Without appreciating the irony of her message, Sarah Palin warned Republican voters not to quit. While she assumed that the victory of Mitt Romney in the debate Wednesday night would guarantee victory in the election, she cautioned voters that Obama was “going to pull something.” Here is the full interview with that beacon of “fair and balanced” reporting.
The irony of Palin’s message was obvious to everyone but Palin. She was encouraging the electorate to continue to be strong supporters of Mitt Romney, even though she:
1. Quit her job as Governor.
2. Declined to run for President herself.
3. Voted for Newt Gingrich in the primary.
4.Has herself attacked Mitt Romney for more than one year
5. Palin wasn’t even invited to the Republican National Convention, and wasn’t a featured speaker.
6. Palin doesn’t understand that winning a debate isn’t the same thing as winning an election.
Women and Latino voters are the two voting blocks that strongly favor Obama in this election. In polling among Latino voters Obama is “holding steady” at around the 70% mark. Even after the debate, Obama was still ahead in the polls. An online poll conducted Wednesday and Thursday AFTER the debate of 536 registered voters revealed:
1. 27% saw Romney more positively,
19% saw Romney more negatively
40% said it didn’t change their opinion.
2. With regard to opinion regarding the President,
54% said it didn’t change their opinion of Obama
16% said it improved their opinion of Obama
18% said it caused them to view Obama more negatively.
Obama’s popularity remains unchanged, as 56 % of people polled said they viewed him favorably, with only 44% viewing him unfavorably. Obama’s standing has actually improved among independents by 8 percentage points.
It was the Republicans that seemed to be more energized by their own candidate. Forty-six percent of Republicans said their opinion of Romney was “very favorable” after the debate. That was up 10 percentage points. Energizing Republicans is something that was supposed to happen at the Republican convention, but it seems the highlight of the RNC was not Romney, but Eastwood.
The bottom line is that Palin makes the mistake of assuming that Romney’s performance in the debate will cause him to surge in the polls. Ronald Reagan lost his first debate to Walter Mondale in 1984. Yet Reagan performed better in the next debate and went on to win re-election, winning 49 states.
At least Palin got to show off her new wig and green nail polish.
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October 5, 2012 at 9:59 am
Carolyn
green nail polish – very presidential – NOT!
and I see she is still using her hand for her notes.
October 5, 2012 at 11:10 am
malialitman
Carolyn,
It just amazes me that she thinks that is a good thing, and she worked hard in this interview to show off her hands. In most other interviews she doesn’t use her hands at all, but in this one she went our of her way to advertise the green polish!
October 5, 2012 at 11:16 am
Donna
Sarah Palin needs President Obama to remain the president. Think about it, President Obama is the one paying the Palin bills because he is the one keeping her employed at FOX. Without President Obama they don’t need Palin because she won’t have anything to say.
October 5, 2012 at 11:29 am
malialitman
Donna,
Fortunately for Fox, I don’t think her contract is up till Jan.
October 5, 2012 at 11:27 am
Methinks
Methinks, also too, that she had some puffy puffy done on her lips while thar in LA LA land.
October 5, 2012 at 11:30 am
malialitman
Me thinks,
I noticed her lips in this clip too but couldn’t figure out what was different. I think you are right!
