Is Sarah Palin Getting Trumped?
According to the latest polls, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s political popularity trajectory is heading south. It was inevitable given our 24/7 fame-obsessed culture which feeds on new personalities and controversy to fuel the celebrity media machine.
Once Sarah Palin resigned from her office as Alaska governor, she left that respected “higher platform” reserved for our elected leaders and crossed over into celebrity jungle.
There, she willingly subjected herself to the unforgiving forces of media pop culture, where the masses are easily bored. And now, without a new hit show, movie, book, clothing line, charity cause, or fragrance, Palin is vying for the same celebrity space as Lady Gaga and Charlie Sheen. And worse for her, according to the Washington Post, Palin “rarely seems to break through into the national dialogue.”
Since her successful 2009 launch into the media pop culture, Palin’s “brand” has remained essentially the same and her fan base has not widened. Now after two years in the celebrity maelstrom, as her star is starting to flicker, she must do what all celebrities need do to stay on top: re-invent herself. Otherwise, Sarah Palin appears destined for a twirl on Dancing with the Stars during the 2013 season.
There is no doubt that in these past two years former Palin has had a good run. Consider her list of accomplishments: Fox News contributor, best-selling author, a reality TV show, success as a political fundraiser, champion of conservative causes, Tea Party leader, a bold critic of President Obama, a master of social media, and a “kingmaker” in the 2010 midterm elections — while the question of will she or won’t she run for president swirled around her like an Iowa tornado.
Certainly Palin’s bank account is the ultimate beneficiary, with a ripple effect reaching daughter Bristol’s account as well.
But the question remains: is Sarah Palin’s expiration date about up?
Surely there is that potential, not only from a read of the latest polls but because the media has now glommed onto Sarah Palin 2.0 — otherwise known as Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
Unlike Palin, Bachmann is actively running for president, not just hinting, flirting, and teasing. She says she will decide officially in June.
But even more than Bachmann, Palin is being pushed aside by “The Donald,” who has earned a PhD in fame and self-promotion.
Donald Trump is a case study for celebrity staying power as he enters his fourth decade in the public eye. Trump is a master of the art of re-invention — and Sarah Palin should take notes.
Now that Trump is full throttle into “thinking about running for president,” the press is going along for the ride with all Donald, all the time coverage.
Besides his declaration about seizing Iraqi oil to pay us back for the war, Trump has given the “birther” issue new life.
This issue has the capacity to drive the mainstream media over the edge and potentially set up the celebrity smackdown of the 21st century: Obama vs. Trump.
Donald Trump, unlike Sarah Palin, is an established American brand on par with Coke or Goodyear. So there is only so much the press can do to denigrate him without looking foolish themselves. But Trump knows how to use the media; he barks, they bite, he bites back, then barks louder and makes more headlines.
Well, I think this analysis suffers from a bias I can’t quite get my head around, but I don’t sense that the author has a favorable opinion of Govenor Palin.
Look, Palin has been harassed and libeled in the over-heated press for two years. Now in the last two months, she falls from constant coverage because Trump steps forward. That’s good for Palin. And who said she should run in the first place?
Bachman may be actively running, but she has no chance of the nomination. She hasn’t been targeted by the left much like Palin and so she’s been mostly allowed to mold her arguments. That won’t last if she was considered a serious threat.
Trump has the press in panic mode, desperately trying to make him out to be a baffoon and the elite in the GOP poo-poo’ing his even talking about running. This gives Palin the breathing room to decide to run or not and make the contacts she needs.
“Trump has the press in panic mode,”
Trump has the press rejoicing. They know with their help even the Obama can explode and sink the Donald–who is a self-inflated puffball of no political significance or weight.
Myra has been anti-Palin from the very beginning. Take anything she says about Palin with a grain of salt.
Doug has been a Palinbot since the very beginning. Take anything he says with a grain of salt.
Well, I think this analysis suffers from a bias I can’t quite get my head around, but I don’t sense that the author has a favorable opinion of Govenor Palin.
Myra Adams is a RINO of the McCainite variety. She served on his campaign committee, and is a comitted Establishment hack. So, of course, any real conservative is anathema to her.
View anything she says through that lens and you’ll begin to understand her rantings.
By the way, it’s MRS. Palin, not GOVERNOR Palin. This isn’t England, it’s America. We don’t have lifetime Titles here.
How fitting that MYRA wrote this during Easter week specifically about that time in history when Jesus turned over the tables of the money changers
which I thought of when I clicked on Myra’s link at the bottom of the article about selling jewelry and donating proceeds to charity. Hey Myra
how about you disclose exactly where the jewelry comes from who made it what they were paid for it and what other expenses were incurred and who else got paid in this charitable endeavor. Not that I don’t trust someone who cites progressive websites to tear down the Palins; BUT.
