by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin, fresh from an appearance at the TEA Party Convention where she derided President Barack Obama for "the politics of personality,'' insists that the nascent political organization is just fine without a leader.
"It's much bigger than any charismatic guy with a TelePrompTer,'' says Palin, who read her speech from a text in Nashville on Saturday night and could hear people in the audience calling, "Run, Sarah, Run.'' "It is the people's movement. It's about the people and I'm proud to be a part of this.''
Yet, she says, "it would be absurd'' for her not to consider playing some leadership role, potentially as a candidate for president.
In an interview aired this morning on FOX News Sunday, Chris Wallace also managed to get a "you betcha'' out of the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president and former governor of Alaska who resigned after her party's ticket lost to Obama.
"You betcha,'' she obliged.
Would she consider running for president? "I would if I believe that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family,'' she told Wallace (the two pictured here in a photo from FOX News.) "It's going to be thankfully a lot of time to be able to make such a decision. Right now, I'm looking at.. other potential candidates out there who are strong. They're in a position of having the luxury of having more information at their fingertips right now...
"I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country,'' Palin says. "I don't know if it's going to be ever seeking a title, though. It may be just doing a darn good job as a reporter or covering some of the current events.''
If she is not offering herself as a leader for the TEA Party, however, Palin has plenty to say lately about the president.
"He has some misguided decisions that he is making that he is expecting us to just kind of sit down and shut up and accept, and many of us are not going to sit down and shut up,'' Palin, a FOX contributor, told Wallace in the interview. "We're going to say no, we do not like this..''
"Wait, wait, where's he saying sit down and shut up?'' Wallace asked.
"In a general just kind of general persona I think that he has when he's up there at, I'll call it a lectern,'' Palin said, reiterating a line from last night about a president whom she calls "a law professor.''
"When he is up there and he is telling us basically, 'I know best, my people here in the White House know best, and we are going to tell you that, yes, you do want this essentially nationalized health care system' and we're saying, no, we don't.''
"And the messages are not being received by Barack Obama,'' Palin maintained. "So I think instead of lecturing, he needs to stop and he needs to listen on health care issues. On national security, this perceived lackadaisical approach that he has to dealing with the terrorists.
"We're saying that concerns us and we're going to speak up about it and please don't allow this persona to continue where you do try to make us feel like we need to just sit down, shut up and accept what you're doing to us,'' said Palin, who had a lot more to say about all of that. Read on:
Here, courtesy of FOX News Sunday, is a transcript of Palin's talk with Wallace:
CRIS WALLACE: Governor Palin, welcome to FOX NEWS SUNDAY.
SARAH PALIN: Thank you so much.
WALLACE: How do you see yourself as a member of the Tea Party movement or a member of the Republican Party?
PALIN: Oh, I think the two are and should be even more so merging because the Tea Party movement is quite reflective of what the GOP, the planks in the platform are supposed to be about. Limited government and more freedom, more respect for equality. That's what the Tea Party movement is about, so I think that the two are much entwined and I'm happy about that.
WALLACE: So what's wrong with the Republican Party that these Tea Party activists feel they have to go outside the GOP?
PALIN: Because both major parties, the "D" and the "R"s have both kind of lost their way in some respects. The GOP has some very strong planks in the platform that build a platform that I believe is best to build a strong, safe prosperous nation.
When the GOP strays from the planks in the platform, a people's movement like the Tea Party movement is invited in to kind of hold these politicians accountable again and remind them of their constitutional limits there on the federal level and it's a beautiful movement. I'm proud to get to be a part of it in terms of at least hearing from those in the Tea Party movement and sharing with them what I believe are some common sense solutions to the challenges facing us.
WALLACE: You say you are happy to be or proud to be a part of it. Some people think you want to be the leader of the Tea Party movement.
PALIN: No, I would hope that the Tea Party-ers don't believe that they need some kind of well-oiled machine, some kind of replicate of the GOP or the Democrat Party and instead they remain a movement of the people uprising and saying, listen to us, we have some common sense solutions that we want our politicians to consider and to implement and this is much bigger than a hockey mom from Wasilla.
It's much bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter. It is the people's movement. It's about the people and I'm proud to be a part of this.
WALLACE: You recently stirred up some controversy as you often do, even when you endorsed Rand Paul as the Senate, he's running in the Senate primary in Kentucky the GOP Senate primary. And Bill Kristol, your long-time supporter was upset with you because one of the things he pointed out, Paul wants to close Guantanamo. He wants to send the detainees back to Afghanistan. He wants to repeal the Patriot Act. He wants to do away with any federal role in either gay marriage or drug laws, leave it to the states. Why would you support a guy like that?
PALIN: Because he's a federalist and he wants the states to have more say and as we respect the 10th Amendment in our Constitution, he wants the states to have more say in a lot of these issues. But nobody is ever going to find a perfect candidate. There are things that I don't agree with Rand Paul, and yet his domestic policies for the most part, I do agree with. He wants limited government. He wants the Feds to start taking their hands off states issues and I respect that and I'm proud to support him. Again, never finding a perfect candidate, no doubt he disagrees with me on a whole lot of issues. But proud to support him and others whom I can believe in.
WALLACE: What do you think of Barack Obama's presidency so far?
PALIN: He has some misguided decisions that he is making that he is expecting us to just kind of sit down and shut up and accept, and many of us are not going to sit down and shut up. We're going to say no, we do not like this...
WALLACE: Wait, wait, where's he saying sit down and shut up?
PALIN: In a general just kind of general persona I think that he has when he's up there at, I'll call it a lectern. When he is up there and he is telling us basically, I know best, my people here in the White House know best, and we are going to tell you that yes, you do want this essentially nationalized health care system and we're saying, no, we don't. And the messages are not being received by Barack Obama. So I think instead of lecturing, he needs to stop and he needs to listen on health care issues. On national security, this perceived lackadaisical approach that he has to dealing with the terrorists. We're saying that concerns us and we're going to speak up about it and please don't allow this persona to continue where you do try to make us feel like we need to just sit down, shut up and accept what you're doing to us.
WALLACE: Let's talk about national security. During the campaign, you said this about Mr. Obama. "Our opponent is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country."
The president has escalated the war in Afghanistan. He has launched more drone attacks in his first year than George W. Bush did in eight years. Given what he's done as president, do you take back palling around with terrorists?
PALIN: No, I don't, because his associations with Bill Ayers and with others, he never really has, I think, adequately addressed why in the world he would have a relationship with a type of person like that, who had such disdain for America that he would want to bomb, harm, hurt, kill, Americans.
WALLACE: But has he done a good job in protecting the country?
