Sarah Palin is expected to make a visit next week to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in California, in what would be her first public appearance outside Alaska since resigning as governor, and the sponsors said on Wednesday the event will be closed to the media.
Palin, the self-described hockey mom turned politician, is slated as “our expected guest” on Aug. 8 for a 50th anniversary gala hosted by the Simi Valley Republican Women, Federated, a nonprofit group of GOP volunteers, according to an e-mail from the group’s president Peggy Sadler. An accompanying notice states bluntly: “No press or other media allowed.”
The group is renting space for the invitation-only event at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, a suburb north of Los Angeles. Tickets for the gala reportedly were going for $100 per person for members and $150 for invited non-members. Up to 900 people were expected to attend. Sadler said the party is “not a fundraising event” and that proceeds would go to pay for the event itself.
“Expected guest” may be the operative phrase since Palin’s personal representatives say she “has not confirmed her attendance at any event” and that the Simi Valley party is “one of hundreds of outstanding invitations” she has received.
If she does appear in Simi Valley on Aug. 8, and nowhere else before then, it would mark Palin’s first venture to the Lower 48 since stepping down as Alaska governor on Sunday, 18 months before her term of office was scheduled to end.
The surprise resignation has sparked intense speculation about Palin’s future ambitions and whether she has hurt or helped any chance she might have of seeking higher office. Palin became a darling of Republican Party conservatives in 2008 when she catapulted to the national spotlight as John McCain’s running mate and the first female GOP nominee for vice president.
In a reminder of her often-testy relations with the media, she took a parting shot at the press during her farewell address in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Sunday, saying: “Democracy depends on you. That’s why our troops are willing to die for you. So how about in honor of the American soldier you quit making things up?”
Photo credit: Reuters/Nathaniel Wilder (Palin delivering farewell address in Fairbanks, Alaska, on July 27)
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you ever notice the tendency to want something MORE when someone tells you can’t have it…mickey? and just a simple search on google will show that Sarah left the Governorship in good hands, both in terms of competence and position to be elected in the future as incumbents…
- Posted by Buy brand name viagraI believe that this country is headed for its conclusion. Visit some of the symbols of our freedom, such as Plymouth Rock, and Valley Forge to be reminded about why this country was started to begin with. Those who signed the Declaration of Independence were trying to establish freedom of the people….it appears that the Obama administration would have us be slaves of government. Therefore, to alter the initial ideology that built this nation will surely cause it to fall….from within.
- Posted by Shroederi said in a previous posting that the fortunes of the republican party did not rely on what the news media,or democratic pundits suggested that the GOP should transition to, that would make them more electable,which in essence was to become more like them.I suggested that the republicans should maintain their own identity on policies and project what they had always stood for,and that the democrats would self destruct which they have done traditionally. As the obama socialist experiment continues to obliterate,People like palin will become an alternative because she has stuck to her political principles.that is why there is so much panic from the liberals because the pendulum is starting to swing and they are seeing an alternative which is a stark reality to their demise.
- Posted by brian leeget over sarah people, she is here to stay they say she is through if so why are they all obsessed with her?
- Posted by bowlingballYes, don’t you people understand when Obama makes a mistake, he is “only human”, but when a GOP-er makes a mistake they DESERVE to be MOCKED and SCORNED in the media!!!?!?!?!?
- Posted by gopbadThere’s a huge market in this country for Sarah, the patron saint of stupidity.
- Posted by Sonia KermazYou Go Girl! Way to talk to the media!
- Posted by Marsha GShe Did It Again! She Quit!
She’s backed out of this Reagan thing!
I was thinking third party. Now it looks like Nervous Breakdown.
- Posted by As ExepectedSomeone will get footage, you can bet the farm on it….
- Posted by Michael HuppmanPALIN’S OUR SAVIOR!!!!!!!!!!
NO OBAMA’S OUR MESSIAH!!!!!!!!!!!
