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Palin electrifies crowd in Salina.
http://cjonline.com/news/legislature/2010-02-05/palin_electrifies_salina_crowd ^ | Friday February 5, 2010 | Barbara Hollingsworth

Posted on 02/05/2010 8:10:31 PM PST by Bigtigermike

SALINA — Before a crowd of 6,000 cheering fans, Sarah Palin received rock star treatment Friday night in Salina.

The former vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor, drew a sell-out crowd to the Bicentennial Center for the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce annual meeting — an event that routinely draws big names to Salina. Past speakers have included Colin Powell, George H.W. Bush, Bob Costas, Margaret Thatcher and Cal Ripkin Jr.

"We've had great speakers in the past," said Todd Davidson, of the Chamber. "No one has generated this amount of interest — even President George H.W. Bush, who came here when he was a sitting president, did not drive this kind of a response."

Even Palin couldn't ignore the excitement her appearance generated. Back stage, she said, a chamber member told her, " 'Man, this is like a Van Halen concert.' I said, 'Man, I wish.' "

In her speech, Palin sounded off on national security, government bailouts and limited government ideals. And she offered lots of praise for the hometown crowd.

"In a time when folks so fear that much is going wrong, your town is an example of how to get it right and how to soar," said Palin, who was joined in Salina by her daughter, Piper. "Shoot, your state's motto even has it right: to the stars through difficulties."

Palin began by relating her experiences as a city councilwoman and mayor in Wasilla, Alaska. What worked there, she said, was cutting taxes, focusing on a few core services and spending responsibly. As governor, she said she learned to take tough stances.

"I'd have to butt heads with my own party officials and the other party, of course too, and the media," said Palin, who didn't meet with reporters on her trip to Salina. "Some things never change. It wasn't always the easy path, but it was the right path."

Telling the crowd she was going to "call is like I see it," she said Washington, D.C., politicians need to "back off." While Americans have lost jobs and learned to live with less, she charged that government has become more bloated.

"Over the past year, Washington has replaced private irresponsibility with public irresponsibility," she said.

The country, she said, needs health reform "not backroom deals." She suggested measures like allowing insurance purchases across state lines and tort reform.

Also, she said the country needs to pursue "all of the above approach to energy." She said increased drilling for oil must be pursued.

"Drill here and drill now and tap our own plentiful energy supplies," she said.

The Obama administration, she said, has lost its way on foreign policy. She said people wonder if the United States is still a "beacon of hope" for freedom.

"We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies and recognizes the true nature of these threats that we are facing," Palin said.

In the end, her speech brought the crowd to its feet.

Earlier in the night, Verlene and Joyce Jackson, of Chapman, said they hope to see Palin as president someday and like that she hasn't "always been in that ivory tower."

"She has a fresh outlook," Verlene Jackson said. "She speaks for us. She's a down home girl. I feel like personally, I think she would do a good job representing us."

DeVee Smalley drove in from Superior, Neb., to join her two daughters for Palin's speech.

"I think she is somebody who is trying to reach out to the heartland of America," Smalley said.

Palin will be back in Kansas May 2 to speak in Wichita at a fundraiser for a Christian school.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: convention; election; military; obama; palin; politics; sarahpalin; teaparties
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To: Darkwolf377
Sarah’s position is conservative. It champions the exploitation of state resources while assuring the owners are properly compensated.

Your turn.

81 posted on 02/05/2010 9:17:37 PM PST by free me (Sarah Palin 2012? You Betcha!)
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To: FreeperFlirt
Palin/Me for 2012.

You think Cheney was fun? You ain't seen nothing yet...

82 posted on 02/05/2010 9:18:05 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Oathkeeper)
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To: J Edgar

She is the ONLY one to have the exceutive experience and the conservatives principles to save this country. PERIOD!!!


83 posted on 02/05/2010 9:18:49 PM PST by American Dream 246 (Please, open your eyes. Freedom is not a one day fight. Enemies of Freedom are legion.)
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To: Cicero
What also impressed me about Palin was her own frugality during her service as Governor:
- Got rid of the state paid cook.
- Got rid of the jet.
- used her own car, not the state provided vehicle.
- travel expenses at a minimum
and so on. Something like that says she understands that there is no such things as Government money. Its our money and it need not be thrown around like confetti.

I enjoyed reading about her early personal experiences with trying to make a budget work, clipping coupons, trying to find health insurance the family could afford - simple, worrisome things we all deal with. Average every day things that average everyday Americans deal with but most politicians never have. I was crossing a street on my way to the voting booth last November. Also crossing with me was a meter maid from Boston still at work. We had a brief conversation as we walked, and she brought up the election and how much she looked forward to voting for Sarah. ( never mentioned McCain ) And what this young African American girl said stuck with me. She said " She knows whats its like to raise a family, cut coupons, she's worked for a living. She gets us, shes one of us ". Palin is the real deal and shes the only one on our side whom the Left is terrified of.

84 posted on 02/05/2010 9:20:42 PM PST by warsaw44
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To: onyx

Alinsky
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

The usual Ron PaulBot tactic


The Ron PaulBots use the side door attacks as they know their main gripe is that Sarah Palin understands who
the enemy is and supports the war against those who attacked and declared war on us.

The Ron PaulBots are anti war and and hate Palin because she supports winnning the war against the enemy


85 posted on 02/05/2010 9:20:44 PM PST by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: montag813

“I am glad Sarah stuck to her guns about speaking at the TPC. It looks like it will be a big success, despite the furious efforts of the MSM to smear it.”

Don’t forget the “concerned trolls on FR, that tried to discourage her from doing it like: “ Oh I don’t want Sarah to be tarnish” “ Oh, I wish somebody would get to Sarah and straighten her out about this mess at TPN”

LOL!!


