Palin left out of RGA leadership.
Palin left out of RGA leadership.
In the wake of the Republican Governors Association (RGA) convention this week in Miami, many GOP governors were reluctant to embrace Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as the party’s leader or presidential candidate for 2012. Today, the RGA made that sentiment official, by not voting her in to any of the organization’s leadership positions:
The Republican Governors Association announced its new leadership lineup today after their annual meeting concluded Thursday in Miami.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was voted RGA chairman, taking over the top job from Texas Gov. Rick Perry who will now serve as finance chairman. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is vice-chairman, while Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will serve as chair for the annual RGA gala, and Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue will head up the recruitment effort.
Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle, Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will also sit on the RGA’s executive committee. [...]
Not on the list? Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who also attended the Miami meeting.
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Will she EVER go away?
November 14th, 2008 at 1:26 pmThey don't have a seat for Pariah?
November 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pmThere are a few reasonably intelligent Rethuglicans after all.
Who else will join Failin' Palin under the bus?
November 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pmWhen will the media (including TP) stop covering non-news news about this pathetic loser?? Weren't there some suicide bombers in Iraqnam today? Anything other than non stop Caribou Barbie coverage.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:30 pmI see that good old Piyush "Bobby" Jindal didn't make the cut, either. Hmmmmm. Interesting. Very interesting.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:31 pmIf they ever hope to resurrect themselves, they had better dump Caribou Barbie - the sooner the better. We are all fed up with her; it looks like her fellow governors are also.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:32 pmLove the pic! She's obviously praying to God to smite the Repuglycan Governors...! Or invoking some witchcraft to hex them...
November 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pmAnd the world's smallest violin plays "My Heart Weeps For You"....
Cheers,
November 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pmBible Spice/The Exorcist 2012!!
November 14th, 2008 at 1:36 pmWell, she is unqualified for any position....and who could stand to hear her voice day and day out...I can't, my wife can't, my neighbors can't, America can't....
...but the MSM just can't seem to stop torturing us with interviews of her...
...damn them.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:38 pmSince she and McCain are so tight over Teddy Roosevelt maybe she and gramps can start the Bull Caribou party seems apropos to me
November 14th, 2008 at 1:39 pmNote that the 'liberal' Arnold (R-CA) isn't listed anywhere...
November 14th, 2008 at 1:39 pmHopefully, this will mark the end of her spotlight and she will GO AWAY!
November 14th, 2008 at 1:41 pmPalin described her rejection as "partisan" and =sexist" and as soon as she could appoint a panel of Alaskans to unanimously vote her the new RGA Chairperson she would be vindicated.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:41 pmlooks to me like the Republican Party is taking care of its business. this affront represents the most effective challenge to Palin's popularity. Somehow I doubt that she is ready to gracefully exit stage right just yet.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:41 pmYikes!
Just in from the National Hurricane Center - a Category 5 Temper Tantrum is forecast to be hitting Miami any minute now...
November 14th, 2008 at 1:43 pmAt this point in the media she's starting to fill that 'runaway bride' or 'britney's latest meltdown' role.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:45 pmNot on the list? Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who also attended the Miami meeting.
Boo. Now go away.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:45 pmThis is completely off topic, but your gay friends need your help, especially if you're straight. Tomorrow (Sat) there will be simultaneous demonstrations world-wide to protest basic human rights being stripped from or denied to gays and lesbians. At 1:30 EST, 12:30 CST, 10:30 PST etc., we will be gathering at city halls and state houses in hundreds of cities. If you possibly can, please show up. We can't do this by ourselves. We need our straight allies and all people of good will who believe in equal treatment under the law.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:46 pmThank you.
***snicker***
November 14th, 2008 at 1:47 pmI imagine a straight talking bus load of self-admiring repubs lounging around discussing who's going to be whom. Sarah gets up and stands on a small throw rug in the aisle near the drivers seat about to pontificate some obscure thought about how she's not going go down without a struggle. The driver looks over his shoulder and with a wink to the good ole boys in the back, presses a button and, the trap door under the throw rug she was standing on opens up and dumps under the front axle. One of them turns to John and says "next"
November 14th, 2008 at 1:49 pmThe GOP lubricates it's bus with the blood of its own and it needs frequent lurication.
