The Democratic agenda is “running out of time,” former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Saturday at the National Tea Party Convention, claiming that the conservative tea party movement is part of a brewing “revolution” that constitutes the “future of politics.”
Palin, who delivered the keynote speech on the closing night of the three-day gathering of conservative activists, aligned herself squarely with the movement, frequently using the word “us” in describing it.
“This is the future of our country. The tea party movement is the future of politics,” she said.
The former GOP vice presidential nominee pointed to the room full of activists, as well as the recent election of Republican Scott Brown to U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, as the sign of a political tide change.
“If Scott Brown is any indication, it’s running out of time,” Palin said of the Democratic agenda.
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2:51 pm EST, February 7th, 2010 — Rubin: Palin at the Tea Party
Notes:
There’s a fair bit of negative Palin news available on the net again today for those who want to hunt it up but I’m not interested in posting it here because I’m clearly a Palin partisan and why would I hide on this topic? Suffice to say she continues to give old established political types a heart attack and that’s a good thing in my view.
The silence is deafening.
Palin knocked it out of the park, again. The fun part is watching the lamestream media grandees tie themselves up in knots trying to put her down.
In other news, Mitt Romney won universal applause at the annual Massachusetts businessman’s association. Also, Jesse Jackson had the crowd at the South Carolina baptist convention eating out of the palm of his hand.
Somehow, I think most political strategists accept as a given that adversary X will perform well in front of the fawning crowds that put him/her in a position to be a keynote speaker in the first place. Let’s see Sarah Palin impress a young urban audience or a highly-educated college audience – then she’ll be a problem to her competition. Preaching to your fan club has no value in terms of advancing your profile.
I still maintain that Palin is the best thing the Democrats have going for them. ‘On a clear day (when theres no snow) I can see the Whitehouse’ but alas its probably out of my reach.
Re: #3 — “Let’s see Sarah Palin impress a young urban audience or a highly-educated college audience – then she’ll be a problem to her competition. Preaching to your fan club has no value in terms of advancing your profile.”
Unfortunately for you “education” is very expensive and most people can’t afford it. My father couldn’t for me. So let’s go there for a minute and examine your comment.
Could it be that only millionaires think they have the right to to govern the US or Canada?
I suspect so because they are “smarter” or so they think– but here’s another thought.
Could it be correct that Sarah (minus the education you value) sees a button she can push?
I suspect so because in my long career I have known some very smart “ditch diggers” and “some very stupid” university grads who can’t walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.
I know people like that and here’s the bottom line. Sarah knows also and drives votes to her because she has the pulse of a nation.
You do not. And neither does Obama.
Is the U.S. the world’s biggest dead-beat?
The author of this article seems to think so.
http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=127892
“Looks like” the US is looking at their next president in 2012 and I approve. She is the next “Maggie Thatcher” and you can take that to the bank.
Youi’re damn right education is expensive. This is why pitching the idea of decimating the social safety net so the well-to-do can save a few extra bucks is a risky move. Sure, Jack and Joe benefit because they have their lives built and houses owned. Same with the kind of people who can pay $600+ to watch evangelical cheesecake spout platitudes that they can see for free on FOX (now even from the same individual). They don’t need any help from the government and for whatever reason don’t care if anyone else enjoys a good infrastructure. Education is expensive BECAUSE of the kind of people who would attend these banquets.
Sarah has the pulse of old, wealthy landowners who hate their government. That is hardly “the nation”. This is what I’m trying to convey – large swaths of the U.S. HATE the woman and what she stands for. You don’t have the pulse of the nation in that situation – you are catering to a niche market.
There is a world outside right-wing blog rolls, Jack.
Palin is good at reading the mood/pulse of the nation — as long as its written on the palm of her hand as noticed during a recent TV interview.
Re: #8 — “Oops”… touched a nerve but where was I when Trudeau was in control in Canada? I’ll tell you.
“Nowhere” and that (as Sarah points out) is the “elites” fault.
Sarah is correct — Obama is not — and he’s a one term president because she is going to beat him into the ground.
Here’s another thought.
Immediately following the elections in 2010 he will be impeached and fired.
Americans are known for rapidly correcting their mistakes and it’s a happening thing.
Who will cause that?
A lady known as Sarah.
She’s trying to put people in my position out of business for good. Of course I don’t like her. There’s not shame in admitting you have a conscience.
Trudeau made Canada livable for people who don’t show up on your radar. That’s the bottom line.
We cannot say that Sarah Palin will NEVER become president, due to the complexity and volatility of U.S. politics. It CAN be said that if she becomes president, the U.S. slide to third world status will hasten because third world is defined by the gap between rich and poor. Sarah Palin and people like her beat the poor into the ground. Obama is a millionaire – he’ll be fine. Take away those social programs and we’ll see what the poor have to do to make ends meet. $100k education is certainly out of the question, and the military won’t be recruiting forever because the US is eventually going to run out of money to start new wars. Crime and migration are the only remaining alternatives. The former turns the U.S. into Brazil. The latter turns the US into old Europe, as the the brightest and most motivated seek their life fortunes elsewhere.
