Candidates Keep Distance From Sarah Palin on Campaign Trail

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

Former Alaska Governor Stumps for Candidates, Without the Candidates Themselves


Sarah Palin is hitting the campaign trail, going coast to coast to build support for her mama grizzlies and papa grizzlies. But there's one thing noticeably absent at her stump events -- the candidates themselves.

Palin made a three-day tour of California last week to rally Republicans, hopping from San Diego to Sacramento in a schedule packed with speeches and rallies. But neither Carly Fiorina, the GOP Senate candidate Palin endorsed, or gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman attended the events, citing scheduling conflicts.

Fiorina -- who credited Palin with giving her a much-needed boost in the primaries -- told "Fox News Sunday" that her campaign got word of Palin's trip "very late in the game" and "we had commitments to keep as well."

On Monday, Palin appeared in Nevada to kick off the Tea Party Express bus tour. The rally drew a sizeable crowd, but again, missing from the action was Sharron Angle, the GOP Senate candidate widely touted by Palin. The reason, Angle's campaign explained, is that the candidate cannot legally attend events by an organization running an independent expenditure in Nevada.

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The last time Palin actually appeared alongside a candidate was Sept. 16, when she spoke at a fundraiser for Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul. Before that, she campaigned for Georgia gubernatorial hopeful Karen Handel, who ultimately lost in the primary.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/vote-2010-election-candidates-distance-sarah-palin-campaign/story?id=11911816

[nc4bo]

1. Palin = Toxic Kiss of Death?

:rofl:

Too late for these spineless Teabaggers to disassociate themselves now.

[Tansy_Gold]

2. It's a shame the media doesn't do likewise. n/t

[cindyperry2009]

3. Maybe they think

raving stupidity is infectious

[HopeHoops]

4. I would too - mostly because of her nasty whining voice. Damn that makes me want to puke.

I guess there's a political side of this as well, but her voice is reason enough.

[Raschel]

5. It is SO grating. Imagine paying to hear it.

[HopeHoops]

6. Even worse - VOTING for her and getting STUCK hearing it.

Hell, and I thought the SHRUB was nasty to listen to.

[CatholicEdHead]

7. Palin-endorced Tom Emmer (R) running for MN Gov is staying far away

from her since he used her endorsement to get the MN GOP Endorsement at the GOP Convention in the late spring.

[arbusto_baboso]

8. Yet oddly, Fiorina's ads make a big deal of Palin's endorsement.

The fact that Carly thinks that will HELP her in Claifornia shows just how fucking clueless Carly Fiorina really is...