Sarah Palin to Make Keynote Speech at CPAC
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Sarah Palin will be the keynote speaker at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Feb. 11, after four years of consistently rejecting the top spot at the high-profile conservative conference in Washington, D.C.
“Few national conservative leaders in America today energize and inspire our grassroots activists like Governor Sarah Palin. Her strong record of leadership, championing of our shared principles and magnetic personality have made Sarah Palin a hero to millions of conservatives across the country,” American Conservative Union Chairman Al Cardenas said in a statement. “As we ready for the critical 2012 election, I’m honored to welcome Governor Palin to the Conservative Political Action Conference for the first-time ever.”
The former Alaska governor has a rocky history with the group.
She declined to keynote the event in 2011, citing a scheduling conflict. But her refusal to participate fueled speculation that she wasn’t going because of GOProud, a gay Republican group, that planned to attend. She denied that was the case. Her political action committee, SarahPAC, did sponsor a reception at the convention.
In 2010, Palin cited ACU’s business dealings, particularly those of its then-chairman David Keene, as the reason for dodging CPAC.
In 2009, she initially accepted an invitation to kick off the convention, but then dropped out, saying that she had to attend to the “duties of governing.” She sent a taped message instead.
And in 2008, Palin cancelled her speech just two weeks before the event. By then, she had not been named Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential candidate, but in 2007, the man who would eventually become her running mate was booed by the crowd.
Palin’s standing in the CPAC straw poll has tumbled over the years. She came in ninth in last year’s poll, after a third place finish in 2010 and 2009, behind Ron Paul and Mitt Romney.
GOP candidates Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum will attend this year’s convention, as will Ann Coulter, Sens. Jim DeMint and Marco Rubio, among others.
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Palin a political joke!
Posted by: Don | January 5, 2012, 10:31 am 10:31 am
Who?
Posted by: A Cynic | January 5, 2012, 10:35 am 10:35 am
Are you SERIOUS!!! Please get back to the defination of the word CONSERVATIVE!! Plain is a joker the worst GOP candidate the party has ever fielded!! Why do we Republicans have to put up with these fakes. We are a party of Abraham Lincoln not MORONS!!
First Palin and the dems won that election hands down back in 2008.
Now Bachman, if it weren’t for her the 5% of the votes she conned woudl have gone either to Rick Santorum.
Now most of you will say he is not worth looking at and has many skeletons in his closet, but between Ron paul and Mit ROBney, we have to go for someone who will not give into banks and bail them out like Bush did when he appointed Hank Paulson who just gave banks billions at our expense or Ron paul wants to whipe out the Fed!
Posted by: Clifford | January 5, 2012, 10:41 am 10:41 am
I see ABC still can’t write about Palin without printing a bunch of lies about her.. GoProud was a rumor that was made-up by the corrupt MSM. The corrupt MSM has done nothing but spread so many lies, rumors, and gossip about this woman and her family.
You people are scum of the earth. Anything to protect that Marxist that you put in the WH.
Posted by: Truth101 | January 5, 2012, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
I see ABC still can’t write about Palin without printing a bunch of lies about her.. GoProud was a rumor…..
Posted by: Truth101 | January 5, 2012, 2:40 pm
I see another typical Palin supporter has reading and comprehension problems. From the article: “But her refusal to participate fueled speculation that she wasn’t going because of GOProud, a gay Republican group, that planned to attend. She denied that was the case. Her political action committee, SarahPAC, did sponsor a reception at the convention.”
The article clearly stated it was “speculation” (look it up) and it also clearly stated that Palin denied it. So which part was the lie? That it was speculation? Or that she denied it? I fully expect you to ignore this post. When someone throws around the term “Marxist”, they always end up being ignorant of facts and reality. Always.
Posted by: A Cynic | January 5, 2012, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm
Maybe CPAC better check with” her excellency” Mother Obama to see if Conservatives can inhabit DC during this time. Don’t want to ruffle her feathers.
Posted by: sodakhic | January 5, 2012, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm
Why did they invite her again after she dissed them so often? They’re stupid to have her, a falling star, there.
Posted by: TLemmbert | January 5, 2012, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm
palin is a joke
Posted by: jim hewett | January 5, 2012, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm
Palin has an announcement to make and will use the CPAC event to make it.
Posted by: Kat | January 5, 2012, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm
According to Fox watcher, every other media outlet is Left Leaning. Since Fox is the voice for Republicans, being able to accept anyone to ruffle their feathers with questions that do not coddle them is a no no. She needs to go go……She is not conservative, one look at her family will confirm that.
Posted by: Cella | January 5, 2012, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm
Why the hatred of Michelle Obama? Based on the names I am called when I dare to say something against Sarah (I must be jealous, after all) I can only assume that you hate her because she is intelligent, calm, beautiful, an excellent and involved mother, and she cares about people other than herself. I realize that the Palin lovers don’t see the hatred behind those fake glasses she wears, but your heroine is so full of hate she can barely anchor her wig. Listen to er speeches. She can’t go a roundabout paragraph without called the President names. But eah, keep on believing that the media lies about her. It will never sink in that Palin is the lair…her entire life has been a lie to make her ppwerful and wealthy. Too bad she never cared about becoming intelligent and caring.
Posted by: Sally | January 6, 2012, 10:34 am 10:34 am
Former Governor Sarah Palin does symbolizes what this country needs that is a renewal in politics. Her moto in the beginning was “New Energy”, to inspire any younger generation to participate in the political process. I am sure as the keynote speaker, she will encourage others to start involve with the political process.
Posted by: Paul Lincoln | January 6, 2012, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm
Gotta love these articles that include unsubstantiated gossip that have nothing to do w/ the subject at hand… But what they hey, huh?
Rumor has it that… <== What's the point of this?
Posted by: Eric | January 6, 2012, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
Who is this Palin woman? She’s purty. Is she any relation to Michael Palin of Monty Python? I really like that guy.
Posted by: Bernard Webb | January 7, 2012, 7:47 am 7:47 am
Wish you know! Make your own assessment!
Posted by: Paul Lincoln | January 7, 2012, 8:16 am 8:16 am
Nobody is willing to pay her $100,000 speaking fee so now the squawking reality-show teaser is giving it away for freeeeeeee. If she actually shows up then you’ll know how desperate she is to steal the limelight. Maybe she will announce she’s pregnant again. Yes, with triplets. She’ll name them Bitter, Quitter and Twitter.
Posted by: Sarah Con-Artist | January 7, 2012, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm
Why, oh why, do they keep calling her “Governor”?
Posted by: Gigi | January 8, 2012, 12:09 am 12:09 am
This is it !!!! The internet said Sarah will use this opportunity to say she will be running !!!
Posted by: chris87654 | January 8, 2012, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm
Palin is a LAUGHINGSTOCK here in Alaska. There is ABSOLUTELY no possibility of her EVER being elected to another public office in her home State, Alaska. WE don’t want her! And the only people who pay attention to her are the evangelical bigots and the tea party extremists.
Posted by: Real Alaskan | January 8, 2012, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm