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Goodbye to Sarah Palin and all that fake Fox outrage nonsense -- Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio the future, thankfully, for GOP

Posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 at 07:19 AM

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Sarah Palin's first appearance as a news analyst on Fox

Even Fox News have had enough of Sarah Palin, canceling her contract.

That is actually good news for the GOP, even if many diehards will not see it that way.

That’s because Palin was always on the loony tunes fringe, lacking the basic educational tools to become a respected national candidates.

Her laughable foreign policy responses (‘We can see Russia from here’) in that now infamous Katie Couric interview tagged her for ever as an intellectual lightweight and she did nothing subsequently to remove that image.

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She was in many ways a Fox News creation with Roger Ailes describing her as ‘hot’ which hardly went down well with many women.

Contrast her with Congressman Paul Ryan, a cool, measured, deeply intellectual fellow, who is already one of the front runners for 2016.

The GOP will simply have to learn that the quick fix, fake outrage, hot button issues of the day as exemplified by Fox coverage does not play in the long run. It is all sugar calories, delightful at first bite, but then meaningless.

I watched Paul Ryan on ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday and saw a bright, convincing politician who is in it for the long run.

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The contest between Ryan and other GOP stars like Senator Marco Rubio will be fascinating to watch for the soul of the party.

At least it will be a battle between two fine political intellects, not Palin-like creatures who shriek on cue and use the same tired little formulas week after week.

The GOP and Ailes finally see Palin for what she was, a fascinating sugar calories diversion from the real issues of how America should be run.

As she fades into obscurity there will be few who will miss her, her dysfunctional family, and her parrot-like responses.

Ryan and Rubio on the other hand constitute a real challenge for Democrats in 2016. See more: Right-wing Irish , Irish Republicans

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seanomelb | Feb 01, 2013, 09:12 PM EST

Briano Palin was the 1/2 governor, she did not have the fortitude to to finish her term,she was way out of her depth.

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bveritas | Feb 01, 2013, 02:18 PM EST

What kind of "heavyweight journalist" would attribute to Palin something she never said but was parodied as having said? And this from a TV "journalist" who once insisted that the United States was at war with France during World War II because Normandy in in France.

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BrianO | Feb 01, 2013, 12:26 PM EST

I've listed obamas lacking credentials forever, just look them up, I asked a friend what grades did he receive in occidental, columbia, harvard? his reply? you're a racist. if you ask a question or dare to question obama you are a racist. Palin was a small town mayor who rose to be the governor of her state and ultimately was picked to be vice president, She could also beat obama in a game of basketball as well, look it up.

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McNamara31 | Feb 01, 2013, 08:14 AM EST

Gunner350 "The left looks at Sarah and scoffs, but they listen to Roseanne, and Oprah et al. It shows their ignorance" Do you realize how clueless, ignorant and stereotypical this statement is? People of opposing viewpoints to you, saw Palin as a very poor political representative who walked away from her duly elected job in Alaska, for her own self interest and greed.In hindsight, who do you think was actually right about her character and capabilities?

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seanomelb | Feb 01, 2013, 01:52 AM EST

Which bnlack American are you referring to? If you mean POTUS what a great achievement for a poverty stricken family. The American dream and a great president.

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joanxis | Jan 31, 2013, 01:57 PM EST

BrianO, Your continual standing up for Ms. Palin is laudable, I guess, but you really are out to lunch if you didn't see her for what she really was - a selfish oportunist who was not very bright. Also your description of the President is so absurd that it's difficult for me to take anything you say as serious. You must learn some facts, not follow the talking heads on Fox news.

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joanxis | Jan 31, 2013, 01:57 PM EST

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BrianO | Jan 31, 2013, 09:53 AM EST

"I have not attacked her dysfunctional family" that is your brave way of attacking her family. Say what you mean don't use innuendo. You want an example of a dysfunctional family, I'll give you one. Born of an African national, abandoned by his father as a child, raised by his grandmother because his mother couldn't be bothered, schooled in Indonesia, uprooted to Hawaii. Never cared for, lost, drug ridden high school life, finally finding the religion of communism, the ends justify the means politics. Lie to achieve your goals, destroy your competition.

