By Gary P Jackson
I guess all the talk from people like Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus was just that, talk:
It’s official, Sarah Palin will NOT be speaking at the Republican Convention in Tampa. Here is her statement on the matter, as reported by Greta van Susteren:
…Everything I said at the 2008 convention about then-candidate Obama still stands today, and in fact the predictions made about the very unqualified and inexperienced Community Organizer’s plans to “fundamentally transform” our country are unfortunately coming true.
This year is a good opportunity for other voices to speak at the convention and I’m excited to hear them. As I’ve repeatedly said, I support Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in their efforts to replace President Obama at the ballot box, and I intend to focus on grassroots efforts to rally Independents and the GOP base to elect Senate and House members so a wise Congress is ready to work with our new President to get our country back on the right path.
This is imperative. As President Clinton said in 2008 while candidate Obama and lapdogs in the media were thrashing his wife’s record and reputation, this is “…the biggest fairy tale.” For the sake of America’s solvency and sovereignty we must close this nonsensical book in November…
~ Sarah Palin
Honestly, I’m conflicted. Obviously Sarah Palin would have brought an energy to Tampa that no other could. She would have fired up voters for the Romney/Ryan campaign.
That said, Mitt Romney and his people have made it clear since 2008 that they don’t care for Governor Palin, or the Tea Party for that matter. That being the case, Why should Sarah Palin speak on their behalf to the entire nation?
Sarah Palin’s speech in 2008 was the most watched vice presidential nomination speech in history. No doubt she would have brought a huge audience this year as well.
Sarah chose not to run for President this year, instead focusing on helping electing good, solid Conservatives to the Senate, and adding to the House. So far she has been incredibly successful at this, and her positive impact will be felt by the nation for years to come.
In a recent interview, La Donna Hale Cruzon spoke with Tea Party Express Chairman Amy Kremer, who said Sarah Palin had done more for Conservatism, and grass roots Americans, than anyone. She was just one of millions who wanted to see Sarah Palin speak in Tampa.
Again, as disappointed as many of us are, let’s not forget the big picture. Sarah is on a mission to rebuild Congress, and we must help her. Barack Obama is the worst president in America history, and is destroying the country. He must be defeated. Period.
Meanwhile, let’s reflect on what the people of Tampa will be missing:
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A Time For Choosing 
I can’t imagine anyone passing up the opportunity to have Sarah Palin speak at the Republican Convention…. the crowd reaction alone is enough to invite her… I am having less and less of a caring attitude about our leaders and law makers.. The only Politician we have today that will follow the Constitution to the letter is Sarah Palin and everyone seems to want to push her to the back burner,, the only reason i can figure for that is they are afraid of losing their cushy jobs with a retirement package that is unbelievable.. enough from me about this,,, have a nice day
They FEAR HER!! They do not want HER Taking the Spotlight off of them!!!
Kim that is a big AMEN. I will not be watching the Rep. Convention. To Boring. Kim: Thanks so much for your comment
They are afraid that Sarah will steal the show….and she would. They better NOT forget the TEA PARTY…A force in America, to not be underestimated.
That’s part of it, for sure. Remember 1976?
I think us Tea Party folks will have to settle for taking the Senate. I am proud to support Sarah’s efforts there.
The GOP=Can’t fix Stupid!!!!!
Gary, I, too, am dreadfully conflicted – but, of course, will vote for the Romney/Ryan ticket, as, I do believe, will most Patriotic Conservative Americans who are still very much in love with Lady Sarah! And, to let off steam and redirect our political passions & loyalties, those of us who can, will find a few rock-solid Tea Party Conservatives that have been given an endorsement by the most sought-after and powerful endorser around (SP!!), and will then throw our love & support behind them as surrogates for the Woman Who Isn’t Running This Year!!
Personally, I look forward to Sarah’s own passionate and consumate leadership skills for MANY years to come. And, personally, I think it’s that for that reason – and that true glimmer of hope – that WE ain’t going nowhere, but have staked out our front-row seats to observe election cycles coming up in 2014, 2016 – and beyond!
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This adds to the feeling I have that we’re being hearded into a box canyon like a heard of cattle, or sheep. I hope I’m wrong.
