Posted on 06/08/2009 11:44:57 PM PDT by SolidWood
This much is clear: Palin was invited to be the keynote speaker at the dinner. What happened next, however, is a matter of hot dispute. Party officials say she accepted and reneged. Palin loyalists say she was merely mulling the offer. Either way, the party moved on and invited Gingrich to be the substitute keynoter.
In recent days, Palin was reinvited to the event, but that invitation was rescinded over concerns that the darling of the conservative base would steal the spotlight from Gingrich. Palin, reportedly angered that the party establishment was slighting her again, let it be known that she might not come to the event at all -- leading to a day of recriminations in the blogosphere before a settlement was reached.
Finally, a compromise of sorts was reached: Palin would attend the event, and be given a seat of honor, but would not have a speaking role.
Instead, she would be speaking to a much bigger audience, having taped an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity (viewership in excess of 3 million). It was scheduled to air at 9 p.m. -- exactly the moment Gingrich was scheduled to begin his keynote address as scheduled to begin his keynote address.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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$14.5M For GOP Committees (2009 Senate-House dinner rakes in the cash)
Oil Rebounds, Governor Urges Continued Fiscal Restraint
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Heh... The idiots of our “Centrist” Republican party just can’t let go... They still think that we have to become more open and invite all into the party (good luck). Palin destroys that concept (appeals to the people) and scares them to no end...heh. Sarah Palin is from the common people and thinks like we do - scary to the beltway Republicans.
Well, they will finally figure it out during the next two elections... The joke is on them!
I’m not exactly clear on what the RINO’s want. They GOT John McCain. He lost. What else do they want from us?
You and me both! They had their chance with McCain and his centrist (liberal - love the media) policies and he lost big time. Not enough of a test for them I’d guess. Geez...can’t we all just get along - with a Conservative for a change!
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Palin-loyal to her husband and family
Newt-divorced 2 times. first wife on her death bed, the second he scrwed around with the current wife. Newt probably would abandon a child with a disability.
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah...Newt is a has been.
Where do I join the “Go Away Newt, Just Go Away” club?
The wife and I were talking about Palin last night and how she's treated by the media, RINO's and 'Rats every time she appears at some event. I made almost the exact same comment. The media, RINO's and Rats are scared to death of Governor Palin. They should be. She's everything they ain't......
Newt lost me when he teamed up with the hollow eyed hippie from Haight-Ashbury on the Globull Warming scam. I used to have a lot of respect for Newt and thought he was a brilliant thinker with tremendous historical perspective. No more! When he sided with the warmers he proved beyond a shadow of doubt that he's just another slimy politician out to make a buck for himself....
Who knows the real truth behind this controversy but that does not take away from the extremely wise words of Newt Gingrich. Hopefully, CSPAN will run the speech again.
Did you hear Newt's speech? It was awesome!!
Yeah, I heard Newt’s speech. Problem is, he says one thing to us and does another. A true, blue, political hack of the lowest sort! He should just go away and leave it alone as his words and deeds are, and always will be, suspect and found wanting. Other than that, it was a good speech.
Newt made a nice speech last night, however there were parts that sounded like more socialism in the Bush mold.
Newt needs to go home, his global warming sellout killed him with the base. I guess he owns carbon credit stock.
......They had their chance with McCain.....
Don’t forget Bob Dole.
Old senators are anathema.
To sit down, shut up, and send money.
From Sarah Palin they want her to sit down, shut up, and raise money.
“Sarah Palin is from the common people and thinks like we do - scary to the beltway Republicans.”
Yeah, for sure. I am a Palin supporter and any attempt made by the GOP leadership to dump on her I consider as dumping on me. If the GOP gets stupid, correction - stupider, I will take my vote and my little $100 contribution and stay home “For Sure”.
That $100 can to to Sarah Palin!
Any cash I feel like giving away is going to her and that’s exactly what I told the RNC when they called me.
They can either hitch a ride on her wagon or wind up getting run over.
“first wife on her death bed...”
Not true. It is an urban legend.
They had already decided to divorce. She was diagnosed with cancer after the decision of divorce was made.
By the way, she is doing very well.
I don’t care anymore if Newt gives good speeches.
He’s not getting my vote - ever.
And he doesn’t have a prayer to beating Obama in any election.
I did not hear the whole speech but what I heard did not sound like socialism.
“From Sarah Palin they want her to sit down, shut up, and raise money.”
EXACTLY!!!
The good old boys want to benefit from her star power - but want to keep her in her place.
And the RNC is wondering how they can help attract women voters? While these guys act like typical chauvenists?
unbelievable.
Don't bring the retreads around. It's not that I don't like some of them but it's time to start over.
Doesn't look like that is going to happen. I've got Fox News on in the background in my office and it's wall to wall Newt this morning on FNC....
Could you cite those parts that sounded like socialism?
SP understands that in her guts. This is war. They will give her nothing that she doesn't earn and take from them on the field of battle.