If you are going to don the Christian uniform you might want to consider Sarah Palin as an example by her moral actions, decisions and words (last)
rather than her political decisions (which make total sense given the circumstances). What you should have said from the beginning was simply
“I didn’t like Sarah from the moment she set foot on the McCain campaign that I was part of before her”
The Jesus Store has been around since 1999. We only sell Jerusalem crosses made by Christian Arabs in the Old City of Jerusalem where Christ walked. The site makes very little money and all profits go to charity. Our customers love our crosses for they are filled with the Holy Spirit reflecting where they are made.
You can criticize my political views all you want but I do not appreciate you insinuating there is something sinister with http://www.TheJesusStore.com
It is a mission of mine to offer these crosses and I would be glad to share glowing emails I get from customers about how much they enjoy wearing them.
Myra Adams
I’m a happy customer, Myra! What wonderful jewelry and what a wonderful ministry. You should be proud of it.
Just wondering:
Why the backdrop of the Dome of the Rock?
What is the theological undergirding of jewelry “imbued” by the Holy Spirit, or wearers ‘filled’.
So also, the term “Christian Arab” has, in practice, widely divergent meanings.
Not being familiar with you, I notice that you do not deny the charge of being a Rino. I’ll be skipping over your future articles.
Fair enough looks like a noble cause, just checking because I don’t trust you and I take offense of you slipping off to the liberal side get your digs in on a woman who epitomizes the Christian ethic with her choices
and lifestyle. Palin has policy stances that if implemented by Obama would
bring us back from the cliff this nation is hurtling over but his intention
is to see us crash. Christianity is the savior of this world and true Christians can see each other. Selling crosses doesn’t make you a Christian.
Myra -
Whose desk is your boy – Mittens – hiding under today?
Say what you want about Sarah Palin. She does her own fighting as opposed to Romney who fights through surrogates.
…. (United States of America’s President and Armed-Forces Commander-In-Chief-Elect Sarah Louise Ronald Wilson Reagan Heath) Palin …. needs to take a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook and “re-invent herself” now and “decide who she wants to be” in the future ….
Absolutely the kind of stuff to be expected from those who have neither understanding nor appreciation whatsoever of Mrs Palin’s core moral integrity and/or are her very worst enemies.
President-Elect Palin is no more capable of “re-inventing” herself than she’d be of – say – flying unassisted to the moon!
Jealous, envious, ignorant, self-delusional Myra. No matter how vile and biased against Palin you are, you shall NEVER be anything more than 1% of HER.
Neither as a political and public figure nor as a WOMAN.
You have no authority to judge her accomplishments or position in the public as you know NOTHING about her political strategy and her plans into the future.
Your attacks on her are just a bunch of hallucinatory visions generated by your dislake of this GLORIOUS (Kraut’s description of Palin) woman.
If she is so unpopular and fading why the number of friends on her facebook is constantly raising soon to reach the magic 3 million?
Are those numbers less indicative of her real stand and popularity than those crappy, biased, leftoid-generated polls you are so addicted to?
After all she has as many followers on facebook as all the rest of potential GOP candidates put together.
And for any thinking and perceptive observer, her latest FANTASTIC speech in Wisconsin not at all was an attempt to catch up with Trump but her first shot in the fight for the WH.
It is obvious that the more Sarah shines the deeper you are drowning in your own bile.
By the way, it took you long time to concoct that new even more insane and ridiculous anti-Palin rant.
I wonder; What sort of crap are you going to produce when she enters the race?
Be careful; With that kind of attitude you shall easily end up in the mental hospital…
I feel sorry for you though.
You can expect a great number and much more aggressive and crushing retorts from the readers insensed by your dishonsety and above all by your stupidity.
By the way, why Pajamas is willing to allow such a CRAP on its noble pages is beyond me.
Bogdan,
You are the one drowning in your own bile. Your invective against Ms. Adams is truly disgusting. What kind of human being are you to write such outrageous, unjustified comments? If more people in Australia read your rants the men in the white coats would be coming for you. You really do need to be institutionalized and medicated.
Sorry to dissapoint you Falco.
You are as ignorant and confused as Myra herself.
She is Pajama Media’s chief Palin basher and it is her third in a row anti-Palin rant.
Her latest “article” is even more uninformed and biased that the previous ones.
Despite that it cannot be considered ignorant but friendly.
It is deliberately biased to denigrate and belittle her and prevent her from running for GOP’s nomination.
And it is a part of a wider strategy concocted by Rove, Gingrich, Krauthammer, Dick Morris, possibly the oldest Bushes and some large number of faceless GOP’s apparatchicks terrified by the vision that they would fall into the bin of history with Palin’s ascendancy.
They are terrified also af the possibility of losing their relevancy.
Their fight against Palin (or rather back-stabbing her) is nasty, pityless, cowardly, weasely and also highly ungentlemanly.
