Sarah Palin: A Humbling Reminder of Our Duty

As posted at SarahPAC
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We spent a very moving day in Kansas City, Missouri, where it’s easy to remember what really matters, because here we have the National World War I Museum and Liberty Memorial.

The Liberty Memorial Tower is dedicated “In honor of those who served in the World War in defense of liberty and our country.” Reading the many memorial inscriptions while standing in the rain was a somber and humbling reminder of the sacrifices young Americans made nearly a century ago in distant battlefields so far from home. So many of them never returned from those fields in France and Belgium. Yes, it was a somber, real, significant moment reading those words about the honor in one’s dedication to God and country.

The main inscription on the memorial reads: “These have dared bear the torches of sacrifice and service. Their bodies return to dust but their work liveth evermore. Let us strive on to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

I took the above photo of Piper and my niece McKinley with the memorial in the background. It brought home to me what this “One Nation Tour” is about. It’s about the duty we have not just to the living, but also to the dead and to the generations yet to be born. Our founders called us the “heirs of freedom,” and as such we have a duty to those who have already paid the price for us to live in freedom, and we have a duty to those who will come after us.

Our freedom was purchased by millions of men now long-forgotten throughout our history who charged the cannons, ran into bayonets, suffered in the trenches, and gave their lives so that we could live in relative comfort doing what we feel led to do. We can’t squander what they gave us or what the next generation expects from us. This is why visiting these historic sites and bringing your children to see them is so important. This is why I wanted to bring my own children with me to show them our history and remind them that America’s children will carry the torch of freedom one day.

Now it’s back to Alaska for the start of the school year. (And, of course, our annual visit to our own state fair where Piper looks forward to clogging on the Blue Bonnet Stage!) While kids crack open their school books, I look forward to continuing my own writing and research on strategies and plans to help move our country forward.

We will be back on the road soon, for on September 3rd we’ve been invited to a big Tea Party “Restoring America” rally in Waukee, Iowa. We hope to see many of you there as we gather to discuss the direction of our country and the way forward with our fundamental restoration of all that is good and strong and free in America. You can click here for more information on the event.

Thank you all for your support and for sharing this leg through the Heartland of the "One Nation Tour" with us.

With an Alaskan heart,

Sarah Palin

- JP

Sarah Palin: A Visit to 'America's Hometown'

As posted at SarahPAC
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We spent a great afternoon in "America’s Hometown," as Hannibal, Missouri, is famously called. Of course, Hannibal plays an important role in American literature as the hometown of Samuel Clemens. This town on the Mississippi River and his boyhood adventures here were the inspiration for many of Mark Twain’s most famous works.

Mark Twain’s wit was evident when he spoke or wrote about Hannibal. Reminiscing about his humble origins here, he once said: "Now in Hannibal where I was brought up, we never talked about money. There was not enough money in the first place to furnish a topic of conversation."

I’m sure this town also instilled in him the decency and common sense that he would hold to all his life. As an old man far removed from his boyhood days, he famously told others: "Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."

- Sarah Palin

- JP

Sarah Palin: Land of Lincoln

As posted at SarahPAC
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We had a wonderful morning touring the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois. About a year ago, I was honored to give a speech before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for the Restoring Honor Rally. Standing in the shadow of that massive monument to the Great Emancipator might make one forget that this heroic leader came from very humble beginnings in what was considered at the time a very remote part of the country. In fact, the east coast establishment long dismissed Lincoln as just a frontier political figure, and he never really won over that establishment. But it was as a "prairie lawyer" in Springfield that Lincoln honed the oratory and debate skills he used to persuade and inspire his fellow Americans in freeing the slaves and preserving our Union. These heartland roots are what made him who he was.

It was truly inspiring to learn more about this great man from those who tend to his legacy with such devotion. We learned a wealth of information about the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Lincoln’s life. Many thanks to the professional staff, volunteers, and historians at the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum for all they do to preserve this important aspect of American history and educate future generations.

- Sarah Palin

Photos:

Lincoln Museum - 08/14/2011

Piper's Pics!

Sarah Palin: Good Sunday Morning!

As posted at SarahPAC
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Good morning from Springfield, Illinois!

