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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSarah Palin to keynote CPAC
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/05/sarah-palin-to-keynote-cpac/For the past four years, she has swayed, danced and dodged around the Conservative Political Action Conference, but, this year, Sarah Palin says she has committed to deliver the keynote address Feb. 11, the last day of the conference. ABCs The Note recounts the rocky history between the former vice presidential candidate and CPACs sponsor, the American Conservative Union:
She declined to keynote the event in 2011, citing a scheduling conflict. But her refusal to participate fueled speculation that she wasnt 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 ACUs 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 McCains vice presidential candidate, but in 2007, the man who would eventually become her running mate was booed by the crowd.
Why now? Its fun to speculate. Could be that shes keen to recover her standing in the CPAC straw poll, in which shes fallen over the years. Could be that she doesnt have quite so many opportunities to nab headlines as she once did. Could be that she thinks CPAC could be an ultra-dramatic setting to drop an endorsement. Or it could be that she still believes strongly in the message of limited government that shes articulated from her first day on the national scene and sees this as a timely opportunity to remind voters of that message
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Sarah Palin to keynote CPAC (Original Post)
w8liftinglady
Jan 2012
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rurallib
(62,406 posts)1. Ithought she shit on them because they refused to pay her
and if they don't pay her this time, she shits on them again.
TlalocW
(15,380 posts)2. She probably isn't getting paid this time but is still going
Cuz she needs to strengthen her brand name so she can continue to get paid for other gigs.
TlalocW