But for now, I don’t see how you think giving a speech to tea partiers is any kind of game changer.
Forget about the ‘expense’ of education and start looking at the value of the product delivered. I would say that the value for dollar is NOT there. One can’t help but notice that the real reason the leftists insist on ‘education’ is so the ‘educated’ think exactly like those who insist on ‘education’. Given my druthers I’druther leadership with native smarts to some Ivy leaguer who spouts the latest fad coming from a bunch of professors who lack real life experience. Like the old saying goes, “In theory, theory and reality are the same thing. In reality they are different”. Academe is to real life like molasses is to space flight.
Re: #11 — “But for now, I don’t see how you think giving a speech to tea partiers is any kind of game changer.”
It isn’t.
Sarah has been a “game changer” since her first speech at the GOP convention and she’s just doing what she does.
And Obama has a problem as do his accolytes. I don’t wish him well because his supporters are liars and into major theft from people who can ill afford the money spent.
Well, now.
Cy, you have touched a nerve , lol.
Lets discuss the “educated” class.
I have a high school education. At one point in my working life I managed a department of a large corporation. This department consisted of a variety of professionals, including engineers (mechanical, chemical). In fact i was the least educated of the whole department.
Some of these professionals had a hard time dealing with the fact that i was their boss.
They were elitist, snotty jerks, and guess what? I got rid of them.
One thing I have learned about the “educated” class is what they are not taught.
Very few have taken courses in logic it seems. Many never learned that their real education began on the day they left university and entered the world of reality.
Many never learned the value of honesty. Many never learned to have courage in the face of adversity.
Lets take a look at the “educated” President of the United States.
We are learning that he is dishonest. We are learning that he has no ability to lead.
We are learning that he will try thuggish activities if things dont go according to his will. we are learning that he has no respect for the will of the people.
So if I have a choice between an “educated” person who has no values, honesty, or strength of character and an uneducated person who embodies these values, give me the uneducated one every time.
You aren’t learning any of that. You assumed it because he wouldn’t fit in at the local lodge meeting or watering saloon.
If you read Game Change, you’d see that Sarah likes to play fast and loose with the truth as well. She almost reversed course on abortion and stem cell research for awhile, thinking it would improve her chances of getting into the White House. Like some parts of the media with Obama’s past, FOX and the right rarely look into Palin’s misgivings (to say nothing of Troopergate and other scandals)
Lee, you could probably enter the work force with a high school education and get a good career. Today, college is the new high school – a bare minimum to get a career – except that the state does NOT pay for college (at least not entirely). I just put someone through college and her experience was nothing like you described. What she saw was overworked, exhausted kids -largely of foreign origin or foreign-born parents- who had a job on the side and still were trying to hustle for co-op positions. They have no time to be elitist and most of them couldn’t afford it anyway.
Obama doesn’t strike me as a bad guy, He does seem a little entitled but that sort of persona attracts a certain crowd. Same for Sarah Palin’s “down home country girl” shtick. They’re both images and nothing more. I wouldn’t call Obama dishonest so much as non-committal. Palin is dishonest, but there’s no point advancing that cause in this forum … yet.
It’s interesting that the largest news network in North America, has rating that go through the roof when Palin is speaking or when Beck is on and the Chattering Class continues to say that they appeal to a tiny slice of society. Interesting that such a tiny slice can change the ratings on Network TV the way they do..
Fox is an entertainment network. They want controversy. A lot of Geraldo’s best rated shows featured Satan worshipers (he did a prime-time series on them), neo-nazis and child abusers. I wouldn’t say the high ratings translated to support for said positions; otherwise, John McCain would be the president of the United States
Seems to me that the same people that call it an entertainment channel are the same people that claim that it appeals to a tiny slice of society. According to nation wide polls, Fox is the most trusted News Network by a large margin. It’s the politics of a foreign country, but it is interesting to watch how it makes people dance here in Canada. I wasn’t paying much attention to US Politics when Reagan came into office, but I’ll just be he made the lefties and probably the elitists go nuts. Pass the popcorn would ya’ Cy.
I think you missed my point.
What good is an superior education if one has no values?
I agree that the times are different now than they were when i joined the workforce.
It is a fact that the position i once had can now only be filled with someone who has a degree. Its too bad, but thats the way it is.
We obviously disagree about Palin. When i am judging a person, i look at achievements and past performance more than anything else.
Unfortunately, Obama had nothing in his past on which to judge his abilities. But the last year of pretty dismal performance provides for some basis for judgement.
