Liveblogging Sarah Palin’s Speech to GOP in New Orleans
Excitement had been building in the room and it exploded when Sarah Palin walked onstage.
Stunning in a red waist length blouse and black skirt, the applause was tremendous and the cameras are still clicking.
“Just because we can does not mean that we should,” in reference to criticizing allies and “kowtowing” to foes.
Comes out for “repeal and replace.” And “don’t retreat, reload,” which gets her first standing O.
She seems a little rushed, a little out of place. She’s speaking over applause lines. Maybe she has somewhere else to go.
“There’s no shame in being the party of no.” Response to Newt who said last night the GOP should be the party of “yes”?
“An inherent link between energy and freedom.” The left has waged a multi-front war on our natural resources.
“The only thing missing” from Obama’s energy speech last week was “the soundtrack to Top Gun and Joe Biden in a flight suit.”
“Drill baby drill not stall baby stall” — another standing O.
Heavy criticism of Obama’s “cap and tax” proposal, stressing that it will be a jobs killer and represents “a national energy tax” on the American people.
Wants more drilling in Alaska, making fun of the Democrats’ concerns about the caribou who use the ANWR as their calving grounds.
Calls Climategate “Goregate.”
There’s nothing that can stand in the way of energy independence that “a good old fashioned election can’t fix.”
“Freedom is a God-given right and it IS worth fighting for.”
“We must stand together and take our country back.”
More applause. And a stirring finish with a hope for victory in November. Prolonged ovation.
“Run Sarah run” breaks out.
Summary:
A good, workmanlike effort. I’ve seen her do better as recently as Wednesday when she brought down the house in her appearance with Michele Bachmann. She did seem a little rushed, even running out of breath at a couple of points. Her timing was a bit off as well as she stepped on her applause lines regularly.
I’m sitting next to a Bloomberg photographer. He got a shot of Palin’s hand with “who dat” written on the palm, as well as what appeared to be a cryptic French name. No doubt you’ll see it on lefty blogs tomorrow.
But her message was very well received by attendees, which is all that’s important.
I will vote, make phone calls, and give money to Sarah Palin Presidential campaign
I would too!!! There is nobody else that has the guts that she has! She is Reagan in heels!
She rocks! She rocks! and I support Sarah! For Liberty and Freedom!
Sarah, keep pounding on the slimy Marxist masquerading as POTUS. The Alinsky playbook presupposes that targets go into a defensive crouch. They can’t handle incoming. Keep pounding. It drives them nuts and they will crack.
She would kick Obama’s behind are over the place as would any number of candidate after two more years of this regime.
She makes this mother proud. We’ve never had such a great woman spokesman before in the GOP, have we?
Here’s the soundbite of Sarah Palin’s speech, answering BHO’s attack on her about the nuclear treaty:
http://texas4palin.blogspot.com/
A knock out ounch.
I don’t get it. Do you really think putting the Republicans back in power will fix our broken country? Wall Street and the extremely wealthy own this country and its democracy. Republicans, Palin included, our squarely in the pockets of the wealthy I can’t think of one policiy they’ve pushed that favored Main Street over Wall Street.
Sarah Palin in the pockets of the wealthy? Did you forget to take your medication today?
OK… so what is her plan to deal with Wall Street abuses and its army of well paid lobbyist?
I recognize that Republicans that we’ve seen of late are no good. But you need to face the fact that the Democrats are no less and probably more in bed with Wall Street and rape mains street for a living. Your eye is too slow to see the slight of hand. You are on the death star fighting us rebels and you don’t even know you’re on the wrong side.
Democrats are proposing real solutions to Wall Street abuses. The Reblicans (Boener) told Wall Street he had their backs.
Yes, I think it is really nice that those politicians that helped to put us into this mess actually attempt to clean it up. Must be something to do with re-election though – my guess…
Don’t be stupid. Read the fine prints. Who is WallStreet? Goldman Sachs? Citibank? Who are Rubin, Geithner,…? Who were their employers before they joined the govt.? Who will their employers be when they left the govt? Do you really think the Fat Cats would not get fatter? Do you know that Soros, the Democrat’s sugar daddy who wants “green” energy for us is one of the biggest “investors” in Petrobra, Brazil’s Super Big Oil? Do you know Obama subsidized Petrobra with billions of the US taxpayers’ money to help them drill their air polluting oil? Do you believe Brazil’s “polluted” air will stay in Brazil?
