Is Sarah Palin Relevant?

CBN News' Brody File ^ | April 9, 2014 | David Brody, CBN News Chief Political Correspondent

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Brody File was watching Sarah Palin’s comedy bit on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and it made me wonder the following: Is Sarah Palin relevant? The answer is a bit complicated. Is she taking seriously as a politician by the liberal mainstream media? No. But do they still pay attention to her every move? Yes they do.

Why is that? Yes, part of it has to do with the fact that there is a certain carnival atmosphere surrounding how she goes about her business. I mean, she knows how to command an audience and entertain. But let's not forget for a moment that she still has a robust, dedicated following. I'm not just talking about her millions of followers on Facebook and Twitter. I'm talking about how in certain congressional districts in this country, her word matters. An endorsement from Sarah Palin can make a difference for a candidate in a tight race.

Also, let's be totally truthful here. As much as the mainstream media can't stand her, they listen to what she says. She has a megaphone. Liberals might call that scary but Palin has the power to help shape the political conversation in America. And that's the dirty little secret liberals would rather not here. But it's truth. So, is Sarah Palin Relevant? “You betcha.”

[Gen.Blather]

In a way she has her very own bully pulpit. As long as her endorsement helps politicians win races she’s relevant. As long as she’s quoted she’s relevant. I’d like to see her in office, but the headwinds of the MSM are so powerful she might never get the last percentage point needed to win. Hopefully she’ll be appointed to high office. Once there she’ll be hard to beat.

[Pollster1]

Of course Governor Palin is not relevant. I have seen several articles a day for five years in a row pointing out how irrelevant she is. Would the mainstream media lie to us?

She was irrelevant when she said ObamaCare had death panels and would kill jobs, and even in our fifth year of a jobless recovery, when even fraudulent ObamaCare numbers show little support for that terrible program, we can see how wrong she was. She was irrelevant when she said Obama's weakness would invite Russia to invade the Ukraine, and we all know the Cold War was over long ago. Look at the polls on candidates she endorses; they are not guaranteed to win, but they jump on her endorsement and stay up, which is probably just a coincidence since she's more a celebrity who shapes conversation than a thinker.

[C. Edmund Wright]

yep, she’s FAR MORE valuable doing the one job no one else on the planet can do….be Sarah Palin. It’s well paid, very influential, and apparently a lot of fun. Why be one of 100 Senators when you can be the one and only Sarah Palin, which is indeed a very important job that must be filled.

Folks should quit trying to pigeon hole her into their narrow minded idea of “senator this” or “should run for that” and “writer her in” and so on.

[Resettozero]

Are content-free media articles based on stupid, open-ended questions relevant? /not slamming the poster, slamming the “journalistas”

Nice. 8>)

[C. Edmund Wright]

Nicely played sir…..

[C. Edmund Wright]

uh, this was not done by a libtard….read much?

[HMS Surprise]

Mostly they are... Mostly. And I’ll not concede the point regardless... Yet.

[Seruzawa]

Ha! Is David Brody Relevant?

[Nifster]

For a writer who doesn’t know the difference between ‘taking’ and ‘taken’....I gave up at that point.

Is Sarah Palin relevant? To what? It is a stupid question on its face.

I believe Palin still has some mojo left and people listen to her. I don’t agree with all of her choices (particularly in the Georgia senate primary) but I agree with her a whole lot more than I do Mitch McConnell

[ansel12]

Palin is still the leader of conservatism in America, of course she is relevant, and that is why the media watches her so closely.

Palin wasn’t shut out of the Romney/rino convention, for nothing.

“I would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Governor Palin,” Cruz said.”
The Tea Party favorite admitted that many have referred to his victory as “improbable.” He told Allen that the reason why Palin’s endorsement has had such an enormous impact is because voters consider her a true barometer of conservatism.

“In a Republican primary, everyone claims to be conservative and voters are pretty cynical. They are tired of these candidates that sounds great on the stump. They say they are going to cut spending, they get into the office and they become spineless jellyfish,” Cruz said. “I think conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is a real deal.”

[LeoWindhorse]

I mean the cheek , monseuir ! Bizzou !

[Nifster]

nope... he doesn’t know the difference between ‘taking’ and ‘taken’ either. Pay me half his salary and I will at least proof read my writing

[bassmaner]

But not as a national candidate....senator maybe

Unfortunately, that ship has probably sailed. She should have jumped in the AK Senate race this year: Begich (D) occupies a seat that should be (R), and with her SarahPAC war chest, she would win in a walk.

[my right]

does Brody also not know the difference between “taking and taken”.

[vetvetdoug]

The person conservatives need to support is the one that gives liberals, Democrats and the MSM the most heartburn. Having said this, Sarah Palin fits the bill to a “T”.

[Alex Murphy]

My only fear is that Sarah has no wish to run again...

That kind of goes without saying. It's been eight years since she ran for AK governor, and more than five years since she ran for Republican VP. She might change her mind tomorrow, but she hasn't run for anything in some time.

[Buckeye McFrog]

One of her Facebook posts draws more attention than an hour of CNN in prime time.

[Vinylly]

I think liberals are afraid of Sarah Palin and that’s what makes her relevant. She is the exact antithesis of Hitlery Clinton and that’s another reason she frightens liberals.

[C. Edmund Wright]

NOT AT CBN…..sheesh….you didn’t even read the name of the source!!!!! Let alone the article.

Do you go off half cocked in real life this way? Or is it just on the web under your pseudonym?