Not rude; Sarahdipitous. Palin visit to Denver in works since November (Updated)

Denver Post Politics Blog ^ | May 18, 2010, 12:30 pm MT | Chuck Plunkett

[Josh Painter]

Looks like Ken Buck owes Sarah Palin an apology. Her visit to Denver this Saturday night can’t possibly be spun as rude.

Rather, it’s serendipitous.

Discussions for renting the Magness Arena at the University of Denver began in November and the date chosen was more dependent on Palin’s busy schedule than on a desire to hold it on any particular date.

[...]

Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck said he thought it would be “rude” for Palin to steal all the media attention away from what he expects to be his taking the GOP nomination on Saturday.

It struck me as odd that Buck would say such a thing. The implication is that somehow Palin planned her visit around Buck’s big day.

[...]

Buck might want to remember Reagan’s 11th Commandment in the future – unless he’s really got the goods.

Nia Nia Bender, one of the key planners for the Palin-Hewitt event... thought it could be great for the GOP to have the Palin-Hewitt event that night.

The thinking went that Republicans from all over Colorado would be in the Front Range for the assembly in Loveland. That event ends at 3 p.m.

So KNUS decided to hold the Palin-Hewitt event at 7 p.m. as sort of a “GOP Doubleheader.”

But, of course, now that chance at unity and excitement has been blown, as Buck’s comments fuel wild rumors that Palin plans to endorse Norton at the event.

Bender says that Palin won’t do that, and that Norton won’t be speaking at the KNUS event.

Further, Bender is angry at the Buck camp, and hopes he will apologize for this slight at Palin and, by extension, the integrity of KNUS broadcasters, who aren’t seeking to endorse either candidate.

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[GregB]

Go Sarah Go!!!

[kabar]

Buck is the real conservative is this race. McCain endorsed Norton. Sounds like another Palin mistake.

[Josh Painter]

Buck may be a real conservative, but he’s a liar. Washington has enough of those already.

No thanks,

- JP

[kabar]

He lied about what specifically?

[kabar]

Michelle Malkin's take: In Colorado, McCain and his meddlers infuriated the state party by anointing former lieutenant governor Jane Norton to challenge endangered Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet. She’s a milquetoast public official who has served on a lot of task forces and GOP clubs – and who happens to be the sister-in-law of big Beltway insider Charlie Black. An estimated 40 percent of her coffers are filled with out-of-state money (and much of that is flowing from the Beltway).

The mini-McCain of Colorado claims to oppose “special interests,” but has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from D.C. lobbyists at McCain’s behest – stifling the candidacy of strong conservative rivals led by grass-roots-supported Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, an amnesty opponent whose aggressive illegal immigration prosecutions have earned him the rage of the far Left and big business Right. A recent Rasmussen poll showed Buck and another GOP candidate Tom Wiens beating Bennet – despite the huge cash and crony advantage of front-runner and blank-slate Jane.

[9YearLurker]

I don’t know whether Buck’s the greater conservative or not—but he manages to come across as a jerk and a whiner in this circumstance.

[TigersEye]

I’m sure the Denver Post is doing its best to help conservatives. /s

[techno]

Being a conservative and an idiot doesn’t necessarily have to be mutually exclusive.

[TigersEye]

"Jane Norton is the Washington crowd’s pick for the GOP. The NRSC is helping her. She’s got John McCain fawning all over her. She had been, after all, Colorado’s Lieutenant Governor, a role in which she did her best to sabotage Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights on the grounds that undermining TABOR was the only way to save TABOR, the same logic George W. Bush used to undermine the free market in order to save it."

Link

[9YearLurker]

How true!

[hinckley buzzard]

Palin's mistake? Buck sounds like a loser in the making. Not my idea of a great candidate. A whiner, to be blunt.

[Uri’el-2012]

Seems like we are being invaded by Sarahbots with their carpetbags.

[Josh Painter]

Read the article.

- JP

[Uri’el-2012]

The Denver Post is progressive fishwrap.

[Bratch]

From the article:

Nia Bender, one of the key planners for the Palin-Hewitt event, tells me that work to bring Palin and Hewitt to Denver began in November, when – Bender agrees – no one could have known that Norton would skip the GOP Assembly in May.

Bender and her 710 KNUS talk and news radio station started with seven different dates, and only two of them were in May.

Ironically (I so rarely get to use that word), as the process continued, and May 22 became an option, Bender thought it could be great for the GOP to have the Palin-Hewitt event that night.

The thinking went that Republicans from all over Colorado would be in the Front Range for the assembly in Loveland. That event ends at 3 p.m.

So KNUS decided to hold the Palin-Hewitt event at 7 p.m. as sort of a “GOP Doubleheader.”

But, of course, now that chance at unity and excitement has been blown, as Buck’s comments fuel wild rumors that Palin plans to endorse Norton at the event.

Bender says that Palin won’t do that, and that Norton won’t be speaking at the KNUS event.

Further, Bender is angry at the Buck camp, and hopes he will apologize for this slight at Palin and, by extension, the integrity of KNUS broadcasters, who aren’t seeking to endorse either candidate.

[roses of sharon]

Colorado: Palin 29, Romney 25, Huckabee 18
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posted at 6:47 pm on May 18, 2010 by Allahpundit

[TigersEye]

I like Sarah Palin a lot but I don’t buy into any Cult of Personality on anyone or any group in any area of life. If I thought that mentality led to anything good I would pray to be reincarnated as an ant. Or a liberal. No, I take that back, I’d rather be an ant.

[Uri’el-2012]

I voted for her in '08

I did not vote for McShame.

I thought she what we needed.

Recently her endorsements have troubled me.

Who is she to blow into Colorado with her Carpetbags
and endorse McShame's gal Norton.

[TitansAFC]

-—”Who is she to blow into Colorado with her Carpetbags
and endorse McShame’s gal Norton.”-—

Boy did you jump the gun.

“...Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck said he thought it would be “rude” for Palin to steal all the media attention away from what he expects to be his taking the GOP nomination on Saturday....”

The event happens AFTER the nomination - she isn't endorsing anyone before then, though she will almost certainly endorse the Primary winners that evening.