Sarah Palin must find the Yellow Brick Road

This year's 2022 mid term election seemed to attract two "has been" politicians. In Maine, the former governor Paul Lepage, a Tea Party Republican, tried and failed to defeat the popular current Governor Janet Mills. His delusion was that, somehow, his old best friend Trump would help him to win re-election after a four year hiatus.  Likewise, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and a once upon a time Tea Party Vice-Presidential candidate was under the impression that two failed positions (she resigned as Alaska's governor before completing her term) would lead to "third time's a charm". 

Although politicians like Mr. LePage and Ms. Palin sometimes have "nine lives", these two right wing Trumpsters seem to be particularly vulnerable to the "has been" libel.

Sarah Palin had a Trumpzi delusion!

Echo report by NPR: JUNEAU, Alaska — U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola has been elected to a full term in the House, months after the Alaska Democrat won a special election to the seat following the death earlier this year of longtime Republican Rep. Don Young.

So long Sarah! Say Goodbye!

When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land?
You should have stayed on the farm,
You should have listened to the old man!

So goodbye yellow brick road,
Where the dogs of society howl,
You can't plant Trump in your penthouse,

So, go back to your old plough.

Peltola defeated Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich, as well as Libertarian Chris Bye in the Nov. 8 election. Results of the ranked choice election were announced Wednesday. Palin and Begich also were candidates in the special election.

"It's a two-year contract," Peltola told the Anchorage Daily News after her victory — a 55%-45% margin over Palin in the final tabulation round — was announced. "I will be happy to work for Alaskans again, as long as they'll have me."


Peltola, who is Yup'ik, with her win in August became the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress and the first woman to hold Alaska's House seat. The win also buoyed her fundraising, outpacing those of her rivals in the lead-up to this month's election.

Messages were sent to Palin's campaign Wednesday.

Message from Steve Schmidt to Sarah Palin

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You and I have unfinished business. I’ll do everything I can to make sure you never hold a position of responsibility in the United States Congress. You are an unstable, narcissistic, ignorant, grifting quitter. Magnificent, Majestic, Alaska deserves better.

Sarah Palin tries, tries and tries again! NOT!

 https://mainewriter.blogspot.com/2022/04/palins-three-strikes-governor-vp.html

Nate Silver Pours Cold Water on Sarah Palin’s political comeback: ‘I’m Not Really Buying’ it".

Sarah Palin on Fox - by the way, she was cancelled!

Sarah Palin’s political comeback has drawn plenty of attention and already gotten former President Donald Trump’s stamp of approval. But one leading election forecaster is skeptical the former Alaska governor will win the House seat she’s seeking in her first campaign since 2008.


In a commentary on ABC’s This Week Sunday, FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver threw a bucket of cold water on Palin’s bid to replace the late Alaska congressman Don Young. While Silver noted that Palin’s name recognition is unmatched, he also pointed out that her decision to leave her post as governor did not sit well with her constituents.

“Alaskans didn’t like she quit on the job in 2009, before serving out her term,” Silver said of Palin. “In fact, her favorability rating in a poll last October was only 31 percent.”

Silver noted that the race is crowded, with numerous prominent candidates already having tossed their hats in the ring prior to Don Young’s passing. Further, Silver believes that Alaska’s ranked choice voting system may help get Palin out of the first round, but will work against her when the field narrows.

“I don’t know what odds I’d put on Palin,” Silver said. “It’s safe to say above zero, but below 50 percent.

“But overall,” Silver added, “I’m not really buying her comeback. ”

Sarah Palin's second "gut punch" - not invited to Senator John McCain's funeral

An echo opinion published in NewJersey.com

By Amber Phillips 

Much has been made, rightly so, of the fact that Sen. John McCain's family did not invite President Donald Trump to his memorial service. McCain made no secret that he thought Trump was taking the country in the wrong direction, while Trump made no secret he resented McCain.

But perhaps a more telling non-invite is Sarah Palin.

Politico, CNN and NBC News report that she won't be at Saturday's big service at the National Cathedral, the one where two former presidents who defeated McCain's bids for the White House, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, will deliver eulogies. Palin declined to comment "out of respect for Sen. John McCain and his family."

