Are These Tragic Deaths in Arizona and Alaska Coincidental?

In her book, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin says she doesn’t believe in coincidences. If the Empress is right, there must be a connection between these events.

1. THE DEATH OF CURTIS MENARD JR.

4. Death and Shooting of People in Tuscon Arizona.

Six people were killed and Gabby Giffords was seriously injured in the shooting spree of Jarred Loughner in Tuscon Arizona.
Read more:   Malia Litman

Sarah Palin can't win!

And neither can most of the rest of these potential Republican candidates.

Could Sarah Palin really win?

Electability is all about positions AND likability!
Is the GOP doomed to run just another old political retread?
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GOP USA

Sarah Palin Punks Press as Tour Begins Third Day

Call her the new Ashton Kutcher.
As Sarah Palin's "One Nation" tour enters its third day, she's tricking the press much like the erstwhile "Punk'd" host pranked celebrities.

Palin reportedly faked out reporters at her Gettysburg, Pa. hotel Tuesday morning. She snuck out early with her family and a few staffers, leaving her unmistakeable bus behind and giving the press the impression that she was still readying for the day ahead.
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Sarah Palin Continues to Be a Lying Sack of Shit

Time magazine's coverage of Sarah Palin's Memorial Day weekend tour lets Sarah Palin get away with more of her coy, jus' folks bullshit. And her mom is in on it, too:

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Slog

Sarah Palin grants first interview on bus tour

Of course, it's to personal friend and Fox News cohort Greta Van Susteren

Sarah Palin's much-discussed "One Nation" bus tour kicked off this holiday weekend, with stops at Mount Vernon, the National Archives, and (briefly) on the back of a
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The unorthodoxy of Sarah Palin

Unorthodox, thy name is Sarah Palin.

The former Alaska governor, who is known for her unconventional approach to politics, outdid even herself with a bus tour over Memorial Day weekend.
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Post Politics

NYT's Michael Shear Sour over Over Sarah Palin's lack of respect for Mainstream Media

New York Times chief political blogger Michael Shear is a bit annoyed that Sarah Palin is successfully attracting media attention while ignoring reporter’s inquiries and playing hide-and-seek with the press on her "One Nation"
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Bachmann to Media: I’m No Sarah Palin 2.0

You’d probably expect Rep. Michele Bachmann — three-term member of Congress, founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, parent to 23 foster children, and one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World — to be judged on her own merits. But whenever you find Bachmann’s name in the headlines these days, it seems Sarah Palin’s name isn’t far behind.
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Memo to Very Serious media about Sarah Palin

Oh, my. Someone grab a hanky.

The dozen or so Very Serious reporters from such Very Serious outlets as CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, and The Times of London are "grumbling" because, in the words of Time's Jay Newton Small, Sarah Palin has "turned the Washington press corps into a bunch of paparazzi stalking your every move."
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Daily Kos

New York Times calls Sarah Palin: “The Woman Who Might Be President"

She shows up in black leather with a Harley helmet on her head, and, yes, her talking points written on the palm of her hand, and mainstream media—-as exemplified by this story in The New York Times, (featured at the top of their home page, which is equivalent to above the fold on page one, back when anybody actually read the print edition)

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Hell’s Angle,Sarah Palin, Promotes Reduction of the National Debt and Energy Efficiency By Riding a Motorcycle

Wearing black leather jacket and black high heels, Sarah Palin rode a Harley Davidson into the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally in D.C.

Piper and Bristol where seen with her, but there was no sign of Trig or Todd. Perhaps there was not a helmet big enough for Todd, or small enough for Trig.
Read more:   Malia Litman

Sarah Palin PR stunt backfires

Sarah Palin, figurehead of the US Republican party, has never been one to shy away from a publicity stunt but her latest wheeze may have done more harm than good after irking ex-servicemen.

