Actually, A Very Bright Move By Palin

Of course the media might see this as a mistake. I think it's rather smart. She was a no show at the Congressional Republican retreat. Romney went and made a speech.

Palin has a lot to prove if she wants to be a national figure. I'm no kool aid kid on her but I liked some of what I saw - enough to give her time, anyway. But her base isn't in DC. Hint: that isn't a bad thing these days.

Contrast that with Romney, who I liked in 08 - but ever striving to be the insider in some ways. I believe he recognizes Washington is broken. But being a part of it, even if you are arguing as an agent of change, isn't going to be the path to the nomination in 2012.

Who does the base like more - McConnell and Boehner, or Palin? And why should she lend them her cache until they prove they're going to actually accomplish something after being stuck as Bush's water carriers for eight years?

They have every bit as much to prove as she does. And she's smart to keep her distance from them for now.

Retreat organizers tell ABC News that Palin politely declined, giving a perfectly understandable reason. According to the Congressional Institute, which hosted the conference, Palin said she simply could not make it to the retreat because pressing state business made it impossible for her to leave Alaska this weekend.

So where is Palin this weekend?  She's in Washington, D.C., attending the super-elite Alfalfa Dinner.

"She lied to us," said a Republican at the retreat.

Asked why Palin told the Republicans she could not leave Alaska this weekend, Palin spokesman Bill McAllister offered this non-responsive answer:

"My understanding is that the governor has not scheduled any partisan events on her current trip to D.C.," McAllister told ABC News.

Comments

[TheSpartan]

She didn't show and speak because as she proved in the general, she can't hang.

[North Dallas Thirty]

Actually, TheSpartan, you prove the point; whether Palin speaks or not, bigots like yourself are still going to hate her. And as for "can't hang", it's kind of hard to take that seriously when Obama Party journalists who Barack Obama fully supports and in fact invites for dinner are reporting as fact that her child isn't hers and that her husband is having incestuous sex with her daughters.

There is no shame in refusing to play in a game where the deck is illegally stacked. Since Obama Party bigots like yourself have made it clear that you won't treat her fairly, there is little or no point in giving you the time of day; you've proven you'll attack her either way.

[TheSpartan]

"Full of sound and fury signifying nothing..." That's you ND...how on earth am I bigoted because I don't think she's a qualified candidate? She can't run with the big dogs and she proved it time and again.

[torabora]

TS She ran just fine. Without her, McAmnesty would have lost votes to no shows. By running, she got her hat in the ring. You will be seeing more of her as duh1's administration crumbles.

[mary]

Maybe, since they are watching the volcano, she decided that "playing politics" took a back seat to being the Governor of Alaska.

[narciso]

Well there's that, plus the fact she told them what she would accept in a stimulus package three months ago, more real tax cuts, and actual cuts in growth, like the example she's
setting back in Alaska. The White House didn't listen and went through the auto bailout anyways. So now they're whining she didn't show at their shindig, to give them an attaboy. Mind you this Alfalfa thing was probably a waste of time, except for the fact that she was the classiest person there.

[mary]

Probably they invited her for the weekend in rural Virginia and she decided she just didn't want to go. Then probably the alfalfa dinner invite came and she says she went there to have dinner with the president. If she wanted attention she would have scheduled media interviews. Instead it looks like she spent her time working in the best interests of Alaska. Since she appears to have snubbed the press of course they are making an issue out of the weekend with the guys vs the weekend in DC. In an article I read one republican at the weekend in Virginia said "whatever". So, it sounds like they were fine with what she did. Since they won't identify the weekend participant who allegedly said "she lied to us", bet that is just a figment of some media person's imagination.

[WBestPresidentEver]

Sarah is a big girl. She can do as she damn well pleases. If people don't like it I'd bet she would love to tell them to stick where the sun don't shine.

I like Sarah. A self made women. She will be around for a long time to come. Watch her.

[MarkJ]

Spartan,

"She didn't show and speak because as she proved in the general, she can't hang."

As opposed to who? Obama? Gee, the odds are better than 50-50 his wonderful phantasmagorical stimulus package, which he lobbied soooooooooo hard for, will be DOA in the Senate. He couldn't even bring one Republican on board in the House. Dare I mention Messrs. Geithner and Daschle? Both of them have had little tax problems--to the tune of several hundred grand--that Obama's crew seem to have accidentally overlooked during the vetting process. Real hopey and changey, eh?

