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Everybody knows the things she does to please

by DougJ|  September 7, 20114:55 pm| 39 Comments

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Sometimes it really is just about pissing off liberals:

[A] lot of us fell in love with Sarah Palin because of her enemies and a lot of us have fallen out of love with Sarah Palin because of her fans.

This RedState piece is a threefer, because also too Ericksson admits he’s frightened by the Palinese Liberation Army and that she played him for a fool:

For the longest time I wanted Sarah Palin to run.

[….]

Governor Palin has teased us long enough. Most of us are tired of it. She has harmed her own entry into the race and now, even if she got in, would only see a modest rise in polling.

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  1. 1.

    cleek

    September 7, 2011 at 4:57 pm

    would only see a modest rise in polling

    wink wink. nudge nudge.

  2. 2.

    kdaug

    September 7, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    Well let me tell you ’bout the way she looked
    The way she’d act and the color of her hair
    Her voice was soft and cool
    Her eyes were clear and bright
    But she’s not there…

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    September 7, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    Would “a modest rise in polling” involve any starbursts?

    It’s hard to be simultaneously concerned and bored by someone. Michele grabbed Sarah’s brass ring and that’s that. Oopsie, take stage left and go home to Tawd and li’l Duffle.

  4. 4.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik

    September 7, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    Again, for GOPers, crazy is only called out when you’re expendable or reasonable. Palin became expendable when her crazy was internalized enough that they could profit from it without needing to keep her around specifically.

  5. 5.

    trollhattan

    September 7, 2011 at 5:00 pm

    @kdaug:

    A day without Troggs is a day without starbursts.

  6. 6.

    aisce

    September 7, 2011 at 5:02 pm

    wait. wait, wait, wait, wait, wait…wait, are you telling me that everybody who kept on and on and on about President Palin and used that as a cudgel against “dissent” were completely and utterly full of shit?

    this cannot be. i was told she was the gravest threat to our republic since the nazis. next you’ll tell me that the same panicky, sneering know-nothings who warned me about “President Trump” and “President Bachmann” were wrong too. man, i guess you can’t trust anybody online these days.

  7. 7.

    PeakVT

    September 7, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    If Ericksson was an actual politician, we would call that a gaffe.

  8. 8.

    Trurl

    September 7, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    I love the smell of burnt dupe in the morning.

  9. 9.

    kindness

    September 7, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    I used to read RedState. I actually was a damn lib commentor over there. I have no idea what I found entertaining there. Honestly, they’re even bigger idiots now, Eric included.

    Thank you FSM for getting me 86’d from RedState. (They took offense when I mentioned the new(then) pope had been a Hitler Youth, even though it is true).

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    September 7, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    @aisce:

    Way I figure it, Palin as McCain’s running mate was a gen you wine threat to our fair nation. Palin, solo, is a threat to rubes’ wallets and my eardrums, also, too.

  11. 11.

    Rick Massimo

    September 7, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    Sometimes it really is just about pissing off liberals:

    Sometimes?

    Pissing off liberals and tax cuts for rich people: Give me one other “principle” conservatives have never sold out.

  12. 12.

    srv

    September 7, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    Somebody needs to redo the “I, Mudd” episode for Erick and sub starbust lady.

  13. 13.

    dead existentialist

    September 7, 2011 at 5:10 pm

    @cleek: Yep somebody’s “slip” is showing.

  14. 14.

    BGinCHI

    September 7, 2011 at 5:10 pm

    Link to redstate and a content-free Palin post?

    C’mon Doug, just put on the seersucker and get out of town.

  15. 15.

    Big Baby DougJ

    September 7, 2011 at 5:10 pm

    @aisce:

    You’re preaching to the converted here, we were mostly Palin skeptics from the get go.

  16. 16.

    Frankensteinbeck

    September 7, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    Aisce:
    That actually doesn’t work out, much as it might seem to. The idea expressed with ‘be afraid of electing X’ wasn’t about any specific candidate. The current favorite was always used because the idea being expressed is that a GOP presidential win is possible, however unlikely, and would be disastrous. As you can see, the name of the monkey the GOP is offering keeps changing, but the poop they might fling stays the same.

    EDIT – If you meant you never expected her to win the primaries, yeah, that I totally give you.

  17. 17.

    aisce

    September 7, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    it’s just so weird that the republican nomination comes down to two identical looking white guys, one of whom is the three term governor of the second largest state in the nation, and the other is a onetime governor and private equity magnate who is the son of a previous presidential contender himself. hmm, that doesn’t sound familiar at all…

    i guess mark felt is still right after all these years. follow the fucking money.

  18. 18.

    kdaug

    September 7, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    @srv: He does have that Harcourt Fenton Mudd style down.

  19. 19.

