Sarah Palin's attempt to mock 'literal loser' Stacey Abrams backfires on Twitter
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attempted to mock Stacey Abrams as a “literal loser” on Tuesday.
It didn’t go well.
Abrams, a rising star in the Democratic Party after losing a closer-than-expected race in deep red Georgia, has been tapped to deliver the response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week.
But Palin ― the former Alaska governor who was on the literal losing ticket in 2008 when she ran on the Republican ticket alongside John McCain against Barack Obama― tweeted:
Palin’s tweet ― including the “literal loser” phrase ― was the headline to a story she was linking to, and not written by her.
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But given the fact that she shared it without altering it, Palin was given a pretty blunt reminder of her own history:
Hey man, I forget, what are you most famous for again
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) January 29, 2019
My favorite scene in Game Change was at the end when they told you how you weren't going to get to give your own concession speech and you tried to give one anyway and John McCain told you to bugger off.
— MLEA_Prez (@MLEA_Prez) January 30, 2019
Gov. Palin I just wanted to congratulate you on finishing this tweet.
— NoToughQuestionsHat (@Popehat) January 29, 2019
Thank you madame vice presi... oh yeah. Never mind.
— Chris J (@cjarrett74) January 30, 2019
Self-awareness. How does it work?
— Mark R. Yzaguirre (@markyzaguirre) January 30, 2019
You lost the VP race. You quit your job as governor so you could do a TV show. That got canceled. Now you’re just an idiot tweeting and trying to stay relevant. I’d say you live in a glass house but you’re too stupid to know what that means. Loser indeed.
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) January 30, 2019
Again: can you see Russia from that GLASS HOUSE??
— Ian Madrigal - The Monopoly Man (@iansmadrig) January 30, 2019
How'd that vice-president gig work out for you half-governor?
— Terry Coats (@terry_coats) January 29, 2019
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
