Sarah Palin to Attend Labor Day Tea Party Rally in New Hampshire
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ABC News’ Michael Falcone and Shushannah Walshe report:
The Tea Party Express announced Tuesday night that Sarah Palin will be speaking at their Labor Day rally in Manchester, N.H. on Monday.
“We are always thrilled to have Sarah Palin join one of our rallies,” Tea Party Express chairwoman Amy Kremer said in a statement. “She is an electrifying figure in conservative politics and a hero to the tea party movement.”
SarahPAC confirmed the Tea Party Express announcement of Palin’s New Hampshire appearance.
Palin is heading to New Hampshire after a weekend trip to Iowa to address another Tea Party event on Sept. 3. The former Alaska governor will headline the inaugural event of the Tea Party of America in Indianola.
Palin’s two-state swing along with a campaign-style video she released earlier this month highlighting her recent trip to the Iowa State Fair could be a sign she is preparing to jump into the presidential race. But, it could just as easily be a tease.
News of Palin’s New Hampshire trip was first reported by Craig Robinson of the Iowa Republican.
Palin’s presidential intentions have been the subject of heightened speculation, especially after former George W. Bush adviser, Karl Rove, who does not have a particularly close relationship with Palin, recently said that Palin has a schedule “that looks like that of a candidate, not a celebrity.”
While speaking to reporters at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 12, Palin indicated that she was likely to make an announcement about whether or not she would jump into the race by the end of September, but not necessarily by Labor Day.
“I don’t know if within the next couple of weeks I will be ready for an announcement or not,” she said, adding that the end of the month “is still a possibility for a timetable.”
Palin’s speech to the Tea Party Express event in New Hampshire is part of the group’s “Reclaiming America” bus tour that will culminate on Sept. 12 with a CNN/Tea Party Express debate in Tampa, Florida. Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is speaking at a similar rally in Iowa on Wednesday and Mitt Romney will attend one of the group’s events in New Hampshire on Sept. 4.
Palin, who has a history of upstaging other candidates, was invited, but has not said she will attend, a presidential forum in South Carolina on Labor Day.
The event is being organized by the American Principles Project and will feature a panel led by Tea Party leader Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. and Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. Romney, Bachmann, Rick Perry and several other candidates plan to participate.
Palin will not be the only Tea Party superstar in Iowa this weekend. Failed Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell will be there too.
O’Donnell’s on-again, off-again appearance at the Indianola rally — the same one where Palin will also be speaking — appears to be on again as of Tuesday night.
O’Donnell had initially confirmed her attendance at the Tea Party of America event on Saturday but the organizers later rescinded the invitation. On Tuesday night, O’Donnell tweeted that even after getting bounced from the event, the invitation had been re-extended and she decided to go.
“In Troublemaker I talk about ‘rising above it’, and have humbly re-accepted the re-invitation to speak in Iowa on Saturday,” O’Donnell tweeted, referring to her new memoir.
Charlie Gruschow, co-founder of the Tea Party of America, confirmed that O’Donnell is indeed back on the agenda and will be speaking on Saturday.
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Posted by: Mortamus | August 31, 2011, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
If you are Tea Party, you are a terrorist. Sarah Palin is a mouthpiece for the Tea Party which represents nothing but hatred and dissension. Her rhetoric and violence-inciting imagery IS a form of terrorism and a prime example. She held Jared Lee Loughner’s hand while he murdered people with his misguided sensibilities. I was compelled to draw a visual commentary showing her handing him the gun on my artist’s blog at She’ll go to any lengths and keep spewing her insanity for that attention (and the money of course.)
Posted by: Brandt Hardin | August 31, 2011, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm
Liberals are in big trouble. The other two comments in here:
“She held Jared Lee Loughner’s hand while he murdered people with his misguided sensibilities.”
And they say conservatives were “over-the-top” when we spoke of Obama’s REAL ties with Bill Ayers.
Then the other commenter says: “Are we all sheep or what?”
To which I reply, apparently so — if you’re on the left.
Posted by: Steve | August 31, 2011, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
Well folks more predictable “hate speech” from the so called compassionate Liberal posters. Pure hypocrites when it comes to “conservative white women”.
Facts: Ronald Reagan declared in December and campaigned for 11 months
Facts: George “The Elder” Bush and Bill Clinton declared in October
The media is pushing an imaginary time table because they need air time filled with something, anything, because they lack the imagination and ability to put useful programing on. That is why the “never ending Obama Campaign” is aired 24/7/365.
Governor Sarah Palin is by far the most electrifying candidate out there. Romney is toast and the Republican and Conservatives (there is a difference) won’t vote for him if given a choice, and there is a choice.
The day she declares, it will be all about Palin and Perry which “our side” will rally around with earnest. Perry is a good guy but has “proven to lose his grip” where he was an Al Gore supporter in his former life. That will be made an issue.
Sarah Palin has “never left the fold” of traditional American conservatism. She has “always” been a Free Market Capitalist.
She ran Alaska better than Perry or Romney ran their states, check the “facts” in nearly “all metrics” and that is true: Lower taxes, lower regulations, veto’s of wasteful spending.
For those on the Far Left, there is no hope for you. You would pick Hitler if he was a Democrat. For those of you closer to the “center” than you should smarten up and realize a very simple fact….Governor Sarah Palin ran the state from “the center” which is why she enjoyed 93% bipartisan support.
Americans prefer “doers” and are fed up with “talkers” like we have now in the White House. Choose Sarah Palin as the next President and America will be able to trust a true Muckraker in the White House that doesn’t trust “either party”.
Corruption is the core of our dysfunctional system and she has proven street credibility in removing it.This small business owner, since 1982, will vote for Sarah Palin and support her financially to remove the incompetence of Obama and the crony capitalism of the Republicans.
Time for change on “both sides” and Sarah Palin ticks off the establishment on both sides….way cool!
Posted by: Patrick | August 31, 2011, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm
Sarah Palin will become the next president of the United States. Get used to it. Two large automakers are just waiting for her formal announcement and game on…campaign contributions will be flowing like ocean waters.
Posted by: Raymond | August 31, 2011, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm
Brandt Hardin, I am a Tea Party member.
Posted by: TexBork | August 31, 2011, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
Although liberal, I do not want to be misunderstood as hateful. I am just curious why the Tea Party, which has appeared to me to be anti-union is having Labor Day celebrations? Labor Day was specifically created to celebrate and appease labor unions in NY after some of their members were killed. So it seems odd to me that this organization would willing participate in a celebration of that which they oppose. Honestly, I am not looking for a fight, just curious.
Posted by: Jonathan S | September 2, 2011, 5:56 pm 5:56 pm
Outdated news…but not poor publish. :)
Posted by: Acc basketball | October 4, 2011, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm