Posted on 12/09/2010 6:44:27 PM PST by Josh Painter
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is heading to Haiti this weekend with evangelist Franklin Graham, a Palin source confirmed to POLITICO.
Palin and Graham will visit a cholera clinic in addition to other stops, as was first reported by CNN.
The Haiti visit was the second foreign trip to surface Thursday. Palin is also planning possible visits next year to Israel and Britain.
The Haiti trip could serve two distinct political purposes for Palin.
First, it provides an opportunity to expand her image and policy portfolio beyond her limited image as a darling of the tea party movement.
Second, she'll be able to better establish her claim to evangelical voters if she chooses to seek the Republican presidential nomination. Evangelicals overwhelmingly supported former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, one of Palin's potential 2012 rivals, in the early 2008 GOP primaries and caucuses.
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Keep in mind that Bill Clinton is ostensibly heading up the Haiti relief effort. He hasn’t done squat and worse, things have deteriorated on his watch. The so-called UN peacekeepers from Nepal brought the cholera according to some reports, the outbreak occurred downstream from their camp. A shift in the MSM cover for the charlie foxtrot that is the relief effort would be another black eye for the _resident.
I am SOOOO stealing that!!!!
This is the right thing to do. And the Christian thing to do.
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