Palin's Bus Hoax - She's Not Riding Around The Country On Bus Like Me and You; She's Jetsetting On A $4000/Hour Private Plane

I wonder if her kids are in school. They do make a fine prop, though. Gives her that hockey mom air that people love so much.

LOL, has she ever even ATTENDED a hockey game? I have a feeling it's like the homemaker label she likes to give herself...she likes the term, but in practice, it's "too hard". Besides, you can't attend hockey games or keep house when you are going on Oprah and flying a private jet around the country.

Trig isn't old enough for school. Piper is 7 or 8, but there is this new thing called tutors.

Palin should discover them. When they interviewed Piper on "Today" after the campaign, she commented that it was really hard to catch up with all the school work she missed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/11/piper-palin-talks-to-toda_n_143097.html?page=4&show_comment_id=17916567#comment_17916567

LOL, has she ever even ATTENDED a hockey game?

Aside from the Philly game where she got boo'd off the ice?

Yeah, apparently, she did go:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/us/12hockeymom.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&hp

Not a very flattering look at how she raised her son, though... Apparently the kid had a real temper issue on the ice.

Yes, we pay for first ladies' jets. Is that a surprise to you?

The difference between Sarah and Michelle is that we taxpayers pay for Michelle's private jet.

one of the many differences between a winner and a loser.

one of the many differences between a winner and a loser

What exactly was it that Michelle won. I was under the impression it was her husband that was elected.

This has nothing to do with Michelle Obama.

It is Sarah Palin who is trying to create the impression that she is part of the Greyhound crowd, while she is really a private jet kinda girl.

It's your vote she may get one day, so focus on her dishonesty and don't deflect it, pathetically.

Untruth teller! Untruth teller! Trousers aflame!

Who cares if my tax dollars arent paying for it.

anyone who gives any time or thought to sarah palin is wasting both.

The difference between Sarah and Michelle is that we taxpayers pay for Michelle's private jet.

I thought Rickace was referring to Michelle Bachmann. Now that is a woman who would fleece the taxpayer with no conscience (and no brains, unlike the brilliant Michelle Obama).

anyone who gives any time or thought to sarah palin is wasting both.

Yet, here you are...

Whent he going gets tough, conservatives change the subject!

That someone on the right would even raise the first lady's travel as a comparison is cause to lower one's expectation of the right... except that my expectations cannot possibly go any lower.

She's Jetsetting On A $4000/Hour Private Plane

You didn't REALLY buy the whole hockey mom chauffeuring the kids to practice on a dog sled routine did you?

Or the little team player on the basketball team.

Or the AWww shucks I'm just a simple little country gal.

or the mistake addled running mate.

or the the mean entertainment people are picking on my kids routine

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at least I'm not paying for it like nancy and obamas little excursions and date nights.

"She won an all-expense paid, four-year vacation in the White House, with a platoon of servants running taxpayers a total of around $1,700,000 annually. Even the pampered suits at AIG don't have it that good!"

Leave Laura Bush out of it.

The difference between Sarah and Michelle is that we taxpayers pay for Michelle's private jet.

we pay for Michelle's trips only if she is on an official trip, otherwise they have to pay for it.

Killfile

The 1st Lady is among the most powerful policy and diplomatic assets available to the United States.

Or she could be an utter disaster. Her husband and SecState have exhibited difficulty following simple protocol and not embarrassing the U.S. when meeting with foreign dignitaries. Not one of us will know what happens behind closed doors when Michelle's on the loose.

Are you upset that we insist on flying her on a heavily guarded jet at taxpayer expense?

Me upset about a few bucks tossed at Michelle and her handsomely-paid @!$%#esassistants? You must be joking. There are far more grave issues in the federal government, such as our fiscal nitwit of a president @!$%#ing up every major fiscal plan he's has a hand in. And as if that wasn't enough, now he's got his grubby little paws in health care. God help us once Congress passes that 2,000+ page turd of a "reform" bill and bureaucrats join the already dysfunctional mix.

The United States needs a President

I agree. Instead though we're stuck with an empty suit who can't manage his purse strings. (Bush was bad as well in case you were planning to come back with that.)

Did you complain about Laura's security, public appearances, travel, and social events?

I wasn't aware of the egregious expenditures then. My bad. And the liberals who hounded the Bush administration never brought the subject up either to my knowledge. Their bad.

