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How Sarah Palin Helped Break the Republican Party

January 21, 2016 at 3:15 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 62 Comments

E.J. Dionne: “After Obama won, the main goal of Republican leaders of all stripes was to take back Congress as a prelude to defeating the president in 2012. The angry grass-roots right — it has been there for decades but cleverly rebranded itself as the tea party in 2009 — would be central in driving the midterm voters the GOP would need to the polls. Since no one was better at rousing them than Palin, old-line Republican leaders embraced and legitimized her even if they snickered privately about who she was and how she said things.”

“Today’s Republican crisis was thus engineered by the party leadership’s step-by-step capitulation to a politics of unreason, a policy of silence toward the most extreme and wild charges against Obama, and a lifting up of resentment and anger over policy and ideas as the party’s lodestars.”

Filed Under: Republicans Tagged With: Sarah Palin

Stephen Colbert Speaks ‘Palin-ese’

January 21, 2016 at 8:29 am EST By Taegan Goddard 12 Comments

After tasing the part of his brain that understands sentence structure, Stephen Colbert delivered his own presidential endorsement speech in “Palin-ese.”

Filed Under: Political Jokes Tagged With: Sarah Palin, Stephen Colbert

McCain Says He Respects Palin’s Decision

January 20, 2016 at 4:49 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 43 Comments

Sen. John McCain declined to criticize Sarah Palin, his former running mate, for endorsing Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, The Hill reports.

Said McCain: “I respect her view. I have great affection and appreciation for her. I respect what she does.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump, John McCain, Sarah Palin

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Palin Blames Son’s Arrest on Obama

January 20, 2016 at 4:38 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 136 Comments

Sarah Palin linked her son’s domestic violence arrest to President Obama’s treatment of veterans, the Huffington Post reports.

Said Palin: “My son, like so many others, they come back a bit different. They come back hardened, they come back wondering if there’s that respect for what it is their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military have so sacrificially given to this country.”

She added that she can “relate with other families who can feel these ramifications of PTSD and some of the woundedness our soldiers do return with.”

Filed Under: National Security Tagged With: Sarah Palin, Track Palin

You Betcha Palin’s Endorsement Matters

January 20, 2016 at 9:17 am EST By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments

Rick Klein: “The Palin-Trump alliance marks the ultimate triumph of personality over policy in the Republican Party – at least for this very big campaign moment. Sarah Palin was Donald Trump before Trump took to politics, and Tuesday night’s endorsement event (‘no more pussy-footing around’; ‘drill, baby, drill’) showed she still may have more catch-phrases than him. In backing Trump, Palin is putting her considerable pull among tea partiers and other grassroots conservatives to the test. She’s signaling to them that ideology matters less than attitude – a proposition she tested, intentionally or not, when she joined John McCain’s ticket in 2008. That was as intense a national roller-coaster as we’ve witnessed in politics, so it’s fair to expect dips and turns along the way.”

“It’s also fair to note that Palin is unlikely to motivate many possible Trump voters in Iowa who weren’t already on board. But in its timing and its implications, with Ted Cruz having just started to break through by questioning Trump’s conservative credentials, you betcha this matters for Iowa and beyond. Trump has a figure who can be described as Trump-like to campaign on his behalf – one famously boosted to national prominence by none other than John McCain. The revolving door of politics and reality TV has opened to a new pairing at the center of the presidential race.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump, Sarah Palin

Bonus Quote of the Day

January 20, 2016 at 8:53 am EST By Taegan Goddard 57 Comments

“He’s got the guts to wear the issues that need to be spoken about and debate on his sleeve, where the rest of some of these establishment candidates, they just wanted to duck and hide. They didn’t want to talk about these issues until he brought ’em up. In fact, they’ve been wearing a, this, political correctness kind of like a suicide vest.”

— Sarah Palin, quoted by BuzzFeed, endorsing Donald Trump for president.

New York Times: The most mystifying lines of Sarah Palin’s endorsement speech

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump, Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Endorses Trump for President

January 19, 2016 at 4:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 142 Comments

Sarah Palin, who became a Tea Party sensation and a favorite of grass-roots conservatives, will endorse Donald Trump in Iowa, the New York Times reports.

“Mrs. Palin… could amplify the news media-circus aspects of Mr. Trump’s candidacy: Like him, she is a reality-TV star accustomed to playing to the cameras and often accused of emphasizing flash over substance. But Mrs. Palin, who despite her waning visibility within the Republican Party retains a sizable following, provides Mr. Trump with valuable new currency at a moment when he is being attacked over his conservative bona fides by Sen. Ted Cruz, with whom Mr. Trump is neck-and-neck in the Iowa polls.”

The Fix: Does it matter?

