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Lawrence O’Donnell: Christie Barb A Sign Sarah Palin Feels Increasingly Irrelevant

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Sarah Palin took a rather unusual turn over the weekend by attacking beloved conservative Gov. Chris Christie, leaving the media to figure out what, exactly, she’s up to. Is it a sign she’s running for president? Is it a sign that he is? On The Last Word tonight, the Huffington Post‘s Howard Fineman told host Lawrence O’Donnell it’s more likely a sign that Palin feels increasingly irrelevant.

Palin, or as O’Donnell calls her, the “most recently losing vice presidential candidate who will never be president,” argued on Fox Business this weekend that Gov. Christie’s budget cuts took no “courage,” unlike the budget cuts she made in Alaska, because “he’s broke” and would have to cut spending anyway. Meanwhile, a recent Quinnipiac poll shows Christie is “America’s hottest politician” based on likability, with Palin coming in at 21 of 23 on the same list. “Did you ever imagine there would be a list of hottest politicians where Palin would be 21 of 23 and the ultra suave Christie would be on top?” Lawrence asked rhetorically.

Fineman argued that Palin had “outworn her welcome, which is why she is sort of lashing out at Chris Christie.” Furthermore, the fact that no one believes she is running for president because she has no infrastructure in Iowa and has done nothing to indicate she will aside from attack Christie. So, if she’s not running for president, Fineman posited, “I think she’s jealous.” O’Donnell agreed to a certain extent, adding that “the only way to get to her is to be exciting,” something Christie certainly has been on the right. “He has a kind of reverse charisma that a lot of people find attractive,” Fineman joked.

While they didn’t quite solve the mystery, the duo did raise a question those too busy expecting Palin to announce a presidential run have yet to note– perhaps she’s protecting her soapbox, not her candidacy.

The segment via MSNBC below:

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  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The socialist O’Donnell strikes again. He is in a Palin rut.

  • Scott_in_MI

    So is being beat 3-1 EVERY night by Bill O

  • dhg

    If she is “increasingly irrelevant” then why are you talking about her “Larry”?

  • tatboy

    dhg said:
    If she is “increasingly irrelevant” then why are you talking about her “Larry”?

    Bingo…

  • Yoda002

    gordonbloyershow said:
    The socialist O’Donnell strikes again. He is in a Palin rut.

    What’s going to happen if Gordon’s favorite governor Daniels goes after Palin for not knowing whats going on? Who would he side with? Decisions, Decisions.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    dhg said:
    If she is “increasingly irrelevant” then why are you talking about her “Larry”?

    Geez. That’s a tough one. If you got to p. 3 in your Intro to Psychology text, you’d know this is exactly the behavior a petty and prickly, self-absorbed individual coming to terms with her irrelevancy.

  • WillP

    Sarah Palin is a joke. She will never be president. She will be fighting to be remembered in the near future. Right now, Christie is the hot hand. He is not just the “darling” of conservatives. He’s getting profiles that are priceless media exposure in the New York Times and elsewhere.
    Christie swears that he’s not running for president. I take him at his word. He would look foolish after the repeated denials if he decides to do otherwise. What will be very interesting to monitor is to see how well he maintains his significant political capital going into the future.
    It is easy for politicians to flame out in a short period of time. For point of reference, just look at the demise of Sarah Palin. She had favorable approval ratings giving the McCain campaign much needed support at the very beginning of her presence on the national stage. She has higher negatives than any potential Republican candidate in the field now.
    I think Christie has real longterm potential if he plays his cards right. Will he peak too early and gradually fade away? Will he have a Katie Couric moment that stun many Americans? Or will he be sufficiently qualified to maintain public interest years into the future? Only time will tell how well he plays his hand.

  • Scott_in_MI

    WillP said:
    Will he have a Katie Couric moment that stun many Americans?

    Reminds me of a President who thought we had 57 states. What? Never heard of it? That’s b/c the media didn’t obsess over it like they did w/ Palin gaffes.

  • John Michael

    Frances Martel said:
    Is it a sign she’s running for president? Is it a sign that he is?

    Neither, Anybody who knows Palin knows that she is extremely vindictive even in response to the smallest of slights. Christie said on a couple of occasions that Sarah needs to have interviews with folks other than safe havens like FOX News and talk radio. She must have taken great umbrage at that and decided to lash out in return. Anybody trying to read anything into her words are wasting their time. Does anybody really think there’s a method to her madness? Her statement after the Giffords shooting should be enough evidence that she has been winging it, is not disciplined at all, and continually makes very bad decisions. And to add to all that she has extreme shallowness, is not very bright, and worships at the altar of the Almighty Dollar.

