Exciting conclusion to Politico hit piece: Palin not going to Iowa after all; Update: Slate smears Palin
posted at 5:31 pm on October 30, 2009 by Allahpundit
Thus ends the saga of how she shocked Iowa’s conservative establishment by cruelly and greedily demanding a massive speaking fee to attend a pro-life event. Except … she never demanded a fee and never told anyone she was willing or able to attend, facts which you would have stumbled across in Politico’s piece had you read down, oh, 30 paragraphs or so.
Bottom line: No speaking engagement, no fee, no story.
Iowa Family Policy Center ACTION received word this morning that Governor Sarah Palin is unable to accept our speaking invitation due to her book tour contractual commitments, which cannot be changed.
We extended our invitation knowing she would be in the middle of her book tour and the chances of her being able to accept any invitations were extremely slim.
She has asked if she could speak at a future mutually agreeable date. She will not accept any fees for her appearance.
To complete your reading about this sorry episode, click here and stick with it. Exit quotation: “Between Kochel and Albrecht, this sounds suspiciously like yet another case of former Romney staffers ‘going rogue’ and badmouthing their meal ticket’s perceived competition.”
Update: That didn’t take long. Scroll down about halfway to see how the principled liberals at Slate have already assimilated Politico’s smear.
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Romney seems to have learned from Huckatacics.
fiatboomer on October 30, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Yep just another hit job by insiders.
tim c on October 30, 2009 at 5:34 PM
I wish Mitt Romney would just go away.
chunderroad on October 30, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Vindicated. Again.
Johnathan Martin and Romney hacks – douchebags.
davek70 on October 30, 2009 at 5:35 PM
In a fair debate Sarah Palin will rip these girly men to shreds.
jimmy2shoes on October 30, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Romneybots playing dirty politics. Is this the guy we want for 2012? I don’t think so.
Palin 2012!
cubachi on October 30, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Politics is one hell of a dirty business. Why statists want bigger government, and thus more and dirtier politics, is beyond me. Truly insane.
WashJeff on October 30, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Im just saying..
the_nile on October 30, 2009 at 5:36 PM
I’ve yet to see any ‘hit’ on Palin that is worth anything.
Go Sarah!
bridgetown on October 30, 2009 at 5:37 PM
I actually used to like Mitt. What was I thinking? I should have known better- the hair should have been my first clue.
Monica on October 30, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Allah… your favorite weasel (levi) is going after you favorite Thread burner.
upinak on October 30, 2009 at 5:38 PM
It’s about control trough obscurity , the bigger the more opaque and the more power.
the_nile on October 30, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Hey where are the trolls that jumped all over Sarah yesterday? Still smarting from Allah’s unusual but right-on smackdown?
Christian Conservative on October 30, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Totally insane comments on the linked blog. “Mary Magdalene” sounds like as fruitcake. Sarah Palin stories bring them out.
chunderroad on October 30, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Maybe Sarah Palin should go to the Breslin in New York and show her support for Ken Friedman.
The lovely-looking restaurant and bar The Breslin begins lunch service tomorrow, and co-owner Ken Friedman (The Spotted Pig) is planning on serving alcohol despite objections from the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street. Earlier this month the mosque’s leaders called a meeting with Friedman at The Ace Hotel, where The Breslin is located, and asked, “Can you move the bar?”
Friedman’s response: I laughed. And the guy said, “Oh, you think that’s funny?” And I said, “Yeah, that is funny, that is really funny, because we’re not going to move the bar just because you discovered we’re serving booze.” Can you name one restaurant in New York that doesn’t serve booze? I said, “This is the United States of America and we’ll do whatever the #uck we want.” He said the mosque had suggested it couldn’t control the behavior of “a few bad eggs”; i.e., we could get a brick through our window.