We had another great day yesterday traveling through the Midwest. We stopped to walk in the footsteps of Ronald Wilson Reagan at his alma mater Eureka College, enjoyed fried chicken at a local restaurant that “Dutch” frequented, and crossed on a few dirt roads following field after field of corn and soybeans.

Our country is an extraordinarily beautiful place. But the people here are everything. As Reagan said, “The most valuable lesson I learned at Eureka is that every individual makes a difference.” Individuals can make a difference. We have to.

The gritty, humble strength of America’s heartland is on display in the places we’ve visited the last few days, where individuals work together to pull resource and bounty from our land. We’ve met so many great people who are committed to their community and united by strong values and love of country.

Thank you Eureka, Dixon, and all the places we stopped at yesterday. This trip continues to inspire at every turn.

- Sarah Palin

P.S. Congratulations to all those who participated in Ames yesterday.

- JP

Gov. Palin: 'Pawlenty is a good man' (Updated)

As the bus heads south from Dixon, Illinois
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NBC's Alex Moe had an opportunity at the Springfield, IL stop along the One Nation tour route to ask Sarah Palin about Tim Pawlenty's decision to drop out of the GOP Presidential scrum. The reporter tweeted:

Sarah Palin tells @NBCNews "I think we will see more comings
and goings; Pawlenty is a good man" #decision2012

Moe also posted a photo of the bus rolling through Springfield.

Update: Moe just tweeted that this leg of the One Nation Tour apparently is coming to an end. Gov. Palin had told reporters in Iowa Friday that school starts for daughter Piper in a few days -- Wednesday, according to the Mat-Su school district calendar. But we know the governor will be back in Iowa on the 3rd of September.

- JP

WEEK-TV: Sarah Palin Visits Eureka College

It was an unannounced stop on the "One Nation" bus tour of America.
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Video courtesy of Central Illinois News Center

- JP

Quote of the Day (August 13, 2011)

Palin at Iowa State Fair
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Shane Vander Hart, at Caffeinated Thoughts:

“Alaska Governor Sarah Palin visited the Iowa State Fair yesterday... She had also said to numerous reporters (and supporters) that she hasn’t decided yet... But she was with Becky Beach, a prominent fundraiser in Iowa. A good connection for her to make if a presidential run is in her future.”

- JP

Gov. Palin: Visiting Reagan's Humble and Inspiring Beginnings

As posted at SarahPAC:
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Ronald Reagan once said, “While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.” It’s because I believe in America's future that I take such inspiration from our past. We just visited Ronald Reagan’s childhood home in Dixon, Illinois. This beautiful small town along the Rock River is where Reagan learned the values that shaped him – the same values that have historically made America strong – thrift, hard work, fortitude, optimism, and courage in the face of adversity.

As a nation, we must reconnect with those values if we’re to truly restore all that is good and strong about the USA. Meeting the fine Americans in this small town on the river where Reagan saved 77 lives brought all this home for me.

Thanks to the wonderful volunteers who keep Reagan's memory alive. The restoration and tours of our beloved President's home are significant. Thank you, Dixon!

- Sarah Palin

P.S.: Allow me to share below the piece I wrote for USA Today’s special commemorative edition on President Reagan’s Centennial:

I had the privilege of coming of age during the era of Ronald Reagan. I like to think of him as America's lifeguard. As a teenager, Ronald Reagan saved 77 lives as a lifeguard on the Rock River, which ran through his hometown of Dixon, Ill. The day he was inaugurated in 1981, a local radio announcer famously declared, "The Rock River flows for you tonight, Mr. President."

The image of the lifeguard seems to represent what Reagan was to America and to the freedom-loving people of the world. He lifted our country up at a time when we were in the depths of economic, cultural and spiritual malaise. We were told that we must accept that the era of American greatness was over; but with his optimism and common sense, President Reagan held up a mirror to the American soul to remind us of our exceptionalism.