Leaving aside the issue of Palin briefly, even though that's obviously the most important element in any discussion of the Republican governors , was anyone else struck by something else in the list of new leaders?
November 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
myroro Says:
Good luck with the demonstrations. Personally, I have other engagements but I will be there in spirit. I hope to see pictures of thousands in the streets.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:51 pmgummitch Says:
Leaving aside the issue of Palin briefly, even though that’s obviously the most important element in any discussion of the Republican governors , was anyone else struck by something else in the list of new leaders?
November 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Charlie Crist throws FABULOUS parties? :-D
Or the leadership are all from states as far away as possible from Alaska? Heh.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:53 pmgummitch Says:
Good catch gummitch. It seems the Republicans are holding on dearly to their southern roots.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:53 pmThe linked article fails to mention whether Palin actively sought any of the leadership positions. It DID mention that several of the other GOP governors thought her presence was an annoying distraction. Palin had as much right to be there as any other Republican governor, of course, but I think the gripe was about the media circus that came with her, and the appearance it gave of her having a leadership role where none existed. It's tough to say whether or not Palin engineered the spectacle in Diana Ross fashion, but it was obvious she wasn't discouraging the spotlight, either.
I believe that Palin was chosen as the veep nominee because she made a nice sparkly figurehead who could parrot GOP talking points on command, not because she had any great vision or great leadership qualities.
Now that the campaign is over, the GOP governors are more interested in functional leadership, rather than flashy but empty spectacle. If Sarah Palin truly knows her capabilities and her limitations, she gets that. If not, this provides a much-needed reality check for her delusions.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:55 pmgummitch Says:
Leaving aside the issue of Palin briefly, even though that’s obviously the most important element in any discussion of the Republican governors , was anyone else struck by something else in the list of new leaders?
November 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
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They're all in the South...
What did I win?
November 14th, 2008 at 1:56 pmYeah, good eye, gum. Further evidence that the Republicans are devolving into a regional party.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:56 pmgummitch Says
November 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
...was anyone else struck by something else in the list of new leaders?
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Yeah, it made me realize that my state of North Carolina is one of the few southern states with a Democratic governor, for which I'm grateful.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:58 pmI guess God didn't open that door for you Bimbo Borealis.
Better get your ass back to Alaska, there's some fence mending needed around home.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:59 pmI do feel sorry for her in this case( but not too sorry. Wink wink).... tough to break into the Good ol' Boys network when you wear a skirt...
And Gov. "Good Hair" Perry (as Molly Ivins used to call him), Haley Barbour, and Sonny Perdue (being the ol' boys in question) don't take kindly to some newcomer from way up north. Especially one who'll steal the spotlight from them. Down south, they expect their women to be seen and not heard... little lady, doncha know?
November 14th, 2008 at 1:59 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
Now that the campaign is over, the GOP governors are more interested in functional leadership, rather than flashy but empty spectacle. If Sarah Palin truly knows her capabilities and her limitations, she gets that. If not, this provides a much-needed reality check for her delusions.
I'm with Andrew Sullivan on this question:
November 14th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Regarding the suthen roots of the Repignofascist Party - we can thank Richard "I Am not a crook" Nixon for the suthen strategy and how its come to fruition today. However regarding where the Repignofasist "leadership" comes from today just go look at that NY Times map of the "bluing" of America. The only place where the Repignofascists made any increases voting in 2008 was in the Wal-Mart belt from SW Pennsylvania, through Appalachia to the Okieland and its Senator James Inhofe in Okieland. "nuff said, sho nuff."
November 14th, 2008 at 2:06 pmIf this is her start out of the starting blocks for 2012 then Obama has nothing to worry about. Obviously, she not the darling of her Party. Ya think the MSM may take the hint they're looking like fools thinking she's Presidential material?
November 14th, 2008 at 2:10 pmI've heard them all speak gummitch and not one of them appears to have an IQ of 100, is that what you meant?
That being said, don't the Republicans who live up north, not that far north, get tired of being dissed.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:11 pmplease, please, please, oh, pretty please, GOP, put Caribou Barbie at the top of the 2012 ticket. That will all but guarantee Obama's re-election.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:12 pmI for one won't be happy until she gets chewed up by Republicans in the primaries.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:13 pmCaption: "In what respect, RGA?"
