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Gov. Sarah Palin inspects Ronald Reagan memorabilia at the Ronald Reagan museum at Eureka College in Eureka, Ill.
After a roughly two-month hiatus, Sarah Palin's "One Nation" bus tour was back on the road this weekend. This time, she traveled across the Midwest, where she learned about past U.S. presidents -- and reacted to developing news about the 2012 presidential race.
Earlier this week, the former Alaska governor announced on her website that she would be stopping by the Iowa State Fair on Friday, which put the political world on edge as she was coming to such an important early nominating state -- the day before the closely watched Ames Straw Poll.
While at the fair, Palin said that she still considers herself a “potential candidate,” and that she will make her decision in the coming months, so her supporters will have time to choose another candidate if she’s a no.
“I don't want to be seen as stringing people along,” Palin said at the state fair when speaking of a timeline to decide if she will run for president this cycle.
But after leaving Iowa early Saturday, the bus trip took a different focus -- on American history. Like the tour through the Northeast back in May, Palin (along with her husband Todd, daughter Piper, and her niece) visited some significant historical sites.
"This is one of those places everyone in America should come to get a sense of Ronald Reagan's foundation -- to understand his humbleness and graciousness,” the 2008 vice presidential candidate said in Dixon, IL outside the boyhood home of the 40th president.
As the SarahPAC caravan (consisting of an SUV, minivan, and bus) drove through Illinois -- even on some dirt roads -- passing cars would slow down to snap pictures out the window, and some even honked and waved. Palin was greeted at every stop, including some of the hotels, by crowds of people wishing to take a photo with her or snag an autograph.
While the family was visiting Eureka College, Reagan's alma mater in Illinois, the results of the Ames Straw Poll were released –- a sobering reminder that the presidential campaign is fully underway without her.
Michele Bachmann's win, Palin told NBC News, will not impact her decision whether or not she jumps in the race. “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,” Palin said in Eureka.
And just a few hours after the straw poll, as the Palin family was preparing to make their last stop on this leg of the tour to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, IL, news broke that former Gov. Tim Pawlenty was dropping out of the race.
“So I really, really hope the best for Gov. Pawlenty," Palin told NBC News during her tour of the museum. "He is a good man, and disappointed that he dropped out.”
“We still have many months to go, and I think we will see more people coming and going,” Palin added during a follow-up question standing in front of a replica White House.
Palin is scheduled to come back to the Hawkeye State Labor Day weekend.
Gov. Sarah Palin told NBC's Alex Moe that she was very disappointed that Gov. Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the 2012 presidential race because she wishes the voters were able to decide who is in and who is out.
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The Only people you're Stringing along is the "Carnival Barkers" (formerly known as the MSM), who continue to give You Sarah, the Unnescary Attention, while Real American's Yearn for Real Journalism!
You Betcha!
Palin - Perry & Bachmann
You want to talk about the axis of evil...
BTW - Who's home watching the kids?
Seems like every time her & Todd hit the road, they come home to another 'abstinence only' grand kid!
I'll give Sarah credit - at least she got the last one to the alter before she popped!
Politicians campaigning on bus tours is just so stupid. Only idiots go on bus tours these days.
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/14/3075525/obamas-bus-tour-an-effort-to-connect.html
I mean, next thing they'll do is stop using ATMs.
What exactly is Bible Spice running for?
Other than biggest attention whore of all time?
You have got to think Obama's escort will consist of 30+ of the biggest, baddest, gas guzzling, pollution belching machines on the country.
The natives will feel the junket coming by the heartland shaking beneath their feet.
"I think we will see more people coming and going,""
Palin chanelling Mel Brooks?
Look at me, notice me, give me attention, take my picture, talk to me, interview me, give me attention, notice me, I'm over here, take my picture, look at me, I crave attention.
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/14/3075525/obamas-bus-tour-an-effort-to-connect.html
Admit it, Charlie, you moonbats want Governor Palin around, so you can unload your deep-seated Mommy and Daddy issues with nasty personal attacks on Ms Palin and her family...it is cheaper than the psychiatric treatment you all clearly need.