Gosh, with stupid voters like you, we don’t need enemies.
That is a one woman I can be proud being led by.
Sarah loves the attention, but she just doesn’t like to work very hard. She quit as governor when she realized being a “former vice presidential candidate” meant much less work and more money. She hired a ghost-writer for the book, landed the TV show, and had her payday. She’ll repeat the process in 2012: run for president, quit after a while, and become a “former presidential candidate.” She’ll blame the liberal media for their attacks, pretend to write another book, and go back to TV with a raise!
Baloney.
Exactly right. Somewhere in there – the divorce.
People always hate and fear what they can’t understand, and Sarah Palin is imcomprehensible to the modern progressive. So they hate and fear her.
Does “take our country back” mean taking kids (up to age 26) OFF their parents health care policies? Does that mean putting the “Donut Hole” back into seniors prescription drug prices? Just try repealing health care reform…
She’s all sound bite and no substance.
Trolls Ahoy !
Former ACORN employees monitoring conservative sites; agent provocateurs, don’t feed them.
Sorry to disappoint you, I was never on ACORN payroll. Just putting out another point of view, without vitriol, labels me a troll? Jeez. Our country IS headed to hell.
Really Art? 26 is a kid? When I was 26, I had been an officer in the Navy for 4 years and was flying jets off the USS Abraham Lincoln. 26 year olds are not kids, nor are 25 year olds, nor are 24…..
It means returning to a free market by eliminating the laws and regulations that turn business into government controlled utilities that rape us day in and day out. In Illinois, for example, hospitals need government approval to open, add on or even buy equipment. As a result the hospitals bribe the bureaucrats for permission to exapnd and to keep out competition so they can keep prices artifically high and the bribes flowing, which in turn are used to bribe stupid voters to elect more damned crooks who steal more money from us, etc. Imagine how much you’d be paying for a GM and how crappy your service would be if Toyota needed Obama’s permission to build a factory or open a dealership. Socialism in health care has been with us for a long time already and it is the reason for the bubble in costs, not the solution.
It was getting rid of regulations that allowed the banks to steal trillions from the middle class. You are in the middle class aren’t you.
You fail to realize that most of the regulations were already there – just not capable of being enforced by Congressional idiots. Of those that were not enacted, they would not have recognized any problems anyway. The worst problem is the encouragement by both language and laws to promote house ownership to those that could not afford it. That along with low interest rates for the banks made it easy money for all – until the house of cards fell down… That actually makes the Congressional promoters the worst offenders and a major cause of the depression.
Hey fella… the two parties have track records. The Republicans have overseen the two greatest economic collapses of the lat 100 years.. The Democrats cleaned up the first and we prospered for 50 years… Then the Republicans took things back and here we are. Now the Democrats are digging us out again.
Art, your ignorance is bordering with felony. You need to get educated about “donut hole” and dependent rider 26
A few thoughts concerning the kid: The implication for a 26 years old to be covered by the parent’s insurance: there is no job for the kid.
The kid could have a couple of kids of his own. As long as the kid is not married, he/she will still be covered by the parent’s policy. The kid’s kids will be taken care of by the kid’s taxpaying neighbors.
It sounds like an awful insult to be called a kid at age 26, no?
Btw, before Obamacare, a college kid of up to 25 years old was covered by the parents’ insurance. Obamacare extends the coverage for one more year. As Biden said: “a big f**king deal!”
Art said — “Does “take our country back” mean taking kids (up to age 26) OFF their parents health care policies?”
Yes. It does. I worked my way through college. I started working at 16. My father-in-law joined the army at 16, and he’s been successful ever since. That’s a full decade before you think kids are “grown up”. Not only that, but health insurance should be reformed so that it covers catastrophic care and not the sniffles. We pay for our car maintenance – it’s not covered under our car insurance. We should be willing to pay for our yearly maintenance out of pocket.
I sincerely respect you and your father-in-law for working so hard from an early age. But what about young people today, with jobs so hard to find, with careers so hard to start? I have two young men I’ve raised, ages 20 and 22, both of whom have health issues that have prevent them from full-time college study – which means no coverage under my employer’s health insurance. The same issues prevent them from getting coverage by joining the military. This bill with cover their very real needs. This is what insurance is for.
