Posted on 06/04/2011 7:38:40 AM PDT by kristinn
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Reporters were kept in the dark about Palin's whereabouts during her "One Nation" bus tour and were forced to depend on sources or tips from park rangers to figure out which historical site the former Alaska governor might appear at next.
Her strategy is unlikely to change as the patriotism-themed tour makes its way through the Midwest, West and South later this month.
But once reporters tracked her down, Palin was eager to engage. At stop after stop after stop, she answered questions on everything from energy subsidies to the debt ceiling to her favorite brand of designer jeans.
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Putting aside her chaotic appearance at the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally on Sunday, an event that generated little news other than pictures of a black-clad Palin riding on the back of a Harley, she took questions from the media 17 different times over the course of four days.
That's a remarkable number for any national political figure, particularly for one locked into an exclusive television contract that normally precludes her from talking to other media outlets. Some of the week's interactions were clearly more productive than others.
Her visits to Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia generated a crush of media so large that her daughter Piper was body-blocking reporters and swatting microphones out of her mother's face. No one had a chance to ask a serious question.
And she botched details of Paul Revere's midnight ride while speaking to the press at a stop along Boston's Freedom Trail.
But Palin seemed at ease at most events, lingering outside her bus or SUV to answer every possible question despite Piper's best efforts to drag her away and helpless shouts of "Last question!" from her aides.
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Chaotic is some kinda media word they use around Palin. I’m not sure yet what they mean - although it’s obviously not good. I saw the Rolling Thunder stuff and it didn’t look “chaotic” to me. She just doesn’t alert the msm about her whereabouts. They smear her in the weirdest ways.
>>Genius at work? Just maybe?<<
Okay, let’s not get carried away here and do to the word “genius” what Democrats did to that once-fine word “liberal.”
Palin has gotten where she has because she has more commonsense in her little finger than most politicians do in their brains, and because she’s developed a tough skin and a work ethic.
The commonsense guides her through the minefields of politics and the tough skin keeps her in the game in spite of constant attacks by both liberals and Republicans who would rather see the DC game play on as it always has.
Her work ethic keeps her pushing ahead toward the next goal. The big question is: “What’s her next goal?” My money is on the Presidency.
The “geniuses” employed by Romney have convinced him that it’s possible to support Romneycare while calling for the repeal of Obamacare. They tell him global warming is real and caused by humans, and that you must, in any case, support ethanol subsidies in Iowa.
Palin’s commonsense tells her both Romneycare and Obamacare are government monstrosities that will lead to no good end, and that the global warming crowd is a bunch of leftists looking to build more office buildings in DC. That same commonsense tells her that while it might cost her some votes in Iowa, it’s inconsistent to distrust the global warming crowd but then support one of their biggest initiatives. I’ll take commonsense any day in a leader. The geniuses rarely have any.
I’m not talking about self-proclaimed geniuses. My uncles were real rocket scientists, capable of virtuoso performance in music, math, etc. Yet they had tons of common sense, and were really great people. Go figure.
And it couldn't happen to a more appropriate bunch. The only thing better would be another four-letter word starting with "H" and ending with "L". Though now that I think about it, that second place is where they will be when Palin is elected in 2012.
Just out of curiosity, not as a challenge, I wonder by what do you consider her Dad to be a genius?
And I’ve no trouble calling her a political genius, at least.
Just to irritate the Palin haters, the caption on the 3rd photo down should be “The Rill Dill.” ONE MORE thing about Sarah that really exacerbates the MLM’s already severe Redbutt is the way she prounounces certain words!
You left out this part; and when the serious candidates gather for battle plans, she can fetch coffee, and maybe whip out a batch of cookies.
Isn’t that Rep. Allen West? He certainly looks like a happy man, as if his smile in this picture is what he’s really like.
I thought that was what the name-tag said, but things like that are hard on the bifocal’d.
No problem, I have to take my bifocals off to see the computer or to read.
I’ve also got afternoon sun from the windows behind me reflecting on the screen. I could put on makeup using this view of my face, but seeing what’s on the monitor is difficult.
That’s cuz your knowledge of history is botched.
And without a Teleprompter in sight.
I happen to love Sarah Palin, and I am on no high horse.
You can search probably 100 posts where I’ve extolled her virtues, and how highly I think of her SINCE THE BEGINNING over 2 1/2 years ago. Like most of us, I’ve found myself in the position of arguing with people who still think she’s “stupid”. She is anything but. I just don’t want to see the tables turn against her, because, you KNOW the MSM
, their talking points, Mantras, and memes are going to use everything they can, the way they always have, against her.
She NO DOUBT is the ONLY candidate prospective or announced who has enormous popular appeal not comparable with any of the others-—SHOULD SHE RUN it’s going to be the same old, same old with the MSM (and NO, I don’t care what they say about her-—the more they;ve attacked her in the past, the more her popularity grows)-—but if she DOESN’T run, everything I said in the previous post withers-—she could still function as a kingmaker for Cain, DeMint, whomever....
She could still be the Veep on the ticket. And nobody seems to be factoring into the equation that it might not be Obama
anyone on our side is running against—Obama could well get a challenge from the “seasoned” Hillary Clinton, whose viability might be strenghtened by how far she can effectively distance herself from what is bound to be a catastrophic foreign policy starting with the situation in Egypt. Listen-—I’ve been ready to vote for her from Day One, and did that, unfortunately when I held my nose and voted for McCain. I’m ready to vote for her now, if she runs.I’d just like to see her take more ammo away from this
rancid MSM .
Yeah, Palin did a great job being someone else’s cheerleader and helping them clean out the corrupt Good Ole Boys in Alaska. /s
She’s not a cheerleader, she’s a leader. If you don’t understand that, you never understood Palin.
I support Sarah Palin in whatever endeavor she pursues!
So do I!
Great!!
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