Influence of Palin and the Tea Party Wanes in Early ContestsThe photo caption says: "Sarah Palin no longer commands the kind of media attention she once did."
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Just over three months later, her attempts to wield influence in the presidential campaign the way she did during the 2010 midterm elections have largely fizzled.
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“If for no other reason, rage against the machine, vote for Newt. Annoy a liberal. Vote Newt. Keep this vetting process going, keep the debate going,” Ms. Palin said on Fox News two days before Tuesday’s primary in Florida. [Wow, Sarah, what profound reasons you give for voting for Newt!]
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The results could reflect in part the lack of wall-to-wall coverage of Ms. Palin these days. She continues to have a perch at Fox News and millions of followers on her Facebook page, but as the 2012 campaign has heated up, she no longer commands the kind of attention that she once did.
But it may also signal that the Tea Party movement is no longer able to exert the kind of sway that it did during the primary campaigns two years ago.
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“If I had to vote in South Carolina, in order to keep this thing going, I’d vote for Newt and I would want this to continue,” Ms. Palin said. A spokesman for Mr. Gingrich chose to embrace Ms. Palin’s comments as a full-throated endorsement.
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Ms. Palin said that in her view, Mr. Gingrich won Monday’s debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. She hedged her praise somewhat by suggesting she was going with Mr. Gingrich to prolong the Republican contest — in other words, to head off the inevitability of Mitt Romney’s coronation should he win handily in South Carolina. She said that a longer race meant more debates and more vetting of candidates, something that did not occur as it should have, in her view, with President Obama.
“I want to see this thing continue because iron sharpens iron, steel sharpens steel,’’ Ms. Palin said, framed against a rugged Alaska backdrop where such metaphors presumably come naturally. “These guys are getting better in their debates, they’re getting more concise, they’re getting more grounded in what their beliefs are and articulating what their ideas are to get the country back on the right track and get Americans working again.’’
Sarah blathers on about the lack of vetting of President Obama. Palin criticisms Obama's vetting?!!
What a maroon!