No matter how you try to rationalize it... they didn’t fit together because they NEVER had the same audience.
LLS
My comment was solely a bit of trivia and was never intended to be a political commentary on Sarah Palin speaking or not speaking at the convention. I apologize if I left that impression.
As for your statement 'they NEVER had the same audience," you couldn't be more true with respect to the Hendrix/Monkee's trivia.
Hendrix quit opening for the Monkees in the middle of his contract because the audience wasn't a Hendrix audience. He'd come out and play Purple Haze as the audience of teenieboppers screamed "We want Davey!"