MB4 on October 30, 2009 at 5:40 PM
I’m Mitt Romney,…and I approve this message.
portlandon on October 30, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Which is really stupid on their part. If Palin does not run, Romney, Huckster, or any of them would be on their hands and knees begging for her endorsement. This is why the GOP is dead to me, they have no idea how they are destroying themselves by all of this back biting. Idiots.
davek70 on October 30, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Can anyone in these times learn the lessons of Washington? Serve and then turn in your sword. Which, by the way, I think is THE greatest singular event in our country’s history.
Are there any Mitt support here at HA anymore? His Heatlhcare bill stunk in 2008. I think Cato help him.
WashJeff on October 30, 2009 at 5:43 PM
The Timex girl, takes a beating and keeps on ticking.
rjoco1 on October 30, 2009 at 5:46 PM
I like how he posted his conclusion on Ben Smith’s page. Weasel. He never corrected his story.
xax on October 30, 2009 at 5:47 PM
They are scared $hitless of her.
OmahaConservative on October 30, 2009 at 5:48 PM
I know. I don’t know who is more sleazy, Romney or Huck. Regardless, both are bottom-of-the-barrel candidates that I would never support in 2012.
And don’t get the started on Jonathan Martin. That guy is sewer sludge mascerading as a journalist.
Norwegian on October 30, 2009 at 5:49 PM
I still believe that neither will be the nominee. Not out of support or opposition of either but only because the odds of history and the calendar.
anuts on October 30, 2009 at 5:50 PM
B-b-but Grow Fins told me she doesn’t have any integrity!
John the Libertarian on October 30, 2009 at 5:51 PM
That was Jetboy…
Guppie turd said she was irrelevant.
upinak on October 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Wah wah wah…
ha ha, Palin waits for the press to jump all over her then exposes them for the insolent little lazy lemmings they are. Again!
NTWR on October 30, 2009 at 5:55 PM
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
— Adolf Hitler
miles on October 30, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I thought Mormons had morals?
Good thing Palin’s political career is over or these chumps would have something to worry about.
omnipotent on October 30, 2009 at 5:57 PM
O/T
Redstate is reporting the RNCC is pulling out of NY-23:
John_R on October 30, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Can’t seem to keep the trolls straight, I guess.
John the Libertarian on October 30, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Nice, but it won’t save the RNCC.
upinak on October 30, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I actually used to like Mitt. What was I thinking? I should have known better- the hair should have been my first clue.
Monica on October 30, 2009 at 5:37 PM
LOL. That hair. A little too manicured, eh? A little too good looking to be honest. I don’t care for messiahs myself, but Romney is also an empty suit.
keep the change on October 30, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Right. Palin is so irrelevant that three years out, her potential 2012 competition in Iowa is setting ground fires in order to discredit her there.
Missy on October 30, 2009 at 5:59 PM
You do realize I was talking about the troll.. right?
upinak on October 30, 2009 at 6:01 PM
omnipotent on October 30, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Mormons have morals just like any other group…we are taught that we should have them…doesn’t mean everyone follows through.
Anyway any proof that Mitt is behind this?
Conservative Voice on October 30, 2009 at 6:02 PM
It doesn’t need to be true, it just needs to be repeated. Via MKH on Twitter:
Jim Treacher on October 30, 2009 at 6:04 PM
If Romney people are behind this, that’s sad. Do we need to send them calendars? It’s only 2009! Why not wait to lob salvos against her until, say, 2011, when maybe she announces a candidacy?
We can’t blame Allah for all these Palin threads. He can’t help the fact that her enemies are more obsessed with her.
NebCon on October 30, 2009 at 6:05 PM
The saying goes it takes a licking and… oh. O.K. I see the reason for the change. smart move
Amadeus on October 30, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Palin is too important and hot to show up in Iowa. Who cares what those pig farmers think.
Jeff from WI on October 30, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Here
It has Mitt’s Mittens all over it.
Norwegian on October 30, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Oh, yes! I meant to be chiming in after/with you. Sorry, I realized afterwards that it might have read differently.
BTW, going OT here, but are you anywhere near Sitka? My husband is heading up there right now to play a Halloween show with his band.
