See Sarah Run

UPDATE:  The multi-city tour, to begin!

Sarah Palin, in the news. A lot, this week.

Rumors abound that she has bought a house in the lower-48, perhaps to serve as the base for a 2012 Republican Presidential nomination campaign.

Palin’s plans have become the subject of recent and furious speculation following reports that she and her husband Todd have purchased an 8,000 sq. ft. house for about $1.7 million in Scottsdale, Ariz., one that could be used as a national campaign base. (Good thing TLC's “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” was canceled—or that could be awkward.)

Then, there is Sarah Palin -- the movie. Called nothing less than, The Undefeated.

It might just be Sarah Palin's last chance to re-establish herself as a viable presidency candidate ahead of the 2012 US elections in the wake of a disastrous PR run. A new film commissioned by Palin, the former governor of Alaska, will present her as a Joan of Arc-like figure beset at every turn by vicious leftwing enemies seeking to thwart her ambition of reviving the conservative legacy of Ronald Reagan.

The Undefeated has been shot by rightwing film-maker Steven K Bannon, who met the documentary's $1m costs from his own pocket. Palin initially reached out to the director with the aim of recruiting him to work on videos pushing her cause, but Bannon offered to make a feature-length film instead.

Rife with religious imagery, the movie will chart Palin's rise from Alaskan "soccer mom" to vice-presidential candidate. Drawing on content from Palin's book Going Rogue: An American Life, which has sold more than 2m copies, the film will seek to explain her decision to step down as governor of Alaska following her unsuccessful run alongside John McCain in 2008.

"This film is a call to action for a campaign like 1976: Reagan v the establishment," Bannon told the RealClearPolitics website. "Let's have a good old-fashioned brouhaha."

The film will debut in Iowa, with plans to take it on the road to New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.

Then, there is the case of Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of Our Tumultuous Years.  It's a tell-all book written by Frank Bailey, a former campaign worker and Palin administration official who paints quite an unflattering picture of the former Governor. Most interesting is the fact that the book draws upon tens of thousands of e-mails from her time in Alaska.  Watch the CNN interview with the author.



Houses bought. Movies made. Books written. None of this will change the views people already have of Sarah Palin. From now on, anything she says or does will only serve to re-enforce opinions Americans already have of her.  And this is true whether she is indeed running for President, or doing this all in order to garner attention for some other reason(s).