Palin Apologizes for Upstaging Romney

The Los Angeles Times reports

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apologized Sunday for upstaging Republican Mitt Romney's formal campaign announcement last week.

The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee said she didn't mean to step on toes when her bus rolled into a nearby town just as Romney was making his presidential candidacy formal at a New Hampshire farm.

"I apologize if I stepped on any of that PR that Mitt Romney needed or wanted that day," Palin, a paid commentator for Fox, told "Fox News Sunday."

A Romney aide, responding to an inquiry, pointed to Romney's comment to a Fox interviewer last week, in which he denied having been bothered by Palin's actions and praised the "energy and passion" she adds to the Republican campaign.

On Sunday, Palin said her highly publicized bus cavalcade had not moved her closer to a 2012 run. She is "still right there in the middle," she told host Chris Wallace, "still trying to figure out what the lay of the land will be as these weeks and months go by."