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”
The only people who said that Palin was going to announce today were Karl Rove and Dick Morris. Are you honestly going to believe them over Palin who had been saying for the past few weeks that her announcement would be toward the end of September?
And that's the beauty of it.
Sarah, announce already. Please? Make the talking heads have to leave their beach houses and gab all labor day weekend!
I was just thinking about those greek columns and the slick hollywood productions in the mythmaking of Obama....lol. This Tea Party ‘production’ is actually refreshing in it’s simplicity and lack of so called ‘hollywood polish’. Let Hollywood and media busy themselves with polishing a turd. We will stay busy polishing this great country back to it’s former luster!
RUN SARAH RUN!!
ok thx. Haven’t learned downloading apps yet but will give it a shot.
Rush sent his tea! Lol.
just under 11 am here in the land of everything melts ( Phoenix ) and I just woke up......I blame it on Budweiser
that said or placated, when is Sarah expected to speak
than you in advance and thank you in general too
I can appreciate you being busy with your new baby, so you probably missed all the fuss a week or two ago when Palin's camp squashed all of the rumors about her announcing at this event.
Eh, I thought it would be today, too. But after Rove’s stupid remarks, I’d bet anything Palin postponed just so that fool couldn’t say he was right.
I definitely will not be on the side of Chubby and the Toesucker!! I thought there was some hope she might announce now. I just want to know if she is IN.
160mb or 160gb?
If you’re talking video, 160mb won’t even come close.
45 min of live feed will fit in 160gb with plenty left over.
It would've been nice to see 10,000 show up today, but it is a field in rural Iowa, it is raining, it is college football opening day, and a lotta folks are scared we might end up with another McLame next year.
Stay around here long enough and sooner/later you'll get your ass flamed for somethin', merited or not.
It'll pass .. look at it as psychic callouses for next year 
Two more speakers then she’s on. Grab some coffee and join in!
Thanks Star! She was great!
It also parallels her gubernatorial announcement on Alaska’s Constitution day.
Lots of people sitting in their cars...crowd should easily double at the time that Palin speaks as she’s the reason most of them are even there. It’s a shame about the rains, it’s definitely keeping the crowd size down and giving fodder to her critics. It doesn’t help much that most of the speakers on stage so far are rather flat and monotone. Let’s hope future Palin events feature more dynamic speakers.
For those bummed about the crowd size, I doubt Perry, Romney or Bachmann would do any better. There will be bigger crowds once Palin is in this officially.
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