Sarah Palin Thinks Specter Was running in House: PA-12

[Clio the Leo]

She's the gift that keeps on giving....

Sarah Palin Thinks Democratic Senator Arlen Specter Was Running Against Republican House Candidate Tim Burns

Sarah Palin visited the Hannity show tonight to discuss the primary races and the special election in Pennsylvania for the deceased John Murtha’s seat. Republican Tim Burns ran against Democrat Mark Critz in that election. But when Sean Hannity asked Palin about the contest, she seemed to think Burns was running against Senator Arlen Specter. Of course, Specter was in a primary race against fellow Democrat Joe Sestak (who won). Palin nevertheless predicted Burns would win. He lost decisively. With video.

At the beginning of the discussion Palin said Rand Paul's primary win for the Republican Senate nomination in Kentucky was not "much of a surprise if you have your thumb on the pulse of what so many in the electorate are thinking right now." Since Palin had endorsed Paul "early on," as Hannity put it, she obviously thought of herself as someone having her "thumb on the pulse" of the electorate.

Whatever pulse Palin has her thumb on, it's certainly not on the pulse of the elections.

Hannity went on to talk about “the race that I am most interested in tonight… and that is the Pennsylvania 12 race. And here you have John Murtha’s old seat, he held for all these years – two-to-one Democrat to Republican in the district. It’s literally neck and neck… If Burns pulls this off tonight, what would that say to you?”

Palin's answer revealed that she thought Burns was running against Specter: “I think Burns will pull this off tonight. And just like the Rand-slide that we were just talking about, you’re gonna see Burns, having this representation of a smaller, smarter government, getting the economy back on the right track with limited overreach of the governments (sic). That’s what Burns stands for. And, you know, Specter, he was a representative of bigger government, even when he was within the Republican Party. And people are saying, 'When you consider what it is that he stood for and voted on and represented, enough is enough.' That’s not what our country needs today. We need someone like Tim Burns in there. And you’re gonna see that via vote today with the electorate.”

As of now, with 99.2% of the returns in, Burns lost to Critz by 45% to 52.6% in what Politico described as "a sharp blow to national Republicans who had invested millions of dollars in the contest."

video....
http://www.newshounds.us/2010/05/18/sarah_palin_thinks_democratic_senator_arlen_specter_was_running_against_republican_house_candidate_tim_burns.php

[KingFlorez]

1. Ignorant all the way down to the bone

[roguevalley]

27. she's one yappy jackass that is for sure.

[emulatorloo]

2. "your thumb on the pulse of what [they] are thinking right now." Shouldn't it be thumb on the brains

of the electorate?

[Dr.Phool]

22. A thumb up her ass.

[ginnyinWI]

23. not only that, her metaphor is incorrect.

I was always taught to take a pulse with the index and middle finger on the wrist, because your thumb has a pulse of its own and that would make it hard to feel the pulse in the wrist. But that's beside the point. It's clear that Sarah dislikes doing homework of any sort before opening her big mouth. Lots of words, little content.

[badgerpup]

35. point of order...

Sarah certainly doesn't know what she's talking about here with her 'thumb on the pulse' comment.

I trained as a CNA...learned how to do stuff like take blood pressures, pulses, and temps manually...this was way back when, BEFORE they had these cute little digital machines that'll do it all for ya.

First thing they told us was never, never NEVER use your thumb to take a pulse.
Your thumb has a pulse of its own and it will interfere with your being able to detect and count your patient's pulse...
which is the one you're trying to count.

I'm just sayin'...:shrug:

[joe black]

36. thumb on the erection.

[SPedigrees]

3. Right up there with "the country of Africa"

and "the founding fathers would not have approved of separation of church and state."

[eleny]

4. She can't even claim a slip of the tongue since she detailed his history of being a Repuke

:rofl:

[Kdillard]

5. She just makes it so easy.

[Cha]

6. Too busy thinking about all the money

she's making after she did Alaska the favor of dropping out and getting on the facist motormouth circle.

[Blue_In_AK]

29. She did us a HUGE favor,

but we're still cleaning up after her. What a disaster that woman is.

[Cha]

32. I know that's true..think of how big

the mess would have been had she stuck around trying to squeeze more money out of the state for her personal benefit.

[Brother Buzz]

7. As we walk hand in hand through the pathways of knowledge....

As we walk hand in hand through the pathways of knowledge, remember that I am giving you freely and without stint the full accumulation of my two months’ experience as a candidate. I have on file a complete record of everything I’ve said and done. Ever since I threw my hat in the ring I have had myself shadowed, and the results were very entertaining. The things that go on in those back rooms, you wouldn’t believe.

So now we begin our journey together. If you follow these instructions carefully, you will find that every step of your progress, like the path that climbs up and up from the sheltered valley, offers you an ever-wider and more fascinating vista, until at last you come out upon the summit of the wrong hill.

Gracie Allen - presidential candidate on the Surprise Party ticket - 1940.

[Ikonoklast]

14. But Gracie was only *pretending* Palin is deadly serious.

Palin can't even pretend to be anything except what she is, a dimbulb.

I hope she stumps loudly for every Teabagger and Republican candidate...she's like Kryptonite to their campaigns.

[Raine1967]

8. I would love to see what Hannity said after that tossed salad frittata

Seriously -- I suspect he just let her ramble on with no correction whatsoever.

This is what I despise, they embrace not just the 'stoopid'-- but they openly welcome being uninformed.

