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Title: Confusion on Day 2 of Palin bus tour
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URL Source: http://dyn.politico.com/printstory. ... C4-85F9-4D53-9759-61B0240701D7
Published: May 30, 2011
Author: Andy Barr
Post Date: 2011-05-30 20:07:34 by Skip Intro
Keywords: None
Views: 3447
Comments: 8
Day 2 of Sarah Palin’s bus tour, and the former vice presidential nominee has prompted little more than confusion over exactly what she is up to. Palin started Memorial Day at the National Archives in Washington, but the only reporters who made it to her brief media availability there were those who happened to see tourists posting on Twitter that they had spotted her. Palin went to the Archives after unannounced visits to monuments and other landmarks in the nation’s capital on Sunday afternoon, following a brief ride at the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally. From there, it was to George Washington’s home at Mount Vernon, where reporters following Palin were able only to snap pictures of the former Alaska governor from a distance. Though Fox News captured Palin saying, as she got off the bus at one stop, that she thought a Republican could beat President Barack Obama in next year’s election, she has done little to encourage belief that the trip is a precursor to a 2012 run of her own. “This isn’t a campaign bus,” Palin said, according to reports. “This is a bus to be able to express to America how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested in all that is good about America and to remind ourselves we don’t need to fundamentally transform America, we need to restore what’s good about America.” For supporters and reporters looking for more details, Palin isn’t providing them. Palin’s staff has been unresponsive to reporters’ requests or told them to check the SarahPAC website, which updates with information only after she’s stopped somewhere. CNN reported Monday that some of Palin’s supporters had already started to gather midday at Gettysburg in hopes that she might be on her way. But by then, Palin’s bus was rolling into Mount Vernon, instead. Indeed, Twitter is about the only way to follow the former Alaska governor — unless you’re Fox News host Greta Van Susteren or her husband, John Coale. Van Susteren is traveling with Palin on Monday and is to conduct an interview inside the One Nation tour bus. Coale, who set up Palin’s political action committee in 2009 and serves as an informal adviser, was spotted with the Palin family at Mount Vernon. But even Van Susteren doesn’t seem to know what Palin’s up to next. “My producer, who talked to someone who works with her in order to set up the interview, told me last night that he would not tell her,” Van Susteren posted on her blog Monday. “We were told to check their website for any information they are releasing. He said they don’t want the media following them, and that includes us.” Palin’s bus left Washington headed north along I-95 toward Baltimore and Philadelphia. The former Alaska governor stopped at Fort McHenry along the Baltimore harbor. Palin is expected to stop by the Civil War battlefields at Gettysburg and Antietam, as well as the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. Palin may or may not hit each of those destinations on Monday. It is unclear when she will stop by those sites, or where she’ll head afterward. Palin is expected to head to New Hampshire in the coming days, her first trip to the early primary state since the 2008 campaign. The lack of information is irking many GOP leaders in the states Palin is expected to visit. “I have had no contact. I question the value of the ‘theater’ by some candidates,” Pennsylvania GOP Chairman Rob Gleason told POLITICO. It’s a “rather unconventional style,” Republican strategist Karl Rove said earlier Monday on Fox News. “I bet you a dime to a dollar her visits to those areas are not proceeded by courtesy phone calls to the local Republican Party chairman and request they generate volunteers,” Rove said. “She will announce her schedule and show up.
Poster Comment: The Palin 2011 Dazed and Confused Tour continues along its pointless way.
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#1. To: Skip Intro (#0)
Palin needs a translator.
"Thats because your basically and idiot." Central planning is not a concern when Sarah's in charge.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
I bet she hits a few Olive Garden restaurants along the way.
She is so scared of the lamestream medyuh (sic). Sarah needs her own news channel so she can have one of her own employees cover and interview her. Besides Faux News I mean
It's good to see that Palin hasn't lost her ability to communicate with the common folk.
I've heard of the Talking Mouse, but a Talking Bus?
Geezus...you just can't make her up. She does such a great job of it herself. As for restoring what is "good" she should speak for herself. I've never believed that all that much was "bad". And what is bad, can generally be traced to republican policies...unneeded tax cuts coupled to out of control spending...the Iraq "war"...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." A customer was down there with his family waiting to go into the Archives and Palin not only cut the line but was given roped off access and "private" viewings.
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..."“This is a bus to be able to express to America how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested in all that is good about America and to remind ourselves we don’t need to fundamentally transform America, we need to restore what’s good about America.”
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#2. To: Skip Intro (#0)
The Palin 2011 Dazed and Confused Tour continues along its pointless way.
#3. To: Skip Intro (#0)
#4. To: Skip Intro (#0)
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#5. To: go65 (#1)
#6. To: go65 (#1)
“This is a bus to be able to express to America...
#7. To: Skip Intro (#0)
"This is a bus to be able to express to America how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested in all that is good about America and to remind ourselves we don’t need to fundamentally transform America, we need to restore what’s good about America.”
--GW Bush
#8. To: Skip Intro (#0)
Palin went to the Archives
--GW Bush
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