Admit it, Charlie, you moonbats want Governor Palin around,
Hey -- she's the best comedy act I've seen in years and yes I do want her around. She's the poster child for all that is wrong with the 21st century Republican Party . I think it's great the she sticks her mug in the camera every chance she gets. It's great she draws attention away from the rest of the Republican candidates. (I'll bet Bachmann hates her.) And what even better is the way she's managed to make so much money by conning stupid people like you who actually think she ever planed on running for president. The one needing psychiatric treatment is likely you because it's clear you have fallen for her scam. But even Sarah knows her time is just about over. Come Super Tuesday she will be as forgotten as Dan Quayle. In fact, she's already bought a home in the same neighborhood as Quayle in Arizona.
Can't wait to visit her eventual library!
Dan Quail only spent 73,000 taxpayer dollars to build his.
I'm guessing she'll spend a bit less.
A library dedicated to "pop up" books on abstinance.
axis of evil...= Bachmann ....Perry !
axis if stupidity = Palin
At least the taxpayers don't pay for her bus trips.
Unlike: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/14/3075525/obamas-bus-tour-an-effort-to-connect.html
"axis if stupidity = Palin"
Aint so,
A cardinal rule of effective sarcasm: if you are condescendingly mocking the opposition for being dumb...learn to spell, or proofread.
Otherwise it is really funny, but for the wrong reasons.
This happens often to our resident moonbatty spewers of vitroil...
Nope -- Palin is NOT stupid --- but she knows how to con money from stupid people.
"This happens often to our resident moonbatty spewers of vitroil..."
Many conservatives have a special talent --- in their lame attempts to describe liberals, they are in fact, describing themselves.
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axis if stupidity = Palin ............. it was a Palin joke .... As if she was saying /writing it ..you know like the hand fishing hillbilly's .......you people take this all way to seriously !
axis of evil...= Bachmann / Perry !
axis of stupidity = Palin..............feel better now
Don't get your panties in a bunch .. BOB ! Don't sweat the small things ! You will become old and bitter !
What do you mean become? lol
Booby is the poster child of what happens after years of too much Hate-or-Aide...
lol... I almost said that but then thought ...he has enough problems just being Bobby !
LOL - brain dead and lazy is NO way to go through life - right booby?
Just ask JoAnna Smith1 - without her daily RNC talking points the broads GOT NOTHING!
Hey! She's honoring Amy Winehouse with her hair bump! That's sweet!
After the GOP Straw Poll and Pawlenty dropping out of the race, it must be a slow news day if we're stuck with Palin. "If you build it, they will come." If the media keeps treating Palin as relevant, she will continue to come and bother the rest of us.
Governor Palin is relevant.
She is not running for President, but she is a major political figure. Her endorsement of a candidate may be a significant factor in the outcome.
She bothers you because you are a zealot leftist, and she is a conservative.
Speaking for myself Bob ###'s I can say that Palin does not bother me at all.
Palin is THE perfect republican party poster child: vacuous, uninformed, fake, exploitative, a cheap suit with nothing inside, incredible smile (Reagan, Romney, Perry), no substance, preaches a Gospel she doesn't follow, a hypocrite,....
Preaches small government,......except for HER job. Preaches grass roots, but rides around in a bus with an entourage that probably takes $5,000 / day to run. Charges $100,000 / appearance,........"grass roots" eh?
I bet she flips off every one of the fools that go to her "Fleece the Idiots" rallies, right through the tinted windows of her bus or Gulfstream jet.
She is also a lot like Reagan: former (if 1/2-term) governor, evaded military service, limited education, used to be in broadcast arts (lamestream media), vacuous, knows how to pump a crowd, goes after the guns idiots,....
Yup, Sarah is a real keeper for you guys, and as I have said at many a Democratic rally with a microphone:
"I can motivate this gathering with three words: "Welcome President Palin"."
The volunteer signups are swarmed after that. Near stampede levels. :o)
If I do it again,....cops'll threaten to arrest me for inciting a riot.
If you go back and reread what you wrote, you've just described OBAMA- vacuous, empty suit, and all.
The only difference between Palin and Obama as politicians? She has not damaged the country.
