Sarah Palin has kicked off a 15-day Tea Party Express tour across the nation, teasing supporters at a rally with a hint at a possible presidential run with “we can see 2012 from our house.’’
Always controversial, Palin is hoping to capitalize on the discontent and anger being directed at Washington which has swept many part of the country and given a sudden, hot wind to the Tea Party movement.
Speaking to a crowd of nearly 500 outside the GOP headquarters, Palin commented that common sense had become an “endangered species” in Washington, and that voters needed to “keep the faith” come election day.
Palin has publically endorsed a number of Tea Party-backed candidates in this year’s hotly contested election campaigns, including Nevada candidate Sharron Angle and Californian hopeful Carly Fiorina.
“Tea Party Americans, you are winning, you are turning this country’s political landscape upside down . . . and the left just doesn’t know what to do with you,’’ she said at the rally to raucous cheers.
In reference to a gaff she made when running for vice president in the 2008 presidential elections, where she said she could see Russia from her house, Palin said self-deprecatingly:
“I can see November from my house…Mr. Obama, and your czars, you’re next because we can see 2012 from our house.’’
The whirlwind tour is to take in 15 states in 15 days. It is currently headed to Las Vegas, and will be ending in New Hampshire on November 1.