Let’s be honest here. Sarah Palin trashed the “establishment” throughout the primary. Who is the establishment? I don’t really know but I think it’s the Republican Party. I’m sorry folks, but she wanted a brokered convention. She wanted to keep the primary going. Can you imagine if that happened? BHO would be riding high in the polls and we wouldn’t even have a candidate. Sarah did not endorse Romney until Ryan was on the ticket. Listen to her. She still won’t say Romney without Ryan. She had her chance to be a team player. This is the Republican National Convention – sounds like the establishment to me.
Sarah didn’t want a “brokered convention” but a ton of her supporters did.
The Republican Establishment™ is the good old boys who have run this party, and the country, into the ground. They are worse than democrats. Corrupt and nasty. Sarah Palin has fought these crapweasels all of her political life. From her earliest days as a city council member, to her time as Alaska’s oil and gas commissioner, to Governor. She took down the entire corrupt Republican Party in Alaska, some paid huge fines, others went to prison.
We NEED to clean house in Washington. The GOP is CORRUPT.
Sarah Palin has ALWAYS been a team player. It’s the GOP that doesn’t want anyone who might actually reform government to be on their team. We just fought a WAR here in Texas between a solid Conservative and a nasty, despicable Republican Establishment™ jackass. We won, with Sarah’s help.
If you’re upset that Sarah hasn’t kissed your boy Romney’s ass, maybe you should ask Romney why he has had his henchmen out there since 2008 spreading lies and rumors all over the airwaves. Ever attack on Sarah Palin from “our” side originated from Team Romney.
Palin has always said she’d back the nominee, that’s a hell of a lot more than SHE got from the Republican Establishment™.
Mitt must win this thing because Obama is evil, but the way he’s running his campaign, I doubt it happens. He’s worse than McCain, and has surrounded himself with the same bunch of losers that scuttled McCain’s run.
Oh, and yeah, it’s the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, not the Romney National Convention, or RINOs on Parade. This is a time t bring everyone together, not piss on the base of the party.
Well said, Gary — the truth, of course.
Sorry, Elaine, but it’s been the Romney camp that has trashed Sarah Palin since before the ’08 election. The GOP elite establishment fears that Sarah would come in and clean house just like she did in Alaska. They know that she would come in and stop the cronyism that goes on in both parties at the highest levels and that their taxpayer funded gravytrain would come to an abrupt halt.
It’s the GOPe, and all the RINOs who belong to the elite establishment, that want Sarah Palin and the T.E.A. Party to go away and have done everything they could to make that happen.
“Sarah Palin trashed the establishment throughout the primary,” sounds like a new GOPe talking point meme and their excuse for excluding Sarah from speaking at the convention and one that you are helping to spread. Either you are an uneducated tool of the GOPe, or do you really do know what you are doing by helping spread falsehoods.
I’ll give you the benefit and assume that you have fallen prey to the GOPe and their talking points. If so, then it would do you a whole lot of good to do some research on just what “GOPe” means to Conservatives. At least, that way you won’t be so quick at spitting out what you think is the gospel truth, when, in fact, it’s just another lie you picked up from a new GOPe meme on Sarah Palin.
Oh, and we won’t think that you have been lost on a desert island without communication, or that your head has been stuck in the sand regarding the GOPe and the Romney camp trashing Sarah Palin for the past 4 years.
Great responses from all of the above (or below! incl. Gary et al) to Elaine Sloan who is either totally clueless or just a GOPe troll!! I can’t believe that anyone on this site falls for that line of garbage about Palin trashing ANYONE – that’s not her style! In fact, Palin is unfalingly respectful of everyone out there – including her bete noir, Obama!
No, she hasn’t formally “endorsed” Romney – nor should she! He’s pretty much signaled that he doesn’t need her support (forgetting, it would seem, that HER base of support – the Conservative Tea Partiers – is much bigger than HIS gaggle of “independents” and “moderates!”). Of course, she fully intends to “support” Team Romney (which now, fortuanately, includes Ryan), but will give her very own personal support by endorsing those down-ticket House & Senate candidates who best represent/reflect HER solid Conservative point of view!
