Sarah Palin on Cowboy poetry

Wednesday March 9, 2011

[Bigtigermike]

Sarah Palin tweets: We’re $14,000,000,000,000+ in debt, yet rodeo clowns still want to fund Cowboy Poetry Party.That must be 1 helluvahigh national priority shindig!

[Bigtigermike]

LOL!

[zerosix]

What a gal!

Palin never fails to speak the "truth to power(s)!

What the milk-toasts refer as "shooting from the hip."

The beltway types only speak the truth without couching it when they are being filmed undercover.

[fish hawk]

I love the cowboy poets but Sarah is right on this one. How much help does an old cowboy, sitting on a rocker on the porch of his house writing down rhyming life reminiscences need from Harry Reid?

[WinOne4TheGipper]

It’s really sickening that every stupid little thing that the government funds has some beneficiary out there somewhere that will fight tooth and nail to prevent their pet project from getting the axe. And every beneficiary has some sycophant politician who will sell their soul to get another vote, meanwhile we’re trillions of dollars in the red and the one person who will say something about it is smeared and lied about in the media.

[Liberty Valance]

Get govt out of poetry! It does just fine by itself.

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Out Where The West Begins

Out where the handclasp’s a little stronger,
Out where the smile dwells a little longer,
That’s where the West begins;
Out where the sun is a little brighter,
Where the snows that fall are a trifle whiter,
Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter,
That’s where the West begins.

Out where the skies are a trifle bluer,
Out where friendship’s a little truer,
That’s where the West begins;
Out where a fresher breeze is blowing,
Where there’s laughter in every streamlet flowing,
Where there’s more of reaping and less of sowing,
That’s where the West begins;

Out where the world is in the making,
Where fewer hearts in despair are aching,
That’s where the West begins;
Where there’s more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there’s more of giving and less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half trying —
That’s where the West begins.

Arthur Chapman © 1917-1918

[Lets Be Frank]

Yes..it is a national priority because Cowboy poetry is a mating ritual....havn’t you heard that thousands of people wouldn’t have existed without it? No mating ritual..no people

[Nateman]

I’d love to see Sarah run if only to watch the liberals die of brain aneurysms. They deserve no less.

[Jemian]

havn’t you heard that thousands of people wouldn’t have existed without it?

Yes, I heard that, too. What a shame.

[ladyvet]

I live outside of Elko where this Festival takes place and thought it silly that there’s tax money supporting it BUT..I started thinking why would Reid bring this Festival up of all the places that the tax payers support? Maybe Harry isn’t as stupid as we think.

Bear with me, this festival is a big deal for the area and does bring in a lot of people. This area is also Republican and votes that way. What better way to piss the county off at the “Mean Republicans” then to tell them the thousands of tourist and dollars are being taken away by them?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

PING!

[allmendream]

Cowboy Poetry. Written via a generous (but unwilling) grant from Western Union.

“And now I lay me down to sleep
To dream what lies tomorrow
Perhaps success
Perhaps defeat
And everlasting sorrow.
For long and hard I've worked for bread
For honor and for riches
But upon my corns too long you've tred
You fine haired sons of b*tches.”

Black Bart

[upsdriver]

I’d love to see Sarah run if only to watch the liberals die of brain aneurysms. They deserve no less.

I want Sarah Palin to run so we can get this country straightened out. Liberals dying would be a bonus.

[Lando Lincoln]

Valid. But somehow... silly.

[johncocktoasten]

Well there is a home for “republicans” who don’t want to get off the government tit, it’s called the Democrat party.

[Leo Farnsworth]

Momma don't let your cowboys grow up to be babies...

Reid needs to take a hike, November 2012.

[JPG]

Harry Reid just ordered more ice.

[allmendream]

Ahem! Make that “Wells Fargo”, the stagecoach between Oroville and Quincy to be exact.

[unseen1]

you are assuming the festival will not happen without gov money. I'm sure it can get by on its own and the government money is simply a political payback for some one’s reelection campaign

[FrankR]

[fish hawk]

I never knew there was an annual get together of Cowboy poets. Many years ago a group of about six of them (with a sponsor) came to Maui and had a “reading” and I bought about three of their poetry books. Still have them. Nothing as pure as a real cowboy telling a story, usually something he actually experienced himself, and doing it in a artistic manner.