Does Anybody Think That Palin Was Set Up?.........

[global1]

Just a thought.

If the Repugs that make the deals in the back room realized that Palin was a loser in 2012 - does anybody think that they purposely sabotaged her and gave her bad advice to put out this statement today (bad timing in light of the memorial) and include language like 'blood libel' in the statement. They knew that this would put perhaps the final nail in her presidential aspiration coffin.

I don't know if she'll be able to recover from both her pre-shooting rhetoric and symbols - and now this statement.

We all suspect that she didn't write it herself - that it was written for her and she was told that this was the thing to do. She's too stupid to challenge what she was given to her to rehearse and read. So she just went along with it, read it into the camera - with an angry and indignant tone - and sealed her own fate.

It seems she has gotten good advice up till now - but this shooting Saturday - her handlers just didn't anticipate. All those symbols and words that they put out there to provide Palin with a personal image - won't work anymore.

When the Giffords interview on MSNBC 'words have consequences' was aired after this shooting - I think her handlers realized she was cooked. They didn't know what to do for a few days. I'm thinking they looked at some polls and the powers at be told them - she's done - time to dump her. Set her up with something that she won't be able to recover from. Remove her from the picture so she doesn't become a hindrance and embarrassment to us (Repugs).

I think she was set-up. I don't think she knows what hit her today. I'm thinking that we still haven't heard the last of her - because I'm thinking that she will try and defend herself on this statement too - but this time without the help of her handlers.

I don't think it wiil work however - and I think we will soon be seeing the last 2 minutes of her 15 minutes of fame.

Has anybody else out there in DU land have this thought?

[rsmith6621]

Like Keith O Countdown Has Said....

......that women is an IDIOT....

[Ohio Joe]

1. No... Fuck No...

She is responsible for her own actions and words.

[DJ13]

2. I think the stupid finally overwhelmed the spin machine

[Arctic Dave]

Absolutely correct.

I'm going to use that if its OK. ;)

[DJ13]

14. Have at it!

I've got more.

:hi:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

3. Rove are own all your base.

:*

[gateley]

4. No. I think she's pretty much on her own, now, and even when she was w/McCain

a big complaint was that she didn't follow along and do what she was told.

I just think she didn't know how to handle it (God forbid she express a sincere apology) and had her people come up with this Infomercial to try to point the blame elsewhere. Don't know how that phrase got into her speech.

[mmonk]

5. My thoughts were either she has someone in her camp

that is a saboteur or she is even less intelligent than I had imagined.

[CakeGrrl]

6. I think she's arrogant enough to think she can compete with the President

Could she have done this on her own? Yes.

But is she also ignorant enough to have been set up? Yes. She has NO grasp of any issues, and I imagine her team is equally tone-deaf, hence the use of "blood libel" in the wake of the shooting of a Jewish congresswoman. I can see her falling for bad advice as easily as she can make bad decisions based on her overinflated sense of her own political relevance.

[blondeatlast]

7. F. F'in. F. F's. S. nt89

Edit: Even my cat offered an editorial comment.

[antigone382]

34. *giggle* n/t

[H2O Man]

8. Interesting thought.

I had not considered that before.

[Mz Pip]

9. We should be so lucky.

I don't really know what the GOP wants to do about her. I think they would sign on with Bozo the Clown if they thought it would get them the White House. That said, I think the "sane" Republicans would rather not have thet be their only option. So they sort of dance around her, embracing her in order to cover their bets.

As long as sarah gets voters out she'll be of use to them. When that stops they'll cut her to the curb.

[lpbk2713]

10. Failin is an opportunist and a grandstander.

She's cashing in on the the fifteen minutes McLame provided her.

It won't be much longer before she's yesterday's news.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. No, she doesn't need to be set up. She does it to herself.

She's a narcissist who thinks everything is about her, and she lacks the insight to see when she's doing something spectacularly stupid. While she probably didn't write the speech herself -- she doesn't know enough words -- she would have reviewed it, and she just didn't have enough brains to realize how awful it was.

[malaise]

12. I asked if Buchanan wrote the speech

:evilgrin:

[Kurovski]

27. He's sweet on her.

It's so cute. I'm all about the love.

And yes, you are most devilish.

[underpants]

13. We are only now negotiating price

Sarah has a product to sell and it is her


She is going to keep selling that product as long as people will buy it

[ZombieHorde]

15. I don't know, but I have to admit I was expecting the GOP to do a much better job at damage control.

Messaging is their strength.

