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.
Right, it was too early for me.
Palin 2012.
Ummmm..McCain WAS in the US Senate and was the top of the McCain/Plain ticket. He called the shots. And like 0bama, McCain VOTED for TARP. Sarah Palin was NOT in the US Senate or the House. You can't accuse her of voting for TARP when she wasn't even in the congress at all, irrespective of whather as VP, she had to back the top of the ticket, John McCain's position on the matter.
“But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy um helping the… oh – its gotta be all about job creation too – shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track “
Huh?
Nice! I’m feeling more than a little confident about her chances at this moment in time.
Yeah, that’s what I said: “huh?”
When you make posts claiming that you are always right and when you make posts pretending to be a conservative, then the response that you are neither is relevent
As I said, you are a pro abort masquerading as an always-right conservative.
Who cares what you say? troll
Huh?
WTF?
If you would look at your own link you would see that I wasn't even on that thread.
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So you are saying she was lying then instead of now. What about her campaigning FOR McCain NOW.
See # 192
Call me a Romney basher. Go ahead -- a whole lot of my FR posts bash Romney. I bash Romney frequently and do my best to convince people that he's a piss-poor "conservative." If you call me a Romney basher, I would be an idiot to take offense because the charge is accurate. I AM a Romney Basher.
So far on this thread, and on others, I've only ever seen you criticize and call into question Palin's conservatism. I'd call that being a Palin basher. What's your problem with the word "basher"?
Gee, excuse me for attempting to pinpoint your real opinion because you refuse to state it clearly. You've said you don't believe it's "conservative" to have oil companies should pay Alaskan citizens directly for the use of state-owned land ... so it appears that either you think a) the oil companies should drill for free or b) the oil companies should ONLY give money to state government entities and not individual citizens. IS THERE A THIRD POSSIBILTY I'm not seeing? If so, please elaborate.
But somehow I think you won't -- I think you're too fuzzy-minded to say what you really mean, partly because it always keeps a detour open to the high road when people conclude what your opinion is from your non-statements of it; you can insult them by calling them liars or illiterates, as you did with me.
As you know, I can read, and as you know, trying to pinpoint your opinion which you refuse to state yourself but only imply by asking hypothetical questions, is not lying.
As you know, YOU are being evasive and are either unable or unwilling to state your opinion clearly enough to help me and others understand WHAT you would have Alaska do -- let oil companies have the use of the land for free, or keep the money only for state coffers? WHICH, Darkwolf? It's a simple question. Can you answer it?
IGNORE EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS POST and please answer this simple question: How would you have the oil companies compensate the State of Alaska for the use of state-owned land in drilling for oil?
I expect several of us here are eagerly awaiting your answer to that simple question. Just FYI, not that you care, I will ONLY read whatever in your post answers that question; I'll ignore all your emotional huffiness and charges of "lying," being "illiterate," etcetera. There's only ONE opinion of yours that I ask and the only asnwer I'm interested in, so response should be simple, cut, and dried for you: How would you have the oil companies compensate the State of Alaska for the use of state-owned land in drilling for oil?
Your idea of "rational" is evading clear statement of your opinion, and your idea of "spittle-flecked" is a long post that takes the time to dispassionately address the details of your non-arguments.
The more I read your posts (a bad idea, I know), the more I lose respect for you. You're letting emotions dominate your rseponses.
Wow. What a slap to working moms everywhere. :-(
"It is obvious that the election of Sarah Palin as the next President is absolutely impossible...." But she is going to do it anyway!
My premise holds. Michelle Bachman is amazing - my question was why are there not men who can stand up and do these things so the young mothers can be home where they are needed? It is the infinite interaction between a mother and a baby - that creates the beautiful dialogue of the unfolding person. If the mother is not there to direct this dialogue someone else will be doing it and there will be a loss to both. With infants, particularly handicapped ones, every moment is telling - Fathers- yes of course but not instead of mothers- males lack certain intuitive levels that females have and the father instead - does not work.
My premise holds. Michelle Bachman is amazing - my question was why are there not men who can stand up and do these things so the young mothers can be home where they are needed? It is the infinite interaction between a mother and a baby - that creates the beautiful dialogue of the unfolding person. If the mother is not there to direct this dialogue someone else will be doing it and there will be a loss to both. With infants, particularly handicapped ones, every moment is telling - Fathers- yes of course but not instead of mothers- males lack certain intuitive levels that females have and the father instead - does not work.
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