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NBC’s Chuck Todd: Rush Limbaugh And Sarah Palin Could Never Win GOP Nomination

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NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd sat down with Meet the Press’ David Gregory to discuss, among other things, the possibility of either radio host Rush Limbaugh or former Alaska governor Sarah Palin winning the GOP nomination. Gregory kicked off the conversation by pointing to Palin’s recent Newsweek cover story, where she shares that she would be able to win a national election.

Todd ventured to guess that this is merely symptomatic of Palin not wanting be remembered for, say, her “blood libel” gaffe at the height of the media frenzy surrounding the tragic shooting in Tuscon — much of which was focused on Palin:

I’m not going to pretend that we never… to try to crawl inside and see if she was going to do things predictably, the way other presidential candidates do is a mistake. It feels like she is simply trying to go out on her own terms. You know, she didn’t want the Tucson response that she made when she called blood libel and all those things after the Gabby Gifford shooting to be the lasting impression of Sarah Palin, 2011.

If she’s not going to run, she wants to be able to have that be the message, “I could win.”

Columnist Eugene Robinson chimed in that Palin was a “gadfly” and noted that he’s not quite sure where her current path will take her.

Todd continued:

Look, Rush Limbaugh is an incredibly influential figure in the Republican Party, and he could never win the Republican nomination. I think that’s where Sarah Palin’s coming. She is going to be an incredibly influential figure on a conservative movement in the Republican Party. That’s what she wants. And I don’t know if she could be the nominee. Look at her numbers among Republicans. She doesn’t have the support among Republicans to win this nomination.

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  • TeaPartyNation

    The ignorance and stupidity of the “Corrupt B-tards” of the N(itwit)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) network is staggering. It’s like they ALL have the drug-impaired mental capability of “YOU LIE!” obozo or the mental handicap of Plagiarist-Joe “Bite-Me” Biden, whose multiple brain aneurysms have made him incapable of operating heavy machinery (like a car or a screwdriver) — or preforming most normal tasks, like flying on an airplane or keeping his foot out of his mouth.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: NBC dosn’t know squat! They still push the socialist line!

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    TeaPartyNation said:
    The ignorance and stupidity of the “Corrupt B-tards” of the N(itwit)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) network is staggering. It’s like they ALL have the drug-impaired mental capability of “YOU LIE!” obozo or the mental handicap of Plagiarist-Joe “Bite-Me” Biden, whose multiple brain aneurysms have made him incapable of operating heavy machinery (like a car or a screwdriver) — or preforming most normal tasks, like flying on an airplane or keeping his foot out of his mouth.

    And just think, assuming this guy isn’t a parody, his vote counts as much as anyone’s. The only group of people I want making important decisions re: my life less than Congress are average Americans.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: NBC dosn’t know squat! They still push the socialist line!

    That’s actually an opinion. Facts are things like: humans need oxygen for respiration. Opinions are things like: you’re a fvcking moron.

  • TfT

    “NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd “:

    Todd needs to be introduced as NBC Chief White House Obama toady, suck-up or NBC Opinionator.

    This is not what a WH correspondent should be doing or saying.

    But then again, this is NBC, the national barak channel.

    Todd makes a fool of himself (again).

    So funnyl.

  • Just4thefax

    Publius219 said:
    That’s actually an opinion. Facts are things like: humans need oxygen for respiration. Opinions are things like: you’re a fvcking moron.

    Fact: Facts are just facts moron I thought liberals are suppose to be educated what happened in your case? I use it as a call sign.

  • Just4thefax

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: NBC dosn’t know squat! They still push the socialist line!

    Fact: Two facts here dipstick! Make that three now dipstick! Publius219!

  • Azarkhan

    Thanks Chuck. But shouldn’t you be reporting on the “Fast and Furious” gun running operation into Mexico and the role of the White House in it?

  • Nature Freak

    The Republican establishment is eminently against Sarah Palin becoming the Republican party nominee.
    This fact of life matters, no matter how much the tea party dislikes “RINO’s” and the establishment. They have money, sway, and votes. And, many primaries are open to all voters.

    Romney is somewhere laughing. Mitt would love Sarah to get into the race.

  • bruceleroy

    Watch out! Here come the Palin fanboys and Dittoheads!!!

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Ed Schultz and Mike Malloy could win the Dem Nomination .

    Just look at the unqualified whack job that won it last time .

  • sparty

    TeaPartyNation said:
    …ignorance … stupidity … “Corrupt B-tards” … N(itwit)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) ….drug-impaired mental capability …“YOU LIE!” … obozo … mental handicap … Plagiarist-Joe “Bite-Me” Biden, …multiple brain aneurysms.

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Two facts here dipstick! Make that three now dipstick! Publius219!

