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Posted on 12/23/2008 2:18:37 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Gov. Sarah Palin's next act on the national stage could come as early as February, at a major conservative convention in Washington, D.C.
The annual event is called the Conservative Political Action Conference, and Palin was supposed to be the keynote speaker last February, long before she became a household name as the Republican choice for vice president.
When Palin couldn't make it, Vice President Dick Cheney took her place.
The convention isn't affiliated with the Republican Party, but big-name Republicans make a point of stopping by. It's where presidential candidate Mitt Romney conceded to John McCain this year, and where McCain drew boos from self-described "Reagan conservatives" -- and national headlines -- when he talked about immigration.
Now the 2009 convention is just two months away, and Palin is expected to speak to the thousands of conservative activists and college students that attend each year, director Lisa De Pasquale said in a phone interview Monday.
A Palin spokesman said it's no sure thing.
It would be the third time Palin has left Alaska -- and claimed the national spotlight -- since losing the Nov. 4 election. She spoke at a Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami during the second week of November; earlier this month, she campaigned in Georgia for Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss before meeting with President-elect Barack Obama in Philadelphia along with a group of other governors.
That last trip drew complaints from local Democrats who said Palin's time would be better spent at home on state business. At the time, a spokesman said the governor had been hard at work on Alaska issues and compared her time campaigning to a vacation day.
"We actually saw her at the (Republican Governors Association) conference and she reiterated that she did want to be there, " De Pasquale said.
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The disdain that the 52%ers had (however misdirected) towards the Pubs, took a big positive shot in the arm by Conserv types by Palin.
If the Pub party is to have any hope, it is within a Reaganesque true conserv.
I will watch Palin, I will not watch the Arizona Senator.
Maverick my a$$.
I’m tellin’ you right now, if McLame had won the White House he would have destroyed the conservative movement. 8 more years of big-government “compassion” ala Bush piled on top with McLame’s eager to please the media and the left persona would have left us utterly ruined. At least from here we have a chance to come back. With a McLame in office we would have been devastated.
I was there this year and saw Romney’ concession speech. Was interview by a few media, never saw any results. They wanted the pathos of Romneys supporters which were very strong there. I did not give them that since it was important to defeat the Democrats.
I agree.
And we are in better shape technologically than we were in 1992. Back then, all we had was talk radio and a few conservative publications. We now have an extensive online communications network and the ability to challenge the Drive-Bys head-on. Additionally, the Drive-Bys influence is waning daily.
Excellant point! I believe Palin can bring us back but she will face roadblocks from most of the RNC/GOP DC elites. She is resented by most of the Pubbies in the Senate whether they will admit it or not.
Some may have learned a lession...Chambliss for example...but too many have their little kingdoms to protect.
2nd point. I hope CPAC doesn't invite semi-Colin, the Maverick, or any of the other so called "conservatives" of convenience this year or any other year.
The internet is a communications tool. We still have to have a conservative message and someone glib enough to sell it.
My point is that pandering to the Drive-By Media is no longer necessary and in fact is counterproductive.
They are part of the enemy and need to be treated as such by our candidates.
Agreed. I think a McLame victory could easily have been more detrimental, in the long haul, than *you know who* (my wife refuses to say the name). The only way to get a non-RINO administration is to start with a totally dysfunctional left wing disaster, as we’re about to experience. The MOM (Mass of Morons) will soon crave an adult American citizen as President. Well, I hope so. Our politics is so poisoned by the MSM. All so sad. But the MOM doesn’t care, just give them an Xbox, ipod, soft shoes and a warm place to dispense with their primary biological concerns, and they’re just fine.
Just move along, folks. Nothin’ happening here.
I still support Sarah. Heck, anyone that the democrats of deathly afraid of is my choice for president. In my book she still rocks - big time.
the Drive-By Media is no longer necessary and in fact is counterproductive.
Right. “O” is helping us and doesn’t know it. His arrogant manner is turning off the MSM when they ask him hard questions.
LLS
Count me in!
LLS
I agree with you on the MSM and modern communications tools. If it were up to me, I'd have told that twit Letterman, Katie Couric, SNL, and a whole host of media or ersatz media types that they weren't getting McCain or Palin on their programs. If you've demonstrated hostility toward us in the past or have been one sided in your approach, you are erased from the list of acceptable venues. When Tina Fey walked past Sarah Palin without having enough class to acknowledge her existence, they'd have known that that was the last time. I'd also have coached the candidates to use every opportunity they had in front of a tv camera or radio mic to deliver a specific attack or attacks on the opposition...sort of a canned speech if you will that is ready at the push of a button.
I think that along with utilizing modern tools, we have to find a way to refine the message. Rush was making a great point yesterday that the financial meltdown may have been an October surprise gone out of control. Try explaining his logic to the non-listeners and their eyes and brains glaze over.
I didn't take it that way. And yes, we've got to go on the offensive regarding the MSM. Many people say the media is the PR arm of the Democrat party and the liberals. I think it's the other way around. The Democrat party is the political arm of the media elites, the liberals and the academic radicals.
Obama could afford to do that having most of the MSM in his back pocket......but McCain was desperate....it was gamble or give it up. he lost.
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