EUREKA, Ill. -- Sarah Palin told NBC News that Rep. Michele Bachmann winning the straw poll will not affect her decision to run or not, calling her win "not much of a surprise."
"It is not much of a surprise," Palin told NBC News. "I think, at this point, it is more of a test of organization. ... The prediction was that it would either be Ron Paul or Michele Bachmann, because they spent a lot of time and energy to make sure they had delegates there who would cast those votes, so not really a surprise. It's a part of the process, another step, again, a test about organization at this point and many more contests up ahead."
Sarah Palin's bus tour arrived at the Iowa State Fair on Friday, fueling questions about whether the former governor plans on making a run for the White House in 2012.


You know what America need right now in these tough economical times? America needs real heros who can relate to their current situation with the economy.
I know of two such men in the U.S. Government who can be those heroes. They can be those REAL AMERICAN HEROS because they are real heroes.
The first is Senator John McCain who was shot down over Vietnam and spent five long years in a Vietnamese prison camp and then returned to America to lead in the political spectrum. John McCain is that hero you can rely on to know how to lead the fight against tough times. And tough times are what America is in.
America needs a Hero.
John Kerry is that Hero who went to Vietnam and served his country well. He then returned home to be spit on those who had sided with China and Vietnam in order to effect a withdrawal of American troops so that America could be handed another loss.
We are in economical war with China as well. Who better to lead the fight against jobs going overeas than Senator John Kerry? John Kerry would lead the way in creating new jobs for America based upon his wife Teresa Heins business where investing in America's future would create new jobs.
Americans do not need leaders who cannot relate to them and their struggles. None of the current campaigners can relate to how you are feeling. We are reaching around in the dark tunnel trying to find the way out.
Let John McCain's and John Kerry's hand reach into the darkness of the tunnel that you are in to lead you into the light.
Both of these veterans have been there through hard times and know the feeling of what it is like to be in our shoes and what we are going through. They know the feeling and it is a feeling that can connect all Americans to the Presidency instead of being boot heeled by those who like the current campaigners only know their own luxury and safety.
Let's put America back on the right track. Let's give John McCain and John Kerry the power to lead us out of the Valley of the Shadow of Uncertainity. A valley that both have been in and made it out from.
Not.
One of John Mccain's many, many, many flaws is that he "chose" to be a member of team screw American's republican teabagger. Keating 5 comes to mind, and he's been in effing government a gazillion years and is part of the problem in Washington.
Teabagger texan wannabe president Rick Scott thinks Washington is the problem. He is soooo stupid. Washington is NOT the problem.
Washington republican teabaggers IS Washington's problem.
Meant Perry in previous post but they are one in the same, anti-american.
There are plenty of obama deciples on here .they are easy to spot ,impossible to figure out .they are trying to kill this country fast because they know thier leader is on his way out the door in 2012.
Ron paul is the only one running thats not a puppet for our embedded socialist agenda status quo.stevie wonder should clearly see that.
kevin-3909689,
Killing safety net programs like social security, medicare, and medicaid, shipping jobs overseas, trying to eliminate minimum wage, obstructing unemployment benefits, ATTACKING AMERICAN WORKERS that support unions like the public safety professionals, police, fire, and teachers, RAISING health insurance premiums by ten percent, TAXING PENSIONS and CUTTING CORPORATE TAXES and calling it shared sacrifice is what trying to kill this country is AND IS representative of republicans and teabaggers, DOCUMENTED FACT.
Get you head out of your arse and try reading instead of watching faux propaganda.
axis of evil...= Bachmann ....Perry !
Funny how the people who are the most insistent on America being a Christian nation are also the ones who insist on screwing the poor and middle class as much as possible. Do they not think that Jesus is paying any attention?
excessivelyperky--I have been trying to figure that one out too! Also--when is lying for Jesus OK?
Obama is supposed to make a mess out of the mess, that's why he was elected he's affiliated with the NWO, New World Order.
Do your research!
The only thing Bachman is doing is setting the table for Palin and a conservative white republican male to be the second on the ballot. DUH.... Obama with Hilary as the VP and Palin with a old warhawk..... come on now, i thought we were a little more bright than to just rely on the parties roots and past.....