McCain ostensibly had plenty of time to orchestrate his memorial services as he battled brain cancer for a year before his death Saturday. That he would choose not to have his own vice presidential pick at his memorial service can be interpreted as a neon flashing signal to the world not just about his own personal regrets in life but how concerned he was about the rise of Trumpism -- and perhaps his role in it.

The link from McCain to Trump goes something like this: The Republican senator from Arizona elevated Palin, then the GOP governor of Alaska, by picking her as his vice presidential nominee in 2008. Palin in turn helped stir up and elevate certain factions on the right -- notably the kind of people who called Barack Obama an "Arab." Eight years later, America elected a man to the White House who had questioned Obama's birth certificate and whose base of voters fit neatly into the same categories as those who supported Palin.

Nothing is ever that simple in politics, of course. Analysts have attributed the rise of hyperpartisanship and Trumpism to a confluence of events. There was the 2008 recession that aggravated polarization on both sides of the aisle. The weakening of campaign finance laws allowed outside groups to spend millions to steer politics in their preferred directions and made politicians dive for safety in the ideological corners of their party. Gerrymandering. Voters self-sorting into liberals in cities, conservatives in rural areas. Mistakes Democrats made in the 2016 presidential race.

We may never fully understand this unique political moment we're in until we're out of it.

But interpreted one way -- the most obvious way -- McCain seemed to have come to a conclusion about how Trump is president: He helped lead the way.

McCain's been sending us this signal for awhile now. Months before his death, he wrote in his last memoir that he regretted not picking Joseph Lieberman, an independent senator, for his vice president. Palin called that revelation a "gut punch."*

These memorial services aren't just about looking back on McCain's life through a certain frame; McCain used his impending death to try to steer a country he thought was going in the wrong direction back to his vision of a hawkish America championing democracy abroad.

He was diagnosed with brain cancer, then voted against Republicans' efforts to repeal Obamacare. He gave speeches and wrote op-eds urging Americans to "fight" Trumpism. His very last statement, prepared to be read after his death, was an indictment of Trump.

And now his final memorial service, particularly his apparent decision not to invite Palin, can be read as an indictment of his role in it.

Amber Phillips writes about politics for The Washington Posts's The Fix. 

*MaineWriter- Ms. Palin was unable to endure even one term as the elected Governor of Alaska. She resigned**. Clearly, she was not qualified to be the Vice-President of the United States.  Even Donald Trump has kept himself politically distant from her. 

**Resignation of Sarah Palin. The resignation of Sarah Palin as Governor of Alaska, after 2.5 years of her 4-year term, was announced on July 3, 2009 and became effective on July 26. Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell succeeded Sarah Palin as Governor. Parnell was later elected to a full term, in November 2010.

Susan Deschambault will represent State Senate District 32- Maine people deserve an apology

Susan Deschambault will represent Maine State Senate District 32: Franco-Americans in York County District 32 and constituents in Kennebunkport gave State Senator-Elect Susan Deschambault a decisive election victory.



I am relieved to learn how Maine Governor Paul LePage will finally give the swearing in ceremony to Maine State Senaator-Elect Susan Deschambault on Tuesday, April 5th, in the Maine State House, or at least, so we have been told.

Sarah Palin criticizes teddy bears but won't preach love or tolerance

It's impossible to understand how the right wing darling Sarah Palin can claim to be a Christian, when she continues to spew fear over  a message of love.  

The Hill reports:  Palin: Politicians using 'teddy bears' to lure immigrants (Oh, paaaaaleeeze....does Palin ever contribute information to help improve the human condition?  She's a CINO - Christian in Name Only)  "What are you thinking when you're going ahead and actually asking for more immigrants, illegal immigrants, welcoming them in, even inducing and seducing immigrants with gift baskets of teddy bears and soccer balls?' " Palin said in a speech at the Republican Party Presidential Dinner, according to the Washington Examiner."

"It's just inviting more. Candidates can say anything they want to about immigration, but actions scream so much louder than a politician's words," she added.  (This is typical Palin....use of incendiary words...ugh!)

The former Alaska governor also blasted trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying they are eroding America’s character and work ethic.

"Where we're headed with trade, well, it's going to ultimately fundamentally transform America into something we don't recognize, and our kids and our grandkids ... they'll never know then what it is then to be rewarded for that entrepreneurial spirit that God creates within us in order to work and to produce and to strive and to thrive and to really be alive," she said. (Whaaaaaa? I believe Sarah Palin is inventing a new language called "Palenglish". Well, it's sort of like "pig Latin", except, only her cult followers can understand it.)

