Posted on 01/23/2011 11:18:14 AM PST by pissant
This is the winter of Sarah Palin’s discontent. Her “don’t retreat, reload” rhetoric blew up on her when Americans started fretting about heated political talk after an Arizona gunman shot a congresswoman and killed a federal judge. Then she added insult to injury by trying to claim she was the real victim, of a “blood libel.” Her poll numbers now are lower than at any time since she came on the national scene, and when New Hampshire Republicans voted in a presidential straw poll at their annual meeting, only 7 percent picked Palin.
A new Public Policy Polling survey suggests that, were the GOP to nominate Palin in 2012, Democrat Barack Obama could win even solidly-Republican states. "Obama with a chance in Texas... but only against Palin," read the headline on the PPP report.
For Palin, it seems to be all bad news.
And that is good news for Michele Bachmann.
As the shine goes off Palin, the constantly controversial congresswoman from Minnesota is doing everything she can to make herself the new star of the Republican right.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
I quit reading after the first 2 sentences.
The hate in this one runs deep.
“This is the winter of Sarah Palin’s discontent. Her “don’t retreat, reload” rhetoric blew up on her when Americans started fretting about heated political talk after an Arizona gunman shot a congresswoman and killed a federal judge.”
ROTFLOL....’Americans’ didn’t start ‘fretting’ about anything other than crazy people with guns. It was the press that started ‘fretting’ and desperately trying to tie the shooting with Sarah, the Tea Party and anyone else that ever uttered a conservative thought.
Stopped reading right there...not interested in more mainstream drivel and nazi/commie propaganda from our corrupted press. No offense.
For Bachmann to have a chance she’s going to have to have money and organization early. Romney has both in place in Iowa but Huckabarf proved that Romney can be beaten there. I have some doubts about Bachmann’s ability to campaign on a national level but I think she would present an appealing alternative to “others”.
They wish and doesn't the use of "blew up on her" constitute the use of "heated political talk"?
Chest boots on and secured.
I applaud you for having the stomach to read something written in The Nation, a magazine so far to the left that it is now approaching on us on the right side.
This article is so full of wishful thinking and outright projection that it should have been published in Mad magazine, right after Spy vs. Spy.
Michelle Bachmann rocks.
Then [Palin] added insult to injury by trying to claim she was the real victim, of a “blood libel.” Her poll numbers now are lower than at any time since she came on the national scene, and when New Hampshire Republicans voted in a presidential straw poll at their annual meeting, only 7 percent picked Palin.
Sarah Palin tried to claim she is the “real victim” of the Tucson killings?!! That is absurd, sir. That is a BLOOD LIBEL against Sarah Palin.
Let’s be clear about all this.
1. Media gins up an immediate “frenzy” (before the number of victims was even counted) connecting a crazy man on a killing spree to the tone of political discourse.
2. Sarah Palin becomes the most “usual suspect” according to the chattering class.
3. Sarah Palin is removed from consideration as a Presidential contender as a result of 1 & 2.
Can they be any more contemptuous? Or transparent?
I heard some "conservative" maggot call talk radio last week and say that Palin should take at least a little responsibility for the "Tuscon" shootings. What the hell is that? Is that like being a little bit pregnant? DemocRATS need to take responsibility for that wacked out pothead. Not Sarah Palin.
Awesome! Bachmann draws the leftist fire off of Sarah Palin, Sarah runs and wins! EXCELLENT!
stalker
Agreed
But her rhetoric still fell far short of that dude who said: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
Now who was it that said that? And Palin's remark did not blow up on her; the low life propagandists in the MSM tried to blow it up on her.
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