Tea Party Doesn’t Like Palin’s Endorsements

1:19 pm EST June 13th, 2010 | Conservative, Republicans | 29 Comments

Shelby Blakely, executive director of the Tea Party Patriots’ online publication, New Patriot Journal, said Palin’s endorsement has become ‘so undependable, it’s marginalized itself.’

While she once thought highly of Palin, Blakely said that over the past two years the ‘Going Rogue’ author has gone more establishment, and Palin’s failure to criticize her own party is bothersome. ‘There’s room for criticism (all around),’ Blakely said. ‘If you’re not willing to call it where you see it, that’s useless.’

Blakely said she believes Palin will endorse the most conservative candidate she can. But when there’s a party establishment candidate in the running, or one who had some ties with the McCain-Palin 2008 ticket, ‘she’ll go with that,’ Blakely said. She points to Palin’s pick of Fiorina — who is ‘not conservative’ — as an example.

‘You never really know WHY she’s endorsing someone,’ Blakely said. ‘It’s almost becoming a nonfactor.’

Topic: Sarah Palin, Tea Party

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29 Responses to “Tea Party Doesn’t Like Palin’s Endorsements”

Repack Rider says:

June 13, 2010 at 1:42 pm

“Palin Derangement Syndrome” strikes deep into the heart of her castle keep. We’ll need the nutwing talking points on this, STAT!

If Sarah loses the Teabaggers, how will liberals be able to dread her 2012 candidacy? We might have to nominate her ourselves if we want to see an Obama-Palin debate.
Dennis says:

June 13, 2010 at 1:45 pm

Today I learned that two conservatives could actually disagree on what candidate to endorse in a Republican primary race.

And you guys wonder why I show up here.

Every day you learn something astounding and new.
Marco says:

June 13, 2010 at 1:53 pm

She choose candidates using a Magic 8-ball. This is hardly newsworthy.
Marco says:

June 13, 2010 at 1:56 pm

Should read “She chooses…”

This coffee just isn’t kicking in.
Prodigal says:

June 13, 2010 at 2:08 pm

It’s nice that, after you have spent so much time trying to indicate otherwise, you finally showed that you actually are capable of being taught something. Congratulations.
Rick Massimo says:

June 13, 2010 at 2:15 pm

… the ‘Going Rogue’ author …

Is that what she is now? I guess “half-term governor” doesn’t have the cache it used to.
jr says:

June 13, 2010 at 2:24 pm

They’re “obsessed” with Palin
timmy says:

June 13, 2010 at 2:38 pm

In a more perfect world, Palin would make McCain and Hayworth prove who the best teabagger was, and then just proclaim one the better man. But sadly, the specter of power and personal politics seems to hold more sway than the quality of ones cojones. Why can’t teabag conservatives see this?
justadood says:

June 13, 2010 at 3:11 pm

a former 1/2-term governor ‘undependable’?? Perish the thought!!
SaveFarris says:

June 13, 2010 at 4:09 pm

I thought the Tea Partiers were an “amorphous network” with “no single leader” and that “no one owns the tea party brand”.

I guess we always HAVE been at war with Eastasia…
Repack Rider says:

June 13, 2010 at 5:10 pm

I thought the Tea Partiers were an “amorphous network” with “no single leader” and that “no one owns the tea party brand”.

Minor correction. No DECLARED leader, although the marching orders emanate from the usual suspects.

I agree with the rest of your point, that it is an amorphous network with unclear ownership of the “brand. Doesn’t this fact, which we both agree on, make it ironic that so many people independently came to the conclusion that Palin is poison, without being told by the nutwing Politburo?

Paraphrasing Danny Kaye (Google it):

The Palin who is Poison has the Chalice with the Malice
But the Fellow who is Mellow has the Crew that Bugs You
Quaker in a Basement says:

June 13, 2010 at 5:34 pm

Danny Kaye? I thought that was Donald O’Connor!
Repack Rider says:

June 13, 2010 at 5:43 pm

From “The Court Jester.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLYSCBfqdqc
Indeed says:

June 13, 2010 at 5:47 pm

The Palin who is Poison has the Chalice with the Malice
But the Fellow who is Mellow has the Crew that Bugs You

Bad news. They broke the Chalice with the Malice.