Dear Governor Palin, please read Corinthians- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Just like I predicted - Bravo to Tina Fey on SNL

If only the the late TV show host Ed Sullivan were alive to introduce the "really big show", starring the brilliant comedy actress Tina Fey!  Ed must be chuckling in his grave.  Just as I predicted, as soon as former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin emerged in support of Donald Trump for President, we saw Tina Fey show off her "maaaavelous" impersonation abilities on Saturday Night Live.

Tina Fey- you are a "really big show"!  

Actress Tina Fey has created a political satire classic when she plays the real "Sarah Palin"

Treva Bowdoin reports in "The Inquisitr":  Tina Fey was so excited about getting the chance to spoof Sarah Palin’s Donald Trump endorsement, that she braved a blizzard (Jonas) to reprise her impression of the former Alaska governor.

Saturday Night Live was one of the few shows that went on in New York City, as winter storm Jonas pretty much shut the town down. Tina Fey rewarded the SNL studio audience members who also braved the storm by putting her own folksy, funny spin on Sarah Palin’s much-talked about Donald Trump endorsement speech. Twitter and Maine Writer totally predicted this.

Durring her latest SNL appearance, Tina Fey delivered a few lines that would even make Sarah crack a smile. In fact, one of Tina’s funniest lines might actually make Sarah feel a bit flattered because it pays her figure a compliment. E! News included the line of its list of Tina Fey’s wildest Sarah Palin quotes. “I’m just here, ’cause he’s promised me a spot in his cabinet. And I belong in a cabinet, ’cause I’m full of spice and I’ve got a great rack,” Tina said.  

Tina Fey seemingly wore the exact same cardigan that Sarah Palin was rocking when she endorsed Donald Trump at a campaign event in Iowa. The top looks rather dangerous, like it’s made out of the hide of a porcupine with silver needles. However, Tina wasn’t on Saturday Night Live to model the mom version of a studded biker vest – she was there to make Sarah regret not hiring a speech writer for her Trump endorsement. “I’m here for all you teachers and teamsters. You farmers and charmers. Whether you’re a mom or two broke girls or three men and a baby, or a rock ‘n’ roller, holy roller, pushin’ stroller.”

Just like Sarah Palin, Tina Fey decided to get in touch with her inner poet by adding a little rhyme to her speech. She also peppered it with a few pop culture references.

“I’m here for all you teachers and teamsters. You farmers and charmers. Whether you’re a mom or two broke girls or three men and a baby, or a rock ‘n’ roller, holy roller, pushin’ stroller.”

According to the Huffington Post, Sarah Palin said something similar in her own Trump endorsement speech, and now she probably wishes that she’d thought of throwing in the stroller reference when she listed stay-at-home moms as some of America’s hardest workers. Instead, she referenced a Rebecca De Mornay movie.

“Looking around at all of you, you hard-working Iowa families, you farm families and teachers and teamsters and cops and cooks, you rock ‘n’ rollers and holy rollers,” Palin said. “All of you who work so hard, you full-time moms, you with the hands that rock the cradle.”

Palin also missed a golden opportunity to rhyme “cradle” with “ladle” by tossing the utensil into her word salad when she mentioned cooks.

Tina Fey dared to poke fun at the recent arrest of Sarah Palin’s son, Track Palin, during her SNL spoof speech. Tina also subtly referenced the way Sarah later tried to turn things around by explaining how her son is the real victim of his crime.

“We’ve seen our own children targeted by the police for no reason other than they committed some crimes,” Fey said.

According to Gawker, an intoxicated Track was arrested after his girlfriend told police that he punched her in the eye and threatened to shoot himself with an AR-15. Sarah Palin responded to the incident by making a crazy claim that’s so far out there that it almost seems like it had to be part of one of Tina Fey’s sketches – asSalon reports, she blamed Barack Obama for her son’s actions. Instead of expressing her sympathy for the victim of Track’s violent outburst, Palin tried to garner sympathy for her son by claiming that his actions were the result of PTSD. Palin complained that Obama doesn’t respect Iraq war veterans like her son who suffer from the condition.

