Posted by
Ron Devito on Monday, August 31, 2009 10:27:38 PM
by Gary P. Jackson
Sarah
Palin’s status as a superstar is undeniable. She is incredibly popular
nationwide. According to the latest report from Mike Allen, over at
Politico, Sarah Has almost 1100 invitations to speak at events
nationwide.
This week Sarah will begin accepting invitations to those speaking engagements.
As
we all know, unscrupulous promoters have been inviting Sarah to events
for months, and advertising this, boosting ticket sales, without having
any commitment from Sarah whatsoever.
As
an old drag racing promoter, I know if we pulled stunts like this, the
fans (and the racers themselves) would’ve skinned us alive! Evidently
though, this sort of thing is common in the political world.
What
is aggravating though, is the fact that these promoters get all kinds
of publicity, because of Sarah Palin, and even though they never had
any commitment from the Arctic Fox, their ticket sales soar, and when
Sarah doesn’t show up they try and blame it on her.
Our
policy is to never even talk about speaking gigs unless Sarah herself,
or her spokeswoman Meg Stapleton issues a press release about it.
OK, enough of that!
Basically, if Sarah herself doesn’t promote it, it probably isn’t true, and ain’t happening!
Sarah
has over 950 offers for paid speaking engagements, many of them are six
figure deals. And over 120 politicians have asked her to come and speak
on their behalf. I’m sure they all understand the incredible effect she
had on Senator Saxby Chambliss’ re-election bid, which went from a dead
heat race before Palin came to visit, and turned into a 16 point
blowout after Sarah spent one single day addressing huge crowds on his
behalf.
Sarah had
offers from twenty speaker’s bureaus to represent her and chose the
Washington’s Speakers Bureau. This is the group that represents a
variety of folks from George and Laura Bush to Bob Woodward and Katie
Couric to Alan Greenspan, Colin Powell and Rudy Giuliani.
Sarah
will be doing both paid speaking engagements as well as unpaid speeches
to political and charitable organizations, including groups that
support families with special needs children and those who support the
military and their families.
I
must stress that Sarah has made no commitments whatsoever to any
speaking engagements. My best advice to folks who hear that she is
speaking somewhere, is to check out her Facebook page. Sarah uses Facebook extensively to communicate with the nation.
It’s
also said that Sarah is about 85 percent finished with her book that
will be published by HarperCollins and available in the spring of 2010.
Sarah’s lawyer, Robert
Bennett, has also compiled a workbook about an inch and a half thick
filled with offers for TV and radio shows, and other interesting
business opportunities. Sarah will begin going through this, as well.
Sarah
Palin has some serious jazz. Since she has been so busy behind the
scenes, she has taken to using her Facebook page as a highly effective
communications tool. We all know what she was able to do by typing two
short paragraphs a few weeks ago!
The growth of supporters on her page has been nothing short of phenomenal.
As
I write this Sarah has almost 850,000 people listed as friends on her
page. And thousands are joining daily. To put this into perspective,
here is what the numbers on Facebook look like for those who as touted
as other important Republican politicians:
Mike Huckabee 106,636
Mitt Romney 69,332
Bobby Jindal 67,773
Tim Pawlenty 6,735
>Jeb Bush 2,670
In
the last few weeks Sarah has had more new supporters join her, than all
of the above, combined, have supporters on their pages.
Sarah
is the one Republican who has really mastered using the internet to
gain an audience. And what she says gets results. As we have already
mentioned, she totally changed the debate on national health care when
she spoke of death panels. And when Barack Obama and the state run
media attacked her, she calmly retorted with tons of information about
those involved with Obama, like Dr Death, Dr Ezekiel Emanuel, and
others who would indeed create death panels.
She
also encouraged millions to actually read H.R. 3200, the House bill
that most represents Obamacare, a 1017 page monstrosity that amounts to
the total usurpation of the United States Constitution. And folks have
indeed read this bill by the millions. America is not pleased by what
they read!
We’ve
written a bit about Glenn Beck’s efforts to expose Obama and all of the
illegal and unconstitutional Czars Obama has appointed to powerful
posts. Sarah noted this as well, and on Wednesday of last week asked
all of her Facebook friends to join her in watching Glenn Beck’s Fox
News program.
The
result? Beck’s show gained over one million new viewers over the
previous day, making it the number one news show on cable, beating out
ratings giant Bill O’Reilly. And those viewers stayed with Beck
throughout the rest of the week.
With
the power Sarah Palin has just by posting short notes on Facebook, one
can only imagine the effect she will have on the national debate once
she hits the road and starts really speaking out against Obama and his
tyrannical government!
By God, I almost feel sorry for Obama and his democrat/communist party!