Exactly.
Well, what you are really saying is that the rest of us need to subsidize health care for your sons. In actuality, probably over 90% of young adults under the age of 50 rarely need medical help beyond that which they can not cover. All young and healthy adults are now required to subsidize the elderly along with the few unhealthy youngsters. That is what is now happening with this health care bill. Now, I know you really don’t think of that as fair, so I ask you, why should we contribute to the problems of the few unfortunate? This already happens through charity but has now become a government mandate (unlawful at that).
Don’t know how the country survived as long as it did without Health Insurance; probably was because health was considered a personal problem and not any of the governments business…
‘I don’t get it. Do you really think putting the Republicans back in power will fix our broken country?’
Maybe yes, maybe no.
But it will better than putting the Democrats back in the cat bird seat.
Why? When Democrats took the White houuse the Dow had loss 50% its value. It is now up 20%.
Jobs were being shead 850,000 a month … now we are gaining 150,000 a month.
GDP was negative now growth is greater than it’s been in 20 years.
You do have a very skewed view of what has happened in the last 4 years or so… To compare this minimal gain in the market after the large decline with great progress is naive at best. Don’t try to view the market through political lenses. It comes and goes for reasons that have little to do with political parties. It is unfortunate that many today seem to think that the government controls or actually even effects the markets except in the short term. Thank goodness they don’t or we would be on constant up and down swings the likes that you’ve never seen… They can usually only help or destroy markets through taxation or over regulation, otherwise, it is much a wash.
“Excitement had been building in the room and it exploded when Sarah Palin walked onstage.”
Wow, just like Britney Spears. Maybe Brit should run for president.
Wow…good job with the substance. How proud your mother must be.
Now get back to work, burger boy.
If Obie gets his new Democrat Party Registration … er … Immigration Reform Act passed, the Obie Nation won’t be able to get a burger job.
Better buy stock in Taco Bell then. Burgers will be a thing of the past…PopEyes too.
Speaking about excitement, ask Chrissy Matthews about it, if he still has it running up his leg(s); I wonder where has it landed by now.
We have the intellectual equivalent of Britney in the office now.
Right now I don’t see how a President Spears can be any worse than the president we have now.
Budget cuts? Where are the budget cuts? Thats what I want to hear.
Why don’t you care about all the billion$ being sent to Pakistan where it is okay to rape children and use them for slaves and bombs? Why aren’t you worried about all the honor killings going on right here in the US? Why aren’t you concerned about all the damn illegals in California helping to make the place broke? Why aren’t you concerned about stuff that is definately going to be a major issue in your near future? And why in God’s green earth do you think Sarah Palin could hold a job that takes more than 90 days out of the year when she couldn’t even be governor of Alaska . If you want a Republican for Pres, How about Meghan McCain? God I can’t take much more of this insanity around the world. The UN is worthless as tits on a boar hog, caring about human rights is gone, we live in a country ripe with educatable influences yet the more I read from news sources around the net, the more I am convinced a whole lot of people are just plain ignorant. It’s a travesty. I see very little hope for any future beyond about another 10 years. By that time you’ll be reading the Koran and living under Sharia law. There won’t be anything sane left. It’s Alice In Wonderland world and the Mad Hatter is King.
It’s difficult to converse with Palin-hating morons; please find some other site, where environmental extremists, sodomites, handout dependents, freeloaders, abortionists, atheists and like minded immoral radicals meet and exchange colorful stories. This isn’t one of these sites – and if you expect to solicit intelligent responses you ain’t getting any.
So, you’re a Ron Paul libertarian nut, sufferring from Palin Derangement Syndrome. Legalized pedophilia and drugs are quite popular in your cirlces, circles quite close to the radical left – present day and from the 60s. I have a hard time distinguishing between the two of you.
BTW, that’s the crowd that tries to corner the tomorrow’s vote, as they did in DC. They think that this way they will be fooling people. Idiots on drugs.
