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To: humblegunner; All
Rolling thunder loves Sarah Palin.

And are quite happy she is going to be there.

That's why they invited her.

Rolling Thunder Riders Praise Sarah Palin's Participation in Rally

May 27, 2011 1:29 PM

For the riders of Rolling Thunder, the news that Sarah Palin will participate in their national rally on Sunday came as a surprise. A welcome surprise.

“I think that’s wonderful,” said Gerri Tramel, president of one of Rolling Thunder’s Tennessee chapters. “Anybody that’s involved -- Republican, Democrat, independent, whatever -- if you’re involved with our veterans, I think that’s wonderful. Not just Sarah Palin -- anyone that’s a politician.”

For more than 20 years, as many as half a million motorcycle riders from across the country have descended on Washington, D.C., during Memorial Day weekend to raise awareness about prisoners of war and those missing in action. Rolling Thunder announced Thursday that Palin accepted an invitation to participate in its May 29 rally. She’ll kick off her One Nation Tour the same day, a bus trip along the northeast coast that aims “to educate and energize Americans about our nation's founding principles.”

Asked how Palin came to be involved with the rally, Rolling Thunder spokeswoman Nancy Regg said, “I honestly don’t know.”

“I’m not the person that invited her,” she said. “We send letters to people all the time and invite them. We invited her to ride, she has accepted and she and her husband have both agreed to ride for us.”

I've been around many times with the RT guys, they are fantastic. No way would they have a problem with Palin at ANY of their events. They excorted the TPX buses more than once.
39 posted on 05/27/2011 1:32:30 PM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Syncro
I've been around many times with the RT guys, they are fantastic. No way would they have a problem with Palin at ANY of their events.

I wouldn't have thought so either.

It just seemed to me, upthread, that folks were a bit quick to
slam the bikers and anoint Mrs. Palin as eternally sinless.

That irked me a bit.

45 posted on 05/27/2011 1:37:14 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Syncro; All
In an online interview with CNN, Rolling Thunder President Gary Scheffmeyer left open the possibility Sarah Palin might be asked to speak at the rally:

SNIP

Sarah Palin is scheduled to appear at a Rolling Thunder event on the National Mall. Do you know if she’ll speak there?

She’s not scheduled to speak as of yet. But she and her husband will come to the Pentagon a motorcycle (sic), and they will participate in the demonstration.

SNIP

55 posted on 05/27/2011 1:48:01 PM PDT by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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