Another reason to love the woman.
The GOP leadership needs a good spanking. Recently I received a “poll” and a request for a contribution from them. I was a little annoyed as the Second Amendment, though alluded to in the form letter allegedly from Steele, was never included in the poll.
NOW, I am particularly steamed over the way Palin was treated at the convention.
Gingrich is an intelligent man and a gifted speaker. But he represents the party of the past - the party that threw away the Contract with America and lost Congress, the party that failed to control the last White house Occupant when he went astray, the party that nominated a totally unqualified misanthrope John McCain as a a presidential nominee, the party that lost so many seats in Congress that it is a relative non-entity nationally.
Its not enough to simply NOT BE A DEMOCRAT. A political party has to represent something. And that something it represents shouldn't be only a “big tent” and relatively lower taxes.
After being at the helm during the debacles of 2006 and 2008, party leadership should have been replaced - that means Mitch McConnell and John Boehmer.
They are still there, playing their duplicitious games with the rank file and failing to adequately represent a party of opposition.
And NOW, the final insult - not having the only real star speak at their convention, the only glimmer of light in the last campaign, the only person, aside from Joe the Plummer to give that mediocrity McCain a bump in the polls-is really the last straw with these idiots.
I fully intend to return Steele's bogus poll. But my response will be a better framed letter than this one. And here will be no check. Instead they will receive a COPY of a check I will be sending Sarah Palin’s political committee.
I STRONGLY urge all conservative rank and file Republicans to do something similar.
Obama is, predictably, screwing up. There is a great opportunity to present an economical AND social alternative to the garbage the Democrats served up. But it sure as heck isn't the same kind of “compassionate” conservatism which put millions of illegal aliens into America, started the ball rolling to spend millions of tax payer dollars bailing out corrupt and inefficient businesses and getting government involved in private enterprise. And THAT is really what the Bushes, the McCains, the McConnells, the Steeles, the Boehners, etc REALLY represent.
Its time the GOP party leadership be MADE to listen to the rank file and perhaps its time the rank file displaced them and took our party back and put it on the road Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater laid out and OFF the road that Nelson Rockefeller, Keating, Jacob Javits, Arlen Spector, the two Bushes, Lindsey Graham, Olympia Snowe, etc. had laid out.
As brilliant as Newt is on a good day, he is really damaged goods.
Sarah, on the other hand, has the exact values we need in the GOP.
Only problem is the elitists in control, don't want a leader that can overshadow them, especially a woman.
It’s beyond reason that they would want, Gingrich, a corrupt has been, to speak insted of our brightest star.
“What else do they want from us?”
Subservience.
To put an exclamation point on this, when Newt said that he believed the Federal Budget would increase for the next 50 years, he became worthless. (even more worthless?)
“socialism in the Bush mold”
The Beau that brought us to the current ball.
Aren't there any other GOP commentators around who have some intellectual gravitas.....and who can be invited to do punditry (and who are dedicated conservatives)?
Newt gets a pass on everything he says when on Shep, BOR, Hannity and Greta. Sometimes I'd like to reach through the TV screen and grab him by the scruff of his mouth.
When carefully analyzing what Newt says, it's actually not much of anything to do with getting rid of Obama and taking our country back. It's just a lot of the same tired political-analysis cliches we hear from other pundits, only dressed in professorial intonations.
Leni
I had to go back and re-read your comment. I got confused and thought you were talking about Michael Steele!
More like a Democrat talking point.
I only caught the last half, .ost of what I heard sounded great.
But when he started talking about education being a national security issue listen carefully to how he words what he is saying. It sounded to me like big government socialism.
Of course his global warming position is socialist.
“More like a Democrat talking point.”
Yes, it sounds like it doesn’t it?
I will tell Newt sorry on that. He still a Washington insider w/kisses John Kerry’s rear on global hoax
Yes. He can play conservatives like a Stradivarius.
Can you reping me somehow I got depinged thanks Clyde
Great interview with Sean last night for the Gov.!!!!!
The difference in this story on her last night and the POLITICO take on this is telling... POLITICO (who has a friend in Romney via Jonathan Martin) said she received a tepid response from people there, this says the opposite.
Odd... Respond me after the next ping, whether you received it or not. You were on the list.
It's not necessary to trash Newt because you support Sarah.
I thought Newt’s speech was awesome too! Jon Voight’s opening speech, set the tone for the rest of the night.
Not sure where to post this, but here’s a Sarah Palin poll that needs Freeping. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/06/08/2009-06-08_sarah_palin_rips_president_obama.html
I did not hear Voigt’s speech. We tuned in during Newt’s speech but it was spellbinding and we listened to every word.
Yeah for sure. My $ is going to Palin. The RNC needs a new outlook,to close the Republican primaries to Republicans, and get rid of the silly RINO brigade and Steele.
If not, they are getting nothing from me, and I will not vote for another RINO EVER!
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