Posted on 06/08/2009 1:03:41 PM PDT by SolidWood
In another sign of the sway that Sarah Palin and her supporters in Palin Nation hold over the GOP, NRCC chief Pete Sessions is working behind the scenes to get Palin reinvited to the big GOP fundraiser tonight, GOP sources say.
It’s the story of the day that GOP leaders have been battling over who’s to blame for the fact that Palin was “snubbed” when she was disinvited from a speaking role at the big fundraiser, which is for the two Congressional committees, the NRCC and the NRSC. Politico laid the blame on NRCC chief Sessions, claiming he didn’t want her to upstage keynote speaker Newt Gingrich, prompting a round of bitter finger-pointing.
But GOP sources say that Sessions right now is working the phones to try to get Palin to attend, after all. The Hill, in what seemed like an answer to the Politico piece, reported that the real culprit behind Palin’s disinvitation as a speaker had originally been NRSC chief John Cornyn.
In addition to working to ensure that Palin does come, Sessions plans to stress party unity in his speech tonight. “Together, we are showing America that we are a unified party with the best solutions to create jobs and grow our economy,” Sessions will say, according to an advance copy sent my way.
That GOP leaders are now battling over who snubbed Palin, and working to get credit for her re-invitation, is yet anther sign of Palin’s continued power in the party and the sway that the conservative voters who inhabit Palin Nation hold over party leaders.
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Sarah Palin will in fact be coming to tonight’s big fundraising gala, a GOP source tells me, despite her camp’s claim that she had been “snubbed” when the organizers let her know that she would not have a speaking role at the event.
But she will not be speaking, the source confirms, though he adds that there will be some kind of gesture of special recognition made towards her that separates her from other guests.
“She’s coming, not speaking,” the source says. “She will be recognized at the event.”
Of course, there are still a few hours to go, so you never know…
Pinheads.
Reluctantly no doubt.
I have more faith in one woman from Alaska then I do for the GOP in its entirety.
Wishful thinking. We're that the case, she wouldn't have been dis-invited in the first place.
They will either cut this crap out or they can forget my support!
The crowd will require that she speak. It will be so funny... they crowd will keep screaming and clapping until someone finally says “C’mon up and say a few words Governor Palin”....
I have more faith in one woman from Alaska then I do for the GOP in its entirety.
Sarah Palin is the backbone of a new GOP if we PUSH for it.
Keep the pressure ON.
You support the NRCC and the NRSC?
These ass clowns could mess up a wet dream.
People should start chanting “Sarah,Sarah” and embarass everyone else there trying to screw her and her supporters.
She should call in sick. I would.
I won’t support RINOs, period!
What is the big problem here? I keep reading posts that she’s invited, she’s not invited; she’s attending, she’s not attending?
Is it the GOP or Palin’s camp who keeps messing up? Whoever’s to blame, it looks idiotic.
The GOP. They keep “rearranging” her. Looks like they got some hot telephone lines over this BS.
Don’t believe all the stuff being spread about Cornyn. My bet is on Kay Bailey and Mittens.
Earlier this year, Sarah endorsed Kay Bailey’s opponent in the Texas race, Rick Perry. She may have done this as a favor to John McCain, who hates Kay Bailey like poison. The two just don’t get along.
Anyhoo, I suspect that the Mittens as well as a few others were behind this stunt, and that several THOUSAND emails showed up at the RNCC and at Sessions office. Being a hand puppet isn’t fun, and Sessions backed out at the last minute when the heat got too unbearable.
Best,
Chris
No Palin = No GOP check from seruzawa this year.
Typical Washington, inside-the-Beltway, bullcrap. We stopped supporting these clowns with money because of it...
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I am surprised that McCain and KBH don’t get along. KBH is RHINO but maybe more so that McCain. Both are old farts that should let it go. They are not helping conservative causes at all.
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