GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The sun was barely up Tuesday morning when supporters and reporters gathered in front of Sarah Palin’s bus in a hotel parking lot, hoping to catch a glimpse of the former Alaska governor, whose third day of her East Coast tour is expected to include stops at the Civil War battlefield here and possibly later at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
In a brief media availability yesterday, Palin was coy about the possibility of whether she plans to run for president in 2012, telling a reporter who asked about the odds, “I don’t know, I honestly don’t know. It’s still a matter of considering much — there truly is a lot to consider before you throw your name out there in the name of service because it’s so all consuming.”
As to whether her One Nation tour was designed to toy with the media, Palin said, “No, that’s not the purpose.” But asked what a presidential run might look like if she made one, Palin acknowledged that it wouldn’t be like those of her potential rivals for the GOP nomination.
“Oh, it would definitely be unconventional and nontraditional, yes, knowing us,” Palin said, according to video taken by the New York Times.
That lack of clarity is not stopping an outpouring of support in Gettysburg. Notes from well-wishers were taped to the door of the Sarah PAC “One Nation” bus, and by 6:45 a.m., two adoring fans were already posing for pictures in front of the bus. The young women, who refused to give their names, said they had waited for three-and-a-half hours on Memorial Day at a battlefield monument where Palin was ultimately a no-show for several hundred fans.
Two local news vans and a CNN bus were already on the scene early Tuesday morning.
“Welcome to Gettysburg,” one note taped to the bus dour said. “We love you. We support you. And wish you the very best in what you decide to do. Our prayers are with you — take American back to its roots.”
There is no official schedule of Palin’s tour — updates are posted on her website only after stops are made — but the blogosphere is ablaze with reports of sightings, even coining a special #wheressarah Twitter hashtag for the occasion.
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Palin in Gettysburg as Day 3 begins
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The sun was barely up Tuesday morning when supporters and reporters gathered in front of Sarah Palin’s bus in a hotel parking lot, hoping to catch a glimpse of the former Alaska governor, whose third day of her East Coast tour is expected to include stops at the Civil War battlefield here and possibly later at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
In a brief media availability yesterday, Palin was coy about the possibility of whether she plans to run for president in 2012, telling a reporter who asked about the odds, “I don’t know, I honestly don’t know. It’s still a matter of considering much — there truly is a lot to consider before you throw your name out there in the name of service because it’s so all consuming.”
As to whether her One Nation tour was designed to toy with the media, Palin said, “No, that’s not the purpose.” But asked what a presidential run might look like if she made one, Palin acknowledged that it wouldn’t be like those of her potential rivals for the GOP nomination.
“Oh, it would definitely be unconventional and nontraditional, yes, knowing us,” Palin said, according to video taken by the New York Times.
That lack of clarity is not stopping an outpouring of support in Gettysburg. Notes from well-wishers were taped to the door of the Sarah PAC “One Nation” bus, and by 6:45 a.m., two adoring fans were already posing for pictures in front of the bus. The young women, who refused to give their names, said they had waited for three-and-a-half hours on Memorial Day at a battlefield monument where Palin was ultimately a no-show for several hundred fans.
Two local news vans and a CNN bus were already on the scene early Tuesday morning.
“Welcome to Gettysburg,” one note taped to the bus dour said. “We love you. We support you. And wish you the very best in what you decide to do. Our prayers are with you — take American back to its roots.”
There is no official schedule of Palin’s tour — updates are posted on her website only after stops are made — but the blogosphere is ablaze with reports of sightings, even coining a special #wheressarah Twitter hashtag for the occasion.
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GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The sun was barely up Tuesday morning when supporters and reporters gathered in front of Sarah Palin’s bus in a hotel parking lot, hoping to catch a glimpse of the former Alaska governor, whose third day of her East Coast tour is expected to include stops at the Civil War battlefield here and possibly later at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
In a brief media availability yesterday, Palin was coy about the possibility of whether she plans to run for president in 2012, telling a reporter who asked about the odds, “I don’t know, I honestly don’t know. It’s still a matter of considering much — there truly is a lot to consider before you throw your name out there in the name of service because it’s so all consuming.”
As to whether her One Nation tour was designed to toy with the media, Palin said, “No, that’s not the purpose.” But asked what a presidential run might look like if she made one, Palin acknowledged that it wouldn’t be like those of her potential rivals for the GOP nomination.
