The Sarah Palin Blog

We Need Sarah Palin in the Senate

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:44:00 +0000

Sarah Palin is leading in the polls to win the Republican nomination to take back the Alaskan Senate seat from the democrats and take back America.

She holds a narrow lead in a hypothetical GOP primary for US Senate from Alaska.
The former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate garners 32 percent of the vote. Lt. Gov. Meed Treadwell has 30 percent and 2010 Senate nominee Joe Miller lags with 14 percent in a new poll.

There will be powerful forces attempting to keep Governor Palin out of the Senate and out of Washington. We need to be just as powerful in assuring she runs and that she is in the Senate to be THE VOICE of change in America.

Please take a moment to sign the petition urging Governor Palin to run.

More than ever, we need Governor Palin in Washington to take back America.

CPAC

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:28:00 +0000

The No Palin Convention

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:59:00 +0000

She was the star of the 2008 Republican convention.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's speech to the party faithful gave life and energy to a dying campaign. If you search through the revisionist history of liberal columnists and commentators, incompetent McCain aides and Democratic operatives, you will see that the McCain campaign was behind five to eight points in the polls before Palin's speech and was ahead five to eight points after the speech.

And now, most conspicuously not among the speakers scheduled for the Republican National Convention, is GOP star Sarah Palin. Did Mitt Romney and the Republicans forget what she did? Did they forget her charisma, her power to get ratings and attention. What a lost opportunity.

As for Governor Palin, she does not seem bothered at all by the slight and has announced she will be campaigning in Arizona. Do you think she will get any attention there? You betcha.

The former Alaska governor told Fox News on Saturday she is heading to Arizona to campaign for congressional candidates Jeff Flake, Paul Gosar and Kirk Adams. She said her focus this year is on getting conservatives elected to the House and Senate. "We need a Congress committed to repeal Obamacare, the mother of all unfunded mandates," she said.

She also dismissed the idea that the tea party grass-roots movement that energized Republicans in 2010 has fizzled: "I think the tea party is just getting started."

All of this smells like revenge by the Mitt Romney campaign. Sarah has never embraced Mitt and was firmly in the Newt Gingrich camp. Palin's bus tour last summer also showed up in New Hampshire the same day Romney announced his candidacy. You can guess which event got the most media play.

Mitt has to let it go. He needs Sarah Palin in his camp. This silly convention shun doesn't help.

Check This Out

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:45:00 +0000

On Thursday, Sarah Palin reacted to the revelation that a Secret Service agent, who was caught up in the Colombia prostitution scandal, had been in her security detail during the 2008 presidential campaign. He also posted photographs of them together on his Facebook page, and commented that he was "checking her out."

"Well check this out, bodyguard, you're fired," Palin said during an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren. "I hope his wife ... sends him to the doghouse -- as long as he's not eating the dog, along with his former boss."

Palin's joke was in reference to the recent push by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign to attack President Barack Obama for eating dog meat as a child in Indonesia. The Romney camp's use of the anecdote, which Obama revealed in his memoir "Dreams From My Father," was to counter criticism the former Massachusetts governor has garnered for putting the family dog, Seamus, in a dog crate strapped to the roof of a car during a 1983 road trip.

Palin continued to link Secret Service misconduct to the president, stating that the carousing agents in Colombia showed a lack of leadership in Washington.

"Boys will be boys, but they shouldn't be in positions of authority, and I think it's pretty embarassing," Palin said. "But if you consider what's going on and the state of our government with, look who's running the show, boys not considering that there are ramifications to their actions."

Palin continued: "I've had enough of these men being dogs and not being responsible and not entrusting, being able to allow us to trust what these boys are doing in Washington."

Secret Service Agent David Randall Chaney was identified by the Washington Post on Thursday, revealing the Facebook photos he posted of Palin while protecting her during her campaign with GOP presidential nominee John McCain. Chaney, who during the Colombia trip was a supervisor in the Secret Service international programs division, resigned Wednesday under pressure.

Sarah on Today

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:52:00 +0000

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Sarah to Katie "Game On!"

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:43:00 +0000

Sarah Versus Katie Part Two: This time it's personal.

Sarah Palin is making clear that she's taking her upcoming battle with Katie Couric personally.

