Governor Palin Gives a Shoutout to the Troops and to Jeremy Lin

Wearing her HOOAH pin, Governor Palin in New York gave a shoutout to the troops and expressed her support for Jeremy Lin and for Tim Tebow as well.

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A Special Offer from SarahPAC

SarahPAC sent this e-mail to Sarah Palin Supporters:

SarahPAC Supporter, Friends across America are teeming with praise for Governor Palin’s closing speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The audience of thousands jumped to their feet over and over, cheering on her commonsense conservatism.Michael Medved of the Daily Beast wrote: Sarah Palin won CPAC’s heart—electrifying the Conservative Political Action Conference with one of the most rousing and effective political speeches of recent years. And Matt Negrin of ABC likened the energy and cheers to that of a packed concert: A dozen times the conservatives at the conference leaped to their feet to applaud Palin, as she threw them line after line about beating President Obama and reclaiming ‘traditional values.’ This momentum continues to grow as SarahPAC’s grassroots movement glows brighter every day, despite Washington actions that cast a heavy shadow on the lives of hardworking Americans. Bloated bureaucracy stifles American innovation with tight regulations, never questioning the federal government’s size or control. Governor Palin offers an alternative — instead of calling Washington a swamp, let’s call it a wetland so that it will be protected from more government encroachment. Join Governor Palin as she leads the fight against the growing shadow of Washington!Watch her speech at CPAC and support SarahPAC today, and in honor of conservative action and activists, we are sending out complimentary signed copies of Governor Palin’s movie, The Undefeated, with donations of $100 or more. Let’s make sure Governor Palin and SarahPAC have the resources needed to restore our Conservative values in Washington this election cycle! Sincerely, Tim Crawford Treasurer, SarahPAC Paid for by SarahPAC Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee www.SarahPAC.com P.O. Box 7711 Arlington, VA 22207

Andrew Malcolm: Palin Punches Have Power

Andrew Malcolm at Investor’s Business Daily makes some astute observations  in his article about Governor Palin’s CPAC speech Saturday night:

Sarah Palin has been generally laying low these past several months save for her regular guest shots on Fox News and Fox Business and carefully-calibrated op-ed commentaries on a wide variety of current subjects released on her Facebook page.

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With two daughters in tow, Palin emerged from Alaskan hibernation this weekend to headline the year’s top conservative political event, the Conservative Political Action Conference in a sprawling Washington hotel the size of Rhode Island.

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No wonder CPAC saved Sarah for last. And adjourned the conference during her applause.

No one in their right mind would go on-stage after Palin’s political palaver. People who dislike or fear her are incapable of seeing or admitting it. But that doesn’t diminish the reality that Palin is a rare political celebrity and, therefore, an unharnessed power to be reckoned with within the GOP for the foreseeable future.

We’re not talking about her running for any office. We’re talking about her influence, her enduring proven ability to attract and then ignite a crowd — even before anyone sees her. The CPAC buzz was electric all-day. Impatient “Sar-ah! Sar-ah!” chants broke out during preceding speakers.

She has the ability to speak about issues that profoundly bother the audience in common ways and words that listeners instantly recognize and wish they had thought to say just that way. Watch in the video below of her full CPAC speech for how this church-going mother of five mocks Obama’s Winning the Future program with an almost off-color aside. And prompts shared laughter, not shock.

She gets immense unspoken credit for withstanding an amazing amount of abuse and keeping on ticking. Palin punches have power, like her elbows beneath the basket in high school athletic days. One supporter said to me, as if it was the highest contemporary compliment possible, “She fights like a girl!”

Most politicians these days talk to their audiences or, worse, at them. Even the Real Good Talker, who made his name on a 2004 convention speech and has been giving too many ever since. Governing is hard work. Campaigning is tiring, but much easier. So, he has been and will be campaigning, blaming others as usual.

Obama’s standard fundraiser remarks have become tired, repetitious collections of recited pleas for $upport that few would voluntarily pay $35.80 to hear, let alone $35,800 per plate.

Instead, instinctively Palin doesn’t speak at or to audiences. She speaks for them. She tells them what they’ve already accomplished through the tea party, for instance, and what they can accomplish this year and beyond if united. It’s empowering and invigorating, no longer burdened by the attacks of enemies, she need play no defense. The audience hears that she knows them and eagerly becomes hers. To criticize Sarah is to criticize them.

It’s a refreshing phenomenon to watch politically when compared to the current bipartisan cast of characters trying to communicate publicly in this presidential election year. Fascinating, as on either side the ones who are running aren’t connecting. The one who isn’t, is.

Excerpting Palin speeches loses the flow, the knitting together of her thoughts with the audience’s. Even television filters the electricity of listening in the same room. The best we can do for now is provide her full speech on video.

