GOP rushes to placate Palin after trying to prevent her from upstaging Gingrich at fundraising dinner.
GOP rushes to placate Palin after trying to prevent her from upstaging Gingrich at fundraising dinner.
Last month, the NRSC and the NRCC issued a joint press release announcing that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) would deliver the keynote address at their annual fundraising dinner. Palin’s staff quickly quashed the excitement and said the governor would not be attending. (She was allegedly “worried about overexposure.”) Instead, the NRSC and NRCC turned to former House speaker Newt Gingrich. Palin “hadn’t been expected to attend the event until last week, when her advisers approached organizers saying she would be near Washington and would like to come.” However, as news outlets reported today, Palin’s team is now balking because the governor will no longer be allowed to speak:
Gingrich has done more than his part, according to many involved in raising the money, and Sessions didn’t want the former Speaker overshadowed by someone who had not helped raise the millions the dinner is expected to pull in. Sessions said Palin could be introduced, but would not be allowed to speak.
Palin’s team was offended that she was not given the chance to speak and said they would not send the governor to the dinner, even though she is in Washington on Monday. In the end, it was Palin’s camp that leaked word of the spat.
Over the weekend, Cornyn did his best to smooth over the ruffled feathers. The NRSC chief called Palin on Sunday; that call has not been returned.
Greg Sargent reports that Sessions is now rushing to make nice with Palin. Ironically, Sessions plans to stress that the GOP is “a unified party” in his speech at the fundraising event.
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June 8th, 2009 at 3:19 pmGOP: Bootlicking 101.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:21 pmJockeying for position already. Either would be fine as a GOP nominee in 2012, although Palin would probably bring out more of the 20% by flinging more raw meat at them.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:21 pmSarah Palin = Josephine Goebbels, a modern incarnation of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda
June 8th, 2009 at 3:22 pmSupposedly, Palin got a huge turnout of Republitards over the weekend at some event. The GOP is in a tight spot – she’s one of the few who can draw a crowd – would any non-politicos show up to see Newt Grinch?
June 8th, 2009 at 3:23 pmHell hath no fury like Caribou Barbie scorned…..
June 8th, 2009 at 3:25 pmOh boy, a food fight. Isn’t this the second time Diva Palin pulled this, please don’t stop…you look goofy and Newt is goofy. The GOPers are looker better and better to lose the next 2 election cycles.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:25 pmI completely disagree.
Sarah’s not even close to being that smart.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:26 pmjust another example of modern day mental slavery
June 8th, 2009 at 3:27 pm“Palin’s team was offended that she was not given the chance to speak and said they would not send the governor to the dinner…” Wow, poor lady. Sounds like she doesn’t even have a choice in the matter.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:28 pmThe Old White Boys Club is treating Princess Wasilla like a fish on the line. They haven’t decided yet whether they’re going to reel her in or release her, so they’re giving her just enough line to swim around and feel like she’s getting her way.
And she’s dumb enough to fall for it. Hook, line and sink-her.
PEACE
June 8th, 2009 at 3:28 pmMoosemeat upstaged by NewTurd?
The Republic trifecta:
-Lie to the public
-Lie to your own Party
-Lie to yourself
Hell of a plan, Republics, hell of a plan…
June 8th, 2009 at 3:30 pmRABBLE! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!
June 8th, 2009 at 3:31 pmSarah Palin electrifies the base of the party. But so do everyone else. Is there anyone who can appeal to independents and moderates?
Everyone trotted out recently has been a total failure.
Jindal
Steele
Cantor
Romney
Rush
Gingrich
Pawlenty (that Eminem comment will get him a long way)
The republicans are in total chaos. When not criticizing President Obama, they are busy fighting among themselves. Can’t they decide on one person to be the face… so many egos!
June 8th, 2009 at 3:32 pmDear Caribou Barbie. If it wasn’t for spell check she couldn’t even spell socialism. She is much more comfie with keeping her constituents dumber than she is. Quite a project since rocks are wishing she would just hush.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:32 pmHere is my pick for the Republicans in 2012:
Sara Palin for President
Joe the Plumber for Vice President
Rush Limbaugh for Press Secretary
Carrie Prejean for Secretary of Education
Jeff Sessions for Attorney General
With a line up like this, the Democrats CAN’T lose!
