Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
Posted on 11/07/2009 12:24:28 AM PST by STARWISE
Romney, Huckabee, and Pawlenty must be thrilled.
Gridiron Club President Dick Cooper told club members earlier this afternoon that Palin accepted an invitation to speak at the black-tie affair, according to a member of the club’s executive committee.
Meg Stapleton, a spokeswoman for Palin, confirmed that Palin planned to address the dinner in an e-mail to POLITICO: “The Governor was honored to accept the invitation.”
Also speaking at the dinner will be Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), whom the club invited to represent his party at the event.
The dinner’s December 5th, which makes this even more of a no-brainer than it might have been:
Not only does the committee get one of the few Republicans who still generates star power but they get her right in the middle of the media blitz over her book. The spring dinner is the one that the president and other top pols usually attend, but who knows if her being there won’t turn this one into a hot ticket.
The downside?
It’s off the record, which is a shame since the speeches are all designed to be funny. A little humor, particularly at her own expense, would help soften some of the opposition to her; any Palin fans lurking in the audience are well advised to smuggle a Flip in there and bootleg that sucker.
Meanwhile, three questions.
(1) Is the Gridiron committee trying to make the GOP leadership squirm by picking her? She’s the one who helped lead the charge against the party by endorsing Hoffman, after all.
(2) Will Barney Frank take a gratuitously nasty shot at her in his speech on a night where good humor’s supposed to prevail? That one’s rhetorical. And
(3) what’s the consummate Beltway outsider doing speaking at the consummate Beltway insider event? Well, second-most insider event: The Alfalfa Dinner’s even more secret, clubby, and exclusive. And … she attended that one too.
~~PING!
I assume that they refer to Barney Frank...
Did she?
Haven’t a lot of claims been made falsely about Palin speaking?
Indeed, since there's been NO humor made at her expense.
“I see Representative Frank is here. Barney, don’t forget to tip your waiter. No, the other way, Barney.”
LOL...I see a “hot bottom” joke in there somewhere!
Just walking into the same room with that scummy, slimy, oleagenous, degenerate ‘BF,’ I’d have to go shower and change clothes. I feel dirty just seeing him on television. I do have to admit however..., that he really does embody the true character of the United States government.
Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
Nothing in DC is really off the record.
well this club consists of all of the top DC bureau chiefs of the major papers in the country, and a bunch of top tv people as well.
Its 65 active members represent major newspapers, news services, news magazines and broadcast networks. Membership is by invitation only and has traditionally been offered almost exclusively to Washington newspaper bureau chiefs.(wikipedia)
From the article and her spokesman saying she was accepting the “invitation” it sounds like they reached out and asked her to be there. If you have any future aspirations at all it’s probably not the best idea to tell the top political journalists to pound sand and ignore an invitation to their get-together. As if they didn’t already care for her. Stiffing them like that could have been the final nail. Now hopefully she has a chance to make a more positive impression.
Despite being a big name, not many people really know her. Most of the time with big political figures all of the media knows them and it’s all a big chummy atmosephere. No one has really met her on a personal level or seen her in a more relaxed setting. This could be a start.
Or, maybe all the older guys in the club just got tired of the older white guys who show up every year and wanted some eye candy.
And with the President of the club named what he is, I don’t think anyone is surprised Barney Frank is showing up.
Hopefully she makes a joke about he was lucky that those kids who stung ACORN didn’t show up at his place.
please put me on the Palin list! God Bless, Miss Anne
You are welcome!
Thrilled to have a crack at catching Sarah's bouquet?
;~)
THROW IT BACK!!! ;~)
How can she turn him into something he already is?
Haven't you seen/heard his Nazi Pelosi routine with the gavel?
May the best man win.
There you go -- we have GOT to get a camera in there!!!
Barney in Full Screech/Lisp, spluttering for the Democratic Party, ought to play like magic in every venue where testosterone-soaked "Reagan Democrat" unionists gather over manly brewskis.
Soak it up, guys -- the future of the Democratic Party!!
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