The mishap occurred when Palin descended upon the Rolling Thunder veteran’s event, an occasion which sees hundreds of Harley Davidson riders wend their way around Washington DC along a route lined by thousands of ex-servicemen.   Read more:   The Drum

The GOP’s Rolling Thunder Revue

No disrespect to our Vietnam vets and their Harley-straddling supporters, but there was something all too appropriate about Sarah Palin’s abrupt decision to join—and thereby utterly dominate—the Rolling Thunder Memorial Day rally at the National Mall Read more:   National Journal

Dominionist Decoder: What Sarah Palin Really Means by Fire in Her Belly

I’ve been saying for a while now that the mainstream media doesn’t “get” Sarah Palin. Last week, when the astute Lawrence O’Donnell equated her with Trump, I understood his reasoning, but disagreed with the premise. Sarah Palin isn’t Donald Trump, and when she speaks of a “fire in her belly” she’s not using that term politically, but religiously.
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Sarah Palin’s political mystery tour

The New Hampshire Republican Party found out Sarah Palin would be coming to town by hearing about it in the news.

Where would she be stopping? They didn’t know.
Read more:   Politico

Sarah Palin bus tour starts: No bus, but there are motorcycles

Sarah Palin's much-publicized "One Nation" bus tour got off to a chaotic and rumbling start Sunday in Washington, with no bus in sight and the potential presidential candidate only occasionally popping into view.

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LA Times

Is the Mainstream Media Fair to Sarah Palin?

Does the political press corps--professional, accredited journalists as opposed to bloggers--apply a different standard to Sarah Palin than it does to other candidates?

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National Journal

Sarah Palin Goes Biker Chick

Articles on Sarah Palin May 29, 2011

1. Reason #62 not to vote for Sarah Palin for anything
She misused the Alaska Trust Fund...  
Found @:   Sarah Palin has a Serpants Heart

2. Letter to the US Department of Justice Re the Anchorage Police DepartmentThe following letters will be sent tomorrow to the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice. If I get any response I will notify you... Read more:   Malia Litman

So Far, Sarah Palin Bus Tour Missing Both Palin And Bus

No sign of bus early Sunday morning

No updates to bus tour page
Waiting for Palin
Political Mystery tour

Found @:   Liberalland

Straight Talk For John McCain: Why Sarah Palin Can’t Beat Obama

After John McCain claimed on Fox News Sunday that Sarah Palin can beat Obama, here is a little reality based straight talk on why she can’t and won’t.
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Politicususa

Even Vision of Sarah Palin on a Harley Fails to Placate Bikers

When it was announced that potential Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would attend the Rolling Thunder biker rally on Sunday as part of her mysterious political bus tour, some members of the group complained that she would be "a big distraction."

But what's a few extra reporters in exchange for the chance to see the inevitable (though not unwelcome) sight of Sarah Palin riding on a Harley? Apparently, too much. Palin arrived at Sunday’s rally on a motorcycle driven by her daughter Willow, Politico reports, and only drew about 200 people around her, compared to the thousands in attendance...    Read more:   National Journal

Interview: Steve Bannon, the Man Who Brought Sarah Palin’s Story to the Screen

Steve Bannon, director of the upcoming documentary film "The Undefeated" focusing on Sarah Palin's tenure in Alaska joined Big Journalism's Dana Loesch for an exclusive interview...  Found @:   Fox Nation

Andrew Sullivan Shocks Chris Matthews: Palin can beat Obama as the 'Principled' Tea Party Candidate

Andrew Sullivan this weekend seemed to shock Chris Matthews when he said that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin could actually beat President Obama in next year's elections running as the "principled candidate" representing "this grassroots movement of cutting government down to size."
Read more:   News Busters

Where’s Sarah Palin?: Campaign-like Bus Tour Missing in Action

Normally when the national media wants to cover a candidate for the presidency, or even a possible candidate, the campaigns are only too happy to oblige.

But Sarah Palin is anything but a normal candidate. If she’s a candidate at all.

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ABC News

Sarah Palin Kicks Off East Coast Tour [ABC: 5-29-2011]

Scottsdale residents react to Sarah Palin's likely move

At a Target shopping center, some hadn't heard or didn't care.