Reagan showed us that despite a deep recession, there could still be morning in America. He could speak to the economic troubles facing ordinary Americans because he understood what it was like to live through a Great Depression where families scraped to get by. And yet, he saw us recover from our Great Depression, and under his leadership we experienced the greatest peacetime economic boom in our history. He could speak to our fears that our years as a superpower were over, because he understood what it was like to see America at war and really fear that we might lose. And yet, he saw us win two world wars, and under his leadership we won the Cold War without firing a single shot. Reagan's belief in American greatness was rooted in historic fact, not blind optimism. He was a sunny optimist because he knew that our best days are yet to come.

Today, when we hear the worry in the voices of Americans wondering where the jobs will be for our children and grandchildren and wondering if the world will be safe and prosperous in the years to come, we should remember Reagan's faith in our inherent heroism and greatness. When we see people around the globe looking to the White House for leadership, we should remember Reagan's steel spine. He understood America's purpose in this world and what we need to do to secure liberty. As Margaret Thatcher said of him, "He sought to mend America's wounded spirit, to restore the strength of the free world, and to free the slaves of communism." He sought those things and he succeeded.

This year, as we celebrate the centennial of Reagan's birth, let's remember the lifeguard from the Rock River who rescued us with his optimism and common sense. We need more lifeguards like him.

Photos:

Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home & Lowell Park

The Ronald Reagan Museum and Eureka College

- JP

NBC: Palin stops by Reagan boyhood home (Upodated)

She was greeted in Dixon by numerous supporters.
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Sarah Palin's One Nation tour bus made its way Saturday to Dixon, Illinois, the boyhood hometown of former President Ronald Reagan.

The former governor, along with her husband, daughter Piper, and niece were shown around Reagan's home; Rock River, where he was a lifeguard; and passed a statue in his honor. Ann Lewis, chairwoman of the Dixon Reagan Sentinel Commission escorted the Palin family around.

Palin told NBC News that it was important for her to come here, because "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."

NBC's Alex Moe says Gov. Palin was greeted in Dixon by "numerous" supporters for whom she signed autographs and posed for photos. Moe posted pictures of the governor in Dixon here and here.

Update: Another photo, this one taken in the Ronald Reagan Museum at Eureka College.

JP

Quote of the Day (August 12, 2011)

Sarah Palin Arrives at State Fair, Attracts Every Camera Within 500 Miles
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David Weigel, at the Washinton Post's Slate blog:

“Palin and her husband Todd spent a lot of time answering questions from reporters. When Jake Tapper of ABC News arrived in the scrum, with more cameras, Palin stopped taking ad hoc answers and started an impromptu press conference. She made some news, saying she would probably make up her mind on a 2012 bid by next month,”

- JP

Quote of the Day (August 11, 2011)

Perry aides confirm that he’s running for president
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Allahpundit, at Hot Air:

“I’m intrigued by the timing of the leak. Why not wait another 48 hours and let him end the suspense himself on Saturday? Are they a tiny bit spooked by Palin’s arrival in Iowa, maybe, and looking to preempt that with solid news about him running?”

- JP

SarahPAC: Governor Palin's Statement on the One Nation Tour

As posted at SarahPAC.com
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We are very happy to jump back on the bus for another leg of our "One Nation Tour"! We accept with gratefulness an invitation to meet folks at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines this week. The heartland is perfect territory for more of the One Nation Tour as we put forth efforts to revitalize the fundamental restoration of America by highlighting our nation's heart, history, and founding principles.

In a grossly weakened economy - especially when recovery is thwarted by today's Obamanomics - prudent Americans make sensible decisions to live within their means. This includes seeking affordable participation in more community events, local patriotic parades, and traditional all-American venues like state fairs. State fairs hold a special place in our nation's history and heritage, so my family is honored to highlight one of them on one stop along the One Nation Tour route - America's historic Iowa State Fair! (I'm also excited to try some of that famous fried butter-on-a-stick, fried cheesecake-on-a-stick, fried twinkies, etc. I'll enjoy them in honor of those who'd rather make us just "eat our peas"!)

Unlike next week's Obama Bus Tour, taxpayers aren't funding our tour, which is why we so appreciate your support in allowing us to be out there on the open road to visit with you to highlight small towns, big-hearted people, and the important role they play in our most exceptional nation.

You can participate with support for the "One Nation Tour" through SarahPAC.com and following virtually by bookmarking the SarahPAC website. We'll have updates from the road as our Constitution-draped bus travels to shine a spotlight on more of our nation's fine history. Watch this video and let the American road inspire you!

