 15th, 2011 at 11:44 pm
We laugh for hours over it. It’s like Christmas. Lots of dirty potty mouths out there in the “christian” community. “EVIL librul sucum jesjs hates you! die! socilst pigs!”
Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 15th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Ive seen that stuff, just go to viletweets.com lol
moles
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 1:09 am
please, pretty please. We all need the laughs.
Marvin
Jun. 15th, 2011 at 11:58 pm
That’s a bummer. There’s no way she’s going to win the GOP nomination… that’s what I’d really like. I want her as the Republican nominee so she can destroy the Republican’s chances in 2012.
Romney is lame… but he’s a sort of standard kind of lame… if things are going badly enough – he may even win.
Ingarose
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 12:07 am
A lot of talking heads seem to have forgotten Sarah Palin as well (Hannity is the exception). It is really getting nuts out there. A few think that Bachman has a chance to win the nomination and Dick Morris thinks that she could even beat Obama, if it would not be for the horrible liberal media.
CW in LA
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 12:51 am
Has anyone compiled all the Sarah Palin Pout photos? I’ve seen a fair number of them now.
OverMountainMan
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Thats because she is a professional victim !
With all of the damning books and court acceptable (according to Joe McGinnus ) evidence when is the MSM going to get on the biggest story of the year about Sarah and her faked pregnancy with the baby Trig ??
CW in LA
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
You know, I actually think a misguided effort to cover for her daughter would make Princess Sarah seem more human and less sociopathic than the story of the “wild ride” as she tells it.
And that’s why I’m inclined to believe Trig is hers, and for once she’s telling more or less the truth.
janie
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 12:52 am
Well she is on Fox Business at8pm with Napolitino.
I don’t get Business, just Fox News.
I wonder if she will comment on Bachman sneaky announcement,
on the debate. I am sure she was going to get back in her bus and do to Bachman, what she did ti Mitt.
Scorpie
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 7:14 am
I think that was scarahs’ plan but Bachman nixed that. The peeponders are so upset with Michelle (sp.) for announcing during the debate.
Diane
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 1:10 am
I think that it is perfect karma that a simple question, “what did you do today” may have ended her chances as POTUS.
In Boston, home of the real Tea Party.
Unflippinbelievable!
ophu
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 1:22 am
And since she doesn’t know when to quit, the fun will certainly continue…
Uniquitous
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 10:31 am
That’s where you’re wrong. Sarah Palin is the MASTER of quitting.
Dan Skinner
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 1:38 am
The only way a sociopath like Palin will run is to wait until the debates are over so she doesn’t have to be confronted by real reporters and do a third party write in. She’s a paranoid coward above all things else. She already spoke a a third party “solution”. This is a woman who cannot think on her feet. She will try to facebook, tweet and Fox news herself into a candidacy. The almighty great thing about that is, if there is a Republican candidate doing well, she will so rip the party into two halves that no one from the right will be able to get elected for the next ten years.
AKRNHSNC
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 2:27 am
One of our neighbors is a devout Republican and was fairly smitten w/Palin but lately had been saying a few things that indicated their eyes were being opened. She really opened their eyes when she pulled the stunt w/Romney’s Presidential run announcement and then pretended later to be so sorry if she “stepped on anyone’s toes”. Their exact words after that, “if she’s the nominee, I’m voting for Obama!!”.
Please, Sarah, keep up the great work. You might be able to get yourself into the single digits at this rate!
The Platzner Post
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 3:26 am
Love it!!! : )
Michael Hayne
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 4:16 am
As Colbert once said, “polls refelct reality, and everybody know reality has a liberal bias.” Sarah doesn’t read newspers anyway as they tend to give one perspective and a thought here and there. I think Romney is as scripted as Snow White Trash, but at least Romney served out his term as Governor and actually did something. Her existence is as fictional as her claim to be a hunter.
LionFisile
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 4:25 am
The only thing pushing Sarah Palin is not God. It’s the Koch brothers who desire to have more dumbasses like her in government who would do their bidding. Sarah is in it for the money. Forget about the so called “love of country” and all that bullcrap. She’s just a GOLD-DIGGER!
Cheryl
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 4:50 am
Quote of the day: “She is a traveling circus of ignorance and excuses.”
Thank you, Jason!
wiscogal
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 8:33 am
Holy crap…great picture! I keep asking this question-If Sarah Palin was overweight had kinky frizzy hair & buck ugly teeth & zits all over her face would we even know who this person was?
Pat Padrnos
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am
Jason -
An amazing post on Immoral Minority concerning Shailey Tripp.
aussiegal77
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 11:28 am
She’s poison – I hope she doesn’t win the GOP nom, it would be a disaster for this country even if it cements a second term for President Obama.
Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 11:30 am
Agreed. Just her having the nomination would make us such a laughingstock we would have to start the space program back up to get us off the planet
Maple
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Shiva, I think the same could be said for any of the far right, fundie-type candidates, The Canadians, Aussies, British and Europeans continue to be astounded (and concerned) that these politicians are radicalizing religion. Getting off the planet may be your only hope in saving face! Or…..you sane ones could emigrate — we’ve got lots of room!
Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Ha! My choice would be New Zealand or Australia though! Thanks!
Kimbutgar
Jun. 17th, 2011 at 10:58 am
Unfortunately, Murdoch has been poisoning Australia with his fake news over there. They are trying to do over there what they have done here by dividing people.
shel3364
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
She won’t leave the stage until she gets her derriere handed to her on a platter either in a primary or in the general.
Until then, she can flit around the county spouting what she *would* do and how she’d do it better without ever having to prove it. Her fans love that.
But if she is soundly rejected by the electorate, she won’t have much of a choice but to slink back under a glacier and lick her wounds.
This is my dream.
okami
Jun. 17th, 2011 at 7:15 am
problem is that with her psychology, she’ll just double down and make herself the victim again, continuing as if it’s a plot against her. her believers will eat it up.
shel3364
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
You DO realize that there is a “Top Sarah Palin Posts” link at the top of this page?????
To ask about her not going away while providing a permanent link to articles solely about her is a little…um… confusing, to say the least.
Anne
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
I am personally glad that her approval rating is so low. Just the same, she is only symptomatic of what is wrong with the Republican Party. There are plenty of other intellectual midgets of the GOP who are more than willing to take her place if she decides not to run.
Rick Shreiner
Jun. 16th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
I LIKE IT ! !
Tyrone Thigpen
Jun. 18th, 2011 at 7:24 pm
And yet she’s a millionairess, NYT best-selling author (twice!), Fox News analyst at $2M per annum, former governor, fundraiser, sought-out speaker (at $110K per), wife, mother, grandmother, outdoorswoman, Tea Party leader, and possible GOP nominee, or at least kingmaker. And who is Jason Easley?
Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 18th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
I wouldnt go too far with the book selling thing, her own PAC had to buy thousands of them to get her second book on the list.
Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 18th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
I wouldnt go too far with the book selling thing, her own PAC had to buy thousands of them to get her second book on the list.
Just becuase she works for Fox does not mean she has any quality at the job she does. Most of what she says is just rediculous
Her outdoorswomenhood was disprove on her show “Alaska or how I learned to love me”. She failed that test huge
Jason doesnt have to compare himself against Sarah. He KNOW what is doing and doesnt have to grift money from poor people to do it
Gordon Herr
Jun. 18th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
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Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 18th, 2011 at 7:39 pm
No but they are reporting national polls, not just among republicans who would probably vote a for a turtle if it was named Palin
Donna
Jun. 21st, 2011 at 4:41 am
Palin is a target: no matter WHAT she does, the media must tear her a new one. Once again however Mrs. Palin is correct & her small group of haters are incorrect. I want to comment on how accurate her account of Paul Revere was on Memorial day because his warning of the BRITISH was pivotal in leading colonists to victories in the battles of Lexington and Concord. I took the liberty of asterisking her actual reference, since so many people seem challenged in our nation’s history & are apparently unable to know when they are being yanked by the media!
“Midnight Ride”
Battles of Lexington and Concord
When British Army activity on April 7, 1775, suggested the possibility of troop movements, Joseph Warren sent Revere to warn the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, then sitting in Concord, the site of one of the larger caches of Patriot military supplies. After delivering the warning, Concord residents began moving the military supplies away from the town.
One week later, General Gage received instructions from Secretary of State William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth, to disarm the rebels, who were known to have hidden weapons in Concord, among other locations, and to imprison the rebellion’s leaders, especially Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Dartmouth gave Gage considerable discretion in his commands. Gage issued orders to Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith to proceed from Boston “with utmost expedition and secrecy to Concord, where you will seize and destroy… all Military stores…. But you will take care that the soldiers do not plunder the inhabitants or hurt private property.” Gage did not issue written orders for the arrest of rebel leaders, as he feared doing so might spark an uprising.
Between 9 and 10 p.m. on the night of April 18, 1775, Joseph Warren told Revere and William Dawes that the king’s troops were about to embark in boats from Boston bound for Cambridge and the road to Lexington and Concord. Warren’s intelligence suggested that the most likely objectives of the regulars’ movements later that night would be the capture of Adams and Hancock. They did not worry about the possibility of regulars marching to Concord, since the supplies at Concord were safe, but they did think their leaders in Lexington were unaware of the potential danger that night. Revere and Dawes were sent out to warn them and to alert colonial militias in nearby towns.
