Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Redbaiter

SPDS is another symptom of left wing insanity. Over at The Lowest Standard today there’s another of the typically hate driven attempts to discredit Sarah Palin that one finds all over the leftist blogosphere. (on the basis of such irrational fear, could we start a new word-? “Palinophobia”) Sourced from one of the usual bigoted propaganda sites The Huffington Post (I mean, how dumb are these people to think they’re going to get objective reporting from the Huffington Post?) the claim is that an endorsement from Sarah Palin is a negative to any Republican campaigner. As usual, because these dumbarses only ever have left wing information sources, it’s simple to shatter this thesis into a million pieces.

In five minutes searching I was able to discover information that completely contradicts the Lowest Standard’s claims. In fact I found some of the information on left wing sites. National Public Radio says this-

“Palin’s late-in-the-game endorsement of former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel shook up that state’s crowded GOP primary for governor. Here is evidence of Palin Power: In early July polling, Handel was trailing far behind the race’s frontrunner, state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, and was struggling for second-place position with another runner, former Congressman Nathan Deal.

When the votes were counted Tuesday night, however, Handel was a big winner — finishing in first when a substantial lead over Deal, who she is expected to face in an August 10 runoff. The frontrunner of two weeks ago, Oxendine, was training far behind. What made the difference for Handel?

She shot up in the polls after Palin released a pro-Handel statement that read: “Though considered an underdog candidate (more power to her!), this pro-life, pro-Constitutionalist with a can-do attitude and a record of fighting for ethics in government is ready to serve in the Governor’s Office.”

In fact, Handel was more moderate than some of the other candidates, but the approval of the Alaskan was enough to sway Georgia Republicans like Carolyn Draper, a 67-year-old retiree who told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It influences me. I am a very conservative person and I have very conservative values, and I think Sarah Palin does, too.” Draper is not alone. “The Palin endorsement definitely helped,” Brad Coker, managing director of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, which conducted the surveys on the race for Georgia newspapers, told the Journal-Constitution.”

On another lefty site, the New York Magazine we get the following heady stuff-

Palin Endorsement More Helpful Than Obama Endorsement

Bad news for President Obama in a new Quinnipiac poll out this morning. Not only does his presidency get its lowest numbers in the poll to date, but as we approach the midterm elections, it seems that Obama’s endorsement would taint his fellow Democrats running for office more than help them. Only 12 percent of voters say that Obama campaigning for a candidate makes them more likely to vote for that candidate — that includes only 28 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of Independents — while 30 percent of all voters, and Independents specifically, say it would make them less likely to vote for that candidate.

In other words, some Democrats may want Obama to stay away this campaign season in the same way Republicans used to avoid President Bush near the end of his presidency. Even Sarah Palin, whose favorability is far below Obama’s, nevertheless wields more influence: 16 percent of voters, including 15 percent of Independents, say that they would be more likely to vote for a candidate for whom Palin campaigns.

The Lower Standard is merely an echo chamber for Marxist propaganda, and of course they hate Palin intensely. Just a sick bunch of Palinophobes with half the credibility of Joseph Goebbells.

H/T: CRUSADER RABBIT