Meet The New Sarah Palin?

h/t to Cinn: AOL and The Daily Beast team up to capture the Web-stupid media award for the day. Forget that Ayotte is a stimulus loving squish from New England who hired the right people to make her into a Susan Collin's clone, as if she isn't one already. If Palin is so incredibly unpopular, why do they slip her name into every headline they can?

And why are they talking about a "new one," as if that would make someone a success? Bush Derangement Syndrome has morphed into Palin Derangement Syndrome and she had the bad luck to have to play in John McCain's weak shadow during the campaign. Just imagine how crazy she would make them if she steps out on her own? That alone would be worth the cost of admission, maybe even a vote! ha!

I have a feeling they had better wait until the existing Sarah Palin says she's done before they try to find a replacement.

(Aug. 19) -- She's a folksy, photogenic young mom who just stepped down from state office and is seen by many Republicans as a rising star in the party. And she's not from Alaska.

Is Kelly Ayotte the next Sarah Palin? The Daily Beast looks at what political insiders are saying about the former New Hampshire attorney general.

Looking at some new poll numbers, you might wonder why anyone would want to be another Palin. The real Palin's popularity is sinking fast. A CNN survey shows her favorability rating at 39 percent. A Marist poll finds Palin's decision to resign as Alaska governor has hurt her standing with voters.

Sixty-one percent say stepping down early was a bad move. And if there were an Obama-Palin presidential contest today, the poll says the president would get 56 percent of the vote and the GOP challenger would get 33 percent. Another Republican woman who's testing the political waters is Carly Fiorina. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO, who was part of the McCain-Palin campaign, is exploring a run against California Sen. Barbara Boxer. One big problem could be her voting record. The San Francisco Chronicle says Fiorina has rarely gone to the polls since 1977.

Comments

[syn]

Something tells me that this is a 'Gov Huntsman (R-Utah)' phenomenon; Democrats defining who Republicans should support., ie Republicans whom Democrats have investigated and found skeletons in their closets which Democrats then bring out pf the closet about 24 hours before the election.

[anginak]

The media is spawning Sarah copycat politicians already?!? Wow, the media, they move fast.

[mark l.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

number of gop represenatives in the new england region. zero. (22 democrats)

it is the land of squish.

[mark l.]

most impressive female in the gop?

marsha blackburn. i've caught her a couple of times on fox. hits EVERY bullet point, and then goes on to engage.

[Mikey NTH]

"If Palin is so incredibly unpopular, why do they slip her name into every headline they can?"

Because they think her name is political death, like "McCarthy" or "Nixon".

[Pyous]

"Because they think her name is political death, like "McCarthy" or "Nixon".

Or George W. Bush.

[Pyous]

If Palin is so incredibly unpopular, why do they..."

She is 'popularly' unpopular. OK?

[richard mcenroe]

She's the woman you all love to hate!
She's so irrelevant we gut our own legislation just to keep her in play!
Ladeeez and gentlemen... SARAH PALIN!

I don't think so.

[geoffb]

I'm sticking with the original. No "New Coke" please.

[Ran]

Dan,
It's interesting to see the reactions to Palin. The Left, of course, suffer advanced PDS. [i.e. Pyous' giddy peeing of his dipies every time her name is mentioned... if ONLY she were as unpopular amongst libertarians and conservatives as he wishes.] Such puerile hysteria is in direct proportion to her ultimate value...

From the "right", there's a minority anarcho-libertarian bunch that are equally disturbed because she's a "theocrat" [sic]. The same charges are leveled against Michelle Bachmann.

In any case, it wasn't the media who made Reagan [or Thatcher.] Palin is the next Palin, and only she is in control of her destiny here. She has become something of a catalyst: Not only has she inspired and activated the base, but the base - the libertarian, social and fiscal conservative base - is offering a lot of new candidates of a similar mode, who sense that their time is nigh.

[the bishop]

No, it looks like most of those putatively on "the Right" are too willingly to bow and
scrape before the welfare state.

[Mitchell Blatt]

Palins not in office, stop accusing her critics of somehow having PDS.

