Toxic

by: Adam L

Fri Jul 10, 2009 at 11:48:21 AM EDT

Heh:

After Palin's resignation announcement last week, RNC Chairman Michael Steele released a statement saying Palin is "an important and galvanizing voice" who will help GOP candidates in Virginia and New Jersey this year.

As was said in one of my favorite childhood albums, Free to be You and Me:

And some kind of help is the kind of help...We all can do without

Seems like that is the kind of help that Sarah Palin brings to the republican hopefuls.  First,  right here in NJ, we have this:

New Jersey GOP gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie's campaign has no interest in help from Sarah Palin after the former vice presidential candidate stepped down as governor of Alaska, in part to help Republican candidates across the country.

Now, this is actually interesting, since Christie is also anti-choice, anti stimulus, anti same sex marriage and also full of empty rhetoric that doesn?t make sense when contrasted with reality, so you wonder why he wouldn?t want his political soulmate coming to help him.

But there is also this coming out of Virginia:

In Virginia, a historically conservative state where Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate since 1964 to win, Republican Bob McDonnell said Tuesday his campaign had had conversations with the Palin camp but stopped short of saying whether he wanted her help.

...snip...

"I don't know how this recent announcement ? which I still don't fully understand; I only know what I've read in the media ? how that fully plays out and whether she's going to prefer a private life or whether she still wants to stay actively involved," McDonnell said.

So much for the two high profile Governor races this year.  But what about other republican candidates?  Well, not so fast....

Republicans facing tough elections in 2010 don't want Sarah Palin campaigning with them.

Though the soon-to-be-former Alaska governor is seen as popular with the conservative grass roots, several Republicans said she?d help them by staying home in Wasilla.

And as noted over at AmericaBlog:

What's most interesting here is that several of the Republicans, including Lee Terry (R-NE), Frank Wolf (R-VA), Mike Castle (R-DE), went on-the-record to tell Palin to stay away. For members to say publicly what they'd usually say off-the-record or anonymously says a lot about Sarah Palin's status. She's a damaged brand. For Republicans, "Pullin a Palin" isn't viewed as a winning strategy.

I guess all of these republicans were swayed by those evil bloggers and liberal media.