Sarah Palin Calls For 3rd Party Candidate In MO-SEN

[highplainsdem]

Source: TPM

Sarah Palin didn't back Todd Akin in the three-way Missouri Republican Senate primary, throwing her weight behind Sarah Steelman instead. And now that Akin's all alone after deciding to stay in the race despite the urgings of most of the GOP establishment, Palin says it's time for a new candidate.

Via Christian Heinze, Palin said "If he [Akin] doesn't do it [drop out], then it's going to be third party then."

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Video at the link.

[BlueToTheBone]

1. Yeah! n/t

[Ineeda]

2. Slightly off topic, but Lawrence said last night (paraphrasing)

that because she can't seem to hear her own voice saying the outrageous things she says, she's the luckiest woman in the US.

[Auntie Bush]

12. Laying on the floor...laughing with you!

[leftynyc]

22. He got that joke from Jon Stewart

Sometime last week.

[jsr]

3. Alrighty then

Anything for Sarah.

[mac56]

4. Oh please let it be true, oh please oh please oh please.

Perhaps the Wasilla Huckster will enter the race herself.

[Panasonic]

11. No but her clone might just get in.

See this:

[PearliePoo2]

14. Looking good Ms. Mama Grizzly!

Get 'yer bony ass down to Missouri and make it happen! Getcha going girl!
The screech is on! You betcha!

[wordpix]

20. Superwoman looks like she'll topple over in those shoes

[onehandle]

26. Color me sexist, but those rodeo outfits hardly say 'serious.'

'We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them.'

- President Andrew Shepherd

[SlimJimmy]

32. I beleive they will push for a write-in candidate like they did in Alaska. This is not a slam dunk

for Sen. McCaskill yet.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. You Go, Sarah! Put a Libertarian in the mix!

Split that Republican vote!

[central scrutinizer]

31. She's the gift that just keeps on giving

nfm

[cyberswede]

6. Yes, please!

Pretty please...with sugar on top!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Do they still have time to do that?

Honest question. When is the deadline to get on the ballot in November? I thought it was July 30th. No?

[xxqqqzme]

16. I thought the deadline was Tuesday.

that was the last day a substitution could be named.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

21. This isn't a substitution she's talking about but a whole new third party candidate.

I don't know of any way to do that this late in the game. There's signatures to gather, paperwork to file and a deadline to meet. Which I believe has already passed, unless there's some super secret law in Missouri I'm unaware of.

[Brother Buzz]

25. Ain't gonna happen and Palin should know why

Missouri has a Sore-loser law. A sore-loser law is a law which states that the loser in a primary election can't then run as an independent in the general election.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

29. Yep. It's just typical Palin talking out of her butt again.

Which is what I figured when I first glanced at the story.

[jinx1]

34. Great news for Missourians

FANTASTIC

[Brother Buzz]

36. Great news for the nation

I do not cherish the thought of the 24/7 lamestream media coverage of Palin stumping for Steelman for the next two and a half months.

[Doc Holliday]

8. Apparently the Klondike Kardashian

is under the impression that she is in a position to offer political analysis, and that people might care what that analysis is.

Sarah....really. Reality check time. It's long past the point in your life where you should have figured out what you're good at. So shut the fuck up; stop offering unsolicited advice. Take your ignorant, overrated ass back to Chigger Ridge, Alaska and watch the Russians from your porch while you ponder just what that might be.

[calimary]

9. OMG! That's FABULOUS!!! The "Klondike Kardashian!"

DUzy!!!

Sheer GENIUS, Doc Holliday! I salute you!

[colorado_ufo]

23. Best. Description. EVAH!

Klondike Kardashian! That will keep me laughing all day!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

28. Holy crap!

Klondike Kardashian!!! That's awesome!

[Panasonic]

10. I'm all for it.

The third party just simply siphon votes away from Akin sealing McCaskell's victory for the next 6 years, and ensuring Senate is held for the next two years.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Oh, please, please! Let the wackos split their votes between Steelman and Akin!

[yardwork]

15. Great idea!

[bushisanidiot]

17. Yes!!!

Don't retreat! RELOAD!

[wordpix]

18. Sarah WHO????

She doesn't get that she's completely irrelevant and should have left stage right years ago when she lost.

[lastlib]

19. Sarah, the Queen of Babble-On hath spoken....

...let it be so.

Since her analysis is so scintillatingly brilliant and insightful, it must be tried for the sake of the nation she so dearly loved and wanted to secede from.

[onehandle]

24. GO THIRD PARTY FROM COAST TO COAST!

Now is the time for a true Tea Party... Party.

The GOP is just paying you lip service.

[bucolic_frolic]

27. Sarah, the Sea is Parting for You

Spread your wings

and enter the Missouri Senate Race yourself.

Not a Missouri resident?

No worries.

You will find a way.

[Agnosticsherbet]

30. Sarah, that is a great idea. You go girl.

Put in a Tea Party Conservative who can run against Akin and the two of them can compete for Conservative votes in a free market free for all.

Of course, their not going to attract a lot of Democrats, but hell, you don't want socialist voting for good conservatives anyway.

[4lbs]

33. A 3rd party candidate would split the GOP vote and make sure that McCaskill gets reelected.

So, I'm all for it.

[PossumSqueezins]

35. Early Christmas present to McCaskgill

And just when I think Sarah Palin is possibly the dumbest person on the planet, she comes up with a most brilliant idea.