Politicalgates presents: Sarah Palin Endorsement Tracker 2014 - UPDATE: Sarah Palin still cannot deliver

By Patrick

Sarah Palin has done a lot of endorsin' recently for the 2014 primaries, but the celebrated "kingmaker" from 2010 has one big problem: Unfortunately, it is not 2010 any more. However, even in 2010, her role as a kingmaker was very much disputed, because after the election, some GOP congressmen openly claimed that "Sarah Palin cost us control of the Senate." 

In any case, the "Tea Party" is under pressure, as the GOP civil war continues, because, believe it or not, the GOP finally wants to win again:

Well, if we were Democratic campaign strategists, we certainly would love the teabaggers to win the primaries, but from an overall point of view I believe that virtually everyone would have to admit that empowering extremists can only have very bad consequences. Therefore, I am happy that "less extreme" candidates are winning the primaries - even though they still might be very right-wing, and far from "moderate."

Oh, memories...

Sarah Palin is off to a very bad start, as the teabaggers are just not very popular any more. From her first five picks, four lost, and only Greg Abbott in Texas won the primary in Texas for Governor, but with no significant opposition, and as he was endorsed by virtually everyone, Sarah Palin is the last person he would have to thank.

Thin-skinned Sarah Barracuda already realized that her (alleged) "winning streak" is history and demanded from the GOP-establishment to "stop gloating", and therefore admitted defeat. Mama Grizzly is visibly upset.

The endorsed candidate Joni Ernst in Iowa even believes that it is a good idea to copy Sarah Palin's "style" - good luck with that!

To keep track, we created our own "Sarah Palin endorsement tracker" for 2014, now also included in the sidebar, and we will update it regularly:

Primaries 2014 - Total result so far: 8 WON, 11 LOST

Katrina Pierson, Texas (House) - LOST

Lizabeth Benacquisto, Florida (House) - LOST

Taylor Griffin, North Carolina (House) - LOST

Greg Abbott, Texas (Governor) - WON (with no significant opposition)

Pete Ricketts, Nebraska (Governor) - WON

Ben Sasse, Nebraska (Senate) - WON

Karen Handel, Georgia (Senate) - LOST

Joni Ernst, Iowa (Senate) - WON

Chris McDaniel, Mississippi (Senate) - LOST

Steve Lonegan, New Jersey (House) - LOST

Tim Scott, South Carolina (Senate) - WON

Dan Bongino, Maryland (House) - WON

T.W. Shannon, Oklahoma (Senate) - LOST

Julianne Ortman, Minnesota (Senate) - DROPPED OUT (after GOP convention endorsed Mike McFadden)

Rob Maness, Lousiana (Senate) - November 4 ("Jungle Primary")

Barry Loudermilk, Georgia (House) - WON

Bob Johnson, Georgia (House) -LOST

Joe Carr, Tennesse (Senate) - LOST

Doug Ducey, Arizona (Governor) - WON

Joe Miller, Alaska (Senate) - LOST

+++ Many thanks to our wonderful Sunnyjane for helping to compile the dates!+++

We are very much looking forward to more angry post from Sarah's facebook bunker.

Finally: The comments at this article reporting Sarah Palin's endorsement for Karen Handel are really gold.

Everyone is just sick of her, apart from the handful of deluded fans, and her endorsement won't help candidates. Sarah Palin is pure political poison, and it is not very hard to predict that Sarah Palin's endorsement activities will eventually cease to exist soon, just like the Tea Party.

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UPDATE May 21, 2014:

Three more results are now in, and the trend is clear: Sarah Palin just cannot win the races where she herself is the most important supporter of a candidate. The candidacy of Karen Handel was another "litmus test" for Sarah Palin that badly failed. All the vocal support by the Queen of ignorance from Alaska, including TV-ads with Sarah Palin, didn't help Karen Handel at all.

Sarah Palin herself was extremely excited just days before the election and really thought that Handel's opponents, who she called "the good old boys" were scared of Karen Handel - the conservative website "Newsmax" reported:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said that Georgia Republican primary Senate candidate Karen Handel is being ganged up on by "the good old boys" because they are scared of the "conservative change" she could bring.

"There is a reason the good old boys are ganging up on Karen — she threatens their status quo," Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, wrote on her Facebook page Monday morning.

"They know that she will shake it up in Washington," she said of the former Georgia secretary of state. "Change scares them, and that is why they've tossed everything including the kitchen sink her way. In Washington she will bring positive conservative change just like she did in Georgia, and she won't be afraid to call them like she sees them."

Palin said that the midterm elections this November "are about who we send to Washington to help restore our country after six years of a disastrous administration . . . . It's about who we trust to keep their word to fight for conservative principles and grow the conservative movement at the same time."

