Politics | Sarah Palin Palin Loses Black Support Over Tweets on Dr. Laura Black GOP'ers call her 'scary, 'unfit to lead' By Kevin Spak Posted Aug 20, 2010 12:40 PM CDT Copied Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks to the crowd at the P.U.R.E. Ministries event on Tuesday, June 29 , 2010 in Duluth, Ga. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser) Sarah Palin’s defense of Dr. Laura on Twitter may have badly damaged her among black Republicans. John Avlon of The Daily Beast spoke with several black conservative leaders, and they were not kind. “It says that a leading voice among conservatives has joined the ranks of the entertainers—trying to shock us,” said Michel Faulkner, the ex-NFL player running against Charles Rangel. He called Palin “unfit to lead.” Columnist Deroy Murdock was even more biting. “Sarah Palin's tweets resemble something scribbled by a ninth-grade cheerleader,” he said. “Is it asking too much for a reputed American political leader to communicate in complete sentences?” And Timothy Johnson, head of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, which has helped recruit black GOP candidates, said the tweets will hurt Palin if she runs for president. “She is going to have to answer to black Republicans.” Read These Next New York Times ranks the best movies of the 21st century. A man has been deported for kicking an airport customs beagle. White House rolls with Trump's 'daddy' nickname. Actor Sam Rockwell gets residuals from movie he wasn't in. Report an error