Sarah Palin's anti-Midas Touch strikes again in Kansas

[marmar]

from Mother Jones:




Kansas Rep. Jerry Moran narrowly beat fellow US congressman Todd Tiahrt to secure Kansas' Republican nomination for Senate following a pricey, vitriolic campaign season in which the congressmen brawled over social conservatism, illegal immigration, and government spending.

Up against an opponent with backing from Kansas' tea partiers, Moran's campaign won the primary by bolstering his conservative record and carefully courting the party's moderate wing. Tiahrt took the opposite approach, and sought out the state's most socially conservative voters. He scored endorsements from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Bush administration advisor Karl Rove, Fox News host Sean Hannity, and conservative organizer Phyliss Schlaffly, among others. That list of conservative luminaries, though, couldn't save Tiahrt, who lost the Republican primary Tuesday night by 5 points.

Kansas political consultant Jeff Roe considers Moran "a common-sense, conservative, plain spoken man for western Kansas" and Tiahrt "a touch more idealogue, from Witchita, with an aggressive posture and base." Not that Moran was particularly timid on the campaign trail. In televised debates and on one TV spot, he accused Tiahrt of supporting "amnesty for illegals" based on Tiahrt's co-sponsorship of bills seeking deportation protection and lower college tuition for undocumented immigrant students.

Tiahrt, meanwhile, branded Moran a watered-down moderate. In one well-publicized commercial, a former hostage whom terrorists held captive in the Philippines for more than a year endorses Tiahrt while an off-camera voice suggests Moran supported constitutional rights for terrorists. One of Tiahrt’s most punishing jabs at Moran came in late June from surrogate and supporter Karl Rove, who accused Moran of trying to barter a vote for a 2001 fundraiser. (Moran and his staff emphatically denied the claim.) ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/rove-palin-pick-dumped-kansas

[Chiyo-chichi]

1. Get a brain, Moran.

In my haste to be the first to say "Get a brain, Moran," I failed to see that Moran was not the one Palin endorsed. Oh, well. they should all get brains.

[spanone]

2. shhh, don't tell the media, they love the wasilla-one

[gratuitous]

3. I believe Mrs. Palin has the Merdas Touch

For those of you with a little French-language background who recognize the word "merde."

[marmar]

5. Genial !!!

nt

[BrklynLiberal]

4. yuch..What a stomach turning group.

"former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Bush administration advisor Karl Rove, Fox News host Sean Hannity, and conservative organizer Phyliss Schlaffly,"

Reminds me of
They personify pestilence, war, famine, and death

[marmar]

7. The Four Horses' Asses of the Apocalypse

nt

[FiveGoodMen]

8. !!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[BrklynLiberal]

11. yep! You got that right!!!!!!!!!!!

:thumbsup:

[FSogol]

15. +100

:rofl:

[and-justice-for-all]

6. I like how she is destroying the puke party..it's very amusing

and beneficial.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. She's just following the pattern she established in Alaska.

The regular Republicans here HATED her.

Here's an interesting article on her efforts here to defeat Lisa Murkowski. Either way Sarah loses. :rofl: Loses in her own state. :rofl:

http://www.themudflats.net/2010/08/03/sarah-palins-high-stakes-gamble-in-her-home-state-and-why-she-will-lose/

[lpbk2713]

9. Looks to me like the former half-Governor has been refudiated... LMAO

As well as her bullshit mongering friends.


:rofl:

[Cirque du So-What]

10. Among repug contenders for elected office

Sarah's new name is about to become 'KeepThatCrazyWomanAwayFromMe!'

[kctim]

12. Anit-Midas touch?

Tiahart was down double digits before her endorsement and ended up losing by only 5 points.
It would be foolish to simply ignore or dismiss Palin, no matter how cute of a headline it makes.

[marmar]

13. You can choose to do with her whatever you want.

nt

[Taverner]

16. Mama Grizzlies - 0, Reason - 1

[Toucano]

17. If this keeps up, we'll simply have the Palin touch.

Whereby every campaign she comes into contact with turns to shit.