The former vice presidential candidate and current Fox News pundit is co-hosting "Today" on Tuesday, while Couric is guest hosting on arch-rival "Good Morning America" on ABC. It's being billed as the biggest showdown between the two women since Palin's infamous interviews with Couric in 2008, and it's at the epicenter of the raging news war between ABC News and NBC News.

Speaking to Breitbart News, Palin didn't shy away from addressing the Courice-shaped elephant in the room. "Game on," she said simply.

The Palin interviews are the defining journalistic moment for Couric; she won the prestigious Walter Cronkite Award for her questioning, and Palin's somewhat flustered answers are so famous that Matt Lauer even poked fun about them on Monday.

Palin has been very frank about her loathing of the interviews —and, by extension, Couric herself — over the years. In 2010, for instance, she called Couric "biased" and swore she would never be interviewed by her again.

She also mocked Couric when the latter left her post at CBS News.

Katie Versus Sarah

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:31:00 +0000

The “Today” show has recruited the former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be a guest co-host on Tuesday. NBC wants Ms. Palin to be a channel changer in the same way Senator McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign hoped Ms. Palin would be a game changer. Back then Senator McCain was worried about Barack Obama. “Today” fears Katie Couric, an alumna who is about to start her own syndicated show and on Monday began a week long star turn as a guest host on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” alongside George Stephanopoulos.

“Today” has held the No. 1 spot in the weekly ratings for 16 years straight, but ABC is narrowing the gap. NBC was apparently so unnerved by Ms. Couric’s appearance on the rival morning show that the network jumped the gun, persuading Ms. Palin to give a phone interview from Minnesota on Monday, even though her gig as a guest host was not until Tuesday. The promotions made it seem as if Ms. Palin were already on the set.

Ms. Palin, who never misses a chance to poke at what she calls “the liberal media,” said in the interview, “I appreciate NBC’s boldness in having me on, and, you know, doesn’t it kind of reflect the diversity of opinion that I hear that you all espouse?”

Meredith Vieira added dryly, “Or desperation.”

Her colleagues laughed knowingly.

Ms. Vieira, who quit her job as co-host of “Today” in June, was also brought in Monday as a surprise guest host. Ryan Seacrest is expected to appear on Tuesday.

Morning shows always compete, but usually it’s over guests, not hosts. Now contracts are up, change is in the air, and that means viewers have a front-row seat to the discomfort of hosts whose jobs may be on the line.

Monday’s display was more savage than a ratings contest or a booking war; at times it looked as intimate and creepily intrusive as the elimination rounds of a particularly cutthroat reality show. It’s been a long time since NBC put Deborah Norville on the couch alongside Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel and turned “Today” into a morning show version of “All About Eve.”

These days it is Ann Curry, who inherited Ms. Vieira’s place but not her popularity, who looks vulnerable.

Ms. Curry had to sit, silent and smiling, on the “Today” set on Monday, alongside Matt Lauer as he urged Ms. Vieira to announce that she would help cover the 2012 summer Olympics and be his co-host, with Bob Costas, for the opening ceremony of the London games. (He did not say what role Ms. Curry would play, if any.)

Earlier, when Mr. Lauer began announcing that Ms. Palin would be a guest host, Ms. Curry smiled grimly, then looked down at her desk, patting papers.

ABC at least had the grace to let Robin Roberts take a vacation and be off the “Good Morning America” set when Ms. Couric took her place.

Sarah to Santorum: "Welcome to my World!"

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:39:00 +0000

Rick Santorum is turning a slip into a stregth with the help of Sarah Palin

Santorum is using this clip to raise money.

The Lies of Game Change

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:04:00 +0000

Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood site has a great expose on the lies in Game Change.

Here are #6 and #7:

Lie #6: At the beginning of the film, McCain's staff is depicted as searching for a Vice Presidential candidate. The movie clearly tried to suggest that McCain's team picked Palin because she was a woman. To back up this assertion, around the 10 minute mark in the film, McCain is seen saying, "so find me a woman." The real Schmidt admits this never happened. The Chicago Tribune reports Schmidt said he never heard McCain speak those words. "It was a minor point of dramatization to make a point," Schmidt said. Actually, the entire movie was a major point of dramatization to make a point--a point only an Obama SuperPAC would love.

Lie #7: The movie suggests Palin wanted to flee Alaska. At the 89 minute mark, Palin whispers into Schmidt's ear:

"I so don't want to go back to Alaska."

