Christine O’Donnell Disinvited Again from Tea Party Rally
EmailThe back and forth between Christine O’Donnell, Sarah Palin, and the tea party group putting on Saturday’s rally in Indianola, IA has resulted in O’Donnell being disinvited…again.
Originally, O’Donnell was invited to speak Monday by Tea Party of America. On Tuesday the invitation was rescinded. By Tuesday evening, though, it was back on. O’Donnell tweeted that she “humbly re-accepted the re-invitation” to speak, according to her Twitter account. Now it is back off.
Tea Party of America Founder Ken Crow said he called Christine O’Donnell’s Chief of Staff Mark Moran earlier today to break the news that the Delaware tea party darling was not going to be speaking.
Crow said that Moran “understood that these things happen.”
“There’s not a lot that you can do about it. He wasn’t pleased about it, but it wasn’t the end of the world,” Crow told ABC News.
Crow has not heard back from the Palin team yet, but he hopes to have confirmation this afternoon that Palin will be in attendance Saturday.
“I hope the event can go on as it was originally scheduled. It will be a great event, a beautiful event, lots of people are coming, and I don’t want to see those people disappointed,” Crow said.
When asked if Gov. Palin’s people asked that O’Donnell be disinvited again before Palin re-confirmed her attendance, Crow answered, “That is private (information) between O’Donnell’s staff and the Tea Party of America.”
Earlier today, multiple media outlets reported that Palin’s event was on hold, but Crow told ABC News Wednesday morning that “we made mistakes and now we are fixing them.” It seems that the back and forth with O’Donnell is one of the things the Tea Party of America had to fix before the event could go on as scheduled.
Crow admitted earlier today that the back and forth with O’Donnell was “a mistake.”
“I didn’t handle it the way I should have,” he said. “We handled it incorrectly.”
Crow was confident that Palin would attend on Saturday stressing that she “is a lady of her word and impeccably honest.”
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Posted by: mrgmorgan56 | August 31, 2011, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
Real organized those Tea baggers….
Posted by: John | August 31, 2011, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
Why did they invite her in the first place?
Posted by: mijoje1 | August 31, 2011, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
“Tea Party of America”
Must be a crumpet to join.
Posted by: Aaron Ververs | August 31, 2011, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
Exactly what does O’Donnell do for a living? How does this woman pay the rent?
Posted by: OnTheRoad | August 31, 2011, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
LOL, a fad that’s dying.
Posted by: phantomniter | August 31, 2011, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
Why do they keep calling quitter Gov. Palin. She’s not a govenor anymore……SHE QUIT! I guess Queen of the Tea Party considers McDonnell a threat. Hmmmm! Do I forsee a little jealousy???
The should have kept McDonnell since the queen probably won’t show up anyway.
Posted by: SinTexas | August 31, 2011, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
Clearly there is some sense of sanity within the group. Who would want to be associated with a loon?
Posted by: mytakeonthis61 | August 31, 2011, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
This has been reported on extensively on other news sites days ago and what happened is Palin threw a fit when she learned O’Donnell was going to speak before her at this event. Palin wants nothing distracting attention from “very important announcement” she plans on making during her speech. O’Donnell might have been acceptable a couple of weeks ago but she has become radioactive and the media is watching for her next goofball antic after walking off Piers Morgan’s show and calling him a pervert. Reporters would be paying more attention to O’Donnell than Palin because O’Donnell has proven she’s even a bigger idiot than Palin. Palin requires the complete and undivided attention of the world when she speaks at this event. Whatever she is going to say is of enormous importance to the American people and may mean even bigger paydays for the Palins. She may even announce she has come to no decision as to whether it is vital to the future of the United States that she accept the presidency. In light of this, O’Donnell can flog her book at another venue and anything stupid she says or does will not interfere with Palin’s message to the people.
Posted by: honeybeeTN | August 31, 2011, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
The tea party is undergoing a struggle for control. It makes sense to eliminate the people with no serious backing like O’Donnell early, but then again, the tea party that is about making sense.
Posted by: Greggw | August 31, 2011, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
The Tea Party can’t even organize a rally, but they believe they have qualified people to run the country!?! Seriously, somebody give these people a clue!!!
Posted by: Kara | August 31, 2011, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
The media loves “weird”–and O’Donnell is weirder than Palin. Palin wouldn’t have been the center of attention.
Posted by: Debbie | August 31, 2011, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
Palin is just a little loud mouthed thug who has to have her own way. If anyone dare cross her, she’ll do her vindictive best to destroy them. There is no telling if she’s showing up at this event since someone made her unhappy. She may decide they aren’t worthy of her and wreck the entire thing. O’Donnell was going to make so she wouldn’t be the center of attention, hence O’Donnell must be eliminated. In the meantime, Palin is still deciding if the American people are worthy of her. She doesn’t want to have to run for president. She believes that an exception should be made in her case and she should be invited by the people to take office and become president by public acclaim. Answering tricky gotcha questions and debating other candidates as if you have something to prove is totally beneath her and it’s all a big bother anyway. Palin is definitely willing to consider an offer from her admirers to take over the Oval Office but the details as to how to deal with those who object to her doing so still need to be worked out to her satisfaction.
Posted by: yahoohowdy | August 31, 2011, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
they figrued they already had enough screwballs in the teaparty
Posted by: dave | August 31, 2011, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
Darn the new season of SNL is just around the corner and it would have been nice for them to be able to have a cat fight to start it off.