Sometimes one suspect that they are conspiring (and it is not only my opinion) with the “Dems” to prevent her from becoming the POTUS.
Hence the fury of her supporters.
They have had enough of the vomit constantly being thrown at her.
And because she is so superhumanly courtous and polite, her fans are that more militant.
And again, expect much more brutal in their sincerity posts by many more enraged readers.
Bogdan,
So now there is a conspiracy involving Rove, Morris, Gingrich and many others against Sweet Sarah? And Myra Adams is their mouthpiece? You truly are delusional. Call the men in the white coats, Australian brethren, the cookoo is out of the clock!
You are a complete idiot Falco. I don’t know whether Myra is a moutpiece of that “conspiracy” (if any organised indeed exists) but two and half years of incessant attacks by GOP’s apparatchicks on Sarah and their cowardly silence when she is being attacked by the Leftoids speak for itself.
And that never ending jabber about her being a cheerleader or a “kingmaker” or that absurd proposal to make her GOP’s Chairman are even more significant.
Appart from that there are many articles or “interviews” with those as nameless as shadowy figures from GOP who state constantly that Sarah shall not get the nomination at ANY PRICE.
The entire two and half years show precisely that Sarah is beind at least dislaked intensely if not hated by the so called “establishment”.
Do I think that they conspire against her? You betcha!
Is Myra really a mouthpiece for them? I don’t know. I think she is too silly for that.
She is probably doing that for much more trivial reasons.
ENVY.
So spare me your crap, please.
No conspiracy required – just a shared hatred of true conservatives. The Establishment Republicans (Yes, Gingrich is in that category) understand full well that if real conservatives gain power the days of the RINO country club are OVER. We’ll see term limits and a host of other changes that they won’t like.
They know an enemy when they see one – they don’t need secret back-room meetings to agree on a plan.
Spare us the PC drivel, beta male. The post is a sneering putdown of TEAs typical of Repugnant apparatchiks.
The base couldn’t care less about the GOP this time out.
“Leave Sarah Palin alone”. You can hear the mascara running.
Too funny.
Agree with you 100%!
I meant to say I agree with you, Bogdan from Australia, 100%!!!
And who is Myra Adams again? To me she sounds like a woman scorned, angry and jealous. I too wonder why her biased rants would be published here, but then I noticed over time that PM isn’t all that pure!
Let me make a point for everyone to think about. Sarah Palin is the most divisive and polarize figure in our entire political history. Can anyone in their right minds believe that as a President, Sarah Palin can unite both houses of Congress, let alone unite the Democrats and Republicans in both houses? Can anyone in their right minds believe that Sarah Palin can get anything done in Washington DC, as a President?
Not only is Sarah Palin so polarizing, as a figure, but she is extremely thin skinned. Not one criticism or disagreement of Sarah Palin goes ignored by Sarah Palin. She fights everything with tooth and nail, which is a good trait, but then she goes and labels everything that opposes her with childlike characterizations, like calling the MSM as the Lamestream Media, for example. How will Sarah Palin hold up as President with oppositions in both houses of Congress? How will Sarah Palin hold up as President with any criticisms of her by the media? Can anyone visualize a disaster waiting to happen in our political system? I don’t think I have to elaborate further about this.
A good President should have the ability to unite both houses of Congress, the nation, and people from all walks of life to get things done and resolve fundamental issues, not divide everything in its path. How can a Divider in Chief succeed in a time of financial crisis in this country and in this world? With all the calamities that are facing this world, can a polarize figure turn this world around?
We don’t need Democrats and Republicans “united”. And every honest cop is “polarizing” for the thugs. Can’t we just get along? The truth is that when we reach decision points, whatever you do decide is polarizing, when facing a crisis we need a polarizing leader (actually the that’s hallmark of a leader) we don’t need the always compromising “let’s all get along” kind of seudo leader.
“Let me make a point for everyone to think about. Sarah Palin is the most divisive and polarize figure in our entire political history.”
Ever hear of a man named Barack Obama, you semi-literate fool?
Oh bull. Any Republican who the left views as a danger will be excoriated as divisive and polarizing. That’s what the left does. As to your other complaints, they’re unfounded and largely untrue. You’re free not to like her like so many of us normal Americans do, but you’re not free to tell lies about her unchallenged.
Poor, confused Dave (and ignorant too).
Palin showed great ability to unite politically opposite sides as a Governor of Alaska.
Hence her popularity that at some point reached nearly 90%.
And now, even her most rabid detractors (like that creepy woman Shanyn Moore aka Celtic Diva) begin missing her and appreciating her leadership which is now evidently lacking in the Northern state.
Appart from that, why should she feel the need to unite with the thievs, robbers, liers, backstabbers, fraudsters, communists, gangsters that have taken over the so called “Democratic Party”?
It is more probable that she shall apply the rule of Reagan; “We win they loose”.