November 14th, 2008 at 2:18 pmWell, I guess the Repub's didn't open the door!
November 14th, 2008 at 2:21 pm“I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door,” Palin said in an interview with Fox News on Monday
I didnt think people did, I'm like, the valley girl talk anymore.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:26 pmWho was the worst vp nominee in recent memory?
Dan the chickenhawk-potatoe Quayle
or
Sarah Caribou Barbie Palin?
You decide.
Skanky bimbo
November 14th, 2008 at 2:27 pmor
bimbo skank?
oops, my bad. I meant to say the gop nominee for vp.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:28 pmUUHH OOHH!
Gov. Flailin can't even win the Miss Congeniality contest at the Repug Govs' Big Bash.
Gotta really cut into that Big Alaska ego.
Maybe she can still win the Talent Contest.
Heh Heh
November 14th, 2008 at 2:37 pmCaption:
MOOSE-HEAD
¶ AIO
November 14th, 2008 at 2:37 pmDoesn't she have some guverin' to do back in Alaska? Seems like the people of Alaska should be getting something for that per diem she's charging them.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:44 pmSWBob Says:
“I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door,” Palin said in an interview with Fox News on Monday."
Well, I guess the Repub’s didn’t open the door!
Her god opened a door.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:45 pmIt was the one with the "EXIT" sign above it. Let's hope Shit-for-Brains doesn't miss the damn thing.
Yes, all the top spots to southerners. Cool. Okay, here's what the Dems need to do for every election down there. Have giant, free keg parties on election days. All the good old boys will be there instead of at the voting booths.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:45 pmTo all those complaining about Palinmania.2:
STFU. This woman stepped on the national stage in front of tens of millions of people and flipped liberals the bird. She is the Last Dick Move and she in all her glorious stupidity is getting what she deserves.
I want them to break her. I want them to absolutely destroy the cult of boastful ignorance that has gripped the rightwing of this country. I want them to plow through the concrete barrier of anti-intellectualism and force these morons to feel some shred of shame for trying to pass this political equivalent of manufactured, fast-food porn as a Vice Presidential candidate.
This country needs to collectively punish someone like her who thinks that supreme bullsh!t confidence and religious/small town "common sense" is a sufficient substitute for intellect, talent and worldliness so that IT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN. I want every two-bit "Joe the Plumber" to think twice about pretending that he knows a goddamn thing about anything.
We are seeing who the real political Britney Spears or Paris Hilton are here and her name is Sarah. And she should be treated with no more respect, because just like them, she is nothing more than a talentless media whore.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:46 pmMontereyDean Says
November 14th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Yes, all the top spots to southerners. Cool. Okay, here’s what the Dems need to do for every election down there. Have giant, free keg parties on election days. All the good old boys will be there instead of at the voting booths.
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Hmmm...with early voting going on in so many states, it could be a bit expensive keeping these guys continuously drunk for a few weeks...
November 14th, 2008 at 2:56 pmI was just thinking..
Going on the assumption, based from any interview, that Palin's verbal skills are somewhere between piss-poor and WTF, what is her former English teacher at good ol' WHS thinking right about now? Also, with SP's alleged degree in journalism from working her way through any number of colleges.. what exactly did she learn? If I taught journalism at Idaho or ISU (or wherever in God's name she got her degree), I'd be embarrased as hell.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:59 pmgummitch@33
What makes mooseyak different than any other repugs? What makes mann, shame hannity, limpdic, ipus or the kkk any different than chimpy/mcchimpy? It's the repug brand.
For anyone to think mooseyak is a flute, an outlier, a happenstance candidate in the repug party is happily eating shyte pot pies.
I find mooseyak more of the same repug brand.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:00 pmeven the repukes see through miss spandex and foam
November 14th, 2008 at 3:01 pmkenkohl Says:
Also, with SP’s alleged degree in journalism from working her way through any number of colleges.. what exactly did she learn? If I taught journalism at Idaho or ISU (or wherever in God’s name she got her degree), I’d be embarrased as hell.
Kinda like those good folks at Yale that sold Dubya's sheepskin to Daddy Bush, huh?
