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Palin still center stage
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ABC News' David Chalian Reports: Gov. Sarah Palin is clearly not ready to relinquish the spotlight following her defeat with John McCain on the Republican presidential ticket last Tuesday. The Republican Governors Association has announced today that Gov. Palin will be the featured guest at its annual conference later this week in Miami, Florida.
Gov. Palin is set to be a featured speaker at a panel discussion entitled, "Looking Toward the Future." Other featured speakers expected to partake on the panel are General Tommy Franks, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Bill Kristol, Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN), and Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC). (Try to count on one hand how many of those folks have 2012 circled on their calendars.)
In addition to delivering remarks at the panel discussion, Gov. Palin also plans to hold a Thursday morning press availability where she is likely to face some questions about her role in the campaign and her future in the party.
It will be hard to miss Gov. Palin this week. Not only is the former vice presidential candidate attending the first high profile gathering of Republican elected officials after the party suffered severe losses last week, but she is also sitting down with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren and NBC News' Matt Lauer for her first nationally televised interviews since the campaign.
In the days following John McCain's loss to Barack Obama, the Palin fallout has been the dominant story line on the Republican side of the ledger. News accounts of anonymous McCain campaign aides accusing Gov. Palin of having little knowledge of world affairs (and geography) coupled with more details spilling out about her now infamous wardrobe lingered for days after the campaign came to a close. Gov. Palin met with reporters in Alaska on Friday to pushback on those accusations and to call the anonymous sources doing the leaking, "cowards." An aide to Gov. Palin, Meg Stapleton, spoke to ABC News' Kate Snow last week defending Gov. Palin from these accusations that emerged after the election.
The annual gathering of the Republican Governors Association falls on the heels of a tough election cycle for the GOP and will serve as the first opportunity for many party leaders and potential future standard bearers to regroup and begin to put forth the face, message, and mission of the Republican Party at the start of the Obama era.
November 10, 2008 in Palin, Sarah, Vote 2008: Republicans | Permalink | User Comments (1006)
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Our Greatest Dearest Leader is so harvard smart. Gov. Palin is so practical.
Posted by: Coke2 | Nov 10, 2008 12:35:25 PM
Aw jeez -- why haven't the repubs figured out yet that she is a bridge to absolutely nowhere. She's attractive to the base -- and the base only. The rest of us are done with that!!
Posted by: hang | Nov 10, 2008 12:41:24 PM
OK...they haven't learned yet.... total disgrace...
Posted by: Teacher2012 | Nov 10, 2008 12:43:23 PM
If she want to prove that she's not as dumb as she appeared, and that her being utterly unable to handle even an interview with Katie "Cutthroat" Couric as the fault of her handlers, she has a scant few weeks of interest to make her case. She should be on every interview show that will have her and taking unscripted questions until no one wants to talk to her. I've seen proof with my own eyes that she appears to not be the sharpest tool in the shed, it's up to her to provide my eyes counter proof if she cares to change my mind. And reading a speech from a teleprompter doesn't cut it.
The only alternative she has is to pack it in and look forward to being lumped in with Quayle as an intellectually vapid pretty face.
Posted by: jhw539 | Nov 10, 2008 12:46:22 PM
Practical indeed! A $150,000 wardrobe is definitely indicative of practicality. LOL
Posted by: hang | Nov 10, 2008 12:46:27 PM
Why are people still listening to this women? She is obviously not presidential material.
Posted by: Sarah | Nov 10, 2008 12:46:52 PM
too funny! Here they go setting her up now... They know she loves the spotlight and love to talk.... LoL
Posted by: Teacher2012 | Nov 10, 2008 12:48:36 PM
Boy, the Palin nightmare goes on.
Posted by: teddymaniac | Nov 10, 2008 12:49:32 PM
I hope everyone stops tearing down Palin. She's a trainwreck that will sink the GOP (again) and I don't want her to lose the nomination.
Posted by: bubba | Nov 10, 2008 12:50:58 PM
She is ultra conservative- anti abortion and pro guns- but out of touch with "real America"
Posted by: fran savin | Nov 10, 2008 12:51:26 PM
It would be too funny if it didn't mean we might have to listen to more of that fake folksy crap for the next 4 years.
Posted by: Sarah | Nov 10, 2008 12:51:45 PM
The Palin nightmare is over. The Obama nigtmare BEGINS!!
Posted by: Marvin | Nov 10, 2008 12:52:28 PM
Coke2 - SInce when is being educated a bad thing in a potential world leader. Do you and your kind think that is more important know the members of NAFTA, that this is NO country of Africa only a continent, knows the names of the leaders of the countries who are are friends and these important issues for keeping the world safe - Or - Do you think that ultra conservative issues are all that matter.
This country is made up of black, whites, Indians, Muslems, Asian etal. We are the United States of America and we are proud.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | Nov 10, 2008 12:53:35 PM
we had an ELECTION and the GOP LOST.
as long as Palin remains a national figure, they will continue to LOSE.
Go Sarah!
Posted by: guavaboy | Nov 10, 2008 12:53:48 PM
Can you say........................................HAS BEEN!!!
Well, she IS great for a LAUGH!!!
Posted by: Cathy | Nov 10, 2008 12:53:55 PM
The Republicans are so brain-dead that they actually continue to think this woman is credible, just like that thought that George W. and Dan Quayle were credible. The Republicans just keep the comedy rollin'!!
Posted by: Danny | Nov 10, 2008 12:54:37 PM
Can she just GO AWAY?
Posted by: Jwench | Nov 10, 2008 12:55:07 PM
You all need to do your homework because you are all wrong.
Posted by: jane | Nov 10, 2008 12:55:11 PM
It would be too funny if it didn't mean we have to listen to more of that fake folksy crap and all her sentences ending with "also" for the next 4 years.
Posted by: Sarah | Nov 10, 2008 12:55:22 PM
Could we please just let her fade into obscurity? I really hope to always see candidates for office that offer alot more substance. If you think Bush offended most leaders of the world, what do you think she would do? wink, wink!!!
Posted by: adriana1455 | Nov 10, 2008 12:56:59 PM
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