Or maybe you were thinking of Joe "Motor Mouth" Biden? Damn, where is that dude? Oh yeah, Obama has probably got him locked up in the West Wing attic and only allows him out on Sundays for ice cream.

Do us a favor and come back with a coherent argument unless, of course, you're too busy trying to find out who Trig's real mother is.

[North Dallas Thirty]

"That's you ND...how on earth am I bigoted because I don't think she's a qualified candidate?"

Probably because your qualification bar is set much higher for Sarah Palin than it ever was for Barack Obama.

Case in point:

"When a reporter tried to quiz him about a lobbyist chosen for a top Defense Department job, Obama begged off. "I came down here to visit. I didn't come down here -- this is what happens. I can't end up visiting you guys and shaking hands if I am going to get grilled every time I come down here.""

http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2009/01/23/obama_takes_tour_of_white_house_press_digs/

You are correctly called a bigot when you make it clear that you intend to make Sarah Palin jump through hoops that you drop and fawn and call "racist" when Barack Obama strolls by.

Palin is loathed by leftists like yourself because she is a minority member who doesn't worship and fawn over you for condescending to her. In her case, it's because of her stance on abortions; it makes leftists furious when a woman says "no thanks" to them and chooses to keep one of those babies, especially a special-need baby. As Nancy Pelosi has made it clear, REAL women abort children because they're too much of a "burden", especially handicapped ones, and that women should be encouraged to have abortions because it saves the government money on welfare.

[13yankeebravo]

Read Palin's oped on drilling in the ANWAR in the Minneapolis Star and tribune today. I thought that it was a very well reasoned editorial for drilling, but the comments after were just nasty and showed that the commentators had not even read the artical, just saw Palin's name and rushed in to attack with personal attacks on her nothing at all to do with the subject of the oped. So sad such small minds that think they are showing how smart and cool they are but just showing that the are a**holes.

[mary]

If he had any brains he would ask her to join the cabinet. That would kill two birds with one stone, a woman and a republican. Haven't women been complaining about the lack of female appointments?

[TheSpartan]

If he had any brains he would ask her to join the cabinet. That would kill two birds with one stone, a woman and a republican. Haven't women been complaining about the lack of female appointments?

Posted by: mary | Monday, February 02, 2009 at 01:24 AM

As what? Interior Sec??? She isn't qualified for any cabinet post Mary...

[Jean]

You guys should be worryng about Obama. I forgot you are not allowed to ask any REAL questions.

Daschle evading taxes, Geitner tax evasion, Holder helped pardon t e r r o r I s t s and Mark Rich, Lobbyists to work in cabinet, Richardson probe for pay to play, Rangle tax evasion, Gov. Blagiovich bribes and pay to play, Dodd sweet mortgage deal, Congressman Kennedy DUI, and how about that democratic congressman with the $100,000 bribe in his freezer, or Clinton and the Mark Rich pardon. When will we learn that the Democrats are as corrupt as the Republicans, maybe even more! This government we have is sad, sad, sad.

She lied to us - get a life

[CALVIN GRINDER]

Didn't she run against "elites" during the race?

"So where is Palin this weekend? She's in Washington, D.C., attending the super-elite Alfalfa Dinner."

[TheSpartan]

"Didn't she run against "elites" during the race?"

How'd that work out for her?

[djay]

OH The trouble with our leftist liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so, - and they are totally incapable of discerning what isn't so!!!
Hatred is their last mantra when their is no light at the end of their day!!!

[djay]

OH The trouble with our leftist liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so, - and they are totally incapable of discerning what isn't so!!!
Hatred is their last mantra when their is no light at the end of their day!!!

[narciso]

Yes she would make a great Interior Secretary, unlike the current one who doesn't want us to be mining shale, or importing it from Alberta. Or the Energy
Secretary who wants us back to $4-5 gas, to stop global warming. Or even the head of a study commission on the subject.

But he doesn't want us heating our houses at 72, (except the White House, apparently)or fueling our homes with clean coal, or building cold fired plants, because he will 'bankrupt them'. Keep that in mind, when another hurricane hits the Gulf Coast or there's a crisis in Arabia, like Abquaiq, or Venezuela (she mentioned both in her nomination speech)or Nigeria, or the oil rich Caucasus.