One couple outside a Starbucks were surprised to hear Palin had purchased a home a few miles away. A woman working inside a clothing boutique said she'd heard customers talking about helicopters hovering over the area in the past week. Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane, who, along with the City Council has been grappling with the city budget,...
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The DC Motorcycle Gang Doesn’t Want Sarah: Who Will?

I’m just back from one of those effete, elite Eastern liberal dinner parties where we all sit around over white wine and brie and plot how to keep our black Muslim in the White House for four more years, and the question I was asked most often was, “Where in New England does Sarah think she can go with her bus tour where she won’t be laughed off whatever stage she takes?”
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The Maverick Takes the Bus

Fox News has an article out today promoting the bus tour of Sarah Palin. The article quotes Fergus Cullen, a former Republican Party chairman in New Hampshire, one of the stops on the “tour,”
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Malia Litman

Mama Grizzly strikes again: Sarah Palin ‘furious’ at Bristol’s new Disney Show …

According to the National Enquirer, the couple’s growing relationship sparked the idea for the show – and Mrs Palin isn’t happy about it.

She is apparently convinced it will affect her family’s reputation, as Bristol is on the rebound from her ex-boyfriend, Alaskan pipeline worker
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Sarah Palin goes behind enemy lines

Starting Sunday, Sarah Palin enters enemy territory.

The bus tour that stands to return her to the 2012 spotlight is taking her to the part of the country that’s the least friendly to her — the northeastern
Read more:   Politico

The Antics of Sarah Palin

I've been thinking about Sarah Palin and the upcoming bus tour and movie. If she intends to run for president in 2012, then I suppose these avenues are perfectly legitimate, if not conventional.
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Right Speak

Fire in the Belly: Gives Me Palin Heartburn!

To me, the fact that a lack of competition might inspire Palin to run demonstrates some initial lack of self-confidence on her part; it seems obvious that even she doesn’t feel like she could win in a crowded field. But now that the field has slightly cleared, she has told Greta Van Susteren that she has a “fire in her belly”
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Palin Fail

Who is Behind the Palin "Bus Tour"?

Pundits are buzzing – It appears Sarah Palin is poised to plunge back into the political arena full force with a drive for the GOP Presidential nomination.  Reportedly a newly commissioned documentary about her partial gubernatorial term in Alaska and her Vice Presidential
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Sexism and Sarah Palin a perfect storm of a media Sideshow

Saucy Sarah Palin Screams Sexism

When will there be an end to the circus of Sarah Palin?
 
It  bothers me no end when I hear people, especially people I respect, talking seriously about  Sarah Palin actually being president of the United States.  It’s almost as bad when they talk about her even thinking of being president of the United States. 
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Iowa Theater Owners Predict That Sarah Palin’s Movie Will Bomb

Iowa theater owners are predicting that Sarah Palin’s “The Undefeated” will bomb.

The Des Moines Register talked to a couple of local theater owners, and to put it mildly their reaction to the idea of showing Sarah Palin’s “documentary” about herself was to put it mildly, less than...
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Profiles in Useful Idiocy: Meghan McCain Blames Sarah Palin for her Failed Love Life

One of the nominees for Useful Idiot of the Month is Meghan McCain.  The daughter of  John McCain, Meghan’s Conservative bashing has made her a darling of the MSM.  In other words, she’s a massive RINO.

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Conservative Hideout 2.0

Bikers Bicker Over Who Invited Sarah Palin to Their Motorcycle Ride

Players: Ted Shpak and Mike De Paulo, both members of Rolling Thunder, a veterans group that advocates for Prisoners of War. It was announced yesterday that potential Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, will attend the group's annual Memorial Day motorcycle ride in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.

Read more:   National Journal

For 2012 Candidates, a Holiday weekend in Iowa

Since everybody seems to be writing about Sarah Palin now, a few thoughts about Iowa - a state she will NOT be visiting on her much-covered bus tour.