By the way, for more on the awesomeness of Teabaggers, check out the latest Harper’s for a piece by Ken Silverstein on the batshitcrazyfication of Arizona. Everything you’ve heard about “Your Papers Please!” laws and whatnot? It’s worse.

Example:

Allen, who retained her seat in an election that fall, has since gained minor notoriety after calling for more uranium mining, saying in a speech that “this earth has been here 6,000 years, long before anybody had environmental laws, and somehow it hasn’t been done away with.” She also has complained that trees are “stealing Arizona’s water supply” and sponsored a new law that allows carriers of concealed weapons to forego safety training and the indignity of background checks.

Place is fucked.
Quaker in a Basement says:

June 13, 2010 at 5:47 pm

Oh, I see. I was thinking of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKlub5vB9z8
Dennis says:

June 13, 2010 at 5:57 pm

Dissent in Liberal Land

Essentially the same article from the other side of the aisle. The revelation to me today that people from the same political philosophy can disagree inspired me to research the subject, and this is what I found. Amazing.

Singer Sophie B. Hawkins: Obama throwing country ‘under the bus,’ choking on spill response

Singer Sophie B. Hawkins told The Hill on Thursday that “America’s being thrown under the bus” by President Barack Obama as he presses forward with his agenda and comes under criticism for his response to the Gulf oil spill…….

The singer campaigned on the trail with Hillary Rodham Clinton during her presidential campaign, and told The Hil from her tour bus that she “never believed in [Obama's] philosophy” — which she said runs contrary to her beliefs in “smaller government, smart government, flexible government.”…..

“I want the Congress that really is going to listen to the people,” she said. “I really don’t care what party it is anymore.”

Hawkins said she attended a Tea Party rally in Santa Monica, Calif., that was “mostly all Democrats.”

“The Tea Parties are only here because people are not listening,” she said.

The singer said she viewed the government’s attitude as “arrogant” and said people are hungry for leaders who will “take us in a direction that’s truly American.”

“Obama may be brilliant, but he’s not a leader,” Hawkins said.
…
durablend says:

June 13, 2010 at 6:12 pm

WHO?!?!?
MrGreyGhost says:

June 13, 2010 at 6:17 pm

More Citizen Sarah distraction, was coming to come here and get some insight on Alvin Greene. Geez.
Frank DiSalle says:

June 13, 2010 at 6:33 pm

Believe me , Durablend, if Ms Hawkins had bad mouthed Pres Bush on a BBC talk show, or torn up a picture of the Pope on SNL ( I suppose you don’t know what THAT is, either ) her name would be tattooed on your arm , and you’d own all her CD’s.
Pretending you have never heard of her, doesn’t make Dennis’ point any less valid. If you really don’t know who she is, you’d better start reading something besides Atlantic Monthly.
SlyFox says:

June 13, 2010 at 6:58 pm

You know, its kind of odd you would use a PUMA to underscore your argument of how Democrats disagree. Not that you don’t have a point in saying that Tea Partiers can disagree with Sarah Palin. But the fact of the matter is, if Sarah Palin were the Republican nominee in 2012, I doubt that Ms. Blakely would decline her support for her. Hawkins is a different story entirely. She never liked Obama. She hates that he beat Clinton for the nomination. I seriously believe that she cast her vote for McCain in 2008.

http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=arts&sc=music&sc2=features&sc3=&id=78817

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90755773
The Dark Avenger says:

June 13, 2010 at 7:42 pm

Frank, unlike Ms. Hawkins, the singer you’re referencing has first-hand experience with what she later denounced and had the gall to write about it in the teeth of the Pope’s/Vatican spokeperson’s ever-changing moods about the subject:

I experienced this personally. When I was a young girl, my mother — an abusive, less-than-perfect parent — encouraged me to shoplift. After being caught once too often, I spent 18 months in An Grianán Training Centre, an institution in Dublin for girls with behavioral problems, at the recommendation of a social worker. An Grianán was one of the now-infamous church-sponsored “Magdalene laundries,” which housed pregnant teenagers and uncooperative young women. We worked in the basement, washing priests’ clothes in sinks with cold water and bars of soap. We studied math and typing. We had limited contact with our families. We earned no wages. One of the nuns, at least, was kind to me and gave me my first guitar.

