The New Spin: The White House Would Be A Step Down For Sarah Palin

[deminks]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/the-new-spin-sarah-palin-is-more-powerful-outside-the-white-house.php?ref=fpa#

Pop quiz: you're a right-wing commentator looking at a string of polls showing Sarah Palin's poll numbers sinking to new lows even as the weak field of GOP presidential contenders continues to thin out. But a large chunk of your audience would sooner eat glass than hear Palin's chances maligned by one of their own. What do you do?

Here's one answer: claim that Palin is even more powerful outside the White House and that the presidency would be a step down for her.

It's a line gaining some traction among pundits on the right. Take conservative media guru Andrew Breitbart, who suggested in GQ this month that Palin would be truly unstoppable if she only didn't get bogged down by, say, being President.

"I think the presidency is beneath her," Breitbart told GQ. "There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama. It would be my goal for Palin to become Oprah and be the ultimate kingmaker for twenty-odd years. Oprah anointed Barack Obama."

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Who?

[niyad]

1. I am sooo glad I put down my coffee before I read that.

sarah barraquitter as oprah???? only in bizarro world.

[Turbineguy]

2. But she's an atruist

so she'll take it and try to cope.

[gkhouston]

3. "The ultimate king-maker"? Not even at checkers. n/t

[Lucinda]

4. Not really new spin

That's the tack she's been taking recently. She's been making a lot of "I love my life, but if I'm needed, I'll sacrifice" type comments for a while now. Looks like it's just getting some traction as a talking point.

I'd bet anything she's going to run.

[JaneQPublic]

5. In other words...

...Earth would be a "step down" for a space cadet like Sarah.

[KittyWampus]

6. There's more money in being Oprah rather than Obama, isn't there Palin? You narcissistic grifter.

Why is GQ quoting Breitbart anyway?

[rpannier]

7. With inspiration from Rodney Dangerfield

I visited Sarah Palin's house. To get in I went down 3 steps physically and socially

The half term governor, full-time grifter continues her free-fall into a cinder block at record pace
Breitbart just confirms that fact

[Fuzz]

8. These are the people who have so much 'respect' for the office they wept when Obama

took off his jacket in the oval office?

Yeah, Fuck them.

[Buzz Clik]

9. Palin being President would be a step down for everyone.

If that's how she sees it, then I pray she doesn't run.

[Ikonoklast]

10. ...in pay.

Now way is Mooselini going to give up the Benjamins.


Not one day of hard work foreseen for the rest of her life, and the droolers will send her their last coins.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Sour Grapes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPMpP1GJE18