Romney’s Palin Problem: Where’s Her Convention Invite?

[Zander]

It's over...Obama is a shoo in now!

Yep, all the Palinites will definitely stay home - hurt that Sawah didn't get a personal, gold edged, hand engraved invite, delivered on horseback, to the RNC.... and it was all Romney's fault. It' not the Republican National Convention... it's the Romney National Convention.

Or...

Are some people on the left completely losing touch with reality? Did they ever have a fingertip on reality?

Questions, questions, questions.

I think it's a leftist projection. Because leftists are mostly immature cry babies that have temper tantrums, occupy parks, and shit on police cars and American Flags when they don't get their way, they assume that everyone acts like that.

 

[auditor0007]

Im fairly certain Romney doesnt control who can come and who cant.

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Frequently Asked Questions | 2012 Republican National Convention | Tampa Bay, Florida - August 27 - 30, 2012 | GOPConvention2012.com

My father in law would work the republican presidential delegation in Iowa. He wired the stage and the building for them to use. My wife met Ronald Reagan when he went through Iowa every year, she is a liberal and she liked Ronald.

As conservative as Reagan was, he was a pragmatist above all else. He wouldn't fare so well in today's Republican Party unless he moved much further to the right.

 

[auditor0007]

Frequently Asked Questions | 2012 Republican National Convention | Tampa Bay, Florida - August 27 - 30, 2012 | GOPConvention2012.com

My father in law would work the republican presidential delegation in Iowa. He wired the stage and the building for them to use. My wife met Ronald Reagan when he went through Iowa every year, she is a liberal and she liked Ronald.

Liberals back then for the most part weren't the progressive communists they are today though. Different times, back when the democrat party wasn't so embarrassing and destructive to the constitution and individual liberties.

I won't tell anyone if you don't, but Ronnie was much more center than anyone currently in the Republican Party. He may have talked the conservative game a lot, but he didn't govern that way.

 

[Lakhota]

I can't wait for the Wasilla Hillbillies to crash the convention.

 

[Lakhota]

Tuesday, Aug 7, 2012 08:41 AM EDT

Odd woman out?

For the second straight day, Sarah Palin is conspicuously absent from a list of featured GOP convention speakers.

More: Odd woman out? - Salon.com

 

[Mac1958]

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Look, I think we all know that Palin is not going to be allowed to speak at the convention because the Republicans are just trying to play fair. As we all know, Palin "scares" the Democrats, and putting her onstage and in front of the cameras before a national audience would just give the GOP too much of an advantage in November. I think it's a laudable gesture by the Republicans, an act of political heroism on their part.

Don't you?

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[ABikerSailor]

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Look, I think we all know that Palin is not going to be allowed to speak at the convention because the Republicans are just trying to play fair. As we all know, Palin "scares" the Democrats, and putting her onstage and in front of the cameras before a national audience would just give the GOP too much of an advantage in November. I think it's a laudable gesture by the Republicans, an act of political heroism on their part.

Don't you?

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Yeah............Palin really gave the GOP an advantage in 2008 when she was the VP candidate.

She also helped out quite a bit in 2010 when she threw her support behind teabagger candidates, which has been helping the GOP to eat itself ever since.

Sure................let Palin keep "helping out".

 

[Avatar4321]

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Look, I think we all know that Palin is not going to be allowed to speak at the convention because the Republicans are just trying to play fair. As we all know, Palin "scares" the Democrats, and putting her onstage and in front of the cameras before a national audience would just give the GOP too much of an advantage in November. I think it's a laudable gesture by the Republicans, an act of political heroism on their part.

Don't you?

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Yeah............Palin really gave the GOP an advantage in 2008 when she was the VP candidate.

She also helped out quite a bit in 2010 when she threw her support behind teabagger candidates, which has been helping the GOP to eat itself ever since.

Sure................let Palin keep "helping out".

Palin wasnt the problem in 08. McCain and Bush were.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Sure................Palin wasn't the problem...............keep deluding yourself like that.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

By Peter J. Boyer

Mitt still hasn’t invited Sarah to the GOP’s nomination assembly in Tampa, and the Tea Party is livid. Peter J. Boyer on how the snub could sabotage Romney’s tenuous ties to the grassroots—and why Palin is keeping the week open, just in case.

On the day that Mitt Romney formally announced his run for the presidency last year, he found himself competing with a stiff New Hampshire wind, which stood his hair on end and played havoc with his microphones. What blew in later was even more distracting: the red, white, and blue bus bearing Sarah Palin on her “One Nation” tour. Palin stole the headlines, and Romney’s buzz, that day (“Coincidence,” she said), and beyond. Through much of the summer, she hovered at the edge of the Republican primary campaign as a shadow candidate, once predicting that she could not only beat Romney, but President Obama, too, before finally declaring herself out of the race last fall.

But Palin continued to vex Romney’s candidacy, questioning his conservatism, encouraging the non-Romneys still in the race, and publicly cheering for the prospect of an open convention. Even after Romney clinched the race in late spring, Palin remained pointedly hesitant about the presumed Republican nominee. She has not yet extended to Romney her full endorsement, and, while she speaks animatedly of the urgency of defeating President Obama in November, her support for Romney derives from the fact that Romney meets Palin’s threshold qualification—as “anybody but Obama.”

