Blogging from Phoenix: Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin spent some time today participating via Teleconference with prominent national conservatives, who were assembled in the Virginia countryside spit-balling strategy to rebuild the shattered Republican Party. My confidential source reports the Governor, who was scheduled to be at work today. Stayed home after she was contacted and asked to participate in the high level discussion after returning from Phoenix last evening.
Conservative heavyweights L. Brent Bozell III, who is president of the Media Research Center, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and Grover Norquist, who heads Americans for Tax Reform, along with American spectator publisher Al Regnery were among those attending what amounts to a council of political civil war in the Republican Party.
The Governor made it clear to those present the vicious rumors being spread by McCain campaign staffers are absolute lies. At no time did she mistake the continent of Africa with the country of south Africa. Nor was she unaware of our NAFTA partners, She did ask a campaign staffer to flesh out some of the particulars. But in respect to debate prep only. A Governor or a vice President engages staff precisely for that reason. To pull up and refresh the boss on particulars prior to meetings and policy discussions my source related.
To Sarah’s thinking the advisor reported, too many of McCain’s people seemed to think the Vice Presidential candidate was their employee. My source reports the Governor caught one of the staff assigned to her by the campaign literally attempting to beam files from one of the Governors Black berry devices to their own, And hell yes she gave that individual the rough edge of her tongue but quick.
Keep in mind my source remarked, Sarah may have in their mind just been the bottom half of the ticket, but she is also the Chief executive of the Great State of Alaska. Sarah thought it the height of presumption to catch an aid helping themselves to a sitting Governors confidential material. The Palin intimate declined to disclose for the moment the particulars of the meeting outside Washington, except to say the Governor was delighted with how it went. And the cause to restore true conservative ideology to the GOP in the wake of the defeat is not lost yet.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackPuhleeze. Watch her in any interview you like. She is a half-wit and cost McCain the campaign (along with the typical mudslinging that shows little attention to actual issues to people who are connected, and people were connected this year!)
God help us if they choose Palin as the hope of the Republican Party. She is a paper tiger at best, a bigger liability than Bush most likely.
To The GOP. In 1958 I left the democrat party because they move away from my core beliefs. The only reason I didn’t leave the republican party this time was because of Sarah Palin. The party needs to get back to basics.
Puhleeze. Watch her in any interview you like. She is a half-wit and cost McCain the campaign (along with the typical mudslinging that shows little attention to actual issues to people who are connected, and people were connected this year!) the election.
God help us if they choose Palin as the hope of the Republican Party. She is a paper tiger at best, a bigger liability than Bush most likely.
Palin’s running for the 2012 presidency. But ya gotta wonder whether Palin (SarahSixPack.com) is actually going to be the GOP’s standard bearer, or whether she’ll just be a footnote in history. Obama (ObamaAgain2012.com) is a shoo-in this go-round, and it’s very likely that he’ll effectively use the power of his incumbency in ’12 to win a second term. Question is: Will Palin’s star power within the GOP continue all the way into 2016? Isn’t it more likely that many brighter (!) GOP stars will emerge during the next 8 years?
Edwards – hopefully! We cannot pin our hopes to Palin. She is a joke to the entire country except those who actually believe the Obama is a Muslim Terrorist crap. We are embarrassing ourselves with Palin and with the conspiracy theories. Obama won because she should have. We lost our way with all the negativity and character assassination AND with nominating an unqualified beauty queen who crumbled during NORMAL interviews. You guys saw it, there was no “gotcha” journalism there, people. Just watch how Obama handled O’Reilly, who was loaded for bear. He handled it, well, like a president.
It is my opinion that republicans are brainwashed from day 1… who wants to be known to associate with tree huggin hippies – I learned that in HS. Republicans are way out of reach for 90% of americans – no they wont raise taxes on you if you are a multi-millionaire but god help you if you are struggling to feed your family. I am of the belief that the rich must be robbed to feed the poor – not hand outs but their fair share for the work they do. If the GOP wants to reshape itself I hope they follow the likes of Ron Paul and Barry Goldwater rather then all these backwards a$$ war stirrin criminals – fear mongering is not what this country needs. We are a democracy and if the wealth isnt spread fairly then we lean more and more toward a capitalist society – wasnt this country founded to get away from that mentality? Maybe we should split up all of the red and blue states and see who comes out on top this time – doesnt seem they got the clue on the last civil war.
Plowell…
Your comments sound bitter, to some extend i thought that you was republican, them i kind of see you as democrat… I saw that interview with Orally, no! Obama was not confortable with the questions, nor look like a President but like some one who was in hot water in try to come out from it.