She never actually ENDORSED Gingrich, but just said that she’d vote for him to “keep the process” (i.e., the invaluable vetting) going, so that Etch-a-Sketch would either be strengthened by GOP challengers or his inherent and inveterate political weaknesses exposed.
Romney’s big assett now is Paul Ryan – who, like Palin for McCain in 2008, will probably boost enthusiasm for this ticket and possibly help pull Team R&R past Obozo/”Plugs” in the ratings polls.
Although I’m assuming that it must be a bittersweet moment for Palin, like a true team player and gracious participant, she’s already focused on what HER role will be; and like an Olympic athlete who didn’t win a medal – but is still young enough to try again in 4 more years – Palin’s star is STILL on the ascendancy – and she’ll continue to be an amazing political influence for years to come!
Saying the President doesn’t have the cojones that Jan Brewer has is far from respectful. This is the same woman who had a reporter from a local Alaskan station fired for allegedly not showing the “proper respect for an elected official” so for her to disrespect President Obama the way she does, along with anyone else who dares to disagree with her is ridiculous. Look at the way she spoke about Dick Cheney. She’s spiteful, vindictive and we dodged a bullet when she and McCain weren’t elected.
Reality TV is her speed now, that’s all she’s interested in despite her supposed disdain for Hollywood. She and her family are a joke!
Why do you think Romney doesn’t want her at the convention, she upstaged his announcement for his candidacy and she did it intentionally and with malice. She doesn’t have anyone by her side that she has at any time during her political career because they have all been stabbed in the back repeatedly.
I’m amazed at the stupidity of the people that actually think she’s worth listening to. Her staff did all her work while she spent her days coming the internet looking for gossip about herself. She knows nothing about energy to the point where she had her staff find out why the price of gas went up. She was clueless as Governor and still is. Over 65% of Republicans did NOT want her to run for President and over 80% of the voters in this country said they would NEVER vote for her. She’s unqualified. That’s why she spend $50k to $60k per month on advisers to tell her what to say and to write her stupid Facebook posts.
Wake up, people! Sarah Palin is history. She is also not responsible for getting people to the polls. There was a survey done after the 2010 election. Only 18% of Republicans said that her support for a candidate made any difference and many R’s said it would push them in a different direction. If she was overweight and unattractive, none of the men who listen to her would ever give her a second glance. There’s no brains behind that newly surgically enhanced face.
You’re such an obvious moron that I’ll break our comment policy and allow this idiotic bullshit through moderation just so I can show the world what a loon you are, and make fun of you at the same time, and encourage our readers to do the same!
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Not sure what Jan Brewer has to do with this, but yeah, she has more balls than Obama does. Obama is a coward and a liar, and has a long record as such.
There is no record of Sarah Palin ever having any reporter fired for any reason. There was a corrupt columnist, a supporter of the Corrupt Bastards Club, who filed numerous false stories attacking Governor Palin as she rounded up corrupt law makers and reformed an out of control mess. She didn’t have them fired, the people of Alaska simply stopped reading their lies and the column ceased to exist.
There are two factions in Alaska, the highly corrupt, and those who want to stop the highly corrupt. Guess which one hates Sarah Palin and guess which one attacks ANYONE who tries to stop the corruption.
As for Dick Cheney, he had an agenda, Palin was kicking his hand picked Senate candidate, the corrupt and despicable David Dewhurst’s, ass here in Texas. Cheney’s attack was just days before that election. Oh, and Cheney’s daughter Liz told the old man to sit down and shut up.
About that reality show:
Why are they a joke? Sarah Palin’s Alaska was the biggest show TLC had ever produced at that point in time. It was an amazing travel/adventure series. It was damned good for Alaska.
Thing is, as Andrew Breitbart [someone else you undoubtedly hate with every fiber of your being] once said that Sarah “got it” when it comes to pop culture. If you want to win hearts and minds, you have to be involved. And it’s always worked. Sarah Palin is more popular now than ever. Only slobbering hate filled loons don’t get it. Or maybe they do get it, and that just cranks up their hate meter a few more notches. Hate and viciousness is all liberals contribute to the world.
