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.
Your turn.
You think Cheney was fun? You ain't seen nothing yet...
She is the ONLY one to have the exceutive experience and the conservatives principles to save this country. PERIOD!!!
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.
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
“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!!
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.
You haven't seen nothing until see a Palin rally.
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!
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.
You seemed troubled you can’t get conservatives going against a conservative.
My reply was spot on with Dead Corpse’s so I’ll just add a mega dittos to it. Cheers!
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.
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.
Spasiba. ;-)
drew a sell-out crowd to the Bicentennial Center for the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce annual meetingThanks Bigtigermike.
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.
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?
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?
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