    I hope you keep a tissue handy to wipe the spittle off your screen.

    Publius219 said:
    his vote counts as much as anyone’s

    Yikes.

  • juan

    Who is Chuck Todd?

    LOL

  • Dem4Ever

    Of course neither Rush nor Sarah will win the GOP nomination since neither is running for the GOP nomination.

  • cjd ohio 1

    juan said:
    Who is Chuck Todd? LOL

    he is the husband of a democratic operative

  • juan

    Chuck Todd and David Greggory gets their talking points from Media Matters!

    Check this out about Media Matters:

    Media Matters Declared War, Let’s Give Them One

    http://bigjournalism.com/mdake/2011/07/11/media-matters-declared-war-lets-give-them-one/

  • juan

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    he is the husband of a democratic operative

    Thanks, LOL!

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    sparty said:
    I hope you keep a tissue handy to wipe the spittle off your screen.

    I’m sure the library makes them clean it off after their 30 minutes are up

  • juan

    Dem4Ever said:
    Of course neither Rush nor Sarah will win the GOP nomination since neither is running for the GOP nomination.

    I think Sarah will run!

    She always out-smarts ‘em!

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    Publius219 said:
    And just think, assuming this guy isn’t a parody, his vote counts as much as anyone’s. The only group of people I want making important decisions re: my life less than Congress are average Americans.

    So you take the Conservative/Republican view of things… leave the government out of making decisions for your life. Who knew?!

    _______________

    RE: Todd’s comment… isn’t that just how politics is? Both sides have figures like that.

    You think that Alec Baldwin, Bill Maher, or Keith Olbermann could win an election?

    I don’t think there’s anything necessarily wrong with what Todd said. There are influential people on both sides, who couldn’t win an election… and aren’t going to try. What’s wrong with that?

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    The notion that Lard Limbaugh, a college drop-out, a draft dodger, a serial divorcee, an addict and a convict would ever be president is offensive. The notion Sarah Palin would be president is ludicrous.

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:

    So we’re back to this identity for the moment?

  • OxyCon

    Gotta love these MessNBC Loon Forward Xperts™.

    Next thing you know they’ll be saying that someone with a deep, 20+ year association with an America hating racist, who started his political career in the home of an America hating terrorist, and who was endorsed by the Communist party, could never never win the Democrat nomination.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    ImNotBlue said:
    So we’re back to this identity for the moment?

    That does it. Since you chronically, persistently lie, you are now cut off permanently. This is my final response to any of the lies you tell. You are dismissed.

  • 2012freedom

    OxyCon said:
    Next thing you know they’ll be saying that someone with a deep, 20+ year association with an America hating racist, who started his political career in the home of an America hating terrorist, and who was endorsed by the Communist party, could never never win the Democrat nomination.

    None of the Liberals will get your awesome sense of humor. LOL.

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    That does it. Since you chronically, persistently lie, you are now cut off permanently. This is my final response to any of the lies you tell. You are dismissed.

    Is that supposed to make me feel bad? Am I supposed to be concerned?

    You realize this doesn’t have to be a two way street to work, right? I will continue to remind folks of your hypocrisy, lies, and foolishness with or without you responding.

    But don’t worry, I’m sure AmericaSucks, or whomever else you decide to create will come to your rescue.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    you are now cut off permanently

    Same thing he told his significant other , BFD , just before cohabitating with him .

  • Nature Freak

    How can Palin not win the nomination? She is UNDEFEATED!

    This is an excerpt from “The Undefeated” WARNING SPOILER ALERT!
    When the girl was born…
    … like all Wasillans, she was inspected.
    If she’d been small or puny
    or sickly or misshapen…
    … she would have been discarded.
    From the time she could stand,
    she was baptized in the fire of combat.
    Taught never to retreat,
    never to surrender.
    Taught that death on the battlefield
    in service to America…
    … was the greatest glory
    she could achieve in her life.
    At age 7, as is customary in Wasilla…
    … the girl was taken from her mother
    and plunged into a world of violence.
    Manufactured by years
    of Wasilla warrior society…
    … to create the finest Mama Grizzlies
    the world has ever known.
    The agoge for women, as it’s called,
    forces the girls to fight.
    Starves them, forces them to steal…
    … and if necessary, to kill.
    By rod and lash the girl was punished…
    … taught to show no pain, no mercy.
    Constantly tested, tossed into the wild.
    Left to pit her wits and will
    against nature’s fury.
    It was her initiation…
    … her time in the wild…
    … for she would return to her people
    a Wasillan…
    … or not at all.
    And so the girl, given up for dead…
    … returns to her people,
    to sacred Wasilla, a queen!
    Our Queen, Sarah Louise Palin!
    THIS IS WASILLA!

