Hill Buzz brings to my attention a curious fact about Sarah Palin. She has not announced for President. Instead she is taking a summer vacation. Touring America. Starting in Washington, DC.
Today, Sarah Palin announced a bus tour called The One Nation Tour, organized
as a “soft launch” to her Presidential campaign that will allow her to test fundraising, messaging and audience response to her candidacy without the expense or paperwork of forming an exploratory committee or subjecting her prematurely to onerous McCain-Feingold (irony alert) campaign financing and reporting laws“to educate and energize Americans about our nation’s founding principles, in order to promote the Fundamental Restoration of America.”That sound you just heard was Chris Matthew’s head exploding.
The second sound was a semi-conscious Mittens Romney impacting the chintz upholstery on his fainting couch.
We can’t tell you what that smell is, but it’s coming from the “opposition research” trolls in the basement of the White House.
Palin’s rockstar-style tourbus, decked out with traditional American iconography such as the Constitution and the Liberty Bell, will kick off the tour in Washington, D.C. and continue throughout historic sites in New England
As I said at She’s In, Palin is running. And you know what? Her fans are even more fanatical than Ron Paul’s. And she has something very important for American politics as shown by the recent standing ovation Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got in Congress the other day. She, unlike Ron Paul, loves Israel.
The Jerusalem Post reports that Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, and her husband, Todd, met with Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, at their official residence in Jerusalem. Palin traveled to Israel after delivering a speech in India over the weekend.
The interesting question for me is, will she pick Gary Johnson as her VP to shore up her Libertarian creds in the same way McCain picked Palin for the same purpose? That would be very ironic. And DELICIOUS!
And Johnson can move some lefties to the right. Willie Nelson likes him. And so does High Times magazine.
There is a long way to go until August 2012 and things can change, but I’m liking the way things are shaping up so far.
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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7 responses to “Palin Is Not Running – She Is Touring”
I would say I’m a fan of Palin. Not a fanatical one, but a fan. And I’m not certain she intends on running as President of the US of A.
So, if she’s not intending on being President in 2012, what could she be doing? I see two alternative possibilities:
1) Positioning herself for another VP slot.
2) Positioning herself as kingmaker.
What would you think would occur if she held a press conference with all the pomp and circumstance, but her words were to the effect of “My name is Sarah Palin, and I’m supporting (candidate) as the next President of the United States of America!”?
Whoooeee, I heard ghe was leavin AK. gracious me, that’s shur ‘nough half a her new double wide. Dang, it’ll shore look purty once she gits it up on those ceeeeement blocks behind Bristol’s house. Reckon Todd can handle the plumbin and sech. Less’n they gonna go commando. Yessirree, that’s a real sweet crib.
Charlie,
It appears your wrench slipped and took off your whole 3 inches. My condolences. I hear prostrate massage can make up for it to some extent.
Charlie daniels…
Grow up. Your adolescent remark is on a par with Andrew Sullivan’s new found fascination with a vagina.
I love that lady. I DISAGREE totally on a number of her ideals. BUT, she’s good – and the ideas on which I disagree were not things she insisted upon in Alaska.
Unlike another (politician and friend- albeit one with whom I disagree entirely on SoCon issues) who got in ‘power’ in a Left-coast state and… well, lets just say she went for the socon stuff, and she’s no longer in politics. And she still doesn’t understand why…
P.S. Yes, I’d vote for her – in NY minute.
Via Urban Dictionary: “A New York minute is an instant. Or as Johnny Carson once said: it’s the interval between a Manhattan traffic light turning green and the guy behind you honking his horn.”
I’m gonna be Sarah Palin again for Halloween…it really allows other people to say to “Halloween SP” re: how they feel about her and this so called “Rougue” movement she is caravanning around about recently in all the same areas as the other boys in the wanna-be 2012 circle. Instead of filtered networks abusing politics, she is under cutting by being sneaky…again…and profiting off of this non-campaign;campaign bus tour for no-profit or attention and advertisement also referred to as the shock value proposal… or just what is this? just because there is no microphone and script does not mean it wasn’t already all planned out…or did she just do this on her own dime? or did she take a bunch of people’s money and then didn’t follow through and is spending it for this show of false intentions and non-committments and self-gratification again??? either way…SP when are you going to talk straight and tell the truth kinda thing, cuz I feel like you just can’t be trusted to even answer a straight question without your ego being in the way of your real feelings like when you talk outloud by yourself and I know ya do! Most of you Alaskan girls cannot be trusted in this format…of coveted honor. You do not create a calmness in a room when you walk in it, you do not have the aura of a leader, I see deciet and quest for power for you, not power for the people like our good friend Ron Paul represents…I just wish you would find your way in a more enlightened and etherial plane; closer to the creator and teach people what it is to be sovereign and utilize thier own free will like you are doing now…preach that girl. Tell all about the secret…The Oneness. You know what I am referring to. How can you gain power from it that will last if you do not share it with others. It is one of the rules of longevity in this light source game. I must say, I look like SP in my halloween costume when I dress like her and have the glasses and the hair so it’s a fun costume when there is so much controversy surrounding such a mess like Sarah and her tour of rogue non-campaigning…campaining bus tour & gank & hork attention show; as well as the famous and past life previous side-bar candidacy of VP and campaign bought clothing = Very Pathetic. It always gets a laugh and a comment…so far…the men don’t really respect her politics, but they’d do her…like brown chicken brown cow with a fake water gun in machine gun form, they yell out from afar all the things they would do…but nothing about her being their leader…EVER…hmmmmm makes ya wonder about the popular vote and common sense among the masses…she needs to hurry up and knock out the cave men or I will lose faith in her too, leaving only an object of requainted faith behind…like the Sarah Palin bobble head figurine….in stores NOW! You be the judge of nothing until she says so…but then again think for yourselves…and hold tight to common sense and justice among being able to vote for the right candidate not the most sneaky one and defintely not one who holds back the truths right from the begining even hiding behind books and tv interviews of distractions…looks like someone figured out how to manipulate the press …let’s not hope she gets to the people ;( Also please study your vocabulary SP…Candidates have to be able to type 50 WPM and have debate skills and nowadays…FB/Tweet Accuracy. Paid for by the “To be yourself is all that you can do” campaign…via the Universe. We’re cheering for you and not your ego SP. Go ROn Paul…This is your year!!!! I hear the echo in the distance of a win for Ron Paul…sit, wait and watch the right person become what we need in this world. I believe and will allow Ron Paul to lead me into a new world of efficiency and answers to abundance and world peace. ~ Love koala
~sorry SP, sometimes the truth hurts but we can all learn from it and that is the beauty of all of life…the lessons.