State fairs hold a special place in our nation’s history and heritage, so my family is honored to highlight one of them on one stop along the One Nation Tour route,” wrote the ex-governor of Alaska.
Does this mean a President Palin would make the Iowa State Fairgrounds a National Park? Just asking.
IN PICTURES: Sarah Palin bus tour
Palin also noted that she’s excited to try some of the Iowa State Fair’s famous fried foods, including fried butter-on-a-stick, fried cheesecake, and so forth. She’ll enjoy them “in honor of those who’d rather make us just ‘eat our peas,’ ” noted Palin, in a not-so-veiled reference to President Obama’s recent statement comparing the hard choices in a debt deal with legume consumption.
Vegetables aside, we’ll say this about that: once again, Sarah Palin has proved that she is the quasi-political attention-getting master of the US media universe.
That’s because there just happens to be a debate in Ames, Iowa tonight among declared GOP presidential contenders. A straw poll follows this weekend. So hundreds of political reporters are already in Iowa – pre-positioned for a Palin drive-by. Pure genius.
Somewhere Rick Santorum is sitting in a hotel room with his face in his hands. It’s the lagging candidates who’ll really feel the tire tracks of the bus tour. If you’re a “Good Morning America” producer, which story would you rather see on the air – Gingrich Campaign Still Dead, or Palin Views a Cow Made Entirely of Butter?
Plus, SarahPAC has posted a new one-minute Palin video that makes pretty much every other Republican contender’s commercials look underproduced.
It’s a paean to small town America, which grows “good people ... with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” It invokes Harry Truman, contains several quick shots of the young Ronald Reagan, and lingers on an Iowa State Fair sign.
Perry is expected to announce he will run for president on Saturday in South Carolina. He will travel to Iowa on Sunday.
Palin also addressed the recent treatment of Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., in the press and in the debate last night.
Asked about the Newsweek cover that showed a wild-eyed Bachmann staring into space with the headline "Queen of Rage," Palin said she was also featured wearing running shorts in a cover on the magazine.
"I think the headline is really worse than the picture," she said.
Palin was also asked what she thought of the question Bachmann was asked during the debate about whether she would "submit" to her husband if she was elected president.
"Anything in a debate is fair game. I've been asked the goofiest questions and the strangest questions too in my years in public office," Palin said. "She articulated what she feels in her heart and to her submission means respect, she explained it."
She later added, "I respect my husband too. I can't imagine my husband ever telling me what to do."
While Palin is not listed on the straw poll ballot, she was mobbed by the press like she was a frontrunner from the moment she set foot on the fairgrounds.
Around noon the word went out that Palin, her husband Todd and a small entourage had descended on the Iowa state fair sending reporters scrambling through livestock exhibits to find her.
Palin's arrival in Iowa the day before the straw poll is just the latest in a series of trips the former vice presidential nominee has made that coincides with major events for the GOP field.
Earlier this summer when she happened to arrive in Iowa the day after Bachmann's campaign launch and in May when she New Hampshire the same day as former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney official presidential announcement.
Asked why she was in Iowa, Palin said she was simply "accepting an invitation to get to be here to experience this wonderful historic event" on the bus tour she launched in May.
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