Jay Tea: Sarah's Sense Of Smell (Updated)

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Here are a few excerpts from Jay Tea's Wizbang post on Sarah Palin's decision not to attend CPAC:

This is the one that's gotten so much attention for its open-door policy towards sponsors: they're allowing in the John Birch Society and GOProud (not "OutRight," which I said before and would be an awesome alternative name gay conservatives), which has quite a few people in a tizzy. And she's not carrying a grudge over last year's dustup, where she was announced as attending before she said no, saying she'd never confirmed it.

No, Palin has a simple explanation for skipping: she's displeased with the conduct of CPAC's leaders. More specifically, CPAC head David Keene's coupling an offer to support FedEx in a legislative battle with UPS with a request for a couple of million dollars in donations.

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With CPAC, she sees the situation very simply: Keene made an offer to support FedEx while simultaneously asking for their support. Perhaps in the eyes of the law he didn't quite solicit a bribe or propose a quid pro quo arrangement with the shipping titan (their money in exchange for CPAC's political clout), but the simple perception is that he did -- and that's exactly the kind of bullshit Palin fought -- and beat -- in Alaska.

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So, instead of CPAC, Palin will be attending the first national convention of the Tea Party folks. A gathering of people who, quite frankly, have no use whatsoever for the national leadership of the GOP (or the Democrats, for that matter) and are looking for others who aren't so enamored of the Inner Circles that they have forgotten simple principles and common decency and common sense.

The full blog post is here.

Update: Doug Brady's commentary is here.

- JP