John Ziegler, who made 'Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted', talks to Howard Kurtz about Palin's "bunker mentality" and his decision to sever ties with her.
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He said in this clip several times that the reason he's coming out against Sarah Palin is to get a job somewhere. He also stated that Sarah Palin doesn't trust many people.
If her "strongest supporters" like Ziegler keep turning on her is it any wonder why she would be distrustful? I hope she runs. We need her.
Meh, I still don’t buy the idea that Palin will run. We’ve already seen the Palin approach. She’ll claim some sort of victimhood or potential victimhood and stay on the sidelines where she can safely shoot spitballs and continue collecting millions from Fox and her pac. As soon as she declares, all that money is gone, and when she loses, it’ll stay gone. A pres run is a no-win scenario for her bank account.
Yes her followers want her to run, but if she claims that running would allow the mean librul media to hurt her family, or eat into the quality time she gets to spend with trig, they’ll eat that up with a spoon and continue to support her in her role as outsider antagonist/best grizzly mom evar. She has little to fear in terms of reprisal from the ‘bots.
Her brand would be far more damaged by the horrific train wreck that an embarrassing failed presidential attempt would inevitably result in, than it would if she decided to just continue her current approach of slinging bumpersticker slogans from the peanut gallery.
The only possible reason I could see for her running, would be if her narcissism is truly so extreme that the notoriety of being the first female pres candidate overrides her greed instinct.
We’ll see…