What’s the GOP to do with Sarah?
Sarah Palin’s on-again, off-again appearance at Monday night’s gala GOP fundraising dinner is off — again.
After being invited — for a second time — to speak to the annual joint fundraiser for the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Palin was told abruptly Saturday night that she would not be allowed to address the thousands of Republicans there after all.
The Alaska governor may now skip the dinner altogether, and her allies are miffed at what they see as a slight from the congressional wing of the Republican Party.
The reason given for the snub, said a Palin aide, was that NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions was concerned about not wanting to upstage former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the fundraising gala’s keynote speaker….
Palin was in New York this weekend on a mix of state and personal business — she celebrated the 50th anniversary of Alaska statehood Saturday at a large celebration in Auburn, N.Y., the hometown of William Seward of “Seward’s Folly” fame — and the 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?”
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getalife
June 8th, 2009
2:15 pm
The Young and the Palin’s soap opera has too much drama.
Frederick Douglass
June 8th, 2009
2:25 pm
It’s probably for the best, now she can get on back to Alaska to spy on the North Koreans from her back porch.
WhoCares
June 8th, 2009
2:26 pm
<=== Thinks Jay is HOT for Sarah Palin
Roswell Ed
June 8th, 2009
2:29 pm
I think that she is a decent honest person who was torn DOWN by the left at any cost.
Why is it that liberals love to lift up women and minorities and assail their “life story” when they turn out to be liberals, but
Will completely dismiss that same woman of minority if that person is a Conservative.
Again what hypocrisy.
This is what I wrote on the subject comparing Sotomayors “life experience” compared to Clarence Thomas. I’m not taking anything away from this accomplished woman but read this and see the MSM hypocrisy.
http://libertarianhumor.com/2009/05/27/supreme-court-nominee-part-deaux/
Copyleft
June 8th, 2009
2:34 pm
Roswell Ed: How it is “hypocrisy” to disagree with people whose politics you dislike and agree with those whose politics you DO like?
Surely that’s gender- and color-blind politics at its finest, right?
George American
June 8th, 2009
2:34 pm
The liberal media is attacking this attractive republican woman. The reason liberals don’t get attacked by the media is because they’s so ugly.
huhhuhu – ugly liberals
HavingMySay
June 8th, 2009
2:36 pm
If I never hear Sarah Palins name again, it will be to soon. Please,Jay, enough with Sarah Palin.
Brad Steel
June 8th, 2009
2:38 pm
Palin… Gingrich… Limbaugh … Cheney
Thank you republicans. Maybe you can get Charles Manson paroled to help you with your party image and perception.
Confessions of a Republican Bus Driver
June 8th, 2009
2:42 pm
Sarah threw herself under the bus. I did everything possible to avoid her but she just would not stop. Whether I turned left or right or steered straight ahead. Whether I went forward or backed up or even stood still. There she was. Always under the tires. There’s only so much a bus driver can do. I could understand her actions if I were a union driver but I’m not, I tell you. It’s just suicidal, I tell you. You gotta believe me.
Normal
June 8th, 2009
2:43 pm
Roswell Ed and George American- Sarah tore herself down, she had no clue during the elections and I was that close to voting for McCain until the GOP picked her as an obvious political move. Today the GOP
doesn’t want anything more to do with her. They would waterboard her if they thought they could get away with it. It shows how much “dumbing down” the GOP tries.
mike
June 8th, 2009
2:45 pm
Does Jay realize that there are Republicans besides Newt, Rush and Palin? Does anyone remember Olbermann and John Kerry being the sole point of discussion after 2004? Any chance that Jay and the rest of the liberal media might ever cover Republicans who are actually in office?
mike
June 8th, 2009
2:47 pm
Brad –
“Palin… Gingrich… Limbaugh … Cheney”
Just feel fortunate that the media is totally biased and that Olbermann and John Kerry were not the subject of all media coverage in 2005. The unrelenting liberal propaganda that passes for news gives the left serious advantage.
