First off, with all due respect … Sarah Palin should be governing Alaska right now, not waging an ongoing self-promotional campaign designed to keep her name in the mix for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Having said that, if she’s ever going to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate then she needs to learn how to do one thing right now: Stop whining.
Seriously, Palin’s propensity to wax aggrieved is really, really (really) starting to wear on us.
We get it, Sarah: you don’t like John McCain – or at least the people McCain chose to manage the worst presidential campaign ever.
Pardon us for pointing this out, but so f*cking what?
The election is over and McCain got his old, saggy RINO balls handed to him. This happened over a year ago, in fact. Also, McCain is also about to find out what it’s like to be challenged from the right in a GOP primary, something we suspect hundreds of incumbent politicians are likely to experience this year.
Meanwhile, the country is headed off of a socialist cliff and “Republicans” like U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham are helping President Barack Obama mash the gas pedal to the floor on some of his most dangerous initiatives. Unemployment is through the roof, along with the national debt and federal deficit, and Washington’s only solution to all of this is to veer even further to the left.
Seriously … we’ve got terrorists trying to blow up airplanes, government bureaucrats trying to take over health care and nobody seems to know how to give us a Division I-A college football playoff.
In light of all these issues, does anybody really care what McCain’s former staffers have to say about Palin?
But there Palin was on Tuesday night, in her first appearance as FOX News contributor, continuing to carp on the overplayed back-and-forth between herself and former McCain aides like Steve Schmidt.
Sure, it was ostensibly in “self-defense,” but it’s a routine that we’ve already seen one time too many from Palin, who is obviously not yet comfortable enough with her command of the issues of the day to give up this time-filling “crutch.”
We first noticed Palin’s “whine problem” a year ago, but we guessed she would have figured out by now that you can’t “bitch” your way into the White House – and least not as a white woman.
Apparently she hasn’t.
So again, we’d like to offer some free advice for our favorite political diva – only this time we’ll condense it because it obviously didn’t take the first time we offered it.
Put simply, shut up, brush up (on your issues) and don’t come back until you’re ready to be taken seriously.
Oh, thanks for ditching the “Bumpit” though …
By sclawboy January 13, 2010 at 10:05 am
“don’t come back when you’re ready to be taken seriously”
As if that is ever going to happen…
By barney fife January 13, 2010 at 10:09 am
She is quite hot, though.
By SC Integrity January 13, 2010 at 10:16 am
Couldn’t agree more. I don’t respect quitters in this instance, obviously for personal gain, limelight and to escape the heat. Conversely, Sanfraud would’ve been a Saint had he done that.
Yes, she’s very likeable. But I’ll vote for knowledge over superficiality. I really don’t believe she’ll be seeking office in the least. She’s way too comfortable in a rogue role, no accountability or responsibility. Why would she ever give that gig up?
By Liberty For Me January 13, 2010 at 10:22 am
STOP,STOP ,STOP…..With all the brilliant constitutional minds in this country and the problems the country has,why would Sarah Palin or really any of the usual subjects(just think of those debates)even be thought of as someone to SAVE our “REPUBLIC”….
We dont need a cult personality..We need a brilliant mind.I nominate Andrew Napolitano…Ron Paul….Shit, I would rather have Ted Nugent.
Wake up people!!!
By votar January 13, 2010 at 10:28 am
After reading this post, it seems like Palin isn’t the only person with a case of the “whinies…”
By Andrea January 13, 2010 at 10:43 am
If Sarah whines too much, why do you keep writing about her? Start with the man in the mirror. Most opinions of Sarah Palin are really a reflection of what people are in themselves!
By countryboy January 13, 2010 at 11:07 am
Talk about scarey, I am agreeing more and more with “Liberty For Me” in general at least. Although I like Palin’s personality (and she is hot) she is definitely not what this country needs in 2012 and we do need brilliance in the White House (not just someone who is a smooth talker like Obama). I don’t agree with LFM’s suggested candidates but he is right on in concept. Scarey.
By FITSNews January 13, 2010 at 11:17 am
Andrea-
If Palin was the reflection in our founding editor’s mirror, you can bet your bottom dollar he would never leave the house!
-FITS
By Ynotfirst January 13, 2010 at 11:54 am
Palin still can’t go ” off script” and answer tough questions but it seems she is preparing ” better”.
By Liberty For Me January 13, 2010 at 4:28 pm
“Countryboy”…We just dont agree on a couple of things.You will come around,once you have gone to the McDonalds and the ATM about 10,000 more times and a terrorist does not jump out.You will realize how trillions of dollars and our economy was transferred to rich people so we could protect ourselves from a few thousand dirt poor Arabs….Its like Israel spending their future to protect themselves from the KKK..A couple thousand rednecks who could not even find their way to Israel on a map.What a joke…Its all a scam(a little hyperbole in there)…..so not really serious about Ted Nugent..But we would be rockin’.
Not sure how anyone could argue with Andrew Napolitano…Never heard anyone bad mouth him yet.But it is coming I am sure
http://www.foxnews.com/freedomwatch/
By Slinky January 13, 2010 at 5:07 pm
She is a real dummy and is only using stall tactics so she won’t have to talk about anything substantive – because she CAN’T talk about anything substantive. Fox deserves her and she deserves Fox. Perfect match.
By Mrs. Ethel Krabitz January 13, 2010 at 7:59 pm
this is one staunch Republican who would like to see Palin disappear! Poof! Take Mark Sanford and that octo-woman Kate Gosselin with you!
By soccermom January 13, 2010 at 8:44 pm
You are underestimating Sarah Palin. Passion and loyalty trumps smoothness every time. Knowledge can be acquired, but patriotism, morality and integrity cannot. Washington is loaded knowledgeable people…what the hell has that gotten us? $12 trillion in the hole, halfway to socialism, and a huge bullseye still on our back.
Not to say that Napolitano and Nugent aren’t awesome alternatives.
By Bobby January 13, 2010 at 9:35 pm
soccermom, sarah palin doesn’t have integrity just because she bitches a lot and is republican. it’s not really an act of integrity to take an oath for a four-year term and then quit because you want to go make money off of a book. and it’s really not great integrity to make up a lie about “death panels”…and that’s probably not patriotic either.
what got us most of the way to that $12 trillion in the hole was the mindset of people like you who decided back in november of 2000 that intelligence wasn’t an important factor to consider when electing a president. and the same thing applies to people from san francisco and nevada who elected the leadership of congress. it’s a bipartisan lack of intelligence that we have, but the truth is that sarah palin is just plain dumb and she’s the last thing the country needs.
i’ll take mitt romney, mike huckabee, hell i’ll even take mark sanford, but she doesn’t even need to be allowed a visitor’s pass to the white house.
By trigg January 13, 2010 at 10:41 pm
palin is a world class twit. anyone claiming her as a flagbearer for conservatism is a zombie. she’s a fake media concoction. she sells ad time and thats it. oh yeah, and she is only hot because she is in a profession of ugly old men and frigid republican women, and democrat lesbians.
By MOHANNA January 14, 2010 at 12:25 am
Do you know what was more disturbing than Palin’s learning disorder and the WE ALL LOVE YOU was that neither Palin or O’Reilly or Beck thought to address possibly the worst natural disaster in the Western Hemisphere. God help them that anything of any consequences would just be a Fluff Piece compared to Palin’s feelings annd personal issues.
By ohara January 14, 2010 at 12:38 am
Soccermom wrote: “Knowledge can be acquired, but patriotism, morality and integrity cannot.”
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The exact reason I would never vote for this woman. She’s harping on old stuff because she figures it will get her somewhere. It has-a lower ranking in the polls.
By soccermom January 14, 2010 at 7:47 am
What got us $12 trillion in the hole was spending money we didn’t/don’t have, even though we knew that we didn’t/don’t have it! It took a lot of cooperation, from many idiots on both sides of the aisle, to allow this to happen. We need to elect someone from outside the system who doesn’t view politics as a career but as a service to their fellow Americans (like jury duty feels to most of us) to go to Washington and lead us while we clean house in the voting booth.
@trigg…I don’t see her hotness as a factor here. Why is it? How do you feel about Huckabee’s hotness?
@ohara…Gee, which is the “old stuff”…patriotism, morality or integrity? These rank lower at the polls?? Please expand on that. It got Palin on the most admired list…#2 woman among independents. I guess they just polled the zombies.