Republican Male Angst Over Sarah
09 June 2009 3:11 pm by Taylor Marsh
This was revealed after the Palin – Newt shuffle orchestrated through the incompetence of NRSC Chairman Sen. John Cornyn reached critical mass, when he couldn’t even navigate the complexities of booking a single speaker to last night’s big GOP fundraising event.
The day after, pick your headlines. From Politico: Sarah Palin makes little splash at dinner. From CNN: Palin center of attention at big GOP dinner. That’s the kind of confusion Sarah Palin still engenders.
For what it’s worth, listening to Rush while driving in D.C., he is definitely still keen on Sarah, and won’t forgive Gingrich when he sided against el Rushbo when he said he hoped Obama presidency would “fail.”
Call it the monster that John McCain built. But one way or the other, it may end up being his lasting legacy. It’s also the one thing upon which McCain and Rush Limbaugh agree, that is until McCain lost, with Sarah becoming a drag on the ticket. However, something tells me the white boys of the GOP are thinking more about their own hides when it comes to this story in The Hill.
Sarah Palin has begun to get on the nerves of Republican senators who say the former GOP vice presidential nominee is taking her own White House aspirations entirely too seriously.
But those same senators may have their eye on a 2012 White House run or be friends with senators with presidential ambitions. And Palin, who does not have a lot of Washington connections, energized the party’s grass roots in 2008 while bucking the D.C. establishment, leaving much of the party’s elite grumbling about her appeal to the conservative base.
Several GOP senators offered searing criticism of the Alaska governor when asked in recent interviews whether she could pose a credible challenge to President Obama in 2012.
“She has to hunker down and govern and show she’s not a joke,” said a GOP lawmaker who represents one of the southern battlegrounds of the 2012 election. …
As for proving not to be a joke, she’s got a lot of Republican company on that one.
The Palin crew also think they know who was badmouthing their girl. Never mind that Palin’s earned most of what she’s getting from her own. Your first try at the show can’t illustrate ignorance and incompetence, especially if you’re a woman. That’s why she’s taking her rehabilitation tour to Fox.