    Winston Smith

    September 7, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    I notice that other than a metaphorical comparison to Scientology and an admonishment about her “teasing,” Erick, son of Erick has nothing really negative to say about Palin herself.

    Basically, Erickson seems to be saying that if her fans were sane, and if she’d just announced like an honest person (ha!), he’d support her if she got the nod. So even though she’s attracted crazy fans, it’s not because she is somehow attractive to crazy — it’s just those darned fans.

    That is telling. Also too.

  20. 20.

    jheartney

    September 7, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    Palin, like Giuliani in the previous election, was never as much of a threat as some imagined. It was always obvious to me that she was too stupid, dishonest and lazy to be an actual contender. Bachmann obsoleted her, and was then obsoleted by Perry in turn.

    It’s a measure of how weak Palin was that the rival who offed her was herself offed so easily by a simple Dubya clone.

  21. 21.

    pragmatism

    September 7, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    i sent tbogg’s “cottage cheese” palin pic to a select group of palin lovers who emphasize how “hot” she is. results: one uncle (by marriage) and 3 others defriended me on facebook and 5 claims of photoshopping. good times.

  22. 22.

    trollhattan

    September 7, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Whoops, Zombies!

  23. 23.

    Cris (without an H)

    September 7, 2011 at 5:21 pm

    @trollhattan: Zombies. Not Tea Party Zombies though.

  24. 24.

    Brachiator

    September 7, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    @Big Baby DougJ:

    Sometimes it really is just about pissing off liberals.

    No, it’s not. You keep suggesting this, but never show how it would make a damn bit of difference to anything. So, Palin is now being kicked to the curb, in part because she has been replaced by crazier people who fire up the base.

    So, liberals were pissed. Who gives a rat’s ass, except pissed off liberals, who navel gaze about the degree to which they were pissed.

  25. 25.

    Earl Butz

    September 7, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    So, in other words, Erick has finally figured out that Lady Starbursts isn’t going to give him that All-American blowjob he’s been fantasizing about since 2008.

    He’s as predictable as a motherfucking clock, that one.

  26. 26.

    catclub

    September 7, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    @Rick Massimo: IGMFY

  27. 27.

    trollhattan

    September 7, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    @Cris (without an H):

    Me want slay tea party zombies…but…no bwaaaaaaains!

  28. 28.

    patrick II

    September 7, 2011 at 5:42 pm

    I visited Border’s bookstore yesterday — sadly it is going to open only a few more days. I was greeted at the front door by an entire rack of Sarah’s book at 80% off ($5). Then as I browsed through the political section they had an entire shelf of the same book. Then another group in history, some Sarah CD’s in the audio book section, some more in the sale stacks near the front of the store, and finally on the check-out counter as I left the store.
    The bookstore is about 2/3 empty, but there had to be about 200 Palin sale books salted around the store. I think she is over.

  29. 29.

    Bubblegum Tate

    September 7, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    I posted this in the open thread, but it’s now on topic here: Even Coulter and Ingraham have turned on Palin. Coulter:

    She’s just ‘The One’ to a certain segment of right wingers. And the tiniest criticism of her… I think many of your viewers may not know this. No conservative on TV will criticize Palin, because they don’t want to deal with the hate mail.

  30. 30.

    licensed to kill time

    September 7, 2011 at 5:47 pm

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Lizard brain work pretty slow, no? SLOWLY the light goes on…”We’ve been had! Duped, I tells ya!”

    Kerist. Also, Eric son of Erik gives me major creepycrawlies when I see his smug mug on the TV, acting all reasonable-like.

  31. 31.

    Mike in NC

    September 7, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    Governor Palin has teased us long enough.

    Hell hath no fury like a wingnut scorned, right Eric?

  32. 32.

    Violet

    September 7, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    It’ll be amusing to watch the Palin fan blogs if she does enter the race and then tanks. Oh, the excuses they’ll have for that. I don’t think she’ll enter, but who knows with her.

  33. 33.

    Comrade Kevin

    September 7, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    @patrick II: In the local Borders here, I even saw stacks of something called a “Sarah Palin, an American Story: Collectors’ Vault”.

  34. 34.

    different church-lady

    September 7, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    You know what? Here’s what they’re not going to tell you — they’d still be in love with Palin if Bachmann (and then Perry) weren’t in the race.

  35. 35.

    shep

    September 7, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    For the longest time I wanted Sarah Palin to run.

    A favorite regular commentor at the Swampland blog slagged:

    “red state; blue balls”

  36. 36.

    xian

    September 7, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    pass the popcorn– let the cannibalism proceed!

  37. 37.

    wasabi gasp

    September 7, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    Plagiarized from notes on a benjamin.

  38. 38.

    Wag

    September 7, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    Sarah is truely a Femme Fatale

  39. 39.

    Trinity

    September 8, 2011 at 9:32 am

    Ha ha!

    /Nelson

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