P.S. After his CPAC speech, Santorum and clan walked off the stage. After theirs, Romney and Gingrich stepped down to shake hands with front-row members for a few minutes. Good moves.

After hers, Palin got a standing ovation. She waved for two minutes then plunged into the audience. Moving slowly like a mini-mob from one side of the vast ballroom to the other to accommodate the waves of well-wishers with hands outstretched and cellphones poised. Some sections spontaneously sang ‘Happy Birthday’ for her. And she was thrilled every time.

Sarah Palin did this for the better part of another hour, longer actually than her speech. TV was oblivious, the crews coiling their wires to go home as she continued shaking and touching hands on the ballroom floor below.

Read the entire article here.

Governor Palin: Professor Dershowitz Is Right About Media Matters

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From Governor Palin’s Facebook Note:

Professor Dershowitz Is Right About Media Matters

Harvard University Professor Alan Dershowitz is one of the most knowledgeable and unapologetic defenders of Israel among American academics. This has unfortunately opened him to unfair and intellectually dishonest attacks from his fellow liberals.

In answering a recent attack by Max Blumenthal, formerly of Media Matters for America (MMfA), Prof. Dershowitz said, “Let me tell you, Max Blumenthal and Media Matters will be singlehandedly responsible for (Obama) losing this election. They (the Democrats) cannot win the election and keep this affiliation with them.”

I agree with Prof. Dershowitz, though obviously I think there are many, many more reasons why President Obama should lose this election (trillions, if you consider his latest budget proposal).

Prof. Dershowitz is right to draw attention to MMfA in particular.  As Big Journalism points out: “Media Matters has been condemned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for their continued use of an antisemitic slur; their own allies have even thrown them under the bus for antisemitism.”

This just shows that Americans of all political stripes are awakened to the dangers of unethical journalists and media organizations that deceive their audiences and use bullying tactics to unfairly target political opponents.

– Sarah Palin

Tony Lee: Palin Should Be the GOP Nominee

Tony Lee gets it right in his article at Human Events (emphasis mine):

Sarah Palin came to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. on her 48th birthday. The crowd serenaded her. And her speech was received raucously, as conservatives saw in her someone who articulated conservatism while clearly — and surgically and defiantly — differentiating herself from President Barack Obama.

Symbolically clad in a bold-red blouse (and not in a pale, pink pastel color, which symbolizes the Republican establishment of which she is not a part), Palin also reminded the CPAC audience why CPAC was born.

“Conservatives wanted not so much government but the Republican Party to hear us,” Palin said, in describing the genesis of CPAC.  “At the 1975 CPAC, Ronald Reagan … laid out a blueprint for rebuilding the GOP under a banner of bold colors not pale pastels … And ever since then, CPAC has been a rally for conservative action.”

Added Palin: “Today, the conservative movement has never been stronger or brighter … Yet, the federal government has never cast a bigger shadow.”

But while Palin said Americans were waving a “bold banner that shouts ‘Don’t Tread on Me’” and that “our movement is bigger than one person, one candidate, one party …”, the conservative movement lacks a leader who can not only galvanize conservatives but also attack the opposition while having a record to personally back up those criticisms.

And on a day when Palin reportedly generated more enthusiasm than every presidential candidate combined who spoke at CPAC and owned the room and conference, one could not wonder how many who were listening to the speech were coming to the realization that Palin should be the GOP nominee for president much in the same way the majority in attendance at Kemper Arena in Kansas City in 1976 at the Republican National Convention, in their hearts, knew that Ronald Reagan — and not Gerald Ford — was the rightful standard-bearer of bold conservatism. 

Exhibit A: Palin indicted Obama for his “Winning the Future” plan she dubbed “his WTF plan” and his “bankrupt green energy plan,” and said, regarding the debt: “Cut it, gut it, get rid of it.”

Exhibit B: She fiercely defended life: “We believe every child is created equal with right to life,” Palin passionately said. “I ask you to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves … if not us, then who?”

Exhibit C: Palin said she did not want Obama’s economy that lasts and, instead, wanted an end to his administration and false promises.

“He can keep his change,” Palin said. “We’ll keep our God, our guns, our Constitution.”

Exhibit D: Palin’s fiercest words were against the crony capitalistic system of Washington that has turned all Americans off.

Palin said this is not the Washington of our founding fathers and it is “something our forefathers never envisioned.” She said the “permanent political class is content,” and they exempt themselves and play by a different set of rules.

She said the “money-making opportunities” for those in D.C. are endless and they “spread their wealth” to their friends and donors. Palin has repeatedly rebuked and attacked this culture of “crony capitalism.”

“This isn’t the capitalism of free men and free markets,” Palin said. “It’s the capitalism of connections. … This is the capitalism of Barack Obama of the permanent political class.”

She called Washington a “playground of the government rich” where “millionaires are minted overnight” even though nothing is produced except favors to friends and cronies.