  • Religion of Peace

    gordonbloyershow said:
    The socialist O’Donnell strikes again. He is in a Palin rut.

    The same rut that got Olbermann shit canned.

  • WCinWI

    WillP said:
    Sarah Palin is a joke. She will never be president. She will be fighting to be remembered in the near future. Right now, Christie is the hot hand. He is not just the “darling” of conservatives. He’s getting profiles that are priceless media exposure in the New York Times and elsewhere.
    Christie swears that he’s not running for president. I take him at his word. He would look foolish after the repeated denials if he decides to do otherwise. What will be very interesting to monitor is to see how well he maintains his significant political capital going into the future.
    It is easy for politicians to flame out in a short period of time. For point of reference, just look at the demise of Sarah Palin. She had favorable approval ratings giving the McCain campaign much needed support at the very beginning of her presence on the national stage. She has higher negatives than any potential Republican candidate in the field now.
    I think Christie has real longterm potential if he plays his cards right. Will he peak too early and gradually fade away? Will he have a Katie Couric moment that stun many Americans? Or will he be sufficiently qualified to maintain public interest years into the future? Only time will tell how well he plays his hand.

    He’d have to run in the Dem. primary. :) The R’s don’t want him.

  • WCinWI

    WillP said:
    Sarah Palin is a joke. She will never be president. She will be fighting to be remembered in the near future. Right now, Christie is the hot hand. He is not just the “darling” of conservatives. He’s getting profiles that are priceless media exposure in the New York Times and elsewhere.
    Christie swears that he’s not running for president. I take him at his word. He would look foolish after the repeated denials if he decides to do otherwise. What will be very interesting to monitor is to see how well he maintains his significant political capital going into the future.
    It is easy for politicians to flame out in a short period of time. For point of reference, just look at the demise of Sarah Palin. She had favorable approval ratings giving the McCain campaign much needed support at the very beginning of her presence on the national stage. She has higher negatives than any potential Republican candidate in the field now.
    I think Christie has real longterm potential if he plays his cards right. Will he peak too early and gradually fade away? Will he have a Katie Couric moment that stun many Americans? Or will he be sufficiently qualified to maintain public interest years into the future? Only time will tell how well he plays his hand.

    So you’re talking about Christie after less than two years in office. I guess that’s sorta like talking about Palin.

    You are obsessed.

  • WCinWI

    John Michael said:
    Neither, Anybody who knows Palin knows that she is extremely vindictive even in response to the smallest of slights. Christie said on a couple of occasions that Sarah needs to have interviews with folks other than safe havens like FOX News and talk radio. She must have taken great umbrage at that and decided to lash out in return. Anybody trying to read anything into her words are wasting their time. Does anybody really think there’s a method to her madness? Her statement after the Giffords shooting should be enough evidence that she has been winging it, is not disciplined at all, and continually makes very bad decisions. And to add to all that she has extreme shallowness, is not very bright, and worships at the altar of the Almighty Dollar.

    Your bad decision is called trolling and being a sexist.

    Next.

  • the real john t

    WCinWI said:
    Your bad decision is called trolling and being a sexist.

    Just where did John Michael prove he was a “sexist” in that comment?

  • simplynonna

    the point is not about running for POTUS-if you”run” or “explore” running you can suckle up to the ca$h cow and don’t have to follow rules or return any money!!Keep it in the family.
    On a side note does anyone know why Sara would name her “son” Trig? I bet she wasn’t fond of trigonometry OR maybe she just thought TWIG sounded nice and it got lost in the translation?;)

  • the real john t

    simplynonna said:
    the point is not about running for POTUS-if you”run” or “explore” running you can suckle up to the ca$h cow and don’t have to follow rules or return any money!!

    That’s just like Christine O’Donell. She’s a career campaigner. That’s how she makes her living and pays her rent and bills.

  • John Michael

    WCinWI said:
    Your bad decision is called trolling and being a sexist.

    Sexist? Not really. I’ve said roughly the same thing about ol’ Rushbo. As far as trolling, I visit this site about 10 times a day, download the Stewart/Colbert clips before they replace them with ComCen embedded vids. I only comment when the spirit moves me. The last time I commented on this site, the author of the article actually responded to me. It made me very excited. I even felt a thrill up my leg.

  • rover37

    MR socialist might want his staff to do homework first. Christie took a shot at Palin First over the weekend… this was just a sight jab back.

  • ChrisNH

    A rabid Leftist media hack who toils for MSNBC called someone ELSE ‘irrelevant?’ LOL. That’s rich.