Well, back to the topic. If I had Sarah's millions you can be damned sure I wouldn't be going Greyhound. A Gulfstream II though would be egregiously wasteful and extravagant. First class on United would be just dandy.

And this matters how? At least it's not out of the tax payers pocket like Obama's date night to New York at the tune of $25,000+. my2cents; this trip wasn't official business and they did not pay for it. Plus, they've had over 27 cocktail parties at the white house at tax payers expense. What about those designer dresses....think those came from the trift store? Wrong! Our pockets...over and over again. Never the same dress twice. Guess you liberals see that as progress, but Sarah Palin's expenses as extravagance. double standard at it's finest!

Shall we just ignore the typical birdlike screeches of "Obama! Obama!" derail attempts?

I think my co-worker just put it as simply as this:

"She is not an honest person"

She just provides the humor... LOL.

Yes, and at least all those trips back and forth to the ranch by Bush and Laura weren't paid for by us. Oh, wait. They were. Never mind. I'll shut up b/c I don't want to bring attention to that fact...

:)

Yet Al Gore Jetting around is touted as a hero for the world. Pelosi's another one. The Left hails their jetting around as "Needed", and Gov. Palin as "Waste-full". Hypocrites.

Who cares how she gets there. She's there.

While I'll grant I'd rather put my eye out with a dull spoon than be trapped for multi-hour trips in a bus full of Palin supporters, one has to wonder why they're so offensive to Palin.

Its another Slam Palin for something.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/sarah-palins-publisher-confirms-she-took-private-plane-on-book-tour/

Tina Andreadis, a spokesperson for Palin publisher HarperCollins, confirmed to me that Palin did in fact take three plane trips by privately chartered jet, flying to stops in Michigan, Rochester, NY, and Birmingham, AL.

But Andreadis argued that HarperCollins, and not Palin, had scheduled the plane trips and paid for them. She also claimed there was plenty of driving, with the bus heading through Indiana and Ohio, with stops in Fort Wayne and Columbus, and through the southeast, with stops in Roanoke, Fayetville, and Florida.

“The plane stops were minimal” and were only done for “logistical reasons,” Andreadis argued. “The majority of it was done by bus, but there were some stops we couldn’t do by bus.”

Andreadis allowed that the trip had been billed as a bus tour, but insisted: “We never hid the fact that there would be some planes.”

dear rickace: you're still upset your guys lost. Listen Dude, the First Lady gets special treatment NO MATTER WHICH PARTY IS IN POWER. it's just another sign of your pathetic little life that you would choose to try and make an issue out of this.

Whent he going gets tough, conservatives change the subject!

The day a gang-tackle of a public figure by a bunch of busybodies on Newsvine qualifies as "tough", I'll eat my car. Try being unemployed and uninsured for almost a decade, O master of the talking points.

Aside from confirming everyone's suspicion about trolls and general and you in particular, wtf are you talking about? Oh, sorry, you don't need to be talking about anything in particular, so long as a remote window of opportunity exists for you to trash-talk Obamas...

Golly, which party was running the show for most of the time you've been unemployed and uninsured, Ricky? Which party is actively stonewalling any attempt to bring jobs and affordable insurance to people like yourself? Can you say "displacement reaction"?

Rainkiss

Shall we just ignore the typical birdlike screeches of "Obama! Obama!" derail attempts?

Why not? Then all that will be left is the birdlike screeches of Palin! Palin! on her private plane, not cooking Thanksgiving dinner, quitting the 5K, hypocrisy, lies, and campaigning in a white outfit to send subliminal racist signals to her supporters.

(I don't have the talking point sheet handy. Did I miss anything?)

You GO! Paul!!..Sarah is not taking the bus because then she would have to see ALL of America!..not just those parts that she deems the "real America" No this way she can fly above all of those that she accepts as "real Americans" to demonstrate even further her distance from her America to the REAL America that we all live in... And for all of you who cannot or refuse to accept the fact that Michelle Obama BEING the First Lady is required to take the fastest and safest mode of transportation, let your loss go! It makes you look like a bunch of whiny bunch of brats who are way past their nap time! Grow up! If the woman was Cindy McCain you would not be raising one bit of hell and you know it!!!!! So Rick...You is the REAL Hypocrite here? Remember when you point a finger at someone there are three more pointing back at you with the thumb being neutral position.

