Correspondent
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has her issues with how journalists treated her during her 2008 vice presidential bid, has accepted an invitation to be a headliner at The Gridiron Club winter dinner -- a gathering of an exclusive group of Washington reporters.
Palin, a potential 2012 presidential contender, is on book tour to promote her memoir,
"Going Rogue: An American Life."
The program should be as tasty as the sirloin at the Dec. 5 dinner. Palin will be the Republican speaker and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, will represent the Democrats. A just published biography of Frank is titled,
"Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman."
I am a member of the club and I remember the winter 2004 dinner, when two men who ended up in the 2008 presidential contests were the headliners: Sen.-elect Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who sang. Obama joked then how everything changed for him after he key-noted the Democratic convention and became an instant national star.
Said the future president back at the 2004 Winter Gridiron Dinner, "It's like I was shot out of a cannon. I am so overexposed, I make Paris Hilton look like a recluse."