Why Erik Erikson’s childish anti-Palin hatefest on September 30th is a major problem for the Republican Party at large
[ Click above to embiggen. Screengrab of Erik Erikson's childish attack on Governor Palin and her supporters that ran every hour on the hour all day on Redstate.com 9/30/11 ]
Yesterday, Erik Erikson engaged in what amounted to a 24-hour hate directed against Governor Sarah Palin and her supporters, because Erikson believes the Governor owed him some personal duty to announce her presidential candidacy before October 1st, 2011 (when, in reality, the Governor will announce her campaign sometime between October 18-31st 2011, just before the filing deadlines in Florida and South Carolina — according to her plan all along).
Erikson lied to his readers and pretended Governor Palin promised, on a stack of Bibles taller than Denali, that she’d announce her intentions by the last day of September. What the Governor has actually said, consistently and loudly, is that she’d make up her mind at this time — with no date set for her announcement. Erikson evidently has reading comprehension problems — amongst his myriad other personal disabilities — because he missed the nuance of this. Or, more likely, he just flat-out lied because he wanted to throw an amateur hour, hate-filled, sexist, “tell the woman to shut up and go away!”, tantrum on Redstate attacking Governor Palin and her supporters every hour on the hour. No doubt, after this he held a farting contest in his basement with local Atlanta 10 year olds and waited for his wife to bring down a tray of Little Debbies and juice boxes, so all his emotional peers could congratulate him on how “rad” he was for “really showing that bitch her place”.
“Heh heh, you should totally rename your site Radstate.com because it’s so rad, Erik”, Beevis Jr. no doubt told him.
“Yah, I know man, it is totally rad. We are an online He-Man Women Haters’ Club and proud of it,” Erikson probably replied, underscoring what Redstate.com has become in the last year or so under his personal direction as his CNN gig afforded him more cover to bring his scorn for female politicians to a sustained boil.
No, Erik, you are not “rad” as you believe. I don’t care to know if you won that farting contest with your friends (though, by looking at you on CNN, I can’t imagine anyone other than Oprah Winfrey herself besting you in heated seat competition), and you have a right to use Redstate.com to make an ass of yourself all you want…but I hope other conservatives out there who read you understand just how much damage you’re doing to the Republican Party with antics like this.
Republicans at large need to learn a big lesson from the 2008 Obama campaign and how it treated Hillary Clinton and her supporters, because men like Erik Erikson who presume to speak for Republicans at large are treating Governor Palin and her supporters in largely the same way.
For months in 2008 — from just after the Iowa Caucus through the June 3rd South Dakota primary — Erik Erikson’s counterparts in the Democrat Party berated Hillary Clinton and her supporters to “shut up and go away” with childish antics like the stunt Erikson pulled on Redstate yesterday directed at the Palin camp. Obama’s supporters were ruthless when it came to haranguing Clinton supporters, calling us racists for not backing Obama and using every Alinsky-inspired bully tactic they could imagine to persecute those of us who stood proudly with Hillary in 2008.
The net result of this is that millions of people who once considered themselves Democrats — like myself personally, and all of my friends who worked on the 2008 Hillary campaign with me — no longer want anything to do with the party because of the way the Obama campaign, the DNC, and the lamestream media treated Hillary Clinton and the people who backed her.
Erik Erikson and his ilk are going to create a similar fissure in the Republican Party if they continue to engage in behavior like yesterday’s 24-hour Palin hate.
I’ve said this before and will say it again now: it’s men like Erikson who prevented me from even thinking of calling myself a Republican for the last 20 years, because I am so turned off by their sophomoric, smarmy antics.
Despite being a conservative by nature, I remained a Democrat until the summer of 2008 because I never felt comfortable joining the Republican Party because I wanted no part in the childishness of the Erik Eriksons the GOP seemed largely comprised of. I couldn’t stand the labor unions and the influence of the Left on the Democrat Party, but while it was still the Jacksonian/Clintonian Party prior to Obama’s usurpation, at least I felt I had some place to be on the political spectrum where people in my own party wouldn’t malign me.
Erikson heaped so much scorn on Governor Palin’s supporters that I imagine many who read Redstate.com yesterday feel like the Republican Party may not be for them — and I wonder where their votes will go if Governor Palin does not in fact run for President, the way Erikson so desperately doesn’t want her to run.
I can’t speak for all of these people, but only for myself, and my boyfriend Justin, and the friends I’ve chatted with today about Erik Erikson’s 24 hour Palin hate. Because Erikson’s Redstate is such an in-your-face pro-Rick Perry site, and because Rick Perry chose Redstate.com as the platform to announce his run for the presidency, I can’t imagine the Perry campaign wasn’t aware of what Erikson did all day yesterday in heaping all that unnecessary scorn on Governor Palin and her supporters.