Poor Willard “Mitt” Romney:
It’s cute how you pretend to care about Mitt Romney, you walking democrat talking point. I doubt Sarah intentionally stepped on poor little Mitt’s campaign roll-out, but if she did, good for her! Mitt Romney and his people started attacking Sarah BEFORE the 2008 election was over. Many worked for McCain and as soon as they realized McCain blew it, they started attacking Palin, in order to make sure she wouldn’t be a threat to Mitt in 2012.
Every single attack from the GOP side of the fence can be traced back to a handful of Romney people, with Kevin Madden being the worst offender.
Frankly Mitt should be happy the woman didn’t show up at his tiny little event, and whip his ass!
I’m amazed at the stupidity of liberals who think the rest of the world is stupid enough to buy the unmitigated bullshit they are selling:
First of all, Sarah Palin doesn’t have a staff. Not unless you consider Todd and Piper “staff.” There’s a small staff in Washington who run SarahPAC, but that’s not a full time deal. And they work for SarahPAC, not Sarah.
When Sarah was contemplating a presidential run, she had Peter Schweizer as her foreign policy adviser. He no longer works for her, as he’s set up a Public Policy think tank dedicated to exposing corrupt politicians in both parties. Something Sarah Palin has been doing for twenty years.
Sarah has been writing her own speeches and op-eds for major newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Human Events, and more, well before she was a vice presidential nominee. She was a frequent guest on financial shows talking about energy related issues, and is a recognized authority in the field.
Unless you think we are idiotic enough to believe Sarah Palin hired consultants to write her emails for her, then you are out there in full-on moonbat territory.
One of the fun aspects of the email witch hunt, besides those tens of thousands of emails showing that Governor Palin was hard working, conscientious, and ethical, was the fact that every attempt to smear her blew up in the democrat run media’s face.
You claim Palin is too dumb to write her own stuff, and yet, the lame ass media hired two of the top experts in the field of writing analysis to go over those emails. Their conclusion? Sarah Palin writes at a higher level than most CEOs, and even presidents. One of the analysts admitted that Palin actually scored higher with her abilities than he did.
Her EMAILS were compared favorable to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Dr Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream Speech.
Expert Analysis: Sarah Palin’s Writing Scores Higher Than That Of Most Educated Americans
Oh, and as we all know Sarah Palin has a documented photographic memory. Remember, when she gave her landmark speech at the 2008 Republican convention, the teleprompter broke about 1/3 of the way through. She gave her speech, as written, verbatim, from memory. She adlibbed the line about lipstick and pit bulls.
To this day, she doesn’t use a teleprompter or even a prepared speech, choosing instead to have an outline of what she wants to say, and just saying it. When you know your material you don’t need speech writers.
Your pure hatred is only exceeded by you ability to pull bullshit numbers straight out of your ass:
Sarah Palin is SO history that loons like you can’t resist attacking her 24/7. Fact is, she’s more powerful today than at any time in her life. Candidates BEG for her endorsement, and this year alone she has made the difference in five crucial Senate races. She’s taken candidates that were polling in the single digits, and helped them win and win big.
Not sure what delusional narcotic driven trance those numbers came to you in, but Republicans and Independents wanted Sarah Palin to run for President more than any one else.
Obviously no one is polling her now, since Romney is the nominee, but the last legit poll taken before that, showed what every poll since 2009 has shown. Sarah Palin is BY FAR the most popular Republican among Republicans and independents. Her favorablity numbers are 29 points HIGHER than Mitt Romney’s:
https://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/ppp-sarah-palin-still-more-popular-than-actual-candidates-could-be-unity-choice-at-brokered-convention/
68% of Republicans and INDEPENDENTS approved of her and only 20% disapproved. At the time, there was still talk of a brokered convention, and Palin was considered the unity candidate. The ONE Republican that EVERYONE would get behind.
As for as her looks, yeah she’s a looker. I’m sure that’s what REALLY pisses you off. Most ugly women absolutely hate beautiful women. And I’m not just talking outer beauty here, because you are ugly from the inside out.
