Posted on 04/17/2011 12:36:37 PM PDT by jazusamo
Palin heads to Wisconsin, ground zero of the budget battle, and gives a searing speech.
Did you see Palin’s Tea Party speech in Wisconsin Saturday? The woman was on fire!
On Congress:
We didn’t elect you just to rearrange the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic. We didn’t elect you just to stand back and watch Obama redistribute those deck chairs. What we need is for you to stand up GOP, and fight!
On the president:
The only future that Obama is trying to win is his re-election. He’s willing to mortgage your children’s future to ensure his own. And that’s not the audacity of hope, that’s cynicism. Piling more debt onto our children and our grandchildren is not courage! No, that’s cowardice.
Her battle cry made me realize what has been steadily sucking the oxygen out of the conservative movement since our big November win — a win that should have us still sallying forth in victory, but instead has left us demoralized and confused. We have no real leaders. Well, maybe we have a few real leaders, but right now we need an exceptional leader — we need Shakespeare’s Henry V, someone who not only has a plan, but has the courage and charisma to rally the forces he needs to see it through. And if you aren’t familiar already, go no further until you watch Kenneth Branagh’s St. Crispin’s Day speech.
What we heard in Wisconsin came closer by miles to Agincourt than anything yet heard from the lukewarm Establishment Republicans. Palin is a leader who can energize the conservative base.
What conservative wants to follow the electoral dictates of the media pundits, whether liberal or conservative? Who wants to listen any more to Romney or Huckleboy? Boring. Uninspiring. And you just know in your heart that once they got to Washington, they’d pull a Boehner on us — backing down at just the critical moment when a battle is what’s needed. They care too much whether people like them. They just don’t have the fire.
Seeing Palin take the fight to Obama recharged my batteries, gave me hope, made me ready for more. This is not the time to give up or slow down, despite the backpedaling of House leadership when it came time to stand up to an oppressive and duplicitous president. How hard it was for those of us in the ranks to see our opportunity to stand firm against Obamanomics evaporate because Boehner and Co. decided the Regime Machine would say bad things about them on the playground in the newspapers.
It’s a sad sight to behold: cringing men, afraid to stand up for what’s right. So what if their jobs are at stake? So what if people don’t like them? (There’s a phobia her cringing colleagues could take a lesson from Palin on.)
Convictions matter most.
Conservative Americans won the last election fair and square, except for the Senate, which we’ll take next time. And what may be even more important – witness Wisconsin – conservatives swept in majority governorships and statehouses. We are the majority.
There is no reason, no excuse for backing down.
I had high hopes for Boehner. Now he depresses me. We need a man to speak up, to stand up and deliver what we worked hard to lay the groundwork for. It’s as if after winning the battle, the troops saw their older leaders wave the white flag. We need someone, as Jan Brewer said, to man up.
We should rally around a woman who has proven herself able to rise above the insults, slander, and bullying, a woman who has stayed consistently on message and whose values are the same as ours. A woman who has the courage and charisma to rally the troops to go through the fire with her.
I never thought until I saw her speech yesterday that she could win. As PJM’s PalinTracker, I review hundreds of articles, columns, and video clips each month — mostly slander and unspeakable garbage. Just as you would never expect a victim dragged by a rope on the back of a pickup truck to survive, no matter how much I admired her, I was doubtful whether Palin — or any human being — could ever recover from the Propaganda Press’s misogynist drumbeat and lethal lies, not to mention the constant demeaning by RINO men.
But with yesterday’s speech, and with the lack of male leadership in the Republican Party, I’m ready to become a believer again.
After all, it was women who carried the Tea Party — women coming out of the conservative closet, organizing events, confronting the issues, and spreading the truth though blogs and social networks.
Now is the time to fight. Let’s support conservative women — all of whom have been subjected to the most vile hate speech we’ve heard in our lifetimes, and yet who’ve stood up and spoken the truth clearly and fearlessly.
