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Sarah Palin Takes Daughter Piper On Bus Tour
Is Palin using daughter Piper to gain momentum for a 2012 campaign?
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has taken her ten-year-old daughter Piper on a whirlwind cross-country trip. This past week alone, she and her family made stops at Washington, Maryland and Pennsylvania before coming to New York.
Today the Palins visited the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Yesterday they enjoyed a pizza lunch with Donald Trump. But is this a prequel to a nationwide 2012 campaign tour, and is she using her daughter as a campaign tool?
So far Palin has not confirmed she is running for anything but it certainly looks as though she is gauging not only her influence but also her popularity by engaging in a bus tour.
This past weekend, Palin attended the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally in Washington, D.C. Ten-year-old Piper rode around on the backseat of a motorcycle with her father Todd. While Piper did have a helmet on, a motorcycle is surely not the best place for a child. Was Palin using a cheap photo op here of a happy, middle America type family?
Shaking hands and making the rounds while playing the doting mom, perhaps she is trying to curb some of the backlash she received during the last campaign when many thought she should be home with her baby who has special needs rather than blazing the campaign trail.
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RFA commented on Jun 01 11 at 5:18 pmShe’s doing worse than that. Yes she is using her daughter to garner more popularity for herself, but this guise that she is teetering on whether or not to run for president is allowing her to exploit America and her people for personal profit. Because she is not a declared candidate, the use of images of the constitution and American flag on her vacation bus are not only immoral tactics to raise capital for herself, but also illegal. The flag cannot be used in advertisements aimed at generating profit, and that is exactly what she is doing. She has failed to declare her motivations and rationale for this trip yet continues to accept gratuitous donations not only from unnamed corporations to the tune of tens of millions, but also from many Americans under her spell. This trip is illegal, immoral, and highly unamerican. Sarah Palin has demonstrated through her actions that she cares very little for this country and it’s people and strives only to elevate her image and wallet to the highest level we will allow.
Brandt Hardin commented on Jun 01 11 at 5:54 pmPalin’s taking her obscene and hate-filled rhetoric on the road for some coast-to-coast finger pointing which will surely continue to damage our country’s world view. Historically, her speeches are causing more harm than good. I shutter to think what she would do and say with the power allotted to our Presidential office. I drew up a visual commentary of the effects of such reckless propaganda on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/01/sarah-palin-made-me-do-it.html
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