Sarah Palin won't speak at 2012 GOP convention

John McCain stands with onstage at a campaign rally August 29, 2008, in Dayton, Ohio. / Getty Images

(AP) WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin says she won't speak at the Republican National Convention later this month in Tampa, Fla.

The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee says she's excited to hear from this year's candidates.

Palin says in a statement that she supports Mitt Romney and his running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, and will focus on grassroots efforts to help get the pair elected.

She says everything she said at the 2008 convention still holds true — including her prediction that President Obama would set out to fundamentally transform the country.

Palin didn't say whether she will attend the convention, where Romney will officially accept the Republican nomination for president.

Democrats will hold their convention in early September in Charlotte, N.C.

[gunndee3]

The Republicans won in a landslide in 2010. Not much has changed since then in terms of how people feel about President Obama and progressives. The only thing that has changed in the last two years is the media. It is now promoting Obama even more strongly than it did in 2010. I don't think it'll matter though. The economy stinks and unemployment is above 8% (double that if long-term unemployed are included). Just blame Bush and the Tea Party doesn't work. Look at Wisconsin. The governor's recall didn't work, despite pollsters who said it was a lock. As for Palin not speaking at the convention, no one cares one way or the other anymore. The media can focus on her, but the voters have moved on and won't be affected by more Palin-bashing. She's not a focal point no matter how much the media would like her to be. Meanwhile, Obama has now set a presidential record for number of days in the first term term spent campaigning out of town.

[JV1970]

There's one thing that would be good karma for you liberals that are always spouting your idiotic remarks about Palin is that after Romney wins the election and is sworn in office, that he would appoint her to an office in his cabinet! That would REALLY burn you up and the sweet thing about it is that there would be nothing you could do about it!

[Lindag20]

Sarah in a cabinet post??? Which one, the Department of Stupidity??? HAHAHAHA!!!!

[JV1970]

You two can laugh now but on election night I'll be the one who's laughing! You'll be the ones crying and screaming and throwing a tantrum! You'll scream even louder if what I spoke about comes true!

[levelheadedtoo]

Do you think Mitt fired Sarah face to face or in a "tweet".

It looks like the extreme right is running the show and pulling Mitt's strings. I guess that back alley meeting with Rupert Murdoch must have been about marching orders.

Reserve a copy of "Atlas Shrugged" while your library is still open.

[expatriate2]

All the GOP can do at this time is find candidates whose careers will not be overly damaged by a defeat in November. That's what they did the last time.

[stupa5]

Sarah Palin will have the last cry on all of the rightwing revanualist commies, fleabaggers misfits, weirdos, sexual deviants, baby killers and the other miscreants in the Repub party come the day after the election.
Cry Sarah!

[Former_Marine_Sgt]

Wow. Even the republicans won't touch Palin any longer.

Amazing.

[Lindag20]

Since the Republicans are running two rich white preppy types, they didn't want any trailer trash speaking at their convention. Sarah's their worst nightmare, poor white trash with money. LMAO.

[WHAT-IS-HE-SMOKING]

WHO CARES!!!

[FormerUSMCSergeant]

Considering her conduct, she probably assumed she wouldn't get an invitation to speak anyway and sought to pre-empt the insult.....

[AOCGUY]

So we have gone from getting news that isn't to getting news about what wont happen. Must have been a slow news week.

[AOCGUY]

On another breaking news item the U.S. won't be invading Switzerland this week.