Neither Donald Trump nor Sarah Palin, nor for that matter Marjorie Taylor Greene or Lauren Boebert, want elected positions so they can govern. There is no interest in governing, therefore no need to know anything. What they want is power.
In the final round of ranked-choice voting, Democrat Mary Peltola defeated Sarah Palin to win the Alaska House special election.
On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver said that Sarah Palin is a grifter who doesn't belong in Congress.
Sarah Palin uncorked a classic rant that was loaded with self-pity and topped with praise for Trump's nearly 80-year-old testicles.
A new poll of the first round of voting in the Alaska House special election was released and it showed Sarah Palin with only 19% of the vote and leading Santa Clause by just 13 points.
The Big Secret revealed in Schmidt's "The Warning" newsletter is that John McCain was a hero, but also a coward. A coward who put the national security of this country behind his own ambitions and reputation.
Sarah Palin filed to run in an Alaska House primary to fill the seat of the late Rep. Don Young which has 50 other candidates.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) has tested positive for COVID-19 again, this time ahead of her defamation trial against The New York Times, in which she will state that the newspaper and its editor, James Bennett, defamed her in an opinion piece.
For the last year, Donald Trump has minimized the risk of contracting COVID-19. The former president even fell ill with the virus in October of 2020. Trump had a bad case of the illness, much worse than his Doctors revealed to the public.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin refused to walk back her falsehoods about the 2020 general election during an interview with “Good Morning Britain” host Piers Morgan in which they discussed the storming of the United States Capitol, which took place after former President Donald Trump’s supporters attacked the building in an effort to overturn the results of an election Trump had claimed, without evidence, was fraudulent.
Donald Trump lashed out at the late John McCain on Thursday while also agreeing with the false suggestion that his 2008 campaign was sabotaged from the inside.
The President retweeted a video of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin telling Fox New’s Tucker Carlson that the Republican presidential campaign in 2008 was sabotaged by some people now publicly opposed to Trump.
Speaking to Fox News host Jesse Watters, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R) claimed the media dislikes conservatives voices and has a double standard regarding Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who this week was named as Joe Biden’s running mate in the presidential race.
The Lincoln Project republicans came out in full force last December, declaring in a New York Times op-ed their mission of defeating both Trump this November as well as Trumpism, meaning they are seeking to erase the republican majority in the senate.
A new report reveals that those same red state Republican voters who want the federal government cut to shreds are leeching substantially more assets from the federal government they want destroyed at the expense of blue states that are supporting them.
By more than 2-1, the Koch Brothers affiliation hurts Joni Ernst with voters in Iowa. They are equally unimpressed by Sarah Palin's support for the Republican.
For Americans with half-a-brain, the conservative hypocrisy is as glaring as the subjects conservatives are certain their older, whiter, and religiously-inclined voters embrace.
Showing a level of cluelessness that is surprising even for them, a Tea Party PAC is trying to recruit Sarah Palin to run for the U.S. Senate in Alaska.
The queen of bitter jealousy had reared her ugly head as Sarah Palin attacked the White House Correspondents Dinner, despite the fact that it is a charity event that raises money for scholarships.
In all likelihood the 2014 South Carolina Governor's race is going to be a replay of the 2010 race, not good news for incumbent Nikki Haley
Sarah Palin thinks that Melissa Harris-Perry's ad calling for an investment in public education is evidence that MSNBC thinks your children don't belong to you.
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Sarah Palin seem to have captured the spirit of the current crop of Republicans; still extreme and still anti-Obama.
In her latest SarahPAC video, Sarah Palin urges her supporters to give her money to fight back against GOP consultants, but in 2012 Palin spent millions on Republican political consultants.
At CPAC, Sarah Palin stepped straight out of 2008 and offered America the same desperate, cartoonish, Obama hate that has made her a national joke.
Sarah Palin's upcoming book complaining about the commercialism of Christmas doesn't mean she's back. Palin is just doing a drive-by cash pick up from the easily exploitable.
The primary purpose of House Bill 933 is to perpetuate the bloat of the defense budget and decimate domestic programs.
