Sarah Palin Lands Deep In The Fringe: ‘It’s Time To Impeach’

FILE - This May 29, 2014 file photo shows Sarah Palin speaking in New Orleans, La. In an interview, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton revealed that shortly after Palin was nominated as the 2008 Republi... FILE - This May 29, 2014 file photo shows Sarah Palin speaking in New Orleans, La. In an interview, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton revealed that shortly after Palin was nominated as the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, the Obama campaign proposed that Clinton go on the attack against her. Clinton said she refused. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File) MORE LESS
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It was probably inevitable, but Sarah Palin on Tuesday officially joined the fringe contingent of conservatives who want President Obama impeached.

As she’s done several times in the past, the former Republican presidential nominee and half-term Alaska governor published the “exclusive” on Breitbart.

Palin opened the column with an anguished note about the crisis on the border.

“His unsecured border crisis is the last straw that makes the battered wife say, ‘no mas,'” she wrote.

After detailing Obama’s “years of abuse,” Palin not only called for impeachment, but said that politicians who oppose such action should pay a price.

It’s time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

The many impeachable offenses of Barack Obama can no longer be ignored. If after all this he’s not impeachable, then no one is.

Conservative calls for impeachment were bound to gain traction after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced his intentions last month to sue the Obama administration over its use of executive actions.

Boehner, for his part, said at the time that his lawsuit is “not about impeachment”

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday afternoon he hadn’t read Palin’s op-ed on Breitbart, but he said he will.

“I respect everybody’s opinion,” McCain said of his former 2008 running mate. “Honestly, I’d have to read her rationale for it before I can make a judgment. But am I proposing that the President be impeached? No.”

Sahil Kapur contributed reporting to this post.



This post has been updated.

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  1. Details of the abuse seem to be absent from her charge…

  2. Typical of ‘Sarah Snide-meister’ to make light of battered spouses in order to garner the media spotlight and spew one of her usual banal diatribes on matters about which she is completely clueless.

  3. “The many impeachable offenses of Barack Obama can no longer be ignored. If after all this he’s not impeachable, then no one is.”

    You know who’s not impeachable? Sarah Palin (loser/quitter)

  4. i wish they do it instead of just talking about it. just what the country wants.

  5. Let’s see, that yet undrafted article would read something like this: The President of the United States lawfully used his executive authority to get shit done.

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