Sarah Palin Releases New Campaign Something Ad: ‘Thank You Iowa!’

A week after the Iowa State Fair and Ames Straw Poll, Sarah Palin has released a new campaign something ad commemorating that stop on her campaign something bus tour. The video, entitled “Iowa Passion,” is a typically classy affair from the former Governor. Looking a bit like the opening credits to Friday Night Lights, it shows the beautiful sights and sounds of the fair intercut with media figures and Iowans speaking rapturously about Palin. All in all, it’s an impressive bit of campaigning somethinging.

There’s one moment that’s specifically telling in showing just how clever Palin and her team is. They know she needs to prove she’s a real American by devouring some of the many less-than-healthy foods being served at the fair. However, she’s learned from the mistakes of Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry not to show the actual mastication. Instead, we get a quick clip of a deep fried butter stick stand, hear an unseen voice say, “You’re not really going to eat that, are you?,” and see Palin respond with a hearty “Heck yeah” before cutting to something else.

Down home credentials proven. Image protected. Now that’s the work of an ingenious campaign something staff.

Watch the ad from Palin’s PAC below:

(h/t Washington Post)

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