Rush Limbaugh went way, way, way off the deep end today by claiming that Sarah Palin wasn't ever wrong about anything.
Right wing "patriots" are constantly complaining of losing their freedoms and liberty. I would ask what these freedoms and liberties are.
Death panels have been replaced by 9-9-9 as Herman Cain will be taking over Sarah Palin's role as the voice of crazy on Fox News.
Ted Nugent said that if Barack Obama was re-elected and Mitt Romney did not prevail, then he would either be in jail or dead around this time. But Nugent, like most cockroaches, is still here.
A new poll by Public Policy Polling (PPP) shows that not only are Alaskans done with Palin, but Clinton could win the state by 16 points were she to run in 2016.
Many in the media are calling the firing of Sarah Palin the end of an era, but what it truly represents is the ultimate failure of Fox News to influence elections and defeat President Obama.
The "Liberal Media", is a tiresome and wholly inaccurate screed that is the centerpiece of right-wing propaganda.
Ego met ineptitude as Sarah Palin hilariously thought that she could out fox Fox News, and manage the spin behind her firing.
I bring you sad news from the tundra, patriots. Sarah Palin will no longer be offering her "analysis" on Fox "News". Yes, they have dropped her.
The same people who love Sarah Palin call Obama a dictator. But in 2008, then Gov. Palin stripped the militia of their guns and many powers.
There is no conceivable outcome in which GOP opposition to Chuck Hagel ends happily for Republicans
A number of conservatives are so outraged with John Boehner over the fiscal cliff deal are seriously pushing to fire the Speaker and replace him with Sarah Palin.
President Obama's celeb D-List stalker, Sarah Palin appeared on Fox News and gave a performance that was so weird it made Victoria Jackson and Ted Nugent look like a sanity convention.
Cracks begin to appear in the no new taxes wall as Saxby Chambliss signals a willingness to rethink the question of revenue
There are 2 prominent women who could assume their party's mantle as Presidential candidates in 2016. They are Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.
Mitt Romney wants to convince Ameicans that Obama has quit on them, perhaps to cover up the fact that he himself isn't even really trying
In a desperate attempt to blame President Obama for the violence in the Middle East, Sarah Palin claimed that the Innocence of Muslims is a phantom video.
The fundamentalists got themselves covered now, so don't even try to argue: if Obama wins, it's God's will. If Romney wins, it's God's will.
The unsavory ingredients that go into making a Republican politician create a perfect storm for America and the world in 2012
The GOP's Mitt makeover isn't going over well with American television viewers. Compared to night two of the 2008 Republican convention, viewership is down by 17 million.
Sarah Palin has taken to Facebook to complain that Fox News has canceled all of her scheduled interviews during their coverage of the Republican Convention.
Bryan Fischer is upset that his word isn't good enough; that his Christian male voice does not invalidate a woman's experience and science
Obama campaign spokesperson Stephanie Cutter defended Vice President Biden from Republican attacks about his competency by calling Sarah Palin mentally incompetent.
Christian end time fantasies are not limited to the world of fiction; these people get elected to office and influence, even control policy
Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan is 19 points less popular than John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin in 2008, 58%-39%.
In a note meant to congratulate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin only mentions them three times while focusing all of her frenzied venom on President Obama.
For years we've been told Obama's Christianity matters but where Romney's Mormonism comes in, will expediency win out over dogma in 2012?
Sarah Palin surfaced on Sean Hannity's show tonight to call President Obama a nauseating liar. One look at Palin's poll numbers reveals that the feeling is mutual.
A new Pew survey has found that Mitt Romney is so unpopular that he has now replaced Sarah Palin as America's most hated national political figure.
Fox News is feeling so threatened by Elizabeth Warren that they called on Sarah Palin to attack the Massachusetts Senate candidate and call her a Marxist.
Sarah Palin has decided to give America a lesson on the constitution, and how gay hating chicken fits into the vision of the Founders.
Cheney based his assessment of Palin not being ready based on her short time as Governor, ignoring that Romney basically quit on Massachusetts after two years.
Fox News began their arm twisting to get Sarah Palin a speaking slot at the Republican Convention with Bill O'Reilly laying out all the reason why Palin should be speaking in Tampa.
