Sarah Palin: Is the bloom off her rose?

[Kadie]

Sarah Palin: Is the bloom off her rose?

Tea party-backed candidates for the US Senate are offering tepid comments on Sarah Palin's qualifications for high office. Other Republican candidates decline to join her at GOP fundraiser.

By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer / October 9, 2010

Did we miss something, or is the bloom a bit off Sarah Palin’s rose?

Two prominent tea party-backed candidates for the US Senate are offering tepid comments on her qualifications for high office. Other major GOP candidates find they have “scheduling conflicts” preventing them from attending a Republican National Committee fundraiser where Palin will be a major attraction.

She continues to toy with the possibility of a presidential run in 2012, comparing herself to Ronald Reagan – another celebrity who won the White House. Yet most Americans think she’s not qualified for the job.

A CBS News poll this past week shows her favorable/unfavorable ratings at a dismal 22-48 percent. In California, according to a new Field Poll, her figures are even worse with a 58 percent unfavorability rating. Tellingly, 53 percent of those surveyed by Field said they’d be less inclined to vote for a candidate endorsed by Palin. Among nonpartisan voters, that number rose to 66 percent.

That’s no doubt why Carly Fiorina (attempting to unseat Barbara Boxer from the US Senate) and Meg Whitman (running against Jerry Brown for California governor) have declined to appear with Palin just two weeks before the election. “Scheduling conflicts,” don’t you know.

That CBS News poll also has 64 percent of those surveyed agreeing that Palin is not qualified to be president – including a plurality of Republicans. Even 39 percent of those who describe themselves as tea party supporters say Palin does not have “the ability to be an effective president.”

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[glinda]

1. oops

[theoldman]

2. I can compare Palin to Reagan.

When Reagan ran for president I thought it was a joke.

[hendo]

7. Palin doesnt have even 1/4 of the charisma. NT

[madmax]

14. Ditto - but, the biggest joke

imo was W. Honestly could not believe and still can't.

[Bitwit1234]

18. And our local radio station was playing this song for him

"Send in the clown". You know maybe the voting was fixed way back then. I never could figure out how he got elected. Every place you went people were laughing at him.

[tsuki]

3. is the bloom a bit off Sarah Palin’s rose? About 20 years gone. nt

[aquart]

4. Did Reagan walk off movie sets halfway through shooting?

As impossibly low as that standard is, Sarah Palin ain't no Ronald Reagan.

[hendo]

5. She overstepped her bounds

Anyone can see she is out of her league and wholly unqualified to be president under any guidelines than being a native-born American Citizen.

[barbtries]

17. unfortunately

even though anyone can, not everyone does. there is a stubborn and loud minority that continue to believe she walks on water and nothing anybody says or does will convince them otherwise.

[hendo]

32. Yup, even the devil can quote scripture

and mislead believers.

[JoePhilly]

6. Sarah Palin is "Kay Bailey Hutchison" walking, but does not know it.

Palin is aging. She's not going to be able to pull off the MILF thing ... the key attribute that drives old conservative men crazy for very much longer.

My 80 year old father in-law thought she was great 2 years ago. Of course he was unable to articulate any real reason. Other than "I like her!" ...

But now, he's almost forgotten who she is.

It only took 2 years for her to fall off his radar. By 2012, I doubt he'll give her a second look. wink wink.

I suspect that the GOP will have REPLACED Sarah by then ... Christine O'Donnell, Carrie Prejean ... some other waspy attractive far right winger.

Sarah is smart to cash in ASAP.

[Hansel]

31. +1

She has never been anything to the majority of her supporters other than a sex object. She has probably been using sex her entire career to get what she wants.

She's not any different from any other woman who flirted with and teased up to her bosses to move up the line. But her supposed good looks (I don't find anything attractive about her because she acts like a 2 year old) are wearing off and the lust soon peters out. When this happens they will throw her away like a ragdoll.

You are absolutely correct that she was smart to cash in ASAP. And she knows it. That's why she quit her governorship.

It's sickening to see other women actually buy into her whining that the media being sexist toward her. That's like a stripper complaining that men in the audience are leering at her and sticking ones in her panties. She uses sex to get everything she wants so she has no claim to scream sexism.

