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		<title>Sarah Palin: Loaded for Bear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee reminds us that even without the reality shows, Fox contract and candidacy for, well, anything, that she&#8217;s still alive and kicking. This is latest video, entitled &#8220;Loaded for Bear.&#8221;And, just in case she&#8217;s totally off your radar, she is also writing a book putting the Christ back in Christmas.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=91505&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Game Change: What Sarah Palin Wants Us to Remember About 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Scherer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mama grizzlies at Sarah Palin&#8217;s political-action committee have a well-produced video up today that aims to do some damage control before the release of a not-so-favorable HBO dramatization of her role in the 2008 presidential campaign, based on a book co-written by TIME&#8217;s Mark Halperin. HBO is owned by the same company that signs my paycheck, and I work with Halperin, who consulted on the movie. I lived the 2008 campaign as a reporter following McCain and Palin for TIME, but I have not seen HBO&#8217;s rendition of it, so I am unable to comment on its accuracy. That said, there are some things that jump out in this SarahPAC video. &#8220;We know the truth,&#8221; the screen announces before providing us favorable contemporaneous commentary on Palin&#8217;s performance during the campaign. &#8220;A feisty, strong, tough and straight-talking governor,&#8221; says Nicolle Wallace, an adviser to McCain at the time. &#8220;A tremendous record of accomplishment, 80% approval rating,&#8221; adds top McCain strategist Steve Schmidt in another sound bite. (MORE: Palin Will Not Seek GOP Nomination) These are bizarre people to choose as Palin character witnesses. Since the campaign ended, Wallace has gone on the record saying that Palin &#8220;hated me from the beginning,&#8221; and she has accused Palin of writing a memoir of the campaign &#8220;based on fabrications.&#8221; Wallace has also revealed that the McCain campaign questioned Palin&#8217;s competency after she was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate. &#8220;There certainly were discussions – not for long, because of the arc the campaign took – but certainly there were discussions about whether, if they were to win, it would be appropriate to be sworn in,&#8221; Wallace said. A book Wallace recently wrote featured a fictional Vice President with a mental illness, a character Wallace said she based in part on Palin. That&#8217;s not all: &#8220;Palin vacillated between extraordinary highs on the campaign stage — she ignited more enthusiasm than our side had seen at any other point — to debilitating lows,&#8221; she said. &#8220;She was often withdrawn, uncommunicative and incapable of performing even the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=66978&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Once and Future Front Runner: Why Romney Is Winning in Florida and What Comes Next</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/01/30/why-romney-is-winning-in-florida-and-what-comes-next-for-the-once-and-future-front-runner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Halperin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Republican-primary season marked by political chaos, here&#8217;s something that finally seems settled: Mitt Romney will win the Tuesday, Jan. 31, Florida primary. So say the latest public polls, several of which suggest Romney has a double-digit lead over Newt Gingrich. So say Romney supporters, who have delighted in discombobulating the former Speaker with a week of overwhelming force from all directions. And so say many Gingrich backers, who are already looking past Tuesday&#8217;s contest to find states in which their candidate might live to fight another day. Winning is always better than losing, of course, but a Florida victory would be particularly sweet for Romney. For months, his advisers prepared for scenarios in which Romney lost the Iowa caucuses and the South Carolina primary and relied on a Florida victory to fast-track his march to the nomination. But they didn&#8217;t anticipate that Gingrich would be the one to win South Carolina or that a swirl of controversy over Romney&#8217;s business background, tax payments, weak debate performances and moderate record as governor would accompany the loss. (PHOTOS: The Rich History of Mitt Romney) Romney and his team have recovered in Florida by returning to attack mode and keeping pressure on Gingrich. They have flooded the TV and radio airwaves with ads, released a phalanx of Establishment supporters to engage with the media, sent pro-Romney members of Congress to rattle Gingrich at his campaign events and debuted a more aggressive Romney on the stump and in the most recent debate. Even Romney&#8217;s most optimistic backers could not have anticipated how thoroughly the former Speaker would be thrown off message by their assault. Just as in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Gingrich has faded rapidly in the polls and is now angrily defending himself against attacks that are accurate enough in parts to require a response and inaccurate enough in others to infuriate him. However unlikely, Romney could still lose to Gingrich in Florida, which would make his path to the nomination much tougher. If his South Carolina loss was<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=64803&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palin Will Not Seek the GOP Nomination</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/10/05/palin-will-not-seek-the-gop-nomination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will not seek the Republican nomination to challenge Barack Obama for the White House, she said in a statement sent to TIME. &#8220;After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States,&#8221; Palin wrote in a statement from her home in Wasilla, Alaska. &#8220;As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.