“In a recent slickly-produced video producer by Team Palin that chronicles her bus tour of Iowa, Palin shakes hands with a girl in an “Americans for Rick Perry” T-shirt and then poses for a photo with the girl and her fellow Perry supporters.
“Given the elaborate editing that went into this production, is it likely that Palin would have approved a visual nod to Perry as a mere coincidence?” asks blogger Robert Stacy McCain, a keen-eyed Palin watcher. “I don’t think so.”
Indeed, Republican governors tell me that while Palin and Perry attended meetings as fellow governors from 2007 to 2009, they clearly bonded. “As executives of the two biggest energy-producing states in the country they had a lot in common and were simpatico on issues,” one governor told me last week. “You could also say they are both larger-than-life personalities who no doubt learned from each other in the publicity department.”
Interesting.
Since Paul Harvey is no longer with us, I guess I'll have to add "the rest of the story".
At that last Republican governors' conference in 2009 Palin was the featured guest and attendees and media had been promised an extended question and answer session (~15 minutes) with Palin. However, after only about 4 minutes Rick Perry stepped in and shut down the session. It was rudely done and video of the scene shows Palin was obviously annoyed, as were the waiting questioners.
When you connect the dots it's evident that Perry has mostly used Palin for his own benefit, while his reciprocation has been almost non-existent.