Yet Al Gore Jetting around is touted as a hero for the world. Pelosi's another one. The Left hails their jetting around as "Needed", and Gov. Palin as "Waste-full". Hypocrites.

Who cares how she gets there. She's there.

Awwww come on Greg ( and ya knows I luvs ya )

I admit, Gore has some "splaining" to do with the global warming scam...

BUT.....

Palin yells far and wide about how she has more "executive experience" because she "is" Governor.... then quits less then a year after losing the election for VP.

Palin enters a Turkey Trot and leaves half way through

Palin needs to go to 5 colleges to get a 4 year degree.

Palin now fakes out a bus tour...

You really believe all this does not define a person? I get that people like her spunky personality.... I think Rachel Ray is the bees knees... I don't think she is Presidential.

Loveya babe!

I think Rachel Ray is the bees knees

Rachaels getting dissed by Martha Stewart.

More like a Left going after a Left. Sound familiar nowadays?

Palin needs to go to 5 colleges to get a 4 year degree.

I went to 4. You don't think I'm dumb do you?.

then quits less then a year after losing the election for VP.

Too many hassle law-suites by the Left. Gave it to someone that could govern the State without the Lefties bothering them.

This has been a witch hunt against Palin since day one. When the witch hunt started on Obama, it was brushed off as nothing.

That's my stand and I'm sticking to it.

XOXOXOXOXO

Rachaels getting dissed by Martha Stewart.

Martha Stewart called Palin boring and dangerous.

Too many hassle law-suites by the Left.

Most of those suits, including the most expensive one to investigate, were filed by Republicans.

This has been a witch hunt against Palin since day one.

Nah, took her a couple days to open her mouth in public. Heck, I WANTED to like her, was happy to see a female candidate... right up until I started looking at her platform.

1. Marthas boring, kinda like Bob villa.

2. Republicans are pissed at her in Alaska. She went against them. AND?

3. Only took the anouncement of her VP run. She didn't have to say a word. How many lawyers and reporters infiltrated Alaska again?

Would it be the same that infiltrated Chicago. NAH, that wouldn't have been prudent for the Left, to actually look into Obama.

Try being unemployed and uninsured for almost a decade, O master of the talking points.

Explains why Rickace is so cranky. I hope things turn around for him. Even if the job market remains tight for awhile longer, at least he may be able to become insured (with subsidies). I don't want to see or hear about anyone unemployed and uninsured for a decade. That is just too sad.

About Sarah Palin - I agree with DragonWoman. She is cute and spunky. I have friends like that. They are great fun to be with, but none of them are presidential material either. The right needs to find someone (or more than just one) with integrity who can contribute ideas to the conversation. The country needs additional intelligent leadership - not more brainless celebrities like Palin. But she should be thankful to the left; we are making her millions of dollars by all the attention (her real motivation in life - obviously not service).

Martha Stewart called Palin boring and dangerous.

LOL...

"Hello Pot, this is the kettle. Will you stop calling me black!!!"

As for Palin... I am tired of her "poor abused me act" she told Hillary Clinton to stop whining... when will she?

Reminds me of Prejeen former Miss California boohooing over the gays taking her down for her stance on Homosexual marriage. You know the "belief" of the new Miss California? It is the same as the last. She just does her job and does not tour for the shows she wants to. She follows the rules set up by the pageant.

Likewise with Palin. The truth is she got caught up in the spotlight and does not want it to end. She was pissed that McCain would not let her speak at the concession... he had the mic turned off and the lights dimmed...

He book was nothing but revenge.

Greg, and I am not mocking you... you know I get a kick out of your posts....

but really she is not one to hang a hat on. I hoped she would do better, because she is aggressive and has a "go getter spirit".... but she does not have anything to back it up.

If you really listen to the way she speaks.. there is something unnatural about it. Not just an accent or anything... her phrasing is weird. The way she refers to herself is odd.

Greg, and I am not mocking you... you know I get a kick out of your posts....

Never take your post's peronal.

If you really listen to the way she speaks.. there is something unnatural about it

Kinda like the way I feel about Obama when he isn't reading his speeches. He just doesn't know what to say and it gets all jumbled up.

