Palin backs out of CPAC.
By on Feb 10th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Palin backs out of CPAC.
Washington Whispers reports that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) will no longer be speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the end of February. Palin told event organizers that the “duties of governing” now prevent her from attending:
“We’re obviously disappointed,” said a CPAC official. A spokesman for the three-day confab, organized by the American Conservative Union Foundation and others, said that Palin, the popular former vice presidential nominee, had indicated she would be able to attend but cited “duties of governing” in bowing out. Instead, she will send in a taped message.
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Say it ain’t so, Joe…..you betcha! (wink wink) and they won’t get to see her CFMN boots either! So there.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:18 pmYou betcha!
February 10th, 2009 at 3:18 pmI call bullshit! If her duties of governing were so important to her, she would at least go into the rual parts of Alaska that are in dire straits and do whatever she could do to help them.
Wonder which party came up that is more importnat to her this time?
February 10th, 2009 at 3:18 pmAny thread that has to do with Sarah Pathetic has nothing to add to any intelligent discourse.
Next thread, please.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:18 pmNo one with a brain cares what this pathetic republican user has to say or do.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:19 pmWhat if they gave a Conservative Political Action Conference and nobody came?
February 10th, 2009 at 3:21 pmSo much for the Repubs’ brief fling with women.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:22 pmPerhaps the Alaska Independence Party PAC talked her out of it.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:24 pmWait that’s the same excuse she used at the last Republican conference she blew off and then attended the Alfalfa dinner instead so she could meet President Obama.
She must have gotten another better offer.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:24 pmJohn Kerry, I don’t think you know what the word “threat” means. When the neighbor kids point and laugh at you and leave a flaming bag of dog poop on your front porch it isn’t because they consider you a threat. FYI.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:27 pmOR
February 10th, 2009 at 3:28 pm6) giving birth to somebody else’ baby
It’s funny how the pressing nature of Palin’s “responsibilities” changes depending on how advantageous she perceives making an appearance! Or perhaps CPAC wasn’t willing to foot the bill for hauling, housing, clothing and feeding the whole hillbilly clan!
How’s that investigation into who paid for Casa de Palin going, Alaska?
I’m am just loving this GOPer as the new face of the ‘Pubs!
PEACE
February 10th, 2009 at 3:29 pmBut please oh please let her run for president in 2012. At least in the primaries. She is comedy gold.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:29 pmit’s pretty bad when a mediawhore like wailin palin dips out on your event.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:30 pmi heard bristol was a shoe-in for the jeanne kirkpatrick freedom award, and matt “rod majors” sanchez was presenting.
Maybe its the Running of the Caribou that weekend.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:31 pmI wonder if it has anything to do with why her Attorney General is resigning.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:35 pm#4, i totally disagree. if the north slope trollop is the greatest hope for the repukes, i say she should have a news crew following her arse 24/7. it’s only a matter of time before she get caught doing something illegal.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:35 pmOr she reserved a bunch of helicopters for a fun little aerial wolf shoot.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:40 pmSure she did JK. But she chased away more independents than she attracted in the base. That’s why she LOST.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:44 pm“Dem caused economy” John Kerry. You better stop snorting that kookaid.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:45 pmJohn Kerry Says:
Oh please, don’t run Palin in 2012! We would have no chance in that brier patch, erm, I mean match up…
heh.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:46 pmjohn kerry troll,
February 10th, 2009 at 3:46 pm“igniting” is not a synonym for “imploding”. imploding is the word you should have used. failin palin did more for obama’s campaign than i ever dreamed possible.
“She was basically responsible for igniting the Mc Cain campaign.”
Which went down in flames shortly thereafter.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:47 pmI think you might be one of the oddballs Ari Fleischer was referring to, JK, if not an actual phlegmball.
John Kerry Says:
Ya Betcha she was a threat in Nov!! She was basically responsible for igniting the Mc Cain campaign.
Ahhhh, so that was why it went down in flames. Thanks for the clarification.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:48 pmOh, JK, Palin isn’t a threat… She’s a treat!
And luckily, it doesn’t appear that she’ll go quietly into that good night. Every time this idiot opens her mouth, a Democrat gets another vote!
