Day: May 26, 2010

Palin’s Note in Support of Haley is All About…Palin

Trish
Left, former Haley speechwriter and alleged lover Will Folks, right, the aggrieved candidate
Left, former Haley speechwriter and alleged lover Will Folks, right, the aggrieved candidate

Only Sarah Palin could take what should have been a note of encouragement and make it all about her. And how she’s been mistreated. And attacked. And lied about. And on and on and on.

Gosh, poor Sarah. I mean, poor Nikki. Whichever.

If you missed it, Rep. Nikki Haley (R-S.C.) is running for governor of her state, which is looking for one, what with the term-limited Gov. Mark Sanford off in Argentina pursuing affairs. So the last thing South Carolina needs is a governor who has affairs, right? Well, one Will Folks, a former Haley speech writer and now a conservative blogger, says he had “an inappropriate physical relationship” with his boss in 2007.

Haley is the tea bagger favorite in the race, and as such, has drawn the endorsement of former partial term Gov. Sarah Palin, who came to South Carolina to campaign for her. Now whoever writes Palin’s Facebook notes has posted an aggrieved statement ostensibly in support of Haley but basically all about Sarah.

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Idaho Primary Results Confirm Palin’s Poor Judgment, Tea Party Disarray

Jon Ponder

Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho)
Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho)
A week after the tea party favorite lost the special election in Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district to a Democrat — and six days after Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul, a tea party favorite, imploded his campaign by coming out against the Civil Rights Act, results from Idaho’s primary yesterday produced yet another tea bagger snafu.

In the Republican race, Raul Labrador defeated the establishment favorite, Vaughn Ward, by 10 points, 48 percent to 38 percent. Ward, a Republican National Committee “Young Guns” top recruit, had been endorsed by Sarah Palin, who even did a drive-by campaign stop on his behalf.

Labrador was endorsed by a tea party group in Boise but couldn’t get the nod from Tea Party Express, the national astroturf organizer operated by the Republican consulting group, Russo Marsh + Rogers. In a truly remarkable move, TPE — the organization that staged the recent corporate-funded tea-party bus rallies — endorsed Rep. Walt Minnick, the incumbent Democrat, who ran unopposed. Minnick was the only Democrat to receive an endorsement from the collective tea party hive this year.

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Verbatim

Buck Banks

I didn’t serve in Vietnam. I don’t want to make a Blumenthal mistake here — our attorney general from Connecticut, God love him.

— Vice President Biden, quoted by ABC News, at a barbecue for wounded veterans and their families last night at the Vice president’s residence.

Fake Twitter Feed Not Helping BP’s Reputation

Buck Banks

Poor British Petroleum. They just can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to stemming the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, preventing the spilled oil coming ashore in Louisiana or getting the Environmental Protection Agency off their back for using toxic dispersants to degrade the oil before it reaches the surface.

And now this — a fake Twitter account that satirizes the company’s response to the spill that has attracted nearly 37,000 followers versus its real Twitter account, which has only about 5,500. Worse still, the followers of the real account are mostly nerds — the EPA, U.S. Coast Guard and the White House — while the fake one counts Cindy Crawford, the Flaming Lips and Keith Olbermann among its followers.

The fake account features tweets like this:

We feel terrible about spilling oil in American waters, we’ll make sure the next spill happens where the terrorists live. #bpcares

Or this:

Please help us with rebranding. We’re not calling it an “oil spill” anymore, now it’s a “Southern Fun Party”. #bpcares

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