Much More: Sarah Palin Still Waiting for Romney Invite to Tampa - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

Why is it Romney's problem? At this point he is nothing more than a candidate in the Republican primary, he doesn't run the party.

 

[Lakhota]

The Republican Party did not slot Sarah Palin, arguably the most popular conservative in the country, to speak at the convention this year in Tampa.

It’s Official: Sarah Palin WILL NOT Be Speaking at RNC Convention in Tampa

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

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Look, I think we all know that Palin is not going to be allowed to speak at the convention because the Republicans are just trying to play fair. As we all know, Palin "scares" the Democrats, and putting her onstage and in front of the cameras before a national audience would just give the GOP too much of an advantage in November. I think it's a laudable gesture by the Republicans, an act of political heroism on their part.

Don't you?

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Democrats are clearly relieved to hear that.

 

[buckeye45_73]

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Look, I think we all know that Palin is not going to be allowed to speak at the convention because the Republicans are just trying to play fair. As we all know, Palin "scares" the Democrats, and putting her onstage and in front of the cameras before a national audience would just give the GOP too much of an advantage in November. I think it's a laudable gesture by the Republicans, an act of political heroism on their part.

Don't you?

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Democrats are clearly relieved to hear that.

Democrats eat tofu, we couldn't care less what they think

 

[Political Junky]

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Look, I think we all know that Palin is not going to be allowed to speak at the convention because the Republicans are just trying to play fair. As we all know, Palin "scares" the Democrats, and putting her onstage and in front of the cameras before a national audience would just give the GOP too much of an advantage in November. I think it's a laudable gesture by the Republicans, an act of political heroism on their part.

Don't you?

.

Yeah............Palin really gave the GOP an advantage in 2008 when she was the VP candidate.

She also helped out quite a bit in 2010 when she threw her support behind teabagger candidates, which has been helping the GOP to eat itself ever since.

Sure................let Palin keep "helping out".

Palin wasnt the problem in 08. McCain and Bush were.

Yea, Sarah was a freaking genius.

 

[courseofhistory]

By Peter J. Boyer

Mitt still hasn’t invited Sarah to the GOP’s nomination assembly in Tampa, and the Tea Party is livid. Peter J. Boyer on how the snub could sabotage Romney’s tenuous ties to the grassroots—and why Palin is keeping the week open, just in case.

On the day that Mitt Romney formally announced his run for the presidency last year, he found himself competing with a stiff New Hampshire wind, which stood his hair on end and played havoc with his microphones. What blew in later was even more distracting: the red, white, and blue bus bearing Sarah Palin on her “One Nation” tour. Palin stole the headlines, and Romney’s buzz, that day (“Coincidence,” she said), and beyond. Through much of the summer, she hovered at the edge of the Republican primary campaign as a shadow candidate, once predicting that she could not only beat Romney, but President Obama, too, before finally declaring herself out of the race last fall.

But Palin continued to vex Romney’s candidacy, questioning his conservatism, encouraging the non-Romneys still in the race, and publicly cheering for the prospect of an open convention. Even after Romney clinched the race in late spring, Palin remained pointedly hesitant about the presumed Republican nominee. She has not yet extended to Romney her full endorsement, and, while she speaks animatedly of the urgency of defeating President Obama in November, her support for Romney derives from the fact that Romney meets Palin’s threshold qualification—as “anybody but Obama.”

Much More: Sarah Palin Still Waiting for Romney Invite to Tampa - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

 

[courseofhistory]

Of course Mitt Romney has a huge say in who speaks at the convention as the presumptive nominee!

 

[Sarah G]

It's over...Obama is a shoo in now!

Yep, all the Palinites will definitely stay home - hurt that Sawah didn't get a personal, gold edged, hand engraved invite, delivered on horseback, to the RNC.... and it was all Romney's fault. It' not the Republican National Convention... it's the Romney National Convention.

Or...

Are some people on the left completely losing touch with reality? Did they ever have a fingertip on reality?

Questions, questions, questions.

Love her or hate her, she is a force in the Republican party. Romney panders to everyone except her? He's an idiot if he doesn't include her.

 

[Mac1958]

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The entertainment factor just dropped a notch. Crap.

But, fun aside, Palin represents the part of the GOP that has 90% of the party's energy. I wonder what the Tea Party thinks of this.

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[California Girl]

It's over...Obama is a shoo in now!

Yep, all the Palinites will definitely stay home - hurt that Sawah didn't get a personal, gold edged, hand engraved invite, delivered on horseback, to the RNC.... and it was all Romney's fault. It' not the Republican National Convention... it's the Romney National Convention.

Or...

Are some people on the left completely losing touch with reality? Did they ever have a fingertip on reality?

Questions, questions, questions.

Love her or hate her, she is a force in the Republican party. Romney panders to everyone except her? He's an idiot if he doesn't include her.

I am not a 'lover' or 'hater' of Palin. She's fine, in the right place at the right time. That time is not now, nor is the place at the RNC Convention. Simply put, she will frighten off the Independents (like me... except I ain't scared of Palin)... so she needs to stay out of the limelight and focus her efforts on bringing her supporters behind Romney... which is, frankly, exactly what she is doing.

 

[Katzndogz]

As Sarah Palin still plans on campaigning for Romney, her appearance or non-appearance will have no effect whatsoever.

It isn't like liberals have successfully remade Palin into an anti Romney.