Michael Savage: It’s ‘Suicide’ For Republicans To Choose Palin As Our 2012 Nominee (AUDIO)

[jefferson_dem]

Far-Right Radio Host Savages Palin: It’s ‘Suicide’ For Republicans To Choose Palin As Our 2012 Nominee

On Thursday, a Washington Post-ABC News poll had some bad news for Sarah Palin: 71 percent of the American public — including 52 percent of Republicans — don’t think the former Alaska governor is qualified to be president. This week, far-right radio host Michael Savage voiced some of these GOP complaints, saying that the Party would essentially be committing “suicide” if it made Palin its 2012 nominee:

If you want Obama for a second term, just make sure that Sarah Palin is the Republican nominee. … And I am telling you, that if they make that idiotic mistake of pushing her as their lead candidate, it’s over; Obama will get a second term, no matter how bad his presidency has been. That’s my opinion. It’s one man’s opinion. It doesn’t mean I don’t agree with her politically. It doesn’t mean I think she’s a bad person.

She’s not electable as president. She doesn’t have…the gravitas. He doesn’t either. That doesn’t mean — She’s not the right person. We need a businessman. We need someone with guts, preferably someone who’s served in the military. That means we have nobody. And please don’t tell me about Mr. Brown. God! Please! I warned you! Don’t Obama-size these guys.

It’s ironic that Savage criticizes Palin for not being a “businessman,” considering that that line is a frequent attack she throws at Democrats. In her recent speech to the National Tea Party convention, she cited her experience with Todd’s “commercial fishing business” as evidence that she knows how to “tighten our belts” and “cut back budgets” — unlike the politicians in Washington.

Savage also went after Palin’s arrangement with Fox News, saying that it was unethical and disingenuous:

You know what disturbs me? This is the part that worries me a little bit. She went to work for Fox News, and at the same time, she’s fundamentally running for the presidency. At the same time. I mean, the last I checked, you can’t do that. The last I checked is that you have to leave a media job in order to announce your candidacy. What is this? You can’t have it both ways. Either you’re running, or you’re not. Don’t play a game with the American people. We’re not stupid.

Listen here:

Savage’s alternatives for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination? Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) or James Inhofe (R-OK). (HT: Andrew Sullivan)

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/13/savage-palin/

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. She gives me a view of the future that is both dopey and

derangey... I don't follow her, I cannot. My mind doesn't jump around enough to follow where she flits. I have a difficult time trying to dance on the jagged edges of her potential multiple personality disorder. She doesn't make me feel hopey changey at all.

[Cha]

4. Yeah, how's that "dopey and derangey" thing workin' out

for her? Good one, HysteryDiagnosis!

[Mz Pip]

2. While he's right about Palin

I doubt the Republicans would fare much better with Sessions or Inhofe as candidates either. Sorry Mike, but you can't win with someone who only appeals to white southern men. Like it or not, I don't see minorities or women flocking to support Sessions or Inhofe.

[PBS Poll-435]

3. Michael Wiener makes a hell of an energy drink (ok...his son)

Now we agree on two things.

[Cha]

5. Michael Savage just outed himself as a stupid fuck..

and I don't mean bc he said palin would be suicide for the gops.

Oh, he was already known for that? EX-CUUUUUUUSE me.

[Froward69]

6. unreccers here

guess they don't like what savage has to say... at least when he is sober anyway.

[xultar]

17. Again people prove that they have no fucking clue what UNREC means. SAVAGE has no fucking

business on our greastest page.

He's a fucking racist, antisemitic homophobe.

You want his shit on the fucking greatest page?

Goddamn it DU WAKE THE FUCK UP AND PULL YOUR FUCKING HEADS OUTTA YOUR FUCKING ASSES.

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[Pisces]

8. I hope the Republicans are dumb enough to nominate her. I like the idea of a blue landslide.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Good. I hope they nominate her.

And follow through.

[louis-t]

10. Were his eyes spinning opposite ways?

Gee, the last (failed) "business man" we had left his turds all over the WH lawn. How 'bout someone with a brain? Nah, that wouldn't work. Repugs are skeered of someone smarter than they are. As far as her conflict of interests? Laws aren't for repugs, they're for Democrats.

[Arkana]

11. Oh, shut up, Weiner.

[Gman2]

12. I am going to be totally politically incorrect. She is our token RETARD!

[thelordofhell]

13. Michael Savage still has a radio show?

How does this racist/homophobic buffoon manage to stay on the air? Oh right, he panders to idiots.

[DailyGrind51]

14. Frankly, I don't see the problem with that, Mike?

[depakid]

15. He's right- and Republicans know that all too well

If (or is that when?) they do retake the Whitehouse, it will be with an ostensibly "competent" "moderate."

Then again, with corporate money unleashed- and the base disrespected, disillusioned and demoralized who can say? Someone more extreme could well be nominated and win.

The old "but we're not a crazy Republican" argument only goes so far, especially when unemployment is between 8.2 and 9%, and the administration's gone out of its way NOT to brand Republicans responsible- but instead, has said we want and NEED to work with them (and accept their ideology).

[Jennicut]

16. James Inhofe?!?! Isn't he old and an idiot?