Lorita,
You do at least understand some of the problems but unfortunately, you have no solutions, just put down those that might actually make a difference. Many things that you complain about are true – what are you intending to do about it? Just who do you expect to change things? It is one thing to rail about politicians but another to actually do something about it. Quite complaining and get active…
13. skeeziks
Did you know your messiah used to turn tricks for a slumlord? Yep. He did. He worked those streets hard for his pimp and kept all the johns coming back for more of that dirty chicago style. And you still want to give him a tongue bath. You’re a pathetic person.
As horrible as it is to see so many Americans willing to freely give away their own rights and jump on the crazy train, the direction we are headed is only going to get worse. Our country is headed for insanity… the kind that eventually will allow out leaders to yield to the one world government that is already in progress. It’s sad, but inevidable, and if you are a Christian, you should understand that we could give our best efforts, but the end of the story has already been foretold.
Palin sure brings out the hate in Democrats and trolls.
I do not hate Palin. I think she has done really well for herself. She is milking this thing for all it is worth. How much does she get paid for a speaking job compared to what she was making as Gov. However, I think she is empty, there is no substance to the woman. She just says what the far right wants to hear, and you eat it up. What has she done? Don’t come back and say what has Obama done because this is about the future of the Republican party, and not about Obama.
“What has she done?”
She was governor of Alaska, an executive responsibility considerably greater than that of being a mere “community organizer”. Have you forgotten? o_O
“Don’t come back and say what has Obama done because this is about the future of the Republican party, and not about Obama.”
No, this is about *America’s future rather than about the future of any mere political party! The fact that we GOPers understand this and the Emocrats don’t is the reason why Mr. Obama and his fellow Emocrats have lost the confidence of America. Nice of you to try to forbid questions that might be inconvenient to the best interests of the Noseblower in Chief but I’m afraid that any thinking mind will choose to ask such questions however often you wince from having to deal with those questions that you fear. The fact that Mrs. Palin has done more with her life than Mr. Obama ever did with his in spite of his being the Current Occupant of the White House is among the reasons that he and his will be tossed out on their rumps when the election of 2012 comes around. ^_^
And I would like to know some other nonsense the dems are talking about.
We pay over 700 Billion ( that is with the B) for foreign oil. Why, we can not put the same amount in our own oil, and create SOOOOOOO many jobs here, in US. And how does that help GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT bying oil from ME and not in US.
Sara Palin forced big corporations to develop oil fields they had have for decades. It’s time to get the serious about licenses and royalties, and put people to work. Jobs move economy, Bureaucracy kills economies and countries.
Don’t pay attention to Bobs, Arts and skiziki – whatever. They are just that – trolls. Creating competitions, opening borders between states will create an environment where prices will go down. When offerings exceed the need. That is a low of economics. All is needed, is for government not to meddle in it. The government responsibility is to oversee that the lows are not violated, and ALL parties play fair. THAT IS ALL!
YOU ROCK SARAH!!!!!!!!!! I don’t see you rock Newt????!!! or Mitt or T Paw do you, NO! Not even Obama, we’re going who is this tool. A lying tool at that. Enough is enough, the left is a failure and so are their policies. Guess who will rock this party, guess who already is! You Betcha!!!!
I’m laughing at some comments here regarding Wall Street.
Wall Street was bailed out and is currently run by the government (the radical leftist administration of Barack Hussein Obama). The reason it was bailed out: too big and important to fail.
Now the New Wall Street, itself composed of radicals (does Soros ring a bell?) – just like the Chinese financial sector (including the Shanghai Burse), is expected to bail out BHO in the upcoming elections, because BHO is too big to fail.
Talking about who’s in the pocket of who: the fractals of pockets and politics in the new socialist era in a place once simply called “America.”
I wish Sarah Palin could mount a viable assault on all this errosion, decadence and decay of this new United Socialist States of America, but I doubt it very much if it’s feasible anymore. These radicals are now in control of trillions of dollars.
I LOVE Sarah Palin for who she is and what she represents but the delight I will feel when she beats Obummer in 2012 will be delicious.
She really isn’t Presidential material. I wish my fellow conservatives would just appreciate her as a good conservative and focus on winning the Presidency instead.
