The cadence of explosions that you heard yesterday was not the 4th of July coming early.  It was Liberal and Fiscal Conservative heads everywhere imploding as the announcement came out that former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin will visit Iowa on Tuesday to attend the premiere of a movie about her career.

Along with her husband, Todd, Palin will attend the premiere of the movie, The Undefeated, at a historic theater in the small town of Pella, outside Des Moines.

The two-hour movie is the work of conservative filmmaker Stephen Bannon.

Bannon was first approached by Palin and her staff after last November’s midterm elections and asked to produce a series of videos that would highlight the former governor’s record in Alaska.

With editorial control and using his own money, Bannon produced a feature-length film that follows Gov. Palin’s rise to power in Alaska, her reform efforts as governor and her dramatic entrance onto the national political stage as Senator John McCain’s running mate in 2008.

With the assistance of Gov. Palin and her team, Bannon was granted access to key Palin allies in Alaska and a treasure trove of rarely seen footage, including images dating back to Palin’s time on the Wasilla City Council, her first political office.

Gov. Palin issued the following statement about the trip:

We are very excited to visit historic Pella and its opera house and look forward to seeing the finished film for the first time with fellow Americans from the heartland.

The Main Stream Media and Political Pundits everywhere are beside themselves with angst and worry, because they simply cannot figure out with the Arctic Fox is going to do next.

Gov. Palin has not yet announced whether she’ll seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. However, If that were her plans, she would want to compete in Iowa, where her brand of Regan Conservatism would have strong appeal.

She will arrive in Iowa the day after Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., launches her campaign Monday in Iowa.

Add this little tidbit of news into the political mix:

Alcoa announced today [last Thursday] that U.S. President Barack Obama will tour its Davenport, Iowa, facility, one of the most advanced manufacturing plants in the world, on Tuesday June 28. Originally opened in 1948, the plant employs 2,000 people, and is a focal point of the global aluminum industry, generating approximately 25 percent of its revenues through exports.

Bettendorf, Iowa is about 150 miles to the East of Pella.

To paraphrase one Palin supporter:

 Looks like the GAME IS ON!

Former Massachusetts Governor and the man responsible for state-run healthcare in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann are presently tied for the lead, going into the Iowa Caucus, according to a poll taken by Des Moines, Iowa’s newspaper of record, the Register.

Romney, proclaimed to be the national front-runner by the Political Elite of both political parties and the Main Stream Media, attracted support from 23 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers.  Bachmann, who will not officially kick off her campaign in Iowa until tomorrow, is right there with him, with 22 percent.

Here’s the kicker: today on realclearpolitics.com, Gov. Palin is listed as being in Third Place among the potential Republican nominees going into the Iowa Caucus, and she hasn’t even declared…yet!

Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, a Tea Party favorite who has never held public office before, comes in after Palin, with 10 percent.

The other candidates in the Republican Primary don’t even break 10 %: former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, 7 percent each; former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, 6 percent; former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, 4 percent; and former Utah Gov. and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, 2 percent.

Thet’s pretty sad, considering former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has spent 26 days in Iowa campaigning, hired the finest Iowa campaign operatives that money could buy, and was the first major candidate to air television ads in Iowa.

By the way, the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll has been used in the past as an indicator of political viability in the National Elections. The Iowa caucuses are scheduled for Feb. 6.

It’s still early, though. In fact, 69 percent of those polled by the Register said they could still be persuaded to support a candidate other than their first choice.

The poll, which was conducted by Selzer & Co. Inc. of Des Moines, was based on telephone interviews with 400 likely Republican caucus-goers June 19 to 22. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.

Back on December 7th, 2010, former Pennsylvania Senator and now candidate for the Republican Nomination, Rick Santorum, said the following about Gov. Palin, in an interview with thehill.com:

“If she decides to get into the race, she will take a lot of air out of the room, that’s for sure,” Santorum said Monday during a swing through South Carolina.

He called the former Alaska governor a “larger-than-life figure,” but said that could cause her problems when campaigning in small, early primary states such as South Carolina and Iowa.

“She is such a media star, I would think it’s hard for her to have normal interactions” with voters, he said. “I have my own challenges and that’s getting the crowd. Her problem isn’t getting the crowd, it’s sort of having more real time with people. I get plenty of real time and that lower profile works for me in a way that I can go do things that are just going to be harder for her.”

Santorum added, “It’s not that she can’t do it, everybody has their own challenges.”

Well, Senator, it doesn’t seem that she’s having any difficulty getting her message out to the people so far…and she’s not even running, yet.

Perhaps, you should invest in an oxygen mask.