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Palin did travel to Washington for the recent Alfalfa Club dinner of alleged DC elites (taking an overnight charter to avoid missing a day from state work) where she talked up Alan Greenspan and others, apparently impressing some longtime Republicans like Fred Malek.

And she also took the occasion to talk up Alaska's new planned pipeline with fellow dinner guest Barack Obama.

But with a re-election campaign looming next year, Palin turned down a blizzard of media interview requests to play down her Alaska absence. She's also decided against traveling back to Washington for the upcoming CPAC meeting, but will address the conservative faithful via a videotape, which they do have now up in Alaska ever since electricity came in the other day.