XOXOXO

With her schedule of book signings and personal appearances, I doubt that Sarah could make them all w/o a private jet... going on the bus makes sense if you are only going 200-300 miles overnight, and the principal can sleep in transit.

Plus they are hardly spoiling her, schlepping her around in a 1980's aircraft, albeit one with likely upgraded engines and avionics....

It's all about logistics.

With her schedule of book signings and personal appearances, I doubt that Sarah could make them all w/o a private jet...

The bus hasn't missed any appearances.

going on the bus makes sense if you are only going 200-300 miles overnight,

It's the long jaunts that she's admitting the used the jet for.

Plus they are hardly spoiling her, schlepping her around in a 1980's aircraft, albeit one with likely upgraded engines and avionics....

A $4,000 an hour ride is "hardly spoiling?" I'm doing something wrong, here.

I thought all "Populists" rode around on $4000/hr. transportation.

That is why they represent the "real" Real America and identify with all of the Flannelshirts.

A Republican lying! No WAY!!!

I still don't understand how this is lying...

So what? She she said she was a homemaker or housewife...there are housewives that "live it up", trust me. This is just getting sad. So the woman took a plane and spent her own money to stimulate the economy, big whoop.

At least she doesn't preach how SUVs, Hummers, and the like should be made illegal all the while jetsetting around the globe...

If you think she is being hypocritical then perhaps you could show me where she said she was a "poor housewife" who scrubbed the floors everyday and collected cans.

Martha Stewart called Palin boring and dangerous.

LMAO! Yeah, Martha "I've been to the pen and got friends there" Stewart is someone to listen to. Again, LMAO!!!!!

Yeah! If country music stars can travel the entire country in a bus, why can't Sarah? How big is this country, anyway?

Every time I think liberals can't be any more shallow, they reach new lows. There is a reason it is called a PRIVATE jet.Perhaps instead of packing her entire entourage in a bus for the trip to the airport, you'd rather they all took cabs? Or, how about black limos? Yeah,that's the ticket. Then you could have something else to be "outraged" about.

As for honesty, are we out of Iraq or Afghanistan? Is Gitmo closed?

Liberals are the LAST people to claim outrage at lies.

so what....she's a private business person now. Deal with it.

Killfile,

Is this the way your seeds are going now? You folks collapse posts at a whim that you do not agree with, despite not even coming close to violating the COH and still take the time to respond to them. Is that what is known as a random act of Vineness?

Yeah! If country music stars can travel the entire country in a bus, why can't Sarah? How big is this country, anyway?

so what....she's a private business person now. Deal with it.

Is this the way your seeds are going now?

Dudes, the question isn't "Does Sarah need a plane?" it's:

Why does Sarah say she's doing a BUS TOUR and then not mention that that also involves private air travel (and yet the bus itself goes all the way)?

From the Nov. 2009 about her then up-coming book tour:

Palin will travel by bus for much of the time

But yet, we discovered:

It seems now that Palin hasn’t been on the bus, except for short hops between local airports and hotels and book-signing sites.

The full activity log for UJT750 can be found here.

Nothing to worry about Palindrones- Franklin Graham is using the Samaritan Purse's jet to fly Caribou Barbie around (violating his religious organization's non-profit tax exemption) I hope Franklin's dad doesn't find out- it would kill Reverend Billy Graham. Palin- thy name is hypocrisy.

Did Caribou Barbie remember to bring her baby with her (or as she fondly refers to him whenever she remembers, "Where's my little retarded baby?) What a shmuck. Her child should be taken away from her--she wouldn't even notice if it was gone.

hey Killfile- don't let this get around but our President and his lovely wife are black. Mustn't let the righties know--it would upset them so.

Yeah, I think some people are just not getting this. If you think that Al Gore is a hypocrite for using a jet to go to talk about green house gases then one would think you would hold Palin to the same light for saying that she was just one of the people, making it look like she was roughing it on a cross country bus trip and was actually living it up on a 4000/hr plane ride. She is a crappy actor. No one should be fooled by her, but they are.

The woman has quit practically every major thing she has started, and there's way to many people that don't care what these actions say about her character. To many Americans care only about her words, they only seem to give a crap about what comes out of her mouth. The agency says that they set up the logistics of the trip, but that's a bollocks answer, because it was pretended that the bus was the form of transportation.

