Posted on 08/13/2011 9:19:12 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
With most of the conservative presidential field in Iowa today, Eureka residents were surprised to find Sarah Palin touring the Eureka College
The bus rolled up around 4:30 Saturday afternoon. It was an unannounced stop on the "One Nation" bus tour of America.
Getting off to tour the college campus that Ronald Reagan called home was Sarah Palin, her husband Todd, and her daughter Piper.
With none of the security usually surrounding a major political figure, Palin greeted everyone she saw.
Then it was time for a tour of the Ronald Reagan Museum in the college's Donald B. Cerf center.
The Palins looked at a roomful of Reagan memorabilia ,led by the college's Dr. Brian Sajko. Palin listened to stories of Reagan's college experience, and was visibly moved by a video of president Reagan hearing his college alma mater.
After touring the Reagan Peace Garden, the former governor, accompanied by local congressman Aaron Schock, explained her visit.
(Excerpt) Read more at centralillinoisnewscenter.com ...
Be patient my friend. As they say, keep your powder dry. When the Yee Hah is soounded, then come a runing. There is plenty of time. Let BO continue to smell up the place on his own.The herd will thin itself out all by them selves.
Unleash the whoop @ass.
I have so little patience. I like to get busy and get it done.
Just remember, we’re running a marathon here, not a sprint race. Gotta pace yourself; 15 months to the presidential election.
I hope that she just said that to keep everyone in mystery as to the most likely time of her announcement. I'd really like to see her get this thing rolling by early September. Folks are getting mighty anxious.
Still, it's her call, and I trust her instincts on this. She's shown that she's got remarkable political senses.
I know. I am just impatient.
There’s still plenty of time. The herd is being culled, Mitch Daniels and Pawlenty are gone, with more to follow very soon. Save your ammo for maximum effect and get involved in the ground work now. We need grunts and NCO’s.
Time for all of us to show the same courage and conviction she’s shown through the continued vile onslaught against her and her family.
Don’t know about anyone else but my p*$$-off meter pegged three years ago and I’m just itching like a starving wolf on a chain, but there’s time enough.
Keep this schedule in mind.
2012 Primary Schedule
Note: Some of these dates are tentative as some states are will messing with their primary dates to jockey for a superior position.
Monday, January 16, 2012: Iowa caucuses
Tuesday, January 24: New Hampshire
Saturday, January 28: Nevada caucuses, South Carolina
Tuesday, January 31: Florida
Tuesday, February 7 (Super Tuesday): Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Montana Republican caucuses, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah
Saturday, February 11: Louisiana
Tuesday, February 14: Maryland
Tuesday, February 21: Hawaii Republican caucuses, Wisconsin
Tuesday, February 28: Arizona, Michigan
Tuesday, March 6: Minnesota caucuses, Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Virginia
Tuesday, March 13: Mississippi
Tuesday, March 20: Colorado caucuses, Illinois
Tuesday, April 24: Pennsylvania
Tuesday, May 8: Indiana, North Carolina and West Virginia
Tuesday, May 15: Nebraska, Oregon
Tuesday, May 22: Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky
Tuesday, June 5: Montana, New Mexico and South Dakota
More information on the 2012 Republican Primary schedule and the changes which will happen to the 2012 schedule:
KANSAS CITY, MO. ? The Republican National Committee adopted a new schedule for the 2012 presidential primaries Friday, agreeing to a plan worked out in concert with Democrats and designed to delay the start of the campaign season.
The proposal, drafted by a special RNC panel, gained approval from more than the necessary two-thirds of the committee’s 168 members.
Party leaders hailed the vote as a historic change in the presidential selection process, one that would avoid the development of a single national primary in which states choose to hold their nominating contests on the same day.
The new schedule is designed to make it difficult for a candidate to rack up an insurmountable number of delegates early in the process, forcing candidates to campaign across the country.
Under the new schedule, no state would hold a primary or caucus before the first Tuesday in February 2012, in attempt to avoid a repetition of 2008, when the Iowa caucuses were held Jan. 3.
Iowa and New Hampshire would retain their status as the nation’s first contests, held in February, joined by South Carolina and Nevada.
Other contests would generally be held in April or later, although states would have the option of holding votes in March, provided convention delegates chosen at those elections were awarded to candidates in proportion to the percentage of the vote they received, rather than in a winner-take-all system.
Time for all of us to show the same courage and conviction shes shown through the continued vile onslaught against her and her family.
I'm with you.
I've been a bit inactive in local Tea Party activities since moving my family in February, but we're pretty settled in now, and with the timing being what it is, it looks like it's time for me to roll up my sleeves again. I think I'll contact the local O4P office and sign up.
As to the 2012 Primary Schedule, you're showing Iowa and New Hampshire holding their votes in mid January, while the blurb below says that the RNC and DNC have agreed to move the starting date back to early February. That's a bit confusing. Any help on that?
There's a note at the top that says some dates are tentative. What I took to be most important was the start date agreement, which checked the idiotic "me first race" battle. BTW the source was the WAPO, for such stuff as affects both parties it's okay, but I'll keeping checking other sources as well.
Being in MD the effective groundwork opportunities get smaller day by day as the Fed workers and Fed contractor count continues to grow, so I'll be mostly trying to raise $ and supporting conservative candidates downticket in battleground states and districts. My $ continue to go to SarahPac in the mean time.
Maybe once in a lifetime will a person experience what we are! When has there ever been such a spontaneous and enthusiastic response by the everyday hard-working people of America to one person. She is not an elitist. She is not arrogant, proud, condescending, typical politician which are a dime a dozen. She is one of us!
We are in the midst of a historical event. A political revival! The hard-working everyday people are waking up. We're watching our beloved nation crumble at our feet because of self-centered, self seeking, self loving politicians.
Turn your plows into swords, (spiritually speaking) grab your helmet and your shield. Let us rise up and go forth. I hear the sound of a mighty army marching as to war. Sarah Palin will not have to do the typical down and dirty political ploys! This is God!
We are at a cross world! America must decide! Choose you today the good or the evil? Righteousness or wickedness? Freedom as our forefathers experienced it, or slavery as socialism and communism would have it. Self-governance or government control? What will it be?
Let us rise up in the name of freedom and go forth! Sarah Palin is not the answer, she is simply the instrument that God is using to give us a choice. Choose Well, it may be our last choice!
I know it's shallow to make judgments based on appearance, and I'll learn more about him as time goes on, but every time I see him, he looks like 'plastic man' to me.
It's not appearances I'm reacting to. It's his vibe. He emanates personal flows that I associate with insincerity or sneakiness. He just doesn't come off as a sincere person to me. I always feel as though he's trying to convince me of something, or like he's a too-slick salesman trying to hard sell me.
I've had excellent 'radar' my whole life, and have always been able to read people. I don't like what I read on Perry.
*rolls eyes* The book signing was for BRISTOL's book, not Sarah's. It was only fair for Bristol that if someone wanted their copy of Sarah's book signed, while she was there, they should have to buy one of Bristol's as well. There was no extortion; they didn't have to be there, or get their books signed. Out of simple courtesy, they SHOULD have bought one of Bristol's, if they presented themselves in line to have Sarah sign hers for them.
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