It's the conventional wisdom that this bus tour may also serve as a kick-off for Palin's presidential campaign. If so, she is heading in an odd direction,
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Would Michele Bachmann Challenge Sarah Palin?

It would be an epic match-up, pitting two dynamic conservative women who appeal directly to evangelicals and the Tea Party faithful: Sarah Palin vs. Michele Bachmann in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination.

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ABC News

5 reasons why Sarah Palin may be ready to shake up 'uninspired' race

Alaska's "mama grizzly" is coming to the big screen and quite possibly back to the campaign trail, a move that would shake up a GOP presidential primary field that some Republicans complain is "uninspiring."

Read more:   CNN Politics

Honestly now…//UPDATE: New neighbors offer advice via NYTimes

…if you had the choice of spending the summer on an air-conditioned bus (or, more likely, on an air-conditioned private plane that could drop you at a private airfield so you could board the bus minutes before your next destination and pretend to have been on it all along) or here:

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How to Divine Sarah Palin's 2012 Intentions from Her Bus Tour

Sarah Palin is kicking off her totally-not-a-presidential-campaign-bus-tour of the East Coast Sunday with a stop at a veterans' motorcycle rally in Washington, D.C. After that, she's headed to historical sites up the coast with the goal of "reminding ourselves who we are and what Americans stand for." But those stops are, as of yet, unnamed!

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National Journal

Fox News keeping Sarah Palin on payroll

Fox News is not taking contributor Sarah Palin off its payroll despite moves that suggest she may be gearing up for a presidential run.

"We are not changing Sarah Palin's status," Bill Shine, Executive Vice President of programming for Fox News Channel, told CBS News in a statement. Palin earns $1 million
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More on the newest member of the Palin family

I really don't give a shit about who Track married but People Magazine thinks everyone does, as they treat the Palins like royalty.

The wedding may have surprised many outside Alaska, but to those who know Sarah Palin's new daughter-in-law Britta Hanson, the marriage to Track Palin seemed almost inevitable.

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Sarah Palin has a Serpants

Neighborly Advice to the Palins: In Arizona, the Sun Burns

Alaska may have a midnight sun, but Arizona’s burns a little hotter. So the first advice that Sarah Palin’s new neighbors have for her is: wear sunscreen.
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New York Times

Sarah Palin rolls into D.C. — on a motorcycle?

Dontcha’ know, Sarah Palin is coming to town this weekend, and you may see her cruising the streets of D.C. on the back of a hog.

The former Alaska governor, who is the subject of a lot of overheated speculation about whether she will run for president in 2012,
Read more: Washington Post

Sarah Palin's One Nation

I urge you to read this post on Oz Mudflats. It tells the story of another woman who wrapped herself in the flag and used the slogan "One Nation."

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Palingates

Sarah Palin going on another bus tour

Well, well... a film and another bus tour.

The snippet shown on Hannity was very boring, was that the best clip he could get? Sarah Palin's Alaska was far more entertaining.
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Palingates

Sarah Palin Laughs at Alaska

As Sarah Palin’s private plane departs Alaska, she is probably sipping her diet D.P. through a bendable straw, gazing out the window at the frozen expanse of the Alaskan wilderness, and chuckling. As she contemplates the gullibility of the simple people of Alaska, she smiles. Palin isn’t too bright,
Read more:   Malia Litman

Frank is hitting the interview circuit regarding his book about Sarah

Watch other video's at:  Sarah Palin has a Serpants Heart

Bailey’s Book Teaches An Important Lesson

When your child is sitting in his car seat after an automobile accident, having a hard time breathing, you might immediately pray to God that he survives the trauma, but you would call 911 for an ambulance.
Read more:   Malia LItman

“THE OFT-DEFEATED”—the OTHER Sarah Palin movie coming in June

SCENE 1: 1984
The film opens at the finals of the Miss Alaska Pageant, 1984.
LONG SHOT of contestants on stage.
VOICEOVER: “And the winner is……..”
CLOSEUP of expectant SARAH Heath
VOICEOVER: “Maryline Blackburn
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Joe McGinniss