“Our permanent political class is content, they are immune to the realities that the rest of us face; they exempt themselves, they play by their different set of rules,” Palin said, before adding politicians are elected by promising more programs and “new freebies and new favors” and government grows to accommodate their promises.

“It never shrinks,” Palin said, in reference to the ever-growing government that “crowds out equal opportunity” and “extinguishes the independent, pioneering American spirit.”

She said politicians run by indicting Washington as a “cesspool” but then, once they arrive in Washington, decide it is like a hot tub.

“Well America, it is time we drain the jacuzzi and we throw the bums out with the bath water,” Palin said.

And then, Palin brought down the hammer. Walked the walk. And cast herself as someone who faced the same problem that Obama faced and took a different path than Obama.

“I came from a state with a corruption problem too — though you don’t make many friends in the establishment doing it, I fought the corrupt political mistake,” Palin said. “Barack Obama used it … he brought it here with him.”

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But while she said conservatives and Republicans had to unite around the eventual nominee that she hoped would address CPAC in 2013, Palin said that the GOP nominee must be “strong,” “fortified,” “passionate,” and “a fighter for America’s ideals.”

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Palin said the 2012 election was critical because Americans could “look to the old world to see the new world’s future” if America does not take care of its fiscal crisis.

“So help me God, it’s not the future we will ever accept,” Palin said.

Palin will not accept that future because it is an un-exceptional one. An un-American one, to say the least.

“We are the heirs of patriots who cast off the chains of tyranny, of immigrants who braved the seas, of pioneers who pushed into the great unknown, of soldiers who stormed foreign shores, of farmers and workers laboring in field and in factories from dusk to dawn,” Palin said. “They toiled so their children would have a better life. That is America. And that is freedom. And that is why we are exceptional.”

Palin repeatedly said the door was open for a conservative victory, but the door that seemed to be open the widest was the one to her political future as the leader of the conservative movement and as heiress to the Reagan legacy. 

It was her Party on Saturday, and it could be for the foreseeable future.

Read the entire article here.

Lederman: Sarah Palin Would Have Won the CPAC Straw Poll

Josh Lederman at The Hill introduced his article entitled “Palin shines brightest at CPAC” with a very astute observation:

If Sarah Palin had been on the ballot for the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference, there is little doubt she would have won.

The former Alaska governor received far-and-away the most spirited and enthusiastic reception at this convention of about 10,000 conservative activists.

She drew the audience to its feet more than a dozen times during her keynote address on Saturday.

The cheers for Palin were so loud that they drowned out her remarks again and again. Conference organizers had to set up three overflow rooms to accommodate the throngs of supporters eager to hear her words.

“The president says small-town Americans, we bitterly cling to our religion and our guns because we’re just doggone frustrated with his pace of change,” Palin said. “We say, ‘Keep your change. We’ll keep our God, our guns, our Constitution.’ ”

Almost all of Palin’s address, which closed the three-day conference, derided President Obama with escalating intensity, throwing his campaign slogans back at him with irony and vitriol.

“Hope and change? Yea, you gotta hope things change,” she said.

Her audience ate it up.

Palin painted a portrait of a president who shames the military, increases dependence on the government and embraces corruption. She said only when he is ousted from the White House will the United States have a commander in chief worthy of U.S. troops.

“This is Obama’s Washington. It is not the Washington of our founders, but the Washington of the permanent political class,” she said. “It is something that our forefathers never envisioned as they would have sworn their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor to change.”

Palin lingered in the ballroom for almost half an hour after completing her speech, greeting the supporters who lavished praise on her and chanted her first name.

“He says he has a jobs plan out, a jobs plan to ‘Win the Future.’ W.T.F. — I know,” she said.

Even the disruption of a gaggle of Occupy Wall Street protesters who heckled Palin became another symbol of her overwhelming support among this crowd of red-meat conservatives. The bulk of the crowd immediately coalesced to drown out the protesters with chants of “U.S.A.”

“I say to the Occupy protesters, you’re occupying the wrong place; you’re protesting the wrong thing,” Palin said later.

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“We don’t know who our nominee will be to come up against Barack Obama and his failed policies in the fall,” she said. “We know this election will be hard-fought. Our nominee must be ready, strong, fortified, passionate, a fighter for American ideals.”

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“Our candidate must be someone who can instinctively turn right to constitutional, conservative principles,” she said. “It’s too late in the game to teach it or to spin it at this point. It’s either there or it isn’t.”

Although lauding the benefits of a prolonged, competitive primary fight, Palin implored Republicans not to attack each other so vigorously that they would do Democrats’ work for them by undercutting their viability in the general election.

“We know that the far left and their media allies can’t beat us on the issues, so instead, they distort our records,” she said. “They’ll even attack our families. Let’s not do the job for them. OK, Republicans? OK, independents?”