October 5, 2012 at 11:38 am
sals
sarah is a stunted adolescent female that just got older physically but emotionally still a girl who is always trying to prove she is smarter, prettier, more athletic (which she was never athletic–2nd string basketball team in a small alaskan town of 5,000 or less is not athletic and never winning a race in the track meets) so sarah could never afford before to have any of the things she has today so she is reliving that time where she can have and be anything she has ever dreamed…hence wigs because her real hair is too thin and green nails glued on….. Sarah is a fraud, a fake. Making it big time was her dream and only dream….governing was a way to do that and she dumped it as soon as she had another path laid out for her. all the things she throws out at obama and anyone else she critiicizes is projecting who she really is and what she does herself. She is still the ignorant, uneducated, mean stunted adolescent who looks for the easiest path to fame and fortune, never educating herself (scoffs at those who are more educated and classier than herself), sarah will hopefully fade into the ignorant world she lives in but as long as the media uses her to try and create a stir for ratings,, and hollywood runs after the reality stars, she will continue to be around a while…..and her kids will try to be in the limelight as well, shunning education and instead, like mom, look for the easiest path to fame. interesting how much sarah has worked on her looks through the years…I remember her when she was just cute, then pretty when she fixed herself up and now she strives for the “knockout hollywood type of beauty” and you know when she knows she looks good, she tries new stances with hands on her hips, caresses her hips when she walks….it is sadly a poor girl trying to be what she really never was, and she is thrilled with the outcome for awhile then she goes another step further….sporting bigger breasts constantly now…used to, she didn’t , they would be there, then she would be flat, much like her “pregnancy”. lol
October 5, 2012 at 11:49 am
sals
one other comment I left off is that sarah will continue to have cosmetic surgeries, she is too immature, and too ignorant to know when to quit. Immoral minority had a couple of pics yesterday of sarah before governorship and city council and then when she was govenor before she started using that money to improve her looks, It was closer to how she really looked…..and in wasilla she was considered attractive because many women don’t wear much makeup , if any at that time.then these pics , esp the one where she was govenor was really how she looked, but she had been getting her teeth cosmetically “fixed” since she was getting into the local politics, a little at a time. As soon as a pic came out of her as VP candidate and a close up showed the side teeth as far less than white and distracted from the front cosmetic teeth, a month later, in anothe close up , had definitely enhanced those teeth. How shallow????? the glasses that she doesn’t need but actually does use to keep her eyes from looking crossed,another thing she never got past in high school when she was definitely more noticeable. What is a narcissist? the result of deep pain and the overcompensation. What is a sociopath? Sarah, who uses even her own for her own advantage without guilt or remorse and lies without reason, without looking back, no inner reflection….I have a greater definition but it is way too long but sarah hits almost every single one without a beat. that is just a very short version.
October 5, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Sally
It seems Romney cheated. Progessive Alaska has video of the beginning of the debate, and Romney is clearing pulling notes out of his pocket and putting them on the podium. I remember that at teh end he scooted back and grabbed something quickly. The rules called for No notes and No props. So he lies AND cheats. And the GOP adores him…today. Palin is a washed up fool.
October 5, 2012 at 12:12 pm
aj weishar
Just a note on the poll. The validity of an online poll of 536 registered voters after the debate should be taken with a grain of salt. Where was the poll located online? What is the demographic of that site? The poll is skewed to people who have computer technology and the time to watch the debate and cruise the internet. They would probably be people with time saving devices like elevators for cars. They also have time to let their political friends know a poll is on xyz.com. Phone polls are worthless because 90% of the country (that’s a Ryan-Romney factoid) is being dogged by debt collectors and do not answer calls from unknown sources.
October 5, 2012 at 12:23 pm
californiacruisin
She also sabotaged Romney’s coming out party when he declared his candidacy. You should probably include that.
October 5, 2012 at 12:54 pm
katzkids
Her whole face looks puffy & fat, at least in these screen captures, haven’t watched the video. Now I’m going to have to watch it – drat. With the sound off. LOL!
October 5, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Aloha nui loa
Sarah Palin could not pass the vetting process. She lied to the RNC in 08, and she could not even pass a background check today. Im surprized she is not on the NO fly list. She is a terrorist and unregistered malitia member. Fox will dump her soon. Cant wait till eric holder charges her and todd with interstate prostitution trafficing. She is finished as a politician. This woman is a cockroach in the room, a stink bug, a fly on a turd
October 6, 2012 at 11:23 am
Anne
Those of us who don’t want Willard to ever occupy the White House will definitely NOT quit. The behavior of Willard at this travesty of a debate has strengthened my determination to vote in order to keep him and Queen Ann out of it. The words from the Quitter Queen have had the unintended effect of spurring me and others to vote AGAINST her candidate.
October 6, 2012 at 12:50 pm
malialitman
Anne,
Thank you for your commitment to standing again Palin!
October 7, 2012 at 8:56 am
Michael B. Calyn
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