When one scary religion tries to make another sound scary, it's time to step back and take stock of the facts and remember the Constitution
Can't you just feel the joy it must give Sarah Palin to reach into the bag where she keeps all of the bitter hurts she's been nursing for years and pull one out to attach to the nearest Democrat?
Lifetime has quietly announced that after getting a taste of how much America can't stand the Palins, they taking the first steps towards ridding themselves of Bristol Palin's reality show bomb.
The Right is in total meltdown mode; from claiming that Justice Roberts is suffering from "cognitive dissociation" to blaming God for ruling against them.
From the annals of deep conservative thought we got this "insight" from Sarah Palin's Twitter feed: "Obama lied to the American people. Again. He said it wasn't a tax. Obama lies; freedom dies."
After America got their weekly dose of child abuse disguised as artistic pursuit on Dance Moms, they were force fed a horrific descent in to reality TV hell courtesy of Bristol Palin.
Scott Walker is outspending his opponent, Tom Barrett 10-1. The big boys have made their position clear in the recall election, but will Koch whoring trump the will of the people?
There are many reasons to vote for Barack Obama in 2012, and very few to vote against him, given the alternatives
The U.S. government has been gridlocked since the Republicans captured the House. Only women voters can change that dynamic; men won't.
You get the idea that if we banned the word Satan we'd all be a lot happier but that fundamentalists wouldn't have anything to talk about
I am afraid, Mama Grizzly Chic is still the rage in the GOP's harem culture, where conservative women are real women and just being mama grizzlies you betcha
Sarah Palin continued her Fox News walk of shame out of big energy's dorm room today defying all logic and statistics with a claim that President Obama is bankrupting the coal industry.
Like any desperate has been who is seeing it all fade away, Sarah Palin hit a new low by shaking her 2008 moneymaker in an infomercial for Big Oil.
Jon Stewart didn't just joke about Sarah Palin on the Today show, he took out the knives and cut through Sarah Palin's BS down to her empty fame craving core.
Sarah Palin's stint as Mean Girl getting petty revenge on Katie Couric on Today demonstrates just one more reason why Sarah Palin will never be politically relevant again.
While taking part in Sean Hannity's show on left wing hate language, Sarah Palin demeaned disabled Americans by referring to them as defenseless.
Rick Santorum won in Alabama and Mississippi because Evangelical right-wingers constituted the overwhelming majority of Tuesday's Deep South voters. And they voted race no matter what they tell you.
Sarah Palin had a Facebook meltdown last night because President Obama dared to use her own words in context in a campaign ad. Naturally, in writing her defense, she doubled down on the things said in the ad while claiming they were taken out of context.
The President’s ads are writing themselves this election season because as we all know, the truth is stranger than fiction for the modern day Republican Party. All the Obama team has to do is roll the tape of any number of Republicans speaking and boom! Lights out for all but the most racist and uninformed.
Here’s an Obama ad featuring Palin on Fox News’ Hannity essentially saying Barack Obama will bring back racial discrimination against white people:
Obama ad transcript via TPM:
Barack Obama I think has never been seen in the conventional, traditional way of we who would describe a man of valor. … And his profession as a community organizer — what went into his thinking was this philosophy of radicalism … he is bringing us back, Sean, to days that — you can hearken back to days before the Civil War … What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin. Why are we allowing our country to move backwards?
Sarah Palin did say these things, in fact, we wrote about it here in Sarah Palin Unveils 2012 Strategy: Insane Racism Redux. Palin did accuse the President of trying to take America back to pre “Civil War” times. President Obama can hardly help it if Palin is ignorant.
But Sarah Palin is steaming mad that Obama is using her words to hang the Republican Party. And where can a coward like Palin go when she’s angry but to her Facebook bunker? She’s too frightened to go on any mainstream media outlets, especially with Game Change on fire this week. So Palin takes to Facebook and doubles down on the exact same rhetoric she claims was taken out of context.
Here is what she wrote in part on her Facebook Page:
Exhibit A in these diversionary tactics is an absurd new attack ad President Obama has released taking my comments out of context….
