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Full Speech: Sarah Palin at CPAC 2012 » The Right Scoop -

www.therightscoop.com2/11/12

Sarah Palin aimed her rhetorical guns at Barack Obama and didn't stop throughout the entire speech, talking about Obama's failure of leadership on entitlements and unemployment and his twisted priorities in cutting military spending but nowhere else. She also talked about the …… Our nominee must be ready, strong, fortifitied, passionate, a fighter for American ideals.” …… [Is this talking ….. Once her voice is less shrill…she may become a decent orator. Anonymous …

Sarah Palin Steps Into Wisconsin, Points to Left Field, and Hits a …

biggovernment.com4/16/11

She fights ON POINT…WE THE PEOPLE stand with her. Hear the Good News! Baloshka – April 16th, 2011 at 2:31 pm. meow. knuckles – April 16th, 2011 at 2:31 pm. Fantastic speech !!! We need a thousand Sarah Palin's, a thousand Reagan's, millions of Tea Partiers.. Down with Statism. Proclaim Liberty. ….. The speech seemed pretty good to me, not a lot of "ummm" and Uhhh"s" like some great orators I can think of. As to crowd size, you have over 100000 students …

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Palin Is A Great Orator And A Fighter

Sarah Palin, who was a little known Alaska governor until she was chosen to be Senator John McCain’s running mate on the 2008 Republican presidential ticket, announced yesterday that she will be resigning her office at the end of this month.

Although she gave no specific reasons for her decision she did say that since last year’s election that she has been "subjected to the politics of personal destruction through more than a dozen frivolous ethics complaints", and added that “This decision came after much consideration and I really don’t want to disappoint anyone with this announcement".

Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will assume the governor’s office.

It is widely assumed that she is stepping down in order to make a run for the Whitehouse in 2012, something which it would be impossible for her to do if she continued as Alaska’s governor.

Alaska is four hours behind ECT (east coast time) and if she wanted to visit places like New Hampshire or Iowa she’d have to spend a whole day just getting there and back.

Moreover it’s no longer as good to be a governor as it once was because of the nation’s economic collapse, and almost every governor in the country is now in serious trouble. Palin would not have been immune to similar problems, and already came under heavy flak for implementing a hiring freeze in January.

Palin is an excellent orator that drew huge enthusiastic crowds wherever she spoke during the presidential campaign, and in his concession speech McCain thanked Palin and called her "one of the best campaigners I’ve ever seen, and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength".

Charlie Cook, who is a Washington-based independent political analyst said, "Palin made the right decision if she is serious about running for the White House in 2012. She could be a good governor or she can be a serious candidate for president, but she can’t do both well", and Washington-based Republican consultant Matt Mackowiak, said "Palin can now focus exclusively on political matters, international travel and boning up on policy. While she will lose some of the gravity that comes with being a governor, that is far outweighed by her inherent star power and the logistical freedom that she gains".

Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said Palin may find her retirement more politically demanding than her old job as governor.

“Everybody’s going to want to have her come campaign, or appear or make speeches and she no longer has the useful excuse of saying, ‘Look, I would love to help you on that but I got to pay attention to my job,’” Rove told FOX News. “Now she’s going to be torn. It’s going to be very hard for her to say no continually to people who want her to get on the long flight out of Alaska and come down to lower 48″.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur said, “We’re not retreating, we’re advancing in another direction”.

Love her or hate her, if you haven’t heard her speak live to a crowd then you can’t come close to understanding Sara Palin’s crowd appeal. She’s not just better than McCane and Biden but she electrifies an audience even more than Obama does and she generates enormous enthusiasm at her events.

Kathy Seals, who attended the Richmond event, said she “admired Ms. Palin for unabashedly speaking the truth” and Ray Gilson of Corapeake, N.C., who attended the Virginia Beach rally said, “She’s intelligent, she’s adorable and she has the audacity to speak her mind and I’ve never loved a politician like I love her. I want her to be president someday!”.

A large part of Palin’s appeal is that she loves America and when she says she loves the national anthem, the Navy bases and small towns and the smell of cut grass, she speaks from the heart and you can feel it.

And taking a dig at Obama she’ll often add, “and I don’t care what anyone else says about small-town U.S.A. You guys, you just get it”. After she told more than 10,000 people at the ‘Richmond International Raceway’ that, “John McCain is always, always proud to be an American’ she went on to lead the crowd in a chant of “U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.”!

Palin’s speeches don’t suggest that the way to avoid future mistakes is by looking at previous ones and she glosses over uncomfortable details and instead of talking about Bush and the White House she says things such as, “America, doggone it, unfortunately we’re deep in debt and Barack Obama would put us even deeper in debt. We’ve got to reverse this. America, we cannot afford another big spender in the White House”.

Whether or not Palin’s partisan zeal will turn off some independent voters in closely contested states like New Hampshire and Pennsylvania is debatable but the Democratic polling in both states shows Ms. Palin with high negative ratings amongst independents.

Although she doesn’t go into a lot of policy detail she can raise excitement in an instant. When asked in Virginia Beach if McCain’s really has the ability to lead the country out of its present financial crisis she replied, “He’s got the guts to confront the $10 trillion debt that the federal government has run up and we will balance the budget by the end of our term”.

Regardless of whether she goes into specifics or not the audiences affection for her is palpable and when she talks of her own personal trials and tribulations the audience grows quiet. She describes how frightened she was when she first learned that their baby would have special needs and talks with emotion of how they finally decided to have the child after talking, praying and reflecting.

“There are the world’s standards of perfection, and that’s what you see in some magazines, and then there are God’s standards and God’s standards are the final measure and every child is beautiful before God”.

The personal narrative is a natural segue into a comment on Obama’s view of abortion, “It’s not negative and not mean-spirited in a campaign to check out our opponent’s record” and adds with a smile, “I’ll let you judge for yourself”.

When Bush was on the campaign trail he was a plain-spoken and energetic campaigner who solidified his appeal in the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns by using a ‘with-us-or-against-us message’ and Palin’s message is similarly directed at “good, hard-working, patriotic Americans”.