Palin's Big Speech

Heather Horn rounds up reaction on the right regarding Palin's role at the Tea Party Convention:

Lonely Conservative writes of being "torn," sympathizing with the Tea Party movement but thinking "all this talk of a third party ... is counterproductive," and likely to lead to Democratic victories. Instead, "I'm hoping the GOP will learn something from the Tea Party movement and behave accordingly." Also, Lonely Conservative isn't nuts about the report of Palin taking a hefty sum for speaking at the event--while a big Palin supporter, the blogger says that being paid $75,000 for the event, as rumors are having it, makes her seem "fake."

Weigel reports that Palin will be sharing the stage with WorldNetDaily's editor:

I was surprised that Sarah Palin, who has twice passed on chances to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, agreed to keynote the National Tea Party Convention. Undoubtedly the Tea Party event has more to offer her financially–tickets for her speech, as I reported last month, are selling for $349. But while CPAC is a well-established event with a filter for extremism, the Tea Party event is an unknown quantity. And right on cue, the conspiracy-minded site WorldNetDaily is joining the program, with Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah getting a plum Friday night speaking slot.