Posted on 08/12/2012 4:51:23 PM PDT by Libloather
Palin will not speak at Republican convention
WASHINGTON | Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:36pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will not speak at the Republican nominating convention in Tampa later this month, she said in statement on Sunday.
"This year is a good opportunity for other voices to speak at the convention and I'm excited to hear them," Palin, who was Senator John McCain's running mate in the 2008 election, said in a statement on Gretawire, the blog of Fox News's Greta Van Susteren.
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How about no more pot shots from Vermont? Looks like yuz guyz have conservatism all under control up there! LOL!
Serious, unsnarky question: if she were to spek at the convention, would she have to give up her job at Fox News?
So how many other political conventions and campaigns has she spoken to, and in many even endorsed one candidate over another? You can answer your won question quite easily. She is a pundit for conservative views, not unbiased ones.
Sir, I would refer you back to a common phrase of military origin when I and many others on this forum would preface our remarks with "With all due respect, Lieutenant," (and you know perfectly the inference) when an elitist bunch of crap emanates from your pie hole like that. Especially from states such as Mass and Vermont really strains at any resemblance of credibility in a discussion about what works and what doesn't in respect to cleaning house of socialist Democrats and Republicans.
As she continues to work at the grass roots level, doing favors for people, getting people elected. Those of you who think she’s smart, I agree. A lot of people in office today owe her for her help getting them there in 2010. She’ll be owed more favors after this election. When we take over, she’ll own this party.
Totally 159% disagree with your statement that Newt has done more for the cause than Sarah.
Would have to steal the great line...Led Zep vs Monkeys, Newt being Monkeys, no comparison
OK.
McCain should not even be allowed into the convention, much less allowed to speak. I’m afraid he will give us more of THIS crap and I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT PLAYING NICE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6YKOkfFsE
There's a good chance you're right about the "independent women" and "serious favor" aspects; and thanks to that plus RINOs taking Sarah down, Romney might not make it on the first ballot.
That's my hope, and I'm looking forward to seeing Sarah surge.
We shall see.
Even though I will support Romney as the ONLY alternative to oust Obama, I still think a can of whoop ass needs to be opened up by conservatives at the convention! I mean a tremendous shinola smathering of biblical proportion!
Exactly, and it's a very bad idea letting McCain speak.
We don't really know who made the decision, do we?
Palin would definately outshine them and, given the high levels of Palin-derangement-syndrome among the media, it would be come a media mass attack on Palin. And Palin becomes the story, not the candidates. I think Sarah is savvy enough to know this ... she is being a "team-player" by standing to the side, knowing Ryan will outshine Romney and probably say 80%+ of what Sarah would have said. To unseat Obama, the story coming out of the convention needs to be PAUL RYAN. He has the capability of capturing much of the conservative wing of the party, and his nomination puts the focus clearly on the budget and the economy - topics Obama is fleeing from.
Having McCain speak will make even Romney look good by comparison and give an A/B visual contrast to the "old tired" Republican party and the "new, engergetic, younger" republican party. The IMAGES of McCain vs. Romney/Ryan will convey a message (whether accurate or not) and Sarah being thrown into that equation muddies the visual message. Sarah is a pragmatist and a patriot and I think she believes freeing the country from Obama is the #1 goal; unusually for a politician, she is able to check her personal ambition for the good of the country.
Meantime, she will be strengthening the grassroots, especially in "flyover country" where she is hugely popular and too far away from NYC for the press to bother her.
AGREE!
They need to spend some of that campaign warchest on primetime TV delivering a withering analysis of what “the won” has done to this country.
AGREE!
They need to spend some of that campaign warchest on primetime TV delivering a withering analysis of what “the won” has done to this country.
DON’T worry about what the libs are gonna say, cause they are gonna say it anyway!
DON’T worry about being called ‘racist’ cause that is all they got and they are gonna scream it anyway!
Two different theaters of conflict, two different strategies. Sarah's theater is news cycles and election cycles. Writing books, trademarking, and speaking to any group that will listen, and building a war chest to take on the bad guys is part of her theater of operations.
Let us not forget that GW ended his battles the richest man in America, mostly through land grabs in the Ohio valley during the Indian Wars and a strategic marriage. After getting his rear end handed to him early in Revolutionary War, GW ran from every major battle opportunity the Brits offered him for years - and wisely so. Retreat, retreat, retreat, I win. Today, we refer to it a defense in depth. Invite your adversary to over extend themselves, then wear him down.
I do see parallels between what Sarah is doing and GWs campaign. The fact that they both assured that they end up well propertied is not a knock on either’s character. Good for them both.
people should have seek the withering criticism of palin being offered by Don Imus this AM.
He said the only reason Hanity and sombody else wanted her as VP was because they wanted a lap dance from her. It went on (degraded?) from there.
If Imus has said that about a democrat or a democrat democrafic from the democrat plantation, he would be looking for a new job again.
I like that phrase. Quite a bit. Well done.
Just as a bit of trivia, Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees seven times in 1967.
Why don’t you Sarah haters get your own thread and have at it..one more thing bugger off!!!!!
I'll compare my “poor side of the railroad tracks” chops with anyone here. Save your class warfare for someone else.
I'm speaking as a retired military officer who spent decades refining his own military bearing and helping younger officers develop theirs. One of the special challenges female leaders must overcome is the tendency to raise the pitch of their voice as well as its volume when they get animated. It is off-putting and can create, in extreme cases, the impression of hysterics. Sarah does get close to that at times when shouting over a crowd. If I wasn't video challenged I would post an example or two. It gives the left additional opportunities to mis-characterize her as a flaky cheerleader rather than the deeply intellectual person she is. In those cases, she should lower her voice and let the PA system do the heavy lifting, or just smile patiently until the crowd settles enough for her to continue. A lot of ladies don't understand the attention grabbing power of the female voice when you take it down an octave. Thatcher was a master.
There is a composure that is critical for strategic leaders to develop so that they can outwardly appear to be rock of calm and security when all heck is breaking loose around them. People are drawn to this. Yes, snooty European (particularly British) aristocracy has made an art of this technique, but for good reason.
I find Sarah very difficult to listen to. I LOVE to read her speeches but hate to hear them. You are correct that I probably shouldn't have picked two elitist Brits as my examples of good female orators - there are many around the world and in this country I could have used. I know it sounds demeaning to focus so much on style, but at the strategic leader level, style is as important as substance.
No matter how you try to rationalize it... they didn’t fit together because they NEVER had the same audience.
LLS
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