Sarah Palin's "on-again, off-again" appearance at a Monday fundraising dinner for congressional Republicans "is off—again," said Jonathan Martin in Politico. According to a Palin aide, the Alaska governor was disinvited from speaking over fears that she would "upstage" the dinner's keynote speaker, Newt Gingrich. This is merely the "latest snafu" involving Palin and the national GOP, and both sides are "deeply irritated"—Palin's team at the apparent snub, and the dinner's planners at Palin's ambiguous response to their original invitation for her to keynote the dinner.
No matter what you think of Palin, the GOP's treatment of her in this case has been "atrocious," said Patrick Ishmael in Hot Air, both personally and "in a 'that’s not how you raise money and win elections' sense." I want the Republican Party to raise as much money as possible, and it seems baffling that the planners would scuttle a "PR-money-bomb-Sarahcuda-Newtapalooza bonanza." Surely Gingrich didn't endorse the move.
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