Sarah Palin to visit Roswell Dec. 1

By Matthew Reichbach 11/18/09 8:40 AM

Sarah Palin is headed to a town near you… provided you live in the conservative town of Roswell, New Mexico.

Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican reported today that the former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate is headed to Roswell on December 1 as part of promotional tour for her book, Going Rogue: An American Life. Palin will appear at Hastings Books Music & Video. Despite the popularity of her book, a number of recent polls have shown most Americans have unfavorable views of Palin.

A CBS poll showed that just 23 percent of Americans had favorable views of Palin, compared to 38 percent who had an unfavorable view of the former governor from Alaska.

An ABC News poll showed that 43 percent of Americans had unfavorable views of Palin, compared to 52 percent who had favorable views of Palin.

A Rasmussen poll was the first poll in more than a year to show that Palin had a favorability rating of above 50 percent.

You can see all of Palin’s approval numbers, in addition to the chart embedded to the left, at Pollster.com.

Those numbers have seemed to scare off at least two of the Republican gubernatorial candidates — spokespeople for Doug Turner and Susana Martinez both told Terrell they would not be seeking Palin’s endorsement. Allen Weh did not respond by press time, and Janice Arnold-Jones was busy campaigning in Grant County and couldn’t be reached (some areas of rural southern New Mexico have no cell phone reception, let alone internet).

This isn’t a first for Palin; in New Jersey, the Republican candidate distanced himself from the Palin brand. And the Republican, Chris Christie, won. In Virginia, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Bob McDonnell, initially wanted Palin’s help, but then changed his mind as the election drew nearer. McDonnell easily won election.

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Eddie

..turns out Sarah won't be traveling on the bus to Roswell but in a Gulfstream II 12-passenger jet rented from Universal Jet Aviation of Boca Raton, Florida, at a cost of more than $4,000 per hour. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/...

Guest

"Don't forget how people laughed at me 15 years ago when I declared that one day I would govern Germany. They laugh now, just as foolishly, when I declare that I shall remain in power!" Adolf Hitler to a British correspondent in Berlin, June 1934. The point of this isn't to make any comparisons but to draw your attention to the way in which an electorate that feels disenfranchised and powerless can influence history, as per the findings in http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=re...

Antonia Vigil

The only energy left in the moribund GOP resides with people who've grasped, no matter how incoherently, that big government, big business and the good old boy leadership of the party are all in cahoots - but so far they really haven't figured out what to do about it, which makes them fair game for the likes of Palin and company. Interestingly enough on the other side of the fence a lot of rank and file dems (and independents) are also beginning to realize the extent to which they've been played for fools, which could make for an interesting circumstance if somebody who's a real middle of the road populist stepped up.

Bill527

Like it or not Palin has become someone who has to be taken seriously, irrespective of your party affiliation. In a LA Times Op-Ed last Sunday entitled "Sarah Palin, the GOP's blessing and curse" Max Blumenthal wrote: "...by emphasizing her own crises and her victimization by the "liberal media," Palin has established an intimate bond with adherents of that subculture - one so visceral it transcends rational political analysis. As a result, her career has become a vehicle through which the right-wing evangelical movement feels it can express its deepest identity in opposition both to secular society and to its representatives in the Obama White House. Palin is perceived by its leaders - and followers - not as another cynical politician or self-promoting celebrity, but as a kind of magical helper, the God-fearing glamour girl who parachuted into their backwater towns to lift them from the drudgery of daily life, assuring them that they represented the "real America"."

Fred D

“Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order” (Norman Spinrad)

Guest

Last Sunday during "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" (11/15/09) New York Times columnist David Brooks dismissed the idea that “this potential talk show host” could be the 2012 Republican Presidential nominee, calling her “a joke”. Washington Post columnist George Will added, “this is what happens in the vacuum of a third year out from a Presidential election” - however PBS' Gwen Ifill ponted out that it would be a mistake to "underestimate the degree to which women will be drawn to her story ...and that is who she is speaking to," she added. "These are people who are ignored, who nobody counts into their thinking."