PALIN: So the things that he has done right now as president in protecting the country, more power to him. We appreciate that he kind of went there fully with the commanders on the ground asking for more reinforcements in Afghanistan. Couldn't get there all the way with these guys, but kind of went there. Good, more power to you. And I speak as a military mom, too, saying thank you. You're giving me a little bit more of a secure knowledge that you're looking out for our troops and the things that their commanders are asking for. I'm thinking kind of, of my son in this situation. Thank you for doing that. However, there are many things that he is doing today that cause an uneasiness in many, many Americans, I'm one of those.
Who looks at the way that he is treating the trials of these terrorists and kind of as gosh, they're on a crime spree right now. No, we are in war. These are acts of these war that these terrorists are committing. We need to treat them a little bit differently than an American who is worthy -- an American being worthy of our U.S. constitutional rights. I don't think the terrorists are worthy of our rights that people like my son fight and are willing to die for.
WALLACE: The unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent in January. The growth rate of the economy, 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter. Doesn't President Obama deserve some credit for that?
PALIN: Very happy to hear about that miniscule decrease there in the unemployment rate, but better that than a growing unemployment rate. The point is though that we have lost millions and millions and millions of jobs as we have incurred greater and greater debt and deficit, debt that I believe is immoral because we're handing the bill to our children. They're going to have to pay for our needs and some of our wants today and I think that is unfair.
The point being, millions of jobs have been lost because, I think Chris, what's coming from the White House is just a fundamental difference from a lot of Conservatives in our belief that government is not the answer. The bailouts, the takeovers of the private sector-- that's not the answer. That is not what built this great country into the most prosperous, healthiest, safest country on Earth.
No. It -- it is free enterprise. It's the innovation, and work ethic of our small businesses, and -- and our entrepreneurs.
Empowering them to be able to keep more of what they earn, and reinvest according to their priorities. And then be able to create jobs -- one -- one job at a time with the principles that are free market -- free enterprise based.
I don't think that is what we're seeing coming out of the White House. It -- it's quite fundamental -- the difference there.
WALLACE: Let's turn to Sarah Palin, because there are some questions quite frankly I've wanted to ask you for a while now.
In your book, "Going Rogue," you said that when you first heard that you were pregnant with Baby Trigg, you wrote this: "I'm out of town.
No one knows I'm pregnant. No one would ever have to know."
You made the choice to have Trigg, and it obviously -- you were showing me earlier pictures of him -- it was the right choice for you. Why not allow all women to make their own choice?
PALIN: Well I believe that these babies in our womb have the right to life. And that's what I stand on. And I did. I -- I honestly, candidly talked about that in my book when I said, "I can understand the sensitivity of the issue," because I've been there.
I've -- I've understood why that fleeting thought would enter a woman's mind.
And then when I found out that after ultra sounds, after tests, that Trigg would be born with Downs Syndrome, of course that thought occurred to me again. Wow, this is why a woman would be fearful of less than ideal circumstances, and maybe think that a quote, unquote, "problem," could just be swept away.
And instead I was able to kind of ratchet back my fears very quickly, and -- and remember that no -- so many of us who have that fundamental belief in the sanctity of life and the potential for every human innocent life, I got to fall back on that. And -- and that did lead me to make the right decision in allowing this baby to be born. And this baby now turning out to be the best thing that has ever happened to me and my family.
WALLACE: But can you understand where some women...
(CROSSTALK)
PALIN: Of course I can understand. That's why...
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: ... some people would say...
PALIN: ... I wrote about it.
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: ... I applaud your choice. Let me make my own decision.
PALIN: And that's why I wrote about it as saying that I understand why those thoughts would enter their mind. I want to empower women though. I -- I want -- and -- and if Trigg is an example, and if Pam Tebo's (ph) son, Tim Tebo (ph) is an example of the potential for every human life, then so be it. Let Trigg be that example.
I want women to know that they are strong enough, and they are smart enough to be able to do many things at once -- including carrying a child. Giving that child life. And then perhaps if they're in less than ideal circumstances or they're carrying a child while they're trying to pursue career, or avocations, or -- or education opportunities -- less than ideal circumstances.
Giving that child life which it deserves, and then perhaps looking at adoption, or looking at other circumstances after. But not snuffing out the life of a child.
WALLACE: The second thing is your decision to resign as governor of Alaska...
PALIN: Yes.
WALLACE: ... with 17 months left in your term. You said, "I wasn't going to run for reelection. So I was going to be a lame duck." You said that the state was being paralyzed, because all of your opponents were filing these lawsuits." Didn't you let your enemies -- your opponents drive you from office?
PALIN: Hell, no. Thankfully I didn't. What's -- what we did was we won, because the state today -- it's not spending millions of dollars to -- to fight these frivolous lawsuits, and -- and frivolous ethics charges. Ethics charges like me wearing a jacket with a snow machine logo on it. And getting charged for an unethical act for doing such a thing.
Little piddly, petty things like that that were costing our state millions of dollars. And costing me and my administration-- my staff members -- about 80 percent of our time fighting those things. "No," we said, "We're not going to play this game."
We picked our battle. And we said, "We're going to get out there, and we're going to fight for Alaska's issues," which usually involve energy independence. We're going to fight for these issues on a different plane. And we're not going to let you guys win.
You're not going to let...
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: But -- but...
(CROSSTALK)
PALIN: You're not going to...
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: ... they're going to think they won, cause you're no longer governor. Let me -- let me just make...
(CROSSTALK)
PALIN: I don't think that they...
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: Let me just make this...
(CROSSTALK)
PALIN: I don't think that they think I -- look it. I'm sitting here talking to Chris Wallace today. I think some of them are going, "Dang, we thought she'd sit down and shut up after we tried to do to here what we tried."
WALLACE: Yes. Well I don't know that that's going to be-- instead of this...
(CROSSTALK)
PALIN: And now we get to talk about energy independence.
Now we get to talk about those things that are important to Alaskans, and our country.
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: OK. But wait a minute. When -- before we were talking about Ronald Regan, do you openly admit he was your political inspiration...
PALIN: Yes.
WALLACE: ... really a formative figure in your...
PALIN: Yes.
WALLACE: ... developing of political consciousness?
Regan during his entire second term as governor of California was a lame duck. Regan in that second term was being sharply attacked by anti-war radicals. I can tell you, Ronald Regan would never have quit.
PALIN: It's a big difference between just getting political pot shots fired your way. I can handle those. I get those-- shoot I -- I got more of those this morning. So what? That doesn't matter. But when it adversely affected the people that I was serving, that's bull. And I wasn't going to put up with that. Again millions of dollars -- a paralyzed administration. My staff not knowing what they could do or say, because the adversaries were continuing to obstruct.
No way. I love Alaska too much to put them through that.
