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Answering to the call of, well, basically nobody, Sarah Palin is hinting that it’s not too late for her to enter the race.
With Herman Cain gone, Newt in a free-fall, Romney so dull I can’t even construct a decent insult on his used-car salesman ass, Rick Perry a gay-hating punchline and Rick Santorum a gay-hating nobody, the GOP is running out of punchlines that middle America can get.
Soon, it may be people like Huntsman and Michele “I have facts!” Bachmann left and, lets be honest… the jokes on them will be obscure. They might be funny, but it’ll be the difference between jokes that everybody can even joy, and a jokes that Zach Galifianakis or Patton Oswald would craft that would have to be brilliant, but would probably fly right over a lot of heads.
And I don’t want to have the think that hard when I’m trying to craft zingers about idiot conservatives.
So yes, Sarah Palin. Yes to you in 2012. Hell, team up with Beck! Or Trump! I don’t care who, and I don’t even care who’s on top of the ticket. Just find a dance partner and lets get this comedy show started already.
Please don’t leave the punchlines to those Huntsman girls because let me tell you, they are NOT as funny as they think they are.
Here’s the story that brings hope to my comedy heart.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin rekindled speculation about her 2012 plans Monday, offering a teasing response to a question about whether she or anybody else might still get involved in the presidential race.
“It’s not too late for folks to jump in,” Palin said during an interview on the Fox Business Network, according to advance excerpts. “Who knows what will happen in the future.”
Palin may not be including herself in that list of “folks,” and it’s possible that she’s simply referring to other potential figures, such as real estate mogul Donald Trump, who have been irresolute about their presidential ambitions. Earlier this month, Trump removed himself as moderator of a Republican debate because he refused to rule out mounting a third-party run later in 2012 should the GOP primary produce a candidate he finds unacceptable.“After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for president of the United States,” said Palin in a statement on her decision.” As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.”
Earlier in the year, Palin appeared to shut the door on her White House aspirations, at least for this election cycle.
If Palin remains a sideline figure in the 2012 elections, her eventual endorsement, which she has said she intends to give, will no doubt be a coveted possession. On Sunday, the former vice presidential candidate said she wasn’t yet ready to decide who she would support. Real Clear Politics reported in November that her camp was considering backing former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who recently experienced a tumble in Iowa polls. Palin has also spoken favorablyabout former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who has largely failed to register as a force in GOP primary surveys, even in Iowa, where he has spent the vast majority of his time attempting to appeal to the state’s social conservatives.
The comment could well recharge the energy of her persistent supporters, who just last monthlaunched an ad in Iowa urging Palin to jump in the race due to dissatisfaction with the current field. That sentiment has apparently lingered among the ranks of many conservatives, as Tea Party leaders recently told the Associated Press that they remained “disappointed” with their choices.
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I don’t have much to add to the discussion except forwarding both of these things, but it’s pretty interesting stuff none-the-less.
Super props to David Feldman for connecting dots.
WASHINGTON — Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said he could “almost guarantee” that therecent Politico story about sexual harassment allegations against Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain came from information leaked by another GOP campaign.
The Politico report revealed that while Cain was head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, “at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group.”
When asked on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Monday morning if it was likely the scoop was provided by another Republican campaign, Huckabee agreed with the suspicion and questioned the legitimacy of the Politico report, saying, “Quite frankly, knowing some of the reporters involved — they’re not that good.”
Huckabee recalled similar tactics involved in his own 2008 presidential campaign and accused other campaigns of hiring investigators to dig through his trash and show up at his children’s elementary schools posing as federal inspectors.
“It’s insane — one of the fundamental things a candidate will spend money on is [opposition] research,” Huckabee told Ingraham.
The Cain campaign has since accused Politico of “dredging up thinly sourced allegations” and called some of the claims “unsubstantiated personal attacks.”
Former Bush adviser Karl Rove told Fox News that Cain needs to either say “yes or no” to the allegations.
