The main event today is Sarah Palin, but first, some quick housekeeping notes.
I am on a plane today to speak to the Silicon Valley Young Republicans in San Jose.
Last night California Gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner spoke at the San Fernando Valley Republican Club headed by Gary Aminoff.
While I am publicly neutral in the race, I will say that this is the second time I have listened to and met Mr. Poizner. He is impressive.
Yet yesterday was a day of agonizing sadness. Sarah Palin visited Los Angeles, and again I am one crushed Tygrrrr fella.
(I expect you all to pretend to care and feel my pain.)
I have met so many politicians, but I have never met Sarah Palin. At the 2008 GOP Convention in Minneapolis, I met tons of politicos. However, Governor Palin was on lockdown. This was understandable. The Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees are under Secret Service protection for their safety.
Yet Sarah Palin is now a private citizen, and every time I think I am about to meet her something goes wrong.
On March 12th she and I are both in Florida. Yet while I have speaking event in Florida on the 11th, her event is the evening of the 12th. By then I will already be on a plane to Oklahoma City.
Yet yesterday I was so close. She came to Los Angeles to appear on the Jay Leno Tonight Show.
I drove the 30 minutes to the studio, was able to obtain a ticket, and was sitting in one of the front rows. We were 30 feet apart.
She was on fire. She joked with Jay about his own negative press coverage. She referred to the writing on her hand as a “poor man’s teleprompter.” It was a great line. She also did a comedy monologue that went over very well.
I have said many times that her critics are so rabid and frothing at the mouth that they will take a harmless event such as writing on a hand and use it to attack her, when the truth is they have a predetermined hatred of her and simply make things up to fit the predetermined narrative.
A couple of people that looked like they were still in the 1960s tried to hand me a copy of “Going Rouge.” I changed seats. They looked filthy, and their behavior was typical leftist intolerance. They could not even be polite enough to shut up and let the guest speak. Thankfully the supporters drowned them out.
The guest list in addition to Sarah Palin featured Olympic Gold Medalist Shawn White and American Idol singer Adam Lambert.
While Mr. Lambert looks a little creepy to me with all of his piercings and black eyeliner, I had never heard him sing before. He does have a good voice, and the song he sang was pleasant. It was odd to hear women in their 40s and 50s screaming like teenagers over this young man, but I never grasped Beatlemania either.
I was not there to see Mr. Lambert or Mr. White, although the chants of “USA” for Mr. White were nice.
I was there to see Governor Palin. I really wanted to meet her. I was 30 feet away from her.
She almost became Vice President. Then the financial crisis hit, and the GOP was done. SHe was so close, and yet so far away.
I feel the same way. She was right there. Yet meeting her on this day did not happen.
I may or may not have gotten on camera due to the band. The saxophone player was unbelievable, and the woman belted out classics during commercial breaks. As they played “Old Time Rock n Roll” by Bob Seger, I had a microphone shoved in my face. Lord help those who now know that I, in a very fake gravelly manner, “Reminisce about the days of old…”
I understand that there are many people in this world with bigger worries than me.
Yet I still wish we had met.
No, for those wondering, I would not have hit on her. I would have been very polite, and just let her know I supported her and admired her.
This is worse than the time in junior high school when some girl whose name I can’t remember did something I forgot that bothered me for reasons I cannot recall.
On March 27th, Sarah Palin is doing a tea party near Las Vegas. I am trying to be the undercard for that event.
I have built up very positive reviews among the ladies of the Federation of Republican Women.
Ladies…you run the country. All I ask…can you please get me in front of Sarah Palin so I can say hello to her?
I cannot go to Alaska. I am deathly afraid of cold weather. Somebody let me know when she is in the lower 48 in a climate controlled room (Not climate change you nimrods, climate controlled).
Until then, from 10 yards away, I offer a daydreamy sighhhhhhh.
Now to go sob uncontrollably.
So close, and yet so far away.
Oh, and for those wondering, she looks as stunning as ever.
(Editor’s note. This is not about lust. I wanted to give her a copy of my book in the hopes she would admire it and launch me on the road to superstardom. I may pretend to chase women, but I really am all business all the time)
eric
Oh c’mon. It’s just lust. I can’t imagine any serious person taking Barricuda seriously.
