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

[DeanThoreau]

Palin meeting with Obama...Can you imagine the conversation...
I can barely wait for the Saturday night Live coverage of that.....

[callmemara]

where IS Tina Fey when you really need her? seriously, I so wanted to see Tina Fey pardoning the turkey!

[BartLA]

They better avoid talking about climate change and drilling in Alaska. They are not on the same page to say the least.

[ceasespin]

lets make the news more accountable and get a news rating system in place before Palin2012

sign the FCC petition at http://FixNewsNow.org

[Donnat]

Why would Obama give her the barest bones of credibility by meeting with her? He should avoid her like the pox.

[jeanwny]

I think the intellectual contrast would be just wonderful to watch

[wagthedog1001]

It would be like watching Rachel Maddow interview her.

[JDowlin1]

The answer is look at the number of hits this article has. Palin invites fascination from people whether it is good or bad. Her popularity within the Republican party says something as well as her countless calls for interviews and now a book deal. She was the GOP VP nominee and Obama met with McCain. In the spirit of reaching out I think it is a great idea to meet with her.

I still don't think she is as extreme right as she is made out to be. (As Obama is not as extreme left.) She had to work with Democrats to bring reform to Alaska and I think she had learned from this whole experience and will emerge a major player in 2012.

[myworld]

dream on .... she a light weight and red meat for the media .the fascination about her is that SHE brought into the hype of the mccain camp tatic of CASHING in on hillary voters .She was a woman who could read a telepromter,AND WINK .SHE'S NOT THE GOODS!

[Smoothsail]

Palin runs Alaska as a moderate....

[Smoothsail]

Because 48 million Americans lover her.

[callmemara]

and the rest of us really love to laugh at her...

[canow]

We linked back to this in a post at the CA NOW blog, "Sarah Palin: Scapegoat" at http://www.canow.org/canoworg/2008/11/sarah-palin-scapegoat.html

[timberdoodle]

Paline should be given as much exposure as possible so she can indeed become the leader of the GOP. My reasoning is most of the GOP aren't bright enough to realize how dumb she is but the majority of Americans can see it and that should guarantee to keep the bigots and hate mongers out of power all this century.

[myworld]

AMEN

[Buzz-Cuz]

I`m still wondering when shes going to accept Hugh Hefners offer to pose nude in playboy........ Or was that Bristol ?..... Naw, yeah, it was the old dame......

[sociocanuck]

Either way, that would be an utter flop of an issue.

Never mind that Bristol's a bit young...

[Smoothsail]

Well...no one really wants to see Michelle naked...(gross)..not after that $450 lunch she ate..

[kurtm]

the point is that you shouldn't want to see world leaders in various stages of undress. their skills should lie elsewhere. it's pretty obvious to most the type of "talent" palin brings to the table.

[apoliticalchick]

Sarah Palin: The Gift That Keeps On Giving...
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/

[DrDemon]

D*I*N*G*L*E*B*E*R*R*Y* !

[Younity]

How big of her to meet with one who's not "one of us". God must have told her it was OK and would help here open some doors. "Hi, can I call you Barack before I embark on my next round of trashing your person." This cow needs to stay at the north pole helping Mrs. Claus get Christmas goodies ready.

[Smoothsail]

So a "messiah" can be "one of us"??
I thought it was Obama saying he was above us all..he's not even human!

[Tellurider]

Maybe someone will be able to ask her how is it that Wasilla, Alaska, of which she was Mayor for six years before becoming Governor two years ago has the highest foreclosure rate (foreclosures/number of homes) of any city in the country.
Wasilla has 250 homes in active foreclosures and only 9000 people, while the whole state of Alaska has only 1179 homes in foreclosure which includes Wasilla.
Concentrations of foreclosures which make Stockton and Las Vegas look pretty good can only be achieved through consistent and pervasive bad government, bad planning, and if not corruption then a bad case of "good ole boy" politics.
What if she and John from Arizona (ranked third in foreclosures by state, with Phoenix ranked first in home price depreciation 31.9% in the last year) had been made King and Queen?
No wonder she doesn't want to pal around with Alaskans and is jumping at the chance to hit the campaign trail.

[Smoothsail]

Hmmm....do you realize the huge role Acorn played in the down fall of our econonomy and Obama's role in that??
The whole country is paying for it now..

[KarlaElisa]

Sarah's going to meet with someone who pals around with terrorists?

With no preconditions?

What are we to make of this?

And I wonder if she'll drag her entire family with her....

[shelobo]

Palin did such a good job campaigning for McCain that the GOP LOST the election ,yeppers if ya wanna lose a election ,call in Palin...

[Smoothsail]

If ya wanna rig an election call Obama and his friends at Acorn.

[Obama4Life]

LMAO!!!!

Palin is comedy!

[CaptD]

I'd rather they "met" in Georgia...

Then one or both of Obama & Biden could be able to drop in and support Martin's runoff... I look forward to Martin becoming Obama's 59th Dem. Senator... This race is very important to every American!

Then we all can follow the recount of Franken to be the 60th Dem. Senator and fast track the recovery of America without any more foot dragging in Congress...