&#8221; While she did not say who, if anyone, in the field she might endorse, Palin did say she would remain active in politics.  &#8221;I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets, including in the race for President,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;In the coming weeks I will help coordinate strategies to assist in replacing the President, re-taking the Senate, and maintaining the House.&#8221; Palin&#8217;s decision not to run, a day after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he would also not be seeking the nomination, means the current field is Republican candidates is likely to be it &#8212; especially as ballot deadlines rapidly approach at the end of the month. Her full statement is after the jump: Wasilla, Alaska After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order. My decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office &#8211; from the nation&#8217;s governors to Congressional seats and the Presidency. We need<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=57607&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep an Eye on Wasilla: Is Palin Nearing a Decision?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/10/04/keep-an-eye-on-wasilla-is-palin-nearing-a-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has always worked according to her own clock and cared little for the timing of others. Through most of the summer, the smart money in Washington has been betting she would not run&#8211;and she&#8217;s checking in at just 9% in the latest national horse-race poll. But Palin has a way of proving the experts wrong. She alone has had the name recognition and star power to jump in late and still make a go of the 2012 GOP primary.   If pro-Palin websites are to be believed, she’s still very much on the verge of jumping in. A recent post along these lines comes from conservatives4Palin.com:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=57125&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s Latest Cover</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/07/11/palins-latest-cover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Newsweek cover shots of Sarah Palin go, this was by far the best. Or this: If only a photo could a story make. I have to agree with The Atlantic&#8216;s Joshua Green whose response can be summed up as: Yawn. The New Republic put it in its pantheon of 13 best Palin non-stories. Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post likened the shot to a Maxim or GQ cover, but lacking the gravitas of, well, a President. And, frankly, what did we learn from this 7,000-word story? She says she can win. She said the same thing nine months ago. Obama&#8217;s beatable &#8212; again, she&#8217;s been saying this for months. And the timing is curious: she&#8217;s not announcing a bid and she&#8217;s not really influencing anything much right now, so&#8230;.?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=51955&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin&#8217;s E-mail Etiquette</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/06/12/sarah-palins-e-mail-etiquette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thus far, the 25,000 pages of Sarah Palin’s e-mails from her first year and a half as governor, released by the state of Alaska on Friday, have yielded no bombshells. By all accounts, they show a pre-vice presidential Palin who is warm, writing a friend’s prospective landlord directly to offer a reference. She’s down to earth, laughing off a crotchety state senator&#8217;s complaints that her daughter Willow snuck the family’s puppy, Indi, into the Capitol. She’s bi-partisan in her correspondence with legislators; she even praises then Senator Obama’s energy ideas as “pretty cool.&#8221;  And she’s involved in the details of governing from requests to open a sanctuary to bear hunting to taking her state’s emergency services to task for not keeping her better informed about a disaster they were responding to. Though the state fought to block the release of the e-mails, the press coverage of them has been largely positive. And at least one Palin aide described the cache to me as the perfect antidote to a book that hit stands this month by former staffer Frank Bailey entitled, Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin. Bailey, who comes off as a very bitter former employee, reprinted dozens of Palin’s emails to him – many of them nasty. In the e-mails released this week, Palin appears more nice than nasty. (Though, it’s worth bearing in mind that these are only e-mails from her official account and do not include her unofficial Gmail account, which she often used to communicate