Never mind Moore's horrendous acting; the statement is ridiculous. If Palin "so" wanted to get out of Alaska, why does she still live there? And how exactly do you explain "Sarah Palin's Alaska"?

The Director and Screenwriter of Game Change like to claim during interviews that the movie is a piece of journalism. I can assure you that a real journalist would be fired for the mistakes that riddle this movie. It is not journalism it is a political fantasy.

To see all Ten Lies click here.

The Embarrassment of Game Change

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:30:00 +0000

The move Game Change on HBO made me feel for Sarah Palin who was not only thrown onto the national stage without being prepared, but she was thrown into the den of vipers that was the John McCain Presidential campaign.

I know that this was orchestrated to be a hit piece on Sarah Palin, but I believe the senior campaign strategist Steve Schmidt and senior advisor Nicolle Wallace looked worse. The two were obviously the leaks that made the book Game Change and the movie possible. So many of the conversations were just between Sarah Palin and one of those two, so who is the source? We know Sarah Palin didn't talk to either Mark Halperin or John Heilemann, the authors of Game Change. That leaves only two possibilities.

The authors claim they have several sources for every alleged fact, but there are too many instances when it can only be one source. And too many times it is either Schmidt or Wallace. Which leads one to believe that there was an agenda.

I don't think there was malice. Sarah Palin was collateral damage in the vipers trying to save their own skin, to cover their own failures. Schmidt and Wallace both did great disservice to John McCain, Sarah Palin, the Republican party, the process and to this country. They should be ashamed.

They both have a cozy relationship with the press and made bad decision after bad decision because of that relationship. And then when things went badly, they used that relationship to blame others, especially Sarah Palin. And now both of them are regulars on MSNBC. They are both pathetic sell-outs.

Schmidt had an opportunity in 2008 and blew it. To use his own words, "Sarah Palin is a star." McCain was ahead coming out of the Palin's speech at the Republican convention and Schmidt blew it. He was working more for the media than the campaign and fed Palin to the monster.

Nicolle Wallace, whose job it was to prepare Palin, said she wouldn't work with Palin after the Katie Couric interview. I am certain the feeling was mutual. What a noble campaign soldier Nicolle Wallace is to quit an assignment in the middle of a campaign. I am certain she didn't give the money back.

And then after being re-assigned, Nicole Wallace admits that she didn't vote, stabbing John McCain in the back once again.

Game Change makes you feel for Sarah Palin that she was forced to work for these traitors. I can't imagine they will ever work for another campaign. After showing their true colors, they both joined forces with the team they were doing covert-ops for all along - the media. They both sold out John McCain and Sarah Palin for the good of themselves.

The movie tried to make Schmidt and Wallace the stars, but understand that the movie is THEIR version of events and they both have an agenda of self-preservation.

I am so sorrowful today that Sarah Palin had to suffer the vipers bite once again.

Sarah Fights Back With Her Own Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:22:00 +0000

Brilliant! You have to give it up for the media people at SarahPac.

If you haven't heard, Sarah Palin, her political action commitee and a media team took a direct shot at the the upcoming television film based on her time as the 2008 vice presidential nominee, releasing a mock trailer portraying her candidacy the way it was and not the way it looks in film's released preview.

"Game Change," set to air on HBO March 10, stars Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin. A trailer released in January seems to cast Palin as the villain of the 2008 contest, a portrayal advisers to Palin shot down in a conference call with reporters last week.

This week Palin's political action committee SarahPAC released a video mocking the film, editing together actual video clips from newscasts and interviews to show the reality of Palin's candidacy. Left out is the behind-the-scenes whispering and gossip the "Game Change" trailer features heavily.

The mock trailer begins with a play on the film's title. The text "Game Change" transforms to "Fact Change," and a clip of Moore answering the phone with "This is Sarah" intros the words: "No, this is Sarah."

Here it is:

President's Day

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:25:00 +0000

Celebrating George Washington’s birthday is an American tradition to honor our first president. Though Presidents’ Day is now the more commonly-used term, and has expanded to include all presidents, the legal term for this federal holiday remains Washington’s Birthday.

We honor President Washington, not because he was flawless; he was not. He was, however, the epitome of self-sacrifice—both as a soldier and a statesman. It was that sacrifice that helped make America what it was destined to become. We honor him because of what he accomplished and the manner in which he approached service to this nation: with a servant’s heart.

