Unlike next week’s Obama Bus Tour, taxpayers aren’t funding our tour, which is why we so appreciate your support in allowing us to be out there on the open road to visit with you to highlight small towns, big-hearted people, and the important role they play in our most exceptional nation.
The whole sentence"Show your support for the Fundamental Restoration of America and the One Nation Tour today!" is a link to this page:
Sarah Palin has made millions of dollars in the past 2 years, but she's not shy about using Alaskan's taxpayers money to defend herself in a lawsuit...
Sarah Pac doesn't receive tax money, just good, sweet OPM.
Her idiotic followers send her their cash so she can further divide her so-called One Nation and crash actual candidates' parties while she sits on the fence.
[H/T to the readers who renamed her bus]
Well, looking on the bright side, perhaps we'll be treated to another history lesson...
'I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'
Now Sarah Palin is a private citizen, with no title. Can she do whatever she wants? Will the courts stop her?
Sarah Palin's One Nation bus has encountered a legal roadblock. It was one of the best weeks of her life, but her gaudy bus breached some trademark laws.
Sarah Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC, is using a trademarked name for her current bus tour, opening her up to major liabilities that could potentially cause her to lose her bus.
This is part of a cease-and-desist letter Eustis sent to another group when they used his One Nation name:
"Your actions constitute trademark infringement and unfair competition under both state and federal law, including the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 1051-1127). Remedies for such infringement can include payment of actual and treble damages, recovery of profits, reimbursement of attorney's fees, and may also include injunctions against your further use of the Infringing Trademark and the seizure of infringing materials."
Oops! It wouldn't have been too much trouble for a professional team to do a few checks before spending a barrel of money decorating the bus and launching Sarah Palin's campaign to educate Americans about the country's history. Our friend Becky Mansour seems to be under the bus already (no new tweets since May 17). I wonder who's next.
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How can Sarah Palin qualify this tour as "one of the best weeks of my life" when her ten-year-old daughter appears to have had one of the most miserable weeks of her life? Oh, I forgot, a good mother always puts her own needs first.
"Thanks for ruining our vacation," Piper said to a Time photographer during the bus tour.
I hope Piper is having a better time since her mom's fantastic week.
This week promises to be a bit less enjoyable for Sarah Palin. Her e-mails are coming out later today, but we shouldn't get too excited until we see how much they've been redacted...
Sarah Palin arrived in Arizona to regroup before she hits the trail again. She needs a break from her family vacation. [So does Piper.]
The family vacation didn't have many members of the family enjoying it. One by one, they seemed to disappear, until there were only Piper, Sally and Chuck left.
Trig is only three years old and doesn't seem to fit in Sarah Palin's present schedule. I'm not saying she should continue to parade him up and down the country, but he was conspicuous by his absence from the family vacation visiting historic sites on the East Coast. It wasn't so much Trig's physical absence that was strange, but there wasn't a single mention of his existence, not a word about him.
Was he in Alaska, being cared for by another member of the family because the One Nation schedule would have been too punishing for him? Perhaps he was in Arizona and the first thing Sarah Palin did upon her arrival was put her arms around him for some perspective, so the rest of the things in the periphery would just go away?
I don't think Trig has set eyes on Sarah Palin in a long time. He's probably tucked away somewhere in Alaska, hopefully receiving all the things he needs from somebody compassionate enough.
"Wild Ride" transcript:
...but just absolutely perfect in our eyes and we’re just very, very, very blessed and, um it’s, it's a perfect situation for us when we first heard it was, ya know, kind of confusing and, and at first blush hearing the news it was you know, I… it was received by me for a couple of hours there after hearing the news as, uh, very, very challenging… even sad… that day but just knowing that there’s purpose in every situation… there’s certainly good purpose in every child. Just knowing that, um, we should feel blessed that, uh God would choose us...
Sarah Palin is fond of saying that every child has a purpose. I'm beginning to suspect that Trig has served his purpose and is no longer a very useful, manageable, cute prop.
Considering recent events, I think Piper has blown that gig as well and the older children don't seem to help Sarah's image very much...