    (this parody is for scientific purposes only. No lab animals were used)

  • J Baustian

    David Gregory, Chuck Todd, and Eugene Robinson — three men whose opinions mean nothing. Their employment contracts prevent them from contributing monetarily to the Obama campaign, but they will help his reelection by all other means.

  • Just my Opinion

    ImNotBlue said:
    Is that supposed to make me feel bad? Am I supposed to be concerned?

    You realize this doesn’t have to be a two way street to work, right? I will continue to remind folks of your hypocrisy, lies, and foolishness with or without you responding.

    But don’t worry, I’m sure AmericaSucks, or whomever else you decide to create will come to your rescue.

    OMG ImNotBlue!
    You must be devastated!!!!!

  • Just my Opinion

    I just wish Chuck Todd would trap whatever the hell that is running around
    his upper lip and chin.
    That thing has got to be annoying!

  • Just my Opinion

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    The notion that Lard Limbaugh, a college drop-out, a draft dodger, a serial divorcee, an addict and a convict would ever be president is offensive. The notion Sarah Palin would be president is ludicrous.

    The notion that you think there is anyone on earth that thinks you are relevant is also ludicrous!
    My God you are a bore!

  • Nature Freak

    Sarah Louise Palin has the blood of Queens inside her. How can she not be given the GOP Nomination?

    EXCERPT FROM “The Undefeated” WARNING SPOILER ALERT!
    INTERVIEW:
    She is Sarah Louise Palin, the Queen of Wasilla. Born in 1592 in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley of Alaska and still alive. She is immortal. For four hundred years she’s been a warrior, a lover, a queen, a wanderer, constantly facing other Immortals in combat to the death. The winner takes her enemy’s head and with it, his power. I’m a Watcher, part of the secret society of men and women who observe and record, but never interfere. We know the truth about Immortals. In the end there can be only one. And it will be Sarah Louise Palin, the Queen of Wasilla.
    And she will be “The Undefeated” .
    INTERVIEW:
    Palin: “I am Sarah Palin, I am immortal, I have inside me blood of queens,
    I have no rival, No man or woman can be my equal,
    Take me to the future of your world,”

    (Yes, this is sarcasm and satire.)

  • Just my Opinion

    J Baustian said:
    David Gregory, Chuck Todd, and Eugene Robinson — three men whose opinions mean nothing. Their employment contracts prevent them from contributing monetarily to the Obama campaign, but they will help his reelection by all other means.

    Every time they intrduce Eugene Robinson as a Pulitzer Price winner I want to have
    someone submit my Grocery List to the Selection Committee.
    The man makes Al Sharpton look like
    a Rhodes Scholar!

  • Azarkhan

    Nature Freak said:
    (Yes, this is sarcasm and satire.)

    Get over yourself. It wasn’t funny the first time you wrote it.

  • Azarkhan

    Just my Opinion said:
    Every time they intrduce Eugene Robinson as a Pulitzer Price winner I want to have
    someone submit my Grocery List to the Selection Committee.
    The man makes Al Sharpton look like
    a Rhodes Scholar!

    LOL

  • Yukon Jack

    Just my Opinion said:
    Every time they intrduce Eugene Robinson as a Pulitzer Price winner I want to have
    someone submit my Grocery List to the Selection Committee.
    The man makes Al Sharpton look like
    a Rhodes Scholar!

    Eugine Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize is worth about as much as 0bama’s Nobel Piss Prize.

  • TeaPartyNation

    The lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists – and their stooges in the lamestream socialist fake-news media – ALWAYS make it perfectly clear who they fear as threats to their power and to leftist extremism and who they feel are minor annoyances that they can marginalize, co-opt, and defeat. Hence, the vicious, hysterical, out-of-control attacks on Palin, Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Christie, Ryan, etc., and the kind words of “monica-stain” bill and other leftists for huntsman, mr. romneycare, etc.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Says a guy who nobody watches or cares about.

  • Rokker

    The far right crackpots like Palin and Limbaugh have zero credibility outside the fringe teabagger base.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    LSDNC, more Newspeak then anyone else, should be their tagline.

    Leaning forward, what EXACTLY does THAT mean?

    When is LSDNC going to have to put everyone on the DNC payroll?

  • edisciple

    Once in awhile (actually a lot) he shows his true colors! Way to go Chuckie w/ a meat cleaver!

  • re-writer

    When did Limbaugh announce he was running?

  • X-3

    NBC’s Chuck Todd: Rush Limbaugh And Sarah Palin Could Never Win GOP Nomination

    Who’s Chuck Todd? No matter. It might be that he’s wrong is supposing that Mr. Limbaugh wants to trade his multi-million dollar per year income on a comparatively low-paying job…but I don’t think so.

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