well, if mrs alaska is indeed a moron, she's certainly been successful, probably the biggest winner nationally in an election of red wave proportions
of the 34 house races in which mrs alaska made a pick, she won 23
Palin Endorsements Tracker - The Washington Post
in the thirty DEMOCRAT HELD districts into which she intruded, she took NINETEEN
that's astonishing
after all, these are newcomers and neophytes we're talking here, people like vicky hartzler who defeated old bull ike skelton in MO4, 17 term chair of armed services
ms hartzler, former state rep in jefferson city, has been out of politics for 10 years
yet she beat the battered bull by five points
sean duffy in WI7, belligerent DAVID OBEY's seat, came to the public's attention as a star on mtv's reality show, real world, he won by eight
stephen fincher was a farmer before he took 11-termer john tanner's TN6 by TWENTY ONE
TN6 has been rep'd by dems since 1898
in AL2 martha roby leapfrogged from MONTGOMERY CITY COUNCIL to bamboozle bobby bright's bench, 51 to 49
ann marie buerkle was ASSISTANT ag in new york before bringing down incumbent dan maffei in a squeaker, maffei conceded only last week
13-term bull BART GORDON's seat in the east nashville suburbs, TN8, was stolen on tsunami tuesday by palinista diane black, state rep, by a margin of THIRTY EIGHT
randy hultgren in IL14, west chicago burbs, ousted incumbent bill foster by SIX, another palin pet sent by the voters from the state house to dc
etc (i could go on, try me)
now, on the LOSING side for mrs alaska, let's take a look
she wasn't timorous, taking on some pretty tuff tests
ruth mcclung capitalized on old toro RAUL GRIJALVA'S call to america at large to BOYCOTT his state over jan brewer's racist immigration law, giving grijalva the most critical challenge of his career
he beat her by FOUR, but he took dark blue tucson, yuma county, by THIRTY in 08, TWENTY SIX in 06, TWENTY FOUR in 04...
ms mcclung is a rocket scientist, that's all I know about her, which tells you how extremely anonymous she is/was
BARNEY FRANK was bucked by a palin pick, sean bielat, a MARINE and BUSINESS CONSULTANT
barney won by THIRTY in 08, ran UNOPPOSED in 06, won by FIFTY FIVE in 04 in ultra liberal MA4
the almost nameless grunt came within TEN of the author of the fannie and freddie fiasco
these are not easy gains, that's the point, yet palin batted 63% in DEM HELD districts
she went 6 for 7 in gub picks, 6 for 11 in the senate
her allies in reid's roundhouse include MARCO RUBIO, PAT TOOMEY (a tea partier from the keystone state!), RAND PAUL, KELLY AYOTTE, JOHN BOOZMAN...
in the state chairs there're TERRY BRANSTAD in hyper-critical IOWA, NICKI HALEY in sc, RICK PERRY in texas (which gains FOUR electoral votes for the 2012 presidentials and congressionals, and we control unchallenged GERRYMANDERING this year in the lone star land), MARY FALLIN, BUTCH OTTER
that's a lotta STAR POWER, baby!
PAUL MILLER, it is true, is a major embarrassment for mrs alaska
but it should be noted the upstart attorney ran a horrible campaign, he suggested solutions for OUR BORDER problem that might look like EAST GERMANY's wall which dear ronnie remonstrated mr gorbachev to remove
most hurtful to miller's status was his admission that as federal attorney he used govt computers for political puposes
and most to the point of this argument---he got himself involved in a two week twitter tussle with todd, he wasn't loyal
he betrayed the mr and mrs alaska's and he lost
and LISA MURKOWSKI still caucues with MCCONNELL
for a woman as dumb as sarah palin she sure is successful
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