“Oh, it would definitely be unconventional and nontraditional, yes, knowing us,” Palin said, according to video taken by the New York Times.
That lack of clarity is not stopping an outpouring of support in Gettysburg. Notes from well-wishers were taped to the door of the Sarah PAC “One Nation” bus, and by 6:45 a.m., two adoring fans were already posing for pictures in front of the bus. The young women, who refused to give their names, said they had waited for three-and-a-half hours on Memorial Day at a battlefield monument where Palin was ultimately a no-show for several hundred fans.
Two local news vans and a CNN bus were already on the scene early Tuesday morning.
“Welcome to Gettysburg,” one note taped to the bus dour said. “We love you. We support you. And wish you the very best in what you decide to do. Our prayers are with you — take American back to its roots.”
There is no official schedule of Palin’s tour — updates are posted on her website only after stops are made — but the blogosphere is ablaze with reports of sightings, even coining a special #wheressarah Twitter hashtag for the occasion.
Palin has clearly taken some glee from leaving reporters in the dark.
“They want, kind of, the conventional idea of, ‘we want a schedule, we want to follow you, we want you to bring us along with you’ … I want them to have to do a little bit of work on a tour like this, and that would include not necessarily telling them beforehand where every stop is going to be,” she told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren, who traveled with her on the bus on Monday. “The media can figure out where we’re going if they do their investigative work.”
It wasn’t just supporters looking for their own Palin moments Tuesday morning. James Russell, a 61-year-old Adams County GOP committeeman from Gettysburg, was on the scene with his wife. He’s still neutral, but wants to hear what Palin has to say.
“We don’t get that many celebrities come around Gettysburg,” he said. “I don’t know what to think of [her tour]. She’s always been a bit unconventional.”
But the lack of information is causing some frustration, even among her fans.
Tami Furr, a 44-year-old dental hygienist who works in Gettysburg, spent hours waiting for Palin at the Pennsylvania Monument on the battlefield Monday. When she saw Palin’s bus on a local newscast Tuesday morning, she recognized the hotel in the backdrop and rushed over in the hopes of seeing the former Alaska governor. But with work beckoning, Furr soon drove away in her red SUV.
Even though she’s a supporter, Furr said she wishes it would have been easier to find Palin.
“I think she should be letting the reporters know [where she is],” Furr told POLITICO. “She does things differently than the old boys did. That’s her style, but it would have been nice to shake her hand.”
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Palin in Gettysburg as Day 3 begins
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The sun was barely up Tuesday morning when supporters and reporters gathered in front of Sarah Palin’s bus in a hotel parking lot, hoping to catch a glimpse of the former Alaska governor, whose third day of her East Coast tour is expected to include stops at the Civil War battlefield here and possibly later at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
In a brief media availability yesterday, Palin was coy about the possibility of whether she plans to run for president in 2012, telling a reporter who asked about the odds, “I don’t know, I honestly don’t know. It’s still a matter of considering much — there truly is a lot to consider before you throw your name out there in the name of service because it’s so all consuming.”
As to whether her One Nation tour was designed to toy with the media, Palin said, “No, that’s not the purpose.” But asked what a presidential run might look like if she made one, Palin acknowledged that it wouldn’t be like those of her potential rivals for the GOP nomination.
“Oh, it would definitely be unconventional and nontraditional, yes, knowing us,” Palin said, according to video taken by the New York Times.
That lack of clarity is not stopping an outpouring of support in Gettysburg. Notes from well-wishers were taped to the door of the Sarah PAC “One Nation” bus, and by 6:45 a.m., two adoring fans were already posing for pictures in front of the bus. The young women, who refused to give their names, said they had waited for three-and-a-half hours on Memorial Day at a battlefield monument where Palin was ultimately a no-show for several hundred fans.
Two local news vans and a CNN bus were already on the scene early Tuesday morning.
“Welcome to Gettysburg,” one note taped to the bus dour said. “We love you. We support you. And wish you the very best in what you decide to do. Our prayers are with you — take American back to its roots.”
There is no official schedule of Palin’s tour — updates are posted on her website only after stops are made — but the blogosphere is ablaze with reports of sightings, even coining a special #wheressarah Twitter hashtag for the occasion.