An Grianán was a product of the Irish government’s relationship with the Vatican — the church had a “special position” codified in our constitution until 1972. As recently as 2007, 98 percent of Irish schools were run by the Catholic Church. But schools for troubled youth have been rife with barbaric corporal punishments, psychological abuse and sexual abuse. In October 2005, a report sponsored by the Irish government identified more than 100 allegations of sexual abuse by priests in Ferns, a small town 70 miles south of Dublin, between 1962 and 2002. Accused priests weren’t investigated by police; they were deemed to be suffering a “moral” problem. In 2009, a similar report implicated Dublin archbishops in hiding sexual abuse scandals between 1975 and 2004.

Why was such criminal behavior tolerated? The “very prominent role which the Church has played in Irish life is the very reason why abuses by a minority of its members were allowed to go unchecked,” the 2009 report said.
daniel rotter says:

June 13, 2010 at 8:52 pm

“Essentially the same article from the other side of the aisle.”

Wrong. Blakely “once thought highly of Palin” but Hawkins “never believed in” [Obama's] philosophy.” Take your false equivalencies somewhere else, Dennis.
Marco says:

June 13, 2010 at 10:49 pm

That reminds me, Frank. Don’t you owe Ms. O’Connor an apology? She was right. You sadly wrong.
Marco says:

June 13, 2010 at 10:52 pm

But Dennis, what do the Vengaboys or Aqua think?
Jaim says:

June 14, 2010 at 12:22 am

If Obama has lost Sophie B. Hawkins, then Color Me Badd can’t be far behind.
Frank DiSalle says:

June 14, 2010 at 3:19 am

a) I don’t owe anyone an apology for restating something they actually did, Marco.

b) I read carefully Ms O’Connor’s account of her encounter with the Magdalene laundries, and besides the rather harsh conditions, there was no indication that she, herself, was physically or sexually abused. In fact, a “kind” nun (her words) gave her her first guitar.

c) This has nothing whatever to do with the FACT that Ms Hawkins has some objections to the way Pres Obama is doing business.
The Dark Avenger says:

June 14, 2010 at 3:49 am

No, Frank she was never sexually abused by this account, she was merely treated a bit better than many African-Americans were in the antebellum American South:

We had limited contact with our families. We earned no wages.

You don’t think hard work for no pay isn’t physical abuse?

Furthermore, we only know that she didn’t say she was sexually abused, but then she didn’t say she wasn’t, so we really don’t know what happened to her, do we Frank?

Her exact words, Frank:

One of the nuns, at least, was kind to me and gave me my first guitar.

One of the nuns being kind to here implies there were severl nuns who weren’t, and why should they be?

By her own admission, she was shoplifting girl who was only fit to be treated like a beast of burden, not to be treated above her obvious value as though she were a person with an immortal soul for whose sins, along with the rest
of humanity, the Son of God had died on Calvary Hill almost 2,000 years ago.

This has nothing whatever to do with the FACT that Ms Hawkins has some objections to the way Pres Obama is doing business.

This has already been covered here

If Ms. Hawkins does make a cogent argument against Barack Obama she’s an entertainer, not a political person like the woman Oliver quoted, so you screaming there isn’t a difference doesn’t make it so.

Ktxbai, Frank.
Frank DiSalle says:

June 14, 2010 at 2:36 pm

DA, please have pity on us, and get tired of “ktxbi” as soon as possible.
I’ve already heard what you had to say. It doesn’t get relevant the second time around.
OK?
Thanks.
Bye…
Dr. Psycho says:

June 14, 2010 at 9:31 pm

Wha-a-at, you mean she wasn’t just being a random big ol’ meanie when she picked on the poor helpless little Church?