I am on record as acknowledging President Washington as my favorite Founder precisely because of that heart. He did not seek power. He accepted it reluctantly. He answered the call, offered himself up in the name of service, and helped to usher in a new day. At a time when he could have remained in office perpetually, as some expected, he chose to return to life as a citizen rather than seek a third term. He fulfilled his destiny, and his legacy is secure.

It is refreshing to reflect on one who was so far removed in spirit from the inside baseball that too often defines politics now. America celebrates President Washington for his decision to serve for the right reasons. Today, we could certainly use a little more Washington in DC and a little less BS in Washington.

Happy Presidents’ Day.

- Sarah Palin

Sarah Blasts Game Chance

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:21:00 +0000

Sarah Palin is moving fast to discredit an unflattering HBO movie.

This is what was on the site of her political action committee SarahPac.:

Here they go again...

Posted on February 17, 2012

"I haven't seen HBO's latest effort at manipulating history. However, based upon the description and reports from people who have viewed the film Game Change, HBO has distorted, twisted and invented facts to create a false narrative and attract viewers. They call it a docu-drama, there is little "docu" in it. HBO must add a disclaimer that this movie is fiction." -Tim Crawford, Treasurer SarahPAC

Pay channel HBO has produced another docudrama based on the political arena. This time it is a subscription-only television movie sensationalizing 40 pages of a three-year-old book about the 2008 presidential election. The real 2008 Election was an incredible, moving experience that brought together the nation to celebrate our democracy. HBO has taken that experience and twisted it into tabloid drama for its own profit.

The docudrama Game Change has not been released, but the content and clips available and scenes as reported by the media make it clear that HBO studio heads decided they would generate more profit by inventing facts and scenes for the purpose of fictionalizing a history written by people with no personal knowledge of the situations they attempt to depict.

After viewing the Game Change trailers purporting to show actual events from the campaign, we sifted through over 2,000 behind-the-scenes photos of actual events, people and moments.

Below is an inside look at those moments which were captured from September to November 2008 and encompass over 95 rallies in 19 states, three major policy speeches, numerous town halls, four meetings with Blue Star Moms, two hockey games and as many unscheduled stops as we were able to fit in the schedule.

This is the Game Change you can believe in, because it actually happened.

Sarah then is released dozens of “behind-the-scenes” photos from the 2008 presidential campaign that show her smiling and laughing with the real-life characters — including John McCain and his hard-charging campaign manager, Steven Schmidt — portrayed in the upcoming movie “Game Change.”

A link to the photo gallery — 67 in all, under the headline “Game Change We Can Believe In” — appeared on SarahPAC.com.

Sarah loving Tina Fey on "SNL"

The movie, set to air next month. stars Ed Harris as McCain, Julianne Moore as Palin and Woody Harrelson as Schmidt.

Last week on Fox News, Sarah Palin dismissed the movie as a “waste of time.”

But now it appears she is stepping up her campaign to paint as “fiction” the movie that portrays her as an unprepared diva.

The movie paints her as angry and embarrassed by Tina Fey’s famous send-up of her. But the photo above shows her laughing and enjoying herself backstage at “SNL” as she rehearsed for her October 2008 appearance on the comedy show.

In the movie, Harrelson’s character is shown as Palin’s biggest detractor. But in a photo captioned “All Smiles,” Palin and Schmidt are seen beaming after the debate with Joe Biden.

“The events depicted in ‘Game Change’ have been thoroughly sourced,” HBO said yesterday in a prepared statement.

“We hope that people will withhold any judgment until they have viewed the film.”

She is GOVERNOR Palin

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:25:00 +0000

I am sick and tired of Palin haters who are offended that Sarah Palin is called Governor Palin on this blog, of Fox News and elsewhere.

It is common address someone by their highest title as a sign of respect. It is done all of the time, on every network and in every newspaper. To NOT call her Governor Palin is disrespectful to Palin and to the office - but I guess that is the point of the Palin haters like Tina Fey and David Letterman. Watch this -

The Star of CPAC

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:59:00 +0000

A few protesters mic-checked Sarah Palin's keynote speech at CPAC today but didn't last long. Nothing could touch Palin, who had the crowd on their feet for large portions of her speech.
The protesters in the back of the room yelled "Mic-check!" and were immediately greeted with a standing crowd -- and Palin herself -- chanting "USA, USA." Security quickly whisked them out of the room.