In the days before April 18, Revere had instructed Robert Newman, the sexton of the North Church, to send a signal by lantern to alert colonists in Charlestown as to the movements of the troops when the information became known. In what is well known today by the phrase “one if by land, two if by sea”, one lantern in the steeple would signal the army’s choice of the land route while two lanterns would signal the route “by water” across the Charles River. Revere first gave instructions to send the signal to Charlestown. He then crossed the Charles River by rowboat, slipping past the British warship HMS Somerset at anchor. Crossings were banned at that hour, but Revere safely landed in Charlestown and rode to Lexington, avoiding a British patrol and later warning almost every house along the route. The Charlestown colonists dispatched additional riders to the north.
Riding through present-day Somerville, Medford, and Arlington, Revere warned patriots along his route, many of whom set out on horseback to deliver warnings of their own. By the end of the night there were probably as many as 40 riders throughout Middlesex County carrying the news of the army’s advance. Revere did not shout the phrase later attributed to him (“The British are coming!”): His mission depended on secrecy, the countryside was filled with British army patrols, and the Massachusetts colonists (who were predominantly English in ethnic origin still considered themselves British. Revere’s warning, according to eyewitness accounts of the ride and Revere’s own descriptions, was “The Regulars are coming out.” Revere arrived in Lexington around midnight, with Dawes arriving about a half hour later. They met with Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were spending the night with Hancock’s relatives (in what is now called the Hancock-Clarke House), and they spent a great deal of time discussing plans of action upon receiving the news. They believed that the forces leaving the city were too large for the sole task of arresting two men and that Concord was the main target. The Lexington men dispatched riders to the surrounding towns, and Revere and Dawes continued along the road to Concord accompanied by Samuel Prescott, a doctor who happened to be in Lexington “returning from a lady friend’s house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m.”
Revere, Dawes, and Prescott were detained by a British Army patrol in Lincoln at a roadblock on the way to Concord. Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and escaped into the woods; he eventually reached Concord. Dawes also escaped, though he fell off his horse not long after and did not complete the ride.
*****Palin’s Reference:*****
Revere was captured and questioned by the British soldiers at gunpoint. He told them of the army’s movement from Boston, and that British army troops would be in some danger if they approached Lexington, because of the large number of hostile militia gathered there. He and other captives taken by the patrol were still escorted east toward Lexington, until about a half mile from Lexington they heard a gunshot. The British major demanded Revere explain the gunfire, and Revere replied it was a signal to “alarm the country”. As the group drew closer to Lexington, the town bell began to clang rapidly, upon which one of the captives proclaimed to the British soldiers “The bell’s a’ringing! The town’s alarmed, and you’re all dead men!” The British soldiers gathered and decided not to press further towards Lexington but instead to free the prisoners and head back to warn their commanders. The British confiscated Revere’s horse and rode off to warn the approaching army column. Revere walked to Rev. Jonas Clarke’s house, where Hancock and Adams were staying. As the battle on Lexington Green unfolded, Revere assisted John Hancock and his family in their escape from Lexington, helping to carry a trunk of Hancock’s papers.
The ride of the three men triggered a flexible system of “alarm and muster” that had been carefully developed months before, in reaction to the colonists’ impotent response to the Powder Alarm of September 1774. This system was an improved version of an old network of widespread notification and fast deployment of local militia forces in times of emergency. The colonists had periodically used this system all the way back to the early years of Indian wars in the colony, before it fell into disuse in the French and Indian War. In addition to other express riders delivering messages, bells, drums, alarm guns, bonfires, and a trumpet were used for rapid communication from town to town, notifying the rebels in dozens of eastern Massachusetts villages that they should muster their militias because the regulars in numbers greater than 500 were leaving Boston with possible hostile intentions. This system was so effective that people in towns 25 miles (40 km) from Boston were aware of the army’s movements while they were still unloading boats in Cambridge. Unlike in the Powder Alarm, the alarm raised by the three riders successfully allowed the militia to repel the British troops in Concord, after which the British were harried by the growing colonial militia all the way back to Boston.
Donna
Jun. 21st, 2011 at 4:46 am
Her warning *TO* the British is what I’d meant to type. ty.
Shiva (Moderator)
Jun. 21st, 2011 at 8:45 am
you must also recognize that Paul Revere gave the British false information on purpose. Palin Merrily twisted the story around. Personally, I think she did it out of ignorance of the history and the fact she wanted to throw Someone taking guns away in
Donna
Jun. 21st, 2011 at 4:44 am
no edit mode on here… In my Introduction, I meant to say, “…her warning TO the British…” She did indeed warn the British when captured by British soldiers. Just read it. I learned this when I was a kid in 5th grade. What a shame we are raising a generation of dolts who don’t know the history of our country!