Considering that the Palin clan seems to be allergic to seat belts, this sounds terribly dangerous for her family and for innocent people on the roads:
Journalists in the caravan trailing her One Nation tour bus describe the experience as harrowing, a rolling menace careening up the East Coast in hot pursuit of the former Alaska governor who declined to provide any advance itinerary of her tour over six days on the road.
As they left the clambake she attended Thursday in New Hampshire, Palin’s two-SUV caravan did 52 miles per hour in a 35 zone as it peeled away from the hosts’ neighborhood. Both cars blew through a stop sign about a mile later. They did 70 mph in a 55 mph zone on I-95 — and then, after they got off, without signaling, flew right past a flashing sign informing them they were going 45 mph in a 35 mph zone.
On Tuesday, the bus nearly hit a biker turning off of Pine Street in Philadelphia.
On Wednesday, after a police escort led the bus through a closed, section of the Lincoln Tunnel, the bus ran at least two red lights racing up Sixth Avenue and through Columbus Circle in Midtown Manhattan.
On Thursday, the story was much the same. Palin’s two SUVs — used for minor events and tight spaces — braved the tiny, winding streets of Boston’s North End. And when the bus joined them, the trailing car in the entourage ran two red lights after the bus barely made it through the yellow, as did the media caravan, leaving behind a traffic jam for the locals.
The reporters who are speeding, tailgating, cutting off other cars, blasting through roundabouts and passing on the right in an effort to keep up, say they have no other choice since they never know what Palin’s up to or where she’s headed — and aides typically won’t tell them anything.
Sarah Palin cares so much for Americans that she will put their lives at risk, starting with her own family. This irresponsible, callous, narcissistic woman thinks she's qualified to be president. She thinks that playing high speed games with the media is cute.
The media following her are just as irresponsible.
Have the traffic cops joined the media in giving her a pass?
You're not funny, Sarah Palin
If anything happens, she'll blame the media. The media will blame Sarah Palin. If her daughter or parents get killed in an accident, she'll play the victim. This is a very stupid game.
The East Coast leg of her wild ride has come to an end, but the reckless cat-and-mouse games will probably resume when she takes her circus to the Midwest and then to the West Coast.
How many more deaths are going to be attributed to Sarah Palin before somebody stops her?
SarahPAC is set up as an unconnected PAC, meaning that the usual restrictions on candidate committees don’t apply. Regular candidate committees, for example, are barred from converting campaign money to personal use.
As a result, unless Palin decides to formally explore a possible presidential run, she is free to spend the money raised by SarahPAC for “any lawful purpose” under federal law, experts said. That means it doesn’t matter whether the trip is a holiday, a political event or something in between.
“Not only can she use SarahPAC for a family vacation, she could use it for her home mortgage payments or anything else she wants,” said Paul S. Ryan, associate legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, an advocacy group focused on election laws
But the regular citizen who doesn't need a title wants people to believe it's all about educating Americans, using other people's money, what else?
"Governor" Palin launches campaign to "educate" Americans
So far, history professor Palin has described George Washington as a hardworking farmer and commercial fishpicker, distorted everything about Ellis Island and the "Statute" of Liberty and managed to rewrite Paul Revere's (dare I say it?) wild ride.
Sarah Palin will use anything and everything to keep all that nice money coming in: The flag, her own version of American history and her family...
It's clever to wrap oneself in the American flag and ride with bikers. It takes even more cleverness to rake in a fortune from Fox News and get treated like the Queen of England here in America. Ms. Palin is shrewd, calculated and knows how to manipulate the media. She also knows how to skirt the campaign finance laws.
However, what Sarah Palin "gets right" is her understanding of American stupidity. We have become a nation of celebrity worshipers who crave a "bread and circuses" existence. It might occur to this (wink-wink) non-candidate that there are real issues and serious decisions out there.
Sarah Palin's "magical, mystery tour" is an insult to folks like me who actually care about our nation. Furthermore, I'm disgusted by her pseudo-patriotism and embarrassing lack of intelligent rhetoric.