June 8th, 2009 at 3:33 pmIt is sort of hilarious that the Republicans are even considering a woman who’s main claim to fame is MILFdom. Brains and ability are definitely not her forte.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:37 pmI didn’t say she was smart. As a demagogue and propagandist, however, I do believe she rivals Goebbels. She’s certainly as dangerous, possibly even more.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:40 pmI saw Ron Christie (Repub spokesperson) claim, in his nasally voice, that anyone who criticizes Palin is SEXIST. No explanation for what he meant, of course. Isn’t coddling someone without addressing their ideas and ability sexist in and of itself?
Running around trying to appease Palin is condescending to her (not that I’m defending her). Just tell her that “s#*% happens” and hope that she can move on and mature. If she can’t, then you know she wasn’t meant to lead the party. Not because she’s a woman, but because she’s a thin-skinned idiot.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:41 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
OSarah bin Palin
June 8th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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Ok, this nickname is a bit much. I highly doubt that Sarah Palin is the son of her husband. That’s just silly.
It should be OSarah bint Palin, if you want to be grammatically correct.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:46 pmI can see POUTING from my house!
June 8th, 2009 at 3:47 pmI don’t know… did people laugh at Goebbels?
June 8th, 2009 at 3:47 pmLefty Liberal Says:
Here is my pick for the Republicans in 2012:
Sara Palin for President
Joe the Plumber for Vice President
Rush Limbaugh for Press Secretary
With a line up like this, the Democrats CAN’T lose!
June 8th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:47 pmCat fight.
Hey, Shara why was your house built with supplied from the Sports Complex…
….which you did not pay for…
…and why does your husband call the contractors that built it “His Friends”?
Shara is a crook just like all the other Republic Fascist Party members.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:48 pmNeeds more Bachmann in my opinion/
June 8th, 2009 at 3:50 pmChiroptera toasterhead #24
Funny you should make that quote. That was my signature line on my email throughout the Bush years.
Your point is appropriate, my worry is that if Obama continues to pander to the Republicans and angers the liberals and progressives to the point they won’t vote for him (I’m getting very close to that point by the way), then someone like Palin could easily become president.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:51 pmYoungSloshee Says:
I saw Ron Christie (Repub spokesperson) claim, in his nasally voice, that anyone who criticizes Palin is SEXIST. No explanation for what he meant, of course.
Ah yes, Christie the cross-eyed blowhole whose only strategy appears to be continuing to talk over anyone who questions him about the accuracy of his broad brush statements.
I guess it’s getting harder and harder to find pundits willing to defend these petty morons.
PEACE
June 8th, 2009 at 3:52 pmdeebaser #26
How silly of me to forget her! How about Bachmann as Secretary of State?
June 8th, 2009 at 3:54 pmI keep worrying that the republicans are going to wise up, turn around, and start making sense before the election. Surely they will realize that they can’t win on the old, white, religious vote alone.
Then I see a Palin rally, and all my worries are soothed. I can only hope that she is their front-runner in 2012.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:54 pmYou can run but you can’t hide freedom boy: why won’t you go and fight in the war your boy lied us into? Is it because you’re a coward or is it because you can’t ask or tell?
June 8th, 2009 at 3:56 pm#23 ralph the wonder locust Says:I don’t know… did people laugh at Goebbels?
June 8th, 2009 at 3:56 pmThat would only once ralph
Somewhere in the maze of a tony, gated community, deep in a republican greenhouse amongst the venus flytraps and corpse flowers (titan arum), a policy meeting is underway. A lone daisy is being molested to determine the future:
Snub her…snub her not….snub her…snub her not……
June 8th, 2009 at 3:57 pmMaybe the Republicans are ready for a new mascot. The whole elephant thing is old hat. I think the DNC should come out with a resolution that the new Republican mascot is a parrot.
Since no Republican has been able to come out with anything original these past few years, it somehow seems appropriate.
“Rawk, Socialism. Rawk, little gubmint. Rawk, rascist!”
June 8th, 2009 at 3:58 pmshe’s one of the few who can draw a crowd
I am hearing from friends in Alaska that the only thing Failin’ Palin can do up there is draw flies.
Guess she’s gotta come to the “lower 48″ to find enough morons to make an audience these days.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:58 pmLefty Liberal Says:
Your point is appropriate, my worry is that if Obama continues to pander to the Republicans and angers the liberals and progressives to the point they won’t vote for him (I’m getting very close to that point by the way), then someone like Palin could easily become president.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
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Exactly. It wouldn’t take much – a disillusioned left, a bit of creative gerrymandering after the 2010 census, and more of the usual Rovian vote hacking – to put the Palin/Plumber dream ticket in the White House. It’s the kind of joke that’s just crazy enough to come true.
