Sarah Palin™ and the Merry Teapartiers

Filed in National by on June 2, 2011

Bus trips can be quite strange whether you’re riding with Willie Nelson on tour or on a megabus to New York City. But nothing — NOTHING — could be stranger than Sarah Palin’s™ recent bus tour of Jesusland. After the Republican Party finally recovered from Donald Trump’s cocktease about a presidential run, Sarah Palin™ has decided it’s time to muddy the waters and divert attention from those really running. For The One Who Killed Bin Laden, this is a win-win situation. Everyday that her bus tour motors on, the legions that follow Sarah Palin™ are once again mesmerized and a deflected by her sheer fanatical radiance and the apocalyptic possibilities that one day she may rule. The Palinites™ are groveling for any morsel, any shred of information that she might be throwing her Ski-Doo helmet into the presidential race − a race she cannot win. All the while if Sarah Palin™ is deflecting attention from those that are serious about running. As Eugene Robinson writes:

If her aim is just to get back in the news, reinflate the Palin brand and boost her speaking fees, then party leaders have every reason to be pleased. In the unlikely event that she’s actually running, they have every reason to order another Scotch.

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But the fact that Palin’s ego trip so easily stole the spotlight from the actual Republican candidates shows what a challenge the party faces in trying to deny President Obama a second term.

Thank you, Sarah Palin™.

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  1. jason330 says:
    June 2, 2011 at 7:45 am

    Over the weekend most of the anounced candidates are speaking at the “Faith and Freedom Conference.”

    It is a very freaky lineup of speakers, but the news (for me anyway) is that Herman Cain, snagged the Keynote spot.

    http://ffcoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/website-agenda-june1.pdf

    He is polling second in Iowa right now, so it is officially Herman Cain’s moment. I daresay there is a category five hermancain blowing in.

  2. cassandra m says:
    June 2, 2011 at 10:16 am

    You’d think that these teajadis would figure out that this woman is using them as her own personal ATM.

  3. Unstable Isotope says:
    June 2, 2011 at 11:09 am

    I’ve thought that Pawlenty would be the beneficiary of all the GOP candidate meltdowns. Wouldn’t it be interesting if it’s Herman Cain. He’s a completely unknown quantity IMO, which I think will make it really, really difficult for him to win an election.

  4. donviti says:
    June 2, 2011 at 4:43 pm

    did you see the statistic on her “followers”?

    Palin has a relatively large base of enthusiastic supporters. Twenty-four percent may not be enough to win a nomination, but a base that size is a strong start towards a potential victory in crucial early states like Iowa or South Carolina, where the winner may receive only 30 to 40 percent of the vote. Second, nearly three out of four Republican survey respondents remain at least open to the possibility of supporting Palin. That means her hardcore opposition is not yet large enough to pose an absolute barrier to winning over a majority of Republican primary voters.

    ok and now couple that with this:

    18% of GOP primary voters believe it will occur in their lifetimes and 31% of them support Palin to 15% for Romney, 11% for Cain and Gingrich, and 10% for Pawlenty.

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