Posted on 05/27/2011 6:53:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Here comes the Palin Express:
In a move designed to propel her closer to a presidential run, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will set out on a bus tour of the country on Sunday, making stops at symbolic sites along the way.
“Starting this weekend, Sarah Palin will embark on a ‘One Nation’ tour of historical sites that were key to the formation, survival, and growth of the United States of America,” SarahPAC treasurer Tim Crawford said in a statement to RealClearPolitics. “The tour will originate in Washington, D.C. It will proceed north up the east coast.”
Details were still being hammered out on Thursday, but sources indicated to RCP that the bus tour is expected to last several weeks and will be divided into separate geographical stretches for logistical reasons.
SarahPAC showcases the bus being readied.
We know what’s going to happen, right? Palin will attract huge crowds. She almost always attracts huge crowds: 8,000 on Super Bowl Sunday in Cypress, Texas; 6,000 to 9,000 at a Tea Party rally in Madison, Wisconsin, big crowds in Searchlight, Nevada; Columbia, South Carolina; Vienna, Virginia, etc.
I argued, in relation to Mitch Daniels, that if a potential presidential candidate looks for reasons to not run, he’ll always find them. Similarly, if a candidate looks for reasons to run, those can always be found as well.
When Palin discussed the “fire in the belly” on Greta Van Susteren’s show recently, her only hesitation seemed to focus around her family, citing “a couple of practical, pragmatic decisions that have to be made. One is, with a large family, understanding the huge amount of scrutiny and the sacrifices that have to be made on my children’s part, in order to see their momma run for president!”
Is the bus tour designed to remind her of the joys of campaigning, to demonstrate to herself and her family that she can handle the busy schedule of a campaign and her family’s needs? In other words, is this a dress rehearsal before a serious bid? Or is it one last victory lap before an announcement that disappoints her supporters, but puts her family’s immediate needs first?
That's exactly what we need.
I hope she runs..I think the best team would be Palin&Perry..That should make some Dem’s unhappy..Two intelligent people against two idiot..
By the time she is done America could be ready to elect her by acclimation! Go Sarah! Tell it like it is and also like it should be.
“Is the bus tour designed to remind her of the joys of campaigning, to demonstrate to herself and her family that she can handle the busy schedule of a campaign and her family’s needs? In other words, is this a dress rehearsal before a serious bid? Or is it one last victory lap before an announcement that disappoints her supporters, but puts her family’s immediate needs first?”
Try not to think too hard, NR. You have to keep those brain cells moist so you can explain why you are likely going to endorse Mitt Rino again.
Maybe the purpose of the bus tour is exactly what she says it is.
Born February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, ID (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Charles R Heath, born in ID
Sarah Sheeran, born in WI
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Sarah Palin is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN unlike Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama.
Waiting for certain FReepers to absolutely insist she isn’t running. Come on! Tell us she isn’t running. What are you waiting for?
(crickets chirping)
Political rope-a-dope.
Making tons of money without all the work of running for president, and the little fox contract, not running. Just doing the speech and film stuff.
She's put together a pretty full staff/policy team. She's bought a "base of operations" in the lower 48. There's a movie profiling her political career and accomplishments being launched in the early primary/caucus states starting next month that was kept under wraps until a few days ago. She's launching a nationwide bus tour.
How does anybody seriously look at that and truly believe she is not planning on running?
In other words, she has them all upside down and inside out...just as she planned
The spelled his name wrong, it’s Myth, not Mitt.
Right. Because disappointing all of her fans will be so lucrative for her in the long run.
She is running. By your logic (she's in it for the money) she has to, or the gravy train dries up.
“Maybe the purpose of the bus tour is exactly what she says it is.”
And maybe it’s to help her decide whether or not it would be constructive to run.
It is funny to listen to the folks that know it all. Hem Haw blame blame stupid no your stupid.
If you haven’t already seen it, here is another “twist” that might explain this move a bit more clearly in light of all the confusion and speculation it has obviously stirred up. (It makes sense)
Duh, when you have millions in the bank, and a long term contract, nothing dries up.
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