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A veteran GOP operative with ties to Sarah Palin says it might be "too late" for the former Alaska governor to jump into the presidential race. Fred Malek, co-chairman of John McCain's national finance committee in 2008, told ABC News today that he believes the GOP presidential field is set. Palin, McCain's running mate, has said she'll make a decision by the end of the month.

The "will she or won't she" game with Sarah Palin is no longer just about the larger question of whether she'll be a candidate for president in 2012.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will appear at a New Hampshire tea party rally this weekend. The Tea Party Express on Tuesday announced that Palin is slated to attend a Manchester rally on Labor Day, two days after the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee is to speak at a tea party rally in Iowa. Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary traditionally are open the political nominating season.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Tuesday shot down speculation that she is close to deciding whether to jump into the 2012 presidential race, after talk that she would announce her plans during the Labor Day holiday weekend in early September.

Karl Rove said Sunday he thinks former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will get into the Republican presidential contest. Mr. Rove, the top political adviser in the George W. Bush administration, said Mrs. Palin’s appearances earlier this month in Iowa look “more like a candidate’s schedule than that of a celebrity.”

GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann is spending the day in South Carolina, and started it off by saying the perceived tension between her ...

Sarah Palin is in Iowa today. Michele Bachmann announced her candidacy there on Monday. For reporters, that’s a coincidence(?) impossible to resist; scads of stories are being produced comparing the two women.
The comparisons between Palin and Bachmann are, at one level, apt. Both are women (duh) who align most closely with social conservatives. Both are outspoken defenders of their chosen causes whose rhetoric occasionally gets them into hot water.

The first thing that's wrong with the new documentary glorifying former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the title."The Undefeated" profiles Palin's rise as a national heroine to the tea party, but it fails to mention that she's actually been defeated. Setting aside the 2008 presidential race when her party's ticket did not claim the White House, Palin lost a 2002 GOP primary for lieutenant governor.

Sarah Palin is traveling to Iowa next week, in a move that will again spur talk of her presidential ambitions. The former Alaska governor will appear at the premiere of “The Undefeated,” a documentary about her political career, on Tuesday at the Pella Opera House in Pella, organizers announced early Saturday.

The tweet from Mediaite was too delicious to be true. “No Joke: Sarah Palin Reportedly Quits One Nation Bus Tour Halfway Through.” The story highlighted the original report by Scott Conroy of Real Clear Politics that the former governor of Alaska who resigned halfway through her first term is pretty much done with her the “One Nation” bus tour she started with such great fanfare on May 29.