So much for the Straight Talk Express.....

And this matters how? At least it's not out of the tax payers pocket like Obama's date night to New York at the tune of $25,000+. my2cents; this trip wasn't official business and they did not pay for it. Plus, they've had over 27 cocktail parties at the white house at tax payers expense. What about those designer dresses....think those came from the trift store? Wrong! Our pockets...over and over again. Never the same dress twice. Guess you liberals see that as progress, but Sarah Palin's expenses as extravagance. double standard at it's finest!

My word, you twits just don't get it. I am SURE you were complaining about the above during the Bush administration, right? I am SURE that you were complaining about jetting Shrub back and forth to Crawford while he took more vacation days than nay other president this country has ever had.

You are blinded by your own silly hatred.

Unlike pelosi who demands the Air Force shuttle her and family and friends and everyone else in gov't planes or Al who talks green and walks the other way

Is it the same one Al Gore uses to limit his greenhouse emissions?

boons_orama-131388

obsessed with Palin, wonders whether she ever attended a hockey game.

Powered on white mochas and an aerobics class or two, Ms. Palin, now the governor of Alaska and the Republican nominee for vice president, would drive to rinks at all hours, children in tow. She sometimes ran the scoreboard, let hockey players from other cities sleep on the floor of her home and got involved in the management of her eldest son’s teams.

Does that help?

Killfile #1.29

What I object to is that she's trying to hide it -- like she wants it to look like she rolls into town in her bus; she wants the populist credibility that comes from that - but she's not willing to actually ride around in a bus.

Come awn, KF, why do you insist on posting, and worse, believing this sort of stuff?

Didn't you do one of these what's-she-hiding things before? I don't get it. Is it for the votes?

Palin's not hiding anything. She's flown in and out of towns before. She's even been met at airports; the newspapers even write it up. So some difficult timing issue requires her to get on a plane to meet the schedule. So what?

Wow. Listen to this. The beast got a real expose going:

On November 25, the plane carried Palin, her parents, her two youngest children and her Aunt Katie to Pasco, Washington, for Thanksgiving. And there it sat, at Tri-Cities Airport in Pasco, for four full days, which is a lot of inactivity for a plane that rents for more than $4,000 an hour. But it was Thanksgiving weekend and the Pasco-Richland area was where Palin wanted to be.

No kidding. Wow. This is absolutely shocking, isn't it? You'd think the rental fee were coming out of the reporter's (yeah, uh huh...a real correspondent) pocket, and that he might even have the remotest clue about how much the publisher is paying for it, and so what?

STFW? What's with your obsession with Palin? I really don't get it. No, even if you have an excuse for it, I will not get it. I can't follow the "logic" of this Palin derangement stuff.

A $4,000 an hour ride is "hardly spoiling?" I'm doing something wrong, here.

Considering it costs over $4,000 bucks to fuel an average private jet, then pay the pilots, and everything else... that's why its so expensive.

MotherKnowsBest-719453

Explains why Rickace is so cranky.

Keep your uninformed opinions about me to yourself please.

STFW? What's with your obsession with Palin? I really don't get it. No, even if you have an excuse for it, I will not get it. I can't follow the "logic" of this Palin derangement stuff.

Because the ridiculous cost of the plane and the fact that she is using it shows her hypocrisy. It's not that riding in a private jet is so wrong... It's that riding in a private jet and saying that you are just an average everyday American is wrong.

BrainAgness #1.67, I was going to vote you up on the basis of your first paragraph but see it's my own paragraph from #1.64. I knew there was a reason I like it.

You've really got to set that off in quotes or italics or something. Anyway, you said...

Because the ridiculous cost of the plane and the fact that she is using it shows her hypocrisy. It's not that riding in a private jet is so wrong... It's that riding in a private jet and saying that you are just an average everyday American is wrong.

Saying she's this and that? I think she's saying she was the former governor of Alaska who became a VP candidate who co-wrote a book that is making $millions and who is on a book tour...you know, just like any other average everyday American. The plane is being paid for by her publisher who is glad to do it. The jet pane company is glad she's doing it. Her fans are glad she can get to all the bookstores. The only ones who are not glad about it are people like yourself who are obsessed with trashing her. Nope, I still don't get it.