Tina Fey didn’t mention Palin’s “Thanks, Obama!” moment, likely because she was too focused on jobs. However, she didn’t boast about all the jobs that Donald Trump is going to create by outsourcing his border wall to Mexico – instead, Tina’s Sarah lamented losing the lucrative gigs that she received as a consolation prize after she failed to become America’s first female vice president.

“I’m here because America is struggling. So many of us have lost our jobs at the factory or our reality shows about Alaska,” Fey said.

In case you don’t recall, Sarah and her family once starred in a TLC reality series titled Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Fey also referenced Fox News’ decision to give Palin the boot for the second time last year. As the Inquisitrpreviously reported, Sarah Palin believes that Fox News fired her because she expressed her support for a few of her fellow former TLC reality show stars, Jill and Jessa Duggar. Instead of mentioning the reason for Sarah’s firing, Tina made a funny about her stance on immigration.

“We turn on the news every morning and are shocked to see we’re not even on it, because we’ve been replaced by immigrants like Geraldo Rivera.”

Because Sarah Palin’s Donald Trump endorsement speech was so bizarre, Tina Fey was able to get laughs by repeating parts of it almost word-for-word. The line below is an example of this.

“They say Trump and his trumpeters are right-wingin’, bitter-clingin’, proud of clingers of our guns.”

It’s probably only a matter of time before Donald Trump claims that he’s officially been endorsed by Tina Fey.

“I’m here for all you teachers and teamsters. You farmers and charmers. Whether you’re a mom or two broke girls or three men and a baby, or a rock ‘n’ roller, holy roller, pushin’ stroller.”
According to the Huffington Post, Sarah Palin said something similar in her own Trump endorsement speech, and now she probably wishes that she’d thought of throwing in the stroller reference when she listed stay-at-home moms as some of America’s hardest workers. Instead, she referenced a Rebecca De Mornay movie.

“Looking around at all of you, you hard-working Iowa families, you farm families and teachers and teamsters and cops and cooks, you rock ‘n’ rollers and holy rollers,” Palin said. “All of you who work so hard, you full-time moms, you with the hands that rock the cradle.”

Palin also missed a golden opportunity to rhyme “cradle” with “ladle” by tossing the utensil into her word salad when she mentioned cooks.

Tina Fey dared to poke fun at the recent arrest of Sarah Palin’s son, Track Palin, during her SNL spoof speech. Tina also subtly referenced the way Sarah later tried to turn things around by explaining how her son is the real victim of his crime.

“We’ve seen our own children targeted by the police for no reason other than they committed some crimes,” Fey said.

According to Gawker, an intoxicated Track was arrested after his girlfriend told police that he punched her in the eye and threatened to shoot himself with an AR-15. Sarah Palin responded to the incident by making a crazy claim that’s so far out there that it almost seems like it had to be part of one of Tina Fey’s sketches – asSalon reports, she blamed Barack Obama for her son’s actions. Instead of expressing her sympathy for the victim of Track’s violent outburst, Palin tried to garner sympathy for her son by claiming that his actions were the result of PTSD. Palin complained that Obama doesn’t respect Iraq war veterans like her son who suffer from the condition.

Tina Fey didn’t mention Palin’s “Thanks, Obama!” moment, likely because she was too focused on jobs. However, she didn’t boast about all the jobs that Donald Trump is going to create by outsourcing his border wall to Mexico – instead, Tina’s Sarah lamented losing the lucrative gigs that she received as a consolation prize after she failed to become America’s first female vice president.

“I’m here because America is struggling. So many of us have lost our jobs at the factory or our reality shows about Alaska,” Fey said.

In case you don’t recall, Sarah and her family once starred in a TLC reality series titled Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Fey also referenced Fox News’ decision to give Palin the boot for the second time last year. 

As the Inquisitor previously reported, Sarah Palin believes that Fox News fired her because she expressed her support for a few of her fellow former TLC reality show stars, Jill and Jessa Duggar. Instead of mentioning the reason for Sarah’s firing, Tina made a funny about her stance on immigration.

“We turn on the news every morning and are shocked to see we’re not even on it, because we’ve been replaced by immigrants like Geraldo Rivera.”

Because Sarah Palin’s Donald Trump endorsement speech was so bizarre, Tina Fey was able to get laughs by repeating parts of it almost word-for-word. The line below is an example of this.

“They say Trump and his trumpeters are right-wingin’, bitter-clingin’, proud of clingers of our guns.”

"Tina Fey is a really big show!"