“We just won — see how easy that is," Palin said after they'd gone.

And at least in terms of reception, she did win today. Palin's speech got the biggest reaction of any at CPAC -- much more so than any of the presidential candidates. The audience gave her standing ovation after standing ovation and some even yelled "Run Sarah run!" -- more telling of the GOP field's inability to connect with voters than any poll.

Palin zeroed in on President Obama. The current state of the economy "is not a failure of the American people," she said. "It is the failure of leadership. We know how to change that, oh yes we do. Oh yes we can," she said, echoing Obama's campaign line.

"Hope and change – yeah, you gotta hope things change."

"He says he has a jobs plan to win the future. WTF, I know," Palin said, spelling out W-T-F.
Palin hasn't endorsed any candidates and didn't do so today, telling the crowd that "For the sake of our country we must stand united, whoever our nominee is."
Palin left the stage to an extended ovation, having managed to do what none of the candidates except Santorum could: get social conservatives truly fired up.

Florida - The Tea Party's Last Stand

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:40:00 +0000

A big Newt Gingrich rally in Florida was put together to debut the endorsement of Tea Party favorite Herman Cain.

Cain made his support of Gingrich official. Sarah Palin has not. But as a prolific contributor to Fox News, Palin has immensely more influence and is not afraid to use it for Newt.

The Newt surge is fading and the Tea Party is coming out in full force to try and help the man they see as their best hope of stopping Mitt Romney from getting the nomination. The Sarah Palin support has been fascinating. She has been and is much more effective than any other surrogate and she does so without "officially" endorsing the Gingrich campaign.

On the verge of voting in Florida Sarah Palin is urging voters to vote for Newt Gingrich on Tuesday.

"Vote for Newt," Palin told Jeanine Pirro, host of the Fox News weekend program "Justice with Jeanine."

Palin made a passionate plea for Republican voters to reject Mitt Romney in Florida to keep the primary process going forward.

The former Alaska governor made it crystal clear that she favors former House Speaker Gingrich, suggesting that the Republican establishment in New York and Washington is trying anoint former Massachusetts Gov. Romney the GOP nominee.

"And I say, you know, you’ve got to rage against the machine at this point in order to defend our republic and save what is good and secure and prosperous about our nation,” Palin said. “We need somebody who is engaged in sudden and relentless reform and is not afraid to shake up the establishment. So, if for no other reason, rage against the machine, vote for Newt, annoy a liberal, vote Newt, keep this vetting process going, keep the debate going.”

Here are key points Palin made on Fox:

"Ronald Reagan wasn't afraid to take on sitting members of his own party who were in office. He challenged a sitting Republican. He knew politics of personal destruction hurt the cause of conservatism. What we see today what happened there in Florida this past week — it's gone beyond the pale, gone beyond aggressive and fair campaigning against an opponent."
Rick Santorum pointed out that Romney “drew first blood, and at first, Newt Gingrich didn't respond — he wanted to take the high road . . . [Newt] announced his intention to take the high road, but when you're continually hit and bombarded with negative rewritten history about yourself and your record, you have to hit back. And that's what you saw Newt Gingrich engage in . . .”
“I've been the proponent of continuing this vetting process and aggressive debate. It should be fair though the healthy debate that our country the electorate will benefit from . . . We see these pundits and politicos and elites and the far away Washington, D.C., beltway telling the electorate that by Florida it's going to be all wrapped up and we'll have our nominee.”
“Well, look at the players in the establishment who are fighting so hard against [Newt]. They want to crucify him because he's tapped into that average everyday American tea party, grass-roots movement that has said enough is enough of the establishment that tries to run the show and tweak rules and laws and regulations for their own good and not for our nation's own good.”
“Both party machines and many in the media are trying to crucify Newt Gingrich for bucking the tide and bucking the establishment. That tells you something. I say you have got to rage against the machine at this point in order to defend our republic . . . Vote for Newt, annoy a liberal. Vote Newt. Keep this vetting process going.”
“Which candidate is most passionate about the sudden and relentless reform that's needed? Which candidate understands that government is not the answer? Not on a state level — same when it comes to mandating what level of healthcare you must purchase? . . . I've appreciated again Newt Gingrich. His style in debates, his thinking, his way of explaining what he stands for, so I think that in a debate Newt Gingrich would clobber Barack Obama. That's one step closer to the voters being able to have a tool to make up their minds whether it should be Obama or the GOP nominee.”