HEAR.HEAR SO VERY TRUE AND SO WELL PUT BROGDAN, THANK SO VERY MUCH,
Thank you William. God Bless you Yanks!
Bogdan:
Presenting such clear thinking makes a real contribution to the grown-ups in the U.S as they prepare for perhaps the final battle to preserve their nation. Those who worship at the feet of the smoke and mirrors crown will never get it.
Thank you very much.
Go Sarah.
Thanks Bogdan! Well said – Hear! Hear!
Brian – (in Brisbane)
Dave aparently you dont know a damned thing about her accomplishments as governor of Alaska.
Dave, What a great post!
All we have to do is replace every Palin reference with Obama and the description’s a PERFECT FIT!
“Polarizing”? I got news Sherlock: Oil and water don’t mix, we are polarized to an extent reminiscent of 1860.
Deal with it. If the base doesn’t find a conservative on the ballot, they will write one in. End of story.
Do you mean like the current occupant of the WH?
‘And worse for her, according to the Washington Post, Palin “rarely seems to break through into the national dialogue.”’
Except her every tweet calls the MSM’s shots for them.
‘Meanwhile, Palin had been relegated to the sidelines by Trump-mania.’
Oh yeah, the MSM would desperately love to have the Donald be the guy set up for Obama to knock down. Don’t worry, Sarah won’t let them prop up that B-list blowhard into a genuine candidate for President.
This is a silly article — in fact, it’s a perfect reflection of the very frivolous pop culture it purports to decry.
Trump is at best a political dilletante and at worst a charlatan, a political tourist with more money than sense, and is, (like all too many tourists), little more than an ambulant loud mouth with bad hair.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is a serious and effective articulator of core American values, and potentially a witheringly effective antidote to the sinister “post-American” regime currently in power.
Palin-West in ’12.
Palin – West
Excellent!
Indeed.
This is a silly article — in fact, it’s a perfect reflection of the very frivolous pop culture it purports to decry.
Trump is at best a political dilletante and at worst a charlatan, a political tourist with more money than sense. He is, (like all too many tourists), little more than a great big ill-informed ambulant loud mouth topped by comically bad hair.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is a serious and effective articulator of core American values, and potentially a witheringly effective antidote to the sinister “post-American” regime currently in power.
Palin-West in ’12.
I am not a fan of Sarah Palin, BUT, I would take Sarah over Trump every time.I think Sarah is honest and has integrity. . . Trump , on the other hand, is a egocentric moneychaser. He contributed heavily to the “o”s campaign. . . .why is he deciding now is the time for the “birther” issue?Why not 2 years ago? He is in this for his own gain, there is no love of country here, only the love of money. How many times has he gone bankrupt?
For Sarah Palin to be a real contender she must make changes, but selling her soul to be popular and acceptable to everyone is not one of them.
Well said.
Even if Trump had integrity, he has shown ZERO understanding of the world at large. Sarah Palin is not as well informed as I would like to see in a Presidential candidate, but she far ecipses Trump.
I am amazed at the zeal supporters of *insert name of the latest big businessman to talk about running for President*. They seem to think that being President is like running a business. If you can run a business, you can run the country.
What ignorant idiocy! (No, that’s not a redundancy.)
Certainly a President needs some understanding of the business world, but he needs a LOT more than that!
I guess for these people, it’s always about the economy, and nothing else matters.
In other words, they really don’t love this country and the principles on which it was founded.
They just love money.
This article seems to put a spin on the ball, going for a curve ball to deceive the batter and not for the straight up heater to defeat the batter.
I like Sarah Palin. But don’t forget, there is much more in life than seeking the presidency. She is unlike a lot of these politicians who get mesmerized, seduced by the call, an egoist manipulated into thinking it is duty, not will, that calls. John McCain is one example: seduced by being called a maverick by lamestream legacy media types when he was hurting GWB, then recycled by them into ordinary whack-job status when he actually DID get the nomination.
Sarah Palin does not seem to be like that. We will have to see.
The list of Palin’s so-called ‘accomplishments’ since Alaska is actually outlets ready made for her to plug into; now that they have run their natural course, she doesn’t need to re-invent herself but to invent herself.
And what has Trump ever done in the media? From his inception in the public eye he has been a guy who talks on shows, that’s pretty much it; he’s a different facet of a Paris Hilton.
Trump can barely win a debate with Rosie O’Donnell let alone a sitting President. If money were brains Trump might have a Nobel for thinking but it’s not and so he appears in the media because he has money and not for one single idea he’s ever had in his head outside the inner workings of the media itself. Frankly I’m stumped anyone would even talk about this guy being a serious candidate for the Presidency – rich Siamese twins might serve as well.
