Will Sarah Palin Campaign For Blanche Lincoln And Joe Lieberman?

McCain says Palin's not a quitter and that she'll be a part of American politics for a long time to come, never mind all the missteps and idiocy. Frank Rich put it less positively: She broke the GOP and now she owns it. But my favorite picture of the Palin future in politics is how she plans to campaign for conservative ideals, not just for Republicans. The Washington Times says she could well campaign for the conservative Democrats as well.

When I woke up this morning-- 4AM when the roosters all over Ubud started crowing-- I found an e-mail from Jacquie that included a message from a right-wing extremist propaganda site she monitors. They were crowing about how the GOP is luring half a dozen Conservadems to help them destroy Obama's agenda for change.

The biggest threat to President Barack Obama's agenda on healthcare and climate change could come not from Republicans but from six centrist [rightists and their duplicitous allies in the media refer to ultra-conservative Democrats as "centrists as a way of attacking normal moderate Democrats and inferring that they are somehow "leftists"] Democrats in the Senate. GOP leaders have been reaching out to the half-dozen legislators, and any defections from the party line could cost Democrats the 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority they achieved in the Senate with Tuesday's swearing in of Al Franken."The Democratic Conference has 60 votes, if they're all here, and if they are straight party-line that means that Republicans cannot stop legislation," said Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona.But "if a couple of Democrats don't vote with their party, then it doesn't matter that they have 60 votes," Kyl noted.

The potential defectors include Sen. Ben Nelson, a pro-business Democrat from Nebraska; Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent Democrat from Connecticut; and Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, according to The Hill newspaper.

Lieberman has indicated he might vote against Obama's healthcare reform effort. Nelson has expressed opposition to the healthcare proposal and is against the cap-and-trade program to limit carbon emissions. Landrieu is expected to oppose both initiatives.The other three Democratic senators being wooed by the GOP are Evan Bayh of Indiana, and Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Bayh opposed the $410 billion omnibus spending bill and joined Nelson in voting against the budget. Lincoln and Pryor have both voiced concern over the Employee Free Choice Act, a top priority of labor unions that is supported by most Democrats, The Hill reported.

Pryor has said: “Liberal groups need to understand that we are not elected to represent the president. We’re elected to represent our states." Ron Bonjean, Kyl's former chief of staff, told The Hill: "Creating bipartisan coalitions on key issues is important to prevent Democrat legislative victories. Getting Democratic moderates is extremely important."

I would love to see if Palin has the intestinal fortitude to take on the Republican Party in any of these states to support even one of these right-wing Democrats. My guess is that she's all talk. Extremists, racist and youngish, fascistic hate mongers like Audra Shay admire her. But only 23% of normal Americans think she's qualified to be president and even Republican pundits are saying she's a worthless disaster on two legs.

"I can't tell you one thing she brought to the ticket," said Stuart K. Spencer, who has been advising GOP candidates for more than 40 years. "McCain wanted to shock and surprise people, and he did -- in a bad way."

..."People at the grass roots see a charismatic personality who is popular with other people at the grass roots. But their horizon only goes so far as people who think like them," said Mike Murphy. The veteran GOP ad man eviscerated Palin -- a "political train wreck," "an awful choice" for vice president, her resignation an "astonishing self-immolation" -- in a column published Thursday in the New York Daily News.

Non-Confederate Republicans have made it clear they don't want Palin coming to their districts to campaign for them. But I'd love to see her and Biden campaigning together for a shit-for-brains Democrat like Blanche Lincoln against whichever GOP sacrificial lamb the Repugs manage to dig up to run in Arkansas. And, speaking of Lincoln, please help Blue America end her disgraceful corrupt career in politics and warn other fake Democrats like her that people are paying attention.

Yesterday the Sunday talk shows rounded up a gaggle of paid off shills for the Medical-Industrial Complex to come on TV and bad mouth Obama's plans for health care reform and declare his chances for success DOA. Hacks like Judd Gregg (R-NH), Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ), each of whom has been paid immense sums of money by Big Pharma, HMOs and Insurance companies for this specific task, led the way in the rightist war against ordinary American families.

Some 46 million are uninsured and have little access to routine healthcare, relying instead on costly emergency room visits.

These unfortunate millions are the enemies and the victims of the Jon Kyls, Lamar Alexanders and Judd Greggs of the Republican Party, who think they can round up enough duplicitous paid off Conservadems-- the Blanche Lincolns, Joe Liebermen, Evan Bayhs, Mary Landrieux and Ben Nelsons-- to deep 6 Obama's plans to lift these families out of their untenable situation. The Republicans in the House of Lords went ape-shit when they heard that the House plan includes "a tax on Americans earning more than $350,000 per year that would raise $540 billion over 10 years. The tax would begin in 2011 and have higher rates at the $500,000 and $1 million income levels."

Violently anti-family right-wingers in the House have no power to stop anything but extremists like Virginia corruptionist Eric Cantor are on the warpath on behalf of their generous paymasters, threatening that wealthy industrialists will take their jobs and move to low wage countries, as if that hasn't been exactly what they have been doing for the past 2 decades... often with the connivance of the political elites they own. Sarah Palin campaigning for Evan Bayh, Arlen Specter and Blanche Lincoln in the Senate and for fake Dems like Heath Shuler (D-NC), Dan Boren (D-OK), Travis Childers (R-MS), Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ), Walt Minnick (D-ID) and Bobby Bright (D-AL) in the House will help clarify the nature of bipartisan class war in America and show once and for all which side right-wing Blue Dogs and sleazy DLC scum are on.