Thank you for your continued support of SarahPAC. Let's stay committed to the worthy cause - restoring all that is good and strong and free in America!

Thank you sincerely,

Sarah Palin

- JP

Quote of the Day (August 10, 2011)

Surprise: Palin’s bus tour to roll into Iowa this week
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Allahpundit, at Hot Air:

“The new ad released by Sarah PAC in connection with the tour... sure looks like a campaign spot.”

- JP

One Nation bus tour to roll again tomorrow (Updated)

Gov. Palin will be in Iowa before the Ames straw poll
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It's been nearly three months since the "One Nation" bus tour traveled up the east coast, but it will soon be rolling into Iowa, according to a SarahPAC fundraising email obtained by CNN.

Palin is bringing her Constitution-themed bus to the Iowa State Fair, just 30 miles south of where the Republican presidential field will take the stage on Thursday for a presidential debate in Ames.

It's not yet clear which day the tour will begin, but her surprise arrival in Iowa will happen before the closely watched Ames straw poll. Palin is not on the straw poll ballot.

According to a video link included the fundraising email for Palin's political action committee, it appears the bus will also take Palin to Missouri and Illinois to visit the respective hometowns of former presidents Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan.

"The heartland is perfect territory for more of the One Nation Tour as we put forth efforts to revitalize the fundamental restoration of America by highlighting our nation's heart, history, and founding principles," Palin writes in the email.

Tim Crawford, the treasurer, confirmed the authenticity of the email but would not provide more the details about the tour.

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For Palin supporters, her return to Iowa, like the 2012 election, can't come soon enough.

Update: The bus rolls tomorrow.

ABC News has confirmed that Sarah Palin will re-launch her “One Nation” bus tour in Iowa tomorrow, the same day that Republican presidential contenders will take the stage for a debate in Ames, Iowa.

- JP

Gutless Grandstanding to Gig a Grizzly

'The left sinks to new lows' has become a cliché
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Whether Sarah Palin's One Nation Tour is a quest to try to get America back in touch with its founding, or whether it's a testing-the-waters expedition is a valid question for debate. But in the active imagination of a ten year old child for whom politics is just boring stuff that adults do, it's a vacation. You don't need advanced degrees in child psychology to figure it out unless, you're a Democrat with an agenda and a cable "news" network for a megaphone.

MSNBC crackpot host Lawrence O’Donnell and radical leftist Comgressman Earl Blumenauer show that they have no problem with running a sword through Piper Palin to get to her mom:


America is broke, thanks to the likes of Blumenauer and other Democrats who have spent other people's money like drunken... well, Democrats; beltway statists have skyrocketed the national debt up to incomprehensible heights; unemployment under Obama is double what it was when Dems blamed Bush in 2005 for it being 4.5 percent; Obama is borrowing money from China to give to Greece; he loaned more Chinese money to Brazil to drill for oil that he's promised to buy from them, after shutting down domestic production in the Gulf of Mexico. With all that and much worse going on, Blumenauer and O'Donnell are obsessed with whether the National Park Service gave 15 minutes of its time to talk to Sarah Palin exclusively at a stop on her bus tour?

We always knew "progressives" had their priorities all out of whack, but the left's obsession with making war on Sarah Palin and her family is nothing less than pathological. That Blumenauer and his useful idiot O'Donnell would use MSPDS to grandstand about it while attacking little Piper Palin to sling a little mud at her mother clearly demonstrates that the left no longer cares how low it sinks below the level of the rest of humanity.

h/t: Mediacrank

- JP

Sarah Palin: The American Spirit

As posted at SarahPAC:
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The American Spirit (Unfortunately Missed by the MSM)

Our family has been blessed with an opportunity to showcase all that is good and strong and free about our exceptional nation.

Even though the media too often sadly chose sound-bites over substance, they did get lots of substance during our “One Nation” tour from the nearly two dozen opportunities I got to speak candidly with them and talk about policy, politics, history, and everything in between. More importantly, I got to talk with countless everyday Americans who want to get our country back on the right track.

