Posted on 01/03/2012 6:32:07 PM PST by reformjoy
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Editorial by John Ziegler
Sarah Palin: Selfish, Hypocritical, Sellout
1/3/2012
As surreal as it may be, after spending over two years and several thousand dollars defending Sarah Palin at great personal cost, I now find myself in the bizarre position (three years to the day from starting the journey to Wasilla to do the interview of record on her 2008 VP run) of being perhaps the only conservative commentator willing to point out that Palin has now clearly revealed herself to be a selfish, hypocritical, sellout.
While she was doing her presidential tease (an act that I actually bought because I didn’t think she was capable of such contemptible deceit), I wrote an extremely long essay for the Daily Caller detailing why I thought a Palin run would be horrible for the cause of beating President Obama. At that time, I was roundly (and wrongly) criticized for betraying her, when in actuality I was being very kind to her personally and sincerely trying to save her from embarrassment.
Back then, I still honestly liked and admired her as a person. The events since then strongly indicate that I was totally wrong to give her the benefit of the doubt as a person. I don’t know if the unprecedented and unfair circumstances that she has had to deal with since 2008 have changed her, or if, like Tiger Woods, I was simply completely fooled by her from the beginning. But I do now know that she is worthy of a heck of a lot more contempt than portions of the base and the vast majority of the conservative media are currently holding her in.
A quick glance of the most recent past may help the scales fall off of your eyes like they finally did for me.
First, she not only put her supporters through an incredibly selfish presidential “tease” that she clearly contrived from the beginning, but when she finally revealed her deception, she did so on the Mark Levin radio show. This was inexplicable not because she didn’t do it on Fox News (which got some media attention), but because she broke her nationally televised promise to make the announcement on the Bob & Mark Show out of Anchorage.
This may not seem like a big deal at first, but keep in mind she made a huge production on the finale of her Alaskan reality show that Bob & Mark would be the first to know about her plans. Apparently, by the time she was ready to say “never mind,” rebuilding her Alaskan “ice cred” was no longer seen as very important. Neither was her loyalty to two long-time supporters and friends. Bob & Mark are just two of many people I personally know who have sacrificed for her only to be left by the side of the road for no apparent reason.
Then there is that matter that her political action committee sent out a fundraising e-mail the week before her “decision” which overtly sent the message that supporters could help her pull the trigger on a presidential run by donating immediately.
Obviously when that was sent out, Palin knew she was not running for president and yet when she was asked (ironically, only by Bob and Mark) whether her PAC would return the hard-earned money her supporters surely thought was going to a particular cause, she lamely claimed that people who donated to her PAC did not think they were donating to her prospective campaign. Unbelievably, no one else in the media (on either side) called her on this outrage.
Then there is the issue of her endorsement of another candidate for the Republican nomination. I have never understood how any political commentator could ever not make an endorsement in a presidential primary on their side of the ideological fence, but when you are Sarah Palin and you claim that you “don’t need a title to impact change,” such an omission is particularly incomprehensible.
After all, if she won’t exert her power in a Republican presidential primary, when would/could she ever?
The reality is that Palin hasn’t endorsed for the same reason she didn’t run. She knows that she has almost no influence and a remarkably small base and she is smart enough to not use her stick because she knows doing so will reveal how tiny it really is. She has basically decided it is better for her TV career to still be thought of as somewhat potent, than to be exposed as being essentially impotent (a word, interestingly, she likes to use from time to time).
This non act of cowardice and selfishness was bad enough, but then today on Fox News Palin had the gall to essentially call for Michele Bachmann to get out of the race and endorse someone else.
For me this was the very final straw. I don’t even like Bachmann, but I was immediately livid.
Where does Palin get off telling the only woman who (unlike her) had the guts to get in the race to endorse someone else when she hasn’t had the courage to do that herself? The multiple levels of hypocrisy here would be staggering even for a liberal, but for a conservative they are simply off the charts. Then, finally, lost amid her attacks of Bachmann (whom she surely sees as a potential future rival for air time on Fox News) was her defense of none other than that total fraud and publicity whore Donald Trump.
In perhaps the dumbest stance she has ever taken, Palin called for those who are upset at Trump for threatening to run as a third-party candidate to “shut up.”