Posted by: John | August 31, 2011, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
The Tea Party is the very worst of the GOP.
Posted by: tstorm | August 31, 2011, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm
Tstorm and many of the GOP fear that the Tea Partiers will vote them out of office in 2012 if they do not cower before them.
Posted by: John | August 31, 2011, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
Now she has time to finish the CNN interview…
Posted by: James | August 31, 2011, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm
Palin is a petty little girl that got her first real fame when she was called upon by McCain and it went right to her head. She’s clever in bizarre ways but too immature to handle her celebrity. She definitely isn’t very intelligent and is desperate to cover that fact up. To think she felt threatened by O’Donnell on the program is just pathetic. I never thought I’d feel sorry for O’Donnell but the way Palin has jerked her around and treated her with so little respect is vicious and small. But that’s Sarah. It is getting almost impossible these days to hide who you really are and conceal your true nature if you are a public personality. The truth about Palin is she’s just not a very nice person. She’s an intellectual midget and a political lightweight who has no business in the big time. Why she has a following at all is perplexing but it seems people see in her what they want to and not what is really there. This is the same phenomenon driving Bachmann’s ludicrous success, as momentary as it is. The vast majority of Americans wouldn’t miss either Palin or Bachmann if they disappeared from public view. They are just too inconsequential and completely ineffectual. The only attraction they have is no one can guess what insane thing they will say next. Palin has some physical attractiveness but I was stunned to read that Bachmann believes she is good looking. With that square, hard face and goofy, spacey eyes, it is further evidence of Bachmann’s delusional view of reality that she could possibly believe she is attractive at all. The thing about Bachmann’s appearance is that her inner ugly nature shows through too powerfully. Palin’s nasty, mean nature is also pretty obvious but she hypes up the perky dial to conceal it. That is wearing pretty thin, especially when she’s gunning down a dear or beating a halibut to death in a blood crazed frenzy. The only thing O’Donnell has successfully hidden about herself is how the heck she makes a living without ever holding down a job. If she would share her secret and it doesn’t involve anything illegal, she would get a lot of votes from those who have lost jobs over the last few years!
Posted by: maryandbobFL | August 31, 2011, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm
Palin is making it clearer all the time just what a poisonous little viper she is. She shows no loyalty to anyone and if friends get in her way, she goes for an artery. Hasn’t anyone in the Tea Party noticed she is always negative? Even the stuff she says that attempts to be positive is less than inspiring. Besides that, she’s dumb as a brick. If she ever became president, she’d spend most of her time getting back at people who were critical of her than accomplishing anything useful. Of course, to do anything useful, you have to have an idea. She has never expressed a realistic idea or formulated any plan. She’s just show biz and big bucks, not serious business and big ideas. Celebrities can have completely empty heads and rake in cash. Palin just got lucky and is a reality show personality that has lost all touch with reality. She lives in a universe where she is queen and which she is the center of. Thankfully, most of us don’t share her address.
Posted by: phdinprogress | August 31, 2011, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm
In one week, liberals have defended the Bush family, Karl Rove, and now Christine O’Donnell.
It is amazing what Sarah Palin is capable of.
PALIN 2012!
Posted by: Steve | August 31, 2011, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm
So the Tea Party endorsed and spent money on O’Donnell less than a year ago, but now she’s not good enough to speak before them? Who’s pulling the strings? There are no caucuses, no conventions, lots of “anonymous” donations and now even Tea Party of America Founder Ken Crow said “There’s not a lot that you can do about it.” Why not? Who is pulling the strings of this puppet party dictator who pulls the strings of the sheep who follow whatever the self-appointed Tea Party leaders say? TEA Party = Threat Encumbering America Party.
Posted by: The_Mick | August 31, 2011, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm
Christine O’Donnell has a “Chief of Staff”?! Who pays for that? Is there an actual staff he is chief of, and if so, what do they do and who pays for them?
Posted by: Art | August 31, 2011, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm
The Tea Party…small minds with smaller ideas.
Posted by: mrgmorgan56
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Smaller than those of Obama and the liberals? That would be hard to get.
Posted by: ivan | September 1, 2011, 9:05 am 9:05 am
What youre saying is completely true. I know that everybody must say the same thing, but I just think that you put it in a way that everyone can understand. I also love the images you put in here. They fit so well with what youre trying to say. Im sure youll reach so many people with what youve got to say.
Posted by: Adira Asuransi Kendaraan Terbaik | September 3, 2011, 7:05 am 7:05 am
Not a big deal. Probably just take her broom in for a tune-up anyway.
Posted by: rob1967 | September 15, 2011, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm
The only way for the GOP to survive is to get rid of the toxicTea Bag influence. A quick look at the GOP presidential wannabes is enough to show Tea Baggers = unelectable. So in every district where one of those Tea Bagger freshmen congresspersons is running for re-election, the GOP should find, fund and endorse a mainstream Republican candidate. And if the Tea Bagger wins the primary, the GOP should do everything it can to aid the Democrat. While that may hurt in the shortrun, the bigger picture is that the Tea Bag influnce will bring the party down and the GOP will become marginalized.
Posted by: BGofNc | September 16, 2011, 11:34 am 11:34 am
Christine and Sarah – Just GO AWAY! Neither of you have a smidge of credibility or a clue of reality!
Posted by: Mike | September 16, 2011, 11:41 am 11:41 am