Sarah Palin Wants Christine O'Donnell on Next 'Dancing With the Stars'

By Rob Shuter Posted Nov 23rd 2010 07:50AM

Sarah Palin was not only playing the role of proud mama grizzly last night when she sat in the front row cheering on daughter Bristol Palin in the finale of 'Dancing With The Stars' -- she was also playing casting director, lobbying the show's producers to consider signing up her Tea Party pal Christine O'Donnell for next season.

"Sarah is a genius at marketing herself and her message," an insider tells me. "She doesn't care about all the old rules about how political people are meant to behave and act. Sarah believes the best way is to go directly to the people -- use Twitter, Facebook, 'Dancing With the Stars' and 'Entertainment Tonight' to get potential voters excited and leave 'Meet The Press' and those boring Sunday morning shows to the old-school politicians."

And with the huge success of her own reality show, 'Sarah Palin's Alaska,' and Bristol stunning everyone with the fact that she is still in the 'Dancing' competition, Sarah might be onto something. Plus, who else are the 'Dancing' producers going to get after Bristol?

"Christine is not a bad idea at all," one ABC executive tells me. "After Kate Gosselin and Cloris Leachman, O'Donnell would fit right in. She certainly would be so controversial that the amount of press attention and buzz the show would get would be huge. Plus, you know they would make her dance in a witch's hat with a broomstick."

Sarah, if this political thing doesn't work out for you, you should think about a career in casting. Seriously.

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Steven Cowan, left, stands next to Public Defender Jonas Bednarek at his initial court appearance Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, in Madison, Wis. Cowan, of Vermont, Wis., blasted his television set with a shotgun after watching Bristol Palin's "Dancing with the Stars" routine Monday night, saying he was fed up with politics and Palin wasn't a very good dancer, according to court documents. Authorities said Cowan then pointed the gun at his wife who escaped and called police. A SWAT team surrounded the couple's Vermont farmhouse and officers were able to talk Cowan out Tuesday, after an all-night standoff. Cowan is charged with second-degree reckless endangerment. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

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Tuesday 23 November

By gssscsh

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please don't tell anyone to leave this family alone. They are constantly thrusting themselves in the limelight -- they ask for what they get. And I used to feel sorry for Bristol, and while I still think her mother is using her, she is beginning to sound as shrill and aggressive as sarah.

By Mary

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who cares... it's just a dancing program nothing else!!!watching Christine dance could be fun or funny...Sarah can wish whatever she wants..you can't always get what you want, but if you try somehow you get what you need and what she needs it's being in the public opinion right or wrong...and IMHO she is just so ridiculous. just saying :)

By Bonbon

Oh good lord no, this will send the liberals off into frenzies, they will be sending more powder and blowing up televisions all over the country let the libs calm down they need it after the mid term elections!

By Chaos

Wow...Russell sounds like a real catch for women everywhere. Run girls, run. Typical gross, ignorant, ranting, hate filled right winger. No intellect, all mouth. Bush brought us this mess, not Democrats. You are both illiterate losers.

they should get Michelle Obama, that would be a hoot! and get Rahm Emanuel he was a ballerina at one time, that would be so fun!

By ED

@ Salmo60...thats a bunch of BS....LOL @palanites LOL..I Like Sarah but i sure aint voting for her daughters 2 left feet LOL

In two different places we were told that we could vote until 11:oo am Tuesday. Guess what, my voting area was closed 30 minutes after the show. Also I could not get on the internet site when I tried to sign in for hours. It finally said I had voted 5 times but how, I wasn't able to sign in. Something was up. Don't tell me it was because of the rush to vote. I'm sure ther was a rush to vote before.

By Rhonda

Until there is no more mention about the Palins on DWTS will I tune in to watch it again. I think to kiss but, the producers let that publicity-hound woman and her retarded-looking daughter have full run of the show as they saw fit. Because of this, I'm not a fan of the show anymore. I've stopped voting. I've stopped watching. Good riddance!!!

...kiss butt...

By CWG

OOPS, not so fast Pumpkin. Read the other article and you'll find her "Alaska" tanked last night so maybe promoting her to marketing director was a bit premature. Losing half your viewers in one week (and only 1/3 of DWTS) is not a way to secure sponsors. Again, Sarah, leave things to the professionals!

Wednesday 24 November

By Anna

They need to keep political figures and their partners off the show.

By Heather

This is just insane crap. There's an actual world out there.
WABC is smarter than the rest of the country. They got their ratings. If this is about votes alone, and it obviously is, it's a joke. "Mama Grizzly" got the votes for her exploited child.

By Kathy

Please make the Palins go away!!!!!!!!

Too bad, Palin. Trust me. Mama grizzly is hurt more than her daughter right now.

Amen to that.
As Mrs. Bush said. If Sarah like Alaska so much, she should just stay there. I never thought I'd agree with a Bush.

By bob

She looks like Monica on a bad hair day.

Saturday 27 November

By jock

jennifer grey was a dancer before she went on dwts, how was this fair to the others.

Sunday 28 November

By Patty Roldan

Sarah Palin is so weird. Who in the hell does she think she is. She is a ex govenor who quit her job. She has a unwed daughter and she is suppose to be so moral. This women needs to sit on her porch in Alaska and shut the hell up. Tea baggers love her because she is everything America isnt. I cant understand why people are so easily fooled by idiots like this.

Friday 03 December

By Steve

So Ms. Palin is now recruiting has beens to appear on a major TV show. I guess she is learning how to multi task...ummm...Maybe she should appear on the show as a contestant!!!

Friday 20 May

By BOBBIE

What Palin Wants? Who cares what she wants. More publicity for herself~been trying to hide behind the shooting~her pushing guns & Gabbie almost dies.
So build up the Pap, like she did with Bristol.
Wake up Palin. DISAPPEAR!!

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