I can’t speak for everyone else, but I first learned of Sarah Palin in early 2007, not long after she took office as Governor. It was a lengthy story in the Weekly Standard No pictures, just a lot of words describing how she had taken on the corrupt GOP and was kicking ass in Alaska. For me it was love at first read. It was months before I saw a photo. Conservatives don’t care that she’s attractive. ALL Conservative women are attractive. It’s her proven track record and abilities that turn us on.
Not sure why you think she’s has any sort of cosmetic surgery. She looks just like she’s looked for years. It’s just like you loons think she had a boob job just because you finally saw her in something besides a business suit. It’s amazing how hate completely destroys one’s ability not to look stupid, isn’t it?
Anyhow, not a word you’ve said is true, or even close to true. All you’ve done is establish that you are the typical low information, hate filled liberal that makes America a little less great because of your existence here.
Thanks for playing though.
Sarah Palin has made millions during the Obama presidency. The Obama economy been very very good to her.
She has nothing to complain about, and that hasn’t stopped her.
Seriously? Barack Obama is systematically destroying America. As patriots, it’s our duty to stop him. And come November we will.
BTW, Obama’s cronies have also made millions, often hundreds of millions, and unlike Sarah Palin, those m,illions are TAX PAYER DOLLARS, stolen by Obama from the American people.
I’m an Army vet, E-5. I don’t care to have my patriotism questioned.
I have my issues with Mr. Obama, but he’s not running against Jesus, he’s running against Mitt Romney, whose entire program is to loot the middle class.
I always appreciate the sacrifices our fighting men and women make. Yours included. That said, that doesn’t exempt you from criticism when you say something that is an out and out LIE.
I’m not exactly a big Romney fan, but Barack Obama is the very essence of pure evil. It’s Obama and his Marxist policies that have destroyed the middle class. It’s Obama whose completely evil ObamaCare program that steals $1 trillion from Medicare and will kill off old people.
Barack Obama has intentionally, deliberately, and systematically set out to destroy America as we know it, and so far he’s been damned successful.
Mitt Romney’s plan is to strengthen America. As we will be sending him solid CONSERVATIVES to Congress, not only to stop democrats, but keep him in line as well, we will get government OUT of people’s lives and allow EVERYONE to succeed, regardless of their economic or social status. The way America is intended to be.
Obama and his minions are the ones you should be pissed at.
Sarah Palin has done well because she has an entrepreneurial spirit that small business winners naturally have and others wish to emulate. The failure of Obamanomics has made it that much harder for the average person to succeed, including Sarah Palin.
You seem just a bit jealous that the Palin Brand has flourished in this down economy.
Conservatives seem to be the workers and Liberals seem to be the takers. Liberals that are on welfare dont have anything left for Obama campaign contributions. Obama has to beg for $3.00 contributions from his Democrat welfare base.
Obama robs our tax dollars from us in the name of fairness and gives them to his biggest donors and bundlers to fund their green energy companies. All our tax dollars get syphoned out of these failed companies before they go bankrupt and are put back into the bank accounts of Obama’s big doaners and bundlers, then right back into the Obama campaign coffers our hard earned tax dollars go. Hence, Obama funds his war on us with our own hard earned money that he launders through his very own Green Energy Scam.
In Obama’s world, the government would get all our hard earned money and he would give us exactly what he thinks we ought to have to exist on. If he had his way, we wouldn’t get a paycheck. We would all
get government vouchers to buy all our
goods at government run stores.
The people who have a government subsidized phone are calling it an “Obamaphone.” Who pays for those phones? Not Obama. We do. So does Sarah Palin with all the tax dollars that she has to pay on her income.
Without us paying the tax bill, there wouldn’t be government welfare, or “Obamaphones.”
When Sarah Palin, and others like her, quit doing well, even the Liberal takers will be sad because there will be no more free welfare.
If you can’t work and are a financial liability to the govetnment, you’ll be mandated to go see the “Death Panel” to get end of life counceling to prepare you for your lethal dose.
I guess that if you are still complaining about Sarah Palin’s money, all is still good.
Well said!
Blue states take far less from the federal gov’t than Red states do. your talking points are old and dead wrong! President Obama did not take $1T from Medicare, it was a $700B cut to drug companies and hospitals. It does NOT cut services. You can keep repeating this lie but it won’t make it true. WTF is wrong with you people?