Read more on Newsmax.com: Sarah Palin Urges Newt Vote in Florida, Says Gingrich Will 'Clobber' Obama

Newt And Sarah

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:43:00 +0000

Her husband, the former First Dude, has officially endorsed New Gingrich in the Republican race for President.

Sarah Palin is doing everything BUT making her endorsement official.

After deciding not to run, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie endorsed Mitt Romney for president and has been a pit bull for the Mitt Romney campaign in his attacks on Gingrich. Sarah Palin, after deciding not to run, has played the same role for the Gingrich campaign, but without an official endorsement.

As the 2008 veep nominee sees it, Gingrich is getting a raw deal from the national media and conservative elite, the very same forces who conspired against her when she was on the national ticket.

In her latest appearance, Palin stated: “Look at Newt Gingrich, what’s going on with him via the establishment’s attacks,” she said, though the original question was about Ron Paul. “They’re trying to crucify this man and rewrite history and rewrite what it is that he has stood for all these years.”

Palin then called conservative writer Peggy Noonan “hypocritical” for recently calling Gingrich an “angry little attack muffin.”

“They maybe subscribe such characterization of Newt via words like that, but they don’t subscribe those to say Mitt Romney when he or his surrogates do the same thing,” she said. “That’s that typical hypocrisy stuff in the media that I’ve lived with over a couple of decades in the political arena. So I’m used to it.”

“But in order to help educate the rest of the American public, I’ll articulate that it is hypocritical of the media to subscribe to one candidate and not another, that kind of angry attack muffin verbiage to one and not the other.”

Despite her non-endorsement, her views on the race have become crystal clear as she has waged an insistent public campaign for Gingrich that can’t be mistaken for anything but support for the volatile speaker and his ideas. As has usually been the case with Palin, her exact motives remain a mystery. But it does seem like the two Republicans share a common bond in suspecting the media and Washington power brokers are biased against them.

Gingrich rarely employs the use of official surrogates, lacking the organization of Mitt Romney, who frequently dispatches supporters to make public appearances. A surrogate that is doing so voluntarily is a plus for a campaign that is struggling to fend off a barrage of attacks.

The first sign that Palin would ride to Gingrich’s rescue was a radio interview with Sean Hannity right before ABC aired its interview with his ex-wife, Marianne Gingrich, in which she claimed the former speaker wanted an open marriage.

“I call them dumbarses,” Sarah said of the media. “They, thinking that by trotting out this old Gingrich divorce interview that’s old news — and it does feature a disgruntled ex, claiming that it would destroy his campaign — all this does, Sean, is incentivize conservatives and independents who are so sick of the politics of personal destruction because it’s played so selectively by the media, that their target, in this case Newt, he’s now going to soar even more. Because we know the game now, and we just won’t put up with it.”

“Good call, media,” she quipped.

Palin again rose to Gingrich’s defense after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie criticized Gingrich on “Meet the Press” following Gingrich’s impressive South Carolina win.

After Christie dubbed Gingrich an “embarrassment” to the Republican Party, Palin warned Christie not to get his “panties in a wad.”

“You know, sometimes, if your candidate loses in just one step along this path, as was the case when Romney lost to Newt the other night — and, of course, Romney is Chris Christie’s guy — well, you kind of get your panties in a wad, and you may say things that you regret later. And I think that that’s what Chris Christie did.”

She took it a step farther, saying the New Jersey governor, who has made his name as an in-your-face politician that frequently says eyebrow-raising things, demonstrated a “lack of self-discipline.”

“Poor Chris. This was a rookie mistake. He played right into the media’s hands,” Palin said on Fox Business Network on Monday. “The host had asked Chris, ‘Does Newt embarrass the party?’ I think he asked him twice, and there, Chris played right into it.”

After Gingrich trounced Romney in South Carolina, Palin was there again to trumpet her candidate and call him the new “front-runner” in the presidential race. She praised Texas Gov. Rick Perry for dropping out of the race and throwing his support behind Gingrich.