ByteMe
June 8th, 2009
2:47 pm
mike: Do the republicans realize it? Nahhhhh…..
The rightwingnuts want GM to die just to prove their point (whatever their point is): http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/right-wingers-to-boycott-gm.php?ref=fpblg
Isn’t this treason?
Normal
June 8th, 2009
2:49 pm
Mike, why?
mike
June 8th, 2009
2:50 pm
Frederick Douglass –
“It’s probably for the best, now she can get on back to Alaska to spy on the North Koreans from her back porch.”
Gee, another liberal “intellectual” who can’t tell the difference between the words of a politician and the comedian who parodies her. Palin never said she could see Russia. Tina Fey did.
Now who’s the dim bulb?
Kamchak
June 8th, 2009
2:54 pm
686,293—population of Alaska (2008 est)
101,695—number of ballots cast on 2006 Alaska Governors’ election
51,443—-number of votes Sarah Palin received
Why is/was this women ever relevant?
BDAtlanta
June 8th, 2009
2:54 pm
Can she pole dance?
catlady
June 8th, 2009
2:55 pm
The laughs never stop. Sarah Palin: The Gift that Keeps on Giving.
I amuse myself by predicting What Will Sarah Do?
Doggone/GA
June 8th, 2009
2:56 pm
“If I never hear Sarah Palins name again, it will be to soon. Please,Jay, enough with Sarah Palin”
Am I *really* the only one so far that realizes this is NOT about Sarah Palin?
getalife
June 8th, 2009
2:56 pm
Look like the good ole boys chose Newt.
Looks great for an Obama second term.
Sam
June 8th, 2009
2:57 pm
What to do with her? Put her up as 2012’s sacrificial lamb. When she losses in the biggest landslide in electoral history she’ll fall off the radar forever.
Roswell Ed
June 8th, 2009
2:58 pm
Brad Steel-
Wasn’t Manson a commune living, Birkenstock-tie dye wearing, communal sharing, free loving, no hygiene living hippie who wanted to stick it to the man?
I mean really man if you’re going to make an analogy like that take it to the dailykos or some other idiot web site.
What you should have done was lumped Nancy Palosi, Harry Reid, John Murtha, the Democratic Congress and Charles Manson in an analogy.
Take that other hooey over to the huffing-and-puffington post or the daily-coo-coo.
Hey for more of this insight visit me at
libertarianhumor.com
mike
June 8th, 2009
2:59 pm
Normal –
“Mike, why?”
Why is it an advantage for Democrats for the media to be filled with liberal propaganda? Isn’t it obvious?
Here are two examples that have come up i the last few minutes.
First, the White House decides to paint the most extreme voices of the party as the leaders of the party. The media go right along with it and these loudmouths who are only popular with the fringe are portrayed as the voice of the party. The media never branded Olbermann or Kerry as the leaders of the Democrats in 2005? Why not? Because it would hurt them.
Second, SNL goes on a mission to kneecap Palin by portraying her as an idiot who says “I Can see Russia from my house”. Palin never said it, yet we have gullible folks like Frederick Douglass who really believes that she says it.
There are plenty more reasons, from highlighting low approval ratings for the GOP Congress and ignoring the lower ratings of the Democrat Congress to giving far more airtime to Larry Craig than to John Murtha.
As Newsweek’s Evan Thomas said in 2004:
“Let’s talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. . . . They’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and there’s going to be this glow about them . . . that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points.”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005571
Gee, I wonder if that dynamic helped in 2008 at all.
mike
June 8th, 2009
3:02 pm
getalife –
“Look like the good ole boys chose Newt.”
Well, actually Newt ranks the lowest among Republican candidates for the Presidential nod in 2012 among Republicans.
Wouldn’t want the facts to get in the way of your baseless yammering though.
Matilda
June 8th, 2009
3:03 pm
“The reason liberals don’t get attacked by the media is because they’s so ugly.”
