by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin - fresh from her late-night talk-show duel with fellow Republican Mitt Romney (Palin is appearing with Leno tonight, Romney with Letterman) - will be heading to Ohio for some Right to Life fundraising and stumping in a hot congressional district.
Palin will deliver the Friday night keynoter for an Ohio Right to Life forum in Columbus - there is said to be a fee involved - and make a stop on Saturday at the home of insurance executive Umberto Fedeli in a benefit for the Ohio and Cleveland chapters of Right to Life.
Diners will pay $2,500 a plate for a meal at Fedeli's "personal trattoria prepared by guest chef Carl Quagliata of Giovani's Ristorante. Palin will share her anti-abortion views and pose for photographs,'' the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Michael McIntyre reports in his "Tipoff'' column.
Fedelie has played host to former President George W. Bush and other politicians at his home, but maintains that this event does not represent a 2012 product endorsement in Palin's case.
"Anything that helps promote what I feel is the most precious gift, which is that of life, I am happy to do," said Fedeli, not ready to back a candidate for the 2012 Republican president nomination yet. "Some people really like her. Some people don't. She's not coming in to be president. She is coming in to help the pro-life cause... She is extremely charismatic, very charming, warm and personable."
Friday night, Palin addresses the Ohio Right to Life rally at Aladdin Shrine Center in Columbus. Tickets are going for $40.
Palin also has expressed her interest in playing a role in congressional races this year.
In Columbus, Palin will be putting her toes in the waters of a district where Republicans face some feisty intraparty competition - indeed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has dedicated a new Website - Palinsprimaries.com - to showcasing the GOP contests where all sorts of TEA Party tumult is brewing within party ranks, setting the stage for some potentially vote-splitting divisions.
In Ohio's 15th District, the Democrats call Republican Steve Stivers "a career banking lobbyist who checks his principles at the door in order to pander to the group he believes is most politically advantageous at the moment. In his 2008 loss to now-Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio), he ceded 10 percent of the vote to anti-abortion rights third-party candidates... Stivers' attempts to prevent a repeat of the scenario have failed -- not only has he attracted three other Republican challengers in the primary, two Constitution party candidates and one Libertarian candidate filed in the 15th,'' the DCCC gleefully notes.
DCCC spokesman Ryan Rudominer tells us: "The DCCC will feature races with Tea Party candidates and libertarians running as third party candidates on PalinsPrimaries.com, so Sarah can get involved just as she did last fall on behalf of a third party candidate in a losing effort in New York's 23rd Congressional District, a seat that was held by Republicans since the 19th Century."
Leno and Letterman start after 11:30 pm EST. (Palin joins quite a lineup this week on the new Leno show: Jamie Foxx on Monday, snowboarder Shaun White with Palin tonight, Apolo Ohno on Wednesday, Matthew McConaughey and Brett Favre on Thursday, Morgan Freeman on Friday. But then, Letterman got Bill Murray.)
See Letterman's fun with Palin last night here:
(The custom-inscribed receiver on the Henry Repeating Arms rifle pictured above was presented to Sarah Palin by the Republican Party of Arkansas. (Photo by PR News / Henry Repeating Arms)
Comments
GO SARAH!!!
Posted by: The 2010 Democratic Party | March 2, 2010 3:24 PM
Palin should be taken taken seriously, her and Glenn Beck are tying themselves to the racist, Rightist and anti-goverment rantings of the TeaBaggers, which are a short putt from various Fascist movements. The damage such movements have done, directly or by inciting violence by right wing domestic terrorists is just a short jump from their crazy talk.
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Posted by: CindyB | March 2, 2010 3:35 PM
Palin + Teabaggers = Corporate Controlled Neo Fascists
The antisemitism is really rising with these arseclowns.
Saul Alinsky, George Soros - the Jewish boogie men.
Why do you think they love saying "Saul Alinsky?" It's just code for "Jew.", just like "Arrogant" is their code word for "Uppity Black Man" when they speak of Pres Obama.
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Posted by: Jim Jaffigan | March 2, 2010 3:43 PM
AHHH SILVA'S ENDLESS FACISTNATION WITH ALL THINGS SARAH . . . KEEP THOSE EMOTIONALLY-WRECKED LOONY LIBS FROTHING!!!!