But the "good old boys" were just laughing. Karen Handel's result was a huge disappointment, as she only reached the third place and is not even part of the run-off, which will be between David Perdue and Jack Kingston.

With friends like Sarah Palin, you really need no enemies!

Her two endorsements that won in Nebraska, Pete Ricketts and Ben Sasse, are nothing to write home about as far as Sarah Palin is concerned, as both candidates were endorsed by a large number of other politicians and political groups.

Where Sarah Palin's support really counted, she could not deliver so far in the 2014 Republican primaries.

The Sarah Palin 'Kiss of Death' Endorsements for 2014

by Sunnyjane

Her endorsements are as toxic as West Virginia water.  Good luck, grizzlies!

Besides being paid and trying to shellac herself with a facade of relevance, why is Sarah Palin endorsing a bunch of loser, has-been, never-will-be, and otherwise inexperienced candidates this year?  Couple of reasons, I think.  First, she cannot run for any office herself and risk a rehash of how ill-informed and actually stupid she is.  Alaska wants no part of her, and Arizona won't give her the time of day.  Second, she'd love to screw over establishments Republicans by getting some ditzy, highly unqualified Tea Party types in the House and Senate.  After all, she's made it perfectly clear that Ted Cruz needs reinforcements in Washington.

Though in her long history of endorsements Palin has had a few victories, her record ain't that great.  Basically, she's all puff and no powder.

Early Victim Succumbs to Palin Kiss of Death

No, no...one to a customer unless you promise to vote three or four times.

Since teleportation has not quite been perfected yet -- it's that rascally old science thingy of moving molecules and atoms and stuff -- voters in Florida wondered how it was possible for Lizabeth Benacquisto to be slinging barbeque with Sarah Palin in one place and voting in the Florida statehouse at the same time.  That's taking multi-tasking to a whole new level.  Tut, tut!  Gov. Rick Scott is so concerned about voter fraud in his state, but he'd best look at the habits of his lawmakers before he continues his purge of the voter rolls.

Anyhow, Benacquisto lost her primary bid in the contest to take coke-snorting Tray Radel's congressional seat that's up for grabs since his resignation in January.

Another one bites the dust.

Porky Pig Threatened by Tea Party Candidate!

Good times a'comin' in the Corn State, folks!  We're bringing out the big desk drawers for Ernst! 

In Iowa, Joni Ernst also seems to have a little, um, problem doing the job for which she was elected.  Ernst doesn't try to be in two places at once, no sir!  She simply doesn't show up to vote -- 117 times.  After being called out about these missing-in-action periods, Ernst said that her responsibilities in the Iowa Army National Guard were the reason.  Well, it did not take much to find that her National Guard duties only accounted for about twelve days.  (What don't these lying fools understand about research?)  The other absences were because -- wait for it; this is disastrous for female candidates -- juggling roles as a wife and mother ... a state senator, and a very, very tough competitive race for the United States Senate.

So if she's too busy to be a responsible senator in her own state, how does she intend to do the job in Washington?  She may well have been, at one time, a hog-castration maven down on the farm, but there's more to the job of senator in Washington, D. C.  Or, given the Republicans' determination not to actually do anything for the American people, perhaps she would fit right in.

Take those hog cajones to D. C., Joni!

A Quitter Endorses a Quitter -- You Can't Make This Stuff Up

I wonder when she quit washing her face and her wig?

One has to assume that Karen Handel has had her anti-Palin KOD shots this time around.  But don't bet your 401(K) on it; Obamacare doesn't cover those.

Handel's reputation as a quitter and loser precedes her.  She was Georgia Secretry of State from 2007 to 2010.  When announcing her endorsement of Handel recently for U.S. Senate, Palin made the laudatory statement that, You know her background, you know her record. The conservative who has walked the walk. Cutting budgets, not raising taxes, how often do you see that in government?  The problem is, the Secretary of State has nothing to do with taxes or budgets, so Handel does not have a record on those issues.  (Have I ever mentioned that Palin is stupid?  Yes, I thought I had.)

So then Handel quit the SoS job in 2010 to run for the Georgia governorship, and Palin endorsed her then.  She lost.  The Susan J. Komen Race for the Cure was Handel's next gig, where she was the prime instigator in the plan for Komen to stop awarding grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings.  Little investigation was required to learn that her real motive was to see that the women's health organization did not provide funding for abortions.  There ensued the Mother of All Backlashes over this action, and Handel quit not long thereafter.  Komen reversed the decision later and began funding Planned Parenthood again.

Handel then went on to write a book titled Planned Bullyhood, condemning Planned Parenthood.  It ranks  #715,820 on Amazon.  (Heh.)

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