Posted on 02/01/2009 11:48:02 AM PST by rabscuttle385
When House Republicans planned their annual winter retreat, they extended an invitation to Alaska Gov. Sara Palin, hoping the party's 2008 vice presidential nominee would give a morale-building speech to the more than 130 Republican members of Congress gathered this weekend in Hot Springs, Va.
Retreat organizers tell ABC News that Palin politely declined, giving a perfectly understandable reason. According to the Congressional Institute, which hosted the conference, Palin said she simply could not make it to the retreat because pressing state business made it impossible for her to leave Alaska this weekend.
So where is Palin this weekend? She's in Washington, D.C., attending the super-elite Alfalfa Dinner.
"She lied to us," said a Republican at the retreat.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
Personally, I think she should have changed her plans to give them a pat on the back.
Hi hope all is well with you and yours.
I agree an hour or so mixing would not have hurt her in the least bit since she was aready down this way and it could have helped her with the party leaders. After all it was only a couple hundred miles from DC.
Take care.....
Look at the source and you be the judge as to what really happened.
Gingrich, Romney Steele Conservatives???? I need to start imbibing in my superbowl bourbon early. Weller Select .. it’ll do a body good.
Conservatives??? that is the funniest thing I have heard all day, except listening to that overbearing oooberman trying to talk to the pencil neck geek Collinsworth on NBC’s waste of time preshow.
A washed up has been, and a Nor’easterner public health witch doctor. And ... a new RINO head as well.
Ahhh ... that first sip was delightful.
The delusional can stay sober
I'm beginning to think the longest knives of all reside in the Republican party establishment. Very disturbing.
“She’s in Washington, D.C., attending the super-elite Alfalfa Dinner.”
What’s that, some kind of alphabet soup organization or a gathering of cow food farmers?
Yeah, let’s believe ABC News. They want Palin and the Republicans to succeed. God, the people on this site who listen to the networks and believe them is astonishing.
meeting privately with both democrat/republican Senators to lobby for state money in the proposed stimilus packageThis would be the stimulus package that all good conservatives should oppose? Is this like, "Well, I don't like pork, but I hate to see good bacon go to waste..."?
We expect the enemy Democrats to slash, but ...
Mount Redoubt is expected to blow it’s stack at any moment. She is doing exactly the right thing staying there to take care of any evacuations and ordering up National Guard as needed.The problem that some people have is that she isn't actually staying in Alaska. She's going to be in Washington attending a dinner at an "elite social club."
This would be the stimulus package that all good conservatives should oppose? Is this like, “Well, I don’t like pork, but I hate to see good bacon go to waste...”?
Man when the benefits are being passed out get in line and get your share. That way it helps reduce the cost you have to pay for all the others that are getting them and not paying. I suspect the Governor is well versed in lobbying for monies since she was a mayor and now governor.
“ABC News”? LOL!
No biggie. Nobody watches ABC news anyway. $krew ‘em.
You are right.
Steele is not a conservative. I would say that Steele is the worst choice of the four.
I suspect the Governor is well versed in lobbying for monies since she was a mayor and now governor.It's well-documented that Palin had hired lobbyists in Washington since her time as Mayor. At a time when conservatives are opposing the porkulus bill, she's quietly lining up for her serving? Fine, I guess that's what everyone's doing these days. That said, when she runs as President as a "conservative" and a "reformer" who doesn't do "politics as usual," don't expect me to believe it.
I don’t know the details of what happened. So I’m not going to assume based on an MSM hit piece that Palin was in the wrong.
But I will say everything I have heard, seen, learned, or watched from John Boehner has been utterly crap. His “whatever” directed at Palin doesn’t do anything to change my mind.
Maybe she learned all she needs to know about the spineless GOP.
Boehner was right in his response.
Palin & Crist are working over the Senators trying to get this bill passed. I love her but that is shameful.
In her campaign she was famous for saying “Thanks but no thanks”. I wish she would stand by that attitude.
I don't think that answers the question as to why she went to the alfalfa sprout dinner attended by the who's who in politics. You can go back and read all of my former posts and you will find that I don't suffer from PDS, with that, I think this stinks of hypocrisy. If she wants to lead the country she needs to lead her own party. This one can't be spinned. Serious slight by Palin and I think she exercised bad judgment in doing so.
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