Why should she give up her strategic advantage?
To make it "fair" for the RINOs and 'Rats?
Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.
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.”
Allow me to correct myself.
She's no longer sauntering.
She's either striding (purposefully) or stalking.
Cheers!
Not as much as most of the politicians in this country have.
Why should she give up her strategic advantage?
To make it "fair" for the RINOs and 'Rats?
Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.
” If she had stayed as governor of Alaska, I’d feel more confident,...)
Concern troll much?
I’m stealing that argument from you. Do you mind?
Far better even than the speech, was the autographs afterward - 45 minutes of Palin signing autographs.
2:30 onward in the following video:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PartyofA&showFullAbstract=1
That’s hour 2, minute 30. Watch it full screen, this is quality television.
Obama is toast. So may be Perry, frankly. Never saw such natural political skill before
Again hour 2 minute 30:
(45 minutes of autograph signing)
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PartyofA&showFullAbstract=1
Was thinking more of the tactical disadvantage of not announcing anytime soon. Looks she’ll be backing a Perry/Bachmann ticket instead. IMHO.
Palin and Cain are so much the Yin and Yang of Tea Party principles...Palin/Cain, even the rumor of the two of them together would be the shock heard round the world...
“*“Let’s enforce the 10th amendment. Devolve powers back locally.””
That’s what Geert Wilders just told the Germans, in a speech in Germany. Do it like Switzerland and let the power reside in the local canton, not far-away Brussels. (They pack pistols, too)
Here's some twitter humor for you;
Sarah Palin saw Rick Perry's shadow, so... at least six more weeks of campaign announcement teasing.
http://twitter.com/#!/OneTruthHunter
I hope she runs, she and Perry make a fine team and an attractive General Campaign Ticket!
:o)
Timing was not what did Fred Thompson in. Fred Thompson is what did Fred Thompson in. I like the guy, don't get me wrong but he was lacking in passion and focus.
I think announcing late will be beneficial to her. She owns this process and has no need to play by the establishment rules. The longer she waits, the worse things in the country get, the longer people have to focus on that. The minute she enters all focus turns to her--we don't need focus on her, not yet.
Tactics follow strategy, and she is a master strategist. By continuing to speak, she is actually using the LSM to go around them. By not announcing as of yet and getting maximum exposure for free, the people get a second chance to see and hear what she has to say.
I know it was a play on words - we all know how the media will snatch up even crumbs like this to try and make her look like a goofball.
As to: “but she seems to take up things and then drop them.”, other than resigning as Gov. I am not aware of her dropping anything else.
As to why she did that, she needs to be strong on messaging about why. It’s not enough to say “it’s in the book” (Todd did that) but to clearly explain.
The fact is simple. There were so many bulls**t lawsuits and actions filed against her that were costing the state itself a ton of money. Taxpayer money. The cost to the state from the Gov. staff having to focus time addressing that junk, and not strictly the business of the state, was also an issue. That is so super simple to understand.
Haters like to pretend that she quit just to make money - but she could have done that while in office. Haters like to ignore that the baseless suits were on target to bankrupt her family. Remember that Sarah absolutely KNEW those were baseless, and that has been proven now. So, she had NO moral obligation to protect her family? From utter financial ruin? She had no moral duty to take the controversy that was constructed out of whole lies, and the tremendous costs, the distractions, and the negative discourse, out of the office of Gov.?
I don’t like one bit that she was placed in that position, and was forced to make the only choice that a moral person could make, but she has been vindicated. They never found a dam* thing on her, though she now carries this single black mark on her record. How many of us would have done differently?
She has proven that she did not leave out of cowardice, nor from shame. She has proven that many times over.
One strides (purposefully) (or even better, one stalks) prior to breaking into a run.
Mama Grizzly on the hunt.
Cheers!
bump
LOL!
No, I would have known exactly why she was being attacked. I like her and I’d vote for her, but she does seem to be willing to decamp, either for personal or political reasons, when the going gets rough.
It’s true that the Dems were chatting about assassinating her and doing many other awful things, but I wish she had stuck it out.
You missed my point, but you want her in the race, that’s all that really matters.
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