LOL- "Republican voters are not going to choose a middle-aged version of Britney Spears"

[n2doc]

No off button on Sarah Palin

Debra J. Saunders

Thursday, January 13, 2011

This is a free country. If Sarah Palin wants to run for president in 2012, she is free to try. But she will not win the GOP nomination, because Republican voters are not going to choose a middle-aged version of Britney Spears - a figure whose most evident talent is to attract attention to herself - to challenge Barack Obama.

It's this simple: Republicans are too smart to nominate a candidate with a 50 percent unfavorable rating, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll, before she has declared for office.

Cue to Palin's latest video, in which she countered left-wing nuts who, with no proof whatsoever, tied her to the Tucson shootings. "Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn," she said.

The sorry episode confirmed the suspicion that Palin is addicted to getting attention, while her boosters are addicted to defending every thoughtless utterance she releases. And even her boosters know what most Republicans know: Palin is not a serious thinker.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/12/EDPG1H7BPN.DTL

Even the hardcore Republicans can't apologize for Lady Blah Blah any more....

[rhett o rick]

1. I have said from the beginning Sarah is a red herring being used by karl rove to distract from the

real plan to bring in Jeb Bush to save the good ole, family value Republicans from the wacko TeaParty. This is exactly what Hitler did with the brown shirts.

Never underestimate the Bush Family.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. That thought scares the crap out of me.

[rhett o rick]

12. Just my opinion but what else could KKKarl be up to? nm

[DCKit]

22. Too true. Hitler was never supposed to have any real power.

Chances are, they had every intention of getting rid of him at the earliest opportunity.

Imagine Brittany Sr. in the same position.

[patrice]

2. Kristol? Will? Dobson? Why aren't these leaders defending their Palin position?

[liberal N proud]

3. Too funny "middle-aged version of Britney Spears"

[somone]

4. Palin is toast

as far as any type of elective office. They'll keep her around, though.
Highly useful shiny object.

[bullwinkle428]

5. Oops I did it again, you betcha!

[gatorboy]

6. Of course they would.

Why wouldn't they? In 2004 they chose a dimwit who hid out for 3 days after 9/11, who served the military from home instead of actually going to war and still, they propped him up as some sort of war hero.

[Crankie Avalon]

7. Oh, please...She's all yours, Republicans, no way to weasel out of it...

...she is now and always will be one of you. Only your party could have produced her.

This is like when conservatives were trying to say that Bush was a failure because his administration "wasn't conservative enough."

[lillypaddle]

9. Not only is she dumber than dirt

and a meaholic, but she is obviously obsessed with the President, constantly challenging him (and his wife), trying to get a rise or response from him. You can tell it drives her nuts when he doesn't respond - and why the hell would he?

[Conservato]

10. Hear Hear! Down with the Spear!

Yes, you are very correct Debra J Saunders. No true conservative would nominate Palin as the 2012 GOP candidate. Thinking outside the box is one thing, asking the box to think is another completely.

I Remain, Conservato

[charlie]

11. Uh, pinhead Reagan

Dubya Gump.

They put Little Danny Quayle on the fast track for the presidency.

Of course, they'd vote for her. The quality arc of acceptable Republican candidates is down to Sarah and Joe the Plumber now. Tomorrow, it'll be even lower.

[BrklynLiberal]

13. All the fat old white repukes just want to screw her..literally..

[charlie]

15. Yup

Their fascination will fade with her looks. Like the way Ann Coulter can barely get noticed anymore, unless she sets herself on fire.

[BrklynLiberal]

23. LOL...

Sorry..had to laugh at your comment about Coultergeist.

[Matariki]

14. Well this "left wing nut" thinks there's a connection between gun target imagery

and one of the "targets" getting shot. Not a direct connection, no, but a connection none the less. But otherwise, an okay article.

[n2doc]

16. Just realize Saunders is a Republican

So she gets her digs in to the left. I certainly don't agree with that part of her article.

[Johonny]

17. Republicans are too smart

I've never noticed this quality in Republicans.

[Iggo]

18. 'Palin is not a serious thinker.'

Wow. That's about the nicest way that can be said, I suppose.

[KamaAina]

19. Britney Spears should be deeply offended

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[AlinPA]

20. The republican base will not tolerate a ticket in 2012 without Palin on it. Her

supporters control the party now. Their convention will be overrun with them. Primaries will go her way because of the support she put into them in the midterm election. Republican voters are now her voters and people like McConnell, Boehner, Hatch have been replaced by Paul, DeMint, Ayotte, and the rest of the crazies.

[DavidDvorkin]

21. It's not ordinary party voters who choose the candidate

Even the sober gray eminences behind the scenes can be blindsided by revved-up activists.

[eppur_se_muova]

24. "Oops, I did it again" would make a good campaign slogan for her. nt

[old mark]

25. Britney, you should sue someone....nt