MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews who has previously attacked Sarah Palin with great glee is now jumping on the Palin bandwagon, or is he?

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Last night Matthews shocked conservatives by actually praising Palin during a segment discussing whether or not she will run for president in 2012.

Matthews: She is really good. I watched her with wonder ever since she won the nomination. She went out there in Minnesota, put on the best show next to Obama at least, certainly the best speech. Everybody is watching, she did pretty well against Biden in that debate.  She certainly didn’t get hurt by it and probably won it on points in terms of how people reacted to it.  She’s fantastic on a stage.  When she walks out on that stage there’s something kinetic happens. She looks great. Look at her she’s alive, she’s smiling, she’s doing stuff. She’s moving around you can’t take your eyes off of what she’s doing.

Matthews only real criticism was when Palin was “in that little anchor booth” being asked questions where he said she doesn’t do well.

This is from the same guy who in February 2010 called her “frightening”, an “empty vessel” and had “nothing going on mentally” after she suggesting that Obama would help his reelection chances if he declared war on Iran.

This was no change of heart for Matthews though.  Matthews said he wants Palin to run in the worst way because he finds the current Republican field boring.  But the real reason he would like to see Palin despite last night’s kudos is an easier target for Matthews than Romney, Pawlenty or any of the other current front runners.

Matthews acted more like a Democratic operative last night setting the Republicans up for a big fall than the journalist he claims to be.

But that seems to be par for the course for Matthews and MSNBC.

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Don Irvine
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8 Comments for Warning! Chris Matthews Now Wants Palin to Run for President

Wildbird

He just wants her to run so he can continue to trash her like all liberal leftists journalists do since their mosty demacratic lapdogs

charles bolden

I don’t trust matthews! he appears as the spider sweet talking it’s prey.

Diane

Absolutely ! Chris Matthews loves trashing Sarah Palin; along with all of his other Socialist / liberal buddies at MSLSD.

MANUEL NUNEZ

Mathews is making a huge mistake where this is concerned, in his little shallow mind he feels that his master would easily defeat Palin and this will never happen. she is the one candidate who will continuer to point out his failures and use the misery index that exists today to easily defeat him when is idiots like Chris Mathews going to realize that the majority of the people in this country are hurting in a way like never before.

ucm4u

He needs to be ignored big time. He’s a nobody. He has no integrity or shame. He’s shallow and cruel in his motives. A total loser.

Jose Garcia

I never watched this Matthews person. To see that he used to trash Palin and now praises her is very strange and most definitly diabolical in nature. I predict that the buffons in the Republican Party will fall for this and we will get the Communist in the White House for four more years. And that will truly signal the end of our great Republic. We WILL become the U.S.S.of A.

CTR

UCM4U

CTR

ucm4u is correct: It is time to start ignoring Matthews, and quit propping up his failing program with all this free publicity!