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CPAC 2012: Sarah Palin cleans out the Washington hot tub
Human Events ^ | February 11, 2012 | John Hayward

Posted on 02/12/2012 9:30:17 AM PST by Art in Idaho

None of the Republican presidential candidates got anything like the response Sarah Palin earned from the CPAC crowd. Not even close. I lost count of the standing ovations.

Is it easier to get the whole crowd surging to its feet when you’re not a candidate, and nobody in the audience has an axe to grind? Maybe, but no other speaker at CPAC rocked the house like Palin did, either.

Could there be some residual protective affection warming a crowd that remembers how Palin was savaged during her days on the McCain ticket, and even more brutally attacked during the Left’s bizarre and despicable attempts to pin the Jared Loughner murders on her? Perhaps. Conservative audiences honor those who fight for their ideals, and never sell out. Selling out is easy. The rewards can be rich.

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Considered The Best Analysis Of Sarah Palin’s Speech At CPAC. Her closing comment: “We are the heirs of patriots, who cast off the chains of tyranny." Also, video of the Full Speech: Sarah Palin at CPAC 2012, at the site. Sarah on Fire!
1 posted on 02/12/2012 9:30:21 AM PST by Art in Idaho
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To: Art in Idaho

Run, Sarah, run! Our country needs you and your instinctive ways of governing. You were raised to love God first, and your neighbor as yourself, out of which flows all the goodness of righteous living and happiness in this life. This is something the left, and many in the GOP, cannot see because they have never experienced it themselves. Hence their rush to destroy you because you are the very evidence of true life that they know themselves not to be.


2 posted on 02/12/2012 10:07:43 AM PST by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: Art in Idaho; azishot; Anti-Hillary; b9; bboop; Berlin_Freeper; Bikkuri; ...
Sarah Palin's New Ping List

We'll keep our God, our guns and our Constitution!

3 posted on 02/12/2012 10:27:06 AM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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We are the heirs of patriots, who cast off the chains of tyranny,” Palin concluded. It is freedom that makes us exceptional, and protecting that freedom is an exceptional duty. It always has been as simple as that. The guys who muck everything up are the ones who make it sound complicated. They’ve got a billion reasons why you shouldn’t kick them out of that hot tub.

Simply perfect.

4 posted on 02/12/2012 10:39:48 AM PST by b9 (NEWT is SUBSTANCE. The others are talking points)
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To: Art in Idaho

Sarah was so good yesterday that I started crying half way through and was still crying after she left the stage.
The lady can say more in one sentence than anyone else can in an entire speech.
If only...


5 posted on 02/12/2012 11:00:21 AM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Art in Idaho

I’m still praying that she will run. She is head and shoulders above any of the other candidates. Our country needs her, and I don’t see any alternative capable of fighting the good fight that is needed.

Usually Ron Paul wins the straw poll at CPAC by busing in his followers by the hundreds. This year he was busy in Maine, and Mitt’s money bought more buses. After all, the conference is open to anyone.

But there is no question who is best capable of stirring the base on everything that is needed—freedom, economic sanity, smaller government, right to life, families and communities, and a return to Christian values.

Sarah doesn’t preach religion, but she is not ashamed to talk about the things that really matter, and she sets the example that is needed.


6 posted on 02/12/2012 11:10:04 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: onyx; All
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7 posted on 02/12/2012 11:17:06 AM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: MestaMachine
I had a similar reaction. So much at stake. .
8 posted on 02/12/2012 11:43:58 AM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: MestaMachine
I had a similar reaction. So much at stake. .
9 posted on 02/12/2012 11:44:11 AM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: onyx

I can’t even find the right words to express how special Sarah is.


10 posted on 02/12/2012 12:31:43 PM PST by azishot (Happy 100th Birthday, Arizona!!)
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To: Art in Idaho

She was wonderful. Maybe — please, God — she will agree to be the nominee’s running mate. Fingers crossed.


11 posted on 02/12/2012 2:06:01 PM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Art in Idaho

She was wonderful. Maybe — please, God — she will agree to be the nominee’s running mate. Fingers crossed.


12 posted on 02/12/2012 2:06:13 PM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Art in Idaho

She was wonderful. Maybe — please, God — she will agree to be the nominee’s running mate. Fingers crossed.


13 posted on 02/12/2012 2:06:24 PM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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These are the paid occupier dupes who showed their disrespect of Sarah during her speech. This photo fires me up knowing what Sarah said in her speech. The occupiers think they can tear it all down and start over. They don't realize that their Der Zer0 is trying that the best he can to tear it all down. What will be left will be the lawlessness, rats, human excrement, sickness and no hope. Count on it.

AUOccupy and G-Town Students show the defaced banner they used to Mic Check Sara Palin.

14 posted on 02/12/2012 2:08:41 PM PST by jonrick46 (Countdown to 11-06-2012)
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To: Cicero

Usually Ron Paul wins the straw poll at CPAC by busing in his followers by the hundreds.


Sometimes we forget ........

2000 George W. Bush
2006 George Allen
2007 Mitt Romney
2008 Mitt Romney
2009 Mitt Romney
2010 Ron Paul
2011 Ron Paul
2012 Mitt Romney


15 posted on 02/12/2012 2:17:30 PM PST by deport (..............God Bless Texas............)
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To: deport

How’d George Allen get in there?


16 posted on 02/12/2012 2:21:44 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
How’d George Allen get in there?


Must have borrowed Ron Paul's buses.

17 posted on 02/12/2012 2:25:02 PM PST by deport (..............God Bless Texas............)
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To: Art in Idaho

I apologize for the triple post. I was getting that message something like “server not found”, so I thought my comment was not being posted.


18 posted on 02/12/2012 3:07:32 PM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Bigg Red
So did I, a double post. One of those days. . Just watched Sarah's speech again. Definitely her best speech since 2008, with Indianola a close second. Her speech not in the news at all, of course. . .
19 posted on 02/12/2012 3:53:47 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Bigg Red; onyx; seekthetruth

Have been getting the same message all day. They showed the breakdown by age of those that voted...Youngest group had the highest number. Also the young people filled the hall and clapped after every sentence when willard spoke.

Was told that he brought students or young people in with similar religious background. Wonder if a time line of when the votes were cast would confirm this.

If the straw poll was done on a computer (an attempt to keep multiple votes being cast by the same person) surely they would be able to tell if the votes were coming from the students that were only there during Romney’s speech.

Does Mittens own CPAC or is there any one there who will expose his purchase of a straw poll. (Don’t tell me money can’t buy power)


20 posted on 02/12/2012 3:57:42 PM PST by hoosiermama (Stand with God and Sarah, the Gipper and Newt will be standing next to you.)
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