Palin better stop acting like a radical muslim and only talking about what she’s against and start talking about a genuine and nuanced vision for America and a plan to back it up that involves talking in a normal volume of voice. Perhaps a talk show wouldn’t be a bad idea for Palin; we could see a less hurried version of her and one that doesn’t talk in what seems like pre-written sentences. If we could see her talk in a calm and reasonable voice and see her thought processes in a free form arena it could help. The problem with this idea of a talk show that has been mentioned before is that no one has said what impact it could have on Palin if it failed.
Frankly I don’t see any chance for Palin to be President, or Bachmann or anyone on the public radar. I think whoever runs against Obama will be someone who came out of the shadows like Obama did.
Poor, ignorant James May. To be heard, Palin had to shout through the howling of hyenas sent by Obama to disrupt Wis. rally.
Hence her high-pitched voice.
She has thousand times more courage in her thumb than you in your empty head.
You would be running from such a meeting with the pants in your hands.
After all she had to represent some genuine qualities as a leader if she managed to convince the Alaskan voters to elect such a young woman as their governor.
Your inability to see any chances for Palin as a future Pres. are result of your blindness and not a political sobriety.
However, she shall surprise us again with her performance when she decides to enter the race.
Afer all she herself has said: “I shall be much more rogue, WHEN I run again.”
And as for the courage, I know a thing or two about it having my best years wasted while living under the boot and whip of a communo-fascist regime, so I appreciate Sarah’s incredible courage and don’t expect you to lecture my on that subject.
OK. That settles it. Bogdan is not from Australia. In fact, “he” is not even Bogdan. You are really Sarah, or her husband, or one of her kids. Aren’t you “Bogdan?” ‘Fess up!
Bogdan, I think I like you; keep up the comments I shall be looking for them.
Donald Trump blew his standing with conservatives when he dissed Ryan’s long term economic plan, most notably the provisions that reign in Medicare spending. We need for Palin, Huckabee, or perhaps Rand Paul to step forward and run for President as campaign season approaches. This article is stupid, but what do you expect from a Bush-McCain enthusiast?
Get a clue, Myra.
Trump is a brand. So is Playboy Magazine, and it’s mansion is currently spreading Legionaire’s Disease, through the fine mists of the germs wafting up from the hot tubs. But, still Playboy is a commanding brand.
Trump is not playing the Media. They love his circus. Trump is playing conservatives. He is using their anger at Obama, and the supposedly weak field of Republican candidates, to enlist their support for his very big mouth, which most often is active but not connected to a working cranium. He is succeeding to an extent, and getting free publicity from leading lights like Rush Limbaugh, who are giving the indication that Trumps aggressive mouth which is not checked by an equally aggressive brain, is what we need. These conservatives are even OK with the fact that Donald Trump is in fact not a Republican or a conservative. His big mouth may say he is, but Donald actually speaks with his wallet, which has endorsed Harry Reid, Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and even them amazing Anthony Weiner and Chuck Schumer. Trump’s marketing prowess can receive no greater testimony than the fact that the man who gave these contributions, and advocated universal health care in 2000, now has Rush promoting him. Of course Trump is not a conservative, but a hard core, crony capitalist Liberal Democrat, and Rush is either playing some bizarre strategy as he did inn the 2008 cycle propping up Hillary, or he has gone to the Dark side. He is not that stupid.
Meanwhile conservatives do need a strong warrior like candidate with true character. And there is only one with the resume to back it up. That is Sarah Palin. And I believe she is playing a role that she was created to play. And we will all be the beneficiaries. And whe. The country is saved, we will be able to go back and listen to old interviews with The Donald when we need a good laugh, and to hear the voice of a man whose self love is greater than Obama’s
Myra hasn’t got a clue who Palin is. She has invented her own creature, like a Barbie Doll she can play with. Trump has gotten favorable polls, mainly for trashing Obama, but there is no Trump mania.
OK this is a poorly thought out article. Not worth commenting on really. Trump occasionally says interesting things. But it is hit and miss and he really isn’t a conservative. For another, more nuanced look at Palin’s electability, have a look at this link:
http://pollinsider.com/palin-electability-series/
Insightful, particularly wrt money. Remember, Obama is out to raise even more money than he did last time. The only way to beat him is to match the fundraising.
DD
I am certain of one thing only at this particular moment in time: Sarah Palin will not be taking advice from Ms. Adams. Any alignment will be purely accidental. A couple of months ago Ms. Adams condemned SP for not making her intentions clear. Presumably this lack of clarity was preventing other testosterone challenged candidates from coming forward!
Sean Hannity tried to bait SP into attacking Trump last night without success. She remains focused on attacking the real enemy: Barack Obama! Imagine that!
Sarah Palin already has a victory this cycle: the “rescheduling” of the NBC/Politico debate until September. Ms. Adams, I will give you a free prediction that you can claim for yourself at no charge: there will be no NBC/Politico debate this cyle.
Sarah – you betcha!
Trump – No..No..No..!
