Posted on 06/16/2013 4:38:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin energized a group of social conservatives at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference Saturday, blasting the Obama Administration’s apparent lawlessness, calling the current state of America “Orwellian,” and urging the United States to stay out of Syria’s chaotic and brutal civil war.
In comments to the Daily Caller, the 2008 candidate for vice president also declined to join many of her fellow Republicans in condemning National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, saying the real problem was the government’s violation of Americans’ rights.
In her speech, Palin called the current political atmosphere, rife with scandals, a “a symptom of a bigger disease,” expressing outrage over the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative nonprofits.
“You don’t marginalize everyday, average Americans. Those, who are part of the Tea Party, that want to protect the constitution,” said the former Alaska Governor. “The IRS can’t figure out how it spent $4 million dollars on a training conference because it lost its receipts… really?”
The 2008 GOP Vice-Presidential nominee said President Obama has lost the trust of the American people.
“Like the other day,” she said ”[Director of National Security Intelligence James Clapper] bragging that they used the ‘least untruthful statement.’ Now, where I come from that is called a lie. Yes, the officials lied and government spied — and in Benghazi government lied and Americans died.”(continued)
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If you want to win as a lib, there’s an app for that. Get it.
Sarah has come around to the correct side of history and is emerging as a true spokeswoman for conservatism. She is voicing my sentiments to a tee.
I agree with her.
Go look at some of the ****ed up comments there.
AMEN. Yes, too many on our side are bitching that he went to HK rather than to Congress(talk about a death wish).
Thus he must be a commie, OWS, one of them, a diversion, etc... as in throwing away the 4th Amendment is just fine.
Stay on focus, people. It's not about Snowden (that's the gov spin if you haven't noticed). It's about THIS government. Deal with it.
I go with Alan Dershowitz opinion voiced on Hannity. Charge him with theft, not espionage, if this can indeed be considered a “civil disobedience” case. Snowden could be convicted on that, besides, he knew he broke the law. If this was truly a case of civil disobedience, he would be willing to do the time for the crime. And if such is the case, he should be then obligated to cooperate fully with a Congressional investigation.
I have seen plenty of F’d up comments everywhere on this. Mostly by people with no clue what they think to begin with.
And as this thread grows, I garenn-frealing-tee we will see more.
Agreed completely.
No, I want to win. Sitting behind a keyboard bitching about it hasn’t gotten us very far.
The Tea Party made major strides in one election, so the GOP and the Dems band together to suppress the Tea Party.
So go argue about your ‘principles’ and see what it gets you. Me, I’ll support people like Sarah and Cruz.
And the reason people condemned Bush for it was they knew it could be abused, and it has been.
Frames it very nicely.
BRAVO..! Forwarded.
Here’s a free clue. We WANT people to support those like Palin/Cruz. THATS THE FREAKING POINT!!!
Let them charge him, the trial will be a big expose on the government.
Snowden is the least important thing in this story
I stand with Sarah. She got it right.
I say she’s correct.
Ignore my 'principles' and see how many votes you get.
Do not piss off happy fun cat. You will lose elections.
/johnny
I believe you should have capitalized “FILTER” as well.
THEY want to divide us once again...to pit us against
each other AND to see just who are the GENUINE freedom-lovers. They need filters to see who should be targeted
next - who are the hard core believers of freedom...
This is one confused puppy. He is bitching about people supporting/maintaining principles, then says we should support Cruz and Palin.
So dies that mean he thinks they have none? Because that’s what they are both all about. Winning on principle. Now winning to win.
I think we need some serious scrutiny of the defense contractors. The company that Snowden worked for took nearly $6 billion in taxpayer dollars last year and Snowden himself made it clear that they have lots of people like him working there. It also wouldn’t hurt to take a look at how many Chinese nationals work for the company.
And BTW, nobody notices that James Clapper was himself an executive with Booz Allen. Wonder what kind of stock options he walked away with?
Nearly a half trillion dollars was paid to government contractors last year. I think its time to take a long hard look at what’s going on there.
I agree. There is massive waste and fraud in all government spending. The defense spending is probably bloated with it too.
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