I’ve been a Democrat all my life as is the majority of my family. NONE of us are on welfare or get money from the gov’t for anything. In fact, we’re all in the top 5% due to family money and yet we work hard for it. Your lies are disgusting and not based in reality. Grow the hell up and open your eyes. Romney is going to raise taxes on the middle class. According to your theory, I should be rooting for him because I’ll get a further tax cut. However, there are far too many people in need due to 8 years of a disastrous Bush administration and a GOP congress that decided on day one to put their party before their country. If you can’t see that, you’re blinded by hate. I pity you.
Here stupid:
Shocker: Obamacare Steals Nearly $1 TRILLION From Medicare to Fund Itself
As Ronald Reagan once said: “It’s not that our liberal friends are ignorant, it’s just they know so much that isn’t so.”
Right now doctors are refusing to take new Medicare patients. Once ObamaCare kicks in, thousands of doctors have already said they are quitting.
Romney isn’t going to raise taxes on ANYONE, but Obama will. He already has, in fact.
Did you know ObamaCare created over $1 trillion in new taxes? I bet you didn’t know that after January everyone who sells their home will pay a tax, over and above any capital gains tax they may owe. There are hundreds of new taxes in this supposed “health care” bill.
The fact that you admit to being a lifelong democrat speaks volumes, as does you earlier attempt I addressed earlier. And the only one blinded by seething hate, is you.
The problem with democrats is they assume everyone else is as stupid as they are. No doubt you actually believe the nonsense you are saying. That’s tragic. Because nothing you’ve said is even close to being true.
The one real truth is Barack Obama is the worst president in the history of this country. Makes Jimmy Cart look good. He has set out to destroy this nation, and is doing a great job. He is a criminal who facilitated mass murder in Mexico, and capital murder on this side of the border. Unless and until he spends the rest of his natural life in prison, justice will be denied.
Gary & lwjwl both answered you more than adequately, but I just have to throw in my two cents’ worth as well…
Sarah Palin has the kind of entrepreneurial spirit that is a joy to
behold – and keeps LOTS of people employed!! She saw how nasty the libturds were and how they were determined to keep her name in the news (and, if possible, in the mud); so, just like the person who makes lemonade out of lemons, she saw an opportunity to parlay that “fame”” into (1) paying off all the legal expenses (around $500K) incurred by all those frivolous law suits filed by the evil lefties in AK (the “AK Mafia,” as they’re also known!); and (2) building a solid financial base for her family, since that legal harrassment forced her to leave a job she loved (Gov of AK) – i.e., years of salary and subsequent pension when she reached retirement age.
She did all that IN SPITE OF THE nasty and destructive Ozero – who directed much of the dirty dealings via his henchman in the WH – Pete Rouse, a former Dem representive from AK. I know a lot about that dirty dealing – and can name names, but will refrain from doing so on this post (since nothing can be gained at this point in time).
O’s economy, frankly, is in the toilet – just check out all the stats!! What Palin’s accomplished is “selling,” if you will, a product that millions of people (the GOP Conservative base, e.g.) want a part of – either to watch from afar (via TV), or in person (at speeches & rallies) or by proxy (buying her books). That’s the secret to success in the capitalist system – and Palin is nothing if not a full-blown capitalist!! Guess you’ll just have to deal with her success – even if it drives you NUTZ!!
All I can say is AMEN. May God bless you & the Palin Family.
Thanks, Norma – we could ALL use a voice of encouragement! – even here on this supposedly “friendly” site! (I’ll be weighing in, too, on the comments made by yet another libturd – but must say that Gary really took her apart better than I ever could, using lots of info of which I was not fully aware. But she’s still not getting by without another lashing with a wet noodle!!)
We all know the GOP story Sarah. We also know you were scapegoated. If GOP\Romney hates the Teaparty, why is the media promoting Ryan as being a being a member? It is because many Republicans are angry and upset with who is in office and, are all saying the same thing! It is time for D.C. politicians to stop power mowing America for selfish gain. Wise up. Shape up or, ship out!!!
Thing is, Ryan is NOT a member of the Senate Tea Party caucus. The media lied and Team Romney hoped no one figured it out.