Ellison: Palin’s political ride may be over

Keith who said what? Sarah Palin’s bootlaces are crowded with cockle-burs clinging and crying, “Look at me! Listen to Me!” She pays them no mind, but the lamestream media tags along.

I don’t think the “blood libel” words really offended most people all that much. It was the tone of her message, the timing of her message, her stiffness, the fact she made it all about her and how she was being persecuted. She appeared very narcissistic (which she is) and that did not play well with the vast, vast majority of people. In other words, everyone got a good look at who she really is and what kind of leader she could never be.

Yep, she better start looking for a real job. She ain’t getting the one she wanted.

@Kevin

I agree with you. As a Jew, I am no more offended by that than many of the other things Palin has said.

Of course, it’s easy to blame the “lamestream media” for the faillure of her ambition. Sarah Palin’s problem is not, however, media bias, it’s media accuracy. Clear and fair reporting of what she says is going to sink her faster than any nasty comments from Keith Olbermann. The problem for her is compunded by the fact that she is such an attention-monger, and the media are willing to oblige. It’s beyond her capacity to shut up for awhile, calm down or let situations calm down, and consider what to do next. Being out of the spotlight for a few hours would be painful for her.

Sarah Palin is her own worst enemy.

Some will defend Palin no matter what. I’m not Jewish, but I don’t believe those two words were as disastrous as her inability to apologize for the very real, violent message implied by her crosshairs map and her Twitter comments. Most Americans realize the map probably had no causation effect, but nothing makes her language appropriate. I’ve never seen any politician go to such lengths to avoid a simple apology. By using excessive language, she tried to make herself a greater victim than the victims themselves. That’s very disturbing from a presidential candidate.

One other factor: Bachmann wants to run. She’s practically Palin’s twin, so Palin is out partly because her supporters have somewhere else to go where the furniture is arrange the same. Palin’s handling of the Giffords shooting probably finished her anyway, but Bachmann ends Palin’s hopes.

How long do you think Sarah Palin would last if President Obama released a similar map with crosshairs on it directed at Sarah Palin. I wonder if any of her supportors would connect this to her assassination. Or just quote her own words saying a crime begans and ends with the criminal. Would they buy the line “He had nothing to do with it those were only surveyor crosshairs anyway.
Come own, how stupid do they think we are. Sarah Palin has now put the crosshairs on herself. With her own pettiness, childish behavior. She has failed to seize the moment, she could have chosen to act like a leader and shown some real compasion for the victims acknowledging that anything a leader says or does has consequeces. And using her own word repudiated herself and showed the world she has compassion and concience and regrets of mistakes all humans make in the passion of the moment.. But instead she chose the low road. Denying accountability and making herself the victim. It takes a lifetime to build a respectiful reputation, it can be destroyed in a minute.

When I was in grade school there was a kid who had little or nothing to say. He would stand in the playground and scream the nastiest words he could think of just to get attention. It seems to me Sarah has little or nothing of value to say and to keep the press attention she stands and screams the most outrageous things she can think of. . . and it works. The IQ <70 people who think she's great worship her for doing it. The rest of us wonder what in the world is going on.

“the fact she made it all about her and how she was being persecuted. ”

She wasn’t persecuted, she was libeled. And that jackwagon Ellison is one of her libelers.

Of course, she’s expected to take the personal libel, claims that she is responsible for the murder of innocent people and just shut up. Well if you haven’t figured it out yet, one of the reasons we find her so refreshing as a politician is that she’s not going to shut up and sit down regardless what pipsqueaks like Ellison are hoping.

And “the president’s message” rings hollow because he has no credibility, being one of the most divisive, partisan presidents in modern history, calling republicans “the enemy” and how they should shut up because “he won,” telling his supporters to “get in their faces,” outright lying about what caused the recession and ignoring how his party through Chris Dodd and Barney Frank’s mismanagement of Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae were responsible for the collapse of the housing market even as the Bush administration tried to rein them in … totally ignored and lied about by the president.

And once more we hear from the wishful thinkers on the left that Sarah Palin is finished. How many times have we heard that now? I suppose too many times to count?

liberals surround themselves with other liberals and come to believe that everyone thinks as they do, as all their friends and acquaintances do. Surprise! There’s a whole world out there that thinks differently from you. And when you attack Palin you are attacking us.

Palin is here and she’s not going away! These vile and concerted attacks on her of recent days will just make her stronger as the left’s vicious attacks always do.

The bespectacled lady doth protest too much methinks. She is shortsighted and long-tongued, methinks.

I am a 68 year old moderate who has voted for both Democrats and Republicans during my lifetime. But, recently I have been appalled by the violent rhetoric from the right.

As a retired professor of mathematics I understand that the probability that a random act of violence would occur to any of the twenty representatives who have been put in Palin’s cross-hairs is less than 4%. This means that if a lunatic were to randomly kill a member of congress, there would be a 96% probability that it would be someone NOT in Palin’s Cross-hairs. Even though causality cannot be proven, I expect that the “Cross-hairs metaphor” will eventually seen to be a contributing factor to the violence in Tucson.

Even more disappointing, has been the lack of civility that has continued from the right. This is evidenced by someone like “Fred” who calls criticizing Palin’s poor judgment a “vicious attack from the left”. As a moderate, I would like to register a “reasoned criticism from the center”.

Let’s remember what a political spectrum is, it is not dichotomous, it is often considered linear and each of us may be at a different place on that spectrum, and that place may change according to the issues described.

“I understand that the probability that a random act of violence would occur to any of the twenty representatives who have been put in Palin’s cross-hairs is less than 4%. ”

I’m glad you’re retired because your probability calculations are laughable.

“Even though causality cannot be proven, I expect that the “Cross-hairs metaphor” will eventually seen to be a contributing factor to the violence in Tucson.”

The shooter had been stalking this representative since a 2007 meeting with her. In his safe, they found a letter from her office thanking him for his visit on which he had scrawled his intent to assassinate her.

2007 happened to be a year before Palin even came on the scene. You call yourself a mathmetician and an educator? That’s rich.

Dennis is pointless Dennis is pathetic Dennis is stinky Dennis HAS NO FRIENDS There see, I can be childish too

I appologize Paul. I will not do this again.

@fred “And once more we hear from the wishful thinkers on the left that Sarah Palin is finished. How many times have we heard that now? I suppose too many times to count? ”

You must not be able to count up to one. We kept saying she had the best odds of winning the GOP nomination. As you saw from my comment, I think she’s done as a candidate and has Bachmann partly to thank, though I’d be shocked if she went away as a public figure. Pleasantly shocked, but shocked.

Ignoring the rightwing fruitloop Dennis and Company

Did the First Amendment of the Constitution include the media to carry water for those in power? To be lapdogs for those in power?

Or to be a Watchdog of those in power?

Down from their laps Fido, I say.

Michael. For the second time, please keep comments relevant to the topic of the post, per our comment policy. Thanks.

Hey Oldmoderate, use your same mathematics and same logic in regards to members of congress to figure out the probability that if a lunatic were to randomly kill a member of congress that it would NOT be a female whose last name began with the letter “G”. Then get back to us as to its implications.