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Sarah Palin Lays Out Her Views in Tea Party Speech, Without Formally Announcing 2012 Candidacy
International Business Times ^ | September 3, 2011

Posted on 09/03/2011 12:42:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In front of a wildly supportive crowd of Tea Party members at a rally in Indianola, Iowa, Sarah Palin said that the U.S. is now at a “tipping point.”

While didn’t explicitly announce her candidacy for the 2012 Presidential race, observers at the Des Moines Register who covered the event said Palin’s comments sounded like a campaign speech.

“Iowa you are good people,” Palin said. “We’re here because America is at a tipping point. America faces a crisis, and it’s not a crisis like perhaps a Midwest summer storm that moves in and hits hard, but then moves on.”

When the crowd interrupted her 40-minute speech with wild cheers, Palin said: “Folks, you know it’s not enough to just change up the uniform … if we don’t change the game plan.”

Palin covered a broad array of her topics during her speech in front of a rain-soaked crowd of some 2,000.

“Our country can’t afford more trillion dollar thank you notes to campaign backers,” she said. “Like you, I’m not for sale.”

Warning that “it’s time restore a country that we love,” she said the people need to “restore all that is free and good and right about America.”

Here are some other quotes from Palin’s speech as quoted by a Register series of tweets.

*“Real hope is in you. It’s not that hopey, changey stuff that we heard about back in 2008.”

*“Instead of chasing industry off-shore, I propose to eliminate all federal corporate income tax.”

*“Many big corporations, they skirt federal taxes because they have friends in DC who write the rules for the rest of us.”

*“America’s economic revival starts with America’s energy revival.”

*“We need to move on tapping our own God-given natural resources that are part of our reserves.”

*“The real stimulus that we’re waiting for is robust and responsible domestic energy production.”

*“Let’s enforce the 10th amendment. Devolve powers back locally.”

*“My plan is a bona fide, pro working-man’s plan.”

*“The real challenge is not whether we will replace Obama in 2012 but who we will replace him with.”

*“I believe in the free market which is why I detest crony capitalism. ... Obama has shown us crony capitalism on steroids.”

*“I don’t play that game of hiring expert political advisers just so they’ll say something nice about me on TV.”

*“You want to know why the permanent political class never really cuts anything? It’s because there’s nothing in it for them.”

*“Polls? Usually I say polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers.”

*“We are governed by a permanent political class, until we change that.”

*“President Obama, is this what you call winning the future? I call it losing our country.”

*“We love our country in good times and in bad and we never apologize for America.”


TOPICS: Iowa; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: economy; energy; iowa; notrunning; obama; palin; palin2012; palinsep3speech; sarahpalin; taxes; teaparty
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Now tell me she's not running.
1 posted on 09/03/2011 12:42:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am so excited now~! it SOUNDS LIKE SHES RUNNING

Where do I get a sign for my lawn

Heck, I’ll make one


2 posted on 09/03/2011 12:48:22 PM PDT by Mr. K
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Our country can’t afford more trillion dollar thank you notes to campaign backers,” she said. “Like you, I’m not for sale.”

That's for you, Ricky!

3 posted on 09/03/2011 12:49:32 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ditto.


4 posted on 09/03/2011 12:49:48 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not sure she is running yet.

I can say that I have never heard a speech like this ever and I am 54 . This speech was more than superb. I can also say that she has been voice trained. No more shrill moments. No more sounding like a hysterical female. I did not measure the duration of this speech but it must have been arounf 40 minutes and it was absolutely spellbinding.

She played the network news masterfully. They all thought she would announce and she did not and they carried her speech all the way to the end. I watched her on CNN and the anchor at the end said that she “ wished Sarah would annpunce because this is torture.”

The speech was masterful. Sarah was in total control. There was no doubt who was boss.


5 posted on 09/03/2011 12:51:23 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: GilGil

She will choose the time and place. It is still early.


6 posted on 09/03/2011 12:52:56 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Windflier

Ping


7 posted on 09/03/2011 12:52:56 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; onyx; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; dixiechick2000

WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY IN GOOD TIMES AND IN BAD AND WE NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR AMERICA

8 posted on 09/03/2011 12:54:43 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Now tell me she's not running.

She's not running.

YET.

9 posted on 09/03/2011 12:55:33 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Mr. K
Mr. K wrote:
I am so excited now~! it SOUNDS LIKE SHES RUNNING

Where do I get a sign for my lawn

Heck, I’ll make one
I was thinking the same thing.

I'll repaint some that my local Republican club gave me last year for their Establishment RINO candidate (never put those on my lawn, didn't vote for the guy either, left the line blank after I saw what he did to the TEA party guy in the primary).

10 posted on 09/03/2011 12:56:21 PM PDT by cc2k ( If having an "R" makes you conservative, does walking into a barn make you a horse's (_*_)?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“My plan”? “I propose”? It sure sounds like she’s running. :)


11 posted on 09/03/2011 12:56:44 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

donts forgets....”I am not for sale” !!!!!!!!!!!


12 posted on 09/03/2011 1:02:05 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: GeronL

“That’s for you, Ricky!”

Her ‘12 running mate?


13 posted on 09/03/2011 1:02:18 PM PDT by Magic Fingers
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
*“Polls? Usually I say polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers.”
14 posted on 09/03/2011 1:02:30 PM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the Constitution, always. Allegiance to a party, never!)
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To: GeronL

“However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven .......


15 posted on 09/03/2011 1:03:45 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: biggredd1

obama hussein is now saying “government family”...Sarah says “I want a divorce” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


16 posted on 09/03/2011 1:04:24 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: trisham

None of the candidates are saying, ‘my plan’ or ‘I propose’..
Not even the vacationing, downgrade President.

non candidates either, except for Governor Palin.


17 posted on 09/03/2011 1:07:16 PM PDT by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; onyx; MHGinTN; SoConPubbie; Brices Crossroads; Lakeshark; Windflier; Finny
2:20:58 "I propose to eliminate all Federal Corporate Income Tax"

g_w says: Do this and watch the US economy *triple*.

Please ping the other Palin fans: I have a terrible time with names, and I need to make a formal ping list for my use. :-)

Cheers!

18 posted on 09/03/2011 1:11:00 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Folks, you know it’s not enough to just change up the uniform … if we don’t change the game plan.”

AMEN!


19 posted on 09/03/2011 1:11:29 PM PDT by carjic (I've always been taught to respect my elders.... but it's getting harder to find any!)
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To: faucetman

STOLEN!! :-D


20 posted on 09/03/2011 1:11:50 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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