86 posted on 02/05/2010 9:20:53 PM PST by Bigtigermike (Loose lips sink ships, stay away RINO's)
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To: sickoflibs

It’s not her job to explain TARP. She didn’t have a vote in the matter. She is against government bailouts, period.

As for your other stupid question, read her book for yourself, but you should already know the answer.

BYW, when I post you, and you answer me, you needn’t ping your pals, unless of course, you think you need back up, but I am not interested in replying to others on the same feeble subjects you raised.


87 posted on 02/05/2010 9:21:02 PM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: montag813
Palin attracts what once called, "The Silent Majority," a vast resource in America's body politic.

You haven't seen nothing until see a Palin rally.

88 posted on 02/05/2010 9:21:40 PM PST by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: Darkwolf377
There was a surplus because of oil revenuer's and if the money is not sent back to the people the government will spend and it's their money!

Because the Alaskan Constitution says that the natural resources of Alaskan our the people's of Alaska . By this logic, anything is a conservative position because according to the SCOTUS, the Constitution supports it? I'm asking a very specific question. I'm a little confused why I can't get a straight answer. She did want the Constitution says and didn't’t spend the money on bigger government. That's a straw man argument having nothing to do with my question. -------------------------------------------------

If you can't understand that being Conservative. What's not to understand. It's like less government less taxes.

I have to say that I have been a Freeper since 2000 and I have never seen a Freeper not understand something so simple?

It's like asking, what do we need to live? Air!

89 posted on 02/05/2010 9:21:58 PM PST by factmart
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To: Darkwolf377
To you and others who follow the crowd. “

To likely Repubpican primaries voters. Those persky people who actuallly elect our candidates and the president?
As per that little document called the constitution?
I don’t see where it says some guy calling himself “Darkwolf377” has veto poer over who represents the Republican Party, depending on who he thinks is "presidential"(whatever the heck that means).

All that matters to me, for MY vote, is if *I* think she’s presidential material.”

I couldn’t give two hoots about your vote.
As far as I am concerned, you can stick your bleeping vote where the sun doesn’t shine.

90 posted on 02/05/2010 9:22:46 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Darkwolf377

You seemed troubled you can’t get conservatives going against a conservative.


91 posted on 02/05/2010 9:23:36 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Darkwolf377; Dead Corpse

My reply was spot on with Dead Corpse’s so I’ll just add a mega dittos to it. Cheers!


92 posted on 02/05/2010 9:24:10 PM PST by rintense (Only dead fish go with the flow, which explains why Congress stinks.)
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To: American Dream 246
Not sure about the whole "only" thing, but I do agree she has a serious edge in National name recognition.

If someone better does exist, they have a LOT of catching up to do.

I'd be very happy indeed with President Palin. Especially if she held true to her RKBA stance. It'd be fun to see her close down the "F" portion of the BATFE.

93 posted on 02/05/2010 9:24:23 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Oathkeeper)
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To: Darkwolf377
But why do doubt her ‘intellect and experience’?
She was elected Governor of Alaska, and IMMEDIATELY turned the whole political ballgame around. She busted corrupt politicians in both the Republican and Democratic parties. She appointed people of integrity, and pushed forward with programs that benefited Alaskan.
She took on Big Oil and won. They under estimated her, just as you are doing, and WON. She made the natural gas pipeline project, that will bring natural gas to the lower states a reality. She did all of this in 2 1/2 years. Please name another political person who has similar political. economic accomplishments. You would be well seerved if you invested time to read "Sarah Takes On Big Oil' by Kay Cashman & Kristen Nelson
94 posted on 02/05/2010 9:25:15 PM PST by J Edgar
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To: SoCalPol

Yes, that’s an Alinsky rule, and Sarah is a target for sure, but I don’t pay attention to the poster I answered to know if s/he is a Paulbot or just a Sarah detractor/defamer.


95 posted on 02/05/2010 9:25:43 PM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: rintense

Spasiba. ;-)


96 posted on 02/05/2010 9:28:06 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Oathkeeper)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
drew a sell-out crowd to the Bicentennial Center for the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce annual meeting
Thanks Bigtigermike.
97 posted on 02/05/2010 9:28:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: SoCalPol

PDS is rampant in Demwit circles and the so-called MSM. It’s so funny to watch Leno, Kimmel, Meltdown, OBrien et al as their heads nearly explode each time she blows them to smithereens.

Do I agree with her endorsement of McCain, Perry? No
Is there something to be said for loyalty - Yes
Do you agree with everything your spouse says/does - I think not. Will you divorce him/her because of it - I think not.
Do I agree with 90+% of what SHE says & does - You betcha

She’s honest, articulate, loves guns, conservative and proud of it. Even the good ole boys in the GOP want her stopped but are scared to say so.

We have a good leader whether she decides to run or not and we need to be at the forefront of defending her against the Commie b@$t@rds that are trying to destroy her!

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.


98 posted on 02/05/2010 9:29:20 PM PST by secondamendmentkid
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To: Darkwolf377
Liberals tell me abortion is protected by the Constitution, so I guess if "following the tenets of the...constitution" protects any position, being pro-abortion is now a conservative position?

How is abortion, a "right" that was snatched out of thin air by the SCOTUS, in any way, shape, or form similar to laws written into a state constitution?

Though I must add, a conservative Executive is honor-bound to uphold the laws of the land in which they govern, IMO.

Or do you think they should pick and choose?

99 posted on 02/05/2010 9:30:24 PM PST by Bratch
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To: sickoflibs
"Does she explain TARP and Republicans like McCain and Bush? “

Ummmm..When was Sarah Palin ever in the US Senate or the House, and then proceeded to vote for TARP?
Hey, I musta missed that vote. Why don't you remind me?

100 posted on 02/05/2010 9:30:55 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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