Palin to Visit New Mexico

In case you missed the big news, New Mexico is due to receive a visit from failed Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Lucky us.

As Steve Terrell noted on his blog and in a related news article, the former Governor of Alaska is cutting wide swaths across this great country promoting her "new" book -- although advance copies have been available for some time -- despite her polarizing opinions.

So who among us are the lucky recipients of a visit? The residents of Albuquerque? Las Cruces? Perhaps Rio Rancho?

Nope.

Instead, the residents of Roswell, NM will have the honor of hosting Gov. Palin at the local Hastings book store.

Palin's book tour has been noted as one which shuns the traditional stops on a book tour such as New York, San Francisco and Chicago, opting for smaller locals -- and perhaps those with a more conservative ideology.

Mr. Terrell also notes that at least two of the NM GOP candidates (Martinez and Turner) will not seek Palin's endorsement while she is in New Mexico. (Candidates Arnold-Jones and Weh did not comment.) We'll see however if any of the candidates eventually jump to the right and seek out an endorsement . . .

In addition to her book tour, Palin has been hitting the media circuit hard these days -- appearing on Oprah, Hannity and giving interviews with Newsmax and The Weekly Standard.

You can read her comments for yourself, but her appearance on Hannity was particularly disturbing:

In the interview, Palin advocates profiling "radical" Muslims -- an opinion which she reiterates to The Weekly Standard:

"I say profile away."

Perhaps she is making such statements in order to boost the lagging price of her book, but we're pretty sure she really buys into the crazy things she says.

We're just hoping Mr. Terrell's blog is right and Palin at least stays long enough for us get some good material for jokes.