…For Montana Palintologists. Sarah will be in Billings for her book tour on December 8.

Wahooo!!!!

From the Gazette:

Sarah Palin is coming to Borders bookstore in Billings for a book signing Dec. 8 to promote her autobiography, “Going Rogue: An American Life,’’ which comes out Tuesday.

An employee at Borders said Monday there is no further information available about the signing, but that it is confirmed. The former Alaska governor and 2008 running mate of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, Palin is on a national book tour to promote the 413-page book. With a first printing by publisher HarperCollins of 1.5 million copies, it has been at or near the top of several best-seller lists, including Amazon.com. “Going Rogue’’ retails for $28.99.

The tour itself is a reflection of the unique way that Palin is choosing to affect the political landscape. Using Facebook, she focused the nation’s attention to a serious problem with the liberals’ government-run healthcare plan. Her one post about “death panels” changed not only the tone and fervor of the discussion, but also the topic. Until Sarah’s post on August 7th, the concept of rationing healthcare was hardly mentioned by the MSM. It was being discussed by the “little people” – but mostly ignored by the media and the political elites. Her deft use of the internet – where supposedly the Obama campaign/administration was the master – was brilliant. One woman, all by herself, without the New York Times or NBC, changed the debate. No matter what you think about her, Sarah Palin is a force in American politics. It remains to be seen what her agenda is, but her plan for getting where she wants to go is starting to reveal itself.

She’s is “Going Rogue”.

An interesting article in American Thinker analyzes her strategy:

What’s notable about Sarah Palin’s book tour, which starts midweek, is where she’s not going. She’s not going to L.A. or New York, Boston or San Francisco. She’s going smack-dab to the middle of the country. Fly-over country, liberals call it. And it’s a shrewd move, not only in selling books, but positioning herself for a presidential run in 2012 if she chooses that path.

It’s a strategy right out of the late Sam Walton’s playbook: go where there’s demand and the competition ain’t. Walton, who could have run and won political campaigns, built Walmart into the behemoth it is today by opening his discount stores in small towns in the heartland, towns that the eight-hundred pound gorilla K-Mart ignored.

Walton conquered the discount retail category from the heartland out. He didn’t so much clobber K-Mart as steal a march on it. Palin may just prove that a heartland strategy does more than sell blenders and books. It may be the foundation for winning a national election.

Make no mistake: right now, heartlanders (and heartlanders in spirit) are feeling awfully ignored by Washington politicians. The president and Congress are intent on ramming a health care reform measure through that an ever-increasing majority of Americans oppose. They’re spending as if using someone else’s credit card (in fact, the people’s); they play Americans for dupes by calling an old-fashioned pork barrel bill an economic stimulus; and for toppers, President Obama is playing Hamlet about Afghanistan, thus putting brave soldiers there at greater risk every day…

Sam Walton once said: “Each Walmart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.” The same holds true for politicians’ relationships to citizens. It’s not happening now in America. Sarah Palin has the opportunity to change that for the better.

I’ve always said I was a Wal-Mart Republican. There are a whole lot of us. The 5th Avenue Elites could end up trampled by a thundering herd.

“What’s the squishy stuff between an elephant’s toes?” Democrats.

Plans are being made by groups from around the state to converge on the Magic City for a glimpse of the GOP superstar. Use the comments below if you are interested in hitching a ride from your hometown.