Rolling Thunder has evolved to be not only a demonstration for the POW/MIA issue but also a demonstration of patriotism and respect for soldiers and veterans from all wars. Sarah Palin is launching a nationwide bus tour starting Sunday in Washington, a Palin source has confirmed to POLITICO.
The first stop will be at the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally. Palin will then travel up the East Coast in a trip that will include her first stop in New Hampshire since running as the GOPs vice presidential nominee in 2008.
Palin will also be stopping at other spots of symbolic national significance on the East Coast, including the Civil War battlefields at Gettysburg and Antietam, and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
Palins camp intends to post more information on the trip on the recently revamped website for her political action committee. There were few details on the SarahPAC site following the announcement.
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, a statement on the site reads. The tour will originate in Washington DC and will proceed north up the east coast. More information will follow.
Palin promised in a statement on her site that the tour would celebrate the good things that bring Americans together; those things that will give us the needed strength to meet the heady challenges ahead.
Ive said many times that America doesnt need a fundamental transformation, instead we need a restoration of all that is good and strong and free in America! Palin added. So, together lets prepare ourselves for the days ahead by reminding ourselves who we are and what Americans stand for. Well celebrate the meaning of our nations blueprints, our Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, which are the threads that weave our past into the fabric necessary for the survival of American exceptionalism.
A map showing Palins stops was blank when her website posted information on the tour. The site did, however, point her supporters to a donation page.
In addition to the tour, Palins camp recently announced a two-hour promotional film about the former governor set to premiere in Iowa next month.