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Sarah Palin and the End of an Era: Split from FNC highlights fade of Tea Party as well as her own
The National Journal ^ | January 27, 2013 | Jill Lawrence

Posted on 01/27/2013 11:43:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The news that Sarah Palin will no longer be a paid contributor to Fox News puts an exclamation point on the end of an era, or at least a chapter, in U.S. political history. She could land somewhere else, and she still has her Facebook friends, but it’s hard to imagine she’ll find a more visible or influential platform than Fox.

The former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee has been fading from the scene for some time, as she inadvertently highlighted when she complained on Facebook during the Republican convention in August that the network had canceled her scheduled interviews that night. Her brother, Chuck Heath Jr., told Alan Colmes last week on Fox Radio that his sister is “kind of laying low right now,” though he wouldn’t or couldn’t say when asked why.

Once the face of an energetic and politically potent Tea Party movement, Palin is leaving Fox at a time when polls show the Tea Party at an all-time low in both membership and favorability. Her departure also coincides with calls by some leading Republicans for their party to stop saying things that erode the GOP brand and turn off voters in droves.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said bluntly this week at a Republican National Committee meeting in Charlotte that the GOP needs to stop being “the stupid party,” and former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he agreed. The two were talking in particular about losing Senate candidates Todd Akin of Missouri and Richard Mourdock of Indiana, both of whom made inflammatory (and in Akin’s case, flagrantly ignorant) comments about rape.

But Palin, with her flamboyant rhetoric, has stoked her own disproportionate share of controversies. This is the woman who, after all, coined the term “death panels” to describe discussions between patients and physicians...

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TOPICS: Issues; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: contract; elections; foxnews; obama; obituary; palin; polls; sarahpalin; teaparty; teapartyexpress; teapartyrebellion
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How many times are they going to write her obituary?
1 posted on 01/27/2013 11:43:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If she was on Fox I never saw her but once.


2 posted on 01/27/2013 11:49:04 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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But Palin, with her flamboyant rhetoric.....

Yup, belief in the Lord, sanctity of human life, the constitution, honor and honesty are all flamboyant rhetoric.

Pound sand Jill Lawrence.

3 posted on 01/27/2013 11:55:31 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: freekitty

Sarah Palin should have her own TV channel.


4 posted on 01/27/2013 11:57:24 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Molon Labe)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

She already has a spiffy studio in her home in Wasilla.


5 posted on 01/28/2013 12:00:26 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They will write her obit millions of times. They fear her.


6 posted on 01/28/2013 12:13:57 AM PST by Buddy Sorrell ( John Boehner is our Pierre Laval. We need a Charles DeGaulle.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As many times as it takes...

I suspect shes just gearing up for a stronger attack. Fox has been keeping their “commentators” limited in what they can say I am sure.


7 posted on 01/28/2013 12:19:45 AM PST by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I’ve heard rumours she may be headed towards Blaze tv. That’s one of the reasons she declined a renewal of her contract.


8 posted on 01/28/2013 12:20:27 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you support the tea party, do not let yourself be worn down by the establishment. Every election, local, state, and federal, is a fight for the country.


9 posted on 01/28/2013 12:21:33 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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  So the press is saying that conservatism and the tea party movement are kaput - again? I guess they're relieved that they have nothing to worry about in 2014.

  and they're not even afraid of Obamacare's death panels...

  but they should be.
10 posted on 01/28/2013 12:22:48 AM PST by Maurice Tift (You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
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11 posted on 01/28/2013 12:37:59 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The author mentions the "demise of the Tea Party," but doesn't provide any facts to support the declaration. The refusal of conservatives to vote for Mitt Romney does not signal the demise of a movement, only a refusal to compromise a moral position (i.e., Tea Party members are not politicians!).

If the Tea Party movement has indeed faded, as the author claims, how does the she explain the surge on gun sales?

12 posted on 01/28/2013 12:40:36 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
This might explain the author...


Ummm. Meet jill.

13 posted on 01/28/2013 12:50:33 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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jill lawrence is definitely flame retardant.


14 posted on 01/28/2013 12:53:00 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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Formerly Jack Lawrence?

Not that there's anything bizarrely abnormal about it. /s

15 posted on 01/28/2013 12:54:30 AM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Since when did the TEA Party depend on the MSM??

Wishful thinking from a leftist no doubt


16 posted on 01/28/2013 1:10:41 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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They keep trying to convince us she is GONE and not worth listening to-—when I think she is one of the most logical and Feminine woman out there. Such a refreshing contrast to the dykey, immoral, lying Hillary......they hate the contrast with all the creepy, slimey, ugly, Flukey Leftists.

Got to remove women who love themselves, their femininity who have manly men, and reject the obscene view that women are interchangeable with men.

.....I don’t watch Fox anyway-—quit when the Saudis bought shares and they started calling the Muslims “Youths”-—the ones burning all the cars. Just covering up the Truth-—like the other networks. Fox News is part of the Hegelian Dialectic-—to Progress us to the Left. It is helping to boil the water for the death of God and God-Given Rights.

Otherwise, they would be much more effective with getting the Truth out, because logic and reason and sanity is on Palin’s side. They confuse and blur the issues too much. They hate people like Palin-—who can make great soundbites.


17 posted on 01/28/2013 1:13:32 AM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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Shhhhhhhhhhhhh .....

She's re-loadin'

18 posted on 01/28/2013 1:17:52 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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The two were talking in particular about losing Senate candidates Todd Akin of Missouri and Richard Mourdock of Indiana, both of whom made inflammatory (and in Akin’s case, flagrantly ignorant) comments about rape.

But we don't talk about the GOPe Romney that was at the top of the ticket huh Bobby?

19 posted on 01/28/2013 1:46:36 AM PST by itsahoot (MSM and Fox free since Nov 1st. If it doesnÂ’t happen here then it didn't happen.)
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Shhhhhhhhhhhhh ..... She's re-loadin'

Huntin' RINO's and Ratz...

20 posted on 01/28/2013 2:11:13 AM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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