The Alaska governor and former GOP vice presidential nominee, making her first trip to the nation’s capital since the election, will join the president at the Alfalfa Dinner, a venerable gathering of the city’s political elite.
Palin spokesman Bill McAllister said that Palin would be speaking at the dinner. An Alfalfa Club member, however, said that no speech by the Alaska governor was planned.
Any speeches or comments made at the event will not be heard by the general public.
By tradition, the old world gathering, now in its 96th year, bars reporters.
Quotes from the rostrum do, however, tend to find their way out to reporters in the lobby.
The dinner is put on by the Alfalfa Club, an exclusive list of about 200 movers and shakers whose only purpose is to throw the annual dinner on the last Saturday of January.
If Sarah Palin does speak at this event, she will upstage everyone else there including Barack Obama. For that reason alone it is surprising she has been invited because Democrats are terrified of her.
If John McCain had picked anyone else as his running mate, Obama would have won by a record-breaking landslide. As it was, she kept the old walrus in the race most of the way.
The following is a quote from a Lucianne commenter:
Oh, to have an unscripted, teleprompter-free exchange between the boy-king and the mighty queen of the north. She would eat his lunch.
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