Video: Palin Stumps For Rick Perry

The first portion of the video below with the rest here. I've been wondering if Perry is considering a 2012 run. I don't know enough about him to guess at that, or how he might do. But if he, or someone similarly situated ran, I wouldn't be surprised to see Palin content to play something of a supporting/power broker role. She almost looks more comfortable in that at times. While her appeal is strong, it's also somewhat limited to the base. That might change. She does seem to have a staff of advisers working for her now. That, and time, may broaden her appeal. I guess we'll see.

Comments

[kelly]

"While her appeal is strong, it's also somewhat limited to the base."
Like Obama four years ago.

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kelly: ergo we don't want another Obama.

But we want an anti-Obama, an anti-Ivy Leaguer, an anti-Washingtonian. By Jove, we want Sarah Palin.

[Flag Gazer]

Not all conservatives want Sarah Palin --- some of us would like the nightmare to end. Let the attacks begin.

[unseen]

Yeah that is why Palin was the keynote speaker at the rally. Perry, the man she is endorsing spoke first and gave the prime speaking spot to Palin. The headliner of the event, the main speaker, the person a majority came to hear.

yeap this says supporting role in spades. give me a break. Perry the Gov of a state the size of Texas took a backseat position at this rally. and this tells Dan that Palin likes a "supporting role"? k gotcha'

[bishop]

Hutchinson hasn't figured her part of the primary is over, and the fight is now with Medina, that's why Sarah will play a larger role

[Dan Riehl]

Unseen, must you be such a doofus? I don't care what spot Perry put her in. The Palin at the event above is not the Palin that was at Nashville. She looks far more comfortable above pushing someone else, as opposed to trying to play the statesman as she was doing in TN with all the nat sec talk. My point was that she may not even want to run, as she may enjoy the power broker role, as opposed to the candidare role.

The slobbering idiots who see every mention of Palin that doesn't say, "Golly, gosh darn, she's my nummer 1 gal" as criticism are every bit as stupid as the O-bots and Paul-tards are.

[unseen]

Dan,

wise up. they were two different type of events. Palin always looks better on the campaign stump. It matter not if she is campaigning for someone else like McCain or Perry or herself when she ran for Gov in AK.

Palin likes the campaign events better then speeches she said as much in her book. she says it has to do with the different type of interaction she has with the people at the different events

And you know better then most that the positon, place and length of speeches in any campaign event have alot of importance to the politicans involved. The fact that Perry was willing to give that prime speaking slot to Palin tells you all you need to know as far as Palin goes. A person that would "enjoy a power broker role as opposed to a cnadidate role" would have turned that slot down and instead insisted that Gov Perry take the slot so that she could showcase him more and not be the center of attention herself.

[Kentucky Colonel]

Just wondering, Riehl. Have you read her book?

[david r]

I like Palin, but not for my President. She should have written down on her palm: “Rick Perry is a jerk. Don’t support him.” If Perry is the kind of politician she supports, she has lost my vote forever.

[Scott]

I feel the same, david r. Perry is the type of Republican that thinks its okay for the government to give away money to businesses. While he tries to claim to be a tea partier, he's the kind of Republican tea partiers should be getting rid of.

It makes sense, too. Perry managed to remain a Democrat until he was 38 or 39, through Reagan's presidency, and he even campaigned for Al Gore for president (not in 2000). He changed, I suspect, because he knew Texas was going Republican and if he wanted be elected he'd need to be one.

Palin missed a real opportunity here to side with Medina, the true small government tea partier. I understand Perry and Palin may be friends or something, but that's not rally an excuse. I lost some respect for her.

And I'm not sure if it's related, but listening to her voice during her speech for Perry annoyed the crap out of me. She sounds like she's talking to children a lot of the time.

[Jimbo]

So it seems the tea baggers want an uneducated, god exploiting, quitter grifter to be the POTUS? It's not enough that Bush ruined the country. You want to bring out someone even dumber than Bush? It seems to me that the men here who support Palin probably wish their wives would 'wink' at them more often so they could feel the starbursts (the wedding night was a long time ago, huh?). The women here seem to believe that Palin speaks for them (soccer mom's). Palin is a whore. A political whore. If you listen to Palin, America is done for. Remember: She can see Russia from her house, and she reads EVERYTHING. Please folks, you can do better than this, can't you? Guess not...

[Huey]

Jimbo: It's possible to transmit more liberal memes in fewer words, but, man, it would be hard, leaving absolutely no room for any individual thought, and you did say "please folks."

Otherwise, an almost perfect rant, requiring the smallest amount of active brain cells.

[Yehudit]

Tina Fey said "I can see Russia from my house." Sarah Palin said, "You can see Russia from Alaska" (i.e. in the Aleutian Islands where they ARE something like 20 miles apart) which was a way of illustrating the fact that Alaska is the only state which borders 2 different nations, which had implications for the purvue of her governorship that other governors don't have Also "grifter" does have a specific meaning and is obviously inaccurate here. Everything else you said is opinion.

PS I am not a soccer mom or a hockey mom. Not sure I want her to be president. But I admire her and appreciate the role she's playing.

[Darth Venomous]

"Otherwise, an almost perfect rant, requiring the smallest amount of active brain cells."

Bimbo's got active brain cells? :-O