Politico is looking back at the last few days as signals that Sarah Palin is getting ready for 2012 -
To read the story that accompanies the video click here.
It is entitled "Palin. Obama to Share Stage."
That will happen at the exclusive and private Alfalfa Club Dinner in Washington this weekend. Presidents always speak at the affair. And a spokesperson for the Governor of Alaska says she has been notified that she will speak.
The Alfalfa club says they have not scheduled Palin to speak.
Why the discrepancy? This might be it - the Alfalfa Club has a tradition of nominating someone for President. That person must then give an acceptance speech. My bet is it will be Sarah Palin and that is why she was notified and Alfalfa is denying it. The nomination is supposed to be a surprise.
Here is what Politico has to say about it...
"Should Palin be this year’s lucky nominee, she’ll be in good company: Three honorees have actually gone on to actually become president – Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush."
I will bet anything it is Sarah this year. Any takers?
19 comments:
Now this is plain SAD. Sarah was not even invited to this dinner.
You guys are counting your chickens before they hatch with all this 2012 business.
It's only 2009 - there are 1.5 years left until things gear up for 2012, and she has a lot of work to do before then.
She is not going to play her hand before then -- there are too many haters and competitors that want to destroy her in the RNC/GOP for her to do that.
You guys should be more patient, and trust your favored candidate, who has been doing this stuff all her life.
To Anonymous - Yes she was invited to the dinner. The organizers claim they didn't ask her to speak. But read the story..how much do you want to bet she speaks?
OC - I know what you are saying, but you are not 100 percent correct.
Things are gearing up for 2012 right now. It is just not very public right now, except for the dinners, the fundraisers and the PACS.
That is what you watch. Romney and Huckabee get less interest because everyone knows they are running.
Palin is intriguing for a wealth of reasons.
You are right, it is all tea leaves right now...but it's fun.
She has about a year to change her policies and governing style, or else she can't carry a primary, much less an election. She is WAY too extreme.
And if she makes any moves towards the center, she'll lose the support of the redmeats.
So from where I sit, it's all good. I will have a lot of fun over the next 3 years watching conservatives continue to fall for her antics.
"She has about a year to change her policies and governing style, or else she can't carry a primary, much less an election" - OC
Editor - Most agree she could win the Iowa caucus going away tomorrow. She would also win every Southern State, unless Barber, Kindal and/pr Crist run...then she would finish second in Miss, La, and Fla.
You are underestimating her popularity in the Republican Party..remember these are REPUBLICAN primaries and caucuses.
I think you are overestimating the state of the Republican party, which she herself helped to smash.
She is popular with the redmeat base, but the base cannot win elections for her or anyone else, that was my real point. That is the lesson of 2008.
You're also leaving out what a deeply divisive public figure she is now, thanks to her letting the RNC/GOP wreck with her public image. She intimidates them, to the extent that they had to totally muzzle her or at least try. We see how well that worked. I think it's funny.
Winning Iowa tomorrow is irrelevant for 2012, it's way too early to tell.
After all conservatives have a year to yell to everyone in earshot it's all Obama's fault nobody has a job or money to buy things anymore or that Wall St. execs took $20 bil in perks home last year.
She would also win every Southern State
That's not true.
Those Southern Baptist Convention males are not going to vote for a woman to be commander in chief of the very military she can't be in combat in.
I only mention this because the SBC is the largest denomination in the country and is the backbone of the southern strategy white segregationist south.
She tried all that shrieking southern strategy campaigning, which lost the GOP the election.
If she runs, she's going to split them down the middle too, like they were to a lesser degree in '08.
Richard Land had his little dingaling all a flutter over her but the rank and filers were just confused. I think it's hilarious.
SARAH! 2012
OK, the spokesman for the AL DINNER said TODAY that Palin is NOT invited to speak...so which is it???
He said NO PRESS and no scheduled Palin speech.........
Why does she continuously DO this? It´s getting to the point that you can´t believe one damn LITTLE thing Palin or her PEOPLE say back in November.
Does Palin plan to burst on stage and give that McCain concession speech she was all hopped up about when THEY LOST?
REALLY, she is NOT scheduled to open her yap.
---and does sarah KNOW that the press will not be there, she might want to reevealuate this.
1. She can´t charge Alaska for the trip
2. No press
3. No air time
4. Breaking break with a known terroriste
Sigh.
Deo, let's wait until Saturday. If you read my post, I believe that Governor Palin will be a surprise (wink, wink) speaker.
I think they have given her a heads up and not you.
But we will all know on saturday night. :)
OC...
As usual, I disagree.
Southern Baptists overwhelmingly support Sarah Palin. Zogby found that Palin is their choice by almost two-to-one.