with staff particularly on sensitive matters, knowing that the state’s emails were subject to the Freedom of Information Act, which is how these caches were obtained.) It is her flair for drama that sent more than 30 national reporters to Juneau for the release of the papers, though most have been disappointed with how pedestrian the e-mails have turned out to be. Most news stories have focused on the period right before she was picked. Her genuine shock at her selection is apparent. “Can you believe it!” she wrote to a staffer<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=49860&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin the Movie: A Distribution Deal and a Sneak Peek</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/06/10/sarah-palin-the-movie-a-distribution-deal-and-a-sneak-peek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Bannon announced Friday morning that his $1 million, two-hour cinematic opus on Sarah Palin’s political career will be distributed by AMC Theaters, the second largest theater chain in the U.S. with 5,325 screens. The Palin film will not be hitting all those screens, though, just those in 10 U.S. locales: Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Atlanta, Orange County, Phoenix, Houston, Indianapolis and Kansas City for an as-of-yet determined run. &#8220;AMC is committed to providing distinct content to diverse audiences across the United States,&#8221; Nikkole Denson-Randolph, VP, Specialty &#38; Alternative Content at AMC Theatres said in the press release.  “We are proud to consistently offer a wide variety of product to our guests.” The move, The Undefeated, will hit theaters on July 15. (PHOTOS: Sarah Palin&#8217;s wild bus tour) While Palin fans will surely be over the moon about this – the film is largely, well, fawning – the GOP leadership won&#8217;t be too psyched. I saw a rough cut of the movie yesterday along with a few other reporters in Arlington, Virginia. The movie follows Palin’s rise from mayor of Wasilla to governor and then vice presidential nominee. It painstakingly explains her decision to quit the governor’s office after half a term – a potential sticking point with voters – because dozens of mostly frivolous ethics complaints were bankrupting her family and costing the state millions of dollars to investigate. But, the most striking section of the movie comes in the final chapter entitled, “From Here I Can See November.” The quote comes from Palin’s speech in April in Madison, Wisconsin, a moment, Bannon says, that he believes will go down in history as pivotal for the Republican Party and in American history. In the speech, Palin goes after the GOP establishment with a fury. “I’ll take on the GOP establishment. What more can they say about us, you know?” she rails. &#8220;Game on!&#8221; (Is Palin running for President? A set of improbable coincidences.) Those comments are followed by Andrew Breitbart, a conservative publisher and commentator, who calls Republican<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=49763&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s WTF Moment</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/06/09/palins-wtf-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin this morning posted a facebook note entitled, “Another &#8216;WTF&#8217; Obama Foreign Policy Moment*” In it she talks about an op-ed by former CIA director James Woolsey in Foreign Policy Magazine that accuses the Obama Administration of freely giving away missile defense technology to the Russians. “President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift,” Palin argues. &#8221;But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb.” There are many aspects of this post that are meant to draw the eye. First is the acronym, WTF. In popular culture, WTF alludes to “What the f—k?” The former Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee is well aware of this. But in this case she’s using it as a play on Obama’s reelection slogan. The asterisk, added later, explains: *As many readers have pointed out “WTF” is for “Winning The Future,” President Obama’s re-election campaign slogan. This isn’t the first time Palin has made this particular joke. The night of the State of the Union, she poked fun of the acronym to Greta Van Susteren on Fox News. Speaking of poking fun, the topic is also an interesting one for Palin who made headlines when she was first picked as John McCain’s running mate for arguing that Alaska’s proximity to Russia gave her foreign policy experience. Here she is talking to ABC’s Charlie Gibson: GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you? PALIN: They&#8217;re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska. It was an unfortunate line in that comedian Tina Fey would soon mock it in an impersonation of Palin. “I can see Alaska from my house,” Fey quipped on Saturday Night Live, in one of the most memorable parodies of the campaign. Coming back at the issue now, Palin is trying to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=49700&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s Set of Improbable Coincidences</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/06/02/palins-set-of-improbable-coincidences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin says she’s not (yet) running for President. But her week long “learning” bus tour of historical sites just happens to end in the politically important first primary state of New Hampshire where she just happens to be holding her only “event” of the trip – a clambake. And, by the way, she has two more bus tours coming up: Iowa and South Carolina. Just coincidentally, there are the other two most important early primary states. PHOTOS: Palin&#8217;s Road Trip Palin also just happens to be making her first, much anticipated stop in the Granite State in three years on the same day that GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney is officially announcing his candidacy in New Hampshire. