rssForgetting Sarah Palin
Monday, June 08, 2009 at 9:57 am
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Jonathan Martin has the scoop on how the joint National Republican Congressional Committee/National Republican Senatorial Committee dinner got ensnarled in the drama of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) — inviting her to speak, choosing former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to speak when she took a pass, then inviting her again, and ultimately denying her a chance to speak.
[T[he idea was that she’d swing down to the capital on Monday for the dinner before flying on to Texas for energy-related events. Palin’s staff had even been sent an agenda with the governor’s speaking slot included. But then a finance official with the NRSC called Palin aide Meg Stapleton Saturday night to say that Sessions didn’t want Palin to speak.
Recounting the conversation Sunday, Stapleton said she told the NRSC staffer: “Why, at a time when we’re trying to build the party, would you pull a move like that on somebody who earlier in the day just attracted 20,000 people?”
Some mockery of the Washington establishment is essential to Palin’s schtick, and it’s made more resonant by her physical distance from the city — despite her two-month stint as one of the party’s standard-bearers, she has been able to recast herself as an avenging outsider. At the same time, bobbling the schedule like this has started to alienate some leaders that she would have to work with if she made another run at national office.
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Comment posted June 8, 2009 @ 8:03 am
“Some mockery of the Washington establishment is essential to Palin’s schtick” Mockery nothing, she wants the GOP to clean house. So many of the same old crooks responsible for 8 years of fiscal insanity under Bush are STILL there!
Comment posted June 8, 2009 @ 8:14 am
I'm not sure who's bobbling the schedule. It seems to me the usual suspects want it to look like Palin has the vapors or some other girly thing that makes her totally unreliable. They might be right, of course, but aren't the in-crowd gleefully leaking Palin's “flightiness” so they can portray the Newt — who is either actually crazy or is playing a crazy person on TV & Twitter — as the picture of decency & integrity. Aren't these boys deep into the theory that only a big ol' tub o'lard can embody the sort of “stability” they have in mind?
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Comment posted June 8, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
The GOP knows Sarah would come in as President and clean up the corrupt Washington elite, especially those RINOs. It's a shame that this bright, shining star of a WOMAN poised for the first female Pres. of the US, is not given the respect she deserves, this society is still too patriarchal and does not give women who are beautiful, successful, and powerful the respect she deserves.
Comment posted June 8, 2009 @ 2:01 pm
Yes. Sarah Palin needs to seize control of the party and purge it of all the remaining “moderate” and “maverick” RINOs, thus ensuring that Republicans will never occupy the White House ever again.
Comment posted June 8, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
“Some mockery of the Washington establishment is essential to Palin’s schtick” Mockery nothing, she wants the GOP to clean house. So many of the same old crooks responsible for 8 years of fiscal insanity under Bush are STILL there!
Comment posted June 8, 2009 @ 3:14 pm
I'm not sure who's bobbling the schedule. It seems to me the usual suspects want it to look like Palin has the vapors or some other girly thing that makes her totally unreliable. They might be right, of course, but aren't the in-crowd gleefully leaking Palin's “flightiness” so they can portray the Newt — who is either actually crazy or is playing a crazy person on TV & Twitter — as the picture of decency & integrity. Aren't these boys deep into the theory that only a big ol' tub o'lard can embody the sort of “stability” they have in mind?
The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com
Comment posted June 8, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
The GOP knows Sarah would come in as President and clean up the corrupt Washington elite, especially those RINOs. It's a shame that this bright, shining star of a WOMAN poised for the first female Pres. of the US, is not given the respect she deserves, this society is still too patriarchal and does not give women who are beautiful, successful, and powerful the respect she deserves.
Comment posted June 8, 2009 @ 9:01 pm
Yes. Sarah Palin needs to seize control of the party and purge it of all the remaining “moderate” and “maverick” RINOs, thus ensuring that Republicans will never occupy the White House ever again.
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