PEACE
February 10th, 2009 at 3:48 pm“Brotha O”? John Kerry, that’s twice you’ve used that pejorative. It’s curious that we seem to have accepted explicit racism as valid dialogue, which, I suppose, is the reason that your comments remain. I wonder why “free speech” is assumed to be absolute.
Gov. Palin’s withdrawal from CPAC is interesting given that she does appear to have future Presidential aspirations. As CPAC generally elevates “heads of parties,” at least momentarily, her absence is suggestive.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:50 pmsarah palin, much like syph, she’s the gift that just keeps giving.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:51 pmI wonder if this has something to do with the fact that a tape can be edited to remove anything embarrasing before its release
February 10th, 2009 at 3:54 pm“Instead, she will send in a taped message.”
Which will be played over and over in the basement storage rooms, to keep the hanky-panky to a minimum.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:55 pmIt’s about time she returned to work and earned her paycheck. The Alaskan taxpayer has been ripped off ever since senile McCain picked Palin as his running mate. She has been AWOL for months.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:57 pmI’m sure the Repubs still have their female “escorts” or are these “escorts” now young boys?
February 10th, 2009 at 4:00 pmTodd was at a Snowmobile race & couldn’t write her speech for her.
Wow! John T. Kerry actually responded after excreting a post. He loves him some Nail’n Palin, I guess.
Hey Johnboy, do you have that photoshopped pic of her in a Red, White & Blue bikini taped to your shower wall? I thought so!
February 10th, 2009 at 4:02 pmBBBhhwwwaaaaa……..LOL….rolling on the floor……bbhhwwwaaaaaaa….. drolling now………bbhhwwaaaaaaaaaaa….
Now, just Limberger is left!! BBBhhhwwwaaaaaa…..
February 10th, 2009 at 4:10 pmJohn Kerry Says:
It’s so obvious that Sarah is a HUGE threat to all libs because you all try and make a big deal out of ANYTHING concerning her NO MATTER how minute it is.
Get ready in 2012 when she will obliterate the inexperienced, useless Brotha!
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hmmm, where have i heard this before?
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John Kerry Says:
ZOGBY SATURDAY: Republican John McCain has pulled back within the margin of error… The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all
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February 10th, 2009 at 4:11 pmShe’s probably pissed now that Rush is the leader of the pack.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:11 pmI’m sort of surprised that the title of this post hasn’t drawn RR out.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:11 pmHey! Did I just see what I think I saw? Did John Kerry stay long enough to post twice. Maybe it was the clever use of the bold feature that caught my attention. John are you growing betond collosal pussy?
How about we get together to discuss it. I have a nice bluefish pate…
February 10th, 2009 at 4:14 pmFirst of all, it is unpatriotic and unAmerican to make racist remarks about our President. I assume you mean President Barack Obama when you refer to “Brotha O”. Secondly, President Obama drew bigger crowds than Palin during his campaign. You must have forgotten about the crowds in OR, CO and State College PA. Thirdly, you obviously didn’t pay attention to our President’s press conference last night. The Republics lead by their god George W Bush fulfilled St Ronnie’s dream of destroying our economy. We were three hours away from total collapse due to a surge in investors pulling their money out of money markets.
JK – get educated.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:22 pmJohn Kerry actually believes that Gov. Palin drew bigger crowds than then-Sen. Obama???
What.
An.
Idiot.
Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good distraction, Mr. Kerry. Your six-college governor and her no-college husband have a long way to go to be a threat to any intelligent discourse.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:33 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
What if they gave a Conservative Political Action Conference and nobody came?
Isn’t that sort of what’s happening? Squush is the ne plus ultra of “nobodiness.”
[note to brain-impaired repugs such as John Kerry: "ne plus ultra" means "there's nothing more."]
February 10th, 2009 at 4:37 pmSaruhh:
“How could I possibly go? I don’t have a thing to wear!”
February 10th, 2009 at 4:40 pmPerry logan Says:
So much for the Repubs’ brief fling with women.
I’m restraining myself valiantly from writing all the ideas that flock to mind when I consider “brief fling” and “Repug” in the same breath. . .
February 10th, 2009 at 4:40 pmShayne Says:
Wait that’s the same excuse she used at the last Republican conference she blew off and then attended the Alfalfa dinner instead so she could meet President Obama.
