Great Moments in Delusional Right-Wing Cyberthought: CNN "If Only Sarah Palin Had Run..."

[Ken Burch]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/29/opinion/stanley-sarah-palin/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

(snip)

CNN) -- The Republican presidential primary hasn't exactly overflowed with talent. In December, it was a roll call of the undesirable Right: Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul, Perry, Huntsman and Bachmann -- a list so long and bizarre that Count Dracula could have slipped in on the end and no one would have noticed. Except, as the citizens of Chicago will tell you, the dead always vote Democrat.

Now, we're down to a final three, discounting Ron Paul, who, I'm guessing, is only staying in the race to collect air miles. Although the talent pool has shrunk, it has gotten no deeper. As Mitt Romney suffers defeat after defeat at the hands of Rick Santorum, whose chances of winning this thing aren't high, his negatives mount up, and the president looks stronger by the day. The Republican Party is divided and in danger of becoming out of touch.

It didn't have to be this way. If Sarah Palin had entered the contest, I'd hypothesize two alternative realities. One, she'd have the nomination sewn up by now. Two, she'd be running even in the polls with the president.

What have proved to be problems for the top three candidates wouldn't have been problems for Palin. For starters, she has none of Newt Gingrich's intellectual hubris. There's no way Palin would have promised to put a mine on the moon or suggest arresting judges who make decisions that are too liberal. Her conservatism is far more domestic and down-to-Earth.


She's also more disciplined than Santorum.

(end snip)

This was not...I repeat NOT...a comedy piece...

[Chipper Chat]

1. Ruin Sarah Ruin!

[Ken Burch]

2. The "writer" of this peace works for "The Telegraph" one of the most right-wing papers in all the UK

(and over there...that's REALLY going some...)

It's my fervent hope that he's going to be hired to plot strategy for the Conservative Party's next general election campaign.

[liberal N proud]

3. I think she is the only clown that did not climb in that car.

[malaise]

4. But but but

she did run.

[ibegurpard]

5. ha, you beat me to it...

I had to pick my jaw up off the floor reading this...check out the comments section

[d_r]

6. I think that is British humor

Seriously. He is making fun of all of them. I bet he wrote that then laughed his arse off.

[Shankapotomus]

7. I agree

The Repugs had all their momentum behind Sarah Palin and when she decided not to run it knocked the wind right out of their sails.

But you have to remember, she had just lost the election with McCain and quit the governorship of Alaska so it wasn't like she wasn't damaged goods either. But she was their best hope in terms of a united front and she totally failed them.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. K & R Just for the laughs!! Bwaahaaaa!!

[KharmaTrain]

9. Wow...Must Be Some Good Shit In Their Pipes In Atlanta...

Sounds like this writer just got off the Freeper turnip truck.

Mooselini would have loved to be in this clown car demolition derby but lacks the smarts and the discipline. Not that this is a negative if you're a rushpublican but it's not her nature to do the hard work required of a legitimate candidate. Be assured if she were in the "debates" she'd complain about who was asking the questions and how "unfair" everyone was to her. We'd hear gaffes that make Millard's sound mild...and I'm sure she'd have some major policy/emotional meltdown as her ignorance outshines her arrogance.

I doubt Grifterella would be the front runner...she wouldn't have the organization and would run a campaign similar to Nooot's where its vanity and word salad with little substance. If the polls showed different I'm certain she would have thrown her mukluks into the ring...but she found out what the rest of us know...her chances of ever winning an election is slim to none and slim long ago bought a ticket out of town...

[nxylas]

10. They're already preparing their narrative ready for when R-money loses in November

"If only they'd run a real conservative..." (of course, even if Palin or Santorum had been the nominee, you can bet that they would somehow be branded a RINO, since for the true believers, conservative ideology can never fail, it can only be failed).

[lukkadairish]

11. Her semblance of discipline

Was due to McCain's handlers consciously sitting on her for as long as they could.....then her ignorant, nonaware self came bilging out. If one hasn't been living in a Tibetan monastery the past 5 years it is patently obvious

[gkhouston]

12. You know, back when she was being coy about possibly running,

the only people who seemed interested were a small fringe of die-hards and the late-night comedians.

[tanyev]

13. If Sarah had run, by now she would be thoroughly discredited and reduced to

lobbing occasional mean-girl grenades from the safety of her Twitter and Facebook accounts and 'Bristol's' blog. Oh, wait....

[spanone]

14. what a major pantload