Really? Hillary didn’t get attacked for things specific to being a woman? No “news” discussions about her role as a wife and mother, her thighs, pantsuits, robotic manner, lack of femininity (until she cried once, then OH NO she’s too emotional), whether she’s faking her feelings, whether her laugh is genuine, whether she actually loves the husband she forgave? Please! Even Olbermann and Maddow vilified her on the double standard. And the “ooo, Sarah’s a real woman!” Repubs are NO BETTER with the “ooo, she’s HOT!” garbage.
Sarah Palin WAS treated unfairly for being a pretty woman because she’s a woman, not because of her politics. That being said, “What do you read?” a NOT gotcha question unless asked of a known illiterate. She wasn’t qualified to be the President’s understudy. Period. That some think being a pretty parrot qualifies her is completely sexist too.
Normal
June 8th, 2009
3:09 pm
Mike-
The difference I see is that when Kerry ran, the GOP controled everything but the media.
Handler for Hire
June 8th, 2009
3:10 pm
Well, if Donald would fund a boob job for her and if the GOP would spring for a more revealing wardrobe (I’m thinking string bikinis), she’d have a pretty good shot at the presidency, unless one of those judges, I mean, reporters started asking her really tough questions about gay marriage or the definition of abstinence or…
Jay
June 8th, 2009
3:11 pm
Mike writes:
“Does Jay realize that there are Republicans besides Newt, Rush and Palin? Does anyone remember Olbermann and John Kerry being the sole point of discussion after 2004? Any chance that Jay and the rest of the liberal media might ever cover Republicans who are actually in office?”
I think you’re misdirecting your question, Mike.
I’m not the one who can’t decide between Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin as the keynote speaker for the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. It’s not the media that selected Gingrich and Palin; it’s the Republicans. This is an annual fundraising dinner, with thousands of GOP attendees, probably the biggest event of the year in Washington.
The Republicans are the ones elevating Gingrich and Palin as party leaders. They are the ones choosing — or trying to choose — who to speak at this prestigious party event.
If you don’t like that, Mike, maybe you should take it up with the Republican leadership. But trying to blame the media for a party decision to elevate these people as spokespersons is pretty weak.
mike
June 8th, 2009
3:11 pm
Matilda –
I totally agree with pretty much everything you said, however the only reason that “Olbermann and Maddow vilified her on the double standard” was because she was running against Obama,who is at the very pinnacle of the media adoration scale. They were going to attack anyone who ran against him.
S GA dem
June 8th, 2009
3:11 pm
I think you guys are being too hard on Sarah. If she runs for Pres in 2012, she has a real chance to win 4 or 5 states.
Red
June 8th, 2009
3:11 pm
Senator Palin would be hillarious to watch in that big ole’ ‘evil city’ (McCain’s word) on the hill, ya know?
Frederick Douglass
June 8th, 2009
3:13 pm
Mike @ 2:50, I’ve forgotten more geography than you and Sarah Palin will ever know. Suffice it to say that she’s one dumb Alaskan, and
apparently so are many of her supporters.
BDAtlanta
June 8th, 2009
3:13 pm
Newt sounded really kinda silly on Face the Nation yesterday. He sounded very ivory towerish.
Tom
June 8th, 2009
3:15 pm
Palin: what an insult to womankind. The GOP: what an insult to all humankind. OMG – what thoroughly repulsive, weak, inferior beings.
mike
June 8th, 2009
3:16 pm
Jay –
“If you don’t like that, Mike, maybe you should take it up with the Republican leadership. But trying to blame the media for a party decision to elevate these people as spokespersons is pretty weak.”
Hmm. Would you be writing a blog entry about them if it was Eric Cantor and David Brooks. Of course not. You faithfully transcribe every utterance of Rush, Palin and Newt for the same reason Rahm wants you too: it is good for Democrats.
