Shocker: Palin Cancels Big California Swing

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was to star at two major California fundraisers and an Orange County rally for 15,000 next week, has canceled her two-day swing through the Golden State, campaign sources said.

The change is a shocker, because Palin's presence had electrified the GOP base in California. Party insiders were distributing 15,000 tickets to her Sept. 26 rally in Orange County -- and fundraisers reported an almost instantaneous sell-out of her two $1,000-a-head Sept. 25 fundraising events in Orange County and Santa Clara.

Both fundraisers had generated such high ticket sales that the OC Lincoln Club event was moved to the Orange County Performing Arts Center, and the Bay Area event was moved from the Woodside home of Tom Siebel to the huge Santa Clara Convention Center.

The change comes in the same week a new Field Poll showed that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama still leads Republican presidential candidate John McCain in California by a whopping 16-point margin.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=30444&tsp=1

[firedupdem]

1. They have to re-group since she has to stay with McCain for

obvious reasons!

[vssmith]

28. So she can correct his gaffes?

[Blue Gardener]

40. They are quite a pair

She was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa today, but apparently thought she was in Grand Rapids, Michigan. have either one of them ever looked at a map?

[ryanmuegge]

51. Wow. What an idiot.

[lynnertic]

46. So she can remember who's the top

earlier today she referred to the Palin/McCain administration.

[movonne]

41. Maybe a big scandal is coming out about her???

[yurbud]

71. after Bush got in office, I joked the GOP would run a dirty gym sock for president next

I was right.

[AlCzervik]

2. Good! We have enough real estate problems already without her devaluing us even more.

[blueclown]

3. did mac and moose really think they were going to win california? n/t

[AndyTiedye]

39. No, They're Just Trying to Milk Some Wealthy CA Repiggies for Big Donations

Will the donors who bought the $15,000 tickets get their money back?

[glitch]

53. Yep - just what I was thinking. They'll probably have to sue for it. :) nt

[jazzjunkysue]

63. How can they afford to turn down all that money?

This is really hard to believe.

[Juneboarder]

4. LOL! Yea... BIG Shocker!

She needs to keep the EFF out of our state!

[frylock]

34. word!

:bounce:

[NJmaverick]

5. The lipsticked pitbull needs more time to learn about

what is going on in the Country and the world.

[Plucketeer]

25. They probably realized this would be wrong

after Sarah professed excitement at meeting with Prime Minister Arnold! :crazy:

[bobd0]

43. Almost like meeting a foreign head of state

As close to that for Palin as having visited Iraq, or Ireland, or opposing that so painfully accurate metaphor for the McCain/Palin ticket -- the bridge to nowhere.

[lynnertic]

47. right: she'd meet the foreign-born head of a state

...if he'd meet with her.

[Retrograde]

61. some members of the Tongan royal family live in the Bay Area

just think of how coming to the area would have increased her knowledge of foreign affairs!

[Muttocracy]

6. I bet they keep the money just like she kept the Bridge $$

[radfringe]

72. lol... the NOWHERE RALLY.... n/t

[NV Whino]

7. Oh no! We're not going to get to see Sarah?

I'm sooooooo disappointed.


:sarcasm:

[pink-o]

8. Yeah, yeah--cry me a river n/t

[melody]

9. Damn -- what am I gonna do with all these tomatoes now??? n/t

[Maat]

10. That's what I say!

Maybe we can make some salsa ...

}(

[melody]

21. lol ... Salsa for Obama n/t

[Shiver]

11. Confirmed. Motorcycles have no doors.

Another success for P.X. Promotions for all!

[skygazer]

12. Orange County has an ordinance against pit bulls

Lipstick or no lipstick.

[crossroads]

62. LOL... nt

[Hugin]

13. I guess they've decided to focus on the more populous states.

Hey, she's the expert!

[melody]

65. Yeah, you betcha, she's only going to the big states like Alaska, dontcha know.

:)

[kaygore]

14. Rats, guess we'll need to cancel our 100,000 anti-Palin rally outside the convention center!

[Maat]

59. Yeah .... we have to cancel our 'welcome.'

That really sucks!

[Retrograde]

60. and I was so looking forward to it!

Where were they going to find that many Palin supporters in Silicon Valley anyway?

[PlanetBev]

15. Oh noes!

I guess I'll have to eat all those beef tomatoes by myself.

[tanyev]

16. Are they giving the money back to the people who bought tickets?

Bet not.

:rofl:

[Sanity Claws]

17. Is McCain getting ready to dump her?

Earlier today, she talked about the Palin McCain administration. Yes, she put herself first. I can't imagine McCain took that well.

[nichomachus]

26. McCain's biggest problem today is taking a dump

[Politicalboi]

31. LOL!

:hurts:

Besides that's gay night at Magic Mountain and it's also the night of the first debate with Obama and MaGoo.