This latest ad is quite odd, but also quite telling. It shows that our President sure seems fearful of discussing the economy, energy prices, and all the other problems people need addressed. And intended or not, now that his ad opens up the discussion of Barack Obama’s radical past associations and the radical philosophy that shaped his ideas about his promised “fundamental transformation” of our country, I welcome the media to join ordinary Americans in finally vetting Barack Obama. The media failed to do so in 2008 to the detriment of us all. Maybe this time around they can do their job.
They might start by noting the President’s heavily edited attack ad.”
Here is her original interview:
Transcript (edited from original courtesy of Crooks and Liars):
PALIN: Well, what we can gleam from this is an understanding of why we are all on the road that we are on and it’s based on what went into his thinking, being surrounded by radicals…He is bringing us back Sean to days that… you can harken back to days before the Civil War, when unfortunately too many Americans mistakenly believed that not all men were created equal. And it was the Civil War that began the codification of the truth here in America… Yes, we are equal and we all have equal opportunities, not based on the color of your skin. You have equal opportunities to work hard and to succeed and to embrace the opportunities… What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin…Why are we allowing our country to move backwards instead of moving forward with that understanding that as our charters of liberty spell out for us, we are all created equally.
What we have here, America, is a failure to communicate. The implication in “heavily edited” and “taken out of context” is that the person said something before or after the quote that changes the entire meaning of the sound bite. That is not what happened to Sarah Palin. These are her words, and the entire interview does nothing to change what she meant.
This is the opposite of what Breitbart did to Shirley Sherrod, who was telling a story about a lesson she learned and how she had been wrong, and Breitbart left that part out of the quote. That was an example of willfully misleading people about the speaker’s intentions and meaning. This is not. In fact, in her own rebuttal, Palin doubles down on her accusations that the President is a radical who wants to fundamentally transform America. Are we supposed to forget her infamous cry, “This is a man who does not see America as you and I see it… This is a man who pals around with terrorists.”
It is not Barack Obama who was not vetted, as Game Change so scathingly reveals. It was Sarah Palin who was not vetted. It was Sarah Palin who did not know what the Fed was. It was Sarah Palin who could not handle an interview with McCain friendly Katie Couric. It was Sarah Palin who was associated with a radical, dangerous secessionist party. Yes, America, Sarah Palin has a projection problem and she desperately wants us all to focus on Barack Obama’s “radical past” and gas prices right now, as does the entire Republican Party.
Gas prices and invented narratives based on “otherism” of Barack Obama are all the Right has, and Sarah Palin probably really believes that the President has full control over gas prices. This is the woman who didn’t know the difference between North and South Korea and thought that one of our “border allies” was Iraq. Heck, Palin is allegedly an energy expert, but she believes that we can bring down oil prices by drilling here. That’s just sad.
But what’s worse is that the Republican base and many Americans are buying this load of baloney. They need only look to the amount of drilling we’ve done here under Obama versus the amount of drilling done in Germany and the price of gas in both countries to see that oil prices are set on the global market.
But they don’t want to talk about reality, because reality is an ugly mess for the Republican Party. Instead, they want to gin up fear about Obama taking us back to pre-Civil War era, because we all know that all African Americans preferred that time to the heady days of today where everyone is “equal”. Everyone, that is, except for a half black man who is President of this country; he, of course, is subjected to endless racism and fear tactics based on the color of his skin and his “Muslim religion.” As if it matters what religion he is, but for the record, since it’s clear the
Republicans in Mississippi and Alabama need some help
If you haven’t seen 'Game Change' yet, it’s a must see movie, and not because it’s about Sarah Palin, but because it’s about what she represents: The cynical, dangerous, decaying state of the Republican Party.
Palin thinks that Obama is quaking in his shoes hoping no one figures out that he introduced a professor and asked people to welcome him with “open hearts and minds” because nothing says dangerous for America like an open heart and mind. She pursed her lips disapprovingly over the failure of the media to vet the President and said we all know now about his radical agenda (for jobs, the sinner!).
