"Sarah Palin just joined the ‘impeach Obama’ crowd. That’s bad news for the GOP."

[applegrove]

Sarah Palin just joined the ‘impeach Obama’ crowd. That’s bad news for the GOP.

By Aaron Blake at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/07/08/sarah-palin-just-joined-the-impeach-obama-crowd-thats-bad-news-for-the-gop/

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Sarah Palin on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of Republicans calling for the impeachment of President Obama, writing in a Breitbart op-ed that the influx of young illegal immigrants over the southern border "is the last straw that makes the battered wife say, 'no mas.' "

Mixed/careless metaphors aside, this is nothing but bad news for Republicans — especially four months until the 2014 election.

Palin is hardly the first GOP politician to raise the issue of impeachment over the past couple years. Others include Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Reps. Blake Farenthold (R-Tex.), Kerry Bentivolio (R-Mich.), Michael Burgess (R-Tex.) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), former congressmen Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) and Allen West (R-Fla.), and the South Dakota Republican Party. Not all of these folks called for Obama's impeachment directly, but all of them suggested that it is or should be on the table.

What none of these folks have, though, is a national following. That's where Palin comes in. She's the first Republican of any significant national stature to make this call. And she's the kind of figure who could potentially recruit others to the cause — people who will want to be heard. Palin surely doesn't carry the kind of weight she once did in the GOP, but she still has a significant tea party following and is highly popular among the conservative base.




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[applegrove]

1. Please proceed Governor....

[Xipe Totec]

4. Halfenor. nt

[kcdoug1]

6. oh, I am SOOOOOOOOOOO stealin' that!

[spanone]

2. doncha love the pic they used?...they're making fun of her.

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3. Not one, but two thumbs up the... nt

[riderinthestorm]

5. We dismiss her at our peril. Her organizations elected a phenomenal number of Teabaggers

in their first go around at national politics.

I hate her. I KNOW she's a fake. But she understands how to manipulate people.

Dismiss her at our peril. She's not going away.

[Zambero]

8. Except her Teabagger Alaskan U.S. Senate candidate lost

after having won against the more moderate incumbent Republican in the primary, who proceeded to defeat him in the general election, running as a write-in candidate no less. Palin's influence on election outcomes is not as profound as some might believe.

[herding cats]

10. And Katrina Pierson, in Texas lost their primary this year

Lizabeth Benacquisto, in Florida also lost their primary this year. As did Taylor Griffin, in North Carolina, Karen Handel, in Georgia, Chris McDaniel (LOL!), in Mississippi, Steve Lonegan, in New Jersey and T.W. Shannon, in Oklahoma. All were Palin 2014 endorsements, and they all lost. Handel's loss was the biggest tell. Palin did more than say she endorsed them, she went so far as to do commercials in that race.

She's no Midas. She rode the now waning wave of the Tea Party. As establishment Republicans have been lashing out at the Tea Party's influence, she's been forced to endorse in more obscure races to find someone willing to accept her. There are a few states where she will still be of use to the candidates, but in all honesty they're dwindling with every election cycle.

[Marie Marie]

7. Is she bloviating out of her screech hole again?

"No mas"?? She should learn to speak English before trying to show off her limited grasp of Spanish.

[russspeakeasy]

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