I like Sarah Palin a lot, but she pretty much tanked her future in political office when she quit her governorship. She knows it too. Whenever asked about running for office she breaks into her “there are other ways to contribute” spiel. Quitting her office was the result of her discovering that she loved her family more than power. Now whether forgets this in the future or someone talks her into running in the future I don’t know. But if she does, she would likely fail to live down quitting in Alaska.
“she would likely fail to live down quitting in Alaska.”
As badly as Mr. Obama has failed to live down quitting in Illinois on so many multiple occasions?
If Sarah runs in a presidential election for GOP, republicans will lose even more heavily than before. Over the climate gate she is spot on, but that doesn’t make her a person who can take on one of the most important jobs in the world.
As far as Peter Jackson’s comment… Sarah is a hypocrite. And her personal family history is flawed. For a contender for the highest position in American politics I mean… not as a normal human being, with out of control kids! Everyone has them. But she comes from a state that suffers unusual Artic temps and land of the midnight sun, so to speak.
She can’t nor is internationally savvy enough to have the world view expressed by better informed, educated and travelled politicians and statesmen/women. And appears to have an ideology based on bias and probable bigotry.
Anyway, I do like her too. She has a place somewhere in America, but not the
White House.
“Sarah is a hypocrite…Anyway, I do like her too.”
With all due respect, are you *always* in the habit of liking “hypocrites” or should I merely take this as an example of someone changing their mind in the middle of what they were writing? o_O
“And her personal family history is flawed.”
So is Mr. Obama’s. So the reason this is relevant to anything we discuss would be?
“She can’t nor is internationally savvy enough to have the world view expressed by better informed, educated and travelled politicians and statesmen/women.”
Better informed as in the way Mr. Obama was under the impression that America has 57 states? Better educated as in the manner of the recently excited Democrat who was under the impression that Guam would tip over and capsize if there were too many people on it? Better traveled as in the way one Congressional Democrat expressed a desire to commit genocide for no better reason than he didn’t like Anime? Or was it Joe Biden who was your idea of a stateman?
Sorry, but the more one looks at the Democrats the better Mrs. Palin looks! ^-^
“And appears to have an ideology based on bias and probable bigotry.”
Actually, that would seem to be more Mrs. Bill Clinton and Mr. Obama. Mrs. Palin certainly seems saner and more intelligent than either of those two.
“She has a place somewhere in America,…”
Considering that she’s a natural born citizen who doesn’t have any birth certificate hangups the way that certain liberal politicians do I’m sure we’re all grateful to you for conceding that point. Mighty generous of you to do so and I thank you for your liberality in having done it! ^_~
Concern troll alert.
#19 skydiver — We pay over 700 Billion ( that is with the B) for foreign oil. Why, we can not put the same amount in our own oil, and create SOOOOOOO many jobs here, in US. And how does that help GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT bying oil from ME and not in US.
Buying middle eastern oil keeps the US legitimately in the middle east due to US interests. The US doesn’t “need” that oil (we have our own) but the rest of the world certainly does. By having legit interests in the area we’re able to help keep the region more stable, meaning that the Europeans and Japanese etc are also stable, which is good for US business. (Instability in oil markets in the late 30′s was a major contributing factor to WWII; perhaps the state department remembers this.)
Meanwhile if the US were to switch to battery or hybrid cars for everyone we need to have certain raw materials (for batteries and motors) that aren’t in the US. While these aren’t necessarily in the middle eas, they *are* in countries that are either 3rd world hellholes or don’t like the USA.
The point is that same 700 billion is going to leave the country for transport needs regardless, and keeping the middle east stabilized for our trading partners is a better use of that money than it going to other places.
Global geopolitics is not a game for minds such as yours.
#?? deagle — Well, what you are really saying is that the rest of us need to subsidize health care for your sons.
That’s entirely correct. If you pay insurance and are lucky enough to be healthy, you are subsidising those who wake up one morning with a lump that turns out to be cancer and require $500k worth of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Insurance is a betting pool which subsidises the unlucky. I pay for car insurance and over the years have paid enough in to cover the cost of more than one new car. If I’m unlucky enough to get plowed into by a drunk, I expect that my insurance will cover that bad luck. If you pay car insurance then at that point you’re subsidising ME.