Watch here courtesy of Media Matters:
Transcript courtesy of Crooks and Liars:
PALIN: Well, what we can gleam from this is an understanding of why we are all on the road that we are on and it’s based on what went into his thinking, being surrounded by radicals. He is bringing us back Sean to days that… you can harken back to days before the Civil War, when unfortunately too many Americans mistakenly believed that not all men were created equal. And it was the Civil War that began the codification of the truth here in America…
Yes, we are equal and we all have equal opportunities, not based on the color of your skin.
You have equal opportunities to work hard and to succeed and to embrace the opportunities, God given opportunities to develop resources and work extremely hard and as I say, to succeed.
Now, it has taken all these years for many Americans to understand that that gravity, that mistake, took place before the Civil War and why the Civil War had to really start changing America. What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin.
Why are we allowing our country to move backwards instead of moving forward with that understanding that as our charters of liberty spell out for us, we are all created equally.
Oh boy. Sarah Palin is at it again. Yes, she’s flirting with the disaffected Tea Party base and brokered conventions while baring her mama grizzly teeth at poor Mitt Romney. She’s not closing any doors, no matter how much the Republican Party wishes she would.
Ms Palin told CNN yesterday that she isn’t ruling out a run in 2012, “Anything is possible. I don’t close any doors that perhaps would be open out there, so no, I wouldn’t close that door. My plan is to be at that convention.”
Rubbing it in, Palin said, “I want to see the process continue, more debate about who it is, who can bust through the Orwellian Obama rhetoric and pandering that we see in the incumbent, who can bust through that with facts, history and logic and common sense, in order for American voters to understand we do have a choice. There is a contrast between the incumbent Barack Obama, and any of the four on the GOP ticket.”
This is actually a good, off-the-cuff interview for Palin, though riddled with her usual inaccuracies and outright factual errors. For example, it’s disingenuous for Republicans to claim that the Obama administration is “weakening the military” (note how they never address the fact that their own behavior forced them into a situation where cuts were necessary and they couldn’t agree on cuts in the Super Committee, so automatic cuts kicked in for defense spending), but heck, given that every single Republican candidate has resorted to the Fox version of reality, Palin doesn’t seem so odd anymore.
Compared to Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin looks daffy instead of dangerous; but we realize looks can be deceiving. Still, she pales in comparison on the fear chart for domestic issues; but on national security, the mere notion of Sarah Palin in the White House is enough to…. Oh, God.
Palin is keeping her determined little feet in that door, dangling her naughty monkey from her bedazzled toes, taunting the Republican Party with all she’s got.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party is doing all it can to stop the whispers of a possible “brokered convention.” You’ll hear Republican strategists refer often to the Barack Obama versus Hillary Clinton primary, as if the same result can be expected for the Republican Party. But the situations are far from similar.
While the 2008 Democratic primary was vicious and left a bitter taste in its aftermath (comment boards weren’t safe), what sets the Democratic primary apart from the 2012 Republican primary is the fact that both candidates in the Democratic primary generated wild, unbreakable support, whereas the Republican Party can’t stand behind any of its candidates for longer than a few months. They come and they go, and no one seems to mind.
Mitt Romney doesn’t galvanize the base and he never will. He is simply the guy they think has the best chance of beating Obama. He’s not going to inspire people who wouldn’t normally vote to get out and vote. He’s not going to fire the base up to vote down the ticket. Mitt Romney is the establishment’s pick, and even among the establishment, he’s not a favored son.
Poor Mitt can’t stop looking behind him. There’s Rick and Newt and now, Sarah Palin calling him a weak candidate. Fox Business kept asking Palin what she would do if the Party begged her to run. Begged. She was coy and good spirited, in what can only be seen as a bad news, until he asked what she would do if asked to run for VP. For some reason, Palin was outraged at the idea and said it would take a lot of presumption for any of the candidates to dare ask her to do that given what she suffered in 2008. I guess in Sarah’s mind, running for President is so much easier than running for VP.
And that little mind burp lands us right back to where we started. Sarah Palin is playing games again and she’s not making any sense. Of course, that isn’t news. But what is news is that Sarah Palin is going to mess with Mitt Romney up until the bitter end.