I, therefore, will forever now associate this childishness with the Perry campaign…and I’ve thus removed Perry from consideration as a choice for the Republican nomination in 2012.
I had my doubts about Perry as a viable national candidate before, but seeing Erikson behave this way brings back too many memories of watching the Obama supporters behave so disgustingly in 2008 towards us Hillary Clinton supporters. Once again, these actions clearly seem to be rooted in irrational hatred, sexism, and misogyny and I want no part of any candidate whose supporters behave this way. Obama is all the proof I will ever need that a candidate’s supporters are very much a personal reflection of the man himself.
So, I am backing Governor Sarah Palin for president in 2012 and pledge again to do everything I humanly can to elect her to the White House. If the Governor chooses at some point in October, according to her own personal schedule, to forgo a presidential campaign, then the next candidate on my list of support will be the honorable and electric HERMAN CAIN.
Rick Perry is dead to me because of Erik Erikson and Redstate’s bad behavior yesterday in berating the Palin camp for an artificial announcement drop-dead-date of Erikson’s own invention.
Tomorrow, I am going to write the Perry camp a letter telling them as much. I’m sure they won’t care much that a gay guy in Boystown who worked for Hillary Clinton in 2008 and now supports Governor Palin doesn’t want anything to do with Perry’s candidacy…but maybe if enough Palin supporters out there join me in making our voices heard someone with half a brain in Perryland will realize Perry’s close association with Erik Erikson and Redstate.com is costing him a great deal of potential votes.
Honestly, while I think Mitt Romney is a joke of a candidate and is not the kind of president we’d need in 2012, I truly believe if the race ever came down between Romney and Perry in the end…my vote would go to Mitt Romney because yesterday’s Redsate outburst was my very last straw with Perry. I don’t like what he did with Gardasil, I don’t like his awarding in-state tuition to illegals, I am disappointed by his lackluster performances in the debates, and I am horrified by the behavior of his supporters.
Mittens Romneycare may be a severely flawed candidate who is squishier than a soggy cucumber and mayonnaise sandwich…and he may indeed be the Cocktail Party Establishment’s darling…but at least he and his supporters are not misogynist jackasses who behave like fart sniffing 10 year olds playing fort in their mothers’ basements.
If you know anything about me, you know how much I detest Mittens Romneycare…so that should give you an idea of what I think about Slick Rick Perry today in light of Erik Erikson’s 24-hour hate against Governor Sarah Palin on September 30th, 2011.
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Erickson has lost credibility with lots of people, partly since he joined CNN and became part of the lamestream, partly because of this incident and partly because of the arrogance he showed when he wrote hysterically that he could not grant absolution to all the Republican candidates who were writing to him about blah blah blah.
There's a great article about Palin's reaction to some of this over at American Thinker. "Palin goes after Fox News."
I completely agree Kevin! I popped over to RedState yesterday and was greeted to the hatefest as well. It was bizarre. I had a similar reaction to his posts. I know from what you have posted that you had previously kept a completely open mind about Perry. I now see how eerily similar Erickson's attacks on Palin were to the "Bros before Hos" attitude of the Obama supporters against Clinton. The Perry camp was probably sitting back and snickering at their surrogate's clever work.
Sounds an awful lot like waaaay back when the uber liberal site Buzzflash went all in for Obama and started trashing Hiliary like she was some she-demon from another planet. Interesting how insecure males regardless of the party always reveal themselves when their backs are against the wall.
I think Erick Erickson's little snit was sophomoric and damaging to Republicans. I posted several times yesterday telling him it was a bad idea, and was attacked by his little troll brigade for my opinion. But, Rick Perry is my governor, and I don't think you should assume he was in any way associated with Erickson's stunt, without evidence to support it.
I will vote for the Republican nominee, whether Palin, Perry, Romney, Cain or any of the others. I'll hold my nose when voting for Santorum, and will go into the voting booth heavily sedated if Ron Paul is the choice. ABO. Anyone But Obama. And believe me, Rick Perry is a far cry better than Obama. He made mistakes, one with the Gardasil, but he learns from his mistakes and rights his course. From what I've heard, he and Palin are good friends, and I sincerely doubt that he should be blamed for Erickson's bad decision.
IMHO.
Agree with you 100%. I too will vote for the Republican nominee whomever he/she may be. I am a Palin supporter but to abandon a candidate (Perry) because one supporter of his is a jerk is just plain silly. One should not hold Perry accountable for Erickson's actions.
SiennaP —
Perry chose to announce his candidacy at a Redstate function.
Perry needs to address Erikson’s behavior.
