Bristol Palin: "my Mom helped. A lot."

[cynatnite]

In other words, the pundits say Senator McCain made a huge mistake. But where’s the evidence to back up this conventional wisdom? I’m not a pundit, but I remember the race. I was there. I remember the frenzied crowds after my mom joined the ticket. I remember the huge fundraising surge. I remember her convention speech. I even remember how McCain/Palin took a polling lead over Obama/Biden.

Then the economy melted down. You could feel people’s fear. You could see it in their eyes on the trail. McCain suspended his campaign to rush back to Washington to deal with the crisis. A lot of people criticized him, but he did what he thought was right. And guess what, the economy was melting down while Republicans were in charge.

Take a good look at this list of polls. Shortly after Senator McCain picked my mom, the polls turned favorable. But he lost the lead for good the week he suspended his campaign, and we never got it back. Not in a single poll.

But even then, my Mom helped. A lot. She raised millions of dollars that helped us fight hard until the last moment. And Senator McCain actually performed better among those for whom the “Palin Pick” was very important to their vote. Immediate post-election polling shows a large majority of Republicans thought my mom helped Senator McCain and more than 90% had a favorable or very favorable view of her.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2012/04/defending-the-%E2%80%9Cpalin-pick%E2%80%9D/

All she could talk about was the polling bump that McCain/Palin got right after the VP pick. I'm not one to go after the children of politicians, but when one steps out like Bristol has here she should feel the heat of writing such an ignorant and shallow article that ignores her mother's stupidity and insipidness.

[demtenjeep]

1. she chooses to get involved

she is fair game

[Brother Buzz]

2. Does Bristol understand what a dead cat bounce is and how it can be applied to politics, too?

[nanabugg]

22. No fair talking about the parents of children.

[Fresh_Start]

3. most important thing she said was.....

"And guess what, the economy was melting down while Republicans were in charge."

Even the Palin teen mom knew it melted down on GOP watch.

[Mopar151]

10. I remember seeing GWB on teevee then

looking freshly sobered up and scared shitless.

[Kaleva]

4. I think there's some truth to that.

Palin was far more popular with the Repubs in Upper Michigan then McCain was.

[demtenjeep]

5. I don't give a rats behind about being nice anymore. It doesn't get us anywhere

and they certainly don't give a shit.


They put themselves out there, they are part of it!

Fuck her and that whole grifterella family

[yourout]

6. Frankly everything went south for McCain as soon as Miss Winky opened her mouth and proved to....

the world how big of a ding bat she was.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Really? Any clue as to what Dan Quayle's cat thinks about the deficit?

Perhaps spiro Agnew's grandson's goldfish has an opinion on whether or not CERN will find the Higgs boson this year.

...seriously, Bristol fucking Palin?

[Mopar151]

8. It tells me a lot about how f'd up the 2008 McCain campaign was from the start

Bristol is being loyal to her Mom - can't fault her for that. And IMHO, she is right about "Hotstart" McCain blowing the whole campaign by flipping out at the meltdown and rushing to Washington to do - ???? And simultaneously, Obama is being a statesman and keeping his head on straight.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

23. Not to mention McCain's chief economic adviser, Phil Gramm, called America a "bunch of whiners"....

.... like a week before McCain begrudgingly admitted there was a problem with the economy. Just weeks before McCain flew home, he tut tutted Obama and the dems for saying the economy was in trouble.

[JI7]

9. what is the point of this ?

[one_voice]

11. Of course she helped...

every clown needs a red nose.

[LASlibinSC]

12. Okay, I'm too curious, I

have to ask, what is a dead cat bounce? I'll probably regret this!

[cynatnite]

13. In this case it's a small brief bounce in the polls...

that McCain got by picking Palin as his running mate. It was very short-lived and Obama was quickly back on top.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

24. Anything will bounce if falling fast enough - even a dead cat. Used frequently to describe....

.... stock market rallies.

[rocktivity]

14. Take a good look at THIS poll, Bristol

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http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president

I've got your "conventional wisdom" right here: The VOTERS said that McCain made a mistake, too!


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[mojitojoe]

15. Does anyone really think that Bristol Palin actually wrote this herself?

A high school dropout whose claim to fame is a stint on Dancing With The Stars and who makes her living dragging her out-of-wedlock kid around to her speaking gigs with abstinence groups? Really?

[cynatnite]

16. It's superficial enough...

So, yeah, I think she did. I also think she had an editor of sorts to proofread it into making a little sense.

[mojitojoe]

32. I have a hard time believing Bristol Palin uses words like 'pundits' and 'frenzied'...

...or knows what they mean.