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s exciting for him, that&#8217;s great for him,&#8221; Palin told reporters at her Boston hotel Thursday morning before touring historical sites along Boston&#8217;s Freedom Trail. &#8220;It&#8217;s coincidental that we are in the same territory at the same time, but more power to Mitt as he mounts his campaign and best of luck to him.&#8221;At the next stop at Bunker Hill, Palin went after the universal health care plan Romney put in place as governor of Massachusetts as &#8220;tough for a lot of us independent Americans to accept&#8221; because the mandate to buy health insurance constituted &#8220;government telling us what to do.&#8221; Palin went on to say that winning Tea Party support would be “a big challenge for [Romney.” Coincidentally, her family friend and the candidate she backed for Senate in Alaska, Joe Miller, just happened to announce Thursday that a large Tea Party group he&#8217;s leading will work to ensure Romney&#8217;s not the nominee. Palin says she is not inviting media attention on her family vacation. But she’s driving around a giant bus painted with “One Nation; Sarah Palin” on the side and a banner at the back reading: Join the “Fundamental Restoration of America”. And while the rest of her family is in flip-flops and shorts, she’s dressing in candidate- style clothing: skirts and heels and jackets with tiny American<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=49206&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;s Back: Sarah Palin Returns to the Spotlight</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/06/01/shes-back-sarah-palins-return-to-the-spotlight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the media chasing Sarah Palin’s tour bus up the East Coast and buzz about her presidential prospects renewed, TIME&#8217;s Feifei Sun looks at the former Alaska governor’s exploits on the trail in 2011<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=49052&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Palin Road Trip Diaries: Coffee With &#8216;Real Americans,&#8217; Pizza With Donald Trump</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/31/the-palin-road-trip-diaries-coffee-with-real-americans-pizza-with-donald-trump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stops: 4 &#8212; Gettysburg National Civil War Park, coffee in Dillsburg, Penn., the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and Famous Famiglia Pizzeria in New York City Miles: 239 Tanks of gas: 1 Number of Palin sightings: 3 The surreal third Day of Sarah Palin&#8217;s pseudo-political bus tour through the mid-Atlantic started off in Gettysburg, Penn., where she visited the battlefield and the national soldier’s memorial. After a brief tour, she and an assortment of family and friends gathered for a group photo at the memorial. She greeted a few fans on her way out, including Janita Carlton, a 50-year-old homemaker from Green Forest, Arkansas, who waited nine and a half hours at the Gettysburg memorial on Monday when she heard the former Alaska governor was coming for a visit. “I was disappointed yesterday – it was hot!” Carlton said – the temperatures topped 100 degrees at the park. “But today we’re going to finally see the field. And it was so worth it to meet her! There’s hardly a politician I’d do this for.”  Who else? “Mike Huckabee, I love him not just because he’s from Arkansas but because I think we needed someone with his values in the race – with Sarah’s values, too,” Carlton says. What about Barack Obama? “No way!” Mitt Romney? “Hmmm, don’t think so.” Tim Pawlenty or Jon Huntsman? “Who?” (PHOTOS: She’s Back. Sarah Palin on the Road in 2011) Palin then moved on to Dillsburg, Penn. (named for the town’s first settler, Matthew Dill, according to a sign) and picked up what she called &#8220;what I heard is the best coffee in town” at Coffee Express on South Baltimore Street. She greeted cafe-goers and took a couple of questions from reporters. One diner told Palin that he’s concerned about government spending. “See reporters?” Palin, sporting a white jacket with a pink leaf pattern, an American and Israeli flag pin, black pencil skirt and heels, said as she turned to the 20 members of the media crammed into the coffee shop behind her. “Don’t ask me<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=49040&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palin and Trump Meet Tonight</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/31/palin-and-trump-meet-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 20:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will they be discussing politics? I doubt it. Not sure either one is very interested in politics, aside from its self-promotional possibilities. I mean, think of what these two really have in common, aside from shamelessness: Reality TV. Can Celebrity Apprentice: Alaska be on the agenda? And so, a contest: What else will these two gigantic members of the Hype Hall of Fame be discussing tonight?