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump, Sarah Palin

Palin Hints at Possible Senate Bid

January 3, 2016 at 10:47 am EST By Taegan Goddard 87 Comments

Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R) “keeps raising questions about whether she plans on running against Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK),” according to the Midnight Sun.

“First she said it was a possibility in a radio interview, then she put her Arizona home on the market, now we’re hearing murmurs from Washington D.C. that she is seriously considering the possibility.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: AK-Sen, Sarah Palin

Palin Backs Trump’s Call to Ban Muslims

December 10, 2015 at 7:06 am EST By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments

Sarah Palin wrote on Facebook that she supports Donald Trump’s call for a ban on admitting Muslims into the United States.

Said Palin: “A broken system allowed terrorists to come to our home and slaughter Americans. A bold, non-politician candidate calls for a pause in this flaw bureaucratic program so it can be fixed, to make sure it doesn’t happen again. That’s common sense, which is why the media and spineless pundits attack it.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, National Security Tagged With: Sarah Palin

Sweet Freedom

December 4, 2015 at 11:37 am EST By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments

Just published: Sweet Freedom: A Devotional by Sarah Palin.

It’s a signed, limited edition with imitation leather cover.

Filed Under: Religion Tagged With: Sarah Palin

Palin Says Being Fired Was Hard

December 1, 2015 at 8:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 47 Comments

Sarah Palin told CBN News that she took her unexpected firing from Fox News last summer very hard.

Said Palin: “Some things happened that I haven’t talked about publicly, things like getting canned from a job I really liked, sort of out of the blue, because I called somebody out. Next morning I got word, ‘Oh, we no longer need you anymore.’ ”

She quickly added: “Yeah, it was a shock, but more power to Fox News. They’re a private enterprise. They can fire someone for wearing the wrong color tie that day – that’s their prerogative and I’ve been on both sides of the hiring and firing.”

Filed Under: Celebrities, Media Buzz Tagged With: Sarah Palin

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

November 17, 2015 at 3:08 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments

“There’s millions of Americans out there, qualified, ready, willing and able…I really don’t think it’s me being asked, but as I say, if I were asked, I’d do it.”

— Sarah Palin, in an interview with Extra, on whether she would run for vice president again.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Sarah Palin

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

November 16, 2015 at 12:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 100 Comments

“Well, it takes a team to win, so it takes a team to lose. I was part of a team that came in second outta two. So, yes, yeah, I mean, semantics, okay, words matter. You either win or you lose. We lost. That makes you not a winner. At that time.”

— Sarah Palin, quoted by CBS News, when asked if she was to blame for John McCain’s defeat in the 2008 presidential election.

Filed Under: 2008 Campaign Tagged With: Sarah Palin

GOP Dysfunction Began with Sarah Palin

October 26, 2015 at 8:13 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 102 Comments

William Daley: “You can choose from a litany of insurrections, government shutdowns and other self-inflicted wounds. But this year’s carnival-like GOP presidential primary makes one event, in retrospect, stand out as a crucial turning point on the road to upheaval: the 2008 embrace of then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be a heartbeat from the presidency.”

“Once McCain put Palin on the ticket, Republican ‘grown-ups,’ who presumably knew better, had to bite their tongues. But after the election, when they were free to speak their minds, they either remained quiet or abetted the dumbing-down of the party. They stood by as Donald Trump and others noisily pushed claims that Obama was born in Kenya. And they gladly rode the tea party tiger to sweeping victories in 2010 and 2014.”

“Now that tiger is devouring the GOP establishment.”

Filed Under: Republicans Tagged With: Sarah Palin

Palin Says Obama Lives in a Fantasy World

September 9, 2015 at 9:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 77 Comments

Sarah Palin blasted President Obama for living in a fantasy world on the Iran nuclear deal, the Daily Mail reports.

Said Palin: “Only in an Orwellian Obama world full of sprinkly fairy dust blown from atop a unicorn as he’s peeking through a really pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety of America or Israel in this treaty.”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Iran, Sarah Palin

Bonus Quote of the Day

September 6, 2015 at 12:39 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 73 Comments

“I think I’d rather have a President who is tough and puts America first than can win a game of Trivial Pursuit. I don’t think the public gives a flying flip who, today, is a specific leader of a specific region because that leader will change of course.”

— Sarah Palin, quoted by TPM, defending Donald Trump’s inability to name certain foreign leaders.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump, Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Will Interview Donald Trump

August 28, 2015 at 3:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 40 Comments

Sarah Palin announced on Facebook that she will be interviewing Donald Trump at 10 p.m. ET tonight on the One America News Network.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Donald Trump, Sarah Palin

Quote of the Day

August 27, 2015 at 6:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 60 Comments

“If we were to elect someone who’s been part of the problem creating the socialism, really there is no hope.”

— Sarah Palin, quoted by Extra.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Sarah Palin

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