It’s been an extraordinary honor to meet so many fellow patriots who care deeply about this country, who want a brighter future for all of us, and who recognize the undeviating line that connects our history to our future.

Not surprising, some members of the media missed a lot of this due to their relentless and futile search for scuttlebutt. So, we assembled this video to capture the amazing Americana spirit of the places and people we visited. I invite you to enjoy this recap of last week’s east coast bus tour.

Please remember we must learn about our past – our great successes, our bitter struggles, our enduring strength – in order to navigate through the challenges ahead so that we might remain a shining city on a hill and the abiding beacon of freedom.

As we look to our Charters of Liberty and our strong foundation to fundamentally restore America, we'll keep moving forward... and we'll keep reporting on it ourselves.

- Sarah Palin

- JP

Conroy: Hey, perhaps Sarah Palin really is undecided about running

She polls near the top of the Republican field both nationally and in Iowa.
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RealClearPolitics political reporter Scott Conroy's takeaway from covering the first leg of Gov. Palin's nationwide bus tour is though the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate may be genuinely undecided about a 2012 presidential run, she is without a doubt having fun:

At just about every stop she made along her East Coast jaunt, the former Alaska governor took in the scenery, chatted amiably with locals, signed autographs and always seemed to have a smile on her face while she was doing it. And whenever members of the "lamestream media" shoved audio recorders and video cameras in her face, Palin cheerfully and thoroughly answered our questions, often lingering far longer than her small team of aides and daughter Piper would have liked.

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But perhaps there is a simple answer to whether Palin will run that neither her most ardent fans nor her inside-the-Beltway critics seem to fathom: She truly hasn't decided yet.

Each time Palin was asked The Question last week, she insisted -- with a thinly veiled exasperation missing during her answers to other queries -- that her mind was not yet made up. Several close Palin associates, in recent private conversations with RCP, have said the same thing.

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Throughout her career, she has embraced the role of the underdog, and anyone who spent significant time around her over the past week would be hard-pressed to escape the perception that she is indeed inclined to run. Her ultimate decision, as she herself has said, will likely be determined by where her family comes down on the matter.

Though he said that he is "not pushing her either way," Todd Palin -- Sarah's husband and also her closest adviser -- offered a revealing indicator of where his own thinking stood during a brief interaction with reporters in Pennsylvania last week.

"There are pros and cons, of course, but this country -- we have to get back on the right track," he said. "This family has been tested. When people talk about ‘She was just plucked up out of Wasilla,' you have to look at her career. Every step in her career is another step for the family, and we were prepared."

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The big question should have a answer soon. Gov. Palin has said in several recent interviews that her decision will come in a matter of weeks.

- JP

Augusta Chronicle Editorial: The Palin pile-on

"These people are positively obsessed with her. Sorry, but it's certainly not mutual."
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An Augusta Chronicle editorial looks at the antics of the lamestream media during Sarah Palin's One Nation Tour this past week, and opines that the spectacle of reporters stalking Gov. Palin and then blaming her for it all was "comical."

The editorial staff singled out NBC/MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell for having the intention "to cast aspersions" on the governor and making her reporting fit the NBC anti-Palin narrative by seeking out a biker to say that the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate was an uninvited "distraction" at Rolling Thunder. Mitchell never bother to check with other officers of the veterans biker organization who later confirmed that Gov. Palin was actually invited to participate:

Talk about going out of your way -- to the point of getting the whole story wrong -- to shine the spotlight on someone! Oh well, you know Andrea Mitchell's point, even if it's an unfair, inaccurate one.

CNN's Jessica Yellin oddly bemoaned the coverage of Palin's bus tour -- which her network featured just about every hour of the broadcast day for several days -- as "a media low point."

Some of us think the media's low point might have been when a network personality confessed to having a thrill run up his leg at the sound of a certain politician. But OK.

Just a thought: If it pains Mitchell and Yellin so much to give Palin the spotlight -- in Mitchell's case, for the express purpose of ginning up complaints about her that have no basis in truth -- why don't they stop?

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These people are positively obsessed with her.

Sorry, but it's certainly not mutual.