Missy on October 30, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Dang, here I go again; at least this got me out of Glenn Beck show, feat. “Fish Eyes”. My DH came home and had to step back, jaw dropped.
Will also go to Team Sarah see what they wrote.
McCain-check
Romney-check
Need hard evidence on Huckabee dissing Palin. Thanks. And Upinak, wish I pay gas to go to Wasilla get us some pics of jackass in compromising positions. Track must be held back by the family, geesh!
ProudPalinFan on October 30, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Obviously you didn’t read the article.
portlandon on October 30, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Just goes to show that the RNC and the NRCC are capable of learning. If there are hit over the head enough and often enough.
MB4 on October 30, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Allah.. this?
I thought the “Tag” was funny.
upinak on October 30, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Okay, the Slate smear of Palin is to be expected, but the bit about Olympia Snowe dressing up as a “zombie whore” is a little bit funny to me…in a giggly kind of way.
SouthernGent on October 30, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Hmmmm. So the Romney machine thinks Palin is the threat. Not Huckabee or Pawlenty (at least not so far). Interesting.
terryannonline on October 30, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Nope Anchorage…1000 miles away.
upinak on October 30, 2009 at 6:12 PM
AP, you should start a thread: Romney NY-23, says he wont support the republican or the conservative but is curiously mum on a full endorsement of the democrat Owens.
Amadeus on October 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM
I really didn’t see that as a smear. I’ve heard much things about Palin. That was mild.
terryannonline on October 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM
And yet if Palin doesn’t run for office in 2012, the same crowd that has been bashing her incessently will bit*h and moan if her supporters tell them and their candidate to drop dead.
katiejane on October 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM
they came across it, found it interesting, and posted on it. it works because it’s plausible.
sweet.
sesquipedalian on October 30, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Ah, thanks. Well, someday I hope to make it up to your beautiful state. It’s my husband’s second trip – he can’t wait.
Missy on October 30, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Must be instinct. Every time someone swings at Sarah I feel more determined than ever to help her.
obleo on October 30, 2009 at 6:14 PM
These are the days I miss Poptech. Rubbing his nose in Romneys piddle was always fun.
portlandon on October 30, 2009 at 6:15 PM
I call it the James Carville/Paul Begala style of politics – cutthroat and raw, combined with Daley’s Cook County politics – vicious and brutal to the core…and it’s a deadly combination.
That’s where the “I can see Russia from my front porch” type quotes originate and then are spoon-fed to the Kos Krowd for multi-year consumption. There isn’t one single thing either of them wouldn’t write or say if they thought it might advance a Democrat’s cause. I would put absolutely NOTHING passed them.
GoldenEagle4444 on October 30, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Go to your room young man. You are not having dinner either!
upinak on October 30, 2009 at 6:16 PM
“Update: Slate Smears Palin”. In Other News: Sun Rises in East.
Kataklysmic on October 30, 2009 at 6:16 PM
He admitted he fell for a hoax. Will they?
Jim Treacher on October 30, 2009 at 6:17 PM
but we know she thinks it. good comedy, to be comedy, must contain an element of truth, and we know how she feels.
sesquipedalian on October 30, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Why does Hugh Hewitt still give airtime to Jonathan Martin, treat him like a respectable journalist, and treat Politico as if it’s a legitimate news organization?
Kensington on October 30, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Mitt and Huck are the same person one is just a hick and the other just a smuck.
William Amos on October 30, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Palin would easily defeat Obama in 2012 if few people knew about her right now. Unfortunately, her first impression in the spotlight turned off too many voters, and furthermore aligning herself with the McCain wing of the GOP hurts her standing among actual Conservatives.
The Dean on October 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM
They’re wasting their time. Mitt is done. He can’t even edge out the Rev/Gov. He’s done. The 2012 Repub candidate hasn’t got a chance in hell anyway against a corrupt Dem Administration. There’ll be more voter fraud than actual legitimate votes. Obama will win by 750 Million votes and the media won’t even raise an eyebrow. [yes, I know there's only 320Mil+or- Americans. Obama will still win by 750 Million votes and 720 Million of them will be absentee votes coming directly from Acorn headquarters.]
