Sarah Palin Is Likely to Star at Conservative Gathering Next Month
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is expected to be among Republican insiders speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference next month in Washington. Bill McAllister, her spokesman, says she "has not decided whether to attend," but insiders predict that she will participate in the CPAC gathering to keep herself on the conservative radar as a possible GOP presidential candidate in 2012. "She's still the darling of the conservatives," said a prominent GOP strategist, because she espoused bedrock conservative positions during the 2008 campaign as the vice presidential running mate of Republican John McCain. If she does speak at CPAC, she is expected to get an enthusiastic welcome.
Palin has been back in the news lately, mostly because of her continuing complaints about how she was treated during the campaign. She has criticized the news media, especially Katie Couric of CBS, for supposedly trying to embarrass her, and she wasn't pleased with Tina Fey's impersonation of her on Saturday Night Live. Palin said there was "some, perhaps, exploiting that was done via me, my family, my administration."
And she told a conservative filmmaker that she sees a class bias in how she was treated compared with the media coverage of Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late president who is seeking a Senate seat from New York. "I've been interested to see how Caroline Kennedy will be handled and if she will be handled with kid gloves or if she will be under such a microscope also," Palin said. "It's going to be interesting to see how that plays out, and I think that as we watch that, we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be."
Some Republican strategists, however, say she needs to stop revisiting the '08 campaign and focus on governing Alaska. "She has to figure out how to broaden the party and not just appeal to the right wing," says a prominent GOP insider. "And she won't do that solely by attacking the mainstream media for being unfair to her."
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SARAH PALIN
COMPARE PALINS RECORD IN THE TIME SHE WAS GONENOR AGAINST OBAMAS,PRINT BOTH RECORDS IF YOU DARE, YOU'LL BE SURPRISED AT THE OUTCOME. SHE DRAWS A CROWD EQUAL OR BETTER THAN OBAMAS, AND WHEN SHE SPEAKS UNLIKE SHE DOES'NT HAVE TOUSE A TELEPROMPTER.HE'S GOT IT MADE SOMEONE WRITES HIS SPREECHES AND IS AIDED BY THE PROMPTER.RUAL REYNOLDS
Sarah Palin Is a "Hollow Floating Bubble" & Fiscal Conservative Farce
Attest to this Sarah..
$27 Million: The total amount of federal earmarks Palin secured for Wasilla's town of [[6,700 People]] while she was Mayor, thanks to the help of a Washington Lobbyist with ties to indicted Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Convicted Felon Jack Abramoff (Source)
$453 Million: The total amount of earmarks Palin has asked [[U.S. Taxpayers to Fund]] for Alaska projects over the past two years, despite McCain's saying she hasn't sought earmarks
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Attest to this Sarah Palin...
33: The percentage by which Palin [[Increased the Budget of Wasilla]] during her tenure, despite billing herself as a "Fiscal Conservative" and Champion of Smaller Government (Source)
25: The percentage by which Palin raised the [Local Sales Tax in Wasilla] to pay for a sports center, despite claims that she [[Cut Taxes]] (Source)
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Fiscal Conservative Farce
Sarah Palin, had Better Attest to the Million Dollars of Debt, she left the Town of Wasilla, and all those federal Dollars she wasted....
Wasilla's [Long-Term Debt] when Palin took office in 1996 (Source)
$18.6 Million:The [Long-Term Debt] Palin racked up by the time she left office in 2002, amounting to about $3,000 per resident (Source)
GOP must stand for something
The GOP needs to quit catering to different groups for votes. People are attracted to clubs, organizations, churches, etc. because of what they believe, stand for or promote. Not because the organization tries to reach out to everyone. The republicans have got to quit reshaping itself at every turn to attract different groups.
Identify what you stand for, support it and fight for it. Then the people will come to you. How can the GOP expect people to support them when the GOP can't decide which side of the fence to be on.
The GOP was put in to power a few years back because we Americans bought the lies about taking a stand for conservatism. Instead, the GOP turned in to a wishy washy bunch of Republicrats.
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