Sarah 's Iowa trip points to 2012 presidential run

 Sarah Palin is still going strong. She is fulfilling all the steps to keep herself in front of the media and the nation until the 2010 Presidential election. As the article below suggests, she is following all the critical steps. Who know? We may be calling her 'President Palin' one day. Ouch!
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Sarah Palin's Iowa trip points to 2012 presidential run
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Attendance at Republican dinner in key state is seen as biggest sign yet that Sarah Palin aims to take on Obama in 2012

There are boxes that US presidential hopefuls have to tick early. They have to start building a campaign team, albeit discreetly. They have to set up a fundraising machine. And they have to visit Iowa, the small but politically crucial state that traditionally kicks off a White House run.

Sarah Palin has ticked the first two and on Friday will tick the third when she is the main speaker at a $100-a-seat Republican dinner in Des Moines, Iowa. The party's sole superstar has not yet said whether she will seek the nomination to take on Barack Obama in 2012. But all the indications point to a run, and Friday's visit is the biggest sign yet.

Democrats may detest her, and so does the Republican establishment, for her perceived lack of sophistication and polarising effect on the electorate. But neither will make the choice in the Iowa caucus. The party activists will, and they are shifting behind her. Long before the contest has formally begun, Palin is fast on the way to becoming unstoppable.

Marilea David, a lifelong Republican, is typical of the fan base, seeing in Palin an alternative to the old-boy network. "I think she is great. She is the only person I am excited about just now," David said over coffee in west Des Moines.

"She is fiscally conservative. She married her husband for love, not money. She does not have perfect kids, which is big for me. She has been totally vetted by the liberal media and they did not come up with anything other than she is a 'hick'.

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Tea Party favorite in Delaware Senate race gets Sarah Palin Endorsement

 Sarah Palin can't seem to stay out of the spotlight - or better still, she doesn't WANT to stay out of it. To be perfectly honest, the people she endorses do benefit from her ability to command attention. She draws large crowds and collects a lot of money for their campaigns. So why not?
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Sarah Palin endorsement: Palin endorses 'tea party' favorite in Delaware Senate race

by Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau   4:14 PM MDT, September 9, 2010

Christine O'Donnell's once-quixotic campaign against Rep. Michael N. Castle in Delaware's U.S. Senate race got another late boost with the endorsement Thursday of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Palin announced her support for O'Donnell during an appearance on Sean Hannity's syndicated radio program, five days before Delaware's Republican primary.

'She will support efforts for America's energy security, patient-centered healthcare reform, cutting government waste and letting the private sector thrive and prosper!' Palin later wrote on Facebook. 'We can't afford 'more of the same' in Washington.'

The endorsement by the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee comes weeks after the Tea Party Express organization committed to spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of O'Donnell's low-budget effort to topple a Delaware political icon.

Through Aug. 25, Castle had more than $2.6 million on hand, compared with just $20,374 in O'Donnell's war chest, not including nearly $10,000 in debt.

There has not been reliable independent polling of the primary, though the Tea Party Express claimed its internal survey showed the race down to single digits.

That Castle, the state's lone congressman for 18 years and a former two-term governor, would struggle just to win his party's nomination was unthinkable even a month ago. The race was considered his to lose as soon as Beau Biden, the state attorney general, decided in January not to run for what was once his father's Senate seat.

But O'Donnell, the 2008 nominee against now-Vice President Biden, has emerged as a real threat by tapping in to conservative suspicion with the man she calls "King RINO" (Republican in Name Only).

"He's carrying the Obama-Reid-Pelosi water," she said in a recent interview, citing votes on issues such as a cap-and-trade program to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

She said her campaign drew inspiration from Joe Miller's surprise win over Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska last week, rallying supporters with the idea "that we are not in this race to come close. We are in this to win."

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