"Palin looks to be stealing Huckabee's thunder among Republican religious conservatives and working class voters. Huckabee is an ordained Southern Baptist minister, and his highest GOP totals still come from Born-Again Christians (15%) and weekly churchgoers (18%), but those numbers are about half of those drawn by Palin. Despite his populist economic message, he wins only 10% of blue collar Republicans."
If you don't believe Palin's power in the South, ask Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss.
And one last thing, be careful what you believe about women in the US Military. You are correct that it is the "official" policy of the Army and Marines that women do not serve in combat roles. But as USA Today recently pointed out, that policy is not reality.
"In print, the Pentagon's policy on women in combat looks like this: Women shall be excluded from assignment to most units 'whose primary mission' is 'direct combat on the ground.'
On the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon's policy on women in combat looks like this: Women risk their lives as truck drivers, mechanics and medics attached to combat units. At checkpoints, they do a job that men can't: search Iraqi women. They fire rifles and lob grenades. And when they are struck by the IED blasts and suicide bombers that characterize this war, they are wounded or killed just as surely as their fellow soldiers.
In other words, the written policy is divorced from reality."
Women are fighting and willing to die for America as we speak....I know it was not your intention...but we should not in anyway diminish their sacrafice.
Oh_Crap: You really underestimate the SB men. I live in Texas and I only heard one man say he would not vote for a woman or a ****** so you know how stupid he was/is.
Plus Sarah Palin DID NOT help crush the Republican Party. The RP was on life support and she injected about 10 gallons of live saving red blood into the patient.
If we'd had her earlier the patient might have been saved.
I put the words BACK IN NOVEMBER at the end of the wrong sentence in my PREVIOUS post. You can figure out where it goes, but it doesnt belong where i DROPPED IT IN...SORRY FOR THE ERROR.
This is because southern Baptists are more stupid than mud.
You really underestimate the SB men.
No, Editor and History Chasers, I know them all too well (and it's not just the SBC). They can't even stand women pastors in a church of 100 people; it's been fun watching the scramble to reconcile their backwards complementarianism with wanting Mommy Sarah whom they think is going to smash the gays and the feminists for them.
Call it the gender version of the Bradley effect. The southern strategy they had her doing in the south lost them the election; also the frothing hayseed neo-segregationist base that supports her can no longer win them elections. Her choice alienated pro choice women and people who are not embarassed to be educated. That was the trade-off; they went with it and they lost.
And all this nonsense about her injecting life into the Republican Party, no, she stuck a silver garlic-infused cross in its heard, and now they are more deflated and defeated as ever.
Go Sarah, 2012! Smash them to bits.
And one last thing, be careful what you believe about women in the US Military.
I expressed no "belief" about women in the military; only pointed out what the official policy is, and that conservative males STILL despise and resent the very idea alone, much less will not be able to bring themselves to vote for one for CIC.
Sarah messes with their gender norms better than any left liberal ever could. I applaud it and want to see more of it.
I think the way she manipulates conservative males with her tight suits and flirtatious manner is funny.
They cry sexism at the media, yet see her as some hapless little victimized girl needing protection from daddy from the eeeeeeeeeevil meeeeedia; meanwhile she'll field dress their butts and cook them up in a stew and serve them for dinner.
And take their vote, too. Hilarious.
Southern Baptists overwhelmingly support Sarah Palin.
On paper, sure.
In reality, something quite different happened.
The old white segregationsts are dying off. If the Republicans try and keep their little southern strategy; which worked last generation but won't with this dying off generation, you can look forward to more terms of Democrats, and I will be happy to rub conservative's noses in it, every chance I get.
The real demographic to look for -- and you guys may want to take the hint -- are the young girls Team Sarah/Hitler Youth types who idolize Sarah because she is a role model for them like no other.
But once they get some life experience under their belt and realize life is not a beauty pageant with the handsome husband and 5 babies waiting at the end of the fairy tale, we can expect a more mature attitude from them regarding how the world works, and how politics works.
If you don't believe Palin's power in the South, ask Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss.
Senator Saxby Chambliss has low voter turnout - -particularly low black turnout -- to thank more than anything. He was leading in that runoff, anyway.
That old dead rightwing coot Paul Weyrich, one of the topmost Republican strategists in the world always suggested making sure there was low voter turnout in every big election, because low voter turnout favors conservatives. The Chambliss runoff was no different.
But as I said on my own blog, her carpetbag campaigning like she did for Chambliss is going to be a real boon for her own career, I think.
Those people at those Chambliss rallies went to see her; nobody cares about him.
I live in Texas and I only heard one man say he would not vote for a woman or a ****** so you know how stupid he was/is.
Haha oh well, now he has a ****** for an RNC chair.
You all do. LOL!
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