Are More Palin policy speeches in the cards? 'Absolutely,' she says

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CNN Producer Peter Hamby caught up with Sarah Palin in New Orleans after her well-received speech at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Hamby only had time to ask the former Alaska governor a couple of questions before aides ushered her into an SUV waiting to take her to the airport. Hamby inquired of the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate whether she would be delivering more policy addresses in the future:

"Absolutely," Palin told CNN in a brief interview outside her New Orleans hotel on Friday. "The more of that, the better."

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Palin, emerging from the Windsor Court Hotel wearing a zip-up NASA sweater over her suit, told CNN she had a "blast" addressing the conference and promised to continue with a policy-oriented message.

"It was fun to talk to people of something of substance, like energy, that is so appreciated by these folks because they know that unless we have this energy independence, we will not be prosperous, we will not be secure," she said. "That's what I wanted to concentrate on today."

The next major appearance on Gov. Palin's calendar is a Tea Party in Boston Wednesday of next week.

- JP