Griz on October 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM
=( Dessert?
portlandon on October 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Hey crr6, BB, jetboy, and simp! Where you at, dogs?! Nothing to add?
ncborn on October 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM
You really need to ask Soros to give you more than minimum wage. Not even a nice try.
Del Dolemonte on October 30, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Nonsense.
Kensington on October 30, 2009 at 6:27 PM
How dare she go on a real book tour while ignoring a non-existent speaking engagement she never accepted!
The arrogance!
A double-quitter!
And an irrelevant Caribou Barbie!
Who shoots innocent wolves from helicopters!
And gave birth to her own grandchild only months after bearing her own son!
Palin must be stopped or David Letterman will never molest again!
profitsbeard on October 30, 2009 at 6:27 PM
I feel the same way. I liked her at CPAC but kept a wait and see stance. Over the last few months, the attacks (from left and right) have made me look at her more carefully and I like what I see.
The left’s hated of Bush made me warmer toward him that I might have been otherwise. Funny how that can work. But one has to be likable and have some integrity to begin with so that won’t work with Obama.
Monica on October 30, 2009 at 6:28 PM
People in this country have short memories. The key is for the next 3 years to use reverse Alinsky tactics on the left to fight every smear they throw at her. There is nothing substantive left for them to come at her with other than policy.
Besides, with the way things are going a dog catcher could beat Obama in 2012.
davek70 on October 30, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Who did it this time? Mitt or Levi.
mobydutch on October 30, 2009 at 6:29 PM
And I’m sure you going to tell me that Ron Paul is the only True Conservative that can win.
terryannonline on October 30, 2009 at 6:31 PM
This:
“After Hewitt wrote the book A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney , Robert Stacy McCain of The Washington Times wrote that “Hewitt finds himself under suspicion of being a cheerleader for the Romney campaign.”[10] Hewitt donated $2,300 to the Mitt Romney Presidential campaign in 2008, as well as many other Republican candidates over the years, including U.S. Senator Norm Coleman and President George W. Bush. In the leadup to the Feb. 5, 2008, Republican primaries, Hewitt became known for the slogan “A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain.”"
portlandon on October 30, 2009 at 6:31 PM
You’re making as much sense as ever. My condolences.
Jim Treacher on October 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM
HALLOWEEN! HALLOWEEN!!!!
A conservative ghost has just possessed Allah’s mind and body.
Allah did not try to hit Sarah Palin (at least not directly) in his last two posts. Good enough.
TheAlamos on October 30, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Especially considering the way they stood by her after the election.
Jim Treacher on October 30, 2009 at 6:35 PM
The McCain crowd, that is.
Jim Treacher on October 30, 2009 at 6:35 PM
One day soon Palin is going to hire Treacher to be her official State-Run Media Pummeler.
fiatboomer on October 30, 2009 at 6:36 PM
And this just in from the belly of the beast on Palin’s irrelevance.
davo on October 30, 2009 at 6:36 PM
It just amazes me how they are able to manufacture Palin smears out of thin air. You know what? Palin is ALSO not going to Nebraska. Or South Dakota or Missouri, or Wyoming. This “scandal” is HUGE!
/sarc
crosspatch on October 30, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Careful….everyone.
There are no indications that I can think of that indicate she’s even going to run in 2012 or interested in elective office ever again.
She could be what Mario Cuomo was to Democrats…..what the base wanted but could never have.
We’ll get a really good indication in the next 2 wks when the book tour starts.
Matt Lauer: “Okay, first question are you interested in running for the Presidency in 2012″.
……..and the answer will be?…………..
Her answer to that question is why David Axelrod and Michelle aren’t losing any sleep. :-)
PappyD61 on October 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM
No. I think we all know who Palin would hire for that job.
terryannonline on October 30, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Nothing wrong with that. Treach is good people and level headed. Unlike most people, he would do a excellent job.
upinak on October 30, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Hewitt never made any attempt to conceal his support for Romney in the primaries. He never hid it, he was right out front with it the whole time.
