Sarah Palin: Mixed Or NO Messages

Sarah Palin went on a recent whirlwind tour in the Sarah Palin tour-bus the past Memorial Day weekend.

For what reason?

When one customarily takes off in this fashion, it clearly means that one is running for some kind of office. Sarah Palin has announced nothing, yet we find her in some kind of obvious Campaign Mode.

Campaign Mode for what?

No one knows. Does she know? She isn't saying.

Oddly enough, Politico.com (and I'm not a fan of Politico these days) nails it when they write:

Day 2 of Sarah Palin’s bus tour, and the former vice presidential nominee has prompted little more than confusion over exactly what she is up to.

Though Fox News captured Palin saying, as she got off the bus at one stop, that she thought a Republican could beat President Barack Obama in next year’s election, she has done little to encourage belief that the trip is a precursor to a 2012 run of her own.

“This isn’t a campaign bus,” Palin said, according to reports. “This is a bus to be able to express to America how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested in all that is good about America and to remind ourselves we don’t need to fundamentally transform America, we need to restore what’s good about America.”

Hello?

If you're not running, then what are you doing? And for whom are you raising money? You don't have SarahPAC for nothing.

Initially, I liked Palin's guts. I admired her stance. But the more I got to know her and then examine her path, the less I had to admire. When she stepped away from the governorship of one of the easiest states in the Union to control -- for her family -- I knew that she simply wasn't Presidential material. Because if she couldn't wrestle in the political mud of a lesser state, then she was hopelessly outmatched on a national level for President.

You can or will either gut the intestines of your opponents or you won't. Politics is that way.

Further, though she speaks an initial good line, I began to examine what she really brought to the table. And I submit that she has done little, if anything, to increase her broader knowledge of history and/or world affairs.

She thinks too small. And she shows me no interest in large-scale learning.

In the meantime, whilst she conducts bus tours, I ask again: why is she doing this and why hasn't she announced and -- further -- if she isn't a candidate then where is the money she raises going?

BZ