The only character assassination I saw throught the hole campaing was against Sarah Palin, from the moment that she come out to the spot ligth, everything was in attack of her in her family, you must be blind or have a narrow mind, because Obama campaing in many ways play derty. Today he’s the President, I respect that, to the point that I will give him the time he need to prove to the people that he really cares for USA. I do think that he belives more in European policies tham American. I’m from Europe and I know what i talk about, I doubt that many in USA knows.. and meanly he win because his color and the youth.
Have the fact straigth! Sorry for my english still learning.
Mike – “am of the belief that the rich must be robbed to feed the poor – not hand outs but their fair share for the work they do.” Simple equation: No one owes anyone anything. Simply because an individual happens to be wealthier than another does not mean he should be penalized (overtaxed) to pay for the ones too lazy to get out and work to take care of their family. Oh, and by the way, it would not be such a bad idea to impose the Chinese law here, maximum two kids to a family. If you cannot afford to take care of them, do not produce them.
–You want to talk about the last civil war. Obviously, it is not the red states that feel they must receive federal subsistence in order to survive. Simply remedy, that dirty four-leter word, W-O-R-K.
Republican bosses to blame Palin’s for flop
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL RACE: The Republican vice-presidential candidate may have another way to get to Washington
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Politics can produce some pretty nasty break-ups, but the ballad of John McCain and Sarah Palin is like something you’d hear on the jukebox at the Mug Shot Saloon in Wasilla at closing time.
He was a white-haired, silver-tongued former flyboy from Washington who strung her along with a lot of big talk about Neiman Marcus, moving sidewalks and unspecified Senate in-charginess.
She was a former Miss Congeniality who’d parlayed a head for up-dos and a knack for self-promotion into the executive mansion of the northernmost state of the union through sheer pluck and a breathtaking lack of self-doubt.
Seems like just yesterday they were mavericking their way across pro- America, with trusty Joe the Plumber in tow, spreading the word about not spreading the wealth.
Now, just weeks later, his friends are blaming her for running up the bills and going rogue and being a whack job; her friends are blaming his friends for caring too much about briefing and geography and for thwarting her presidential ambitions in favour of trying to win this election.
What Sarah Palin may be pondering, beyond the arguable reality of her own roguish whack-jobness and the vastness of Africa, is whether she should have said no.
When those fancy men in their sharp suits came a-calling about how she was on the short list to be John McCain’s lovely and talented assistant, she should have heard the whirr of that buzz saw just off stage right.
She should have known that, if it all went south, the very things they’d be barking out to the world about her would end up being spun into something else altogether: Maverick would become rogue, hockey mom would become hillbilly, gumption would become whack job.
Compared with the things the McCain camp has said about Sarah Palin in the past three weeks, some of the things the rest of us said when Sarah Palin was wheeled out about why they chose her seem downright flattering. The McCain campaign assured everyone that they knew better and that the naysayers should stop being so rude, disrespectful and negative and take their word for it.
A month ago, they were saying she was more than qualified to be president of the United States and leader of the free world and now they’re saying she’s a greedy, stupid, shallow diva. Which is a frighteningly belated way of saying, “It’s a good thing we didn’t win,” and that only confirms all the most unsettling predictions people made about the potential consequences of this pick.
Palin might have known better for her own sake than to sign up for a kamikaze scapegoat mission, but expecting her to just say no in the face of such an offer is like expecting a lottery winner to shrug and say, “Nah, never mind.”
From the moment she accepted, everything she did that had to do with her family, her record, her ability to make it through a network interview or even her spending habits was the campaign’s responsibility because these were the things they chose to overlook.
Presidential campaigns can’t be responsible for every stupid mistake made on their behalf and they can’t even be responsible for every gaffe or unguarded aside of a running mate. But to not vet Palin and then hang her for things that would have turned up in the vetting or that should have been headed off by aides — like the fake Nicolas Sarkozy interview with Mont-real’s CKOI, which has also pranked such other hillbillies as the real Sarkozy and Bill Gates — seems wildly self-serving.
Chances are, this stuff will gain her more sympathy than scorn among her fans in the Republican base, and it may also rally Alaskans, who could be electing a new senator to replace Republican Ted Stevens, who was convicted of corruption too late to remove his name from the Nov. 4 ballot and whose votes are still being counted.
If Stevens is declared the winner in that race and keeps his seat, but his conviction is upheld on appeal, Majority Leader Harry Reid has warned he’ll be expelled from the Senate.
That would create an opening for Palin to get to Washington on her own steam and take a seat in the Senate alongside John McCain. That could be a reunion worthy of a whole ‘nother song.