Palin To Campaign In Georgia, Meet With Obama

Update, 11/25 8:30PM

The Anchorage Daily News is reporting that Palin will meet President-elect Obama early next week when she travels to Philadelphia after stumping for Chambliss in Georgia:

The governor is planning a trip to Georgia to campaign on behalf of Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss early next week on her way to Philadelphia to meet with her old foe, President-elect Barack Obama.

Obama is meeting with governors of both parties in Philadelphia to talk about the ailing economy. It's not clear how many governors are going to attend the Obama event, which the National Governors Association helped put together.

"I don't know if she has a one-on-one with (Obama)," said Palin spokesman Bill McAllister. "It may be, given that they were both involved in the national campaign." McAllister said Palin will be in Philadelphia on Monday and Tuesday, and the state will pay for it. He said the Chambliss campaign will pay for Palin's side trip to Georgia.

TPM reports that Sarah Palin is going back on the trail on behalf of GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who is in a runoff election against Democrat Jim Martin:

Palin will be holding four rallies across the state, in a race that will make the difference in the Dems' efforts to get 60 seats this year, along with the Minnesota recount. This runoff election is all about jazzing up the base -- and whatever her faults, few if any Republicans did as good a job of that this year as Palin.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has more information on the event:

Palin, who drew large crowds while running for vice president with Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. John McCain, will appear at Chambliss rallies in Augusta, Savannah, Perry and Atlanta on Monday, the day before the Dec. 2 senate runoff between Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin.

The Atlanta rally has been tentatively scheduled for 4 p.m., but the location had not be determined Tuesday morning.

"I was thrilled when I got the call that Governor Palin would be able to make the trip to Georgia to campaign with me the day before the runoff election," Chambliss said in a press release.

The McCain-Palin ticket carried Georgia by about 200,000 votes.

Meanwhile, another Republican election figure (but one less popular with the conservative base) is campaigning for Chambliss in Georgia today -- former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Comments

[exmate]

The GOP is getting to be quite a coalition: Millionaires, wannabe millionaires, rednecks, Bible thumpers and now a moosehunting Barbie Doll.

[DIAGUY]

YOU HAVE DESCRIBED EVERYONE EXCEPT THE PERPECTUALLY UNEMPLOYED WHO HOLD UP TRAFFIC IN THEIR 18 YEAR OLD DODGE CARAVANS PUMPING BLUE SMOKE IN MY FACE......­...THEY MUST BE THE DEMOCRATS

[Rolley]

oh this huffington post is just one beat up after another. her own spokesperson says he doesn't know if they're going to meet. That means they're not. And yet we get this headline "Palin to ... meet with Obama"

[Euromutt]

The hilarity she provoked during the elections as a possible candidate for the Presidency has worn off now. Who is making her still relevant, and why? Haven't they yet learned their lesson that you don't put a howdy-doody, uncultured ignoramus in the White House? What more do they need?

[mistlesuede]

My question is "why?"

[tcuoohjohn]

Because Sarah Palin makes Dan Quayle look like a genius...T­he DNC sees a future political opportunity in Palin.

[Suzique]

Why would President-elect Obama waste his time meeting with someone, who before becoming a VP candidate, referred to him as "Sambo"?

[jan4insight]

Because Barack Obama is a better man, and a bigger person, than most of us are, or can imagine being.

[stayinsouth1981]

They don't even speak the same language. Who will interpret?

[bentax645]

Thanks, I need that...LOL­, LOL, LOL :-)

[rivrgrrl]

Good. Hopefully she will bring as much luck and 'talent' to the Chambliss endeavor as she did to McCain's.

She may draw huge crowds, but the intelligent ones in there will see her phoniness and find her seriously lacking once she opens her mouth and tries to speak.

For the less intelligent, there is no hope, they can't help themselves because SHE IS SOOO HOT!

[Smoothsail]

The data shows she boosted McCains positive ratings as much as any VP candidate has in the past. So we can't say she hurt him...
But boy is she a magnet for hositle feelings..­.since she first walked on the stage...
What is that about...I don't understand all the hate in this country.