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[msongs]

9. Sarah Palin is grabbing $$$%$$ as fast as she can, and that's what she is really about nt

[SmileyRose]

25. +1

Karen Handle in Georgia is paying off over $90 grand for a Palin endorsement - that helped push Karen to a loss.

[Va Lefty]

10. Since Middle School

:evilgrin:

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Look in the back seat of the Wasilla Driver-Ed car.

Sheesh, what a loaded subject line...............

[XemaSab]

12. I think we tend to give politicians the benefit of the doubt

but there are two quotes that come to mind: familiarity breeds contempt; and even Mt. Fuji is ugly close up.

If she had spent the last 2 years as sort of a Pat Buchanan, offering ideas and serious commentary, then she might be a little more popular (yes, Pat sucks, but he's a smart kind of sucks). As it were, she is to real thinkers and politicians as "American Idol" is to La Scala.

[AlinPA]

13. The media will help her a lot for her 2012 run. They love her and the teabagger base

is in love with her as well. She has helped a lot of their candidates and will be paid back with their support.

[gratuitous]

16. Can Geico really save you 15% off your car insurance?

But yeah, as long as the popular media still feel thrills up their collective leg and get confused about whether Mrs. Palin is winking at them personally through the teevee, we'll be treated to the seemingly endless saga of Quitterella.

[Iggo]

15. The bloom's been off that rose for decades....

...know'm say'n? ;)

[TheBigotBasher]

19. Carly and Whitman

were happy to use her to get the nomination - maybe voters need to be reminded of that?

[K8-EEE]

22. ha, they wouldn't be caught dead with her now!

A couple of phonies.....luckily they are both way behind in the polls.

[opihimoimoi]

20. Typ GOPer Exploitor..all about selfish gain and Vanity...she will be a footnote shortly

[Raschel]

21. The ink is fading from her hand.

[RufusTFirefly]

23. Paving the way for Mittens

A dear friend has been speculating on this strategy for more than a year. Palin may be in earnest, but from a Republican standpoint her candidacy is just a stalking horse for Mitt Romney. By the time she crashes and burns, Americans (and Republicans in particular) will actually be relieved to be able to vote for Mittens the Plastic Man instead of the Wasilla Nutcase, which was the GOP's strategy all along.

Of course, Mittens is scary in his own right, but this realization will come too late for many voters.

[Jade Fox]

24. I believe within a year we will see.....

a significant reduction in the attention Palin gets. She is, after all, a one trick pony and she has done that trick to death.

With nothing reality based to offer, no matter how much she (and the Tea Party) get media attention, people will get bored.

Reagan was a freaking genius compared to Palin.

[DemocracyInaction]

26. Throw her a bag of quarters

..if it's big enough, she will do anything for it. I'm surprised the Koch brothers haven't sent for her to come hang on a poll for them..............So, sister Sarah gets no sympathy from me. She now has enough money to take care of that brood of hers and disappear into that Alaskan sunset (why do I keep seeing that scene in Vacation where brother-in-law says "that's an RVeee, Clark"!!!

[NYC Liberal]

27. They never really liked her to begin with.

She's useful if she brings in some cash, but other than that she's a brainless idiot. Not to mention that she will be running against a lot of them and they're going to fight that.

[Politicalboi]

28. Between Bush and Palin

I've come to the conclusion we need a test to be able to run for President, Senate, or Congress. This shit is getting out of hand. We saw what having an incompetent fool in office does to the world not only our own country. Maybe just an essay on a specific disasters and how you would solve the problem in writing. And some Constitution questions. I'm sure being the freedom scholar Sarah is, she would have no problem. LOL! Damn it, you take a test to be a doctor, lawyer, cop, nurse, FBI agent. Why not the Senate, Congress or President?

[HughBeaumont]

29. I don't know, but the cheese sure done slipped off her cracker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E&feature=related

[tanyev]

30. Every rose has its tinhorn.

[donheld]

33. There was a bloom?

If so there sure wasn't a rose. Not even a dandelion. Poison Ivy more like it.