Sarah Palin bus tour not dead, but still shrouded in mystery
Sarah Palin鈥檚 bus tour has not been cancelled, if you haven鈥檛 heard. It鈥檚 on hiatus. Ex-Gov. Palin took to social media yesterday to complain that news reports about the end of her One Nation motorized vacation were in error.
She said on her Facebook page that the coming weeks are busy for her due to civic responsibilities 鈥� she鈥檚 been called for jury duty.
鈥淭he next leg of the tour continues when the time comes. In the meantime, no one should jump to conclusions 鈥� certainly not the media with their long track record of getting things wrong or just making things up,鈥� wrote Ms. Palin .
Look, we鈥檒l be the first to agree that the media isn鈥檛 all Ted Koppels. A traveling press pack can seem like a bunch of circus clowns. (Remember the astronaut movie 鈥淭he Right Stuff鈥�? A as the Permanent Press Corps.) But we think that in this case, Palin protesteth a bit too much.
She announces her bus tour, hits a number of prominent East Coast spots without advertising her plans, and then disappears, without bothering to upthat鈥檚 supposedly chronicling her travels for supporters.
We get that she does not care to hand feed the media her schedule. But if you鈥檙e a political star and you make a big deal about something and then vanish, the press is going to fill that news vacuum for you. To complain about that is like complaining that the dogs ate the steaks you left in the yard overnight.
Plus, on her Twitter page Palin took another shot the ragged hacks of journalism, praising her daughter Bristol鈥檚 new book 鈥淣ot Afraid of Life鈥� while saying it reveals how 鈥渕edia can drive false narrative鈥�.
You don鈥檛 see Michele Bachmann getting into arguments with the press over stuff like this. Maybe she realizes that it can block out the more positive messages she wants to push through the media clutter.
Anyway, now we that we know the One Nation tour will resume, where will Palin go? She hasn鈥檛 said, so we鈥檒l speculate into that vacuum for her.
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK. A Palin visit to this popular Maine spot would show she鈥檚 not afraid to go after President Obama 鈥� he went here last year. Also Maine has a new governor who鈥檚 a tea party favorite.
NIAGARA FALLS. A chance to promote the years-long honeymoon of a marriage she鈥檚 enjoyed with First Dude Todd. Also, the water boiling over the falls could easily be compared to the flood of deficit spending that鈥檚 threatening our children鈥檚 heritage.
THE ALAMO. This is an obvious stopover for Palin鈥檚 bus. An Alamo appearance would give her the opportunity to talk about militia and guns again, like she did at Paul Revere鈥檚 House. Plus, a swing through Texas might bug her frenemy Rick Perry, the Lone Star governor who, like Palin, might run for President, and yet might not.