November 14th, 2008 at 3:03 pmIf her god really really loved her she would have won 1st place in Alaska's "beauty" pageant.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:06 pmlefty Says:
To all those complaining about Palinmania.2:
Well, I wasn't going to post today, and this is all I have time for, but, sir, I salute you. Excellent post and points!!
--------- my 2 cents, anyway....
Oh, and her GOD (tm) DID give her a door to "plough through": try "motherhood". Or try "mother to a special needs child." Maybe she should give those things a try.
(while normal women can manage those and carreers to varying degrees, it is clear that the Icy-moose-runner-up-queen has enough trouble just trying to formulate a coherent sentence).
November 14th, 2008 at 3:07 pmhad, how would you know about such an apparatus?
That's funny as hell.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:08 pmPalin is not on the list because she is a F**CKTARD!
November 14th, 2008 at 3:16 pmGame of Life Says:
had, how would you know about such an apparatus?
That’s funny as hell.
Saw it on a shopping network before I canceled my cable TV.
Would Palin and K Harris get the attention without the enhancements?
No woman at age 44 with 5 kids could have that shape... most teen girls do not... it is fake - as fake as the person that wears it.
Reminds me of Bush wearing the cod piece during mission accomplished.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:26 pmWell her god did ajar the door, then her god lol and screamed psych! then her god reinforced the doors as if it were Get Smart's headquarter.
Gawd, did anyone see the one clap she got when she mentioned "joe the plumber?" It was a quick one or two claps. KO showed the clip last night. It was funny as hell.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:28 pmI just don't get how these Republicans can seriously put this woman forward as a leader. She cannot even string a coherent sentence together. So unless everyone learns Palinese, I don't see how people could follow her lead!! She has no credibility, no self-awareness, and no depth!
November 14th, 2008 at 3:45 pmWhat a slap in the face as Palin was their VP selection but now nothing. Looks like Sarah will have to help fix convicted felon Ted's votes as the last chance to say in the game. With all the complaints filed against her as Govenor she might have to go back to work for the oil company and even sell some of those expensive clothes she got from the RNC.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:55 pmThe RGA leadership roster just goes to prove that the Republican party has morphed into a regional one-note (white male) party. If Sarah wants a leadership position with this group, then she better understand that submissive women are highly sought after by the boys.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:58 pmApparently, the Republican Governors Association needed more than a narrative in their leadership positions.
Good thing. Texas Gov. Rick Perry landed the Finance Chair job. He can use his RGA calculator to total how much Carlyle's Vought Aircraft Industries owes Texans for failing miserably on their job growth commitments.
$35 million for 6,000 jobs by 2009
The taxpayer rebate comes due next year.
November 14th, 2008 at 4:08 pmIf she had any chance of having executive qualities (possibly leading to prez), wouldn't they have given her at least a token leadership spot ?
November 14th, 2008 at 4:12 pmYeah, and so much for her expertise in all things oil and gas.
November 14th, 2008 at 4:22 pmSarah Gump sure needs to see a speech therapist so she can get her P's and Q's right. Because she's sure not going to shatter the glass ceiling with her Victoria's Secret politics. It may open doors...just that those doors are hotel and motel doors.
November 14th, 2008 at 4:22 pmBut what about all of that new "energy" she brings to the party like she lauded in Sarkozy's wife. Poor Palin, should just close-up shop move back to Idaho and start a University called Betcha. She could teach classes in political media distraction techniques and demagoguery!
Sarah Palin
November 14th, 2008 at 4:28 pmProf. Emeritus
U Betcha!
Looks like Palin will need help from stenographer Greta and the infotainers at CNN even MORE, reconstructing her damaged political career .
November 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pmFor real. Take a serious look at that picture and than someone please try to explain to me how the suggestion of her "hottiness" ever came to be. I just don't see it and I mean no disrespect as there are plenty of more valid reasons to disrespect her
November 14th, 2008 at 5:08 pmGadzooks! Maybe Republicans are smarter than we think!
November 14th, 2008 at 6:13 pmPalin really symbolizes the religious right movement perfectly. Just like the radical religious right, Republicans created a monster with Palin, and now they have to live with it. They create the monster, feed it, then sit bewildered when they lose control of it and watch it destroying them.