She's not saying anything...you're saying it.

Average. Is your next door neighbor on a book tour, too? The "average" stuff is not about that. Her personal life prior to all this stuff was pretty darn average...correct.

So, IO, you are fine with people who outright lie? Who claim one thing (bus tour) while doing something very different (flying private airplane)?

I don't consider those who say one thing and do another to be particularly honorable or honest.

TIO,

She's not saying anything...you're saying it.

Well, if she didn't say it then someone should have told her that her publicist was saying it and they even sent out ads about it.

More than two weeks ago, quoting Andreadis, USA Today reported that Palin would be "making two and sometimes three stops a day, traveling in a bus painted with the cover of her book." And just before the tour started, Palin herself said on her Facebook page: "I'll post our progress from the road."

Also, they should have told her that if you are on a book tour that made special mention of the bus, AND that you gave interviews (Ft. Bragg with Greta) from said bus, AND you go an say "I'll post our progress from the road" it ALL gives the impression that you will be traveling on said bus.

Well, Jonesy, I would say that I'm not fine with outright lies by anyone. But what I would say is that it is not an outright lie to say you are on a book tour traveling between cities by bus when several times you do have to get there by plane to keep on schedule. What's the BFD?

After all, it is not the people lining up to get a glimpse of her or to have her sign a book who are unhappy with her efforts to make it to their town whether by bus, plane, train automobile or helicopter. They are just glad she showed up.

It is YOU who are upset that her bus tour requires her to use a plane on a few occasions. It is YOU who want to treat this as some sort of broken campaign promise or solemn oath: "As long as I am on a book tour, I solemnly swear never to use a plane for any purpose, under any circumstances, and only to use a bus during my book tour. So help me God. May He strike me dead and have mercy on my soul if I am ever seen near an airport."

Frankly, I find all this stuff childish. And you don't? Really?

Where did this idea even come from? Because she told people who were listening: yes, I'm so excited to be going on a book tour, and taking a bus to see all my fans and supporters. The tour is the relevant aspect, not the bus. She's on a book tour for crisesake. It's not as if she's raising money for some charitable cause by riding a bike cross country, and it turns out she drove a car. The leftosphere just goes nuts with this stuff, and I don't get it. If she ever said: "I like pink underpants", and some jackass with a cellphone camera sees a white elastic poking out at her waist, I'm sure we'll see Palin is a LIAR all over the web.

Wow. So she took a friggin plane 5 times that her publisher WANTS her to use so she can get to your city because you've been waiting on line all night to make sure your book is signed by the girl herself. BFD.

Finally, the leftosphere has treated this news as some sort of revelation. Killfile eats that stuff up. That's another thing that astounds me. Her arrivals at airports are covered by the news. Everyone knows it. The local broadcasters report it: Sarah Palin arrived at the Rocheter Airport. She'll be at Borders today...blah,blah,blah, and yet we'll see hundreds of these "revelations"

Sarah Palin Disappoints Fans Again!

TIO,

you do have to get there by plane to keep on schedule

As I have understood, the bus itself has never missed an appearance.

Because she told people who were listening: yes, I'm so excited to be going on a book tour, and taking a bus to see all my fans and supporters. The tour is the relevant aspect, not the bus.

LOL. Why mention the bus at all? "X is promoting a movie and will take a bus around the country to do it." Nonsense, imo.

So she took a friggin plane 5 times that her publisher WANTS her to use

Dude, one, the best thing she could have done for her image is ride the bus and no one that has stake in her would make her do otherwise. Two, (from above):

It seems now that Palin hasn’t been on the bus, except for short hops between local airports and hotels and book-signing sites.

The full activity log for UJT750 can be found here.

It simply doesn't make sense go on about your primary method of transportation and then do something completely different.

As I have understood, the bus itself has never missed an appearance.

it better not; with that picture of her and the book, the publisher should move it around as much as possible.

LOL. Why mention the bus at all?

who is touting this bus besides yourself and other Palin obsessed people? Why don't you google Palin book tour ? You see any mention of the bus? Who is doing all the talking about the bus? No one mentions the bus as some significant aspect of the book tour. You mean because her publisher called it a book tour, and mention the bus Palin would be on? Ooh, they gotcha Sarah, you betcha.

