Sarah Palin tour comes to abrupt halt

Politico ^ | August 16, 2011 | Molly Ball

[Beaten Valve]

After just four days on the road, Sarah Palin’s bus tour is going dormant again.

In a note posted on her Facebook page Monday, Palin said she’s headed “back to Alaska for the start of the school year.”

What’s next for the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee? “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,” she wrote.

Palin noted that she’ll be back on the road before long — she’s scheduled to keynote a Sept. 3 tea party rally in Waukee, Iowa, near Des Moines.

Her Facebook note didn’t mention it, but she’s also scheduled to headline an Oct. 7 rally with Glenn Beck in St. Charles, Mo., according to a local conservative talk-radio station’s announcement Monday.

The leg of Palin’s “One Nation” bus tour that’s now ending lasted four days, beginning midday Friday, when Palin appeared at the Iowa State Fair — just in time for her to catch the attention of the assembled national political media mob in town for the Ames Straw Poll.

On Saturday, she visited Ronald Reagan’s childhood home in Dixon, Ill., and his nearby alma mater of Eureka College. She was in Eureka when the straw poll results were released, and NBC News asked her what she thought of the results.

“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 told NBC, the only major news outlet following her in Illinois.

That single camera marked a dramatic change from the media horde that pursued Palin during her May swing through the Northeast. That first leg of the tour, which began in Washington, D.C., and wound up in New Hampshire, lasted six days.

On Sunday, Palin was touring the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., when the news broke that Tim Pawlenty was dropping out of the race.

“I would love to have seen Pawlenty stay in there and allow the voters to decide, not internal political machinery decide who should be in the race and who should not,” she told NBC’s Alex Moe.

[Josh Painter]

She had to abruptly put her kid back in school which abruptly starts Wednesday. That start date has abruptly been on the school district’s calendar for months.

[Beaten Valve]

I hope you’re right.

I asked yesterday what the “drop dead” date was for her to enter, and someone mentioned as late as Nov. 1st in order to qualify for some of the primaries.

At that date, I’ve got to believe that we’ll be so entrenched arguing the issues and battling Obama’s weak leadership that Palin should just be able to slide in from stage right and join the battle. And one of the Big 3 may have dropped out by then too.

The media has already covered all of her “dirty laundry”, so basically it’s going to be the GOP vs. Obama all the way to November 2012...

[LaybackLenny]

First the “media” complains that they can’t keep up with her and don’t know her schedule or where she’s going, now they complain hope that it’s “over”.

Wishful thinking...LOL!

[Lucky9teen]

Question: Is there a true deadline for which one can enter/announce their Presidential bid?

[dennisw]

She’s such a tease. No way is she running. Not with Michelle Bachmann doing so well.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I still contend that she has no intention of running for president.

How do you like your crow?

With Fava beans and a nice Chianti?

[hans56]

“Question: Is there a true deadline for which one can enter/announce their Presidential bid?”

If you want to run as a Republican it can be done at the convention.

That's how Eisenhower got it instead of MacArthur

[humblegunner]

The unannounced Palin campaign will resume in two weeks

If it's unannounced how will anyone know?

Is that some more brilliant Reagan-esque timing?

Or are you maybe just pulling words out from between your buttocks?

[SUSSA]

If she runs, fine, if not, I hope she will come out soon and say so. Things are ramping up, and IMHO her supporters need to pick a conservative to get behind in the race - otherwise I fear the RINOs will pull ahead.
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The RINOs are ahead now. Conservatives need to get on one horse to win this race.

[TalBlack]

Palin is going stay somewhat off to the side while Rick Black Cloud Perry takes the full force of the MSM onslaught. If they take him down she pops up and is fresh. If Perry ju jitsus the MSM he blocks her out.

[Spktyr]

The problem with Palin isn’t Palin, the problem is that the media has successfully demonized her and painted her as crazy (even some otherwise conservative people I know have gotten suckered by that) and she hasn’t had nearly enough time to overcome that and prove them wrong.

Right now, the meme is “voting for that crazy lady Palin means you’re crazy too.” There isn’t enough time to overcome that before November 2012, and I think she knows that. She won’t be running for President in her own right this time by, I think.

[RonDog]

I am of the opposite opinion.

I think she will run and is biding her time and under the radar is setting her traps.

Bingo!

As I posted on THIS thread:

Palin and Romney know the same thing: Few are paying attention

Believe it or not, in their quests (or probable quest in Palin’s case) for the GOP nomination both Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney are working under the same premise: No one is paying attention right now.

Sure, some people are paying attention. But that “some” is probably you and me and maybe 5% of the rest of the voting population. Figure that between just 2-5 million people have watched any of the debates thus far.

While Thursday night’s 5 million viewers was impressive for primary debate standards, it still represents less than 4% of the usual voter turnout. That means 96% of the 2012 voting public (among them at least 52 million McCain voters) on a Summer Thursday night, against little other programming, in the middle of a depression, during a media-hyped GOP race, with a chance to pick a candidate to throw out the Golfing Fundraiser-in-Chief, couldn’t even be bothered to tune in.

Palin knows this. And Romney knows this. And this explains each of their strategies...

-- snip --

Governor Palin is leading **her** forces in the same strategic way that WILLIAM WALLACE led **his** small, but dedicated, army -- in the very risky (but ultimately, very successful) "delayed" defense against the superior forces of the English "heavy horse" attackers.

Hold... Hold... Hold...
NOW!

He, too, goaded a prideful superior force into (unwisely, as it happened) committing themselves fully against him, so that he could use their strengths against them -- when the timing was EXACTLY right for victory.

[Hammerhead]

She might announce on Labor Day. As in, there’s no jobs on Labor Day.

[ngat]

“If it’s unannounced how will anyone know?”

It has been obvious to everyone since Governor Palin resigned to start it, except to people like you who have their head up between their buttocks.

[humblegunner]

It has been obvious to everyone since Governor Palin resigned

She did WHAT?

[SueRae]

It was the first time I had seen it...so thank you for posting. I don’t have a lot of time to back more thana page or two...at least not from the workdesk ;-)

[HwyChile]

I agree. I love Palin, but I don't think she will run. I do think she needs to either get in or get out. Too many folks are attacking the other candidates in hopes they can keep them from gaining ground while Palin sits on the bench. They are betting the farm on Palin, and if she does not run, they are going to be devastated and may not even vote. She is killing any enthusiasm for the other candidates.

[Cicero]

“Abrupt” is totally meaningless. Does anyone think that Sarah Palin tells Politico ahead of time what her plans are?

[CharlesWayneCT]

LOL.

[Cyber Liberty]

She promised to announce her candidacy from AK.