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Sarah Palin Is Plotting Her Greatest Grift Of All

Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:02 PM EST
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politics, elections, palin, 2012, romney, paul, gingrich, sarah, convention, grifter, brokered
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Oh, oh ho ho ho, oh man, do we feel like idiots! Why was Sarah Palin giving all of those weird semi- or quarter-endorsements to Newt Gingrich a few weeks ago and then trash talking Romney on Fox News Sunday this past weekend? Why is she so intent on seeing the primary process dragged out like this? We’d figured it was just to annoy people for the hell of it, à la her Christine O’Donnell endorsement. But no. (Sigh). So dumb of us! The long-grift at work is right there, in the open, for all to see: She wants to bring the nomination fight to a brokered convention in which party officials eventually ask her to jump in the race. Lazy ol’ Sarah Palin would get to be the nominee, and she wouldn’t have to do more than a day or two’s worth of campaigning to snag it. Of course this is her plan. Ha ha ha ha! It would be the Snowbilly Grift of the Century.

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Roy Batty

Nothing would surprise me this silly season.

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Reply#1 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:03 PM EST
Jimster

in the open, for all to see: She wants to bring the nomination fight to a brokered convention in which party officials eventually ask her to jump in the race

I don't think this will happen. At least not with the blessing of the party officials. What I've been thinking about lately is that all this craziness (Newt, Ricky, Bachmann, Perry, et al ) is a set up. A first act. Designed to let Jeb Bush to waltz into the convention (in Florida) to be the calm reasoned (as if) leader with a steady hand on the tiller. That's the kind of leader the paleos want.

We'll see. One thing is for sure the party leaders do not like all these wack -a -doodles they allowed to flourish. They let it go on too long and now they're paying for it.

Independents are leaving them in droves.

  • 2 votes
#1.1 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:13 PM EST
barry-barry-libcon

@Roy B: I second your surprise.

Uh. Santorum? What is that all about?

signed; Dazed and Confused.

  • 1 vote
#1.2 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:31 PM EST
GA Girl-718836

This Hack think she actually has a chance to be picked in a brokered convention! Oh and if she says " Fire in my belly" one more damn time I am shooting!

  • 2 votes
#1.3 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:25 AM EST
GA Girl-718836

Hay! Anybody want to play the "Fire In My Belly" drinking game? Every time the hack say it we all down one!

  • 1 vote
#1.4 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:08 AM EST
Roy Batty

They let it go on too long and now they're paying for it.

Heh, painfully true!

    #1.5 - Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:18 AM EST
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    echo82

    She gets the spotlight and the ability to rake in a few more $ while pretending that she might one day run.... the faithful just keep believing. In what, I have no idea.

    • 3 votes
    Reply#2 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:20 PM EST
    Flashypaws

    She wants to bring the nomination fight to a brokered convention in which party officials eventually ask her to jump in the race. Lazy ol’ Sarah Palin would get to be the nominee, and she wouldn’t have to do more than a day or two’s worth of campaigning to snag it. Of course this is her plan.

    as we say on the internets...

    umm...

    duh.

    • 1 vote
    Reply#3 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:33 PM EST
    T1Truth

    She is just smart enough not to do it and to dumb to stay out of it. She will continue to tease (term used losely) to keep her name in the media and keep grabbing speaking fees. She would not accept as she would know she could not go toe to toe with the President. She can sit back later though and say that the Republican establishment should have listened to her all along and they could have won the election. What she is to dumb to understand is that everyone knows she is irrelevant and are only using her to keep some of the idiots engaged.

    • 3 votes
    Reply#4 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:22 PM EST
    barry-barry-libcon

    Soulless Sister Sarah, since the 2008 campaign, has stumbled into the world of the "flush with the buckeroos," folk. She has a FAUX gig, still has the "Sarah Pac" up and running, and occasionally garners speaking fees which exceed her formal annual governors' salary.

    This girl loves the cameras, the accolades, and the opportunities they can bring. But, what she really likes, is the buckeroos.

    • 1 vote
    Reply#5 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:29 PM EST
    Bluebird Sister

    Remember that witch excorcism she had in her church and taped it for all to see? I don't think it took!

    • 1 vote
    Reply#6 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:56 PM EST
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