It wouldn't be a 2012 publicity campaign if it didn't include a stop in Iowa.
With Sarah Palin getting ready to launch a book tour for her upcoming memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life," Barnes & Noble announced today that she'll appear at a store in Sioux City, Iowa on December 6 as part of the tour. (Though, unless she arrives early, she won't have much time to mingle with Iowa pols and activists: after her 1 p.m. signing event, she'll travel to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for a 5 p.m. appearance at another Barnes & Noble.)
Palin's Barnes & Noble schedule also includes stops in Michigan,
Virginia, Florida, and Minnesota. Her book is due to be published
November 17.
Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, visited Iowa yesterday as part of his 60-city signing tour to promote his Christmas book, "A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit."
Huckabee appeared at a Barnes & Noble in Cedar Rapids, plus Borders stores in Davenport and West Des Moines, all on Sunday.
His tour will take (and has already taken) him through the South and
Midwest. States include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi,
Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
H/T O.Kay Henderson's Radio Iowa blog
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Mike Huckabee might be a likeable guy, but he would be a horrible President. He is a socialist in Christianist clothing, and anti-same sex marriage to boot.
Because of people like he and Palin, I am no longer a Republican.
Frankly, as a poltical scientist and a student of history, it appears that the Republican Party is about to go the way of the 19th Century Whigs, as they take on more and more of the coloration of the 19th Century Know Nothing Party. As has happened before in American history, the time appears right for a new 2nd Party to be created and developed, with an intellectually-honest center-right platform of principles and ideas.