[Guest post by DRJ]

USA Today’s Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page is twittering from tonight’s Gridiron Dinner in Washington, D.C. Sarah Palin is the first speaker and she will be followed by Barney Frank. Here are Page’s first tweets from Palin’s speech:

#palin said if GOP ticket had won last year, she would be veep and Biden would be “selling his book, Going Rogaine.”

#palin at #gridiron: said she was addressing “leading journalists and intellectuals, or as I put it, a death panel.”

#palin said “sometimes you’ve got to trust your instincts and when you don’t, you end up in places like this.”

Patterico has Part II here.

— DRJ