As Sarah Palin took to the stage to the sound of enthusiastic applause and the crowd yelling, “Run Sarah…Run”,  I was immediately reminded of the rally’s location, “Balloon Classic Field”.  It was the perfect venue for a candidate filled with hope and rising expectations.  She delivered a forty minute campaign-style speech that marked three years to the day since she accepted the nomination as the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate.  It  was also delivered entirely without the aid of a teleprompter.  She told the crowd that we’ll know by the end of the month as to whether or not she’ll be throwing her hat into the ring. If she does decide to run at this later date,  I’m sure by December no one will care WHEN she announced. 
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Full schedule for ‘Restoring America’ rally in Indianola: music, prayer and Sarah Palin

Today’s rally will be carried live on C-SPAN from 12-2pm eastern.  For the full schedule of today’s rally see below.
(DesMoinesRegister)…A grassy field in Iowa will become the scene of a festival of conservative rhetoric and patriotic music Saturday, while television cameras capture the event for a nationwide audience.The star attraction, Alaska Republican Sarah Palin, will speak at about 1:15 p.m. at the Tea Party of America’s “Restoring America” rally in Indianola, organizer Charlie Gruschow told The Des Moines Register today.  Palin won’t reveal during the event whether or not she intends to seek the 2012 GOP nomination, CNN’s Peter Hamby reports. But the event falls on the three-year anniversary of her address to the Republican National Convention when she became the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, he notes.   (more…)

(Politico)(h/t PhillyCon)…Fox News released its first poll Thursday since Rick Perry’s entry into the presidential race, showing the Texas governor drawing 26 percent of the GOP primary vote and leading Mitt Romney by 8 points.  What caught one reader’s attention, though, wasn’t the size of Perry’s lead, but the name of Fox’s Republican pollster: Shaw & Company Research, a Texas-based firm that conducts the Fox survey in cooperation with the Democratic pollster Anderson Robbins Research.
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Remember…these are the same guys that like to hang out in front of polling centers.  They got away with it in 2008…what message do you think that sent them for 2012? 
(The Blaze)…Disturbing new YouTube videos have surfaced allegedly showing notorious New Black Panther Party member King Samir Shabazz teaching “black survival” training to a small audience — with children sitting in the front row.  In each of the three videos, uploaded June 6, 2011, the man identified as Shabazz graphically demonstrates self-defense tactics using a variety of weapons, including a handgun, a machete and a baseball bat:  (more…)

7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Felt Off Alaska; Local Tsunami Warning Lifted…

Sep 2, 2011 — The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has not issued a warning, watch or advisory at this time for areas outside where the quake occurred. But the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center has posted a warning for local areas.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 has been detected in a remote area of the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, about 1,000 miles west southwest of Anchorage, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.  (more…)

The “Restoring America Event” takes place tomorrow, Sept. 3rd, and it’s quickly shaping up to be ground zero for the political in crowd.   Governor Sarah Palin, the featured speaker, is scheduled to take the stage at high noon, at the National Balloon Classic Field in Indianola, Iowa.  For those of you unable to be there, C-SPAN will be broadcasting the speech live. 
Meanwhile, talking heads continue their swirl of conjecture as to her possible announcement for president.  Will Palin’s focus on Obama’s failure to stick to his campaign rhetoric be a foundation for other conservative candidates in 2012, or is she laying the foundation for her own campaign?   Whatever the outcome, of one thing we can be sure….she will continue to “fight like a girl”.  (more…)

Iowa Ruckus Exclusive: Palin Will Not Run For President (?)

(TIR)(h/t JRD)-As I jumped in my car yesterday and headed home from work, I immediately recognized the raspy, Texas-seasoned voice coming across Newsradio 1040 WHO.  It was Ken Crow, founder of Tea Party of America, the organization sponsoring this weekend’s “Restoring America Event,” which will feature former Alaska Governor and 2008 Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. (more…)

Palin Will Attend Iowa Rally After O’Donnell Is Disinvited (Again)

Thanks to a novice group of Tea Party operatives, or as Ken Crow refers to himself – an “old cowboy”, and a hyperactive media…what should have been a simple event has become a messaging muddle.     (more…)

Sarah Palin is the puppeteer. We, the media, are her puppets.

(WashingtonPost)…Since rising to national prominence during the 2008 presidential campaign, the former Alaska governor has demonstrated an uncanny ability to not only draw media attention but manipulate that coverage when and how she chooses.
“For someone out of elected office and not running for anything, Palin has a near singular ability to capture the media’s attention,” said Christian Ferry who served as deputy campaign manager for Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential bid. “If you take her at her word, which I do, she doesn’t know if she is going to run for president, but she knows she has this power with the media and she is smart to use it.”
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Tea party group re-invites O’Donnell to Iowa rally — and she accepts…

(DelawareOnline)…It appears Christine O’Donnell will speak Saturday at a tea party rally in Iowa after all.
After dropping O’Donnell from the lineup of conservative speakers earlier today, the Tea Party of America group has re-invited her to speak at its “Restoring America” event in Indianola, Iowa, according to the group’s founder and O’Donnell. (more…)