So in that last -- in that lame duck session I'm like no. I'm going to hand the reigns over to the lieutenant governor. He's as conservative as I am. He can progress our agenda -- a common sense conservative agenda for our state. And we can all get on with life.
WALLACE: You talk about new potshots. I think what you're probably referring to is that NBC has gotten a hold -- I'm sure you've heard -- of hundreds of emails in which your husband -- it was during your days as governor -- your husband, Todd, exchanged views with state officials about a judicial appointee, about appointments to-- to various state boards. A labor dispute -- was what he was doing appropriate?
PALIN: Absolutely. And you know there are so few people in the political world, and the media world that -- someone like me that we can trust. My husband is -- is -- he's my soul mate. He's my best friend. He's my number one advisor. I'm going to bounce things off Todd. Nothing confidential that couldn't be shared with others out there in the public. Todd never circulated anything that was confidential, and hadn't already been circulated.
WALLACE: But it's one thing to advise...
(CROSSTALK)
PALIN: He certainly had the right to express his opinion on things too. No, what NBC...
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: But it's one thing to advise you. He was also sending emails to state officials.
PALIN: He was forwarding on emails. And here's another thing. Todd and I being in some -- in some cases thousands of miles apart. If I emailed him about something -- say I was outside traveling. Todd's home. He's -- he's there at -- at a desktop, and I'm telling Todd, "Hey, Todd. Print this off for me. I'm going to grab it on my way home." Cause I work off a Blackberry constantly.
For practical reasons it helped too.
Todd helped as Alaska's first dude with no staff, with no office, being thousands of miles away in a -- a -- during a lot of times that with his job in Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope, and commercial fishing. He helped with workforce development issues.
Issues that meant a lot to him, and -- and people, yes, out there in the real world with car hearts (ph), and steel toed boots, and -- and hard hats trying to build this country. Todd helped in that respect.
He never got into the minutia of the politics. Todd's too good for that. He hates this kind of periphery political bull stuff that we go through. He's not a part of any of that. And, no. More power to Todd for being a good advisor, and a good practical person with common sense solutions.
WALLACE: We like to do a lightening round. Quick questions -- quick answers. So I want you to play along with me here.
PALIN: All right.
WALLACE: Attorney General Eric Holder -- should he step down?
PALIN: Sure. He should. And I think Rham Emanuel should step down too. I think these guys are giving our president wrong advice, and for a variety of reasons I would like him to step down...
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: And specifically Holder -- what...
PALIN: Yes.
WALLACE: Why?
PALIN: Yes. Yes. Because of the way that we are treating these terrorists allowing them our U.S. Constitutional protections when they do not deserve them.
WALLACE: Should the rule "don't ask -- don't tell" for the Military be revealed?
PALIN: I don't think so right now. I'm surprised that the President spent that on his State of the Union speech when he only spent about nine percent of his time in the State of the Union on national security issues. And I say that because there are other things to be worried about right now with the Military.
I think that's kind of on the back burner. It's sufficient for now.
To put so much time and effort and politics into it, unnecessary.
WALLACE: White House Chief of Staff -- you mention him -- Rahm Emanuel. You called him out. He used the "R" word. He said, "retarded." He has now apologized for using that word, met with activists, said he's going to join the campaign to try to eliminate use of that word --
PALIN: Oh, you know, Rahm Emanuel, I think he had some indecent and insensitive ways of being, including his language. And as I said for a variety go reasons, giving the President poor advice and his heavy handedness. I think he should step down.
I'm not politically correct. I am not one to be a word police. But I do believe that his insensitivity, in a time when I had just promised in my GOP convention speech that those with special needs and families and those who love those with special needs would have a friend, and a advocate in the White House if John McCain and I were so blessed as to be elected.
That didn't stop me because our votes didn't carry the day, we didn't win. That didn't stop my passion, my commitment to reaching out and to helping the special needs community when they asked for it. And they did ask for it on this one. They reached out to me and said, can you kind of highlight the problem that we have the White House, with both the President and his Chief of Staff being so insensitive to the special needs community. And I said, I'm here. Send me. I will do so.
WALLACE: OK. But Rush Limbaugh weighed in this week. And he said this:
"Our politically correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards."
PALIN: He was satirical (ph) in that --
WALLACE: Wait a minute, let me finish.
PALIN: OK.
WALLACE: "I mean, these people, these liberal activists are quote, kooks."
Should Rush Limbaugh apologize?
PALIN: They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh was using satire to bring attention to what this politically correct--
WALLACE: But he used the "R" word.
PALIN: Using satire. Name calling by anyone -- I teach this to my children, you teach it to your children and your grandchildren, too.
Name calling by anyone, it's just unnecessary. It just wastes time.
Let's speak to the issues and --
WALLACE: But you know what some people are going to say, Governor, and have said. They say, look, when it's her political adversary Rahm Emanuel, she's going to call him out, he's indecent, apologize. But when it's a political friend like Rush Limbaugh, oh it's satire.
PALIN: I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with "F-ing retards." And we did know that Rahm Emanuel, it's been reported, did say that. That's a big difference there.
But again, name calling, using language that is insensitive by anyone-- male, female, Republican, Democrat, it's unnecessary, it's inappropriate and let's all just grow up.
WALLACE: All right. You can are a FOX News analyst so I want you to take off your political player hat and put the analyst hat on and really try and do your best job, almost like one of the commentators of the Super Bowl.
PALIN: Oh gee, I'll try. OK.
WALLACE: Handicap the 2012 GOP presidential race for us. Who's the front-runner?
PALIN: No idea. I have no idea.
WALLACE: You're not a very good analyst.
PALIN: Fire me then, Roger. Sorry. I already failed.
But listen, no, we have some strong, some young terps (ph) in this party. Paul Ryan, I'm very impressed with Paul Ryan.
WALLACE: Congressman from Wisconsin.
PALIN: Yes. He's good. Man, he is sharp, he is smart, articulate and he is passionate about these common-sense solutions that America has got to adopt to get us on the right road.
I can name a whole lot of people.
WALLACE: Well, what about Romney and Huckabee and Pawlenty?
PALIN: As I say, I could name a whole lot of them but we don't have a whole lot of time. But I'm very impressed with many of the characters, the personalities of those with great intelligence in this party and I can't wait to see who rises to the surface, after hopefully some very competitive, contested primaries.
I'm all about competition. I'm all about, even on our local level and state level, I want to see contested primaries where we are forced via competition to work harder, produce better, be more efficient and that's what these contested primaries that I look forward to will produce.
WALLACE: You talk about rising to the top. There's a new poll out this week of Republican voters across the country and it shows someone named Sarah Palin leading the 2012 race by five points over Mitt Romney.
Aren't you the front-runner for the nomination?