BTW that quote is on a demotivational poster hanging on the wall of my cubicle. It’s gotten me through many a conference call with my sanity intact. :)
June 8th, 2009 at 3:59 pmHow silly of me to forget her! How about Bachmann as Secretary of State?
I think HEW fits her better. Besides, Gov Perry has the whole states thing going for him, providing he doesn’t secede.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:02 pmchiroptera toasterhead #36
Exactly. It wouldn’t take much – a disillusioned left, a bit of creative gerrymandering after the 2010 census, and more of the usual Rovian vote hacking – to put the Palin/Plumber dream ticket in the White House. It’s the kind of joke that’s just crazy enough to come true.
As strange as this may seem, that might be a good thing for the US. The resurgence of the progressives and liberals was due to the utter failure of the Bush administration. So far with Obama we have only moved slightly more left, but his administration is really nothing more than Bush-light.
Maybe a Palin/Plumber presidency would cause so much damage that we would finally be able to get people elected that care more about people than corporate profits. Yeah, I know. Wishful thinking, but it is the only thing that lets me sleep at night.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:08 pmI’m thinking that the repugs need to either fish or cut bait with Palin.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:11 pmHoodathunktick #37
I think HEW fits her better. Besides, Gov Perry has the whole states thing going for him, providing he doesn’t secede.
You are right, Gov Perry is definitely a better fit for Secretary of State and bachmann is a good fit for HEW. But where would you put Carrie Prejean?
June 8th, 2009 at 4:13 pmYou know you’ve reached a new low when you have to steal material from Newtie…
June 8th, 2009 at 4:15 pmLook, this party has so little going for it, that their kind of royalty is a fat whale and a brainless twit. This is why they lost. Or one of the reasons. They placate the wrong people. They allow a woman with barely the ability to function rationally, to actually represent their party. Just a few years back they would have ridiculed this idiot. Now they do not want her to speak. Why? Because they know that listening to this person will remind everyone, including their own base, just how dimwitted she is. Well they cannot have it both ways.
Rush is just as stupid. The only difference between them is 400 pounds and a loud microphone. These and many like them, DO REPRESENT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. This is who they are. They are not just the party of no, to everything. They are the party of know nothing. This is the most negative party I have ever heard. And if the shrinking base they have want to continue being represented by these morons, they deserve what they get.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:27 pmPlease, please Sarah talk and talk we all hold our breath for more of your illuminating comments. As Palin for the repub spokesperson along with limbaugh we are insured of another 4 years after this 4.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:30 pmBut where would you put Carrie Prejean?
Homeland Security?
She could work ‘closely’ with Bobby Jindhal in Defense.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:35 pmRepubs supporting Palin and rush are showing their true, racists, hate mongering selfs. They care nothing about making the world better just how much attention they get each day. But every generation has a hate monger but there seems to be more this generation.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:37 pmPalin and Gingrich dboth going after attention.
Kind of like a mud wrestline match.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:42 pmIt’s my most fervent wish that Sarah Palin run for president in 2012.
Palin/Bachmann 2012!!!
June 8th, 2009 at 4:45 pmYoungSloshee Says:
I saw Ron Christie (Repub spokesperson) claim, in his nasally voice, that anyone who criticizes Palin is SEXIST. No explanation for what he meant, of course. Isn’t coddling someone without addressing their ideas and ability sexist in and of itself?
He also thought Obama played the “race” card too much during the election. The cross eyed blowhard used to work for Cheney. No credibility :)
June 8th, 2009 at 4:46 pmI know more repubs that have switched parties with these buffoons talking than ever before. Repubs will go the way of the Whigs.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:46 pmCParis Says:
Supposedly, Palin got a huge turnout of Republitards over the weekend at some event.
By completely ripping off an old Gingrich speech, no less.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:46 pmHoodathunktick #44
I Like Bobby Jindhal for Secretary of Defense, but I think there are better people for Homeland Security. Maybe Carrie Pregean should be Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Bill Frist is a shoe-in for Surgeon General.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:47 pmkdgamergirl Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
If Ron Christie and Michael Steele got together and had a baby, it would be the Daryll (aka looktothehills, aka RaptureReady) troll.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:48 pmHmmmm Palin in the White House, now there’s a picture. With the bearskin rug on the couch for visiting dignataries. Along with the mooseheads on the wall. Sort of like the Clampetts. Instead of Easter egg hunting, Palin could take the kids wolf killing from the White House helicopter. Favorite dinner would be moose stew.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:50 pmIf Ron Christie and Michael Steele got together and had a baby, it would be the Daryll (aka looktothehills, aka RaptureReady) troll.
