Sarah Palin Gets 1,070+ Invitations

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin this week will begin accepting and rejecting the more than 1,070 invitations she has received for paid speeches and political appearances since she resigned from office. Twenty speakers’ bureaus made offers to represent her. The conservative Republican politico has signed with Washington Speakers Bureau, which represents former U.S. President George and former U.S. First Lady Laura Bush to journalists Bob Woodward and Katie Couric to political and economic figures such as Alan Greenspan, Colin Powell and Rudy Giuliani.

More than 950 requests for speeches have poured in for Palin, and over 120 candidates for office have asked her to appear, including folks running for Senate, House and state Legislature, aides said. Ms. Palin will be doing both paid speeches, which are expected to go for six figures apiece, and unpaid speeches for political and charitable causes, including Christian organizations, groups that support families with special-needs children and military families.

She’s about 85% finished with her book, due out this spring from HarperCollins. Then she’ll begin looking through the inch-and-a-half thick file her lawyer, Robert Barnett, has built of offers for network and cable pundit gigs, documentaries and business opportunities.

Bookeristas respond: Tyrone Davis Jr., a conservative Republican in Clearwater, Fla.: "For a woman who people say is 'dumb', she is getting a lot of attention...and being paid for it too."

Clifton B., a conservative blogger, writes: "As much as the left would love to have us believe that Sarah Palin is irrelevant, especially after stepping down early, the proof says otherwise. I hope Sarah makes a truckload of money on speaking fees (rumored to be six figures per speech) just like Bill Clinton does. She and her family have more than earned it. I further hope that while at the CLSA Investors forum [in Hong Kong, her first reported speech], Palin uses the opportunity to skewer the Obama administration for its ridiculous spend your way out of bankruptcy economic policy. That foolish policy certainly hasn’t received nearly enough attention."