Twenty bucks? It cost a friend of mine $50 to see Air Supply at a local casino (and yes, I am reevaluating our friendship based upon her musical tastes). But $20--what a deal. So how'd they do?

Though the Arkansas Republican Party sold differently priced upper-level and lower-level tickets to the event at the 18,000-seat Verizon Arena, less than half of the seats in the lower bowl were occupied, and the entire upper level was shrouded by black drapes.





Pictured: Sarah Palin at Verizon Arena.

The news wasn't all bad:

The dining tables that had been set up on arena’s floor, however, were full with suckers donors who had contributed $175.

And no Palin diary would be complete without at least one bit of idiocy:

When she was asked what she believed was the number one threat to America today, several audience members shouted, "Obama!" Palin then chimed in as many in the crowd laughed. "See, they said that, I didn’t," she said. "Just you watch now, too, because somebody will be here with their little Twittering thing, and it’s going to be on the Internet any minute now."

The "little Twittering thing"? Does that have something to do with the internets or the Google?