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. ”