The Wasilla Wingnut went to Asia and spoke to an audience consisting of money managers from Europe and Asia. It goes without saying that this particular group is more inclined to big "C" Conservatism than the societies they represent.
She apparently got a mostly polite and enthusiastic reception by most preliminary accounts and was speaking off notes, which may have cut down on the major verbal gaffes and ignorantly tortured grammar that she's known for (and will come out more in the coming hours and days).
I did, however, note that the reports indicated a major shift in what counts as her thoughts.
Sarah the Campaigner, Fall 2008:
http://nymag.com/...
Last night Alaska governor Sarah Palin sat down with home-team pitcher Sean Hannity to exchange lobs over energy and economic policy. The buttoned-up church lady from her interview with ABC's Charles Gibson was nowhere to be found. The GOP vice-presidential candidate looked, and sounded, more comfortable, literally letting her hair down and speaking in a more calm and controlled tone. Hannity asked smart questions about the economy and about drilling in Alaska, but framed many of them in negative terms about Obama, setting her up well to deliver her talking points. She told of how she asked her daughters to vote on whether she should run for V.P., and "they voted unanimously," and she backed up McCain's statement that the "fundamentals" of the American economy are strong. Obama's criticism of this was "an unfair attack on the verbage [sic] Senator McCain used," she said, adding: "Certainly it is a mess, though. The economy is a mess."
Most interesting to us was when Hannity asked Palin who was to blame for this week's serious world financial troubles. "I think the corruption on Wall Street, that's to blame," she said.
Sarah the Potential GOP 2012 Nominee, plagiarizing the idiot lying fuck who I hope is burning in the everlasting hell he deserves Ronald*spit*Wilson*spit*Reagan*spitspitspit*:
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/...
Sarah Palin told an audience of Hong Kong bankers that government regulation helped cause the financial meltdown and tax cuts and less interference are the solution to the economic mess.
In her first paid public speech outside of North America, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate said Washington is the problem, not the solution.
"We got into this mess because of government interference in the first place," Palin said Wednesday at a conference sponsored by investment firm CLSA Asia Pacific Markets. "We're not interested in government fixes, we're interested in freedom."