Someone, somewhere will come up with something on TOTUS. No matter
how much $$’s or how hard he and his minions try to hide all his
background, someone will eventually leak something.
God Bless America
Sarah Palin is making great moves, political and cultural. Trump will never get past Iowa caucus, but Palin is a politician and a businesswoman. Trump is just a comedy act. These polls do no reflect the sentiment of Republicans in Iowa, NH or South Carolina. Thse states will never vote for a three times married fellow in GOP primaries.
Not to pour cold water on your argument, or in any way be rude, just a small factoid triggered by your comment about Trump. When I lived in Iowa, Des Moines had the highest divorce rate in the nation–and this was a few decades ago. As I puzzled then and still do: There’s obviously an element to life here that completely escapes me
Yes, the fact that Trump has supported single payer health care, a 14.5 one time wealth tax, slandered Bush on the war, funded the campaigns of Reid, Weiner, Sharpton, et al, we’re supposed to forget about that
I think we first have to thank the left for vetting Gov Palin for us, thank you, second, she’s been running all along and you have to thank the GOP for that too. She has set the bar for EVERYONE in government and that helps us understand where people are coming from, like the author of this piece or about Jeb Bush who thought it was a good idea to pose with Obama. Stop watching the Democrats and zero in on what the GOP establishment is doing, are they really that different?
Seeing as she scouted out Walker, when he was a little known county executive, was the only figure to endorse Ryan’s Roadmap, gave the final push for Prosser, so she was kind of taking a victory lap, in hostile territory
Trump is doing fine, thank you! Leave him be!
Sure, Trump is a phoney, a self-promoting New Yorker with a major load a baggage. But, he is running interference for Palin (and other potential candidates) by raising the proofer issues that no one else will touch.
Obama will run and his media will never question his background. The voters, this time, will begin to ask the questions Trump is asking, “here’s my BC, where’s his?”
Whether the conservative candidate will ask this key question or not, Trump has given it a legitimacy that no one else (maybe, Rush) could or would.
Palin stays out of the fight (giving the media nothing to rant about) but the issue is aired; the bell can not be unrung!
How about we dump ALL of them and get an actual, decent candidate for once?
I know, I know, radical thought, but hey, it’s worth a shot, right?
Got someone in mind?
Trump is making life easy for Sarah. That’s his mission and he’s doing it well.
Who’s finally getting the issue of the Criminal in Chief’s past on the table? Who’s exposing the rank hyprocricy of the Make Believe Media? Who’s hammering the issue of incompetancy? Who’s assiduously avoiding the policy issues that most appeal to conservatives, while at the same time pointing out the destructive failure of the administration’s policies? Who is reminding America in the most culturally penetrating way that business is what brings wealth and well-being to the United States? Who’s demonstrating that a candidate doesn’t have to sit quietly and let an arrogant socialist journalist pick him apart? Who praises Sarah Palin, zings Mitt Romney, and says nothing about the 20 dwarfs? Who’s taking the heat while all of the other candidates get a breather?
Did you ever stop to think why the dominant voice of conservatism in this country, Rush Limbaugh, doesn’t hammer a guy like Trump? After all, even though Trump is certainly conservative after witnessing the engine of marxist destruction for two years, he has spent his entire life doing and saying things that Limbaugh would ordinarilly devote weeks of his show to denouncing?
It’s because Trump is setting the table for 2012. When the Donald returns to managing his business empire in a month or so, every Republican in the field, and particularly Sarah, is going to look like a dignified statesmen…but they will all know how to bring the fight to the most dangerous man in the world.
Today, Drudge’s top headline is Corsi’s expose book, still weeks away from publication.
Whoever figured this campaign out is a genius.
Eleventy!! Er, THIS!!
PJM needs your kind of astute analysis. PJM is unfortunately pretty noncommittal about the presidential primary except that they usually have no problem attacking Palin and now Trump. When are we going to see pieces attacking Romney, Huckabee, or Christie? My understanding is that PJM is at least quasi-libertarian. If their poobahs were to actually look at SP’s record as Governor VS the three listed above they would be endorsing her candidacy!
noahp….PJM is not nearly the ideologs most think..in my opinion. They are far more interested in researching the clinical psychic of society through the stimulating fodder they throw at everybody. Then they compile their data, write books and sell them…genuine American ingenuity and capitalism.
Did you ever stop to think why the dominant voice of conservatism in this country, Rush Limbaugh, doesn’t hammer a guy like Trump?
Rush Limbaugh is a not much of a conservative, and certainly no thinker. He’s drifed right since the Bob Dole fiasco, but only because his audience demands it of him.
He’s really no better grounded in political philosophy than The Donald.
yeh, Rush is just a comic.
NRO is where the real conservatives live…and other losers.
I agree with you, Proreason.
Trump’s media blitz is basically “setting the table” for other Republican candidates. I don’t know if it’s a planned strategy – but this will definitely work out in Palin’s favor.