[Skittles]

18. it's pretty vapid so, yeah

heavily edited for print, though

[Tikki]

26. That was the first thing I thought...

I don't think so.




Tikki

[spanone]

17. jim jones had followers too

[Darklady]

19. Direct Your Ire at Nancy French

Given that Bristol didn't write a single word on "her" blog, I say full speed ahead. But keep in mind, Nancy French is Sarah Palin's latest ghostpublicist. Bristol can barely write a comprehensible sentence that doesn't include a profanity to give it context.

What kind of lunatic hijacks her daughter's blog, which is supposed to be about said daughter raising her son?

Everything in the Palin universe satellites around Sarah's enormous but deeply bruised ego. No wonder Track put a ring on his pregnant sweetheart's finger and vanished somewhere far from Sarah's prying eyes and the cameras they desperately seek out.

Since Bristol was too busy gaining weight on Dancing with the Stars to vote during the 2010 supposed Tea Party takeover -- and she was too busy being pregnant and in the international spotlight thanks to mom during the 2008 race -- I doubt she was really paying much attention to anything other than the emotional chaos she and the rest of the Palin kids were thrown into.

[Ship of Fools]

20. Bristol did not write this.

I followed the Palin shit pretty closely. Bristol had the writing
skills of a fifth grader, and that may be too generous.

[tanyev]

21. I'm convinced Bristol never even sees the things that get posted on 'her' blog.

[WI_DEM]

25. Initially the choice did help--then the American people began to see the real Palin

and how dumb and unqualified she really was.

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. Once independents got to know her, they hated her

Oct 25th, 2008:

In polling conducted Wednesday and Thursday evenings, after the disclosure that the Republican National Committee used political funds to help Palin assemble a wardrobe for the campaign, 51 percent said they have a negative impression of her. Fewer, 46 percent, said they have a favorable view. That marks a stark turnaround from early September, when 59 percent of likely voters held positive opinions.

The declines in Palin's ratings have been even more substantial among the very voters Republicans aimed to woo. The percentage of white women viewing her favorably dropped 21 points since early September; among independent women, it fell 24 points.

More broadly, the intensity of negative feelings about Palin is also notable: Forty percent of voters have "strongly unfavorable" views, more than double the post-convention number. Nearly half of independent women now see her in a very negative light, a nearly threefold increase.

The shift in Palin's ratings come with a pronounced spike in the percentage of voters who see her as lacking the experience it takes to be a good president. Voters were about evenly divided on that question a month and a half ago, but toward the end of September a clear majority said she was not qualified. In the new poll, 58 percent said she is insufficiently experienced.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/24/AR2008102402698.html

Of course, once they really knew her:

Winning: Independent voters say they’d pick Charlie Sheen over Sarah Palin

A recent poll found that the more independent voters would vote for the disgraced actor in a presidential matchup against Fox News employee Sarah Palin.

While two-thirds of those asked in the PPP survey (.pdf) viewed Sheen unfavorably, independents apparently like Palin even less.

Among independent voters, 41 percent would cast their ballot for Sheen. Only 36 percent would select Palin in the hypothetical matchup.

“We’ve found a lot of brutal poll numbers for Sarah Palin so far in 2011: down in South Dakota, down in South Carolina, down in Arizona, only up by 1 point in Texas, only up by 1 point in Nebraska to name a few,” PPP’s Tom Jenson wrote. “But this has to be the worst.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/17/winning-independent-voters-say-theyd-pick-charlie-sheen-over-sarah-palin/

[Brickbat]

28. Heh, I thought she meant with the baby.

[hifiguy]

29. The only thing Lady Blah Blah "helped"

was herself and her idiot family to piles of money they otherwise never would have seen.

The apple doesn't fall very far from the tree of stupidity.

[tabbycat31]

30. Bristol Palin is fair game

I would make the argument that her siblings are not, but she is a public figure who put herself in the spotlight.

Any contestant on Dancing With The Stars is fair game.

[yellowcanine]

31. Okay then. That settles it! Mitt should pick Sarah for his VP.

[Jello Biafra]

33. Yeah her mom helped a lot....

Sarah lied for Bristol by claiming that Sarah gave birth to a child when it was Bristol's. Bristol owes her big time.....

[rocktivity]

34. Sarah (allegedly) had Trig 4/18/08, Bristol had Trip 12/27/09

So it's isn't likely Trig was really Bristol's. He's probably the result of one of Track Palin's romantic mishaps -- or even Todd's.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7678399


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