[leftstreet]

16. Interesting point. I doubt she has any true political convictions

I'd bet anything that if the only way she could have gotten elected in Alaska was as a Democrat, she'd have run as a Democrat. Or a Libertarian, or a whatever

It does seem possible the GOP establishment has her (ahem) in its crosshairs

[Iris]

17. yeah - in 2008

she's kind of dense, though

[villager]

18. Time for her to run 3rd party against the "insider" Republican nominee!

n/t

[spanone]

19. no, i think she believed she would one-up Obama and failed miserably

mean vs. kind

[Kahuna]

42. Yep. Her diatribe was timed to upstage the Prez and it didn't work. nt

[taught_me_patience]

20. It absolutely crossed my mind

And I believe that shes about to find out what happens when the machine wants you out of the picture. The GOP has slowly been turning on her over the last couple of months.

[Hannah Bell]

21. i have.

[Tumbulu]

22. I had the same thought (nt)

[emilyg]

25. Same here.

[Warpy]

23. I'd been hearing rumors of some sort of party take down

after the election. Perhaps they were just waiting for the right time and jumped on this.

Certainly Palin hasn't been any worse than the rest of the hate spewing ranters on radio and TV. However, the opportunity for the party to rid themselves of a rising star that turned out to be a twisted tinsel failure and embarrassment to the party proved to great for them to resist.

You bet all this stuff has been fed to the media by the boys in the back room. It was just too good to pass up.

[emilyg]

26. Exactly what I read on some other site.

[FLyellowdog]

24. I certainly don't believe that she wrote that response herself.

It contained words she can't even pronounce much less use coherently in a sentence. It was obviously ghost-written but I can't believe that the GOP would waste it's time and money deliberately setting her up to fall on her face. She does that quite well on her own.

Hopefully all her rhetoric will finally shoot her off into the oblivion in which she belongs.

[PretzelzRule]

28. Set-up or no

I think it's pretty clear the woman is now

[eilen]

29. I actually thought it was classic Rovian

that everyone on cable and mainstream tv was bringing up her crosshairs-- they kept talking about it. Notice no one lead with Beck , Limbaugh or Savage....
The messaging was very clear. He knows how to take a crisis and make it work for him.
The Repubs can't really trust her as she has turned on them before. She will not be a 2012 candidate on the Republican ticket. She might continue to try as her ego is large than her home state and throw us some great drama during the Repub primaries. However, Alaska is full of small planes.. she would be smart to avoid that.
If she is smart enough to see the writing on the wall, she might be able to leverage herself some kind of appointment, ambassadorship or cushy job in one of their bullshit thinktanks. (Sarah Palin working at a thinktank, an oxymoron-- kind of like Bachmann being on the Intelligence Committee). That way she can be trotted out on the panels Fox has all the time and still be on TV spouting her opinions without challenge.

[blogslut]

30. No

She is an incurious, belligerent person who uses big words and dramatic phrases for effect, without concern to their actual meaning or implication.

[affrayer]

31. Interesting

Just a thought.

You could be right...the amount of negative press she's getting seems way out of proportion to what we normally see. Maybe it's because the democrats finally have found their voice or maybe it's because the republicans would love to pimp slap the tea baggers back in line.

Who knows...

[democracy1st]

32. dude it's the republican party and she's female she never had a chance to be pres period!

[affrayer]

35. History Is Full...

...Of competent women. Intelligent women. Capable women.

Palin is not one of them. She's a republican with tits.

[Urban Prairie]

33. Palin believed that Africa was a country, fer chrissakes!!

Sarah should not know what "blood libel" meant in any historic sense, IMO.

She may have been given that entire scipt to read by her advisors/handers.

We might be able to soon discover or discern whether or not she was actually setup by them as well.

[JCMach1]

36. There are some Repugs that want her gone as much as the Dems...

[renegade000]

37. Possible, though it doesn't speak highly

of her ability to avoid manipulation. I mean, either she agreed with the hypothetical counsel or she couldn't tell it was an obviously bad idea...

[Jamastiene]

38. No, the Republican Party likes having her around.

Not because they want her to be their nominee, but because they want a third party to be so far right, openly, that it desensitizes most of America to out and out fascism. That way the Republican Party will become the new center (that is what they want us to think, I mean) and the teabaggers will be considered the right and the centrist Democrats will be the new left. The real left will be slowly taken out of commission entirely. It's happening now, actually.

They are manipulating what the "center" is, still. Of course, the Republican Party will not put everything they have behind Palin, because she's there to help them play their hand. So, they let her do her thing to make them look less extreme and at the same time make any Democrats the slightest bit left of center look like the extreme on the left. They are still manipulating the "center." Palin is their pawn. She's a grown woman. If she was set up, she allowed it, by allowing the Republican Party to use her for that purpose. She's a grown woman. She can make her own decisions. Because of that, I don't think she was set up. I think she is following the plan just like the Republican Party wants her to and she is complicit in that plan. Simple as that.

[tblue37]

39. She will never "go away." Hell, we are still hearing about

Anna Nicole Smith!

[Brother Buzz]

40. Frank Luntz torpedoed her?

Words do have consequences.

[old mark]

41. No. She's a dumass in her own right and doesn't need any help...

except with reading and comprehension...


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