[frylock]

38. better question; is she getting ready to dump mccain?

he can't draw flies to shit.

[SoCalDem]

18. Mrs. Moose Takes a Powder

:)

[KamaAina]

19. Someone must have told her there aren't any moose in CA

and salmon only in its northernmost reaches. Also, hunting from the air is strictly verboten.

[trashcanistanista]

20. I think McCain fired her.

I heard if from a friend of a friends boyfriend's co-worker's brother-in-law.

[Supersedeas]

22. still making refinements to the plastic presence to the hairspray tiaraed princess

[marias23]

23. She's going to Spain to make nice

[nichomachus]

24. Awwwww that's

terribly disappointing. I was so looking forward to it

[Plucketeer]

27. Maybe she can just give Darrel Issa and Devin Nunes a kiss

Those two repukes of CA probably wouldn't mind being kissed by a lipstick-festooned Pig Bull!

[flayellowdog]

29. Must have been bad weather in California too..

She may dissapear from the scene just like Carly Fiorina. :hide:

[fed_up_mother]

30. No way that woman appeals to moderate Republicans in California

[PATRICK]

32. The GOP now concedes the popular vote

One thing they could do in CA by hook, crook and GOP turnout would be to rack up numbers for popular vote legitimacy. In the reverse of the HHH 1968 strategy, they will have to play the electoral game by writing off large Dem power bases. For Dems then, racking up the popular vote in battleground states pretty much would mean a narrow popular vote margin at least. They lost both fairly narrowly.

The GOP does not have a very pretty defensive scenario if it cannot rally huge numbers where it cannot win electorally. The overflow of getting crushed in CA will affect Nevada and others. All those little states will be vulnerable to massive Dem attention. By the math it is very ugly indeed. With the REAL major news showing critical disasters for which GOP performance is execrable, the substitute drama strategies look harrowing, risky, insane, impossible- at least impossible of having with any confidence, which means a crumbling here and there in their main lines of "success".

Seizing the news cycle will mean: tamping down the economic crisis, kind of like stopping the head beating against the wall temporarily, creating foreign policy turmoil somehow valuable to sustaining the McCain myths already under assault, trashing Obama mercilessly(somehow), basically doing a lot of shouting and distraction.

A cornered beast is very dangerous and that is how I would characterize the Bush regime-backed puppet ticket. In this case McCain/Palin are NOT the center of resistance, but the criminal cabal behind them. NO ONE has anything much to gain. Behind the scenes, if the Bush regime accepts a defeat scenario(that it will resist to lessen Dem power) it will be negotiating its escape and eventual return and looking for deals in the massive crisis hitting us to let go quietly. The agony of relinquishing power makes that strategic withdrawal very very late in the day and very poorly organized.

I expect on the surface you will see the GOP try to bluff this out, which they may do successfully enough to forestall a massive landslide. If they try cheating in an obvious loss they will be exposed and hopefully under microscopic attack by Dems to regain stolen House and Senate seats. At this point they are poised to both lose and have the lights go on with their hands still in the cookie jar.

For the GOP not even to show in California at this stage is a very good sign for us, even if it only because their poorly prepared VP candidate needs constant, unreliable retuning. part of the problem is that McCain is part of her training. She needs a literal transfusion of guru fakery that will not work very well either, except this way she is also dragging them both down, losing time, whipping up Dems in states already surrendered by the GOP.

[ima_sinnic]

44. great post -- wish I could rec it

fascinating analysis-- :thumbsup:

[glitch]

54. Agreed and well said. nt

[aggiesal]

55. There is now a bill on Herr. Gropenator's desk where ...

California's electoral votes would not go to the winner of the popular
vote in California, but rather the popular vote throughout the country.

Here is the context of the letter informing CA citizens:

California is the largest state in the union, but when it comes to electing the president it can feel like the smallest.

California is ignored by presidential candidates because they believe the electoral vote is already locked up. And, with the Electoral College the way it is, they might even be right. But, if America chooses our president by the national popular vote, then suddenly California would rise to the top of every candidate's priorities. The more Californians who vote for a candidate, the more that increases the popular count and the greater say you have in choosing a leader for the entire country. Since one out of every ten Americans live here, doesn't that make sense?

The California Legislature has approved legislation that would award California's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The bill now goes to Governor Schwarzenegger and he will make his decision any time. You must act today to let him know how you feel.

Contact Governor Schwarzenegger now and urge him to sign the National Popular Vote bill.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Phone: [phone]
E-mail at this link: http://www.govmail.ca.gov

CLICK HERE TO REPORT YOUR CALL

The Electoral College system gurantees that most states are completely ignored during the campaign process.

- Voters are disenfranchised
- The policy needs of most states are ignored
- Over 92% of all campaigns visits and advertising during the peak campaign period are concentrated in just 16 states
- Two-thirds of all attention during the presidential election is concentrated in just 5 so-called battleground states

The current system leaves the decision for who will be President to a few states, and California and most other states sit on the sidelines.