[Clio the Leo]

11. Pretty much...

... in the video, he seems to realize what she's done and kind of changes the subject.

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Good grief

She's the gift that keeps giving on stupidity and ignorance

[livetohike]

10. For weeks/months the media has been talking about this

"mini Super Tuesday" and Palin can't even fit into her empty head who the major players are? She just spouts the same talking points no matter the candidate. She's an embarrassment to all the hard working journalists/anchors who try to learn what's going on. She's just a celebrity airhead.

[Brother Buzz]

12. "Hey, can I call you Joe?"

Palin could not even get Joe Biden's name straight. Palin kept crossing his name with Barack Obama's, calling him O'Biden. Her handlers devised the preemptive informal greeting bit to prevent an ill timed malaprop.

[livetohike]

15. I think the bright shiny object (Palin) is finally fading

I don't think I've ever seen anyone so stupid get so much air time (and I'm nearly 58 years old).

[zulchzulu]

13. She probably thought that Burns should keep his day job at the Simpsons

[Jennicut]

16. Oh dear. She is like a robot, except she forgot who the players in the race were.

Not a lot of brains in that head.

[calimary]

19. Shit-for-brains in that head - but it's never had to matter for her. She hides behind her face.

She's one of those vacuous unfortunates who's let her looks do the work for her. WHY ELSE do you think she gets so much "face time" on TV? She photographs well. That's IT. That's all you need to know about her to understand her true depth. It's all surface slick. Unlike what's going on in the Gulf, there's nothing surging underneath the surface. What you see is what you get, and since most of us evidently process information visually, the pretty packaging gets the most attention, especially in a population hard-wired by years of indoctrination by Disney and Procter & Gamble to assume automatically that the pretty one is the good one or the righteous one or the noble one. Cinderella didn't have beautiful stepsisters, after all, and the "fairest of them all" won out over the Wicked Queen. I'll be interested to see what happens to her in 15 or 20 year when her looks have faded. Will she still be the darling of Pox Noise when all she's got left is that screechy voice that says nothing and makes no sense? Notice how nobody gave her a radio show?

[monmouth]

21. She'll be overweight and look like that Bushite lady with the straw

cowboy hat and a purple band-aid on her chin. Betcha!

[calimary]

25. Oh yes, Milady of the Purple Heart Bandaid. One FINE specimen.

:puke:

I would even bet that at some point, some handler of hers flat-out said to her - "don't worry, honey. When they take ONE LOOK at you, they're not gonna care if you don't have all the facts at your fingertips."

I STILL maintain, as the child of a dad whom I loved very much but who was also something of a dirty old man, that what sealed the deal for john mccain during the search for his running-mate was the simple observation (made undoubtedly behind her backside) "you know - I wouldn't mind being able to look at that for the next four-to-eight years..." Anybody who stood there, to the side and slightly behind, when she was making her first public remarks after being announced as his running-mate, and all he did was "sneak" continuous and multiple glances down at her keester while fiddling with his wedding ring. And I'm sure he thought he WAS sneaking those many little looks at her butt, and that it was "only a couple of glances" and nobody would notice anyway. BODY LANGUAGE DOES NOT LIE. If I were Cindy McCain - I would have been PISSED TO THE MAX because I would have felt publicly insulted by my thoughtless asshole lunkhead of a husband who oggled another woman SO blatantly in public like that. At the very least I would have been hurt and humiliated that he would have been so thoughtless in front of me because he just couldn't take his eyes off that ice flow floozy.

[Jennicut]

24. Shallow. She gets fed info (like for the VP debate) and then hopes no one notices.

[NatBurner]

17. 'rand slide'? *vomits*

that's worse than "lamestream media"

doesn't she know that puns are the lowest form of humor?

what am i saying- of course she doesn't know

the stupid is strong in this one

[howaboutme]

18. A lot like GW Bush - irritating to listen to and dumber than a box of hair.

Both Palin and Bush are very similar. Palin is trying to piggyback onto the Tea Party movement, which if they had any sense they'd reject her. I'm not as negative on the TP as many are because I see them as being targeted by the establishment. The establishment opposes all citizen activism that hasn't been pre-establishment approved. If there was a Tea Party rally near me I'd make my own statement and sign of anti-corporatism and anti-war and piggy back. They are not all racists or nuts as the establishment media portrays them. Activism and interest in government is something the USA needs more of, not less.

[Beaverhausen]

20. When you put your thumb on the pulse - you feel your own pulse

:rofl:

[struggle4progress]

26. Yup, it's basic stuff, sorta like "Don't sit on the patient's chest"

[Blue_In_AK]

28. Oh, Lord, she is SOOOOOO stupid.

[mitchum]

30. She even mangles cliches

what a stupid stupid person

[tanyev]

31. Keep yappin', grrrl!

If you see a camera in front of you, yap twice as fast and twice as long! As long as you hardly ever stop to take a breath, people will be sooo impressed by how very smart you are! Let Sarah be Sarah!!!1!

[saltpoint]

33. Burns. Critz. Specter. What the hell. Eventually Palin will find the

right candidate and bring him to us.

Also I liked her phrase from this passage:

- - -

"And you're gonna see that via vote today with the electorate."

- - -

Imagine an electorate VOTING.

What wonders there be.

[Cha]

34. She just wanted to rag on Arlen..didn't hannity have

the guts to correct her?