And he was right, every vote for Huckabee WAS a vote for McCain. People voted for Huckabee and McCain won the primaries and got the nomination.
crosspatch on October 30, 2009 at 6:39 PM
The media will rue the day they tangle with President Palin’s Press Secretary James Treacher.
portlandon on October 30, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Alright Treacher.. don’t let your head explode from the awesomeness of the compliments now.
upinak on October 30, 2009 at 6:43 PM
If and only if all conservatives think like you.
But No. I didn’t like Palin at first.
I love her principles and fighting spirit RIGHT NOW.
She’s way way better conservatives in the mainstream than Ron Paul, the isolationist.
TheAlamos on October 30, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Treacher for Press Secretary and Doc Zero for speech writer. Good stuff.
jimmy2shoes on October 30, 2009 at 6:45 PM
I thought the whole thing was pretty funny.
p0s3r on October 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Palin did another face book entry.
upinak on October 30, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Someone previously posted: “It doesn’t need to be true, it just needs to be repeated” That’s like, so….yesterday – Herr Goebbels coined that particular phrase in 1934/1935.
In much more recent times, the former MSM were ALWAYS claiming, no matter what they wrote/broadcast about G. Bush: “It’s not about the truth of the story….it’s the seriousness of the charges.”
Unfortunately, millions of totally mindless Americans bought into this crap.
alwyr on October 30, 2009 at 6:54 PM
With many clearly corrupt stories floating around Politico, it seems most likely they would be the ones to push false stories to embarass anyone they do not like. A story that slams Palin and blames Romney for it would be right up their alley.
I tend to simply not read anything they post at Politico.
Freddy on October 30, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Palin is the lone warrior out fighting the good fight while Romney and Huckabee hide behind anonymous smear merchants.
Pawlenty speaks out after he determines it is safe.
Sarah Palin/Fred Thompson 2012.
lonestar1 on October 30, 2009 at 7:00 PM
That’s not quite true. He played coy for a long time, and it was embarrassing because it was obvious that he was pushing Romney from the moment he announced his Romney book.
I like Hugh, but his refusal to acknowledge what was plain to everyone for months was almost insulting.
Kensington on October 30, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Awesome.
Kensington on October 30, 2009 at 7:31 PM
And that will be money well spent indeed.
techno_barbarian on October 30, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Anyway any proof that Mitt is behind this?
Conservative Voice on October 30, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Here
It has Mitt’s Mittens all over it.
Norwegian on October 30, 2009 at 6:07 PM
I see someone inferring guilt, but I don’t see proof of guilt. Find that and get back to me. Other than that it is as disgusting to smear Romney as it is to smear Palin. Only disgusting people play along
Noelie on October 30, 2009 at 7:49 PM
One day Mike Allen walked to the back of the room where Jonny was, and Jonny had his hand down his pants.
Allen asked, “Jonny, what are you doing?”
Then, Jonny said, “It hurts down there.”
“Well then, you need to go to the nurse and see if you can go home”, said Allen.
A little while later, Jonny came back to his desk and sat back down.
Then Allen came to the back of the room again, and Jonny had his dick haging out of his pants.
Allen said, “Jonny, what’s that doing hanging out of your pants?!”
Jonny said, “My mommy said if I can stick it out until noon, she’ll come and pick me up.”
jaime on October 30, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Jonny is sitting at work, and Mike Allen says that an interesting phenomenon of nature is that only humans stutter, no other animal in the world does this.
Jonny screams “Not correct, Mike!”
“Please explain, Jonny,” replies Mike.
“Well, Mike, the other day I was playing with my cat on the verandah. The neighbours’ Great Dane came around the corner, and my cat went “ffffffffff! ffffffffffff! ffffffffff!”, and before he could say “F*CK OFF!”, the dog ate him!”
jaime on October 30, 2009 at 7:59 PM
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