The Republican Governors can't stop Palin now. The monster is already on the rampage. I bet she'll win the Republican primary in 2012, then cost them another Presidential election when she turns off the moderate voters yet again.
November 14th, 2008 at 6:33 pmBut they did elect her Ms. Congeniality.
November 14th, 2008 at 6:49 pmWhat difference does it make ?
RGA "leadership" is about as applicable as "government intelligence"...........
November 14th, 2008 at 7:43 pmlefty Says:
To all those complaining about Palinmania.2:
STFU. This woman stepped on the national stage in front of tens of millions of people and flipped liberals the bird. She is the Last Dick Move and she in all her glorious stupidity is getting what she deserves.
I want them to break her. I want them to absolutely destroy the cult of boastful ignorance that has gripped the rightwing of this country. I want them to plow through the concrete barrier of anti-intellectualism and force these morons to feel some shred of shame for trying to pass this political equivalent of manufactured, fast-food porn as a Vice Presidential candidate.
This country needs to collectively punish someone like her who thinks that supreme bullsh!t confidence and religious/small town “common sense” is a sufficient substitute for intellect, talent and worldliness so that IT DOESN’T HAPPEN AGAIN. I want every two-bit “Joe the Plumber” to think twice about pretending that he knows a goddamn thing about anything.
We are seeing who the real political Britney Spears or Paris Hilton are here and her name is Sarah. And she should be treated with no more respect, because just like them, she is nothing more than a talentless media whore.
EXACTLY.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pmI want them to skin this pig-ignorant brood-mare ALIVE!
If you can't stand the heat, then get the fu(k off my TV!
Malignant narcissism...wiki it!
November 14th, 2008 at 9:16 pmThis is like the republican answer to that insane-o Wolf Blitzer question about whether Palin thought Obama might possibly select her to head an energy committee. Why anyone with a brain, especially Obama, would select this blithering idior to head ANY national committee is beyond me. Obviously it's beyond even the GOP! But Wolf there has to ask the tough questions. . .I guess(?)
November 14th, 2008 at 9:41 pmI'm wondering if Miss "Just Another BUSH in Lipstick" will now get back to taking care of her children and being focused on her family. It's clear she's been given THE MESSAGE -- let's see if she is listening.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:41 pmalready heard about this a couple days ago from http://stuffididlastnight.com
November 14th, 2008 at 11:06 pmohplease shut the f uck up
November 15th, 2008 at 12:34 am>>>>>>>>Okay, here’s what the Dems need to do for every election down there. Have giant, free keg parties on election days. All the good old boys will be there instead of at the voting booths.
Wouldn't work. I'd be at the keg party, and I'm a Democrat.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:20 amCould be they have ears.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:23 amThey may have selective hearing almost all the time but this one likely was obvious even muted.
Whatever thinking ability they called into play for these tough choices, a brick wall at full speed may not have looked like a good start to gather momentum.
But they continue to choose no-memtum, call it the right choice and try and sell it.
Not sure with these people.Just guessing.
At least the republican governors have some judgment.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:04 pmCheck out the following Palin McCain parody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv9bvrN1QMU
Ouch!
November 15th, 2008 at 3:27 pmSarah. Can you take a hint? You are not now, nor were you ever considered competent for the position you hoped to achieve nor the position you hold today. You, yourself made that glaringly apparent to the entire nation. You are just one reason that there was a run on the Republican seats this past election. You are just one of the reasons why Republicans took that title off their websites our of fear or shame. You did not advance your party. You gained no new voters. You served to be divisive and subsequently alienated entire groups of voters. Go join the rest of the losers, soon to be joined by Joe Lieberman, and have yourselves a pity party...although I doubt you'd be welcome.
November 17th, 2008 at 11:43 amI think Palin really symbolizes the religious right movement perfectly. The Republican Governors can’t stop Palin now. Because of her abilities, Good luck with the demonstrations. Personally, I have to attempt my 70-640 Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring certification exam about which I'm confident to pass in first attempt as i have pass my 70-649 for MCTS certifications exam in first attempt along with 70-620 for Configuring Microsoft Windows Vista Client with proper guidance and preparation as palin is ready to face the world but she is doing well in herself but should be careful about her own family along with the politics.
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