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 cant 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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Theyve 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 doesnt surprise me. Ive seen this kind of crony capitalism before.
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Well put, Mariner. The task of cleaning-up Washington DC is so great that few imagine it possible. With Sarah, I think it is. The screwing that taxpayers take at the hands of Washington bureaucrats is untold. Holding them to account seems impossible to many. Which is to say, "Why even try?"
A natural conservative such as Sarah, surrounded by Levin-types at every level would spell a re-birth of America unbeknownst to those too young to recall Reagan's Revolution. He was called 'stupid' too.
[I once heard a Palindrone claim that Sarah was smarter than William F. Buckley, but your post now takes the title of stupidity comment ever. ]
How about someone repeats it for you. Buckley was a decent guy as it goes, but in many ways an effete east cost establishment prig. Oh, we all know his vocabulary was prodigious, but I’d start a company with the Palins, but would never do so with Buckley. In short, I would trust Palin’s judgment over William F.
Let the ridicule begin!
Here’s your sign!
Ruling is what Presidents do. Ruling is choosing the right men and policies,managing them, and negotiating with other men of power. It is not dictating, but leadership. Even a great dictator leads from the front rather than just issue orders. Caesar was small, even boyish when he was made a general, but he learned to ride with the best, and to lead men into battle. I may be wrong about Palin, but I think she has that kind of steel and decisivess, and the ability to draw others to her.
Mark my words. This shallow, selfish woman is going to run third party just to keep her name in lights. She will guarantee an Obama reelection. She hasn’t got the guts, smarts, or organizational ability to run a successful presidential-level campaign within the GOP.
Look at the big picture, the ideas, the totality
Sarah speaks American English, just like the people who vote. Compared to Barry and the TOTUS , Sarah is Cicero!
Sarah gives a great speech. “Firing a shot across their bow” is a nautical term of warning. Heads up MItt and Barry!
Well, yes, and no. Buckley was not cut out to hold office. You would have been better off with his father as a partner. But as the leader of a movement, he excelled.
Bet a dollar you are wrong.
Endorsing someone for Governor doesn’t mean you would endorse them for POTUS. I took Sarah’s remark as a message to Mitt, Perry, but mainly to Obama.
In case you haven’t heard, “polls are for strippers and skiers”
Sarah is the master Dog Whistler.
You will support whomever your bettors let you support. You have plenty of practice for the job.
- Small businesses, you are the economic engine, but you dont grease the skids of the politicians...
- "Real reform never comes from entrenched special interests."
- The only future Obama is trying to save is his own re-election...
- "Like you, Im not for sale!
- "Obama and his administration wont say Federal government any more... They now call it the Federal FAMILY ...Can we ask to be emancipated?.. I never thought Id say these words, But I want a divorce.
- I want to tell you what MY plan is..
- Bonafide pro working mans plan....in reality....with what really works in order to get America back to work....empowerment of entrepreneurs, YOU, hard working individuals.....because I have faith, trust, respect for you.
- Lets enforce the 10th Amendment
- WE MUST REPEAL obamacare
- "I would do the opposite of Obama ... Drill here , drill now.... Let the refineries and the pipelines be built.... Stop cow towing to foreign countries and dictators. "
- "We have to move on tapping our own God given resources."
- Americas revival starts with Americas energy revival
- "Eliminate ALL corporate income tax!!!!!! And no more bailouts and corporate welfare!!!!!
- God has richly blessed this exceptional Nation! .... Real hope comes from you.......You dont need a title to make a difference...Dont wait for the permenant political class to do it for you...
- Theyll make things up, demonize you, tell you to go to hell.... But we will keep it classy.
- When we have logic and truth on our side, we win!
- "Corporate America, you will succeed or fail on your own, just like every American household... No more bailouts.
- "You and I are blessed to be born the heirs of freedom......Charged the bayonets, charged the cannons, prayed in the trenches.........We are the heirs of those who freed the slaves...stormed the beaches of Normandy!...We will never give up!
- Let us seek that Hand once more.....He shed His Grace on thee, America!......A Providental hand has always guided uslet us take that Hand once again......
- The easiest thing you will ever do is tell the truth
“It was no mystery that the barbs were aimed at Texas Governor Rick Perry,.... who has spent most of his career in office and who is consistantly dogged by charges of rewarding his financial supporters.”
I believe that pic was taken at the Iowa State Fair. What would you have her do, shoot ‘em the bird?
Uh?....you make your voting decision based on if or not supporters of a candidate are "vicious" or not. Hummm-mmm......Well with this election is hardly off the ground so you have not seen anything yet....this ones going to be brutal... so looks like there won't be any for you to vote for.
I read that Palins crowd today was the biggest any candidate has had there...and that in the midst of a rain storm!
William F Buckey had a first rate intellect with wit, charm, and prodigious scholarship. One has to remember his brilliant “God and Man at Yale” written in 1951. The conservative movement of today owes him a lot.
Without Buckley, there would be no conservative movement as we know it today.
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