Sarah Palin to deliver huge speech — except she doesn’t know about it

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/03/18/sarah-palin-to-deliver-huge-speech-except-she-doesnt-know-about-it/

Keynote address

Lavishing praise, the heads of the House and Senate Republican campaign committees announced yesterday that Palin would be speaking at the annual dinner on June 8th in Washington.

Using phrases like “breath of fresh air” and “up-and-coming” and “she’s not like Jindal at all” “brightest rising stars”, these chairmen couldn’t seem to contain themselves over announcing Palin’s keynote for the function.

Oops

The only problem was that Palin or her staff didn’t know about it.

In fact, Palin was the one who read it (take that, Katie Couric!) and brought it to her staff’s attention.

“I pointed out the (National Republican Senatorial Committee) press release and she was like, no,” her press secretary told the Anchorage Daily News.

What happened?

Miscommunication

It’s kind of a he-said, she-said, who-said, you-said, no-we-didn’t, type thing.

Remember that political action committee she formed a couple months ago — SarahPAC?

Well, it looked like a staffer there made the simple mistake of accepting the speaking engagement without checking to see if the governor actually wanted to speak at it or had time on the schedule to do it.

“Someone helping me out on the East Coast … in the enthusiasm of Sarah Palin and the enthusiasm of providing some sort of response confirmed that the governor was coming, and that wasn’t appropriate because the governor didn’t even know of the invitation,” said Meg Stapleton, SarahPAC spokeswoman, of the soon to be fired aide.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is equally understanding of the soon to be fired aide’s mistake.

“The committees have confirmed this with the governor’s political staff at SarahPAC, not her official staff in Juneau, so it’s understandable why there may be a miscommunication here,” a NRSC spokesman said.

Speak

Will she do it?

Stapleton, already a master in Washington speak, gave an unwavering answer Robert Gibbs would be proud of.

“She may go, she may not go,” she said firmly.

By the way, the NRSC doesn’t seem to be taking no for answer. The press release remains up.

but that is maybe the saddest picture I've ever seen.

I was amused by the few Palinbots who, amid comment after comment featuring withering criticism of Palin, invariably assert that the left is "obviously terrified of Sarah". Huh? Intense criticism equals crippling fear? Please.

I have read many, many very critical comments about Obama from rightie wingnuts on various boards. The obvious conclusion is that the right is "terrified of Barack". Correct?

I actually laugh out loud every time I read the asinine, up-is-down comments of Palin worshippers, which always end with a "they're so afraid of her" statement. Crazy, man!

My posted comment expressing these sentiments appeared for about three minutes before being deleted by the mods.

Maybe their comment-approval process is different from the ones I'm familiar with. I was slightly defamatory (I guess) to "wingnuts" - I thought maybe I had stepped over their policy line.

the Republicans that is... :rofl: they watched the same train wreck everyone else did

Phrases like "scared to death" and "afraid for our country" and the like appear in most of the bullshit RW e-mails my that my father forwards to me. Hell, some of them are so frightened of him that they believe he's the frigging ANTICHRIST!

the right has had a concerted effort to distance people from their government-act like it doesn't exist and merely whine about what it does

You never hear the following on Fox News or any other MSM "Contact your Senator or representative"

by getting people aware of what and how the government works they will appreciate all that it DOES do as well as either being responsive or not to their input.

The right is totally against that as is most of the DC establishment-they want things to stay as it is, they do their thing with no involvement from the riffraff