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Why is Sarah Palin Still on the Nation's Stage? (Here's a new one)
Yahoo! News ^ | January 18, 2011 | Ron Hart

Posted on 01/18/2011 6:23:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Why is Sarah Palin still considered relevant in the national discourse?

It is said that at times certain celebrities are said to be famous for being famous. Is Palin relevant simply because she is relevant?

On Monday night, Palin appeared on the Sean Hannity show on Fox. She discussed the reaction of her critics, the media and the county at large to her statements following the shooting of Ariz. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, which included the unfortunate choice of the term "blood libel".

As Palin spoke, 2.36 million people watched, and the show comfortably outdrew the ratings for the debut of Pier Morgans Tonight on CNN, which was shown at the same time. During the broadcast, Palin and Hannity were, for a period of time, the number one tweeted term in the world.

The question, again, however, is "why?" What makes Sarah Palin relevant?

Regardless of her political persuasion, Palin has demonstrated very little executive success. From 1996 through 2002, Palin was the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, with a population of approximately 10,000 people.

Palin was elected governor of Alaska in 2005 and governing the state in 2006. In 2008 John McCain, Republican candidate for president, chose her (some would say inexplicably) as his running mate.....

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2012; bush; freepressforpalin; giffords; hannity; palin; piersmorgan; sarahpalin; tucson
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She has them scared spitless!!
1 posted on 01/18/2011 6:23:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author of this piece is a moron.


2 posted on 01/18/2011 6:28:11 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This guy’s little bio describes him as a “moderate” but he smells like a Moonbat to me.


3 posted on 01/18/2011 6:28:24 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She’s only relevant because the media makes her relevant and the only reason they make her relevant only because they see her as the #1 target.........they don’t do it because she is stupid and easy to mock and make fun at but because she isn’t a easy target like an establishment type who collapse everytime


4 posted on 01/18/2011 6:29:54 PM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why is this any of Hart’s business? He needs to continue kissing his “messiah’s” feet. Sarah Palin can take care of herself on or off the stage. Stuff it Ronnie!


5 posted on 01/18/2011 6:33:08 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (They're not going to shut me up! - Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Boy is this guy a little late to the game or what? This foaming at the mouth anger from the left is a partial result of them not taking her seriously all this time, mocking her, deriding her. Meanwhile, she’s become a political power station.


6 posted on 01/18/2011 6:34:22 PM PST by toddausauras
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To: ClearCase_guy
Correction...Barking Moonbat.
7 posted on 01/18/2011 6:34:45 PM PST by JPG (Sarah Palin: Doing for America what the GOP wussies are afraid to do.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

He can thank MSNBC for Sarah’s popularity. Every time they bash her, her ratings go through the roof.

Too bad about Piers Morgan. His show is going to be a big flop.


8 posted on 01/18/2011 6:37:22 PM PST by Palladin (Obama, go back to Hawaii! Better yet, go back to Kenya!!)
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He was accurate on some of it and not so accurate on other parts. Hard to discern because it was so poorly written.


9 posted on 01/18/2011 6:43:07 PM PST by blarney
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These nitwits are OBSESSED with her and then write essays asking why is she always being talked about??

They are just NUTS.


10 posted on 01/18/2011 6:43:51 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The glaring stupidity of the PDS crowd is mind boggling. They shout Sarah’s name all over the airwaves, completely unprovoked, out of nowhere, and then wonder why she is still on the national stage. The world has not seen such idiots in all of history.


11 posted on 01/18/2011 6:48:58 PM PST by HerrBlucher ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sean just asked Dr. Laura why the left hates Sarah... Her answer: She has balls.


12 posted on 01/18/2011 6:49:49 PM PST by libbylu
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

I believe that is in the upper range of what some would think!


13 posted on 01/18/2011 6:51:57 PM PST by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Do I write because I write?

He could have bought some good drugs with the money he wasted on that J-School thingy!


14 posted on 01/18/2011 6:52:59 PM PST by Delta Dawn (The whole truth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can’t live with her, can’t live without her.

There’s a consistance message. /sarc


15 posted on 01/18/2011 6:55:31 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: PaleoBob

Exactly, they call her out on the carpet and then ask why is she out on the carpet!!! It is about as retarded as you can get.


16 posted on 01/18/2011 6:56:00 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Delta Dawn
I write because I write?

Not exactly Descartes Cogito ergo sum is it. More like, I know how to write therefore I do. No thought needed I guess.

17 posted on 01/18/2011 7:01:06 PM PST by mc5cents (Government doesn't solve problems, it subsidizes them. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Consider this. These moronic leftists who continue to 'pen' these screeds are doing it for a very simple reason. They must. In order to get a NEW position with another leftist rag or gov't job they have to be able prove that they produced a 'hit' piece on Sarah Palin. You would have logically thought that after Palin resigned the governorship the numbers of articles would have fallen off as she became less relevant to these communist assholes. No such thing.

How do you show up at WaPo or Media Matters or the State Department if you can't produce a hit piece you wrote against Palin??? You can't. It's mandated by the left. So everyone of these twit commie assholes has to write his or her 'take' on Palin. Since there are literally millions of these dweebs out there the hit pieces will continue to come,...only they will get more angry as each 'writer' attempts to out do their communist brethren.

18 posted on 01/18/2011 7:04:59 PM PST by Doc Savage
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Regardless of her political persuasion, Palin has demonstrated very little executive success. From 1996 through 2002, Palin was the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, with a population of approximately 10,000 people.

So small towns don't count as real?

19 posted on 01/18/2011 7:07:42 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because she’s a girl who could whip their butts.


20 posted on 01/18/2011 7:10:54 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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