tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920044911439632666.post98918688894969664..comments2023-09-20T09:10:09.096-05:00Comments on Rick vs. Kay: Sarah Palin and Rick... impressive spectacle...Texas-Based Media Junkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08030975133642699730noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8920044911439632666.post-86357754691639217682010-02-08T03:07:28.412-06:002010-02-08T03:07:28.412-06:00The reason for the timing was Palin is in Houston ...The reason for the timing was Palin is in Houston for a paid speech Monday morning. On Friday night she was in Salina Kansas where a sold out venue of over 6,000 people paid $25 to hear her speak at the Chamber of Commerce dinner. Saturday night she was in Nashville for the Tea Party speech. On Monday morning she speaks at a Houston motivational seminar at 9:00 am (Rudy Guliani and Colin Powell speak there later in the day). Following her speech she immediately jets to Redding California where she will speak at 3:00PM Monday afternoon with a second speech at 7:00PM. Both speeches are sold out with over 2,500 at each speech paying up to $100 to hear her. The promoter had to expand it to two speeches because of the unbelievable demand. The week after she is attending the Daytona 500 NASCAR race and then the next day speaking at the Daytona Florida Chamber of Commerce where they have had to relocate the dinner to an arena to accommodate the demand. Then, she is speaking in Little Rock Arkansas for the state GOP fundraiser in a 15,000 seat arena. Given her speaking calendar, together with her FOX work, it is unlikely she can make it back to Texas before the March 2nd election date. Hence today was the only day she could stump for Perry.<br /><br />They probably arranged the event as they did because they knew she would draw a huge crowd for Perry - more than he could ever draw by himself. The presence of all the cameras probably indicates the Perry camp was shoting a lot of video from many different angles with the big crowd and the cheering fans to use in future campaign ads and videos.<br /><br />You will note that they did not allow people to bring their Palin signs into the rally and passed out "homemade" looking Perry only signs to the crowd. <br /><br />As for a future national ticket - forget about it. Although I don't think she will ever run for office again, it's President or nothing for Palin. She will never accept another VP nomination. And if she is on the top of the ticket she will want a moderate to run with her to balance the ticket. However, by 2012 Perry might have morphed himself back into a moderate!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com