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Sarah Palin still awaiting convention invite - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Many months ago, she alluded to the possibility that there were going to be some major happenings at this convention. Gonna be hard to make that happen if they won't invite her.
Somebody call Mitt, let him know he dropped yon ball.
(CBS News) Sarah Palin says she's still waiting on an invitation from Mitt Romney to speak at the Republican National Convention next month. If it never comes, it would mark only the third time the prior cycle's GOP vice presidential nominee was not offered podium time at the party's most high-profile political event.
"What can I say?" Palin told Newsweek in an email. She went on to suggest the reason she had yet to be invited was her willingness to criticize her own party as well as the opposition. "I'm sure I'm not the only one accepting consequences for calling out both sides of the aisle for spending too much money, putting us on the road to bankruptcy, and engaging in crony capitalism," she said.
"In accepting those consequences," Palin continued, "one must remember this isn't Sadie Hawkins and you don't invite yourself and a date to the Big Dance."
Since 1976 - the last year nominees for both parties were not determined prior to the conventions - only two of the previous cycle's GOP vice presidential nominees did not receive speaking slots: Jack Kemp in 2000 and Bob Dole in 1980. (Dole attended the 1980 convention as a candidate still actively seeking the nomination, though Ronald Reagan had already effectively wrapped it up.)
Many months ago, she alluded to the possibility that there were going to be some major happenings at this convention. Gonna be hard to make that happen if they won't invite her.
Somebody call Mitt, let him know he dropped yon ball.