Posted on 09/03/2011 2:14:54 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
INDIANOLA, Iowa -- Sarah Palin still isn't a candidate, but in an aggressive bid to lay down her marker in the 2012 Republican presidential race, she delivered a speech here Saturday that was as confrontational toward the Republican establishment as it was aimed at President Obama.
Despite her high-profile endorsement of Rick Perry during his 2010 gubernatorial primary fight, Palin used thinly veiled language to leave little doubt that she sees the Texas governor and national front-runner for the Republican nomination as part of the problem.
“Some GOP candidates, they also raise mammoth amounts of cash,” Palin said. “We need to ask them, too: What, if anything, do their donors expect from their investments? We need to know this because our country can’t afford more trillion-dollar thank-you notes to campaign backers.”
Again and again, Palin urged her audience to confront “the permanent political class,” “crony capitalism” and “the good ol’ boys,” whom she said she took on as governor of Alaska.
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“They’ve got a lot of mouths to feed, a lot of corporate lobbyists, a lot of special interests that are counting on them to keep the good times and the money rolling along,” Palin said. “It doesn’t surprise me. I’ve seen this kind of crony capitalism before.”
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Really devastating to read that Governor Palin supports allowing thieves (illegal aliens) to keep what they stole (residence in America).
Oh, that’s not “amnesty?” It’s a “path to citizenship?”
WHAT THE HELL DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHAT YOU CALL IT?!
The result is the same: they stay. America loses.
Opposing amnesty and supporting deportations aren’t the same thing for politicians. Hunter opposed amnesty, but didn’t talk about mass deportations like Tancredo did. Duncan Hunter didn’t even have a chance of winning. Why wasn’t Duncan Hunter appearing on a bunch of shows to talk about illegal immigration until Tom Tancredo started? During the years Hunter was a Rep., between 1986-1999 after the 1986 amnesty bill was passed, there weren’t as many attempts to help illegals as there were when Tancredo was a Rep. Tancredo started pushing the bills.
“1,000 to 2,000 showing up sounds a bit disappointing. What happened to the huge crowds? Maybe recent polls are not totally off the wall.”
When the LSM is estimating crowd size for Palin, a couple tons of salt is in order.
But you are right, she needs those big crowds like the other wannabe’s. Read the other day that Romney was speaking to a monstrous crowd of, maybe fifty people in Florida.
Bachmann had a whopping crowd of 50 in Des Moines, IA, and to top it off she garnered 80 people at a South Carolina rally. Yeah, that is what Palin needs. /S
I think we’re both aware of the multiple meanings of the word “field”, and that it wasn’t being used in a metaphorical sense, in the first instance. However, ‘field’ isn’t a word usually associated with “bows”. The phrase “shot across the bow” has become a cliche; and most people don’t think about it’s literal origin. A pirate boat may receive a shot across the bow (literally). When you’re talking about a group of people receiving a “shot across the bow”, you’re speaking metaphorically. It was the wrong metaphor to use with the collective noun “field”.
A hundred or more waited overnight for Palinstock.
Iowa had thunderstorms overnight Friday and during the day Saturday. Lightning delayed the football game at the U of Iowa, and Iowa State and Northern Iowa play each other today.
Also, despite assumptions, Iowa Republicans aren’t particularly conservative by FR standards.
I prefer Elmers.
8^D
It seems to me that those who are here dissing Governor Palin are really trying to convince themselves that she has no chance. She hasn't even announced yet, and the PDS’ers are out in force trying to discredit her.
Here's a clue to those of you with PDS: PALIN IS HERE TO STAY...GET USED TO IT!
She’s the first one to come down the pike that reminds me of Reagan in many ways. A LOT of people said the same thing about Reagan when he was running - the GOP really didn’t like him, the Democrats certainly didn’t like him, but Americans LOVED him. Same with Sarah.
No glue, so 18 year bourbon will have to do. Thanks for the tips on technique.
Anybody who would wait overnight to hear a politician speak is not a conservative.
All your base are belong to me.
She doesn’t need money votes are free.
It does not take a genius to figure out that if any candidate wants to win elections these days, they do not alienate or offend as many votes as possible. I seems like Palin’s following believes that the voters will flock to the polls to the degree of how deeply she can insult them.
I would advise all my FRiends to click on the video link @ RCP & watch the entire 46 minute speech.
Big picture: if Sister Sarah’s Tent Revival is any indication, she will blow all other GOP candidates out of the water when she gets in. If she is truly “not for sale” no amount of money, not Mitt, Perry or even Barry’s one billion dollar campaign can defeat her. Sarah is taking it straight to the people; that’s where elections are won.
Sarah IS America at this point in time. She has her finger on the pulse of America, the dangers ahead, and how to change course before it’s too late. She has grace, wit, and incredible political talent and charisma.
Godspeed Sarah! It’s going to be a long tough ride to the finish, but our lives and liberty are at stake.
Pot-Kettle
Could she rule? God help us, if that is what the people think a president is supposed to do.
A “shot across the bow” is a nautical term, a warning shot. I do not know of a landlubber equivalent.
It is are virtue to hope for second best, because you are never disappointed.
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