PALIN: Nope. Don't know who conducted that poll and I know that polls are fickle and heck, after this interview, Chris, we may see a plummeting in the poll numbers. Who knows.
These are fickle. I can't comment on what the poll numbers mean today.
WALLACE: Why wouldn't you run for president?
PALIN: I would. I would if I believe that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family. Certainly, I would do so.
WALLACE: And how do you make that decision over the next three years?
PALIN: It's going to be thankfully a lot of time to be able to make such a decision.
Right now, I'm looking at, as I say, other potential candidates out there who are strong. They're in a position of having the luxury of having more information at their fingertips right now. So that the current events that we're talking about today, they --
WALLACE: Wait, wait, wait. Because -- you're basically saying you will consider it.
PALIN: I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country. I don't know if it's going to be every seeking a title though. It may be just doing a darn good job as a reporter or covering some of the current events.
WALLACE: But you're going to consider, you're go to go through the process of thinking --
PALIN: I won't close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future. I don't want any American to ever close the door in their personal or their professional lives and put themselves in a box and say, heck, yes I'm going to do that. Or, no way I'm not going to do that, when we don't know what the future holds.
WALLACE: There's a report this weekend that you are now getting daily e-mail briefings on domestic and foreign policy issues from a group of top advisors in Washington, D.C.
How come?
PALIN: Ever since our PAC was formed, we have had good people contributing. Some -- many volunteers, I guess you would call them advisors, yes, firing away e-mails to me every morning saying, this is what's happened in Washington overnight. You need to be aware of this. Good. It's great. It's helpful.
WALLACE: Do you -- isn't that the move of somebody who is thinking about running for president?
PALIN: You mean, conventionally how someone would -- I have no idea how conventionally people do this. How they try to open a door that's cracked, if it's even open. And if that involves having a group of advisors send them e-mails every morning. I don't know how any of that stuff works. I don't know, I'm just appreciative of having some good information at my fingertips right now.
WALLACE: Would you say that you're more knowledgeable about domestic and foreign affairs now than you were two years ago?
PALIN: Well, I would hope so. Yes, I am.
Two years ago my engagement was on the state of Alaska. Largest, most diverse state in the union. Twenty percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy coming from our state, desiring to and working towards rampage up that domestic energy production. That was my focus.
Now, of course, my focus has been enlarged. So, I sure as heck better be more astute on these current events, national issues than I was two years ago.
WALLACE: I know that three years is an eternity in politics. But how hard do you think President Obama will be to defeat in 2012?
PALIN: It depends on a few things. Say he played, and I got this from Buchanan, reading one of his columns the other day. Say he played the war card. Say he decided to declare war on Iran, or decided to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do. But that changes the dynamics in what we can assume is going to happen between now and three years. Because I think if the election were today, I do not think Obama would be re-elected.
But three years from now things could change if on the national security threat --
WALLACE: You're not suggesting that he would cynically play the war card.
PALIN: I'm not suggesting that. I'm saying, if he did, things would dramatically change if he decided to toughen up and do all that he can to secure our nation and our allies. I think people would perhaps shift their thinking a little bit and decide, well, maybe he's tougher than we think he is today. And there wouldn't be as much passion to make sure that he doesn't serve another four years --
WALLACE: But assuming he continues on the path that he going on and we don't have that rally around the flag (ph) --
PALIN: Then he's not going to win.
WALLACE: Not going to win?
PALIN: He's not going to win. If he continues on the path that he has American on today -- and here's the deal -- that's what a lot of Americans are telling him today and he's not listening. Instead he's telling everybody else, listen up and I'll tell you the way it is.
Well, we have a representative form of government in our democracy.
And we want him and we want Congress to listen to what those things are that we are saying. And that's what the Tea Party movement is about, too. It's not a well-oiled beautiful machine.
It's the people saying, please hear us. Congress, you have constitutional limits and we want you to adhere to those. We have free market principles that built out country. Mr. President, we want you to remember those. We want you to look back on successes in history, like what Reagan did in times of crisis. And, could you repeat those things because they are proven to succeed.
WALLACE: Word is that you're getting $100,000 for this speech this weekend. True?
PALIN: I'm not getting it. They're writing a check -- a $100,000 check. And as I've said from Day One on this, I'm turning right around and being able to contribute it back to the cause. That means to people, to events --
WALLACE: So you're going to use your PAC and contribute it to candidates?
PALIN: I don't know if it's going to go to the PAC or if it goes to some non-profit or what.
Bottom line, I'm not personally benefiting from this. And the funny thing is, as I've had a lot of people, including a couple of talented people and talent at FOX say, funny thing about these type of speeches, Sarah you're an anomaly. Nobody ever has asked, are you getting paid for this? Or, what are you going to do with the money?
But, this is the new normal I think when it comes to me, is people wanting to have me under a microscope and figure out every little detail of my life, including speaking fees.
Bottom line, Tea Party movement, I'm giving the money back to the cause.
WALLACE: Finally, regardless of whether you ever run for political office or not. What role do you want to play in the country's future?
PALIN: First and foremost I want to be a good mom. And I want to raise happy, healthy, independent children. And I want them to be good citizens of this great country.
And then I do want to be a voice for some common-sense solutions. I'm never going to pretend like I know more than the next person. I'm not going to pretend to be an elitist. In fact, I'm going to fight the elitist because for too often and for too long now, I think the elitists have tried to make people like me and people in the heartland of America, feel like we just don't get it and big government is just going to have to take care of us.
I want to speak up for the American people and say, no, we really do have some good common-sense solutions. I can be a messenger for that.
Don't have to have a title to do it.
WALLACE: Can I get a "you betcha" out of it?
PALIN: Oh, you betcha.
(LAUGHTER).
WALLACE: Governor, thank you.
PALIN: Thank you.
WALLACE: Now that you've found the way to FOX NEWS SUNDAY, I hope you'll come back.
PALIN: Thank you, I will.
Comments
How anyhone who is educated could pronounce fragile as frageyel .Palin is a bimbo with a glib tongue. she is an example of today's negative connotation of rhetoric...empty words or hot air.
Posted by: V. Selanik | February 7, 2010 10:12 AM
still crazy after all these months.
Posted by: paul simon | February 7, 2010 10:27 AM
Sarah Palin is a refreshing change from the old, stodgy Washington politicians of both parties. And she is correct. Obama does say, in effect, sit down and shut up, not only to conservatives but to us Independents and Democrats not part of the small inside group that surrounds him. If Obama could only fulfill his campaign promises of openness, he could see that America does not want a socialism form of government and instea, one that is open to all ideas, not just his.
