Sad! Trump Says Palin Won't Attend RNC Because Alaska Is 'A Long Ways Away

[deminks]

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That sound you hear is hearts breaking everywhere after Donald Trump told the Washington Examiner that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin can't attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland because it's simply too far away.

Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee who's been a huge cheerleader for Trump, was a logical choice for a convention speaker. But Trump said that she could not swing the 11-hour flight from her home in Alaska.

"She was asked," Trump told the Washington Examiner in a Thursday interview. "It's a little bit difficult because of where she is. We love Sarah. Little bit difficult because of, you know, it's a long ways away."

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That's ok. The Don can serve up enough word salad for the both of them.

[ProfessorGAC]

1. I Know For A Fact. . .

. . .that planes fly to Alaska. 6.5 hours in a private plane is not a burden.

She's not coming because other establishment Repubs don't want her there. They're embarrassed enough.

[tonyt53]

2. Maybe there is a new regulation that prevents people already drunk from getting onto planes.

[Yavin4]

3. How does she travel? On the back on an Elk? n/t

[pinboy3niner]

4. "No, Ms. Palin, we can't accept your dead porcupine jacket as carrion baggage."

[liberaltrucker]

6. ATTENTION SKINNER: We need a "like" button...STAT!

[liberaltrucker]

5. According to Great Circle Mapper

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=anc-cle

3078 miles from ANC to CLE. 11 hours?
More like 9, perhaps a DU pilot or FA
could enlighten us.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Alaska Airlines does it in 8 hours, 17 minutes with one stop in Chicago.....

nt

[liberaltrucker]

9. Thanks

[TexasProgresive]

7. She needs to be on her porch

where she can keep an eye on putin for trump, doncha know?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. I guess

she can't see Cleveland so well from her house........

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. I'm still praying for a Palin VP play-option fake.

Set up expectations for Pence, then unveil Palin as the true VP candidate tomorrow. It would only be consistent with the bullshit circus act that is Trump's campaign. And to Trump's credit, it would dominate the news cycle, which is all that he cares about as a malignant narcissist.

I guess it's only a dream at this point. Although in 2008 wasn't there someone else who everyone was convinced McCain was going to name before he dropped Palin on us all?

On edit: I think it was Tim Pawlenty.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. I think it was Rachel who put up a chart on how much the two

candidates have spent in the swing states

HJC, over 40 million

DT, less than 2

wonder why

it's, as usual, all at the feet of the media, who are treating Trump almost the same as they treated Reagan, the difference being that he's playing them much more effectively than did Reagan.

ever read On Bended Knee, the analysis of how/why the press caved in for Reagan, and how they protected him, essentially, during the 84 campaign, and almost completely ignored Iran Contra and the other scandals that plagued his venal administration, while he slept and watched tv through most of his 2d term.

[Ilsa]

17. The old beauty queen will be the First Runner Up.

If Pence gets too honest on the campaign trail about what Trump is really planning, he'll be jettisoned for Caribou Barbie.

[Photographer]

13. So close to Russia. She can see it from her house.

[Mendocino]

14. A long flight didn't prevent her

from endangering the health of her child. Or from flying all over the country selling books and giving speeches. I would say she throwing another tantrum because Donny didn't pick her, poor little thing.

[Daemonaquila]

15. ROTFLMAO! I wonder which one of them came up with the excuse.

Is it Donald's for intentionally pissing her off so she would stay away, or is it hers because she's pouting she won't be his VP pick?

[cosmicone]

16. Can't see Cleveland from her house! n/t

[imanamerican63]

18. She is irrelevant and they don't want her to say something that....

is controversial & lame, Trump already has that job!!!!

[Ilsa]

19. That's really pathetic.

Maybe she told him, "No, I have to wash my hair that night."

Other excuses:
She's hanging around Alaska in case Trip (or is it Track?) gets arrested and needs bail.
She's waiting for results of pregnancy tests for, well, anyone.
She heard there's a birthday party she'll want to attend, whether she is invited or not.