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=49001&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road With Sarah Palin: A Conversation at Gettysburg</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/30/on-the-road-with-sarah-palin-a-conversation-at-gettysburg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 02:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Sarah Palin was a child, her parents would pile their four kids in the car and take road trips across Alaska and Canada. “In our old car that the front door didn’t open and we all had to climb over the back seat,” Sally Heath, her mother, said on Sunday as she gazed at Palin’s swanky painted bus parked for the night outside a Marriott hotel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, just one stop on the former Alaska governor&#8217;s “learning tour” of historical sites up the mid-Atlantic coast. “We did a lot of outdoor things, hunting fishing camping,” her father, Chuck Heath, said. “This time we haven’t packed the tents,” his wife joked. Indeed, Sarah Palin’s family road trip has turned into a media circus. Dozens of televisions stations staked out three different spots at Gettysburg National Civil War Park all day in the slim hope of catching a glimpse of the former vice presidential nominee. Dozens more followed her bus as it made its way from the National Archives Sunday morning to Mount Vernon and Fort McHenry in Baltimore before ending up at the Marriott in Gettysburg. What did the Heaths make of all the attention? “It was unexpected because I really didn’t think that any body would notice &#8212; except now that I see the bus, I could see how it would attract attention,” Sally Heath said. “It wasn’t advertised or anything so I didn’t expect anyone to notice because I know you all have a million other things to do, to cover.” (Why Sarah Palin is playing hard-to-get.) Apparently not. Reporters from every major media outlet spent all day Sunday trolling for hints of Palin’s next stop on the bus tour. The Times of London sent two reporters. CNN, billing the whole affair “Palin’s Historic Bus Tour,” sent a small army. When the elusive Palin  finally emerged from the hotel wearing a white Alaska running store t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, 30 reporters converged on her to ask a barrage of questions as she posed for pictures with fans.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=48937&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palin Plays Hard to Get</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/29/palin-plays-hard-to-get/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 03:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost any politician in the U.S. follows tried and true patterns when dealing with the media. They alert the media of an upcoming event, the media shows up, photos are taken, cameras roll. Sometimes questions follow. And then the media goes home. But not Sarah Palin. Palin alerted the media to the first stop on her northeastern road trip: the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally in Washington, D.C. But after some event organizers expressed displeasure on Friday over her plans to attend the event, Palin&#8217;s staff refused to comment about the appearance and some reporters wondered if she’d even show up. No time was given – the event lasted from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. No venue was given – Rolling Thunder’s course goes for more than five miles from Arlington cemetery around the National Mall. The annual charity for prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action draws a quarter of a million bikes and an estimated 900,000 participants – good luck finding the Palin family amid all that. Amazingly, some media did (bravo, AP&#8217;s Phil Elliott), though the former Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee mostly declined to answer questions. She signed jackets and hats, shook hands and admired tattoos. She rode on the back of her daughter Willow’s Harley. Todd Palin rode with their youngest daughter Piper. Their eldest daughter Bristol rode separately, according to media reports. Palin had “rolling justice” written in smeared ink on one hand and a George W. Bush sticker on her bike reading, “Miss me?” &#8220;There’s no better way to see D.C. than on the back of a Harley! My family may be used to snowmachines more so than motorcycles,&#8221; Palin wrote on her political action committee&#8217;s website. &#8220;But whether you’re riding the open road or the frozen tundra, you’re celebrating a free spirit. What could be more American than that?&#8221; After the rally, Palin took an “incognito” tour of Washington monuments, about which she blogged.  “We met some great everyday citizens who were also &#8220;taking it all in&#8221; in honor of the greatest<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=48913&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin 2012: Will She or Won&#8217;t She?