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seanomelb | Jan 30, 2013, 05:24 PM EST

Come on Brian!! AS I stated she is an intellectual light weight even the GOP and FOX can see that. I have not attacked her dysfunctional family(Yet as they fall on their own swords every time they speak.)You and gunner should take aim at the conservatives who diminished her and stop blaming the liberls for her demise.Then you both set out your lists of meaningless diatribe to justify your little angel Sarah. Next week it will be Sarah who??

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Gunner350 | Jan 30, 2013, 12:42 PM EST

The left looks at Sarah and scoffs, but they listen to Roseanne, and Oprah et al. It shows their ignorance, not only of the people involved but in what they have accomplished. Not how much money they have made but what they have really accomplished. 80% of us have some sort of dysfunctional family today, with divorces, homoginized families, unwed child parents. drugs and so on. Most uf us go through our lives doing the best we can to further our carreers, raise our families and enjoy our lives. Sarah Palin saw a need , stepped up and filled that need. As a woman, she took on oil companies, environmentalists, others within her own government and then the entire left wing whacko establishment to make a run at the VP slot. In my mind she performed admirably. Those who chose charactor assination and cheap shots didn't bring her down, they just showed their own ignorance of reality. Most do not even kn ow that as the head of the Alaska National Guard, the "you can see Russia from here" comment put her in the same daily briefing situation as the white House. I don't know that hers were world wide , but as pertained to Russia she knew, what the president knew. Furthermore I defy some of the morons who have previously commented to locate countries on the globe they have not specifically read or know about. I'm smart in geography and I can't do it. Sarah speaks from her heart and mind at the same time, and that scares the hell out of the left because they just don't understand the truth when it is naked before them. They must have quallifiers and viels to be able to believe anything. It is a shame they know so much about everything...........and it's wrong!

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BrianO | Jan 30, 2013, 10:47 AM EST

Again with the insults, very intellectual, or maybe you meant the writer of this article using a quote from Tina Fey and attributing it to Mrs Palin. Nothing new here just an attempt to destroy, insult, demean, maybe that is how people are in Australia, attack a persons family, attack a persons looks, attack a person for being a woman. I will stand up for Sarah Palin everyday of my life, the problem is you socialist like to tear people down from a distance, cowards everyone of you. I welcome face to face confrontation. Which does little good in the mode of communication where all including myself can be very brave.

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seanomelb | Jan 29, 2013, 05:45 PM EST

Briano it was the GOP right wingers at Fox sacked her not the main stream media. A quote from a mental lightweight Brian.

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seanomelb | Jan 29, 2013, 04:31 PM EST

Nice to see the bullies are out in full force. Sarah Palin stands up for herself and speaks her mind against the tidal wave of the modern propaganda machine. She is a true patriot. If you dare to defy the socialists then you must be destroyed, Sara Palin so bothers these socialists because she refuses to buckle to their wishes.--Quote of the day -----"I might add that, in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they're listening and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening." Sarah Palin.

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hunter933 | Jan 29, 2013, 10:35 AM EST

Paul Ryan? You've got to be joking.Good riddance to Palin though. If the republicans could find an intelligent candidate like Obama, instead of the quipping, shuffling, guffawing fools that they always come up with, they would be relevant and dangerous again. I hope they don't.

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boltonw | Jan 29, 2013, 09:32 AM EST

What a good comment by Eschetic, talking about responsible parties leading with government programs to do what individuals cannot. The only hope for Republicans is to stop their manic rhetoric about dismantling every government program in sight (except the ones that help big corporations of course) and realize that government plays a vital role - without which individuals could never succeed. Follow that path and quality candidates will emerge. Follow Murdock - and more Ryans will lead to self destruction.

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