JMJ
For what its worth, I lust for Sarah Palin AND Segourney Weaver. I admit to the entire blogesphere…and world, to the aforesaid. I, like, Jay Leno,
don’t care what anyone thinks, ( referring to his hair last night).
I watched the Leno Show..and her appearance confirmed what I knew all along, she is about as far from thinking like a typical Jewish woman liberal, than the planet Pluto is from the sun.
Most Jewish women liberals have never seen a gun, forgetting about
actually firing one. They loathe guns, and moose. They tinker with
saving the whales or sea pups, or elephant seals. They want to repair
the world (Tikkun Olam) by sitting around banquet tables and comparing
lifestyles among themselves.
Jewish women, like other liberals, are for aborting the fetus, of their
unwanted child., even though we, as people, are losing 35,000 member/year, according to surveys. Something is horribley upside down here. (Doesn’t apply to Orthodox or religious).
Jewish women liberals don’t belong to rod and gun clubs. Their only
fishing is at Kroger, at the fish section. They hunt for meat at
the meat counter, forget about getting it straight from the wild.
I mean how many Jewish women have we seen with a 3030 during
hunting season? How many women are out there with a rod and reel
casting for trout, or Blue Fish?
Look, I have nothing against Jewish women. My mother was a Jewish woman and a nice lady. But she never hunted or fished in her life I can
assure you.
I like women who hunt and fish. I like women who are former govs of
the largest state in this union. I like women who don’t abort children, but
are willing to raise them ( no foundling home for Palin).
When we do hear a Jewish comedian, we see a S. Silverman type.
She btw, went to Miami Beach and intimidated the seniors into
NOT voting for McCain..threatening them with being abandoned by
their children and grandchildren. Florida went for Obama, the guy
who visited first an Arab city, apologizing for our being in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and freeing the Muslims in Kosovo (while
bombing the Greek Orthodox Christians in Serbia).
Funny, by the Greek Orthodox still like US, while the Muslims, well,
you know.
Hey guys, Palin said it’s okay for Israel to defend itself, amazing isn’t it.
This was in response to the entire Muslim world, and some European nations ( are you listening Australia), condemning Israel for Operation Cast Lead (a large incursion into Hamastan after 12,000 rockets were fired into Israeli territory, dispite all the pleadings to stop).
Hmmmmm, I wonder what if, what if, San Diego were hit with
12,000 rockets, would a US operation ( marines in San Diego), to stop it be condemned by a Goldstone? How would the UN vote?
Sarah Palin should have been the VP of our country. She has more
testerosterone than all the Democrats combined and would have
stopped Iran’s enrichment program 1 year ago. My guess, using our
3 battleship groups in the Gulf to take out their 31 sites and freeing
50m Iranians from tyranny. She believes in less taxes and less government. I second that. (Do we want the IRS to visit us if
we don’t join Obamacare, with their powers to levy, file tax liens
and seize property?)
Anyone read today’s LA Times? There is an article about a media
person there who was arrested..due to his criticism of the Iranian
regime and some common practices.
Hey Obama, where are you?
Next time around, maybe I can convince my fellow Israelites to
vote Republican, especially if Sarah is on the ticket. Not Sarah
Silverman however.
Sarah Palin is a very attractive woman that i’m sure any normal man has given the thought to.
Shes smart too.
But the country will never elect a sharp good looking woman into the white house because weve already shown the world how diverse and tolerant we can be by electing a black man, no matter how useless he is.
Not til the world starts accusing America of being mysogynist racist again will we see a wman in office, and it wont be a conservative because everyone knows the left elects to make statements and not to achieve results
LOL! Find a woman with something substantial under her swept-bangs hair, and she can win elections just fine. But you’ll never fool all of the people with a fool.
JMJ
” But you’ll never fool all of the people with a fool”
yeah, but you can fool enough of them with Obama, which so far has been the most foolish and naive president i’ve ever seen. Wasnt it a liberal, Townsend, who wrote “Wont get fooled again”?
If you’re deathly afraid of the cold, make sure you come to Minnesota this SUMMER to speak at Republican rallies. Remember, even though we are a blue state, we are also the home of Congresswoman Michele Bachman and Congressman John Kline.