Posted by: Bobby Mobbie | March 2, 2010 3:52 PM
Spoken like a true brainwashed Bolshevik, Jim.
Posted by: Free to Watch Liberals Meltdown | March 2, 2010 3:52 PM
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Spoken like a true brainwashed Bolshevik, Jim.
Posted by: Free to Watch Liberals Meltdown | March 2, 2010 3:52 PM
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You would know...
Posted by: Jim Jaffigan | March 2, 2010 4:09 PM
Wow. A lot of hate comments here. I Have yet to see how promoting individual responsibility and smaller government as fascist.
Posted by: Harold | March 2, 2010 4:12 PM
Ahhh yes...when things aren't going well for the dummycrat, (we need some free hand-outs)party...the best way to rally the knuckle dragging, low IQ crowd together is to pen a story about Sarah Palin.
Works every time.
Paulo
Posted by: Paulo | March 2, 2010 5:00 PM
Sorry for being snarky but I have a few questions for this holier than thou mom. Is she bringing her kids along again? When do her kids ever go to school or is she "home schoolin" them as she parades them on stage every place she goes? Mommy's big tax deductions? I wonder if she gets to write off the kids airfare, clothing, meals etc. as work related if they show-up on stage...
Posted by: lochnessmonster | March 2, 2010 5:38 PM
The founder of the TEAPARTY has called $arah a WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING, so I don;t get it? WHO does she represent, except HER$ELF?
Posted by: DEO | March 2, 2010 6:03 PM
Gov. Sarah Palin is a popular, prestigious, and prominent political power player. Her endorsement is crucial, her support is necessary, to conservative candidates running for office between now & 2012.
Posted by: Carlton West | March 2, 2010 6:10 PM
She's supporting a few candidates, she can't do like Obama, who challenged the signatures of all his opponents, in his first race, had the
papers leak the divorce records of his
two major opponents in his Senate race. DEO get a new routine
Posted by: bishop | March 2, 2010 10:16 PM
I see the liberal lunatics are still scared of her. I know the loony liberals do not see this but the majority see it that way.
Posted by: Crooks_In_DC | March 3, 2010 2:23 AM
Why does this site allow the posting of vicious and scurrilous personal attacks against public figures using the vilest and corsest of language. You are allowing ignorance to parade and should be ashamed.This is not civil public discourse under the 1st Amendment. It is unadulterated trash! Shame on you!
Posted by: Jim Cunningham | March 3, 2010 8:50 AM
Yes, Sarah keeps the emotionally confused gender-challenged like CindyB in a perpetual froth---Psycho Cindy and her Bolshie boyfriends will do a lemming leap over a cliff if Sarah keeps on keepin' on.
Posted by: daveinboca | March 3, 2010 8:58 AM
Paula,
Have you read Going Rouge?? Ghost written at the 5th grade level. Are you smarter than a 5th grader?? Low IQ...hmmmm. Take a look in the mirror and tell us what you see.
Posted by: Doug R. | March 3, 2010 10:01 AM
This blog has turned into a Democratic propaganda machine. Highligting a leftwing dccc propaganda website? C'mon Silva, your hardcore liberal bias is shinning through......
Posted by: Dave | March 3, 2010 11:14 AM
Can the DCCC be that stupid. The lead sentence on their website reads, "Recently Sarah Palin declared that she will be getting involved in Republican primaries like she did in her losing effort in last fall’s special election in Upstate New York."
Duh!!! The NY23 special election didn't have any primary. The normally republican vote was split at the very beginning of that campaign, when the Conservative Party nominated a candidate different than the Republican, tipping the balance to the democrat. The democrat led in the polls wire to wire. The only thing Palin's endorsement of the Conservative party candidate, 10 days before the election, did was change the positioning of the 2nd and 3rd place candidates, knocking the Republican out of the race, and allowing the Conservative to make a much stronger run at the Democrat than the Republican could have.
The website lists all the contested republican primaries and encourages Palin to get involved, as if it will help the democrat. This is nonsense. If Palin's endorsement has the effect it had in NY23, it will settle the primary giving the winner a wide margin, making that candidate stronger against the democrat in the general election.
And to think the DCCC is made up of professional politicians. They should know better.
Posted by: Glen | March 4, 2010 3:57 PM