Posted by: Soriah | February 7, 2010 10:31 AM
Keep talkin' Sarah. The more you talk, the worse you sound. You misquoted and misstated so many facts last night that my head when spinning when you were done. Glad that you earned that 100K (that you are now "donating back to the cause"). Your "speech" made me feel much better because with the trite, canned crap you were spewing there is no way you will attract any real number of the independent voters. Glad the middle-aged white men in Nashville like you, soak it up...that's your base.
Palin 2012....BRING IT ON!
Posted by: allaboutthehopeychangey | February 7, 2010 10:37 AM
Since she can't speak a complete, coherent sentence - does it matter?
Posted by: BCN | February 7, 2010 10:39 AM
You were great last night in Nashville, TN..I would love to see you and Lou Dobbs run for anything. If you are in a position of change in the US, one of my pet and most desired wishes is that someone clean up the tv, movies, games, music, and etc. the stuff that is being tossed at our kids is just plain porn. When a soap opera shows two women kissing and rolling around on a sofa "all my children" and the one after that shows two men kissing, and then that Lambert little punk doing a simulated oral sex act at 8:00 at night for all the kids to watch,,,it has gone to far...I want the moral majority and whoever the leader of that is, to put a STOP to the hyper-sexulization of our little children..My 7 yr. old grandson asked his day the other day "Daddy what is erectal dysfunction?", please there has to be some decency brought back, little girls are dressed up as slut puppies for the appreciation of perverts etc. etc. etc. you know what I mean. Please, if you get the chance do some change in the media of the USA. thanks you again for being you...
Posted by: Antonia Roberts | February 7, 2010 10:44 AM
Thank you, " Crash " McCain, wherever you may be in your private jet !! Thanks for giving us " Failin " Palin. The laugh-a-minute, Republican-Libertarian, machine. Let's keep our fingers crossed, hoping the Corpos will pump enough dough into her routine, so her numbers continue to rise !! Run, Sarah, Run !! Don't quit on us, this time, please !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | February 7, 2010 10:46 AM
To:
Why dont you learn how to spell correctly "anyhone," before you criticize someone else. Takes one to know one.
How anyhone who is educated could pronounce fragile as frageyel .Palin is a bimbo with a glib tongue. she is an example of today's negative connotation of rhetoric...empty words or hot air.
Posted by: V. Selanik | February 7, 2010 10:12 AM
Posted by: John Adams | February 7, 2010 10:53 AM
Not to get nit picky, but this woman has a serious problem with the English language.
Posted by: Joe | February 7, 2010 10:54 AM
"How anyhone who is educated could pronounce fragile as frageyel .Palin is a bimbo with a glib tongue. she is an example of today's negative connotation of rhetoric...empty words or hot air."-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Silva and the rest of the liberal water carriers love to misspell and Directly quote everything Sarah says to try and make her sound stupid, yet when Obumbler talks with out his teleprompter, you never hear these leftwing media elites directly quote all the Umms, errs uhh i--, whaat err ummms. People like Silva actually believe that they can damage Palin, when in fact they are just making her more powerful.
Posted by: Dave | February 7, 2010 11:06 AM
I find her very creepy.
Posted by: Craig | February 7, 2010 11:13 AM
Palin/Joe The Plumber for president/vice president in 2012. Give the electorate what they want, clueless, illiterate, dumbed down, flag waving, Christian fundamentalists.
Posted by: Rod | February 7, 2010 11:16 AM
Thanks to Scott Brown the party of "NO" just turned into the party of "HELL NO"
Welcome Senator Brown!
Posted by: dave | February 7, 2010 11:17 AM
please sarah, run with the tea party as a third party! please, run full slates of candidates for every town, county, state, and federal office!
america needs you and a great third party, the TEA PARTY!! woo-hoo!!!!!
Posted by: jim kube | February 7, 2010 11:20 AM
So......Let me get this straight.......
The liberals are hearing criticizing Palin.......after these same people voted to give Cohen the nomination???
Hahahahaha....This is too funny.
Posted by: Sue0319 | February 7, 2010 11:27 AM
Yes, how anyone who is educated could pronounce CORPSMAN as CORPSE MAN (Perhaps V. Selanik might want to finish the sentence and use proper grammar?) is beyond me. We are told we have in our current president one of the greatest orators of our time, yet he cannot pronounce a title used in the military of which he is commander in chief. V, based on your post, I would have to assume that you are not educated.
Posted by: David | February 7, 2010 11:38 AM
Srah,
Puhleeze, sit down and shut up!
Posted by: Tressels Sweater Vest | February 7, 2010 11:40 AM
PALIN, LIMBAUGH, HANNITY, BECK, O'REILLY . . . BOOOOO!!!!
ALL SCARY WORDS TO THE LOONY RACIST, LEFTISTS AND GETS THEM COMING OUT FROM UNDER THEIR ROCKS TO SHOW THEIR TRUE COLORS. NOW THAT'S SCARY!!!
Posted by: Bobby Mobbie | February 7, 2010 11:42 AM
Sarah Palin is a quitter. Quit her job in Alaska when times got tough. Now it turns out her husband, member of the society that calls for the taking down of the United States Government (talk about hanging with terrorists) was more hands on in running Alaska than Sarah was. The Tea Party moron's are going to do nothing but drive the moderates to the Democratic party. Hopefully they start their own third party or best yet, leave the country to start their own country. Wouldn't that be great? Rid our country of rednecks and imbeciles and let them go to....I know, Canada!
Posted by: MASTER of REALITY | February 7, 2010 11:44 AM
I am not a Palin fan, but for you all that are ripping her language - Did you not hear Obama calling our Navy "Navy Corpsemen" like the teleprompter reading, joke that he is? Probably not, as SNL, CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the "media" don't rip him like Bush.
Get real people
Posted by: Jim | February 7, 2010 11:45 AM
Funny thing, Palin claims her $100,000 speaking fee will not go directly to her, but spent to back other Tea Party candidates. Why then didn't she do it for free and leave the money in the new party coffers? Also, she constantly rails about President Obama reading from a Tele-a-prompter, yet she reads from note cards, and notes written on her hands. How exactly does this differ?
Posted by: millie lencioni | February 7, 2010 12:01 PM
Keep it up, Sarah. I hope you start a "Tea Party", 3rd party, presidential bid. You'll split the GOP vote.
2012 will be an Obama run-away.
And to Antonia Roberts. Glad to see you are against the first amendment. Just like, Sarah.
Posted by: syj | February 7, 2010 12:04 PM
These people are thinly disguised racists, that blame everyone else for their problems. I'm a 53 year old white male and I can see through this! These people should scare all of us. You can laugh but historians will tell you, no one thought the Nazi's would come to power in a highly educated country like Germany. These people are desperate and scared because of the changing demographics in this country. They fear being a minority in a few years.
