Sarah Palin will give a speech at a tea party rally in Indianola, Iowa Saturday. CNN reports that Christine O’Donnell was at the center of the controversy that lead to Palin aides putting Palin’s speech “on hold” temporarily yesterday:
The Palin source said O’Donnell’s representatives misled the tea party group about the extent of the governor’s relationship with O’Donnell.
O’Donnell’s representatives told event organizers that she would be in Iowa on the date of the rally and would like to come by and “say hi” to Palin, the source said. O’Donnell was then added to the speaking agenda.
The source told CNN that O’Donnell aides lied to organizers and said Palin had been communicating via text message with O’Donnell about the rally.
“The governor hasn’t spoken to her in a year,” the Palin source said of O’Donnell. …
An aide to O’Donnell disputed that people close to her mischaracterized her relationship with Palin to the Iowa rally organizers and asserted they did not lie about the extent of conversations between the two late Wednesday.
Palin, who has indicated she will announce her presidential decision no later than the end of September, will visit South Korea in October to speak at the World Knowledge Forum.
So, the professional victim Grisly Mama--the victim of "lies" by the Iowa tea party--gets her way in the end. Ms. Palin's rejection of any appearance with Ms. O'Donnell, on whom Ms. Palin bestowed the priceless gift of endorsement in the Senate run, speaks volumes regarding her capacity for loyalty and common courtesy.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRight. Why did Palin sacrafice the Delaware Senate seat by endorsing somebody she can't stand to be around?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDo you really need that question answered? Do you feel clever for asking it? Really?
Here you go, Sparky:
That Delaware seat worked out just fine. A career RINO was denied automatic coronation as a lifetime U.S. Senator. It sent a message to squishes everywhere that, if you want to wear the GOP tag - the so-called party of conservatism - you better walk some semblance of the line or we will primary you and you will disappear.
Judging by the actions of some GOP lawmakers, since then, they appear to have gotten the message. Some others, I fear, are going to have to take more convincing. It if takes another O'Donnell (or whoever...it does not matter) to knock them off the general election ballot - even if followed by a loss to a Democrat, fine with me.
We will get their minds right.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseROFL. You are a trip. Do you really take yourself seriously? What the **** do you know or care about "loyalty" and "common courtesy" within the TEA Party? You truly do not give us much credit for having brains, do you? Therein lays your problem, methinks. Keep it up. It's an advantage for us.
This of it this way, KM:
Would you want O'Donnell on the stage with Palin?
Ah, I see.
There you go. That's the reason it's not going to happen. Believe it or not, we're not in the business of catering to you. That ship sailed for you several drops on your head ago.
Be sure to look me up when BHO needs campaign advice. Maybe he and Hanoi Jane can straddle an AAA emplacement together. Rev. Wright or Cindy Sheehan are looking for a photo op or two. Unbelievable.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe sooner O'Donnell goes away, the better the Tea Party will be. She's a disaster. Why would anyone invite her to speak? What does she have to say that anyone would want to hear?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis the same crowd that adores Sarah Palin.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAre you trying to make some sort of point? If so, let us know what it is.
I sure as heck know you're not lending any equivalence to Palin and O'Donnell. Only a truly stupid person, ignorant of facts and blinded by ideology, would do that, right?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat in the world does this mean? Is this politics, or a high school lunchroom? OMG, you said you texted her but you DIDN'T! She's not your friend anymore!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis reinforces what we already know: O'Donnell is borderline nuts, and Palin is either extremely petty or extremely self-centered, wishing not to share the spotlight with anyone.
The Keystone Cops would be proud.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI agree that O'Donnell is fruitcake. She has dedicated her life to trying to get famous. She was Snooki before Snooki was born.
The blame here lies with organizers. If they think inviting this flake is a good idea, Palin would be wise to skip the event.
As an aside, I predict Palin says something squirrelly at the "World Knowledge Forum" and give late night comics a week's worth of material.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTrue that O'Donnell is VERY off, but she actually handled this situation in an adult manner. Maybe it will be a lesson to them - act like an adult instead of a smarmy brat [as did Sarah] when things don't go your way.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLet me get this straight:
Not wanting to share a stage, as a legitimate candidate, with a insane woman, with no chance of ever being elected dogcatcher, is "self-centered" and evidence of "not wanting to share the spotlight with anyone"?
