The Speech That Palin Was Banned From Delivering

London Times ^ | November 04th, 2009

[Steelfish]

November 04, 2009

The Speech That Palin Was Banned From Delivering

Another week, another book about Sarah Palin.

The real surprise is that ‘Sarah from Alaska’ - written by two members of the press corps who travelled with Palin during the 2008 presidential race - seems actually to have some interesting details in it.

According to the authors Conroy and Walse, tensions in the McCain presidential campaign were running so high that Palin was told by McCain aides on election night that she couldn’t give her own concession speech.

Now was she going to take that sitting down? Was she hell…

A Palin aide was finally stopped at the point of loading her speech into the teleprompter, but Palin refused to back down. "I'm speaking," she told him, according to a CNN report on the book. "I've got the remarks. Figure it out."

The confusion continued until the final minutes before the concession speech, when Palin - still shuffling through her speech notes - gathered with McCain, family members and senior staff outside McCain's villa at the resort.

[Mamzelle]

That $#*+head, McCain.

[mnehring]

One thing I was thinking about this afternoon, with all the crap that Palin has put up with, like this, you have never heard her whine.

Compare that to Scuzzlebutt in NY23.

That is a Conservative women!

[Sarah Barracuda]

Just further proof that the McCain people were all a bunch of pricks. No wonder Sarah went rogue. She was surrounded by a bunch of dumb ass jerks

[A CA Guy]

F-ing McCain even wanted to CONTROL her even after he lost.

RIP John McCain, I really think your political career is dead next election.

[RowdyFFC]

Can’t we find a real conservative to run in McCain’s district...he’s one of the dead stumps we need to get rid of and replace with somebody who’s not a ‘p....p...progressive. I have a hard time not spitting when I type or say that word.

[azishot]

It still scares me that he’ll ask her to come to AZ to campaign for him.

JUST SAY, “NO!!!”

[goodnesswins]

Well..ya know...she’s kinda busy....

[neefer]

What I don’t understand about Palin is why she ran with McCain in the first place. He’s not a conservative so why would she want to travel the country stumping for him? She should have declined the VP offer and remained Governor. I agree with her ideology but her political decisions leave me wondering if she should run for President.

[ElayneJ]

Really - if Sarah was a dufus McCain should not have chosen her as his running mate. This makes no sense. But it would have been nice if McCain had come out and defended her after all she did for his campaign.

[Z in Washington]

"I'm speaking," she told him, according to a CNN report on the book. "I've got the remarks. Figure it out."

Good line.

Presumably her speech was ultimately vetoed by Mistake McCain himself.

[Z in Washington]

I volunteer to help any real conservative who runs against McCain in the primary.

[WoofDog123]

the answer is obvious, she is now one of the biggest names in the GOP, and an obvious name for the 2012 ticket.

Declining the McCain vp offer would not result in this.

Ambition is part of life too. Anyone who gets into national executive politics is ambitious, with very few exceptions ever. I don’t care about her being ambitious. I care about policies she would enact, period.

[neefer]

So she paired herself with a loser to get on the national stage instead of performing the job Alaskans elected her to do. I find that disappointing. I’m hoping someone like Jindal is on the 2012 ticket.

[lquist1]

“What I don’t understand about Palin is why she ran with McCain in the first place. He’s not a conservative so why would she want to travel the country stumping for him? She should have declined the VP offer and remained Governor. I agree with her ideology but her political decisions leave me wondering if she should run for President.”

I pondered that question too at the time, but I think that Sarah decided to do it for the good of the country cause she understood the radical agenda that Obama represented (perhaps far more than Mclame did) and she felt she could make a big impact on the race and help him win-which she did.

Unfortunately, it just wasn’t enough because the top of the ticket was uninspiring and the economic meltdown scared people into voting for Obama. Regardless, were it not for Sarah, the loss last year would have been 3 times as bad.

[editor-surveyor]

"One thing I was thinking about this afternoon, with all the crap that Palin has put up with, like this, you have never heard her whine."

Palin is very centered, and goal oriented. She rarely wastes so much as a minute. If it isn't productive, she drops it and moves on to something that is. She is a doer, not a dreamer.

[editor-surveyor]

" I’m hoping someone like Jindal is on the 2012 ticket."

The young Bob Dole, to Palin's Reagan.

[latina4dubya]

She should have declined the VP offer and remained Governor. I agree with her ideology but her political decisions leave me wondering if she should run for President.”

exactly... i said it last year when many were hoping she would be the vp pic... it's too soon... be governor for a term and a half... get the executive experience... her deciding to run with McCain doesn't make me uneasy about her decision making... but i think because of her run, her shot at becoming President is nada... no chance... :-(

[Kenny Bunk]

Jindal is not a Natural Born Citizen as required by Article II of the Constitution. One, or both of his parents became citizens after he was born.

Good guy.

[GreyMountainReagan]

"But it would have been nice if McCain had come out and defended her after all she did for his campaign.

I think McCain was a Republican Manchurian candidate. He hated Palin because she helped 'his' cause. When all along he wanted to lose so badly it would have been the death of the Republican party.

[RRTJSP...........]

Jindal has the charisma of a pile of laundry. He is a smart guy, but he can’t win.

Sarah made promises to the Alaskan people when she was elected. She completed every one............

Why don’t you read what she has done for Alaska in just two years.......most Gov. couldn’t get that done in two terms..........

Obama and several others of his cabinet didn’t serve their full terms either........

[neefer]

Why don’t you read what she has done for Alaska in just two years… Imagine what she could have accomplished in 4 or 8 yrs.

Obama and several others of his cabinet didn’t serve their full terms either They left for a higher office, not to write a book.

Jindal has the charisma of a pile of laundry. He is a smart guy, but he can’t win. If Obama keeps on the same path, a pile of laundry may look very appealing in 2012. I’m bothered by the fact that charisma trumps smarts and experience when it comes to the highest office in the land. That’s how our current President came to power. In ‘08, I criticized Obama’s lack of experience and would feel like a hypocrite if I backed Palin as the next Presidential candidate now that she’s resigned as Governor.

Someone on this thread mentioned that she joined McCain for the good of the country, knowing what a radical like Obama would do. I hope that is the reason. However, it has turned her political career into a train wreck. She greatly underestimated the seething hatred of leftist who attacked her family even after the election and their lawsuits that caused her to resign as Governor. In addition, Levi Johnson now makes a living bad mouthing her family. He’d be a no body if she had declined the VP offer.

I like Sarah Palin’s ideals and, considering the void of conservatives in the Republican party, I can understand why she has such a large following. However, I was greatly disappointed by her performance on the campaign trail. She billed herself as pitbull with lipstick. Yet, she didn’t tear into anyone like Gibson or Couric. I found those two interviews to be okay at best. I kept thinking, “Why doesn’t she go for the throat?“ She was hoodwinked by a Montreal talk show host who had her believing he was Sarkozy. Then there was the long rambling speech when she resigned. This isn’t Presidential material to me. She’s no Margret Thatcher, at least not yet. But it’s going to take more than three years of book tours to get there.