The Republican Party is reaping what it sowed.
As state and national elected officials battle for the most egregiously NRA-friendly legislation possible, bizarre shooting incidents are popping up around the country.
Sarah Palin heads to CPAC and plays more cat and mouse with conservative. What did Sarah Palin mean when she said, "game on?"
Tea party leaders have shown their un-American roots by demanding that education be returned to an era when it was the exclusive domain of the wealthy.
The problem with Republican voters is that they are ill-informed. Worse, this ignorance seems to be a self-imposed state since they have access to the same information as Democratic voters.
When the horse trading starts, things could get squirrelly and unpredictable during the GOP's Nevada caucuses.
You thought Sarah Palin was a non-entity, didn’t ya’? Guess again, liberal elite suckers! Yes, but this time she's working' for you.
With the Iowa Caucus upon us we can see that the GOP has become trapped by its own extreme narrative, depriving any victor of national appeal
TLC’s "Sarah Palin’s Alaska" website has a Broadsheet section written by David Murray. Last night, Mr Murray attacked a Texan blogger who had the temerity to correct Ms Palin over her inaccurate claim that environmentalists were “limiting deforestation” in Alaska. Mr Murray adds to the spice of this late night whopper by actually suggesting that this show isn’t political as he says, “once or twice per episode, Sarah does make a quick aside with some political content.”
Miller lost his federal case - the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out his lawsuit on Tuesday, just a week after the Alaska Supreme Court did the same.
After a rough two years of Palinitis stained by winning Politifacts' Lie of Year award among other ignoble distinctions, it appears that even Republicans are mournfully unclenching their stubborn fists from around Palin's star bursts. A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted December 17-19 and it turns out that support for Ms Palin is nose-diving among Republicans.
Joe Miller will not try to perform a citizens arrest on Lisa Murkowski but he will take her to federal court for having the audacity to defeat him in 2010.
Sometimes our life experiences come in handy. This is one of those times. Who can forget Ms Palin’s endless mocking of President Obama for using a teleprompter and her cutesy way of referring to her hand notes. Last night, as I was watching the latest episode, I saw the evil socialist machine staring me down, clear as day. So clear that I could read the logo. Autoscript teleprompters.
Sarah Palin had a woman escorted out of her book signing today in Alaska. The woman's crime was the t-shirt she wore which read "worst governor ever". Ms Palin is often complaining about her own first amendment rights (translated to mean the Press can not criticize her or fact-check her without trampling on her first amendment rights) but seems to think less highly of other Americans' rights.
Comparisons of Sarah Palin to Abraham Lincoln are absurd. It takes more than stacking wood as a child to make another Lincoln. Facts allow no such comparison.
During Ms Palin's interview with GMA co-anchor Robin Roberts, Ms Palin responded to criticisms regarding her rather dismal current poll numbers were she to run against President Obama in 2012. Ms Palin's response put to bed notions that she isn't running as she extolled the virtues of “debating ideas” in competitive primaries.
This morning on Good Morning America, Ms Palin responded to criticisms regarding her rather dismal current poll numbers were she to run against President Obama in 2012. Anyone who is in doubt about Ms Palin running for President had best grab the smelling salts. She is and it’s uncertain if the GOP can stop her without alienating her Tea Party evangelical base.
Glenn Beck has taken everything conservatives have done and want to do and leveled them as accusations at the left. Google or Bing it, and see for yourself.
On the surface, the purpose of Sarah Palin’s visit to Haiti appeared to be to draw attention to the plight of Haitians, but the reality is that Palin is drawing attention to herself and her need of Graham’s evangelical religious-right voting bloc. If Palin was the Christian she claimed, she would give all her money to help the afflicted without asking for attention or recompense, but a pimp’s primary concern is making money and drawing attention to themselves.
Why did Sarah Palin keep an Israeli flag in her office in Juneau? She needed an American flag and an Alaskan flag. Didn't her governor's obligations stop there?
Michele Bachmann wants to “redefine” earmarks. Do a little tweaking here and there and you can spend wantonly yet present yourself as a fiscal conservative.