Posted by: Jim | February 7, 2010 12:04 PM
So when Obama had his chat with Republican Congressmen, he didn't let anyone get a word in. Is that what she's saying?
Posted by: Steve | February 7, 2010 12:05 PM
This idiot couldn't lead a sing-a-long. Tea Party- these people are morons who don't even know what they're mad about. And the retarded Palin should realize that the corporate takeover of America and the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs began during the Reagan administration. Palin is a complete idiot.
Posted by: Kevin Quail | February 7, 2010 12:07 PM
Selanik,
Short memory? How anyone who is educated could pronounce corpsman as corpseman? So if Palin is a bimbo for mispronouncing a word, what would you call BO?
Posted by: Terry | February 7, 2010 12:13 PM
You can watch the video of Palin reading off of her hand at the Tea Party convention here:
http://www.gotchamediablog.com/2010/02/sarah-palin-reads-crib-notes-from-her.html
Posted by: Matt | February 7, 2010 12:23 PM
A writer says, "this woman has a problem with the English language." How about a president who believes "corps" is pronounced "corpse"? Or Pakistan is pronounced "Pock-iss-tahn"? (see Merriam-Webster. It's "Pack-iss-tan." Not to mention, believing there are 57 states.
Posted by: Deryl | February 7, 2010 12:38 PM
Palin and the Tea Party will have just as much real impact as the Ross Perot groupies did-none.
Posted by: Linda | February 7, 2010 12:47 PM
With her running after the money she could make instead of completing her time in the last office she held, what makes any of you think she'd stick it out if she ran for and won another office? It doesn't pay what Fox News and Tea Party parties pay. Now she's going to work for the Republican party so what did you tea baggers get for your money?
Posted by: lochnessmonster | February 7, 2010 12:47 PM
The Tea Party folks may not sit down and shut up, but I wish she would, and I consider my self a "right-winger". She's making the rest of us looks like kooks.
Posted by: Will | February 7, 2010 12:49 PM
Palin has brought a "honest courage" to the National political process. Many comments that I've viewed on this article, reflect why most people won't enter our political process. How sad.
One problem is that our elected officials don't have the courage to make difficult decisions. The recent election has added a new degree of "say anything" to get elected because once I'm in office all promises are history!
How can voters get an honest profile of those they are voting for? This may well be the biggest challenge to our future election process.
I sincerely hope the Tea Party movement is successful in changing the political practices of both National Political Parties.
Posted by: Jack | February 7, 2010 12:55 PM
LOL! Always good for a laugh is Palin.
She is really saying if you want your information "dumb down" then vote for me if/when I run for president. Does she realize to win office she will have to go to urban areas and convince the same people who she alienates to run for her? Guess not. Ooops...
Although through this laughter I can help but feel not as smart after reading about her comments.....
Posted by: Brian | February 7, 2010 1:01 PM
How "anyhone" who is educated could pronounce fragile as frageyel
Posted by: V. Selanik | February 7, 2010 10:12 AM
V. Selanik
Oh if everyone were only as smart you and Tim from Ct. who wishes for us to believe, that he got a U.S. passport without a certified birth certificate.
Oh to my favorite Dem. hack Don Fitzjerky... what's up with Barrys' new secretive war in Pakistan ?? What about our troops coming home alive and in one piece.....perhaps you were away on vacation and didn't hear about it .
Posted by: Don B. | February 7, 2010 1:05 PM
Hey Sarah, stop with the royal "we" as there are a whole lot of us (probably a majority) who want a good public option for health care. She uses "we" and means "ME ME ME". She is a self-centered, righteous, ignorant, self-serving person and I wish the media would stop giving her a platform just because she's an intriguing freak show.
Posted by: DD | February 7, 2010 1:09 PM
Run Sarah, Run! Run Sarah, Run!
The GOP NEEDS YOU and your deep grasp of foreign and domestic policy. The country needs to see more of you and your quick thinking abilities in the face of tough questions like "which newspaper do you read?" (all of them, of course) and "which founding father do you admire most?" (well, all of them, of course).
Run Sarah, Run!
Posted by: FillB | February 7, 2010 1:11 PM
I for one really wish she would shut up and sit down. I cringe when I think of the possibility that the electorate could possibly send this intellectual incompetent to the most powerful office in the world. Then again, the Illinois electorate chose Scott Lee Cohen, didn't they?
Posted by: Jim Cleary | February 7, 2010 1:12 PM
Palin is making things up. If she acknowledges Obama never told his opposition to "shut up," what's stopping her from making claims that the president really believes, somewhere in the recesses of his mind, that Tea Parteris should be killed , or that they should be rounded up? Seriously...
http://www.political-buzz.com/
Posted by: matt | February 7, 2010 1:28 PM
Are Palin supporters seriously comparing her intelligence to Obama's? Really?
A botched word or two from either...whatever. But extemporaneously...well, we've seen her botch interviews EVEN WITH GLENN BECK! Obama, on the other hand, only recently made fools of the House GOP.
And lest we forget - BO: Harvard law vs SP: 6 year, 5 college tour-de-Bachelors degree.
Whatever.
Posted by: FillB | February 7, 2010 1:33 PM
Funny your worried about the 100k that Palin will make for this appearance. Whatever happened to the 1.4M that oblamey "won" for the ridiculous nobel peace prize? He said he would give it to charity, I guess that meant the odumbo family trust fund. LOL!
Posted by: JAC | February 7, 2010 1:37 PM
Oh please run Sarah. Throw red meat to the uneducated and stupid sheep who follow you.
It would be so helpful in exposing the GOP, conservatives and tea baggere for what they really are: hateful, paranoid and reactionary bigots who want to turn the clock back to the 50's; the 1850's-- slavery no voting for women, and much more. What a deal!
Fox "news" is the perfect place for you. An echo chanmber of idiots for idiots. By the way, how's the tutoring coming--on reading that is? You know newspapers, Supreme Court decisions, etc.
Posted by: gibster | February 7, 2010 1:44 PM
From 2000 to, well it still exists today, those on the Left suffered from Bush Derangement Syndrome. Then in 2008, those same loons caught Palin Derangement Syndrome. The reality is that the loons from the Left, as most of the folks who make up the so-called mainstream media, are just plain Deranged.
Posted by: John D | February 7, 2010 1:44 PM
Is it just me, or is there something ironic about Palin reading off note cards a speech criticizing Obama's use of teleprompters?
Posted by: RomanB | February 7, 2010 1:47 PM
When farmers often give away manure by the truckful, why would the Teabaggers shell out $100,000 for Palin?
Ka-ching!
