Posted on 11/13/2013 7:22:33 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Tuesday afternoon on The Laura Ingraham Show, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took a swing at her former running mate, Sen. John McCain, after he likened the tea party movement to hobbits from the Lord of the Rings series.
Though host Laura Ingraham referred to McCains words as recent, they were actually from a House speech in 2011, after that years debt ceiling crisis. Republicans who failed to raise the debt ceiling could escape all the blame, and the tea party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor, the senator mocked. This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine ODonnell into GOP Senate nominees.
Im a hobbit then, Palin retorted Tuesday. Im a proud hobbit then.
The tea party movement, its not a party, she continued. If the GOP machine continues to try to marginalize that tea party patriot, who is doing all the hard work to get Republicans re-elected, then the establishment will go the way of the Whigs.
Palin warned that such rhetoric could cause an even greater surge in grassroots outrage towards the mainstream Republican Party.
The establishment within the major political parties in our nation, the self-proclaimed best and brightest, have been calling the shots for far too long, she concluded, and theyve gotten us into the problems that were facing today.
That’s why the Dems and GOP are the ‘Uniparty’...
True but I do get tired of shaving my feet! ;-)
-——its not a party-—
There you have it
Both the strength and the weakness.
The Tea Party is a state of mind, a structure less ad hoc semiorganization. With disdain for “fundamental Change”,it is producing revolution
Excellent post!
imus will die in the first wave if his “friends” ever follow through with their intended route of Conservatives and all things Conservative. He is a leftists useful idiot and they are the first people that communist purge.
Yes... the unibrow cabal!
I have a question for your brilliant political insight: Did Sarah Palin’s “endorsement” of McQueeg in 2010 switch his fortunes from losing a race to winning it?
About damned time she took a shot at this asshat.
Thanks for the ping!
“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”
Elrond as reported by JRR Tolkien
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