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The Sarah Palin curse continues as the night before she shows up to support Steve Lonegan he is forced to fire his top adviser.

Courtesy of New Jersey.com:

Rick Shaftan, a top adviser to Steve Lonegan, may not be known to many outside New Jersey and New York political circles, but he went viral today — and it cost him his job.

Shaftan gave a lengthy, profanity-laced interview with political news site Talking Points Memo, ridiculing Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Lonegan's opponent in Wednesday's special U.S. Senate election.

Shaftan, a fixture on many state and local conservative campaigns in the metropolitan area, said Booker's online interaction last month with Portland stripper Lynsie Lee was "weird" and suggested the mayor's somewhat vanilla exchange suggested he was gay.

"It was just weird. I mean, to me, you know, hey, if he said, 'Hey, you got really hot breasts, man. ... But, like, he didn't say that," Shaftan said in the interview. "It was like kind of like, I don't know, it was like what a gay guy would say to a stripper."

Hours later, Lonegan fired Shaftan, saying the comments “are not reflective of my views or that of my campaign.

“His comments are distasteful and offensive, and his contract as a vendor for my campaign will be terminated immediately,” Lonegan said.

Damn, I swear her powers of political poison are getting stronger by the day.

This guy, Shaftan, had a long career in local politics but now he will have a very hard time finding work with another political hopeful after this embarrassing incident.

And her plane had not even landed yet.

You know I was thinking the other day about perhaps the most famous of her endorsement that did NOT result in a loss for the endorsee. And that was Ted Cruz.

But in that case he became a carrier of her disease and the poison has now spread through the Republican party.

I can hardly wait to find out how much more damage she will do to Lonegan today at the Teabagger party.

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