And Palin, embracing the unconventional, defiant quality that helped her become a Tea Party luminary, warned Republicans not to take the movement for granted when more Tea Party candidates are elected in November.

“This time, establishment, we expect them to get leadership posts in Congress,” she said.

Read more here.

Happy Birthday, Governor Palin!

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Today is Governor Palin’s 48th birthday, and she is in the nation’s capital,  providing leadership and inspiration for the Conservative cause.   Her keynote address at CPAC is scheduled for the 4:30 PM time slot and will be covered live on CSPAN TV as well as online at CSPAN,  ABC News , Breitbart TV, and Mediaite, among others.  Although she has been invited to speak at CPAC  previously, this is the first time she has accepted.  Palin supporters are waiting in anticipation to hear what she has to say.

On behalf of the authors of the Sarah Palin Information Blog,  I want to wish Governor Palin a very happy birthday and many more to follow.  May the Lord continue to light your path, and may He help you to fulfill all your dreams and to accomplish His plan and purpose for your life.   We’re still hoping for the day we can call you President Palin, but we know that whatever leadership role you and He decide upon,  you will continue to make us proud.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GOVERNOR PALIN!

Governor Palin and Daughter Bristol Have Events in DC Tomorrow

Governor Palin posted this message on her Facebook Wall this afternoon:

Sarah Palin

Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow at CPAC! Bristol Palin is also in DC, and she & Nancy French have a book signing tomorrow at the Books-a-Million (11 DuPont Circle North in Washington, DC). Check Bristol’s FB page for more info.

Here is Bristol’s Facebook message that Governor Palin was referring to:

Bristol Palin

Hey DC friends! Please join me and my ghostwriter Nancy French for an intimate and special book signing this Saturday, 2/11 at Books-a-Million, 11 DuPont Circle North in Washington, DC. We’ll be promoting my book “Not Afraid of Life-My Journey So Far” and the first 100 people to RSVP will receive a free copy, signed in person by us! Just email your name to bristolbooksigning@gmail.com. Hope to see you there!

Governor Palin on GOP Enthusiasm and Conservative Credentials of GOP Candidates

Governor Palin talked with Greta last night about the lack of enthusiasm in the current GOP race and the conservative credentials of the four current candidates.  She said that she thinks the lack of enthusiasm among GOP votera and Independents is due to their and the media’s foregone conclusion that Romney will be the GOP nominee.  She said that Romney is the one that Obama would most want to run against and debate with.   Gov. Palin said that Gingrich is the candidate who would be the toughest debater against Obama.

When asked about the conservative credentials of the existing four GOP candidates,  Gov. Palin cited Ron Paul’s fiscal conservatism and Santorum’s social conservatism.  She said that Romney had raised taxes as governor and had flip-flopped on social issues.  She said that Gingrich had been part of the Reagan Revolution and that he had helped cut taxes and shrink government even with a Democrat President.

Governor Palin thinks Santorum will start rising in the polls and said he should hang onto his hat, because he will be the next that is attacked.   She said that Romney has spent $70 million on the airwaves, and that Santorum has only been able to raise $2.2 million.   Gov. Palin thinks that once the eventual nominee is chosen, enthusiasm will increase in the GOP race.

Greta asked her if she thought Ron Paul’s inability to rise in the polls was due to his foreign policy, and Gov. Palin agreed.    She said, “As goes Israel, so goes America.”   Iran, she said, wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth,  with America as their next target.  She said we need a President who understands the dire straits that Israel is in, surrounded by enemies who would support Iran, and how that affects America.

Gov. Palin emphasized that the candidates need to focus on defeating on Obama, who has increased taxes and embraced deficit spending.   She reiterated that any of the GOP candidates would be a better choice for this country than Obama.  Gov. Palin  ended by saying, “We’re in a world of trouble under Obama.”

Happy New Year 2012! Taking Our Country Back!

Happy New Year 2012,  everyone!  This is the year that we take America back from the liberals and RINOs and other big-government officials who are driving our country into the ditch.  It is now-or-never, make-it-or-break-it time in America.   For our children’s and our country’s future, we must succeed in returning the reins of government to the people!

This powerful video by Steve Vaus says it all:

Patriotic conservatives across this country have been organizing for over two years now in preparation for the Battle of 2012.  We won sizable victories in the 2010 elections,  and this is our year to finish the job and get America back on track with new leadership that is responsive to the will of the people.

Governor Palin outlined the challenges ahead in this video:

An army of Sarah Palin supporters is waiting for marching orders as Governor Palin leads in whatever role she prayerfully decides upon.  We hope she will reconsider and run for the Presidency.  However, we know that with or without a title,  she will provide the needed leadership we need to win back Washington, D. C. in 2012 and take America back!