Sarah Palin to launch bus tour to "energize Americans"

Sarahpac.com

Updated at 4:25 p.m. ET

In one more sign Sarah Palin is preparing to enter the 2012 presidential race, the former Alaska governor announced today that she's embarking on a nationwide bus tour.

The bus tour was announced today on the website for Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC. It's "part of our new campaign to educate and energize Americans about our nation's founding principles, in order to promote the Fundamental Restoration of America," according to the site.

The tour will begin in Washington on Sunday and stop at "historical sites that were key to the formation, survival, and growth of the United States of America."

The bus tour is the latest indicator that Palin, who consistently ranks near the top of GOP presidential polls, will enter the race. Her recent build-up of staff, the upcoming release in Iowa of a pro-Palin documentary, and her reported purchase of a house in Arizona have suggested she is laying the groundwork for a campaign.

Palin will launch her tour by participating in Rolling Thunder, an annual Memorial Day weekend motorcycle rally, according to RealClearPolitics, and it will lead her through key early-voting states.

The trip will take Palin to New Hampshire for the first time since she ran as the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate, Politico reports, and will include stops at Civil War battlefields and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.

Update: Palin posted a message about the bus tour on her PAC website this afternoon, writing that the nation is at a "turning point." The trip, she said, will serve as a reminder of America's past that will help guide the nation through the future.

"We'll celebrate the good things that bring Americans together; those things that will give us the needed strength to meet the heady challenges ahead," she wrote. "I've said many times that America doesn't need a 'fundamental transformation,' instead we need a restoration of all that is good and strong and free in America!"

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[ivanw2]

Sarah Palin is a disgrace to America, a disgrace to Alaska, a disgrace to the office of Governor, and even the GOP. The last is quite a feat!

[justme2012]

Guess the posts directly below mine sum up the low class clothes line gossip world of the democrats. This is who they are in a nutshell. They hang their heads out their ghetto windows and discuss the sex lives of others because their lives are so boring they have nothing else to think about. pathetic

[san850]

*********Yawn********************

[san850]

I suppose we won't see Bristol on this bus. Just read that there is major "mama drama" between Sarah & Bristol. Seems that Bristol is reportedly dating her DWTS "friend", Kyle Massey and Sarah is highly upset about this and the fact that Bristol is moving in with him and his brother for her new "reality" show.

[san850]

P.S. Wonder if Bristol is still doing that abstinence thingy?

[Lindag10]

No wonder "Mama Bear" is upset, probably another grandchild looming on the horizon. This is better than Reality TV.

[dinkydog1]

Palins tour to "energize Americans" will send Democrats to the polls in droves.

Thanks Shara, your Obama's secret weapon for 2012.

(BTW,if your in sales, those Palin bumper stickers should help in finding those "easy marks" out there)

[san850]

Yep, Bon Voyage Sarah, and thanks for all those votes you will be drumming up for President Obama!

[san850]

......."Palin also has hurdles on the question of fitness for office. Some 67 percent of the country does not think she is qualified to be president, according to a Washington Post poll. Seventy percent of independent voters hold that view. Even among Republicans, 46 percent hold that view."

Only a fool and a narcissist like Sarah Palin would even THINK of running with such negative numbers. She is such an arrogant bimbo, and as usual just thumbing her nose at the American people.

She will ride around the country spreading her hate, fear, and lies in an effort to get more fools to jump on her bus. She should realize that rats are jumping from her bus now, not on it. Even her own party has turned against her.

[pointofgrille]

The excitement projected by your reporter Jan, seemed totally inappropriate. It immediately made me feel as if CBS power brokers have decided to focus on the possibility of a Palen run for the presidency with all the zeal of any business person hoping to make a bundle off the ignorance of the American voters. I think the voters might turn the table on all you corporate lackeys in 2012. Turncoats! You have replaced free press with corporate control of information. Are you not proud of yourself? Thieves of Democracy disguised as network TV. Certainly this has nothing to do with the true problems facing this nation while the right continues to try and cripple the middle and lower classes. Cronkite should come back from the dead, walk on stage and tell us the truth. As much chance of that happening as the chance you will report TRUTH!

[cowhide--2008]

if Palin reads the title of this piece, she will probably start beating the bus with a magnum of champagne.

[diggydog44]

Don't be surprised if she spends this time to test the waters, raise money $$$ and then for some unknown reason decides not to run.

[stinger35773]

Does Sarah even really know anything about American history or is she just going to keep spewing weak phony talking points from notes on her hand? I feel like opening a twitter account and just insult her all day long just to get a rise out of her.

[SJD-Fairfax]

I really hope that Palin does run for President, because she'll split the Republican Party allowing President Obama to retain his presidency. It's all good. Perhaps, it'll also convince states that we need to vote out these Republican screwballs from the Senate once and for all! Let's try some common sense for a change!