You know, Todd had this idea. He was reading on an airplane some months ago an article by Thomas Sowell, and in this article, Thomas Sowell was talking about our economy and how to get it back on the right track and how much of the solution has to do with the foundation of America.
Todd -- he texted me when he landed at the airport and said, You know, we need to remind America about our charters of liberty, about our Constitution, about our Declaration of Independence and how America was built on this idea of individual power within us, and then collectively, how we all work together to create this great union. We need to remind America how important it is to protect all that's good about America as written out in our Constitution and our Declaration of Independence. Go around the country and start talking about it.
[Can anybody imagine Todd actually writing that?]
It's not a publicity-seeking tour:
And it's not about me. It's not a publicity-seeking tour. It's about highlighting the great things about America. And the media can figure out where we're going if they do their investigative or they are going to keep kind of, as you put it, going crazy trying to figure out what we're doing.
"Sarah went that way!" a group of teenagers on a school trip yelled, helpfully pointing. When Palin and her group emerged from the building where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were crafted and started to cross Chestnut Street, the media mob charged down the sidewalk, scattering several groups of elementary school students.
"Watch the children!" a frightened chaperone yelled. "Don't step on the children!" (No injuries were reported.) The crush of people slowed the Palin family's progress, however. Annoyed daughter Piper, 10, pushed some camera lenses away from her.
Palin has said the PAC-financed bus trip is just a family vacation to historical sites, but nobody really believes that.
No, we don't believe that at all. Neither does a source who kows how Sarah Palin rolls, according to Shushannah Walshe:
After two days on the road, Palin now realizes a campaign “could be fun and exciting,” the source said, and she’s getting “more into the swing of things” as she tours and realizes “the press is not hostile to her.” The source added that a “big part” of the tour was husband Todd Palin’s idea; he wanted to get “back onto the road, get into the swing of things, and see how the family pulled together.”
Sarah Palin has changed her image since the visit to historical monuments in Washington DC on Sunday. Now she looks more like the old Sarah of the 2008 campaign
On a Sarah Pac post, Sarah Palin uses one her children to illustrate her point, as usual:
When Piper laid the wreath at George Washington's tomb this afternoon, I wished that every American school student could be here to see and feel the spirit of our nation's first father. Even Piper was able to grasp the significance of being in the presence of our first President - who had such diverse interests - when she told me later "how hard he must have worked to keep that farm going!" And then she added, "And can you believe he was a commercial fisherman, from DC?!"
There's so much to learn and absorb at Mt. Vernon. Washington was a very busy man who had a healthy reluctance to serve as President after having dedicated so many precious years in service to others while he lead the military. When he accepted the call to be our nation's first chief executive, he served for the right reasons. Though he loved his home at Mt. Vernon so much, this self-taught, "non politician" was willing to sacrifice his passion for farming, fishing, trade and commerce in order to answer another call of to lead the new nation.
Is she comparing herself to George Washington?
Referring to the president as chief executive reduces America to a business. That's exactly how Sarah Palin sees the whole shebang, it's all about money.
Of course, Sarah Palin couldn't charge a family vacation to Sarah Pac (not that the rules stopped her from charging the state of Alaska for her children's travel before...). The tour is non-political (financed by a Political Action Committee), it's an educational thing, it's not a publicity stunt ("Look at me, me, me!"), it's not campaigning (but I'll dress like I did in 2008, just in case). A number of our readers reckon she's looking presidential on this tour to get footage for future propaganda videos, you know, campaign ads... However, it's all being financed by her loyal supporters. Vacation or not, everything is conveniently paid with other people's money.
Grifters like to pretend they're regular folk, eating pizza like everybody else...
That's the family vacation/educational/publicity seeking/campaign tour so far...
Here's a silly tweet, complete with a typo or a new definition of a word:
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."
Pauline Hanson is an earlier version of Sarah Palin and she wrote a book also, too.
As we can see, Sarah Palin is not terribly original:
The similarities are uncanny. The ideology behind both women is frightening and their rhetoric disgusting. Neither of them knows the meaning of the word "shame."
Pauline Hanson served some time in jail for fraud. I fervently hope Sarah Palin copies that as well...