Posted on 06/22/2011 1:15:59 PM PDT by Daffynition
Former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin has reportedly packed in her bus tour...halfway through.
Real Clear Politics is reporting that Palin and her family have returned to Alaska from their "One Nation" bus tour, despite tentatively scheduled stops in Iowa and South Carolina.
From Scott Conroy at RCP:
Though Palin and her staff never announced a timeline for the remaining legs of her trip, aides had drafted preliminary itineraries that would have taken her through the Midwest and Southeast at some point this month. But those travel blueprints are now in limbo, RCP has learned, as Palin and her family have reverted to the friendly confines of summertime Alaska, where the skies are currently alight for over 19 hours a day and the Bristol Bay salmon fishing season is nearing its peak.
Palin's intent to visit Iowa and South Carolina, as well as one stop in New Hampshire, caused some speculation that she was starting to get serious about a run for president in 2012.
The bus tour was launched over Memorial Day weekend, and was particularly scrutinized after one event in Boston where Palin badly flubbed the story behind Paul Revere's ride.
Pattern?
And - ahem - the Midwest is experiencing devastating floods, bridges out, highways covered in water, and it’s going to get much worse.
Traveling through the Midwest is not such a great idea right now.
But Sarah said “ringing those bells” and her detractors said he didn’t ring any bells. So don’t bring up the book, “Paul Revere and the Bell Ringers”. Or you’re stupid too.
Restart late next week.
During the initial stage of her bus tour three weeks ago, Palin said that it would still be weeks before she would make her presidential decision, and her husband, Todd, concurred that the final verdict was "a long ways away."
The realities inherent in conducting the necessary legwork to mount a viable presidential campaign, even for a candidate as unconventional as Palin, may compel her to move closer to a decision sooner than she might have liked. But for the time being, she appears to be in no rush to either enter the 2012 fray -- or to distance herself from it.
After 25,000 pages of email were carefully scrutinized, it was discovered that Sarah was a conscientious popular governor who got things done. Meanwhile after scrutinizing a few pages of superliberal Anthony Weiner, other results were found!
Let me guess. “Anonymous source”?
Morons.
“aides had drafted preliminary itineraries”
“Aides,” otherwise known as Andrew Sullivan.
BigTigerMike posted on another thread that it is alsmon season (as mentioned in this article). Todd needs to fish the family claim or lose it. BTW - this years salmon run is the best in three years or so. If things WERE scheduled, it may have been Sarah doing them on her own, and then having a change of heart or maybe they needed more hands on the salmon claim.
“...the Bristol Bay salmon fishing season is nearing its peak...”
I’m from the State of Washington and salmon fish are very important up in this region.
I believe Todd has fishing rights and must use them regularly. No doubt it is a part of his family’s diet and income.
SHE IS RUNNING! Darn..she just cannot declare before July 26. The calm before the storm. A hurricane is coming. Bet on it.
Other sources are popping up on a news search. FWIW.
The article was certainly negative in tone, and unfair in slant. From the healine to the final period they were trying to show a pattern that she’s a quitter. I was not aware that she had given her entire itinerary to the public, so how can this writer state with any certainty that she quit?
I hope this means that she is getting in the race soon, the speculation is getting worn.
The bus tour got thrown under the bus?
Can all you trolls already posting on this thread try to come up with a new tactic? This is getting ridiculous.
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