She must have gotten another better offer.
Do we REALLY care why? I’m just enjoying the repug frothing and trying to temper my guffaw into a mere smirk [I'm at work].
February 10th, 2009 at 4:43 pmPatty Says:
John Kerry actually believes that Gov. Palin drew bigger crowds than then-Sen. Obama???
What.
An.
Idiot.
Even for the coward masquerading as John Kerry, this one set a new standard for idiocy.
Palin/McCain never came within a million miles of this: http://tinyurl.com/6ayuk5
It is, however, true that Palin got the wingnuts excited; fortunately for the country and the world, excited wingnuts just don’t have the numbers they used to, as more people wake from their slumber.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:45 pmJK you ignorant punk troll. You are a coward and a moron. Only the imbeciles as stupid as you want anything to do with Bimbostien and you are a minority. Next time you want to post another of your unbelievably ignorant posts just hit yourself in the head with a blunt object till the stupidity passes
February 10th, 2009 at 4:45 pmCould we start a collection to ship John Kerry to Alaska? Perhaps if he could spend time near his idol, his brain would finish rotting and we wouldn’t have to flag his pathetic attempts at repartee.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:47 pmjoe cantwell Says:
hmmm, where have i heard this before?
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Recycled racist stupidity is the only thing we EVER get from JK. All his posts are wierdly familiar in a I need to go take a shower and vomit kinda way
February 10th, 2009 at 4:49 pmpalin’s gotta to be looking every morning yonder at Russia, checking out Putin over there. she really has no time to be away from polishing her foreign relations credentials looking out for Putin.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:50 pmShhhhhh! Sarah is the progressives’ dream opponent. At the end of the day she is an incurious nitwit who knows nothing about anything.
February 10th, 2009 at 4:56 pmThat’s exactly what I first thought! Pretty hard to fake pregnancy when you’re too vain to wear a fat suit.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:02 pmAnd of course, she is terrified of speaking off the script, someone might ask her a question, and she can’t very well call that crowd “liberal biased”!
There is no way the Rs will promote her as a candidate again, the money boys won’t let them.
that sure seemed like a slow 15 minutes
oh well – over is over.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:04 pmTo the assclown troll John Kerry:
Ron Paul slams the “Born again budget consevatives”
Ron Paul: Where were we in the past eight years, when we could have done something? It is the last eight years that has set this situation up. So we can’t blame the Democrats for the conditions we have.
Looks like the savior of many republicans is a traitor or a communist.
February 10th, 2009 at 5:27 pmMaybe Alaskans are just a little pissed at her lack of work ethics.
February 10th, 2009 at 6:58 pmMaybe the lovely governor from Alaska should remember her own words:
[She was] “. . .thinking that it’s going to go our way on Tuesday, Nov. 4. I truly believe that the wisdom of the people will be revealed on that day,” she said.
February 10th, 2009 at 8:13 pmrational argument would have said that reagan and bush the lesser would have been progressives’ dream opponents. But that didn’t work out so well.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:07 pm.
Sarah’s too busy bailing Todd out of jail…
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February 11th, 2009 at 12:59 amI think Sarah cancelled because of EYEONPALIN.COM & she’s a chicken!!
Palin is scheduled to give a major speech in Washington, DC on February 26th. And we want to put the national spotlight on her support for aerial killing of wolves and the execution of helpless wolf pups, her equally outrageous slaughter of female brown and black bears and their cubs, her lawsuit to eliminate federal protections for imperiled polar bears, and her opposition to protecting imperiled beluga whales.
Palin’s clearly worried about our national public education campaign: She’s tried to tar the Eye on Palin campaign as the efforts of an “extreme fringe group.” But Palin’s aerial wolf-killing program has been repeatedly condemned by scientists, Alaskans and ethical hunters alike.
We’ve already gained the support of some 120 members of Congress to pass federal legislation to end her barbaric killing. And we will stop her.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:15 amSo NOW she wants to govern?
Where was that urgent concern when she was stumping for Chambliss in GA? When she was doing her “tour de gotcha media”?
“Blamey Whinehouse” indeed…
February 11th, 2009 at 10:22 am