Palin book tour kicks off where she started ‘going rogue’

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Sarah Palin has been called the rock star of the Republican Party, and on Wednesday her supporters treated her like one.

They had begun lining up the night before to see Palin at the first stop on her book-signing tour, shivering in the wind-swept Michigan cold, camped out on the concrete outside a shopping mall.

After the mall opened Wednesday morning, each of the estimated 1,500 people in line were outfitted with orange wristbands, intended to guarantee them a few seconds of face time with the former Alaska governor, who did not arrive at the mall’s bookstore until the early evening.

Read the full report from Jim Oliphant.