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/27/sarah-palin-2012-will-she-or-wont-she/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 21:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For much of 2010, Sarah Palin kept the media whipped into a frenzied state over one question: Will she or won’t she run for President? Reporters picked apart every move from pragmatic candidate endorsements in early primary states to her mama bear-references on her Alaska-themed reality show. This means she will. That means she won’t. Fast forward six months &#8212; Palin has kept a mostly low profile, and had one bad misstep when she released a tone-deaf video in the wake of the Gabby Gifford’s shooting. Just as the media stopped caring and found other shiny toys to play with, Palin comes back to taunt us with the possibility of a run. This time around she’s showing a little more leg. She went on Fox News and said she has “a fire in her belly” to run. She&#8217;ll be the focus of a feature-length film, entitled &#8220;The Undefeated,&#8221; premiering in Iowa. She’s taking a “learning” bus tour of historical sites ending in New Hampshire. She’s bought a home in Arizona where her staff has been mulling setting up a campaign headquarters for a potential presidential run. She’s even beefed up her staff, finally hiring a chief of staff. However: Her inner circle is equally cautious not to “read too much” into her recent moves. “No decisions have been made,” they repeat over and over. Fox News is secure enough that she’s not running that they’ve yet to cancel her contract like they did with New Gingrich and Rick Santorum. Palin hasn’t hired – or even reached out to – staff in any of the early states, and all the good organizers are quickly getting snapped up by other candidates. She hasn’t announced an exploratory committee, so any money that she’s raising right now goes to her leadership political action committee and couldn’t be used for a presidential run. It&#8217;s true, as Karl Rove put it on Greta Van Susteren Thursday night, that Palin’s name recognition and devoted base gives her the luxury of a late entry. “I don&#8217;t think she<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=48890&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin&#8217;s &#8220;Learning&#8221; Tour: A Revolutionary Road Trip?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/26/sarah-palin-announces-a-revolutionary-road-trip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 17:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the annual Rolling Thunder event in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, Sarah Palin will kick off a week-long tour of U.S. historical sites. She will be accompanied by her husband Todd and daughter Piper. &#8220;The tour will originate in Washington, D.C., and will proceed north up the east coast,&#8221; reads a statement from her PAC. &#8220;More information will follow.&#8221; Palin has no scheduled speeches or rallies, though there may be some events she’s already been invited to along the way that she will participate in, according to Tim Crawford, her PAC treasurer. “It’s a learning tour,” Crawford says, “a tour of getting back to places that were key to the founding of this nation. There are a number of places from revolutionary war on that are significant to our nations history in the northeast.” The tour, combined with a forthcoming independently produced film about her tenure as Alaska&#8217;s governor, is sure to drum up speculation that Palin is planning to run for President, something that would radically shakeup the current field of Republican contenders. She has always said that she would be an unconventional candidate and the newly announced tour is certainly unconventional. One can only imagine the mob scene when the bus, emblazoned with &#8220;Join the Fundamental Restoration of America,&#8221; pulls up to Gettysburg with hundreds of reporters in tow. Crawford would not confirm any of stops aside from Rolling Thunder. But north of Washington, there are some very obvious sites of historical significance. A few possibilities: Antietam in Maryland, Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, the site where Washington crossed the Delaware River, the Liberty Bell and Constitution Hall in Philadelphia, the Boston Tea Party and – perhaps most important politically – Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where Paul Revere delivered his warning of the coming British invasion. We&#8217;ll soon know whether Palin&#8217;s trip is also an indication of major changes to come.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=48796&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s Arizona Headquarters?</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/24/palins-arizona-headquarters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona’s rocky red deserts are certainly a long way from Lake Lucille in Wasilla, Alaska. But, if the reports are true, it looks like Sarah &#38; Todd Palin may have just bought themselves a new second home. It is common for wealthy Alaskans to have second homes in &#8220;the lower 48&#8243; or even Hawaii – somewhere to escape to during the long winter. And Arizona certainly provides a lot of Vitamin D-rich sunlight. Since Palin was picked by Arizona Senator John McCain to be his vice presidential running mate, the whole Palin clan has made regular visits to the state. They spent much of last winter there, arriving the day after the midterm elections, and made several pit stops during both of her book tours. Their daughter Bristol even bought a condo in Maricopa, Arizona last year, though she’s now moving to Los Angeles for her new