“I think what Rick Perry having dropped out and that patriot having done well for the front-runner, whom I will call Newt Gingrich now, being the front-runner, having endorsed him, was a good smart move,” Palin said on Fox News after the results rolled in. “He kind of took one for the team there, the conservative team, when he dropped out.”

Palin quipped: “I don’t know, do political pundits back there in the Beltway feign surprise, or are you really surprised that Newt Gingrich did as well as he did?”

Vote For Newt ...in South Carolina

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:34:00 +0000

Sarah Palin is not ready to make an endorsement just yet even though her husband Todd has endorsed Newt Gingrich. However, she says she would vote for Newt Gingrich in this weekend's South Carolina primary....but it is not an endorsement.

Is Sarah Going To Jump Into Race?

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:30:00 +0000

Sarah Palin told Fox Business Network’s “Follow the Money” that it was not too late for “folks” to jump into the race. Such “folks” remained unnamed. It was not clear whether Ms. Palin, the 2008 vice-presidential nominee and former governor of Alaska, was considering such a move.

“Who knows what will happen in the future?” she said.

She announced in October that she would not be a candidate herself. But she told Fox News on Sunday that she was not ready to endorse anyone. “You know, my endorsement is going to be with sincerity and enthusiasm,” she said, “and I’m just not there yet with the field as it stands.”

She said she was looking for a candidate “who understands the fiscal crisis” that America faces.

The comments come at a provocative moment, just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses begin the nomination process. No candidate has emerged as the clear front-runner, with recent polls suggesting that Newt Gingrich’s surge has ebbed and that Representative Ron Paul of Texas is on the rise. Polls also indicate that a large portion of the electorate remains undecided. The unsettled nature of the field prompted William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, to muse this week about the possibilities of a brokered convention.

It could be a good thing for the party, he wrote in the Dec. 26 issue, “because most sentient Republicans, and most conscientious conservatives, suspect we can do better than the current field.”

Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:14:00 +0000

Michelle Bachmann Feeling Same Sexism that Sarah did

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:07:00 +0000

Sarah Rips White House Christmas Card

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:08:00 +0000

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin attacked the White House holiday card in on Fox News Radio.

The card shows the Obamas' dog, Bo, sitting in a very Christmas-like setting, with a fireplace decorated with wreaths and red ribbons, and a table with a poinsettia plant and presents. "From our family to yours, may your holidays shine with the light of the season," reads the inside of the card, which is signed by the Obamas (including Bo).

Palin called the card as "odd":

"It's odd," she said, wondering why the president's Christmas card highlights his dog instead of traditions like 'family, faith and freedom.'"
"Even stranger than that was his first year in office when the Christmas ornaments included Chairman Mao," Palin said. "People had to ask that it be removed because it was offensive."

Palin was referring to when a right-wing blog posted a grainy photo, allegedly of an ornament on the White House Christmas tree in 2009 showing a reproduction of Andy Warhol's "Mao" portrait.

Sarah says a majority of Americans prefer "American foundational values illustrated and displayed on Christmas cards and on a Christmas tree." With regard to the card, she added, "It's just a different way of thinking coming out of the White House."

Sarah Supports Trump Debate

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:22:00 +0000

Sarah Palin is urging Republican presidential candidates to take part in the Newsmax ION Television 2012 Presidential Debate moderated by Donald Trump.

The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate made her endorsement in an interview to air Wednesday night on the Fox Business Network. Palin’s endorsement is the latest high-profile conservative to support the debate set for Dec. 27.

"I think candidates should not be afraid in front of the nation no matter who the host of the debate is,” Palin said. “What is a bit appealing about this idea of Trump hosting a debate is, consider the diverse audience that perhaps he can attract. It's important that independents and those who are not obsessed with inside-baseball partisan politics, which is most of us, we'd like to hear more of the message of each one of these candidates and perhaps Donald Trump will be able to attract a diverse demographic that maybe has not been as interested in this horse race thus far.

"America needs to wake up to what is going on under Obama's socialist policies and how he will bankrupt the country. I'm looking at the debate as a positive thing because of that fact."

Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition is on board along with Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), and the American Conservative Union (ACU), chaired by Al Cardenas, which sponsors the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. Both ATR and ACU are sponsors for the debate.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Sen. Rick Santorum have confirmed their participation.

