Posted on 09/03/2011 7:04:06 AM PDT by rintense
Live thread for the Restoring America Tea Party event and Sarah Palin's speech!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (11am CDT - 2PM)
Bands and vocalists
Tea Party of America Co-founder Ken Crow will welcome the crowd and recognize veterans in attendance
Bagpipe music from the Mackenzie Highlanders
Pastor Warren Rogers of the Faith Church of the Nazarene in Des Moines will sing a hymn and give the invocation.
Russ Saffell of the Des Moines Tea Party will lead the Pledge of Allegiance
Carrie and Stacie Stoelting, two sisters from Iowa, will sing the National Anthem
Simon Conway, conservative talk show host with WHO Radio in Des Moines
Sam Clovis, conservative talk show host with KSCJ 1360 AM in Sioux City
Tony Katz of Pajamas Media
Tennessee-based recording artist Krista Branch will sing her song “I am American” – a song often used by the Herman Cain campaign
The Stoelting sisters sing “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Eric Golub, a Los Angeles-based political comedian
Branch sings another song
Ryan Rhodes, founder of the Iowa Tea Party
California-based recording artist Steve Vaus will sing “We must take America Back” while the music video plays
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Stoelting sisters sing “God Bless America”
That’s the Connie Hair that Ken was referring to at the March For Justice, Oct. 1998.
She ain't passing on that hand.
;^\
I wasn’t there, but I was following it all on TV and Freerepublic. Yes those were the days.
WOO-HOO!
Amazing Sarah! She’s the best!
Yours makes 3 husbands today!
I left the TV after the speech to check this thread.
Based on the rave reviews of the after-speech festivities, I will watch the replay on C-SPAN tonight at 7 central and watch our next President sign autographs and greet those who will elect her.
I was there *in spirit*.
When posters mention being afraid if Palin doesn’t run and would loose voters for the election...I do believe that is simply not going to happen as well. Those who choose to sit home would do so anyway.....and likely have in past elections.
Ha ha ha and HAR!
She aimed, she fired and she hit her targets!
Personally, I can not WAIT to hear what Rush and TGO have to say about this speech on Tuesday ;-)
I know Connie is the blonde in the photo, I was talking about Jim R., the “blade with the stick” (bat). Trying to be funny, you see.
Here is the only section I can find where she mentions the GOP. I believe this is an accurate transcript, as I listened several times; typos are of course mine, and I could have transposed words although I tried to get it right:
"Now to be fair, some GOP candidates they also raise mammoth amounts of cash and we need to ask them too what if anything do their donors expect in return for their investments. We need to know this, because our country can't afford more trillion dollar thank-you notes to campaign backers."Later, she chastised some conservatives, not for crony capitalism, but for not taking the chance to say what we really needed to hear.
I was paying special attention to the speech to see if she went after GOP candidates (since some had said she would do so), and she largely steered clear of criticizing other candidates. That quote above was the closest she came, and seems most likely to be targeted at Mitt Romney, the only presidential candidate who has raised enough money to really qualify at this point. She also was probably talking about ALL candidates, not just for president, since she spoke of washington as a whole.
Earlier, she mentioned "vetting a candidates record", but that was clearly aimed at Obama. Here's the transcript that I made of that section (again, it's my best attempt, please feel free to correct it):
"So please, you must vet a candidate's record, you must know their ability to successfully reform and actually fix problems that they're going to claim that they inherited."The line "they're going to claim that they inherited" tells you it's about Obama, who keeps saying he inherited all his problems. None of the republicans are talking about inheriting problems."Real reform never sits well with the intrenched special interests and that's why the true voices of reform are so quickly demonized. Look what they say about you, you are concerned civilized citizens and look what they say about you."
The second paragraph, which led into a specific discussion about the debt downgrade and how the liberals blamed the tea party, was not about candidates, it was about the entrenched washington political class.
I'm hoping there will be an official release of the speech, because it was very long and I can't transcript like I used to.
Click on the Yahoo link.. go to the comments.. sickening :/
I was only able to read about 8 of them before I started barfing :p
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Great pics & coverage of Palin rally from UK’s Daily Mail http://bit.ly/qT9GyI
“Truth Rules”... and when it does it makes no apologies...neither does Palin when she speaks it!
Can't disagree with you there. I've been saying for a long time that Sarah's been running for over a year now, but some folks just have to hear the magic words come out of her mouth to believe it.
Yep, Rush will also love today! He and Sarah have to meet and SOON!
I am loving today and we will have many more!
God bless Sarah Palin and may God bless us all!
yep, that’s me.
Ah, sorry...I can be more than a little dense at times...this is apparently one of those times.
I haven’t sat any out, It’s Sarah or I write her in ( they allow me or I pull the Civil Rights card, MI doesn’t allow it or so I am told ) or stay home. I am tired of holding my nose for the evil of 2 lessers...
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