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- JP

Morrissey: Media chase Palin, and her sway grows

Beyond exposing the media's hypocrisy, the bus tour strengthens Palin's hand.
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Ed Morrissey observes that SarahPAC's One Nation Tour wasn't a traditional listening tour as much as it was an object lesson in how the media treats Gov. Palin, and the whining and sometimes hysterical press pack made a spectacle of themselves:

The tour started with MSNBC reporting (mistakenly) that Palin would arrive uninvited to the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally in Washington last weekend. This turned out to be untrue, and was based on an internal miscommunication at the veterans' organization that took only a few minutes to diagnose, as I did the same evening by checking with Rolling Thunder's media representative.

The coverage reached its nadir when reporters began claiming that Palin was putting their lives in danger by not giving them an itinerary of her bus tour, apparently because keeping up with a large and not exactly speedy bus decorated with the American flag was beyond the ability of journalists.

The media turned Palin's bus tour into a celebrity chase, instead of covering it as a political event. As a political event, Palin's travelogues show that it's been pretty low-key. She has not made grand speeches or committed to a campaign, but instead is using the tour to raise political action committee funds -- in the same way other announced and unannounced candidates have done for months, with little or no comparable national media coverage.

So why does Palin rate such a press gaggle and make headlines for her tour? Palin generates ratings and page views; she sells advertising. She puts money in the pockets of media outlets. And her bus tour has exposed the media's craving for all things Palin, even while they treat her as a fringe character in American politics. The bus tour puts that paradox on display for all to see.

Beyond exposing the media hypocrisy, what significance is there in the bus tour? It strengthens Palin's hand whether or not she decides to get in the race. A regional or national tour -- with the media in tow -- helps generate enthusiasm for a potential candidate and could affect perceptions and polling results. Assuming that the momentum builds throughout the tour, Palin would have the opportunity to announce her candidacy at a peak moment to take advantage of all the publicity.

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Though Morrissey's observations are, as always, perceptive, he has swallowed -- hook, line and sinker -- the media narrative of Sarah Palin as kingmaker. This is a fallback position for the Democrat/Media Complex. Where they once argued that the former governor, mayor and oil & gas commissioner was not even "qualified" to read water meters or something, now they hope to discourage any talk of a potential Palin presidential candidacy by attempting to auction her off as someone who can theoretically choose the next GOP presidential nominee.

One thing they always fail to mention when mouthing this meme is that there are no guarantees that her candidate of choice would be the one nominated at next year's RNC convention. Indeed, it is more likely, in our opinion, that if they somehow managed to get Gov. Palin to settle for the unofficial title of "kingmaker," the Geriatric Old Party's "good ol' boys" would go right ahead and push the candidate of their own choosing, in all probability a another Bob Dole whom voters would not perceive as being that much of a bargain. Fortunately, Sarah Palin is not one to "settle" for table scraps.

- JP

CNN's Hamby: Actually, Palin engaged with media on bus tour

"She took questions from the media 17 different times over the course of four days"
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Now that the One Nation Tour bus is at rest in the garage before the next leg of Sarah Palin's great American adventure gets it rolling again, CNN Political reporter Peter Hamby looks back on the week and concludes that Gov. Palin actually treated the media quite nicely while on the tour:

Her strategy is unlikely to change as the patriotism-themed tour makes its way through the Midwest, West and South later this month.

But once reporters tracked her down, Palin was eager to engage. At stop after stop after stop, she answered questions on everything from energy subsidies to the debt ceiling to her favorite brand of designer jeans.

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...she took questions from the media 17 different times over the course of four days.

That's a remarkable number for any national political figure, particularly for one locked into an exclusive television contract that normally precludes her from talking to other media outlets.

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But Palin seemed at ease at most events, lingering outside her bus or SUV to answer every possible question despite Piper's best efforts to drag her away and helpless shouts of "Last question!" from her aides.

During a stop at a café in central Pennsylvania, even her normally reticent husband Todd opened up to reporters about his family's readiness for a potential campaign.

At a clambake in the coastal New Hampshire town of Seabrook on Wednesday, Palin cheerfully chatted at length with a pack of reporters from national outlets like CNN, NBC, CBS, The Washington Post, Time and Bloomberg.

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She certainly seems to have treated the media better than it has treated her. But hasn't that always been the case?

- JP