Posted by: Kenny Bunkport | February 7, 2010 1:48 PM
I'm going to record all of the MSNBC political shows on Monday, so I can watch the loony nuts ( Olbermann, Maddow, Matthews and Ed ) blow gaskets over Sarah's speech.
Pass the pop-corn!
Paulo
Posted by: Paulo | February 7, 2010 1:49 PM
Palin: Do ya like my new suit?
Cheering crowd of Teabaggers: Yeah!
Palin: Good, 'cause y'all paid for it, sukkaz!
Posted by: reilly3 | February 7, 2010 2:20 PM
Wondering if sarah the quitter ever bothered returning her wardrobe to the RNC.....
meanwhile, she is trying to covet and politicize what started out as good intentions; after all who could possibly be against unlimited spending, fraud and waste in government.
Lookout baggers; you're being hijacked.
Posted by: writerofwrongs | February 7, 2010 2:53 PM
Go caribou barbie! Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please run for office. Stay out there showing America what the rethuglicans "brung" us. The more you talk the more votes rethuglicans will lose. Keep splitting up the rethuglican party. Do it often, and do it viciously. You really need a "take no prisoners", "takin' names and kickin' a$$" approach to this. If you fail to divide the rnc, you will be shown for the has been you have alwys been.
Posted by: I_heart_Schadenfreude | February 7, 2010 2:56 PM
I can not stand the way this dolt and rest of her ilk constantly refer to Reagan as an example. He would have never been able to or would want to pass their "purity" test.
Don Fitzgerald - These dopes are NOT Libertarians in any shape or form. For all their complaints about how the government should stay out of their pockets, they have NO problem with big brother poking his nose in our personal lives and telling us what and who we should read, watch, and worship.
Posted by: Fed up Libertarian | February 7, 2010 3:09 PM
Those on the left would have you believe that Sara Palins' speaking fee is some sort of an anomaly, and yet they ignore the fees' by Clinton , ranging from Saudi Arabia, to convicted felon Marc Richs' wifes'' fundraising efforts for the Clinton LIbrary, and of course the obscene money grubber Al Gore, millions propagating what are now clearly disputed, and tainted global warming facts. All together now let's say "BIG HYPOCRiTES"...there now, don't all you kool aid drinkers feel better now ?
Posted by: Don B. | February 7, 2010 3:10 PM
Palin speech at the convention was nothing but old sound bites and platitudes rehashed. To cut through all of this crap, the convention united around being anti-Obama. She like her followers have "ODS" obama derangement snydrome. She right, they will fall into the republican party. They are the same. They knew they would lose caring the republican name so they change it to the Tea Party. It like keeping the same store , employees and product but using a new name
Posted by: dick wilson | February 7, 2010 3:30 PM
palin and the teabaggers. heh!
Posted by: lipton | February 7, 2010 3:36 PM
John D talks about "derangement syndrome." Really, John D? Your so-called "derangement syndrome" goes from Bush to Palin, and conveniently omits Obama, who has been accused of everything from being a foreign national to serving as a "Manchurian candidate" for Al Queda-- (and Bill Clinton for that matter - remember right wingers' theories on all of Clinton's murders...their version of Bill Clinton could have starred on the Sopranos."
Take your blinders off.
Posted by: FillB | February 7, 2010 3:41 PM
I wish SHE would sit down & shut up! Typical opportunist.
Posted by: Barbara | February 7, 2010 4:25 PM
It's gonna be great to ts see the Republicans split up by this group of wackjobs. Lets see the dems gain sets.
Posted by: John Moran | February 7, 2010 4:26 PM
Ronald Reagan rolls over in his grave every time Palin evokes his name.
She and the TEA Baggers are not Libertarians.
Posted by: Dan | February 7, 2010 4:27 PM
This woman is not even smart enough to memorize the 3 talking points she has been repeating for the last year and a half. She had to write them on her left hand and she referred to the notes when she was asked questions at the event. She is a dolt and should never be considered for any other public office ever again.
Posted by: mac | February 7, 2010 4:31 PM
KB,
Farmers give away liberals by the truckload? I did not know that.
Posted by: Terry | February 7, 2010 4:49 PM
Fillb, yes, there is some Obama Derangement Syndrome by those on the Right, and there was even some Clinton Derangement Syndrome. In regard to the Clintons, I would say it was well worth it because both are scum through and through and all of their little scandals and Clintons many infidelities, which continue to this day according to the Mark Halperin book.
In regard to Obama, whatever derangement there is pretty much is centered on policy. I suppose the so-called Birthers are in a "derangement," but his policies and his appointees are legitimate for question or attack.
In the end, though, whatever "derangement" there may have been with Clinton or with Obama today PALES, and I mean PALES, in comparison to what the Loons on the Left have for Bush and Palin, and Cheney for that matter.
Posted by: John D | February 7, 2010 4:54 PM
Some words of advice to Sarah Palin:
1] You are NOT the first person to have given birth to a special needs child. Special needs children have been given prominent roles on TV and in the movies since the 1980s.
You will see more special needs children at work in fast food restaurants and grocery stores, a trend that began in the 1980s.
This awakening to the needs of special needs kids did NOT begin with you, Sarah Palin, regardless of what you might think.
2] Cut the jargon with your revelation about the "troops" because your son happened to have joined the Alaska National Guard. If there was one benefit of the Reagan administration, it was to bring back some pride in our American fighting forces. There has not been a president after the 1980s who has not been supportive of our troops. An exception to that might have been President Bush 43, who sent our fighting forces into a guerrilla war in Iraq without proper body armor.
3] One now that we're on the topic of President Reagan, please be apprised that it was under Reagan's watch that the national debt rose from $1 trillion at the end of Carter's term to $4 trillion by the time Ronnie left office. This is not a president who supported fiscal responsibility.
Posted by: skeptic | February 7, 2010 4:58 PM
""" These people are thinly disguised racists, that blame everyone else for their problems. I'm a 53 year old white male and I can see through this! These people should scare all of us. You can laugh but historians will tell you, no one thought the Nazi's would come to power in a highly educated country like Germany. These people are desperate and scared because of the changing demographics in this country. They fear being a minority in a few years. Posted by: Jim | February 7, 2010 12:04 PM """
AMEN TO THAT!
Posted by: Wifey | February 7, 2010 5:24 PM
Why is the general public so easily suckered by pure demagoguery? We are truly a nation of stupids and we will get exactly what we deserve.
Posted by: Vommo | February 7, 2010 5:25 PM
Thanks McCain, for dumping this bimbo on us.
Posted by: Tim | February 7, 2010 6:03 PM
While he hasn't done it, I think it would be great if Obama told Palin to "sit down and shut up". She's an idiot who just likes to hear her own whinny voice. And these tea baggers are getting annoying too!