reality show. But, there might be an ulterior motive behind the purchase. It is prohibitively expensive to base a presidential campaign out of faraway Anchorage. Just try getting from Alaska to New Hampshire in under 12 hours and for less than $1,000. Basing a campaign in or near the Beltway would send the wrong message for Palin, who considers herself anti-establishment. So, where does that leave her? Palin knows Phoenix well and her last campaign – as veep – was based out of there. It’s not so far from early primary states such as Iowa, Nevada and California. And not prohibitively far from New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida. Plus, it’s a general election swing state already being targeted by the Obama campaign. Of course, all of this is speculation. But given the state of the GOP field… Didn’t Palin always say she’d run “if no one else steps up” with the values and platform she’d like to see?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=48643&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Reasons Not to Count Sarah Palin Out for 2012</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/04/18/five-reasons-not-to-count-palin-out-for-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conventional wisdom inside the Beltway is that Sarah Palin’s relatively low profile means she’s peaked, she’s over, she’s not running for President. I’m not so sure. In fact, I think all signs point to Palin laying the tracks for a run. Here are five reasons not to count out a Palin candidacy: 1.    She just launched a new website yesterday that could significantly boost her grassroots outreach and fundraising. On the site, supporters can ask Palin to appear at events, donate money to her political action committee and follow her latest musings on Facebook and Twitter. No, this isn’t a website for corporations looking to hire a speaker for $100,000 a pop &#8212; the kind of speech Palin&#8217;s been giving for the last two years. “I guess people could request almost anything but this is more for grassroots political events,” says Tim Crawford, SarahPAC’s treasurer.  “Any corporate engagements we’d pass immediately on to the Washington Speaker’s Bureau,” which books Palin’s paid speeches. This is Palin&#8217;s first serious foray into online fundraising that harnesses her social network popularity. It will be interesting when her PAC reports its fundraising numbers in July how much dough the new site brings in. Sure, she’s still giving paid speeches and commenting on Fox News (unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum). But this website is the clearest indication yet that she’s turning away from money making to focus on politics. 2.    Palin has said repeatedly that she’d only get into the race if there was no other viable candidate. “I would consider it if there is no one else running who represents the common sense principles our country needs to secure our children and grandchildren’s futures,” she told me last November. Now, let’s look at the brouhaha stirred up by Donald Trump; can we seriously say the base isn’t hankering for a candidate with a little more flair?  Unlike her more cautious potential rivals &#8211; ahem, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty &#8212; she didn&#8217;t just praise Paul Ryan for his budget &#8212; she actually endorsed the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=45734&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s Parents: Sleeping with Guns</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/03/07/palins-parents-sleeping-with-guns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC&#8217;s premier news magazine program, Newsnight, has a story out today on Sarah Palin (full disclosure, I was interviewed for it). They went up to Alaska where they interviewed Palin and, more interestingly, her parents. I wish I could embed the video, but, alas, BBC doesn&#8217;t allow it. So here&#8217;s the link. Palin&#8217;s parents, Sally &#38; Chuck Heath, told the BBC that the whole family has received threats and the FBI even had to detain at least one man. An excerpt on their concerns about her potential presidential bid: &#8220;As a mother I do have concerns about her safety and that of the kids&#8230; she knows how I feel, that it&#8217;s risky,&#8221; Sally said. Palin&#8217;s father Chuck said a man recently had sent the family photocopies of a receipt for a gun he had bought, together with a photocopy of a one-way ticket to Alaska. The family had laughed it off, but the man subsequently turned up in the state and was arrested by the FBI, Chuck said. &#8220;We sleep with the guns,&#8221; Palin&#8217;s father admitted. Palin also addressed her potential bid: &#8220;You run the race to win the race. That&#8217;s for sure.&#8221; &#8220;Obama has already said he&#8217;s going to spend a billion dollars (£615.4m) on this race, so money is certainly going to be a consideration,&#8221; Sarah Palin told me. &#8220;And just the idea of whether the American electorate is ready for someone a bit unconventional, who is willing to tell it as she sees it, not be beholden to special interest or such obsessive partisanship as to let a political machine get in the way of doing what&#8217;s right for the voters.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=41853&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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