Not a critique of Myra personally – but the premise on her article — Palin’s “brand” needs more exposure to compete with Trump — is absurd.
Fox Feb. 10 polled all adults and gave Palin and Trump 99% name recognition, Huckabee 90%, Romney 87% followed in third and fourth positions.
ABC/WaPo just polled 32/22/41 to give Trump a lead, despite both Gallup and Rasmussen having the numbers 30/27/40. And none does anything to address the Indies being a bimodal population straddling the Republican affiliates, 60% to the Right, 40% Center-left.
Bachmann is obviously a stalking horse for Palin. Palin and Huckabee are obviously ahead of zombie Romney and in no need to hurry into the early melee. Jay Cost has Romney support down 14% versus 2008.
The problem with the posted tendentious analysis is there is no there there. The elites may well be situated well in Tampa but tallying less than 40% of the popular vote, all of it in states they will lose the following Nov., the GOP will be astride a quagmire.
This writer is so transparently anti-Palin, and so reliably wrong, it’s become amusing.
Trump is absorbing all the elitist scorn which would have been reserved for Palin. When Trump drops out, which he will (he hasn’t the deeper interest, aptitude or political stamina for a presidential run), Palin is best poised to win his support, based on the subtle sympatico established between them. The elites, having exhausted themselves on Trump, cannot reasonably then turn on Palin. Besides, Palin will have already proved immune by using this time — at the quieter edges of Trump’s bluster — to distinguish herself with clear, incisive, solidly common sensical — and exhortatively inspirational — conservatism.
Article reeks of PDS…
The left is so terrified of Ms. Palin that I’m surprised there are any Depends left on the shelves…
Sheez…
Myra Gov (it is appropriate to use the title) Palin is the Tea Party and will win the nomination the the Presidency.
Gov Palin POTUS in ’12
Col West House Speaker in ’12
Sen Rubio Majority Leader in ’12
What’s wrong with you, readers? We are standing at the edge of the abysm, and you are still toying with petty politics?
I’m sure Ms. Palin is a great mom and a good lady. I also know that Mr. Trump is a successful businessman who likes the limelight. But if either of them have even a molecule of the love of country they profess, they should step aside, and do the honorable, patriotic thing:
Allow the nomination of an individual who can lead this country in what will probably be the most crucial battle for the survival of our way of life, and that of the Western civilization.
There is no room for manipulative or greedy individuals at this time. Possible candidates are nothing but politicians. And the good ones are leaving the arena.
At this time, only one person seems to encompass the demands and qualifications required for our future leader: Congressman Allen West. All I know about him is what I see and hear. He should be looked at by the Republicans if they really have love for this country.
There must be others. Start looking. Don’t just settle for what’s on the menu.
Someone will have to step up to the challenge, and either succeed or succumb.
Give us a leader, and we will simply follow in step.
Mr. Martel….good luck with your message! The sleeping masses of the past 40-50 years awakend as the social and political genius.
The genius of today is ignorant raw emotion percieved as intellectualism!
Let us know the candidates you approve of, so we will know what to think.
Thanks.
“if either of them have even a molecule of the love of country they profess, they should step aside, and do the honorable, patriotic thing”
Right. I have a better idea, how about we all give you our proxy and let you cast an enlighted vote in our stead, the less evolved?
Last I heard, Congressman West wasn’t running for President.
We can only choose among the people that are, you know, actually running.
This is where I stopped reading this ridiculous article:
“Palin is vying for the same celebrity space as Lady Gaga and Charlie Sheen.”
What a witch. You know, us women would rule the world if we didn’t become so darn jealous and felt the need to attack the women who are succeeding and leading by example in attempting to break the glass ceiling.
We’re not going to break anything as along as idiots like this “author” are on the scene. You might as well be a liberal feminist; useless.
Goodness PJ media, get it together already.
The nation is divided by political parties and their histotically influenced and conditioned voters…those who vote one party or another regardless of the issues of the times….I am simply democrat or republican by heredity and vote accordingly. Democrats tip the scales with a slight 3-5% majority in this case.
Then, the nation is further divided individually, by real social and political ideological differences. In this case the nation becomes quite complex…and confusing. A good example is the ‘general’ rhetoric of the GOP/Tea Party position of anti-socialism (government social entitlements) when polling from April 10-14 shows an overwhelming majority (80%) do NOT want any changes in the social security and medicare systems. Likiewise, polling suggests that Americans across all party lines understand the need for government spending controls and reform. There are many other polling data that indicate such contradictions within nearly every serious governement functions, across all party lines.
The fact of the matter is, that the nation is seriously divided on all fronts….. and ….. within the parties.
So, the question comes to who is or would be the best candidate for the nation with its division and critical government circumstances.