I think I just threw up in my hat.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:50 pmHoodathunktick Says:
I think I just threw up in my hat.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I think you need a new hat.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:53 pmHoodathunktick Says:
I think I just threw up in my hat.
A**hat troll, I hope.
June 8th, 2009 at 4:55 pmShe’s poison, GOP– but you just don’t get it.
June 8th, 2009 at 5:03 pmNo, no don’t tell the gopers the truth about palin, let them give their money for her campaign and watch them go down AGAIN !
June 8th, 2009 at 5:12 pmBetween her and the FAUX Noise bimbos, they have this bizarre worship of pretty girls to the degree that they can’t tell the difference between being attractive and having anything to say. Eventually they’ll replace all their primaries with beauty contests. Ironically this would put more women in positions of power than any amount of affirmative action the Dems could do…
June 8th, 2009 at 5:24 pmThe libs are going to be dumbfounded when a republican wins in a land slide in 2012. Get ready for palinomics.
June 8th, 2009 at 5:31 pmThe bar has gone up significantly on what will be expected from any future president, and Palin is freakishly unqualified to begin with.
The Republicani party is gone primeval and the world has moved on. Bush and Cheney are going to prison, and relations around the world are being repared. No attack or false flag, no matter the magnitude, could persuade the public to trust the Republicans ever again, no matter how loudly they proclaim “i told you so!” and “we would have kept you safe”.
June 8th, 2009 at 5:36 pmNice photo of her doing what she does best.
:|
Handling balls.
June 8th, 2009 at 5:51 pmJimmy Big Bucks Says:
The libs are going to be dumbfounded when a republican wins in a land slide in 2012.
2012 is gonna be awesome. Watching you guys dig even deeper to find another shred of credibility to burn in your senseless crusades fills liberal hearts with joy.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:17 pmWhy is Palin even an issue? She is a moron.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:25 pmBah hahahahaha! Funniest comment ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 8th, 2009 at 6:42 pmThey’ll win if they steal the election. The only reason why the repukes didn’t steal the 2008 election was because of two things (though they did try in some precincts):
1. They wanted the Democrats in the White House to take the blame for the Bush years.
2. Overwhelmingly the nation kicked the republicans out in a landslide too big for them to steal.
Or, it could be both reasons. Either way, there is no way in hell the independents are going to look at Sarah Palin as the rational person to lead our nation! She’s a phucking joke if you haven’t noticed. Oh yes, she brings out the donors, but look at who she is bringing out? The right wing American Nationalist Taliban members! The independents will not surround her. Never. She scares the whole nation PLUS the planet.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:46 pmSarah should pose nude for playboy, then all of the republicans male and female, who “want her” would’nt have to waste time imagining her naked…and being president…..
June 8th, 2009 at 6:48 pmthere’s nothing else about her that’s remotely interesting
Sure, what few members are left in the G-NO-P are probably unified. Not many of them left, though.
June 8th, 2009 at 8:50 pmOH! OH! OH! I know!!! Carrie Prejean can be the new White House spokesmode–er, PRESS SECRETARY!!!
*giggle*
I can see her now, clutching her cross and tearing up if anyone asks her an even slightly difficult question!
June 8th, 2009 at 9:04 pmOverexposure? More Northern Exposure. Palin is crazier than Sicely mooses.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:19 pmPalin as president good for Progressives? Who said that? That’s like saying that encouraging drunks to drive would be good for safety.
Obama/Biden 2012
Then we get really funky.
June 9th, 2009 at 4:06 amThey should just stop the unnecessary charade. They like Palin because she’s white, they think she’s attractive, she acts flirtatious, she’s a bible thumper, and she’s a bigot always ready to incite hate.
So, why not just be straightforward? Just invite her to Republican events, put her in a bikini in blackface, hand her a bible and a rifle, and let her dance on a stripper pole. It would be simpler for Sarah, raise funds, and invigorate the base.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:35 amWOW the ass kissing begins.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:34 pm