Palin also said former governors Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman were wrong to turn down the debate and urged them to change their minds and join the debate, Huffington Post reported.

Palin said she would not be endorsing any candidate "before Iowa," referring to the Iowa Caucuses on January 3. But the former governor, who waited until October to announce she would not be a candidate in the 2012 race, also told Fox Business Network that Gingrich has “been a bit more successful” than Mitt Romney in courting party activists.

“He has been engaged in that movement most recently in order for them to hear his solutions and there’s been some forgiveness then on the part of Tea Party Patriots for some of the things in Gingrich’s past,” she said, according to an advanced transcript of the interview provided by the network. “Romney and others need to reach out and convince Tea Party Patriots and constitutional conservatives that he truly believes in smaller, smarter government.”

Gingrich, she acknowledged, can’t sell himself as an outsider. But she said that during his time in Washington “some of the things he’s done have been good.”

“He helped balance the budget under Bill Clinton. That is what we need today,” she said.

Sarah Palin and Tim Tebow Attacked for being Christians

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:37:00 +0000

Kelly O'Connell wrote a wonderful article for the Canad Free Press. It takes a Canadian to see the religious bigotry behind the hatred of Tim Tebow and Sarah Palin. Tim Tebow, a devout Christian, is enjoying a break through season as quarterback of the Denver Broncos. And the media is being as tough on Tebow as they were on Sarah Palin.

O'Connell thinks she knows why:

Shall we unveil the 700-pound Tasmanian devil in the room? The chief reason the average crank hates Tim Tebow & Sarah Palin is because both are open and unapologetic Christians. Although typical anti-American bigots are loathe to admit this fact, it is transparently true. Further, it is the essential values and characteristics of authentic Christianity which most of these non-believers find highly objectionable. This same anti-religious bigotry now threatens to atomize America’s once nearly impregnable foundations.

Then O'Connell writes specifically about Palin and the pilloring she took at the hands of the national media.

Has any public figure ever been pilloried more savagely for less reason than Governor Sarah Palin? A person of both strong faith and winsome disposition, Palin attracted more savages responses than would a barbecue pit located at the entrance of Mecca. But why? Her ocean of critics will give a thousand “good reasons” why she is just one loathsome step removed from the anti-Christ. Yet, is it not inevitable her very public faith and possible proximity to the Oval Office—caused this remarkable tsunami of condemnation? Listen to actor Matt Damon’s 2008 description of Pailn.

“I think there’s a really good chance Sarah Palin could become president, and I think that’s a really scary thing… I think the pick was made for political purposes… Do the actuary tables and there’s a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn’t survive his first term and it’ll be President Palin… It’s like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom, you know, ‘oh, I’m just a hockey mom’... and she’s facing down President Putin… It’s totally absurd… it’s a really terrifying possibility… I need to know if she really thinks that dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. I want to know that, I really do. Because she’s gonna have the nuclear codes."

Clearly, Damon’s problem with Palin is her faith. And using this as a litmus, one must conclude that Damon and his many entertainment fellow-travelers believe that simply holding straightforward Christian beliefs invalidates a person from higher office in the US. But Damon is merely the mouthpiece of millions of “progressive” persons whose own convictions beggar belief, and yet are on a relentless crusade to drive the Christian faith out of the public arena.

Again, it is a wonderful article. Please do yourself a favor and read the whole article by clicking here.

Was Sarah Palin Right About Death Panels?

noreply@blogger.com (Editor) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:40:00 +0000

Interesting article on the Philadelpha Magazine site about Sarah Palin's concern about Death Panels in Obamacare. Larry Mendte, the writer gives a personal story of a woman who was denied care under new Medicare rules. And although Mendte points out that the rules have been around before Obamacare, he describes a "new crackdown" to turn the elderly away.

Sarah Palin warned of government “death panels” on her Facebook page and was nationally ridiculed. Politifact.com awarded Palin with the “Lie of the Year” for that statement. President Obama called her out during a joint session of Congress saying the claim is “a lie, plain and simple.”

I thought of Sarah Palin when I heard the story of Helen Wagner. Helen is 91 years old and is the mother of my sister-in-law Peggy. Give Helen five minutes and she will list a dozen times she has held death at bay. But now she is up against a much greater force: Medicare.

You can read the entire article by clicking here.