  • TrollJuice

    @gordon what will you do when you don’t have Palin to look at while you comfort yourself?

  • Nationman

    WCinWI said:
    He’d have to run in the Dem. primary. :) The R’s don’t want him.

    is that why he’s being asked to run by major conservatives? you know nothing about him, the guy is actually doing something while sarah failin has run on campaign slogans. He’s actually a fiscal conservative unlike that tart from alaska.

  • BatBoy

    Lawrence O’Donnell should know something about being Irrelevant.

    On can almost go to the dictionary and look up “Irrelevant” and have it defined by his picture and his show.

    I am pretty sure, the future of these shows and their host meetings have already started by the bosses.

    Lawrence O’Donnell is living on a string.

  • Doughboy

    “Fineman argued that Palin had ‘outworn her welcome’”

    Because if anyone knows about having outworn their welcome, it’s a former correspondent and editor of a dying news magazine that recently sold for a buck and a talk show host who routinely gets his @ss handed to him in the ratings by FoxNews.

    Palin’s not jealous of Chris Christie. She just zinged him because he was taking potshots at her. And I’m certain it was all in fun. Her primary motivation was probably to get these idiots at MSDNC who have a creepy obsession with her to start devoting entire segments to her again.

  • espo222

    BREAKING: Lawrence O’Donnell’s continuing coverage of all things Fox, points to his feeling of being irrelevant.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Sarah Palin took a rather unusual turn over the weekend by attacking beloved conservative Gov. Chris Christie

    “You have to have unscripted moments. You cannot be blow-dried and poll-tested – that’s not what the American people want. They want somebody who is going to speak straight to them, and they want to ask you questions and they want unguarded moments.” Christie

    “He has no choice but to cut budgets because he’s broke, his state is broke. What courage really is is, in the face of having a surplus, when you have an opportunity to spend spend spend other people’s money, that you still choose to rein in government, to let the private sector soar. That’s real courage. And, by the way, that’s what I did here [in Alaska].” Palin

    It doesn’t seem like she attacked him, and I don’t know if Christie is such a wussy that he would feel attacked by what she said. To me, it sounds like she’s taking his advice.

  • BatBoy

    “NBC Universal International will undergo a restructure over the next few months following the departure of president Pete Smith.”

    Lawrence, oh Lawrence, I smell restucture in the air……

    You can’t say I didn’t warn you it was coming ….Lawrence!

  • Old Duffer

    Odd, I distinctly recall three demeaning swipes Christie took at Sarah Palin before she responded. Yet the chattering class usual suspects either ignored, or joined him with the Palin bashing.

    I read today that in the interest of fairness, a new law is to be passed in the US congress which will force Obama to abide by the same laws and rules that Governor Palin was subjected to in Alaska.

    Obama can now be sued with as many frivolous lawsuits as desired by anonymous republicans with no cost to them as plaintiffs. The federal government will have to thoroughly investigate each and every lawsuit at taxpayer’s expense. But, Obama will have to hire his own personal defense lawyers and pay for them out of his own pocket. Obama will not be allowed to obtain outside funds or form a Pac for defense money. And, if it bankrupts him and his family or drives him from office, so what, he will be getting just exactly what he deserves.

    I am sure all the “Palin Is A Quitter” ankle bitters will agree this new fairness law should be applied to Obama. Right?

  • CAconservative

    O’Donnell can’t figure out the difference between cutting spending even though times are good, to cutting taxes when times are bad? Is he being deliberating dense, or attempting to foster a cat-fight between Mrs.Palin and Mr.Christie? Mr.O’Donnell has remarked that he can’t see himself being around for three years. I can’t either. I can’t see him being around a year if this his type of reporting.

  • notsofast

    Larry, your ratings are an increasing sign that YOU are irrelevant, son.

  • Hugo Daun

    Yoda002 said:
    What’s going to happen if Gordon’s favorite governor Daniels goes after Palin for not knowing whats going on? Who would he side with? Decisions, Decisions.

    He will likely begrudgingly support Daniels…and continue to spank it to his bootleg copy of “Nailin’ Palin”.

  • BushClintonCrimeFamily

    notsofast said:
    Larry, your ratings are an increasing sign that YOU are irrelevant, son.

    Is that really the best you can do? Come on man. As soon as I read the headline, I already knew what your cliched response would be. Vapid, son.

  • VoiceofReason

    Actually then his non-stop FoxNews carping says what about him?

  • seek

    Poor Larry is too stupid to figure out that you don’t bother talking about irrelevant people.

    Larry – they’re irrelevant remember.

    Let’s talk about you – how’s the resume coming along?

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