Are you aware that authors usually don't even get their books titled as they want? The publisher puts out the title, the cover, the writing on the flaps. The author has little or nothing to do with it. Of course, if they're a big deal, the author can object, and they might be able to negotiate. But generally, the title isn't even the author's.

My point: the publisher mentioned the bus. STFW? Who else besides the leftosphere ever put any emphasis on the bus? I can't find it. Can you? Did Palin say: make a note. I'm traveling by bus. The bus is very important to this tour? Anything remotely similar?

You know who's emphasizing the bus? You and the rest of the suckers who believe anything they read about Palin...as long as it is negative.

It simply doesn't make sense go on about your primary method of transportation...

Who is going on about it besides YOU? Maybe I'm wrong. Show me.

You've really got to set that off in quotes or italics or something.

My bad, a mistake for sure.

She's not saying anything...you're saying it.

And so are her fans and the GOP and political talking heads. I don't think I could take you seriously if you can't see that she is trying her hardest to seem like that "everyday American." And it is so inconsistent with that view of herself, and the general public's view of her that it shows how misleading she truly is.

And it is so inconsistent with that view of herself, and the general public's view of her that it shows how misleading she truly is.

This very concept is so bizarre, I'm not sure why anyone would be saying it...unless they really believed it.

So, let me ask you. Are you an "average" American? If you ran for governor of your state would you still be "average"? I don't think so. I think you sort of blew your commonality right there. How about if a presidential candidate asked you to run for VP? Would you be "average"? I don't think so. If you wrote you autobiography, you'd be just like all other "average" Americans who write their autobiographies. You writing yours yet? I mean, just to be "average". And if it was a massive bestseller, and if a publisher paid you $5million, are you still "average".

Yeah? OK, then. We've established that you believe you're just your "average" former governor, former VP candidate, author (or "author" if you prefer), who is immensely popular with her fans and supporters.
But you had better be careful. You might just find yourself traveling on a jet plane some day, and then your cover will be blown; everyone will know that you are not "average" right then and there. Just like Palin.

But, her background was certainly of an "average" American woman with a family...and children problems, teenager problems, in-law problems, ordinary mom running around here and there for her kids. Of course, her background is "average". Do you think she came from privilege or royalty or something?

everyone will know that you are not "average" right then and there. Just like Palin.

You know believe it or not, I DO understand your point. I'm sorry if I haven't been clear, but I completely agree she is not average. What I am saying is that her popularity with many people is based in her perceived average-ness. In fact her book is selling because of this misperception: because she is taking her tour to the "real Americans," and her constant mentions of being a hockey mom, and her small town roots. Like I said:

I don't think I could take you seriously if you can't see that she is trying her hardest to seem like that "everyday American."

And her flying in a jet and then rolling into town on a bus is an example of her trying to put on the air of average to sell books and to sell the idea of an "just like us Sarah Palin" when she clearly isn't. What this article proves is how misleading she is and how hypocritical she is.

Do you think she came from privilege or royalty or something?

Ha, that's a good joke.

So, IO, you are fine with people who outright lie? Who claim one thing (bus tour) while doing something very different (flying private airplane)?

She didn't lie. REALITY CHECK TO THE PALIN HATERS! Her people released a statement saying she used the private jet for logistical reasons on part of her trip and taking the bus for the rest. She didn't "LIE" about it. Calm the hell down! Obama was king of using the private jet while he was campaigning. Lets talk about something that actually matters. Next!

"I didn't inhale"

She didn't lie. REALITY CHECK TO THE PALIN HATERS! Her people released a statement saying she used the private jet for logistical reasons on part of her trip and taking the bus for the rest.

Yet those on the bus have said that Palin has never been on the bus for more than the time it takes to get from the airport to the signing site. If she isn't trying to present an image of being a bus traveler, then why not lose the bus, as it is obviously a prop and not used for her transit? She wants her disciples to think she's everyday, like them, while she's actually what she herself would think of as an elitist. She's a fake. A fraud. A liar. And you eat it up and defend her, LOL.

You guys make me laugh with how you bought into Palin's lying and fakery. She has you hoodwinked, that's for sure!

TJG

Yet those on the bus have said that Palin has never been on the bus for more than the time it takes to get from the airport to the signing site.

This sounds completely ridiculous. You have a (need I say 'reputable') link?