My friend David Feldman dissects it as follows:
David Feldman
Politico broke the Herman Cain sexual harassment story. Which means the story was leaked from within the GOP. It did not come from the DNC. Here’s why: Politico is owned by Robert Allbritton. Allbritton has extensive ties to the CIA and was Pinochet’s banker as well as the Saudi’s. Allbritton’s bank was pretty much shut down, and he had to pay multi million dollar fines in 2004 for money laundering. Politico, like Fox News, has the veneer of objectivity but it is in fact an arm of the right wing propaganda machine. Cain’s sexual harassment story came from within the wing of the GOP that wants Romney.
So… While still supporting Obama, guess who I’m cheering for now?
So first, the @HUFFPO story that triggered this.
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum criticized a “Saturday Night Live” skit that poked fun at his anti-gay marriage views by showing him seated at a gay bar in the Castro section of San Francisco.
Santorum — depicted by actor Andy Samberg in the sketch, titled “Yet Another GOP Debate” — suggested that the segment was “bullying” during an interview with New Hampshire radio station WGIR on Sunday. The former Pennsylvania senator said he had been “hammered” by “the left” for his support of conservative principles.
“The left, unfortunately, participates in bullying more than the right does,” Santorum said. “They say that they’re tolerant, and they’re anything but tolerant of people who disagree with them and support traditional values.”
Gee, guys, not used to being the underdog, are ya?
First Rick Perry’s wife says he’s being victimized because he’s Christian (Perry defended his wife’s position), and now Rick Santorum is complaining that the mean old left is picking on him for his position on gays.
The victim card? Seriously? From these guys?
Considering their entire candidacies are based on finding people to demonize and victimize - Santorum the gays, Perry the Latinos - it is a treat to watch them both get battered in the polls for these actions and yet whine that they’re being picked on.
First: You guys started it. Don’t throw a punch if you can’t take one. That said..
Second: It’s not bullying. Nobody’s threatening you, nobody’s taking away YOUR rights, nobody’s trying to minimize your self-worth. This is debate.
Mr. Perry: You are the majority. I think 76% of this nation identifies themselves as Christian. So perhaps it’s your “The meek shall inherit my predator drone” approach to your faith that people are bumping against.
And Mr. Santorum: Just because something isn’t “Traditional” doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Lots of traditional things have gone away - women can vote now, for example - and that’s not always a bad thing.
Third: You guys are tanking in the polls because you are BAD CANDIDATES. Perry is going full Yosemite Sam. And Santorum is so dull people would rather watch a painting of grass growing dry… than watch him do anything.
And in response, they’re crying that they are being bullied. I disagree. I think it’s the opposite, and I think there’s some good to find in this.
When Cain or Romney or anybody else sends Rick Perry and Rick Santorum back home with a full diaper and an empty future, it’s not because they were bullied.
I’m going to believe that maybe… just maybe… it’ s because people realized Santorum and Perry were the bullies.
That Santorum and Perry were the ones that picked fights with people they thought were too small of a group to defend themselves, or too weak to fight back. It’s a lesson they should have learned from Michele Bachmann, and they did not.
Yes, most of the GOP field have these same beliefs… but it’s not their ONLY message. I disagree with the candidates and nobody on that slate will get my vote, but at least they are standing FOR something… not simply standing ON somebody to make themselves feel taller.
These couple of Ricks? (See what I did there?) I think, I hope… they are losing because people don’t like bullies. Whether they are soft-spoken bullies from Pennsylvania or brash, loud ones from Texas.
Maybe even in politics, maybe if you can’t play nice, you shouldn’t play at all.
“The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party — the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people who would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012.”
— Jon Huntsman, in an interview with ABC News, ripping his GOP rivals on evolution and global warming.
I want to believe it. I do. That somewhere in this pack of lunatics there’s one Republican candidate who is willing to live in this decade, and not try to roll things back to the Scopes Monkey Trial.
He will be ignored by the media, because he isn’t threatening to “Go Texas” on anybody, or fire drones at illegal aliens, or screaming that the President is a socialist, or suggest his impeachment.
Not exciting, not inciting. So he is, I am more than certain, doomed.
It was nice to meet you, moderate conservative in the middle of Hurricane TeaBag.
You will be missed.