Therefore i have judged that he is not a leader, not presidential timbre, and I sincerely believe that the American voters have made a very serious mistake.
To be sure, McCain might have been a mistake as well. Its kind of sad that out of some 300 million people, this is the best there is for such a powerful position.
Lee, everyone has values, except perhaps sociopaths (who often hide among those with the strictest moral codes). They just might not be YOUR values.
Some of the values held by those who scream about morality the loudest disgust me. Part Robertson, Osama Bin Laden, Malachi York, David Koresh, Rush Limbaugh … all people who prattle on about moral codes yet conduct themselves in ways unbecoming to the last 4000 years of civilization.
Pickings for the best leader may have been slim but who really would be dumb enough to take the reigns at this time? Following up Hedge’s 8 years and in America’s financial state is a sucker’s bet. Notice how none of the GOP’s acknowledged rising stars made a run at president? On the Democrat side there was at least the option of blaming the GOP for everything that went wrong but the rightful candidate (Hillary Clinton) threw a few too many people under the bus during her rise and the Democrats wanted to elect the next best thing instead.
So the election ended up pitting a guy who should have run 8 years earlier against a guy that should have run 8 years later, with neither of them fully comprehending that they were going to go down as the “worst president in history” because the average voter doesn’t understand the lag effect of certain economic decisions.
Pat, I know it’s entertainment. However, I’ve been to and had friends from some of the regions where Reagan and your other heroes play their little games. That’s pretty bloody entertainment, sir.
Jack #5 Right out of the ball park!! Sarah Palin electrifies a room with positive, well reasoned, speeches. When she makes a speech she has something to say and she says it with class and grace. Mrs. Palin never veils her words with double speak, out of context metaphors or hidden threats; she just says what she thinks: button down the hatches and damn the torpedos!!
I have been in a room with this lovely lady with the shinning eyes. Her eyes glisten with intelligence and understanding; she OWNS the room when she enters because people cannot take their eyes off her beautiful soul shining from her eyes. She listens with her heart. She is truly beautiful, from the inside out.
The former Governor also has a beautiful family and a handsome, rugged husband who is not a mini man intimidated by the success of his wife – this causes confusion and envy in the feminista ranks and intimidates many unliberated, hen pecked men.
Why do the so called ‘educated’ feel that they can and must belittle such a lady? IMO, they do this because they are accustomed to stomping on and using intelligent people with kind hearts (people like the Former Governor of Alaska feel sorry for the whiners and they try to help them because they are so decent themselves that they think that decency is the norm; they think that the attempt to belittle is a ‘cry for help’).
My better half has mastered all of the programming languages of the computer world(he was creating relational data bases before Visual Basic was invented – he used DOS!); he programs in all of them and he can make the different languages talk to each other; his programs are not understood by the ‘educated’ because they are too complex for the “word kings” but my better half is a self educated man who speaks the language of the fine people who do not make pretentious judgements on the merits of others, based on preconceived notions. The programs my better half writes are very user friendly, the employees who use his programs are greeted with a dialogue such as: ‘what are you doing here, go back to the question and fill in the answer’ when they make a mistake. My better half thinks that anyone could write these complex programs and master all the codes if they just bought the books and studied. Computer science PHD’s pump him for information every day – and he gives it to them, free of charge! He loves to discuss solutions and fails to question any motives of the questioners. That is just the way he thinks.
Sarah Palin would help Obama, if he would listen to her, because she wants America to be the “shining city on the hill” for all Americans. She wishes her countrymen/women success. She empowered the citizens of Alaska by making the hogs at the public trough accountable – some of swine went to the jailhouse. The Governor is intelligent and kindhearted but she is not a fool. If the msm thought that they would grind her down they are in for some bitter disappointments, they underestimate her to their own peril.
IMO, Americans are much smarter than the ‘elitist’ snots like to think. They are beginning to see through the filthy veil of lies and corruption residing in the flowery words of the ‘elitists’ who wish to rob the people to pay themselves and their corrupt pals; if Sarah Palin decides to run for President in 2012 and wins she will be a President to rival Regan because she will be on side with the citizens of America.
Lee, I mentioned my better half because your situation reminds me of his situation. I wish I had been there when you fired those ‘educated’ snots. It must have been a great day for the other employees who had been forced to listen to and work with that ilk..
I was cheering with you Jack. I knew in my heart that Sarah would make a magnificent speech because she speaks the truth and she speaks with people, not to people. Big difference.
As I said many times before, Palin is the best thing the Democrats have going for them.
Yes UV, and that is why the media obsesses over her and spins everything she does as negative.
Usually when someone is shooting themselves (and their party in the foot) you stand back and let them roll.
Palin is the Dems (and inside the beltway Repubs.) biggest threat and worry, and that is demonstrated by their attacks against her.
They gave her the best they had and she came back stronger.