Dr Benway

"To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." 1912 Progressive Party Platform, attributed to Theodore Roosevelt and quoted again in his 1913 autobiography, in which he assails the pernicious effects of both major political parties.

derekbill

In the last year or so of his second term, twenty something percent of the American public still approved of the job W was doing, ....... Assuming generously that ten percent of them read books, that's still alot of copies for Sarah to autograph, especially when conservative organizations are giving them away as premiums for subscribing to almost anything.

Watching some of those teabaggers wave their bibles in one hand and pictures of Obama as Hitler in the other, I have no doubt that Sarah is an appropriate lightning rod for proud redstate morons. The fact that she's making a bundle along the way doesn't offend me any. It's the idiots buying her book for anything other than amusement that disgust me. Just like the unprincipled sellout who picked her as his running mate, and the braindead who voted for her.

gshurley

Just like Bush Jr. she is only going to surround herself with people who validate her ignorant views of evolution and rejection of science all the while using her cell phone, which was created by science. Stupid b!$ch.

derekbill

This sounds like something The Onion would report.

Eddie

True, but on Monday in the middle of the November ratings derby Palin gave Oprah a lift out of last season's ratings slump by delivering the biggest audience she's had in the last two years. CBS Television Distribution said the show's 8.7 household Nielsen rating/13 share made it the highest-rated episode since the entire Osmond family had appeared on her show in November 2007 and that it had also surpassed the audience pulled in by the recent appearance of Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who was mauled by a 200 pound chimpanzee.

derekbill

I didn't watch it, but I never watch Oprah. I might have tuned in if someone in the household had mentioned it while it was on. She's easy on the eyes, even if her brain screams 'freak show'. To me, it's like watching someone not in rehab who needs to be. Someone totally out of touch with reality, but functioning within her group of fellow cuckoos.

More to your point, I suspect a lot of people who think she's an anatomically correct hollow-skulled Caribou Barbie may have tuned in to laugh, or marvel, or just make sure they didn't miss something newsworthy. If you told me that plane was going to crash at midnight at the fairgrounds, I'd probably drive over and watch.

So I do get your point. She's a phenomenon and one to be taken seriously. Like bleeding hemorrhoids.

Hulamouse

...speaking of preparation H and other cultural phenomena, hold your nose and try rubbing some of this in: http://www.popeater.com/2009/11/20/the-oprah-ef...

Eddie

Oprah will announce tomorrow that she's pulling the plug on her talk show in Sept of 2011 - maybe sooner if her rating keep dropping.

Dr Benway

At the moment embracing Palin and her ilk is the only way a lot of people can push back against the ruling class oligarchy that's wrecked the nation's economy and left them totally marginalized, so she's become a vehicle for expressing frustration and rage. It shouldn't come as any surprise what will happen if the powers that be don't take her seriously and fail to respond to the underlying reasons for her popularity. In any case the upcoming tent revival in Las Cruces should be newsworthy.

Eddie

True enough and if bleeding hemorrhoids (a reality show?) could pull in enough audience the advertisers would be clambering to get a piece of the action. In any case, as of September 1st there were about 114.9 million television households in the US and a single national ratings point represents 1% of the total number or 1,149,000 households. Oprah's shows typically draw about 7 million domestic viewers but about four years ago they started airing in the Middle East and now reach about 6 million viewers there, which is regarded in some quarters as having had a generally positive effect (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/world/middlee...) - but who knows, maybe she's also fueling the fire.

BernieG

Regards the death race to the lowest common denominator bottom of the barrel in terms of content: the number of Americans watching TV has been steadily dropping due to audience fragmentation, for instance as of last quarter 2.5 million fewer people were watching ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox then in the previous year. As a result the networks have been desperately scrambling to come up with any way to hold onto an audience, more importantly onto the advertising revenue that sustains their companies.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALe...

Phoebe

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason." Hunter S. Thompson, bylined column in the San Francisco Examiner, November 4, 1985.

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