Nile looks to Palin potential – Sean Nicholls & Leesha McKeeny – Sunday Morning Herald

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Forget Barack Obama. The gun-toting, moose stew-fancying former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin may be visiting our shores this year. Fresh from charging $US100,000 to deliver the keynote address at the inaugural National Tea Party Convention in the US earlier this month, Palin is considering an invitation to spruik from our very own Christian Democratic Party to visit before the federal election. ”Yes, we have had discussions with her and there is some interest,” the party’s president, the Reverend Fred Nile, told The Diary. Nile, who stressed the discussions were in their infancy, said the party was attracted by Palin’s strong Christian faith, although he admitted it was cash-strapped and would struggle to raise anywhere near her Tea Party fee.

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