PALIN = GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO OBAMA WILL FIX THE WORRRLLLLLLLLDD!!!!!!!
I think I’m going to puke, the fact that you people to still have faith in these slimeball status quo politicians makes me lose sleep at night.
You don’t know them personally, stop pretending to. They don’t want to make your life better, they want attention/money/power and you people are giving it to them.
- Posted by Michael HamLefties do not get common sense, free enterprise, rugged individualism, nor minimal government. Theirs are Harvard nonsense, government ownership, collectivism and big government. Let the last smarmy Obama Liberal take the hammer and sickle with her.
- Posted by Neville Jiner
Oh Neville, where do get your ideas about liberals? From Fox? I am what YOU would consider a leftie. However I am a self employed timber frame carpenter so that covers common sense, free enterprise and rugged individualism right there. Now minimal government, under Bush the size of the federal government ballooned from where it was under Clinton.
- Posted by Eric HI do not support federal run health care, non-profit health care yes. Not because I’m a “leftie” but because I don’t think health care issues should be decided by the bottom line. Profit and care don’t mix.
I did not attend Harvard but a state university. I don’t believe in government ownership or bailouts, which by the way started under Bush.
Lastly, to imply that we “liberals” are communists with our hammers and sickles is just absurd. A lot of my “liberal” friends are business owners and straight up capitalists. My wife works hard to make sure she get her quarterly bonus, not exactly a communist concept.
Take a good look around, talk to some people who have opposing views, stop getting your view of people from Uncle Bill, Rush, and that idiot Glenn Beck. I think you’ll find that the Left and the Right are closer to the middle than you realize.
I’ll vote for this illiterate grifter in the republican primary…then I’ll vote for a REAL candidate in the general. Like most educated people.
- Posted by JoanofArcSarah never “barred anything”. She didn’t “bar” Todd for premarital sex, she didn’t bar Pastor Murthee from witchdoctoring, she didn’t “bar” the “bridge to nowhere”, she didn’t bar the free building materials to build her “Snowbilly Mansion”, she didn’t bar the prosecutors from letter her drug-addicted son choose the military over prison, she didn’t bar Bristol from having sex with Levi, she didn’t bar billing the state of Alaska for her grifter family from state trips, she didn’t bar the RNC for her 150,000 wardrobe. I could go on and on. It takes just too freakin’ long. Palin is a crafty, slick and gifted politician, but if I had to choose between what she is…and what a Christian is…I’ll vote for Hitler. Period.
- Posted by maryI had to write due to a statement about what the world thinks of us. The world hates us, it always has and always will. All we can hope for is to coexist peacefully. If they want us to be something, I want the opposite, because it is for thier good, not our own, that they want it. Saying all that, Palin was smart enough to become elected governor of a state and a VP candidate. Unless any of the haters have achieved a similar goal, they should avoid calling her stupid.
- Posted by HuckleBuckJr.FANTASTIC! Sarah Palin in 2012! REAL Hope! The USA has been the greatest FREE country in the world for 200 years…with Sarah Palin at the helm, we can bring our beleagured country back from the depths of despair and start another 200 Years of FREEDOM!!!
The only issue is this…can we prevent all this overspending from completely bankrupting the US within the next year or two? We should never have “BAILED OUT” the very criminals who are attempting to destroy us now.
- Posted by Bob MiskiewiczThe troubles with our economy occured 1 yr before Bush left office when the democrats controlled congress.
- Posted by American1stBarney Frank would not let republicans like J McCain who wanted to regulate Fannie mae and Freddi Mac.
Barney Frank allowed and promoted bad loans to be made to lazy welfare collecting democrats.
Add to that the treasury sec Paulson who advised Bush that the TARP loans must be made is a lifelong democrat!
Democrats crashed the economy, not the republicans! You libs are drunk on Obama pee!
DEMOCRATS CONTROLLED THE PURSE FOR 2 YRS WHILE THE ECONOMY CRASHED!