Sarah Palin has been demoted from Tea Party icon, to moldy candy-less pinata. "Here's your stick, step right up and take a swing!"
First up we have Ann "Crypt Keepers daughter" Coulter, speaking to Laura Ingraham filling in for Bill O'Reilly, who said of Sarah Palin:
You know, we used to all love Sarah Palin, conservatives like me, for her enemies. I'm starting to dislike her because of her fans. And she does get things wrong. She wouldn't have to. I think she's bright, but she doesn't -- her good points do not seem to be in the direction of running for president. Just like Newt Gingrich, you just go ahead and run so we can get this over with.
You can see the interview for yourself directly below.
However Coulter is certainly not the ONLY conservative pundit taking a swing at Palin these days, check out the scathing evisceration of Palin's political prick tease from RedState.com:
When people (including her own supporters) began to (reasonably) speculate that this would be the date and place of her announcement (as she no doubt intended for them to do), she issued one of the most ridiculous, delusions-of-persecution laden statements in the history of politics, declaring herself the victim of “establishment political games” and declaring that such speculation was “more of the ‘politics-as-usual’ that Sarah Palin has fought against throughout her career.”
Perhaps never before has a politician had the chutzpah to claim that excited speculation about her running for President was part of a conspiracy against her that she needed to thwart. Likewise never before have so many of a politician’s followers so eagerly lapped up something so transparently moronic.
Palin’s ridiculous act has worn so thin with the GOP electorate that she now polls roughly equivalent with Ron Paul. Whereas three months ago she would have been in an ideal position to be kingmaker in the Republican primary, given that 71% of Republicans don’t want her to run for President, she might well be in a position that the first person she calls to offer an endorsement will politely turn it down. And nevermind actually running a campaign that could win – in addition to her substantial polling woes, Palin has no national campaign staff, no local staff in any early primary states, no big-donor fundraising network that can match either Perry or Romney, and if her September 3rd speech is any indication, no cohesive and defining issues or policies to run on. The primary calendar has moved earlier and is more heavily frontloaded with major states than ever; a candidate without any of the attributes listed above has never been so far behind the 8-ball as Sarah Palin would be now if she announced tomorrow.
Oh yeah, that's the stuff!
You know I offered numerous times in the past to have these conservatives come over and visit my blog to receive an education on Sarah Louise Palin and to learn what her game plan was for coyly acting the part of the political dilettante, while milking her supporters of every last red cent, before abruptly leaving them in the dust as she roars off in her private jet to live in the luxury that their ignorance and desperation provided for her.
If they had only taken me up on that offer, we could have been reading this postmortem on Palin a year ago.