If she's so popular, why is she unpopular? Every single poll on the subject, even Rassmussen polls, show her popularity numbers dropping like a rock.

To answer your question about why libs talk about her, well, you kind of answered it yourself: because she's unpopular! They know that she'll destroy the Republican Party if she runs and Obamao will get 2 terms, and the more they trash her the more unpopular she becomes, and the more crazy Republicans turn her into a messiah. Each time she becomes unpopular, sadists like yourself become more attached to her, more attached to the half-a-term governor who doesn't know shit about issues outside of oil drilling and can't win a national election.

[Ran]

"[Palin's] not in office, stop accusing her critics of somehow having PDS.

If she's so popular, why is she unpopular?"

Um, she is unpopular with... the libertarian-conservative base? Or the moonbats on the Left? Dearest Mitchell... do read Nishner, Slide, Pyous and a few of the other Palin critics here on this page and tell us with a straight face how YOU would define PDS. Watch CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS or tune NPR or go the Andy Sullivan's site, or Jesse Griffin's site... and tell us with as traight face that they are somehow calm and objective with regards to Palin.

Yeah - she's not universally popular - no one is. But do NOT attempt to dissimulate by suggesting that, for most potential voters on the Libertarian and Conservative Right - and many switch-hitters amongst Independents, that Palin is "un"-popular. No-one "unpopular" draws 20,000 people to a small town of 12,000 in up-state New York.

"Dropping like a rock." Sorry man, she beat every generic statist out there with the base. It's statism that's dropping like a rock. Congress is at single digits, and the President looses support every time he reads from TOTUS.

[Sissy Willis]

Mitchell Blatt: 'Wish I had thought of your Freudian slip: OBAMAO! Ah, so.

[the bishop]

derangement, is unreasoning hatred, uninformed by facts, mitchell's contribution proves the point, it is often personal

[Lala]

The other day the NY Daily News had that article about the poll that asked people who they would vote for - Palin or Obama. According to the article Obama would win by 56 percent. Meanwhile, the News had their own poll up about the same subject so I voted, just to see. In their poll, Palin was winning by 69 percent.

[Ran]

A clarification of the Palin phenomenon: She's not our "One." She is a catalyst as much a product of an emerging coalition of libertarians, social and fiscal conservatives. You see, it isn't about Palin... It's really about Jindal and Blackburn and Bachmann and Schiff and-and-and

http://libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com/2009/08/expected-senate-candidate-peter-schiff.html

Mitchell may agree with Republican Squishies about the "danger" to the Party caused by Palin, but their prognosis of doom... is it more than obvious projection?

Palin? Only she knows what's next. Whomever is next, however, is going to have to succeed with the activated base, not the Squishies.

[mark l.]

{She's not our "One." }

couldn't agree more.

is she a great "tip of the spear"? absolutely. i've never seen libs scream louder over one conservative.

her net value? the libs who hate her will always hate her. the people who respect her, women, mothers, parents of kids with disabilites, gun rights advocates, pro-oil/gas production, and gasp...feminists... aren't so much given her a second look, as the they are the libs who are making fools of themselves.

[mark l.]

in giving the nod to blackburn, i'd be remiss in not noting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Ros-Lehtinen

as a wonderful conservative, who happens to be female.

don't panic libs, she wasn't born in america. (we need to get this woman a hawaiin birth cert, fast though...)

[Ran]

Thanks Mark!

[Rich K]

If The "Ones" election proved anything its you dont need any record on voting or experience in governing or any other damn thing to win an election. Just a message that sells like $1.00 dollar beer during Happy Hour.

[mark l.]

anytime, ran.

i've seen some advocates of rubio, here, in the past few days.

thank lehtinen for her ability to produce. she was his patron.

[Peg C.]

The media no longer decide who is new and exciting. We the People do. Ayotte? Please. Manufactured doesn't work anymore. New media destroys manufactured immediately.

Palin is the Real Deal. Libs know it and are utterly obsessed by her, way more so that we are, and I'm a big Palin fan.