We need to support, protect, and pray for these women, and raise hell with Republican men who are so eager to dismiss them: Rove and Gingrich and the sad cast of Tired Old Republican men who coulda-woulda-shoulda. In the end those self-important, self-appointed party bosses have all compromised politically and personally. And they’ve done nothing to save our country — even rhetorically — but sit on their ever-fatter behinds, doing talk shows and making believe they still have importance in the grand scheme of things.
They’ve had their chance. Now it’s the up-and-coming women and minorities (Allen West, Herman Cain) who will lead the way when it comes to conservative values and restoration of our country to the exceptionalism and pride it always deserved.
But it’s up to us to support them by once again doing our research, knowing the issues, using social networks, and seizing every opportunity we can to refute the mainstream lies. Time to stop being “moderate” and compliant with the Lamestream Media’s demands. We are now the counter-culture. We are now the hope and change.
Barbara Curtis is a wife, mother of 12, and author of nine books, including Reaching the Left from the Right: Talking About Social Issues with People Who Don't Think Like You . Visit her at www.barbaracurtis.com or at her blog www.MommyLife.net. Her fourth son will begin Marines OCS in January.
I believe Trump is bought and paid for by Soros for the purpose of diverting interest, and attention from the one person the Leftists, the Democrats, the Obamaticks, are truly afraid of competing with in 2012.
They are trying to cause Sarah Palin to take a stand on the birther business to then discredit her with more false claims of finding the records accurate, and that Obama was in fact born in Hawaii, which is what I believe Trump is bought, and paid to do.
I believe he will do as Judi McLeod of CFP has proposed, and that is get along so far in the campaign season as to screw up the chances of any Conservative, and then report his positive for Obama findings.
Interim they will launch one “H” of a dirty campaign against her with Billions of leftover TARP money, Union money, TransNational Corporate money, and whatever the useful idiot 34% of the Obama “you don’t vote against blood” peons toss in to the mix for his reelection.
This is going to be one of the dirtiest campaigns in history, if not the dirtiest.
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I couldn’t see the palms of her hands in the video but - a stemwinder of a speech with NO teleprompters and no visible notes...all delivered on a 36 degree day with 25 mph winds, freezing rain, and a few thousand liberal loons screaming, chanting, and waving stupid signs in the background.
And she was letter-perfect.
Now tell me you Palin-haters, what is wrong with this woman as a candidate? One of the few who understands who our enemies are and what makes this nation great - - and has the courage to say it so powerfully!
The first time I read the rumor Trump was interested in running I thought it was a joke. He’s no conservative and didn’t think he was even a Repub. He has no problem with unions and has given big to Dems. Don’t know what he’s up to but wouldn’t trust him for anything.
One of the few who understands who our enemies are and what makes this nation great - - and has the courage to say it so powerfully!
That's what I like the most about her plus she doesn't back down.
Me too. And we're not alone.
BTTT!
I can’t see any different, myself.
Putting Trump in there is like spilling raw oysters on your chocolate sundae.
What you said
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
......
The comic characters at the end of the clip is a shakespearian description of you know who.....
:-)
Where can you find out how much tarp money is left for zero to spend? I heard 350 mill last week but don’t have a link.
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Sarah Palin’s the sharpest political force on the planet today. She makes her own rules. She basically announced her candidacy w/o any of the usual formalities.
Game On!
No problem and thanks! Knew you were there and busy, this thread will not self destruct. ;-)
AMEN!
Last week I heard 350 mill here. Earlier on this thread over 300 mill. Huff post says 210 in one post and 226.5 in another.
Rush says 250. Hard to tell how much is still there but it looks like over a 200 billion dollars credit line still exists for the Dear One to use....how?
Will he buy the election with this money?
Will anyone expose this?
“We are the new radicals.”
Many years back I attended a Tony Robbins seminar. He said and I am paraphrasing here, “In order to come back to the middle after going too far in one direction, you have to go just as far in the other direction.”
I think the Tea Party is taking us back the other way.
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