We all remember what happened in 2000 when Al Gore received over 500,000 more popular votes then the Electoral College winner. No other country uses a system like our electoral college system to elect its Chief Executive, and we don't elect our Governors, Senators, or any other officeholders this way. That's why a nationwide popular election of the President is supported by over 70% of Americans.

The National Popular Vote plan has been endorsed by the New York Times, the Chicago Sun Times, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Sacramento Bee, the Los Angeles Times, and legislation has already been passed in several states.

The Governor could make his decision any day. Please take action now so your voice is heard before it's too late.

Thanks you for everything you do!

-Charles

Charles Chamberlain, Political Director
Democracy for America

[melody]

64. very good post

I would add that I think the Bush cabal has done what it set out to do -- economically destroy the US. They've always been a hidden parasite. Now that they've bled us dry, they'll go onto other hosts. The Bush family is, was and will always be one of the primary enemies of the USA but we're too weak for them to bother with now.

[PATRICK]

67. Think back

IF things had gone even better for these incompetent, super entitled despots, privatized Social Security would be today's public line of defense against the second Great Depression. Pension plans already are bleeding around the edges but the Bushies are forced(like SCOTUS performing a flimflam coup in 2000) to go directly to the Treasury instead. They would have forced the people on the front lines in a battle to give the regime everything. The same is true about the war dominoes they had planned, about an airplane NOT striking Congress and giving them effectual control of all politics in America beyond what you can even imagine now.

So they are forced to skip many entrapping steps and go directly for their set goals anyway. This may be true of the election too, once they decide whether they are going to go through with installing McSame. How can the rather inevitable loss this November be stopped? Or, can the Bush family again by social blackmail and intrigue get away scot free without any question of having to commandeer a late night plane flight to Paraguay.

[melody]

68. The Bush family will to power has always been focused on money

Power has only been a road to cash.

We're all empty now and of little use. They don't give a damn about us from here. Cheney is moving to Dubai. George has his rat farm in Paraguay. They're kicking us to the curb.

Now that we have our country back, we can make sure these monsters never invade again.

[onethatcares]

33. she bowed out of Florida too, something about

a possibility of thunderstorms, :rofl: in Florida:rofl: in the summertime:wtf:

If she can't take the heat, she should stay the hell out of Florida.

[ihelpu2see]

58. yeh, very curious, she bowed out of Florida and now California.... will we see

Tom Ridge, Newt or Joementum take her place???

[eowyn_of_rohan]

35. Wonder if there will be some new disclosures about her breaking in the next few days? nt

[greyghost]

37. She's a gift that will keep on giving.

[goodgd_yall]

36. Pfftt

Somebody's sails are getting the wind knocked out.

[slackmaster]

42. I suspect the GOP has given up on California for this election

:nuke:

[jfkraus]

45. Seattle too.

She also canceled a scheduled appearance here in Seattle next week.

She's imploding.

[CountAllVotes]

48. nice knowing ya' mooseface

n/t

:kick:

[Raine]

49. Stay the hell out of my state you scumbag!

:mad:

[Az_lefty]

66. hey, get McSame out of my state. We're sick of him in Tucson.

[Liberalynn]

50. Looks like Carly might have company soon.

wherever they stashed her. :rofl:

[The Straight Story]

52. I dunno, kind of makes sense really

Why spend money and time in a state where you don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning anyway?

[clixtox]

69. Big Money! Money, Money, Money, Money, Money, MONEY...

I am thinking that she must be checking out of this "ticket".

Like all of you I am really going to be missing her.

What a refreshing breath of hot, ignorant steam she turned out to be!

Pregnant herself when she "eloped" with Todd Palin among numerous other hypocritical peccadilloes.

There is no other way the greedy Rethugs would leave so much money on the table or in the pockets of all of those drooling idiot wanna-be influence purchasers.

[jannyk]

56. The Gate reported some of those suckers ponied up $50,000 ...

for a private reception with Palin. The basic $1000 a head only got you a table in the pigpen.

[rcsl1998]

57. If The GOP Reported 15,000, The Actual Number Was Probably Closer To 3,000

[librechik]

70. They lie. They didn't sell enough tix.

just my "educated" guess.

[Waiting For Everyman]

73. Maybe it's this...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/schanberg/2

Maybe McC's expecting his own hurricane?

[GratefulDedalus]

74. This fickle woman has really let me down this time

I was counting on Sarah Putin coming over and showing me how to butcher this moose I shot in my back yard. Now I'm stuck with 800 lbs of dead stinking moose, and no way to butcher it.
Curses and drat! A pox on her house.

[dchill]

75. "Orange County rally for 15,000 next week,..."

She should campaign with Barack - those numbers would go WAAAAYYY up.