Obama, by any objective measure, has. Disastrously so.
They are both narcissists. Both of their qualifications for the jobs were in their minds.
Oh- the other difference? The media VETTED her. Not Obama.
We are living with the consequences of a media so drunk on adulation they could not even consider doing their jobs.
Governor Palin is relevant.
LOL!!! Only in the eves of about 20% of registered voters.
We should pay close attention to the present Mayor of Wasilla...
Could be some potential.
McCain - Major brain fart.
And it's linguring.
One big difference between Obama and Palin, he is president of the US and she never will be.
A 'Palin' will soon be standard for dumbing down the conversation.
At least Obama is still the President, Sarah is nothing! We paid through the nose for all the other presidents, so why not Pres. Obama!
Why would I want to 'pay' for that incompetent oreo? Send him back to Chicago!
Knock off the "oreo" crap bf.
Not acceptable.
Send him back to Chicago!
And replace him with who?? That's the sad thing. NOBODY has any answers.
Didn't you know...if libtards were smarter they would be able to compose a complete sentence...but then if they actually were smarter they would all be fiscal conservatives.
Having a debate with yourself?
I think they should be fiscal Liberals.
It is fiscal "conservatives" who have brought us to $14 trillion in deficits so far.
[Didn't you know...if libtards were smarter they would be able to compose a complete sentence...but then if they actually were smarter they would all be fiscal conservatives.]
...conservatism truly is a mental illness...
Being smarter sure wouldn't mean being a bftz.
Night school, buddy.
Fiscal that.
After that "oreo" comment bfitz, you really expect anyone to listen to you without a sense of disgust??
And we're really going to complain about the president gouging the taxpayers for a BUS TRIP?? I bet you were so proud of Bush of flying around the country in 2004 on a charter flight, no way he used Air Force One, right??
I don't want to play amateur psych, but I think Charlie hit the nail on the head. This lady has some serious ego craving issues. She knows she'll propably lose against Obama, but if she bows out now she loses the spotlight. Oh the dilemna! (Quick! I need a pig!)
I don't know where Alex gets her information that the tour is over. Following what Alex described as her "last stop", the Palins spent the afternoon in Hannibal, Missouri, the hometown of Samuel Clemens. If you watch the video released before the start of the tour, it featured three president's, Reagan, Lincoln, and Truman. So far they've visited sites associated with only the first two. Given that the bus is travelling west across Missouri, the final stop it seems to me, will be Independence, MO, the hometown of Harry Truman. Hang in there for one more day Alex.
O'BAMA = 39%
Republicans in Congress 18%
Actually -- Obama at 39% tell us how bad the Republican filed is. With the economy in the shape it's in he should be in the low 20s -- like Bush was. So far -- the only Republican beating him is Romney and not by much. He beats Perry by 10, Bachmann by 12, Palin by 17 and the rest by 12 or more.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html
Aaaaayyyyyyyy, what's up, Fonzi? Loved you in that shark jump episode.
axis if stupidity = Palin ............. it was a Palin joke .... As if she was saying /writing it ..you know like the hand fishing hillbilly's .......you people take this all way to seriously !
axis of evil...= Bachmann / Perry !
axis of stupidity = Palin..............feel better now
Don't get your panties in a bunch .. BOB ! Don't sweat the small things ! You will become old and bitter !
Palin looked cute today
In her usual trailer park trash kind of way...
Funny - she shops at Niemen Marcus yet somehow still manges to look like your typical Wal-Mart shopper!
She'll be a Walmart greeter in about 20 years.
(no offense to Walmart greeters, from me)
I love the Mad TV .... Wal Mart Greeter skits esp Cammie
I still say, if one of these idiots gets to the White House the country is going to go into a serious crapper. Every last one of them is a MORON.
I agree ..you are so right ! These GOP clowns are ruining this country ..their plan is to dismantle the framework ..When the weeper of the house states" we need to raise the age of Social Security to 70 so we can pay for the wars " .....this guy is a total dumbass !
LMFAO, Say it isn't so
Palin ..reminds me of the ... mad tv walmart Sales Dept 's Vivian ..copy& paste to watch the video !
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