Posted on 03/08/2014 5:44:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The crowd here at the Conservative Political Action Conference gleefully embraces the political figures Democrats and the media love to hate, and it is full of adoration for Sarah Palin.
You love her because she drives liberals crazy, the National Rifle Associations Chris Cox said as he introduced the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee.
Palin delivered the closing remarks at this years conference and, in a speech that touched on topics ranging from Obamacare to the Republican establishment to Ted Cruz to the war on women, she brought the audience of approximately 11,000 to its feet repeatedly with the sassiness and attitude that has become her calling card.
The age of Obama is almost over, she announced. This is the end of an error, he is the lamest of lame ducks.
Palin also launched an assault on the party establishment, which she said is urging Republicans to law low while Obamacare and the presidents feckless foreign policy create problems for Democrats.
You do interrupt when they are in the process of destroying your country, and thats what were gonna do in 2014, she said. Audience members interrupted to exclaim, Run, Sarah, run! (She garnered just 2 percent in the conferences annual presidential straw poll.)
Palins message to President Obama, who is in the midst of a stand off with Russian president Vladimir Putin over his incursion into Ukraine: Mr. President, she said, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke. Then she acknowledged she should be more understanding in the face of the presidents troubles. After all, who could have seen this one coming? she quipped, referring to her 2008 prediction that American inaction in the face of Putins invasion of Georgia would encourage him to invade Ukraine.
I love coming back here because there are always so many young people or, as youre known by the folks across the river, Obamacare suckers, she said. Turns out, you have the change that they were waiting for: You have the $5s, the $10s, and the $20s.
They said the train of history was roaring to the left, she said, but then, something happened. That Hope and Change went from a catchy campaign slogan to a reality and along the way, Hope and Change, Yes we can, it became No You Cant': No you cant log on to the website. No, you cant keep your health care. No, you cant make a phone call without Michelle Obama knowing this is the third time you dialed Pizza Hut delivery.
Pushing back against the Democrats claim that the Republican partys pro-life stance constitutes a war on women, she told the women in todays audience, of the Democratic party, Dont let them use you unless you choose to be their political pawn or just their accessory on their arm. Honey, thats not liberation, thats subjugation, and this sisterhood fights against that.
Palin electrified the audience at last years conference by tacitly rebuking New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, pulling a Big Gulp soda from beneath the podium and taking a big sip. Shoot, its just pop with lo-cal ice cubes in it! she shrugged, and pumped the cup over her head when she left the stage.
Moments before Palin took the stage, Rand Paul claimed a victory in the conferences annual presidential straw poll for the second year in a row.
Palin, who heads a political action committee dedicated to backing candidates that she supports, and who will host the show Amazing America on the Sportsman Channel starting next month, has not backed a 2016 presidential candidate yet, but did give a special shout out to freshman senator Ted Cruz. Liberty needs a Congress on Cruz control, she said, praising Cruzs all-night filibuster and his attempt to defund Obamacare, which she said had helped to wake people up to the horrors of Obamacare.
Palin offered her own version of Green Eggs and Ham after offering praise for Cruz, who read the book on the Senate floor during his filibuster against Obamacare last fall.
I do not like this Uncle Sam, I do not like this health care scam. I do not like these dirty crooks, or how they lie and cook the books, she said. The audience laughed and cheered.
I do not like this spyin man, I do not like Oh, yes we can, she continued. I do not like this kind of hope, and we wont take it nope, nope, nope.
And yet
the straw poll is rigged.
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It always has been, yet the media spews the results like they are predictors. ...I recall that libertarians at CPAC a few years ago pushed the vote so much that Ron Paul was the winner, and I suspect that’s what has happened each of the past two CPACs when Rand came in first.
As to topic: I watched Sarah’s keynote speech live and she was on fire! She actually had me cheering out loud as I watched on TV. ....Don’t see her as POTUS, but she would be a great Sec. of Interior or Energy.
Last reply be me to you as I have seen your comments on other threads and I don’t consider you a rational person to have discourse with, but you and your ilk are dooming your fellow countrymen to the same abysmal existence we have had for the past 5 years under Dem rule. You get the government you deserve. Good nite.
I will bet that most of the 3 million people would take an "impure" republican over a liberal like Romney any day.
The real purists are the liberals in the republican party who abandoned candidates like Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia.
Politically naive is foisting a left wing liberal candidate on a conservative base.
Politically naive is thinking that you can bully, browbeat, guilt-trip, and blackmail people into voting for a distasteful candidate.
Foolish is trying to do that over and over again, and then blaming the voters, when you don't succeed.
In all my years on Free Republic, I have never seen a purist. Not once.
On the other hand, I have seen many who accuse others of being purists for declining to vote for more statism.
The GOP didn't ask me to compromise my principles when it asked me to vote for Romney. It asked me to abandon them.
Poor ol' flaglady is totally in the dark.
LOL. So you're saying all those people are supporting Cruz and Paul only because Palin hasn't officially announced?
I never really thought of Drudge as a hangout for liberal Democrats.
But are you an Extremely Extremely More Extreme Conservative than Romney?
“Certainly even they must recognize she’s a savant and not an idiot.”
Right after her speech some pasty-faced boy-anchor on FOX news ridiculed Palin and was disgustingly dismissive of her.
Sarah Palin makes me smile and feel good about the country we once had.
WTF..WE'RE ALL WONDERING REPUBLICAN PARTY: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?
Because you KNOW and have proof that 3 million of the base won't vote for liberal republicans.
That's irrational.
/johnny
On Grey Jarret of Fox News trashing, mocking, laughing at Sarah last night on Fox after Sarah finished?
I hope everybody that calls Sarah a friend will let fox know that you are outraged
I am asking for a public apology
Greg Jarret
Who is doing this to her? Looks and speech-wise, We need Maggie Thatcher-type cred and class. This act could take her right out'o'the picture.
A beautiful, poweful woman and no one around her can figure this out?
No, I’m not saying that at all. I think people’s votes in these polls reflect their individual forecasts of the likely near-term future. Few of them think (at this point) that Sarah will run. I believe the poll votes would shift dramatically in Palin’s favor if there were strong evidence that she was planning to.
Agree. I rarely find fault with Gov Palin, but her procrastination in the 2012 primary was a huge error. The longer she waited, the more out of control the process became, which only benefited the establishment GOP.
I honestly believe she intended to run, but the field filled up fast, and that altered the dynamics in lots of weird ways. I really believe it's one of the few times in her life that she was indecisive.
In hindsight, I'm sure she sees that those dynamics would have probably shifted in her favor, had she declared by early summer.
I disagree. Palin, if she announces, will be fighting for the conservative wing. Cruz and Paul already have their supporters locked. Palin may pick some support up from the Perry or Huckabee or Santorum supporters should any of those men not run, or run and drop out. But she's trailing the big two right now and an announcement won't change that.
Oh please....no one's running yet, and no one's got supporters "locked up". This time next year, we'll still be about a year and a half away from election day, so it's still waaaay to early to be talking real baseball.
A whole lot is going to happen between now and the start of the real horse race. We've got a midterm election to focus on first. That's a lot more important (and forecast-able) than the 2016 presidential election.
Lastly - do not underestimate Sarah Palin. She's proven the doubters, natterers, and naysayers wrong on too many occasions to count.
Romney lost because when people who like big government handing them goodies have a choice between a real Democrat and Democrat-lite, they pick the real ‘rat every time.
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