Palin Supports Creation Of Third Party: ‘That Can Be Part Of A Healthy Process’

[Joanne98]

For months, Republicans have been trying to co-opt the tea party movement, supporting its activities and pandering to activists while discouraging them from forming a third party. RNC Chairman Michael Steele met with tea party leaders in January to encourage them to join the GOP, while Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) warned the movement not to “fractionalize the Republican Party.” Even tea party favorites like Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) have come out against an official tea party, saying that he wants to “avoid a third party by giving Republicans and independents good choices in Republican primaries.”

But appearing on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s show last night, contributor Sarah Palin had surprising take, seemingly endorsing the idea of third party to keep Republicans honest:

HANNITY: If it’s a strong conservative that gets the Republican nomination and then a tea party member runs as a third party candidate, do you have any worry about that?

PALIN: I do have a little bit of worry about that but at the same time that can be part of a healthy process, though. A third party candidate can really shore-up a Republican candidate in terms of that Republican candidate having to be very strong and sharp and debate aggressively, regarding the positions that they have taken.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/23/palin-third-party/

YOU GO GIRL!

[Kutjara]

1. It's a brilliant idea.

A nice, far-right, bugfuck crazy party that will suck the blood out of the GOP and ensure they never get elected to anything again. They only need a decent proportion of the "20 percenters" to defect and it's Hasta La Vista, Baby!

[LiberalLoner]

2. I agree, a third party (Tea Party) would be awesome, LOL!

[MineralMan]

3. You go, girl! Start that party and pull all the wacko loonies

into it with you. I'll watch the hijinx.

[yellowcanine]

4. Sounds like Sarah is positioning herself to run as the tea party candidate.

Nothing like a little taste of Presidential politics to get the wacko juices going. You go girl!

[meeshrox]

5. woohoo!

I'll even donate to get the ball a'rollin!

:woohoo:

I don't think she knows why she has a "little bit of worry" other than being asked if she does. Again, she's also advocating for someone to be beat up by the repuke candidate just to be voted against...sounds like fun!

Shh...no one explain to her what she's really doing! By the time she notices, it may be too late! I wish I could get onto radio waves and get the teapartiers onboard for a third party!

"very strong and sharp and debate aggressively..." (I really can't find a good place to start and end the quote, but you get the point)
That's what the repukes want, someone to force them to actually state their intentions! HA!

[GodlessBiker]

6. She is a broken clock. She got it right this time.

[dflprincess]

7. I like it

the nuts can all move to the Tea Party (though they should be haunted by the spirits of the original Tea Partiers). The somewhat saner conservatives, including those who have D after their names, can have the Republican party back to represent the corporations and the Democratic party can go back to representing working and middle class people.

It's a win for everyone!

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. There's a name the original tea partiers would have for her ilk -

Tories.

[fatbuckel]

9. Third Party

They could call it the Idiots League.

[nealmhughes]

10. I'll edit all the new party's lit for free!

Wait, I want some Scaife Koch money too!

[mrs_p]

11. i too support third party

also

[Jefferson23]

12. OMG, that would be gold for us, lol. The Republican hopeful, Romney,

must be fuming. ROFL

You helped us last time Palin, keep it up!

[Bucky]

13. More proof the lady just doesn't get it.

The whole point of Fox embracing the Tea Party movement is to emotionally manipulate that portion of emotionally driven voters toward coming out and voting Republican... so that the Republican Party can keep on serving the interests of multinational corporations. To Hannity, it's like telling the fuel you buy to seek out the most efficient car. The car doesn't serve the gas, the gas serves the car, the Republican car. Tea Partiers aren't there to tell the Republicans what to do... they're there to get mad and vote for whoever the fuck Sean Hannity tells them to vote for.

Mrs. Palin's career on Fox is going to be very short lived if she keeps on saying what's in her pretty little head instead of joining in the effort to manipulated voters into being scared and desperately loyal to the GOP.

[Andronex]

17. I'm afraid you got it backwards...

The Tea Party movement is to emotionally manipulate that portion of emotionally driven voters toward coming out and voting DEMOCRATIC... so that the DEMOCRATIC Party can keep on serving the interests of multinational corporations.

[gordianot]

14. She needs to talk to Ralph Nader for advice in how to run a third party campaign.

Best idea she ever had.

[tomm2thumbs]

15. yipeee - let's subdivide the Republicans into 2 and split the vote !!

Not to mention all the folks that will leave for Democratic Country knowing the losses would be coming fast and furious!

People want to be on the winning team sometimes. :)

[Kablooie]

16. They got the tea party. What more do they want?

[Divine Discontent]

18. the gop leaders (use that term loosely), who have not pushed aside the teabaggers, because they know

they are a good percentage of their party, would totally shit bricks if they really got their (bowel) movement fully going with a 3rd party, and they lost dozens more seats to stronger centrist/liberal Democrats in areas they normally won by 1-9% regularly. So, they will tell her to stop it, which in turn will probably make her do it more because she knows the GOP establishment thinks she a total raving lunatic fringe teabag nut hero, and she wants to make herself seem more powerful than she is, and loves the attention afforded her rather low intellect.