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Cult Watch Title: Confusion on Day 2 of Palin bus tour 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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Central planning is not a concern when Sarah's in charge.
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