Bigger than Oprah? Willing to sell her soul to pay for Troopergate-related legal bills? New York Magazine's lengthy cover story about Sarah Palin has something to disappoint everyone, according to Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard. And no we didn't read all eight pages. Not our kind of thing, but it's the talk of the town in some circles, we're told. (Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters/Landov)
"Let’s send the job creator to Washington to get this economy moving again," writes that "genius controlling the world from her FaceBook page" (as Jake Tapper's father-in-law put it last summer) Sarah Palin in her latest online op ed, "The Businessman vs. the Bureaucrat. While navel-gazing members of the effete old guard and their media allies were quarreling amongst themselves over the number of conservatives that could dance on the head of a spin, Sarah was disintermediating the powers that be via the internet in a rousing endorsement of Republican Timothy Burns for the PA District 12 seat long held by the late John Murtha:
Tim Burns’ story is like that of millions of successful small business owners across the country. He started a pharmaceutical technology company out of the basement of his house and grew it to over 400 employees …
Last year, he attended a local tea party and spoke passionately about the danger that the policies coming out of Washington pose for small business owners like him. Reflecting on that day, Tim said, “I had not considered running until after the tea parties, but I decided that I owed it to my two children, who are 14 and 12, to do something. We’re in a fight for the very life of our country” …
I’m proud to offer my support to Tim Burns in his campaign to bring real job creation to Pennsylvania’s 12th district. Please join me in supporting his campaign. Visit Tim’s website here, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
The Tea Party tsunami portends watershed changes in the political landscape come fall, cascading from special elections like PA12 this spring through the deluge of local and federal elections November 2. An endorsement by a nationally polarizing figure like Sarah Palin — most people either really like her or love to hate her — could be controversial, but from what we've been learning about the demographics of John Murtha's old stomping ground, land of tea partiers bitterly clinging to their guns and religion, Palin's praise will only confirm what many are already feeling. Time for some big personnel changes in Washington.
Not that it won't be a tooth-and-claw struggle right up to the end. Burns's website was attacked last Friday, losing him Moneybomb momentum for an entire day, and his opponent, trailing slightly in the polls, is getting a lot of help from friends in high places. From a Burns email to supporters this evening:
Today's Washington Post story about my opponent's fundraising continues to reveal the real story about what we are up against in this race. Washington insider Mark Critz is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars from his connections to an earmarking mill under federal investigation.
At the same time, Nancy Pelosi is funding negative attacks ads that flat out lie about my record here in the district. These desperate attacks are being leveled because the liberals in Washington know that I am going to Congress to stop Speaker Pelosi's agenda that is increasing our deficit, killing jobs and ultimately leaving us with a higher tax bill.
We're with Sarah on this one:
Please join me in supporting his campaign. Visit Tim’s website here, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
Update: Dan Riehl links.
Crossposted at Liberty Pundits.
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