You can just see the hate in her eat has eaten away her soul
Posted on 02/03/2015 7:14:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
There is movement in the tectonic plates of the Republican Party. Former vice presidential nominee, former Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, has finally fallen from favor among Republican pundits and officials. They seem to have discovered a vacuousness they had somehow previously missed even though long ago Tina Fey developed an entire Palin comedy routine using Palin’s own words for the script.
These same influencers of GOP thought had already realized that selling candidates who claimed to be witches or who adhered to various other offbeat dogma was not playing well in Peoria. It has been an interesting metamorphosis. Initially, they thought to ignore the tea party, that is, before they embraced it. After all, the GOP is a “big tent” party. Next came the tea party’s influence on Republican primaries, that is until nominees started talking about “legitimate rape” and such.
After that, even the tea party wing of the Republican Party decided that electability might be a factor to consider. Enter Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas, two tea partiers who learned how to talk the talk of the barely acceptable while walking the walk of the far Right. Meanwhile, Palin remained the darling of the stump, drawing crowds and raising money, and the tea party kept rolling along, even ousting House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a right wing conservative who wasn’t right enough.
Then something happened. GOP victories in the 2014 election catapulted two mainstream Republicans to the top of the congressional ladder: Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, was reelected Speaker of the House and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., moved from Senate minority leader to majority leader. Their gain was the tea party’s loss, and in a blink all eyes were on the 2016 presidential contest.
Difficulties abound. As it currently stands, 24 Republican Senate seats will be up for election in 2016 vs. only 10 Democratic seats. Nationwide, Democrats outnumber Republicans, which means Independents will decide the presidential election, and Independents do not generally support the extremes of the Left or Right. In other words, they will not elect a tea party president.
So, how do mainstream Republican leaders get the party to coalesce around a winning candidate? They begin by purging. This is a top-down operation because the bottom-up zealots keep nominating and electing candidates to nowhere. The top-down approach is to discredit and eliminate the unacceptable options. It is no accident, therefore, that poor Sarah Palin is suddenly being pilloried by the same GOP operatives and pundits who have long supported her. It is no accident that the relatively moderate former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., and former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., are actually being touted as viable candidates, and that blue state Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wisc., is looking to join their ranks.
If this scenario continues to play out, the purge will continue until all realistic options from the far Right are eliminated. So watch out Rand Paul. Watch out Ted Cruz. Sarah Palin was only the beginning.
“Tina Fey developed an entire Palin comedy routine using Palin’s own words for the script.”
Stopped reading there. Not a Palin fan, but that’s just stupid.
Pretty cool seeing people in their 80s and 90s voting in a school board election!
HA!
Who in the ‘H’ is Douglas Cohn, and why is Eleanor Clift listed second to who-in-the-’H’?
Interesting a BIG name Lefty journalist is listed as second banana to a who in a really bad hit piece.
There is one comment, at the articles link (at this time). It pretty much sums it up, perfectly....
No, actually Tina Fey’s script were not Palin’s words. Some not-so-bright liberals actually believe Palin said some of the things Fey attributed to her, but she didn’t.
It was the Republican establishment that gave us McCain and Romney. What is your “logic” about Republican leaders picking a “winning candidate”, when they’ve failed in the last two presidential elections?
Do you realize 60% of Republican voters (in the 2014 midterm elections) want a new Speaker of the House? You rave about Boehner as if he’s popular, or something.
And finally, no one has been purged. Every newly elected Republican senator is pro-life and ran on a campaign to repeal Obamacare. Even McConnell ran commercials promising to repeal Obamacare. Of course he’s a liar, but then that’s why you like him.
All in all, a very poorly written opinion piece, because it’s not based in reality. It’s 100% liberal fantasy.
She looks and sounds like my mother-in-law, who is in her age group.
If Ms. Clift uninformed or does she choose to deliberately lie to the public?
They write the “Washington Merry-Go-Round” column together. It’s been in existence since 1932.
Captain Douglas Cohn, USA (Ret.)
http://www.douglascohn.com/about.html
Whoopi Goldberg talked about "rape rape" (legitimate rape" and that other kind of rape that Hollywood and Barack Obama was okay with. Y'know, where they let Roman Polanski walk for fleeing the country after going on trial for raping a 13-year old girl who was 'ruffied' with drugs and alcohol. When she protested the vaginal rape, Roman switched to orally and anally sodomizing her. But that wasn't "rape rape" at least according to the host of ABC-Disney's The View.
For the record, the victim still insists it was rape and non-consensual. She just didn't see the point in bothering to put the creep in jail now and certainly didn't want to have her own life upended with talk about it and reopen old wounds.
Does she count the 40% of all non-income tax paying Americans as Democrats? Then she may have a point. However, there exists a sizable block of citizens who do not like politics and do not vote, even if you give them free handouts.
If there really were more Democrats, they wouldn't have lost the mid-term elections.
Eleanor Clift = bird brain.
I should say something clever or intelligent. Instead, let me just say instead that Eleanor Clift makes me want to vomit.
Oldplayer
Because Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney were such 'winning' moderate candidates. < /sarc >
Meanwhile the Democrats keep pushing cookie cutter leftists as the presidential nominee. None of their stances are ever 'extreme'.
smaller yet.
Liar.
You can just see the hate in her eat has eaten away her soul
That high-rpm sound you hear has to be Drew Pearson spinning in his grave.
Interesting. Before I posted I looked up Douglas Cohn in a search, and found nothing of interest much less a long time collaboration of those two.
Win some, lose some.
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