Tea party-backed activist Christine O’Donnell will take the stage at Saturday’s tea party rally in Indianola shortly before Sarah Palin, an organizer told The Des Moines Register today.
O’Donnell, author of the book “Troublemaker: Let’s Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again,” lost a bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Delaware last fall.
Other speakers will include Sioux City radio host Sam Clovis of KSCJ, Iowa tea party chairman Ryan Rhodes, Tony Katz of Pajamas Media and Los Angeles-based comedian Eric Golub,said organizer Charlie Gruschow, an Iowa tea party activist.
Last to take the microphone will be Palin, a former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate. There was speculation that Palin would use the event to reveal whether she plans to run for president in 2012 – speculation that Palin’s inner circle quickly shot down.
Gruschow said he has no clue what Palin will talk about.
“I think it’ll be about freedom,” he said.
Wow! A failed VP candidate AND a failed Senate candidate!
If they would have scraped a little harder on the bottom of that barrel they might have been able to get failed "Dancing with the Stars" contestant Bristol Palin on the roster as well. Then it would have been a real "You-suck-a-palooza."
You know last night I had the hardest time sleeping because I kept hearing this metallic clanging sound coming from outside of my window. I could not for the life of me figure out what it was until I read this article.
Then it all made perfect sense.
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| "I was just standing there minding my own business. And then she started winging cans at me. What did I do? What did I do?" |
"Taawwdd!!!"
"TAAWWDD!!!"
"TAAWWDD!!"
Update courtesy of The Wall Street Journal:
Former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell will not speak at a tea party event featuring former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Indianola, Iowa, this weekend, an organizer told Washington Wire.
“I made a mistake,” said Ken Crow, president of Tea Party of America. “I assumed there was an open slot and there wasn’t.”
Monday night, Mr. Crow told Washington Wire that Ms. O’Donnell would appear.
Tea Party of America’s cofounder, Charlie Gruschow, said the group withdrew Ms. O’Donnell’s after receiving numerous “emails from a lot of tea party folks that were very disappointed that she would be speaking.”
“We decided not to have her speak,” Mr. Gruschow said. “We felt it was in the best interest of the movement.”
Ms. O’Donnell’s spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.
They "assumed there was an open slot?" On the same ticket with Sarah "I'll bite your face off" Palin?
Seriously?
Man I have to say even I am amazed by how fast Palin destroyed her competition for the Teabager's attention! That must have been some serious canned food flinging she did to get Todd on the phone and rallying the forces on her behalf so quickly. (Hey Wasilla, keep an eye out of Todd. I heard he emerged from one of these "conversations" with a black eye last year.)
I would really like to see those "numerous" e-mails. Ten to one they are mostly misspelled missives, just chock full of racial slurs and vicious threats, all typed out in capital letters and punctuated with a plethora of exclamation points.