I am waiting for a comment from the Perry campaign on this. I will give Perry a chance to refute Erikson’s behavior.
Let’s see if that happens and if Erikson makes a statement on taking his snit too far.
Also, please re-read what I wrote…you seem to have missed the part where I said I had a growing list of problems with Perry. This Redstate attack on Palin supporters was the last straw with Perry, not the only reason I have decided not to support him.
Please be accurate when calling anyone names, because you are the one who looks silly to me for not reading what I actually said.
What do you have against 10 year-olds?
Kevin, Eric Erickson is a younger and fatter version of Bill Kristol.
Back in 1999, Kristol was convinced that only Colin Powell could beat Gore. He went on and on for months about this. When Powell wouldn't run, he switched to McCain as his guy to back. The reason for this is the Bush's disliked Kristol for his manipulation of VP Quayle and his leaking of stuff to the press as Quayle's chief of staff during Bush 41's time. (You will notice Kristol has never worked in government since then.) Kristol was the source of a lot of trouble when Bush 43 got elected because of the grudge Kristol had towards the Bush family.
Erickson had backed Palin, until he got cold feet and saw that Perry might get in. He hooked onto Perry because he thought he was going to be a bigshot with Perry and his people. He thought Perry was a sure winner. So now that Perry has crashed and burned, he knows he won't be trusted by anyone who backs Palin, so he is doing everything he can to trash Palin and keep her from winning. He knows Palin wouldn't hire him to clean toilets, let alone have any position in the new administration.
This is an example of how political consultants and pundits are detrimental to the GOP, and to the American election system. These people who fancy themselves experts, and who are involved in this as some sort of money-making scheme or reality game, have far too much influence. I am convinced one of the reasons Sarah is so unpopular in DC is because of these bloggers, campaign strategists, and other assorted hangers-on. They despise her because they know if she is elected they will be cast into the outer darkness and might actually have to find real work.
That obnoxious "I will not absolve you" column already did me in with Red State. That jerk needs to be taught a lesson. I despise him.
Kevin, this sort of bullying is nothing new from Redstate. Eric banned "Birthers" from his site and has refused to address the eligibility issue. He continues to ridicule anyone–now including Rush Limbaugh– who questions Obama's legitimacy.
I don't know much about Eric at RedState, although I read the site once in awhile, but in the last 24 hours he has been pretty obnoxious. Legal Insurrection noticed as well, and I really love his blog…maybe cuz I'm married to a lawyer! Weakness? Perhaps…
Anyway, I did come to the same conclusion about Perry very early on. I am a Latina, California girl born to two "legal" immigrant parents from Mexico. No matter what anyone says, there are many Latinos that have come over here legitimately that do not agree with Perry's policies. In state tuition for illegal immigrants is totally wrong because the rest of us legal immigrants pay for it. I understand his position that the Federal govt has failed to secure our border, but two wrongs don't make a right.
My mom, now 72, absolutely despises what O is doing to our country and sees what is happening in California, the state that she loves, that took her and my dad in during the 50's. They renounced all other loyalties except to our country. They were required to learn the declaration of independence, our constitution, and pledge allegiance to our flag…and that is what they taught me. I spoke Spanish in our household and to this day speak only Spanish to my father, but they insisted we become articulate in English, the language of our country, learn to write, become educated. It is with this profound love of my country that I must reject Rick Perry.
He is wrong on in-state tuition. He was wrong on the gardasil mandate, just as much for his crony maneuverings. He was way wrong on the whitewashing of islam in the public school system (Pamela Geller has a huge expose at Atlas Shrugs) I really wanted to love him because there is so much appealing about a man's man and yeah, he is pretty hot! But, at the end of the day I am left with my mom's statement…"Mija…no me gusta ese guy."
No me gusta ese guy.
I have checked out the RS Palin snit and it appears that EE and the site have become the home of 12 year old boys. Like others I was looking at Perry in case Palin didn't run. This little "aren't I clever" behavior has caused me to lose imterest in Perry based on his crazy supporters. Seems like people have said they lost interest in Palin due to her rabid supporters.
Apparently some Perry people have realized that Palin supporters might be useful to him and we're seening major playing of the ABO card couple with calls about how Republicans need to unite behind the nominee.
I had pretty much enough with Erick and RedState once I realized the only difference between most of the authors there and the far-left nutjobs at Democrat Underground and KosKids were their choice of candidates.
Other than that, they're every hit as ham-fisted and thick-headed as the liberals they claim to be working against.
Erickson's petulant little temper tantrum only confirmed my notion that he's well on his way to losing whatever credibility he may have had as a conservative blogger.
Thank you for shining light on Erikson's hate fest. I have been a regular visitor to his blog for several years. My jaw was hanging open when I saw this obsession of his.