In western society we subsidise the lady who gives up her career to raise the kids and her husband runs off one afternoon, refusing to help pay for his children. She collects AFDC or whatever until she gets back on her feet, and the state goes after the husband. It is in society’s best interest to look out for her interest. I am happy to help subsidise the two sons: there for the grace of god go I.
All of this is covered in thought experiments like “Tragedy of the Commons” which is something you might find interesting.
GL, that’s a common misconception, but it’s just not true. In real insurance (I wrote about this at PJ two years ago) you’re buying a lottery ticket. You pay exactly as much as the lottery ticket is worth, that is, your side of the bet, plus a little for administrative costs and possible profits. No subsidy: you’re paying exactly what you mathematically should for a chance at the prize.
In modern health “insurance”, first of all, you are putting money in for things like preventative care for which the probability is 1 or nearly 1. Like with any bet, you ought to then pay your “share” — which comes out to be exactly what you would have paid anyway … plus additional administrative costs. This has worked out in the past because employers buy health insurance effectively at a discount, since the cost comes off their bottom line and is therefore not taxed, unlike buying it yourself.
And with this new mandated health “insurance”, if you’re young, you’re paying your part of the bet for any really bad illness plus you’re paying everything you would pay for your own health care, plus administrative costs (which will be higher as this system grows and is more inefficient and bureaucratic) plus someone else’s direct costs for health care, plus their administrative costs in an inefficient system.
Car insurance is a betting pool that includes oddsmakers (actuarial tables) basing statistical odds on A/S/L and driving records, etc. Health insurance is much the same for those under 50. Over 50, and the odds get worse and worse, to the chance of 100% that you’re going to die. Under 50 and the odds are that you’re not going to get cancer. You have a greater chance of dying in a car wreck.
Most of the cost of health care goes to seniors, and much of that in the last 2 years of life. This isn’t in dispute (this despite the far right’s attempt to invoke the spectre of welfare queens and illegals.) This is easy to verify. You can see the proof of this even in breast cancer stats; most are post-menopause. Prostate cancer? Same thing. Most cases are retirement age or later. Most (all?) cancers are skewed this same way; when you get old you’re going to die of *something.*
Meanwhile the debate has been framed by those with specific interests, with the upshot of many of the arguments resorting to a catholic meme (e.g. “Sh*t Happens, and you’re to blame.”) In other words they’re trying to claim that much of the medical care problem is the 35 year old fat redneck who drinks a case of pepsi per day and gives herself diabetes. Or Juan the tomato picker, or Latrina the inner city welfare queen. Or how about the 48 year old guy who’s 10 lbs overweight and has a heart attack. Obviously because he didn’t take care of himself. Preventive care, right? Meanwhile research is showing that many, perhaps most, heart attacks are caused by a bacteria that lives in the mouth, which is no different than most cervical cancers and most skin cancers are caused by viruses, stomach cancers are caused almost exclusively a bacterium, and so on. So much for the preventive care nonsense. The 70′s texts are wrong. We haven’t conquered communicable disease; we’re barely getting started. All we solved were the simple ones (e.g. polio.)
In sum the truth of the matter is that health care is expensive due to the aged. Inefficiencies don’t help, but that’s not the problem. Nor is tort law change, or wicked insurance companies. It’s OLD people. The only fix for it is to start people paying for it while they’re young. And when you’re young it most certainly *is* insurance in the betting pool sense. Tragedy of the Commons is apt. Society requires subsidy.
Rick, why do you emphasize the sense of hurriedness in her delivery? She was sticking to the format and making sure not to use up other speaker’s time. Andrew Breitbart did the same. They all knew the compact nature of the schedule, didn’t you?
Secondly, you claim she has done better. I’ve watched several of her speeches, and this one was the best by far. Her delivery was solid, rarely interrupted by the loss of place or misstatement (in the CSPAN video, you can see most of the speakers fall prey to misstatement, sometimes with the kind of unintentional irony that the opposition loves to excise and place in high visibility).
She hit on energy policy topics that President Obama couldn’t possibly understand (without some serious advance-prep, coaching, and practice–things for which he’s not known).
She also didn’t use a teleprompter. It was a solid effort, and delivered substantially on policy while scoring points against the opposition.
WOW!! I am really amazed by all the vitriol being hurled towards Sarah Palin. Is she that influential that all you lefty troglodytes tremble at the mere mention of her name?