What's it like on your planet? The day I find myself so similarly deranged as you that the mere mention of a given individual in a given story automatically shuts down my ability to fairly assess the situation, put a bullet in me. Thanks.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI am devoted to Sarah Palin, think she is the brightest star on the Republican horizon since Reagan. I think quite highly of Michelle Bachman. But as much as I would have enjoyed watching Christine O'Donnell give the left - and the GOP establishment - apoplexy last November, I really wish she would go away. On basic beliefs, she says the right things, but with almost everyone she encounters some 'he-said, she-said' controversy arises.
If you are occasionally falsely accused of something, I discount it, because the establishment media loves to trash conservatives. If some dispute among friends arises, well, sometimes there are genuine misunderstandings in life. But when you get into a significant dispute with almost everyone you meet that ends in people calling each other liars, I have to think it is not the world that is out of step, it is Christine O'Donnell. As Ronald Reagan might have said, "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably...Christine O'Donnell."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRE: "But as much as I would have enjoyed watching Christine O'Donnell give the left - and the GOP establishment - apoplexy last November, I really wish she would go away. On basic beliefs, she says the right things, but with almost everyone she encounters some 'he-said, she-said' controversy arises."
Congratulations. You've arrived at the same conclusions that Palin probably has - definitely anybody advising Palin's campaign has.
O'Donnell was useful. The results were helpful. Any delusions O'Donnell has that she deserves to be on the same stage - in the same arena - as Palin, Bachmann, or Perry, though, need to be stomped out. The fact that she would even attempt to be there - especially given her latest drama - is evidence those delusions exists.
Palin and/or her handlers made an outstanding decision. The clearest evidence of this: The only people stating a problem with the result can't stand Palin.
Yeah. Let's center our campaign strategy around pleasing our detractors. That's the ticket.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe soap opera wing of the Tea Party meets overzealous, anti-female-conservative journalists. It makes for interesting temporary bedfellows -- Palin's "camp" and CNN.
Perry, Romney and Bachmann. What about those three names, and the broad representation of the conservative end of politics they represent, does a fourth person not grasp?
Sarah Palin has made her name synonymous with the Led Zeppelin tune "Stairway to Heaven", in my view.
By the gazillionth time I hear it in connection to a "campaign" that's non-existent, the more tired of its mention I become.
I've changed the station already, Sarah. And my tuner isn't digital -- it took some time fumbling with the stinkin' knob. The reception for others is pretty clear now.
There is room, to be sure, on the short-wave frequencies, for those pioneering indies longing to resonate.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWow. You treated that metaphor like a rented red-headed stop-mule. :D
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseer, "step-mule". Ugh.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOrganizers learned something. If Palin is appearing/speaking, all other speakers must be cleared with HER beforehand. Blame for the O'Donnell mess can be shifted, but bottom line is Sarah didn't want her there for personal reasons. Would the same thing have happened if Angle, Miller, or other TP/Sarah endorsed losers wanted to be there? winners? What about her and Bachmann (who bumped Sarah from her high perch) on the SAME stage for a debate? (though this wouldn't happen because Sarah's not going to run, and because Sarah always has [makes] a conflicting schedule that avoids debates).
This woman is falling fast. Worst thing she's done was yesterday - using supporters who made plans, got plane tickets and chartered buses, and may even have been in Indianola early as pawns to keep O'Donnell away. I think she'll lose supporters over this.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseFeel the hate.
I'll suffice to say that you lend equivalence to O'Donnell, Angle, Miller, and "other TP/Sarah endorsed losers" (your Google fail you?). That, alone, tells everybody everything they need to know about your, ahem, "thought" process.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThese chicks--especially the Quitta from Wasilla--are emblematic of today's Tea-publican Party. Palin will never go away! She loves the attention you lard over her, and the money you give her. Have fun with her! She's all yours--vapidness and all!
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