WaPo‘s David Weigel: Sarah Palin Endorsed Carly Fiorina Because People Make Fun Of Her

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by Frances Martel | 12:18 pm, May 8th, 2010

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Sarah Palin received her first dose of Facebook backlash earlier this week when she endorsed Republican Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina over Tea Party favorite Chuck DeVore, with reports coming in that more than half of the comments on her post supporting Fiorina were negative and called Fiorina a “conservative in name only.” Yes, Keith Olbermann did use this as an excuse to play “Demon Sheep” again, and had Washington Post blogger David Weigel on the show to explain Palin’s thinking: “Fiorina is one of the only women in politics who gets made fun of as often as Palin does.”

“I dont think the Palin people understood how bad this would hit with the base,” Weigel told Olbermann in response to Olbermann asking why this happened in the first place. Palin had already received some criticism for her endorsement of John McCain, although because of her candidacy with him in 2008 most of that criticism was muted. This time, however, many Tea Party members, who took to DeVore early on in the race, are confused as to why Palin would not endorse him. Weigel argues that, while the endorsement “doesn’t make a lot of sense” ideologically, both Palin and Fiorina have been in hot water for inconsistencies between their ideologies and their rhetoric, and as such have a natural affinity:

“Palin has been criticized again and again for appearing at Tea Parties and not giving them a lot more than the usual rhetoric. They love it– at every Tea Party her rhetoric gets a standing ovation. But this is the first we’ve seen of tea partiers saying “wait a minute, you just asked us to support a Republican whose values we don’t really understand, and if we do understand them correctly, we don’t agree with. What’s going on here?”

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felixw

If Sarah Palin supports people who are the subject of ridicule, she must be planning to back Keith Olbermann in the near future.
homie

“Fiorina is one of the only women in politics who gets made fun of as often as Palin does.”

Aren’t we overlooking Michelle Bachman?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Durffee/1311278663 Ed Durffee

Ahhhhh felixw what a great line. Wish I had said it. What is significant in all this is the fact that when KO and Liberals in particular are scared of a conservative or T-partier they come out giggling and pointing fingers and in their insecure ways, attempt to cover their deep fear of those who are so much smarter and prepared for running around loose in our society, KO has no chance of surviving without his childish ways. He grew up with no friends, my Cousin thinks its that bed wetting thing, but he gets even by ridiculing those who are so much smarter than him… Shoot, thats near everyone.
timzank

homie says:
May 8, 2010 at 1:08 pm
“Fiorina is one of the only women in politics who gets made fun of as often as Palin does.”

Aren’t we overlooking Michelle Bachman?

You’re overlooking Nancy Pelosi.
timzank

Actually Homie, I need to clarify that also, The American people by and large make fun of Nancy Pelosi while the decidely Un- American media (MSM like NBC/CBS/ABC/LA Times/NYTimes/Atlanta Journal etc…make fun of Palin.
LipstickUnderground

If one more person from OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA tells us we have to settle for Palin’s endorsement because Carly is “electable” and the great-all-knowing-Sara-Palin must not be questioned, I am going to have to hurt somebody!!!!!!!!! She’s just paying back a favor…nothing more. Isn’t settling for RINO’s why we had to start the tea party in the first place??? Carly supports Cap & Trade and more. She will be our Olympia Snowe. FYI folks…CHUCK DEVORE POLLS BETTER THAN CARLY AGAINST BOXER
Integr8d

Fiorina ran HP into the ground. HP employees HATED her.

I’m not a fan of Whitman either.

Unfortunately, California is in bad shape all-around. The state needs to cut back or off all non-essential services and work on bringing business and people in. Right now, it’s a very financially hostile place to live. We pay nearly 10% sales tax, ridiculous property taxes and the list goes on. California regulations are very toxic for small business. An example of how sad this state is: A few weeks ago, I read a story about state inspectors requiring a mechanic, who kept a daily box of donuts available for his patrons, to either quit doing it or install a 3-base sink and all other types of kitchen equipment.

Our utilities are jacking up our rates to record levels. In a year or two, we’ll be paying the same amount as last year for 1/2 the resources. It would be one thing to mandate 1/2 the usage and 1/2 the rate. But they can’t give up their money. So we just get screwed.

Part of telling us when we could water our lawns lead to water mains breaking all over Los Angeles and Orange County. The first time I heard about it, I thought, “That’s funny.” The second time I heard about, it was pretty obvious what the cause was. Eight months later, state investigators released that the cause for all the water main breakages was the water restriction… But that’s not all… The utility company says it’s because the mains are old and deteriorated (i.e. water restrictions stay and we’ll be needing more tax dollars to ensure our continued employment).

It’s like common sense and any type of reason are GONE.
CalFel88

Olberman, Matthews and Schultz at MSNBC make the “Three Stooges” look the epitome sanity. My dear friend “intergr8d,” I applaud your description of California’s ills. Just remember who and what are responsible for the economic chaos… Democrats and liberal social and environmental programs! At the Federal level we are headed in the direction of California and Greece. There has never been any such thing as a “free lunch” … and there never will be! Google “The Fatal Sequence” to understand what is happening to us.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Keith-George/579093315 Keith George

When it’s convention time, the Republicans are all about “big tents” and “inclusion’, and then, when that’s over, they go back to back to demanding ideological purity.

I never vote for Democrats, except when they are running against Republicans.
Michael_T

In reading some of the posts I think too many of us are swept away by the rhetoric of whichever party we tend to support – including the Tea Party.

When are we going to realize that for most politicians it is all (or mostly) about them and their lobbyist donors.

We are all being duped and mislead by pols from both sides of the isle who will say and do practically anything to get elected.
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