Maybe someday you can get around to commenting on some Republican Congressmen. I doubt it, as doing so does not help the partisan cause.
mike
June 8th, 2009
3:17 pm
Tom –
“The GOP: what an insult to all humankind. OMG – what thoroughly repulsive, weak, inferior beings.”
Ahhh, more of that vaunted liberal tolerance.
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June 8th, 2009
3:17 pm
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BDAtlanta
June 8th, 2009
3:17 pm
The Republicans are the ones elevating Gingrich and Palin as party leaders.
It sounds like Republicans might get that permanent majority after all…except it will be a Democratic one by default.
Where are the Republicans with brains? Why aren’t they being elevated? Can’t you folks do better than Sister Sarah and Newty Newt? Jeez.
I guess you can’t squeeze ideas from a turnip.
mike
June 8th, 2009
3:18 pm
Frederick Douglass –
“I’ve forgotten more geography than you and Sarah Palin will ever know. Suffice it to say that she’s one dumb Alaskan, and apparently so are many of her supporters.”
I bet she is smart enough to know the difference between a poltician and a comedian who is playing her. Apparently, you are not.
jewcowboy
June 8th, 2009
3:20 pm
I’m feeling like a turkey sandwich right about now.
mike
June 8th, 2009
3:21 pm
BD –
“Where are the Republicans with brains? Why aren’t they being elevated? ”
They are out there in Congress. The media doesn’t want smart and moderate Republicans to be discussed. They would much rather talk about Newt, Rush and Palin.
What is your next question? “Where are the dumb and extreme Democrats?” Trust me, the media doesn’t want to talk about Murtha and Olbermann either.
BDAtlanta
June 8th, 2009
3:22 pm
It’s not enough just to elect someone who represents your own party, you want to elect someone who will get stuff done while they are in there.
You folks think Sarah or Newt are going to leave America any better off than how they found it? I can’t think of two shallower people to choose for President, for what is, in effect, a public servant position.
mike
June 8th, 2009
3:22 pm
Normal -
“The difference I see is that when Kerry ran, the GOP controled everything but the media.”
First of all, what are you talking about? Branches of government?
Second of all, I was talking specifically about the media so the GOP’s supposed “control of everything else” is irrelevant to my argument.
Doggone/GA
June 8th, 2009
3:24 pm
“I can’t think of two shallower people to choose for President, for what is, in effect, a public servant position”
Not “in effect”…in reality.
booger
June 8th, 2009
3:26 pm
Jay,
Why are you the least bit interested in whether Sarah Palin speaks at an event. Seems to me that lately you have been doing anything and everything to dance around the elephant in the room which is the economy and our growing debt. You actually gave the economy quite a bit of play until Obama had spent and borrowed so much even his own people could not deny this was now his economy. Since then barely a word.
When Geitner is laughed at by an audience in China after saying the US economy was basically sound and the OMB now says there is no way Obama has a chance of meeting his goals on the deficit, You’d think it would deserve an occasional mention.
S GA dem
June 8th, 2009
3:26 pm
Mike, the woman said that she had experience in dealing with world leaders and had the experience to be POTUS because she lived in Alaska, and in case you didn’t know, Alaska is very very close to Russia. Her words, not Tina Fey’s.
jewcowboy
June 8th, 2009
3:27 pm
Where is Michelle Bachmann? The Republican Party needs a bit more crazy in order to keep selling it to their base. Palin / Bachmann 2012.
Frederick Douglass
June 8th, 2009
3:27 pm
Palin’s an empty thong!
Doggone/GA
June 8th, 2009
3:27 pm
“Why are you the least bit interested in whether Sarah Palin speaks at an event”
I guess I *am* the only one who realizes this is not about Sarah Palin.
ByteMe
June 8th, 2009
3:27 pm
mike says: Gee, another liberal “intellectual” who can’t tell the difference between the words of a politician and the comedian who parodies her. Palin never said she could see Russia. Tina Fey did.
Ok, so let’s go to the transcript and see what Sarah said:
“It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.”
You betcha, Sarah said it better.