Sarah Palin Meets the Press: Confirms Alfalfa Club Invite

Yesterday, Sarah Palin stopped to talk to the press as she left a meeting with state legislators.  She answered quite a few questions while standing in the falling snow…boy, it sure looked cold to me!

 

First, she clarified that she is not running for president in 2012 (yet).  The PAC was formed to provide her with travel money to events that might be considered quasi-political. She mentioned the Lincoln Day dinner as an example.  Apparently, in the past, other governors had funds to pay for such things, but she does not.

 

Also, she mentioned some concerns about the infrastructure projects that may be funded through the federal stimulus package.  She says that Alaska will need more time to implement any funded projects because of the weather conditions there: it’s too cold to build roads and bridges for a greater percentage of the time than, say, in North Carolina .

 

She emphasized that when she travels outside of Alaska it will only be for events that benefit Alaska .  People in Alaska expect their elected officials to stay close o home and focus on the people of Alaska .  And she laughed over the rumored $11 million book deal.  “I will let you know if ever there is an offer, but that $11 million dollar figure I read about is laughable. It's out of anybody's realm of possibility of consideration," she said.

 

She has a really impressive list of activities scheduled for her trip to Washington DC this weekend.  The Governor’s Office has released an itinerary that must be the envy of the likes of Governors Rendell and Schwarzenegger.  Maybe they have time to fly around the country begging for stimulus money for their states, but Sarah is consolidating it all into two days.

 

Friday night, she is having dinner at the home of Fred and Marlene Malek. Mr. Malek is a prominent business leader and the founder and Chairman of Thayer Capital Partners. Sarah will have the chance to speak about Alaska and other issues impacting Alaska with the following dinner-mates: Senators Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), Dianne Feinstein (D-California), and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will also be attending.

 

She confirmed that she is attending the Alfalfa Club dinner on Saturday evening.  This is the exclusive, primarily white man conservative organization that was expressly organized to hold a dinner on the last Saturday of January to honor the birthday of civil war General Robert E. Lee.  This is a very prestigious invitation and each member is only allowed to invite two people.  I am dieing to know who invited Sarah!

 

Our fantasy president, Oblahblah, is also attending this event as have most past presidents.  In addition to the dinner, it is a tradition for the group to choose a mock president, who then has to give a speech.  In the past, many of these mock presidents have actually become president, such as Ronald Reagan and George Bush.

 

All of these invitations to prestigious dinners and meetings with influential people signal to me that Sarah is being taken seriously by the powers-that-be.  I even noticed that cnn news had an article on her PAC that was actually respectful, and I heard tweety-bird, Chris Matthews, mentioned her with respect.  That’s something shocking, isn’t it?

 

So, what is bothering me a bit is the attitude of the people in Alaska or, should I say, the people who write comments under the Palin news articles in the Alaskan press.  First, clearly Sarah is the most humble, honest politician any of us have seen in a very long time.  She loves her state and serves it honorably.  Second, most people would be nothing but proud if their governor was honored to be invited onto a national ticket.  They would see it as a prestigious event for them, and their state; a way to garner favorable attention for themselves (hey, they found her first); and potentially, would bring some benefit to all.  Third, it is normal for governors to travel; to meet with other governors and elected official; to give interviews on national tv; to just be out there, visible, as a representative of their state.

 

So, what the heck is the problem?  If you start reading through the comments after these articles, you’ll find a bunch of bitter, jealous critics not really worthy of the Alaskan people.  I am starting to believe that these are some of Oblahblah’s paid bloggers, who don’t even live in Alaska . Maybe they are now working for the Dems or even Acorn, and their sole purpose is to go around poisoning the hearts and minds of the honest folks who live in that state in order to turn them against the governor, who had an 80%approval rating before her national debut, and now has a 60% approval rating, which about matches Oblahblah’s. (Why it would go down is, in my opinion, because they have tv in Alaska , so even their tundra minds have been poisoned by the likes of tweety bird Matthews and Tina Fey).

 

I certainly hope I am right and that these comments do not reflect the hearts, minds, and souls of the Alaskan people, because they are terribly disrespectful, distorted, twisted, and completely sexist in nature.  If her name was Sam instead of Sarah would we be reading this crap?  It would be interesting to find out where those negative comments are coming from, geographically.

 

Ok, got that off my chest.  For more info on Sarah’s interview and travels, you can read the following. 

 

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/137311

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/29/palin-come-washington-hopes-talk-obama/

 There's a video of the interview at this link:

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/137311