ANGER AT PALIN'S BIZARRE PRIMARY BEHAVIOR GROWING

FROM COMMENTS AT GATEWAY PUNDIT:

#14 January 30, 2012 at 8:57 pm Dale commented: 

Didn’t she say she’d vote for Christine I’m not a witch, I’m you O’Donnell too? How about Mr. no-name Senator that lost to write in Lisa Murkowski in Alaska? Sarah is a little tone deaf. Newt spent 35 years in DC, how exactly is he going to shake things up and change it? What’s his position on family values, nationalized healthcare, amnesty for illegals, cap and trade exactly?????? C’mon Sarah, really???? 

#18 January 30, 2012 at 9:05 pm Vero commented: 

My Aunt is in town from Pine island FL, she was a rather big Newt supporter until his ex came out with the open marriage thingy. She has switched to Romeny and told us that a lot of the ladies at their VA club feel the same way.I admire Newt, I just have not forgave him for his Right-Wing Social Engineering comment on the budget Paul Ryan put forth. so, we will be supporting Mitt as well 

#23 January 30, 2012 at 9:18 pm Terry Gain commented:   

Palin’s all in for the guy who who made $1.6 million enthusiastically supporting the ruinous sub prime socialist mortgage program that caused the housing bubble and nearly destroyed the banking system.She is unwilling to take responsibility for endorsing the social conservative hypocrite. She’s a fake conservative, just like Gingrich. She has no credibility, except among the stupid and gullible. 

#25 January 30, 2012 at 9:20 pm Tjexcite commented: 

Keep the process going to end up losing in the end. When Newt loses every single attack report on Mitt will just be used by the DNC and it’s millions of minions. Even this comment by SP will be used just like the recent RNC ad with Debbie W-S and Hillary.The person that the people voted for in Mitt was not go enough for the great SP. The DNC ads write themselves. End it as soon as possible and attack the real enemy as a united force. 

#35 January 30, 2012 at 9:55 pm Toddski commented: 

Palin is destroying the Tea Party, and has lost all credibility with me……She is not being honest, and has her husband doing her dirty work for her….He is joining Gingrich on the campaign trail tomorrow……..I stuck with her through thick and thin, but now have to say that her and her first dude need to go back to Alaska , and do their hunting and fishing……It’s Disgraceful, and I honestly feel like smashing her face now !

ZIEGLER’S TAKE:

Palin simply isn’t being consistent in any of this, but it isn’t because she is stupid (as I have always said, she is most certainly not dumb). I believe her motivation is actually far more troubling than that. 

There is no way that someone whose biggest issues in this cycle have been: combating “crony capitalism,” promoting “life,” beating Obama and overturning Obamacare, could possibly really favor the guy who got paid $1.6 million by Freddie Mac to be an “historian,” has zero chance to win the election, and had been in favor of a federal healthcare mandate for twenty years, especially when Mr. Pro-life (with a special needs child, no less) Rick Santorum is still viably in the race. It just makes absolutely no sense. 

This brings me to my most important and surely controversial point regarding Palin’s latest attempt to endorse Newt without actually saying the magic words. 

Could someone please tell me what her personal incentive is for President Obama to be defeated? 

I would suggest that there is absolutely none. 

If Romney beats Obama she is immediately irrelevant. Her entire purpose at this point is to throw bombs at a liberal President with whom she is obviously linked through her 2008 VP run. Not only would there be no one left in power for her to be the brunette Ann Coulter against, but her chapter of American history also becomes instantly ancient. 

Even worse than that, unless she decides to go completely rogue and humiliate herself by being Romney’s primary opponent in 2016, she would have no, even theoretical, next political act until 2020 at the very earliest. That will not be nearly enough to sustain her career as a commentator/speaker/author at anything near its current levels.So the only logical explanation for Palin’s bizarre “endorsement” of Gingrich is that she knows that he can’t win and that she is using him to create this false narrative of an evil “establishment” keeping the noble Tea Party down (explain to me again how Newt is remotely “Tea Party”?), like they somehow did in those Palin-induced Senate losses in Delaware and Nevada in 2010. 

I don’t know if she really thinks Newt can win the nomination (which would obviously help her in both the short and long runs), but she clearly sees no downside to creating as much damage to Romney as possible. This whole effort is nothing more than a branding/career move for Sarah Palin. 

At one point she might have deserved the benefit of the doubt that she may just be “misguided,” but her clearly cynical presidential “tease” last year ended any ambiguity about her true motives now. 

That is what makes this whole thing so incredibly ironic. In so vehemently questioning the credibility of the “establishment,” she has revealed that she has a massive conflict of interest herself and should no longer be trusted on the issue of this presidential primary.

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