Sarah Palin | 04/01/2009 8:40 am

Gingrich Replaces Embattled Palin at GOP Dinner

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

It’s only Wednesday, but we’re guessing this week will be a total bust for Sarah Palin.

First and foremost, her former running mate, John McCain, refused to say on Sunday whether he would endorse her in a possible 2012 presidential race. The senator said he’ll first have to survey all of the candidates before making a decision, which is certainly the political thing to say, but also implicitly indicates that he doesn’t have much faith in the Alaska governor.

As if that weren’t enough, some of Palin’s constituents — and liberals across America — are angry that she picked Wayne Anthony Ross to be her state’s next attorney general. Why are people so angry? Well, it could have something to do with the fact that Ross referred to gays and lesbians as "degenerates." Lovely. Also, native Alaskans are angry over what they call Ross’s anti-rural policies and hope to derail his nomination.

All of that drama has been pretty contained, however, especially when compared to this: the Republican party disinvited Palin from their biggest fundraising dinner and replaced her with — wait for it — former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Palin’s team insists she had never confirmed her attendance at the event, which takes place June 8, but a press release sent out in March said the governor was the keynote speaker. Apparently things have changed, because the organizing committee yesterday said they had "decided to go in another direction." Ouch.

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So obviously actually nothing happened — since you chose to post this response.

By Z **** on 04/01/2009 10:25 am

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My thought exactly, Z!

By Rudi G. on 04/01/2009 10:37 am

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c’mon Z…give her a break, even the best of "spinners" can’t always be expected to have a quick comeback all of the time.

I think McCains feelings of Palin were quite obvious when he gave his "concession" speech on election night, not only was she placed as far away from McCain on that stage (it’s a wonder she didn’t topple off the edge), he would let her nowhere near the podium let alone the microphone. She cost him the election, and he knew it.

By Catherine Kaiman on 04/02/2009 11:27 am

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Oh……all right……..but, just fo you. =)

By Z **** on 04/02/2009 11:44 am

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Deber, Z’s comment was not demeaning in any sense of the word, she was asking you for clarification on your statement, which definitely should be answered. What does it say about McCain, when he was touting her as the best possible candidate for VP just a few months ago, but now he can’t even confirm that he would support her running in the next race? It’s a simple, logical question to your statement.

By Amanda C on 04/02/2009 12:21 pm

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She was as qualified as the guy who sit in the pResident office today! She also was qualified enough to be elected to the position she ran for VICE PRESIDENT.

Unlike McCAIN haters…he does not expect to drop dead anytime soon!

By S.J. Morgan on 04/01/2009 10:25 am

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That’s the point, SJ — Obama and Palin probably did have about the same amount of experience. McCain had a great advantage in his experience………he negated that advantage when he chose Palin. In my mind, he should have let her have some time to develop and instead have chosen someone who could match his experience on the ticket. Instead, she has gotten throw to the wolves (so to speak) before she was probably all that ready.

By Z **** on 04/01/2009 10:28 am

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That may be true…as a VP she would have been an understudy so to speak to McCain…and could have eased into the WASHINGTON snake pit! But I also thought BIDEN was a POOR choice for Obama…especially when his internation national experience was suppose to be his strong suit! Intsttead he ahs become what we all expected the GAFFE MASTER.

The messiah was destined to be elected no matter who ran against him.

For the record I was a Mitt Romney supporter ( and Gosh could we use him now) but I do think that Palin got and continues to get a unfair deal.

I probalbly would not even vote for McCain next time if he was young enough to run …. I could get behind a Romney/Palin ticket after she gets more seasoning. If she can get through the next 4 years with all that has been thrown at her..she is one tough cookie!

By S.J. Morgan on 04/01/2009 10:36 am

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Yes, a nice Powerpoint presentation from Mitt would solve all our problems!

By Rudi G. on 04/01/2009 10:38 am

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Rudi..he understands business and capitalism! Obama has never balanced anything but his checkbook and the way he is running up his credit cards I have to wonder if he even did that!

By S.J. Morgan on 04/01/2009 10:41 am

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He made his fortune by taking over American companies, forcing them into bankruptcy, laying off thousands of workers and outsourcing work to communist China.

Fortunately, Mitt Romney will never be president, and not just because Democrats and independents will never vote for him. His real problem is with right-wing Christian nationalists in the Republican base who are deeply invested in a false notion about his religion, as evidenced in this question from one of Romney’s competitors in the Republican primaries last year, via Fox News:

In the article, [former Arkansas Gov. Mike] Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks, "Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"

Prompted in part by Huckabee’s rhetoric, Romney gave a speech about his religion that his supporters hoped would compare with John Kennedy’s address during the 1960 campaign to Southern Baptist ministers about his relationship with Catholicism. Unfortunately for Romney, his presentation was so cold and uninteresting that his critics compared it with a Powerpoint presentation.

Shocked by the antipathy toward Romney’s religion by the GOP’s Christian nationalist base, the Mormon Church in Utah to attempt to curry favor with evangelicals by encouraging the Mormon rank and file to donate half the $40 million budget of the anti-gay hate groups behind the Proposition 8 campaign in California. While the hate campaign was a success and the right to civil marriage was rescinded for gays in California, Mormons in Utah have been shocked by the blowback — from gays, liberals and civil rights leaders nationwide as well as some California conservatives who were aghast at the level of meddling by Utahns in California politics — and the church is under investigation by the California state government for alleged secret participation in the campaign that could jeopardize the non-profit status of the church’s estimated $13 billion empire.

By Rudi G. on 04/01/2009 11:24 am

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S.J. ..he understands business and capitalism!

He did quite well as governor of Massachusetts too, considering this state is totally Democratic. He had his hands full, but he did manage to get a version of universal healthcare through the Legislature. Not everything wonderful because it is expensive, but it is still up and running — the kinks are getting worked out. Sales tax in MA is 5%, State Income Tax is a bit pricey, but reasonable. In short, Romney would make a better president than BHO, but I think the Republicans have good potential candidates in the ranks… plenty of choices.

By Marjorie C. on 04/02/2009 7:03 am

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Because he governed as a liberal. Remember he was pro-gay and pro-choice back then. He flipflopped when he ran for president in order to con conservatives into supporting him. There’s no way to know where Romney really stands. But it doesn’t matter. He’ll never make it through the GOP primaries without the support of the Huckabee wing, and they’ll never give it to him.

Plenty of choices? Please name some.

I see fatal flaws in the top contenders: Romney (evangelicals won’t vote for him, neither will independents); Huckabee (way too evangelical to win the general); Newt (serial adulterer, shut down the U.S. gov’t in a snit over having to ride in the back of Air Force One); Charlie Crist (gay rumors won’t fly with GOP base); Palin (her signature style has become self-pity, which is not a quality Americans admire in their presidents); and Bobby Jindal (who is still reeling from his atrocious performance in the speech that introduced him to the nation).

Your best bets are Mark Sanford and Tim Pawlenty but they have zero name recognition. Sanford is also challenged by the fact he’s from South Carolina, which has been ravaged by decades of Republican mismanagement is one of the poorest and most backward states in the nation. Plus, Sanford comes across as a prototypical Bushie — the angry white guy. The country’s not ready for that again.

So that leaves Pawlenty. And I have to say he looks better without the mullet.

By Rudi G. on 04/02/2009 7:30 am

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Obama had more experience on the National scene, and it showed, and he had something else, the right education for the job, the right intelligence and the right knowledge about world and domestic affairs. Add to that, he is a Constitutional scholar, and you can’t even compare the two of them.

By DeBúrca obj on 04/01/2009 11:07 am