Sen. John McCain believes Sarah Palin can defeat President Obama in 2012.
“Of course she can. She can. Now, whether she will or not, whether she’ll even run or not, I don’t know,” the Arizona Republican said of his former vice-presidential running mate on “Fox News Sunday.”
McCain’s remarks come on the same day that the former Alaska governor started a bus tour of the eastern United States, a much-hyped event that was kicked off earlier today by Palin’s participation in the “Rolling Thunder” motorcycle rally from the Pentagon to the Vietnam Memorial.
Palin rode on the back of a motorcycle driven by her daughter Willow during the annual Memorial Day weekend ride when thousands of veterans from across the country — many of them Vietnam vets — converge on the nation’s capital to draw attention to the needs of the country‘s veterans.
Palin’s husband, Todd, and daughters Bristol and Piper also participated in the rally, riding Harley Davidson motorcycles alongside the woman John McCain believes can defeat President Obama next year.
Dubbed “One Nation,” Palin’s bus tour of the east coast remains something of a mystery, but is expected to include stops in New Hampshire, setting of the first-in-the-nation primary in early 2012.
According to her travel itinerary — which remains inexplicably incomplete as of this evening, hours after the tour began — the former governor of Alaska will also be making stops at several historic sites on the East Coast, including the Civil War battlefields at Gettysburg and Antietam, and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
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