Posted on 07/09/2009 10:17:02 AM PDT by Josh Painter
Like ex-senators and former presidents, ex-governors retain their honorific titles, so Sarah Palin will still be addressed as "Governor Palin" after she officially turns the reigns of her office over to Sean Parnell July 26. The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate has never been much of a stickler for that kind of thing, though, as she signs "Sarah" to her non-official correspondence.
So what will she be doing after July 26?
Only one specific event has been announced so far that will have Gov. Palin's participation. According to the Simi Valley Republican Women Federation (SVWF), Sarah Palin will be at the Ronald Reagan Library as the guest of honor for their 50th Anniversary. That celebration is on the calendar for Saturday, August 8, at 5:30 PM. Tickets for non-members are $150. If you want to attend, the Club needs your reply with payment by July 20. There can be no more powerful symbolism to Republicans than Gov. Palin launching the national phase of her career of public service at Ronald Reagan's presidential library.
She will have a long national book tour to keep her busy next spring, and it will coincide with the 2010 mid-term campaign. Between the Reagan library and the book bus, the calendar will have to be filled out. Not that is any shortage of demand for Gov. Palin to make appearances. Just after the November election there were 800 invitations sent to the GOP's 2008 vice presidential candidate asking for her presence at one event or another. That number has increased to what SarahPAC's Pam Pryor said back in April was "thousands of requests" for Palin appearances across the country. With the recent announcement of the governor's impending resignation, expect a surge in the number of invitations.
Governor Rick Perry told The Associated Press Wednesday that Gov. Palin is "committed to campaigning" in Texas for him as he seeks re-election. Perry said that he welcomes support of his fellow governor, who endorsed him in February. The Texas governor just last month was bragging on the endorsement, saying "If there's a bigger endorsement in the Republican universe, I don't know who it is than Sarah."
There will be other Republicans who will want Sarah Palin to campaign for them. RNC Chairman Michael Steele said Monday:
"I'm very excited about the opportunity to have Sarah Palin freed up now to engage across the country to help, you know, reorient the party and grow it. She said she now wants to be able to contribute in a different way, and as RNC chairman, I absolutely welcome it."Beyond campaigning for them, many GOP hopefuls will also welcome an endorsement from Gov. Palin, not to mention a donation. Like most political junkies, they will no doubt be eager to hear how much money SarahPAC has raised when it makes its disclosure at the end of the month, coincidentally just days after her resignation is made official.
Update 1: Big Hollywood's Chris Stigall:
"So just how does a Republican candidate whip up a base of support when voters are angry or suspicious of their voting history? Enter the most powerful motivator and fundraiser in all of Republican politics today."Update 2: The Iowa GOP has been trying since January to persuade Sarah Palin to keynote the party's annual Reagan Day Dinner this fall. Iowa Republican Party executive director Jeff Boeyink told The Des Moines Register Wednesday:"Name a Republican today who could draw a larger crowd, and encourage more checks to be cut to a political candidate than Alaska’s governor."
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"I'll bet my house that the weekend voice mailbox of Governor Palin was full of begging, pleading Republican Senate, House, and gubernatorial candidates humbly requesting this “erratic, irrelevant, lightweight” to come stand at their side during their upcoming picnic/potluck/town hall/ cocktail fundraiser."
"We’ve been pursuing Sarah Palin since January, and now that this has occurred, we are in the process of trying to find the right connections to get her here this fall."- JP
Sarah is going to organize and get the tsunami rolling.
The press will call her Mrs. Palin or former-Governor Palin. They can’t wait.
There will be a great disturbance in the force at that time. For the good. Yes.
She’s got my vote.
What better place to start than at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, indeed! That’s no coincidence, folks! And so kicks off her 2012 presidential campaign!
WE LOVE SARAH!!! She gets more incredible by the day!
LET’S GO SARAH, LET’S GO!!!!
SA-RAH, 20-12!
SA-RAH, 20-12!
SA-RAH, 20-12!
SARAH PALIN, HELL YEAH!!!!!!!
[The press will call her Mrs. Palin or former-Governor Palin.]
How about “the routed/ousted former governor”!
Today:
MR. STEELE: There will be other Republicans who will want Sarah Palin to campaign for them. RNC Chairman Michael Steele said Monday:
"I'm very excited about the opportunity to have Sarah Palin freed up now to engage across the country to help, you know, reorient the party and grow it. She said she now wants to be able to contribute in a different way, and as RNC chairman, I absolutely welcome it."
Yesterday:
I guess old Michael is in full damage-control now.
ex animo
davidfarrar
Sarah Palin is going to wind up carrying the entire moribund GOP party on her shoulders during the next election cycle. Funny thing is, there aren't many other people who could do it. She is strong in so many ways that don't show that most people will never realize or understand her hidden resources. GoooooOOOO, CUDA!!
RINOs and RATs are TOAST! Count on it. Steele has been busy looking for his gonads and coming up empty.
>> Like ex-senators and former presidents, ex-governors retain their honorific titles <<
Not really accurate for former Presidents:
The correct etiquette has long been to call them by the highest titles they held before they were POTUS. So the proper way to refer to Bill Clinton is “Gov. Clinton,” and the proper way to refer to George Herbert Walker Bush is “Ambassador Bush.”
Granted that the USA’s decline of intellectual standards means almost nobody follows this proper etiquette anymore, but it’s still the way things should be done.
Still, “Gov. Palin” is entirely OK!
Well, Sarah will be carrying the party, true enough. But who will be guiding whom?
ex animo
davidfarrar
may I say the headline should be, and my guess is, will be: “The Education of the MSM”
My heart tells me she walks with the Lord, and He gets what He wants, and takes no prisoners....
sooo, when evan bayh leaves the senate will we have to call him “senator” bayh or “governor” bayh? which honorary title would be proper in this circumstance?
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States ...
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