[naeldwyck]

I don't either, but I think you're perfectly positioned to answer the question, so I ask you, where does all the hate in your posts come from? You keep on going on about "how many states we have"; "maye Obama can take Ayers along"; "Santa Claus named Obama"; "lying blatantly"; "all those Obama duped"; "making 1/2 the country nauseous"; "narcissis­ts"... and my favorite: "baby killers"?

and, oh, wait, Palin has "no extremist friends"? Well, that depends on how extreme you think a party founded by violent secessionists is, I guess.

[Scoot2711]

"my friend," most liberals do not hate Ms Pain; we hate the fear-mongering she introduced and the insipid vacuity of her intellect. We simply hold her in contempt.

[Dovescorner]

She inspires hate because she is scarcastic, talks down about her opponent and don't have mind calling names without any positive positions on anything. Sarah is that girl in high school that was popular and she looked down on others not so popular. We all know that girl and we all hate them!

[Lotus19]

Um...hate was the Republican mantra, or weren't you paying attention?

[TheMastadon]

can't say she hurt him? wow... clearly you stopped paying attention after the convention.

[w8aminute]

I just hope Charlie Daniels is there playing his big hit when she takes the stage.

[hatethehype]

Bwahahaha.­..as she takes the stage wearing that now famous red leather jacket, yet...

[olgraydawg]

Maybe when she gets back Alaska will have already seceded. Will we have to negotiate with them to take her back or could we just imprison her as a spy in oh, say, Tajikistan? How is it the interests of Ga. impact a state on the verge of secession from the USA? What are we missing here? Who's buying her clothes for this trip? Will she visit any of the USA's military bases? Why?

[TheMastadon]

who cares if they seceed, what do they have like 27 people? and if they try to withhold their oil, we can just invade like we did with Iraq.

[AlaskaLeft]

So, everyone (including many people here in Alaska) were overjoyed to see her head back to Alaska--rather than the horrifying alternative. No worries, though--we can't keep her here to actually do her job, the one she is getting paid to do, now that she has (finally) seen more of the big wide world and felt the adoration of the Repub base. Ugh!

[rivrgrrl]

Any talk of a recall up there, now that all of Alaska has seen who they have running their state?

[Smoothsail]

But you liked super corrupt guy before her??

[TheMastadon]

going from super corrupt to super stupid... ist that really a step forward?

[Bongborg]

The problem is, Atlanta, Rome, and Savannah are just about the only liberal bastions in Georgia, and lots of Georgians just love Sarah. She won't be a negative there the way she was on the national stage.

[ObamAtomic]

We do not understand,why,she want to meet with president elect Obama,
according to her, he was *palin* around with dubious characters!
Moose stay in the tundra!

[Scoot2711]

Sexby Shameless needs to just end this campaign. Obama's election demonstrates that he and his ilk stand on the "wrong side of history." It's time for a new wave of politics, even in georgia. And Ms Pain just needs to stay at home. Doesn't she need to pardon a few more Alaska turkeys? Maybe spend some time with her children? Get to know them again?

[Smoothsail]

Hmmm...gre­at idea...no need for elections in this country anymore...­just let you decide who is in office.

[jingohatr]

Brilliant idea! Thank goodness you people didn't get to choose this time! The one YOU chose the last time has a 24% approval rating, and is considered the worst president in history! Republcians are dictators. Why are you here? Crybaby. You lost. You can whine, whine, whine, but the results will not change, change, change! Now, you idiots know how we felt when GWB was SELECTED!

[lynjs]

After the Turkey interview, I say the best is yet to come. She is the pre-holiday gift that we don't want that just keeps on giving...P­lease go away.

[learnsomething]

The title of this thread is misleading. There is a governors conference that governors all across the nation are going to. I just hate these misleading titles.

[elliegrl]

*Agreed! I breathed a sigh of relief when I read he's meeting with *the Governors,* not Palin. This seems like a really good idea, he's trying to bring everyone possible in. Does anyone know if Bush ever did this? Between all the work Barack and his transition team are doing to his weekly addresses, doesn't it feel like he's already POTUS?

[VickiNC]

Same here. I thought, "Why in the world would the President Elect even WANT to meet with Palin?". I can almost gaurantee there'll be no one on one.

[Smoothsail]

There have been many misleading things..