I can only submit, that such a candidate would be one that has the genuine qualities to bring together with some resemblence, a majority from across party lines. Dire national circumstances have in the past had such people arise….but….I know of no such person for todays national circumstances….NONE! Sofar, the condidates being hashed around either further divide the party and for certain the nation at-large. That is NOT a winning combination for the United State of American and the host of critical problems facing it.
good post, TT, but I take exception to the part about SS and Medicare.
The fact that the public doesn’t want to lose contributions of hundreds of thousands of dollars in those programs can’t be used to say people are socialist.
If the opposite were true, and people would think it is just hunky dory to give up hundreds of thousands of dollars because somebody claimed that it proves they are “socialists”, then that would be much clearer evidence that the public is insane.
It’s a false argument, and you’ve let youself get sucked into agreeing with a leftist talking point. I would equate it to calling a person a war lover because he supports a war from time to time.
If an honest pollster (pretty funney, eh?) really wanted to know if SS and Medicare made people socialists, the question would be phrased:
“If you were given back all the money you have so far ‘contributed’ to SS and Medicare, and then had the choice of continuing to ‘contribute’ to the same programs just as they exist today, or having those taxes go into private accounts that you could manage for your own retirment and pass onto your heirs if you die early, which would you pick.”
Then you would find out how much people like socialism.
Proreason…I’m trying to reference the contradictions of the political, ideological rhetoric on the side of the GOP/Tea Party. Correlating the recent polling that 80% of American’s do not want medicare/medicaid touched is very revealing and consistent with my position of contraditions in the reasoning of a huge majority of Americans.
After all medicare and medicaid are the driving programs identified by most of the GOP/Tea Party as socialist and bankrupting the nation. On the other hand they ignore that most of the rest of government programs, most that they not familiar with, but receive benefit from, directly or indirectly, are equally socialist programs except for defense, State and Justice. Ironically, those types of benefits are very much equal in spending to that of SS, medicare/medicaid spending combined.
This is yet another in a long series of articles and statements made by establishment republicans telling Sarah Palin what to do and how to run her life. The most oft-repeated piece of advise is for Sarah to get smarter, bone up, learn the issues, etc. Then there is the talk show host thing, the cheerleader thing, the king maker thing, the chair of the RNC thing.
The truth of the matter is that Palin is the most influential Republican alive. When she makes a statement everyone reacts. Nobody has that influence, save maybe Obama. She has written quite smartly on every issue of the day. She single-handedly steered the Tea Party movement away from going third party and led them to a take over of the Republican Party and the House. She can see around corners seeing issues arising before anyone else does. She is holds the correct position on every single issue.
And yet we still have pundits like Myra giving her advise and telling her what to do. Its simply absurd, and everyone who tries it looks foolish.
Great post, Glen. I see Sarah Palin in much the same way you do, especially your observation that “She can see around corners seeing issues arising before anyone else does.” Her political sense is uncanny. Her character shines. Her constancy restores my faith in the human race.
This lady Adams has written more negative articles on Palin for this website so we know what her agenda is. Myra, Trump is not a Phd in media, he’s a media whore. If Sarah Palin did the same thing as Trump, ie announced he was whether or not he’s running or not on his stupid Apprentice show, you’d be calling her non serious about running and all the other platitudes. Trump is about as conservative and republican as much as you, Myra, is a conservative or a republican. He’s not only a media whore but he’s also a political party whore, that is with Trump, every political party got their turn. As John Fund reported that Trump was registered w. Reform Party in 1999 became a Democrat in 2001, and then registered as a Republican finally in 2009. did you really even realize that you contradicted yourself in this article? You claim that Bachmann is really “running” not flirting etc. like Palin is. Well, I guess you’d like to overlook conveniently the fact Trump isn’t “running” either. Listen lady, you need to quit while your ahead. Everyone knows what you’re about at this point.
Wtf…? DONALD TRUMP IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE, A REPUBLICAN, OR EVEN A LIBERTARIAN!!!! HE’S A FREAKING LEFTIST!!!! He SUPPORTS the Democrats and has donated funds to such entities as Harry Reid.
Advising Gov Palin, who is all about sincerity and service, to try to emulate this guy, who is an out-and-out sham, working for the other side, trying to get Obama elected again….?
I know it’s April 20 and all, but seriously: WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING, LADY?!!?!! O_o
Some previous bits of wisdom from Myra Adams:
“Why Palin Should Announce First”
“Run Jeb, Run!”
“Why Palin Should Run for Oprah’s Couch instead of Obama’s Chair in 2012″
“Is Sarah Palin Getting Trumped” fits right in.
Sooo… how do we get PJM to stop running Ms. Adams’ articles? They are clearly hit pieces. Enough already.
Not a chance, Marcky baby. Myra’s stuff is GOOD! Wait….I’m hearing here in the hallways of Congress that her next piece will appear any day now. You should be so lucky…..or talented!