Let me get this straight, a woman who agrees with Palin on almost everything should get out of the race and do something she herself wont do, but a liberal con-man who could easily insure the second term of Barack Obama (which she has said must be prevented at all costs) needs to be vigorously defended?
Astonishing. But not nearly as astounding as the reality that she will somehow get a pass on all of this from a conservative media that can be a corrupt and mindless as the liberal version is on its worst day.
I have made a lot of mistakes in my life, but right now (while I still stand by everything that is in my documentary “Media Malpractice”) it is difficult for me to imagine making a bigger one than believing that Sarah Palin was worthy of all that I have tried to do to defend her.
My wife warned me about her almost from the beginning of my Palin odyssey. She presciently told me, “once a beauty queen, always a beauty queen.”
It now appears that she was right. Sarah Palin is, at least now, all about Sarah Palin and not about the cause. After the events of the past few months you can clearly see that reality all the way in Russia from land in Alaska.
So ... he tells her not to run for office ... then when she doesn’t run he calls her a hypocrite? There’s a word for that, it’s on the tip of my tongue ... what could it be?
You posted this on Nov 10th 2011.
“Why do I like John Ziegler? Because he’s HOT! : )”
Pretty much shows how shallow you are.
Okay, I’ll bite: Who is John Ziegler? And how did Governor Palin “disappoint” him?
Nothing new for Sarah. She’s used to the haters by now...
The press and Soros’ henchmen went after her and her entire family like bloodhounds trying to tree a possum. Sarah Palin was targeted for destruction by the left and the media for being entirely too Pro-American, Pro-Life, Pro-Christ, Pro traditional family and Pro-Capitalist. These qualities threaten the very fabric of leftism in America and the World today. It wasn’t enough for them to just defeat her as the VP candidate in a national campaign - they got the green light to hound her out of the Governor’s office of Alaska... a job she was perfect for. They sent literally hundreds of lawyers just to dream up charges against her and a lecherous, lying con artist of a writer to live next door to her family home. They even tried to burn her church down. I’ll be honest here, the treatment of Sarah Palin by the progs/press was (is) a stain on the American political system that will never, ever wash off. JMHO.
Agree, at least Bachmann didn’t hem and haw as to whether she would run. How about just letting the process unfold, rather than talking about who should or should not get out.
Whew! Guess he should stay away from Alaska when Sarah is out hunting.
You posted this why?
Where do you fall as far as agreeing/disagreeing with this? Others have commented with nary a word from you.
That’s one twisted read. Sounds like the aftermath of a high school crush gone bad. This sad case is in serious need of counseling and maybe a prescription or two. Get some help, dude.
I agree with that...that was a “tease”..will she? won’t she?,, even her daughter was brought into the ambivalence.
I think the author is absolutely right, and I’ve said the same thing about Palin many times on FR. The rabid Palin contingent shouted me down, right up the point where she declined to grace us with a run for president. Palin is like Trump; a shameless self promoter who is in love with her own celebrity. She quit being governor of Alaska to cash in as a TV star and hasn’t looked back. Let her get rich. I have no problem with that. But she needs to stop pretending that she is some kind of deep political thinker or stateswoman who wants to save America. She wants to get richer. Palin is only out for Palin.
Sounds like someone with a crush on Sarah who feels hurt that she no longer wants him around.
Her endorsement of Mittens is wrong, and her saying Bachmann should quit is also wrong.
Wrong is different than this weirdo who says he ‘hates her.
When Men refer to her as a tease, they show their real game hand. They think that they actually had a chance. Yikes....
She didn't tell Bachman to get out of the race, she only suggested that perhaps it was not Bachman's time. Looking at Bachman's numbers, I tend to agree.
Seems to me he is right on the points
Thanks reformjoy. Barf alert.
Agree...she should defintely return the money and to say that about Bachman was very lousy...what happened to Reagen’s commandment...Palin could have said nothing, the inevitable will happen anyways.
Oh John....did Sarah not return your calls? Did she turn you down for the prom?
When did Palin tell Bachmann to get out of the race?
Bingo - give the man a ceegar.
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