Posted on 02/10/2009 12:12:01 PM PST by VinL
Rush will still be there, but it’s not really “grassroots Woodstock” anymore without her. Now, because of the letdown, it’s more like grassroots Altamont: Plenty of good acts and one great one to close the show, but an angry, angry crowd nonetheless. The opening-day headliner for the annual CPAC conservative convention February 26-28, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, has pulled out, citing state business in Juneau. “We’re obviously disappointed,” said a CPAC official. A spokesman for the three-day confab, organized by the American Conservative Union Foundation and others, said that Palin, the popular former vice presidential nominee, had indicated she would be able to attend but cited “duties of governing” in bowing out. Instead, she will send in a taped message. The Democrats up there have been grumbling about her being out of state so much. Maybe she figured she could either get away for the Alfalfa Dinner or CPAC but not both and had to make a hard choice. Exit question: Huckabee to replace her? The message, at least, will be similar. And he’s anti-stimulus!
Some conservative icon.
Coulter Kool-aid drinkers on the right as as bad as Moore-On follows on the left.
Emerson, you are 100% correct! There is a well-funded, well-organized effort underway to either defeat Governor Palin outright in the 2010 governor's race, or else force her out through sheer exhaustion, via 1,000 political cuts. It's classic Axelrod tactics, focused on knocking Obama's political opponents out well before any elections.
Folks, I'm sure that Governor Palin does not want to disappoint her supporters by missing this event. However, she is a sitting governor, in the middle of a tempestuous legislative session, with the wolves circling her, her staff, and her family, looking for any opening to attack. Alaska must necessarily come first right now for her, in view of her re-election campaign in 2010. She's already taken a lot of heat for attending the Alfalfa event, and should she attend CPAC and that volcano suddenly blows while she is out of state, then it would be a political disaster for her. Folks need to understand that she has to look after Alaska first right to keep her power base, and if she spends too much time out of state for National purposes, her constituency could turn on her. It's a fact of state-level political life.
Our FRiend Josh Painter did some excellent analysis, published on Red State, about what is going on in Alaska and how the Rats and the corrupt Murkowski Republicans have more or less entered into an unholy alliance to bring down Governor Palin. Everyone should read this and understand the forces at work in Alaska that she has to keep a constant eye on.
The bottom line: CUT HER SOME SLACK---SHE'S EARNED IT!
I thought the AK State Senate completed its Troopergate investigation in October 2008. The report released then said Palin did nothing wrong although the media tried to spin it as something sinister.
>>>>> Wow. Talk about bitter. The primary’s LONG over but I see some Sore Loserman types..... <<<<<<<<
You posted a lot of words just to say “I like Huckster Gantry.”
Message received.
same here
I feel that just posting here is not doing anything and only giving the far left loons something to laugh about.
I don’t know what and can’t say exactly how I feel on here but I am pissed that this country is being taken away from us and my kids will never have the real America but a shell of it former self all thanks to the obama cult and George soros who is pulling the strings with his money
The schedule at the link says only that they’ve been invited, not that they’ve confirmed, but the fact that each has been given a specific time slot — Palin speaks in the showcase 4:30 slot on Thursday, the first day — presumably means they’re booked.
BillyBoy, you are no conservative.
Right now you are displaying the classic symptoms of Coulter Emasculation Syndrome
Grow up, boy Billy.
So what was or is "John Roberts' nominate to the Supreme Court?"
Is that the new math?
Ann Coulter too; for what I’m reading! What? Am I missing something? Did Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh turn into liberals or something? LOL Not hardly! You’re right, there are other worthwhile conservatives to see also!
I gave lots of money to the McPalin ticket....I supported her wildly....however, that does not mean I will support her next time....we will see what happens....
but I do know is that for her to be a real force, she must maintain her base in Alaska....she must make herself a little scarce at this time.....
her best shot at the Presidency is to be a very competant governor ....not to be on the public airways constantly.....she does not need that...
She should've been at CPAC, but instead she went to the chuckle with the Prez in DC a couple of weeks ago.
Bring on Bobby Jindal. If Sarah is lucky she'll be VP sometime. Maybe Cabinet position. Someday.
I agree 100% with you....
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Likewise. -:)
Hey fella, speaking as a former wallflower, there are more of us than there are of them (Speaking of you beautiful people) :)
Worshipping celebrity is not a conservative, or healthy for anyone, trait. Hooray for Governor Palin!
If all you Palin critics want to do something useful, then why don't you PRAY for her instead of giving her your worthless two cent negative comments.
She also has an Attorney General who just resigned over trooper gate nonresponse to subpoenas.
The poor way Republicans have mistreated Mike Huckabee, an articulate and gifted Republican politician who came in 2nd in the primary with little money and a concerted effort to get rid of him by the Talk Radio Elites, is even worse.
Huck is a great speaker and his CPAC speech last year was terrific.
So, let me get this straight...
You slandered my daughter, you libeled me,
you threw my political future under the campaign bus,
you allowed the media to convince
The Sheep that I'm nothing but white trash,
you let them torch my church Odinga-style,
and you expect me to do WHAT for you in 2012??
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