Posted by: Reality | February 7, 2010 6:17 PM
All you belly-aching liberals- can't you just quit? Scott Brown won because you scared the crap out of anyone with any sense about finances and spending (Worldwide) You remind me of the euphoria of the internet bubble when all the people were in the bars every night high-fiveing each other and buying rounds of drinks because their UBID stock just went up another $68 a share for absolutely no reason- they as well as you had the bull by the horns and woke up one morning with absolutely NOTHING!!!! They lost their money and you lost your Rubber Stamp- all your people(s) were counting on you- Mr. Under-Qualified to talk about almost anything Keith Olbermannnnnnn and his girlfriend Rachel could'nt contain their glee--- I even saw them French Dipping between shows they were so happy- and then they as well as you woke up and it was all gone, everything you had worked for, all the Acorn work, all the SEIU Union Contributions, Rahms sweat, Axelrods late night Pizza binges- all for not- while you were busy buying new outfits for the 1st Union recital by you leader things changed in a big way- just like the stock market- and it was all gone. Pig get Fat-- HOGS get slaughtered- Don't get your panties in a bunch about Sarah Palin- don't attack her personally she is entitled to her opinion- for God's sake if Mr. Olbermann is entitled to an opinion, surely anyone in the world is- have a nice day- See the toughest thing to handle is YOU elected these crooks, and YOU did get what YOU voted for ---- CHANGE, it just only took 12months to start, and believe me (write it on a matchbook cover and put it in your wallet) YOUR CHANGE IS GOING TO COME FASTER THAN YOU EXPECTED- That's good, right?
Posted by: fishman | February 7, 2010 6:33 PM
Crib-note Caribou Barbie resonates with the type of people who would see this country degenerate into a corporatist Christian theocracy. These people should realize that they are far in the minority and they would get crushed in anything resembling a "revolution" that they claim to want. They really should all go run up to Alaska and try to secede with Todd Palin because the real United States of America, as it was initially imagined, is something they despise. Go form your own third world country, you dead-enders. We don't want your hate or your ignorance here.
Posted by: postobjectivist | February 7, 2010 6:38 PM
For Palin I say,
Put up or shut up.
Something she has yet to demonstrate.
We don't expect a US President to quit after a few years.
Posted by: Alan | February 7, 2010 6:48 PM
Wouldn't that be great? Rid our country of rednecks and imbeciles and let them go to....I know, Canada!
Posted by: MASTER of REALITY | February 7, 2010 11:44 AM
Sorry Master, we dont want those dumb asses up here either. Youre stuck with em you betcha!
Posted by: Scot S. Blakeley | February 7, 2010 6:50 PM
Plenty of comments on here from the sheeple who think it's fine that Nancy Pelosi says, regarding the socialized healthcare bill, 'if they put up a fence, we'll climb over it'. How can you support someone who is so out of touch with what Americans want, and then on the other hand, bash Sarah Palin? It's incredible.
Posted by: Adolph | February 7, 2010 7:00 PM
PALIN, LIMBAUGH, HANNITY, BECK, O'REILLY . . . BOOOOO!!!!
ALL SCARY WORDS TO THE LOONY RACIST, LEFTISTS AND GETS THEM COMING OUT FROM UNDER THEIR ROCKS TO SHOW THEIR TRUE COLORS. NOW THAT'S SCARY!!!
Posted by: Bobby Mobbie | February 7, 2010 11:42 AM
Someone with a name like Bobby Mobby defending conservatives- now that's scary. Here is another example of Sarah Palin being a moron. I dare her to say she has never used a teleprompter and would not use one as president. Only her fellow moronic wingnuts take the telepropmter issue seriously. George Bush used a teleprompter. Ronald Reagan used a teleprompter. Sarah Palin has used telepropmpters. But she realizes she is pandering to an ignorant audience.
Posted by: Disgusted | February 7, 2010 7:17 PM
Hmm, they won't sit down or shut up? Neither do babbling, undisciplined little children.
Posted by: Chris | February 7, 2010 8:10 PM
They also keep bringing up Scott Brown's election being a sign that "real" Americans are on the their side. You know I do not think the new Sen. Brown would be welcome at this gathering based on his social views.
Posted by: Fed up Libertarian | February 7, 2010 8:10 PM
I pray this woman runs -- please split the ticket and screw it up for actual Republicans!
After that buffoonish performance last night, any doubts as to this woman's unfitness for office have been laid bare. She actually, in one of her many repetitive soundbites, used the word "Alaska" when what she [should have] meant was "the United States."
Apparently she is still recycling old rhetoric from her state campaigns..... Not surprising from a hypocrite who whines about our "law professor" president for "using a telepromptor," yet who herself could barely look upward from the pages of her own typed speech!
Please run Sarah! Pretty please!
Posted by: Spektor | February 7, 2010 8:41 PM
How sad it is to read so many try and defend this woman, Sarah Palin, whom it seems does not have enough common sense or natural ability to be curious enough pick up some more of that learnin and readin stuff. People this woman does not have the raw intellectual ability to lead our nation.
She spoke harshly of our president using a teleprompter yet what was that with her resorting to jotting notes in her palm? What the hell was that! What ready to be the most powerful leader on the planet would do a thing like that?
Posted by: Pat | February 7, 2010 9:11 PM
All you flatliners say how stupid Palin is, but yet two heartbeats from the President and is also the Speaker of the House is Nancy Dimwit.
I'll take Palin over Pelousy any day of the week in a debate.
Posted by: Terry | February 7, 2010 9:58 PM
Another FOX piece of work and a republican nut job.
Posted by: cimt | February 7, 2010 10:07 PM
Okay. If they won't "sit down and shut up," how about they shut up and sit down. There. That's a good compromise.
Posted by: McMahon | February 7, 2010 10:11 PM
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Posted by: Fed up Libertarian | February 7, 2010 8:10 PM
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1. Forget trying to tell Don Fitzgerald anything about the difference between Republicans and Libertarians. He has neither the smarts nor the courage to listen to you or think for himself. He is merely regurgitating someone else’s ignorant propaganda.
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2. True, the Tea Party folks are not Libertarians, and Senator Brown probably wouldn’t have been welcome at the Tea Party shindig. However, consider the possibility that these people are headed in the right direction. They aren’t necessarily in love with the Republican Party, and they are against big government and runaway spending. While they are probably expressing more of their outrage to their pocketbook (and less about their desire to be free, or freer) their opposition furthers the Libertarian goals of a small, fiscally responsible government. Take them for the limited blessing they are.
Posted by: John W. | February 7, 2010 10:12 PM
"It's much bigger than any charismatic guy with a TelePrompTer"?
Does she really believe she is in the same universe, intellectually, as Obama? I would bet a whole box of tea bags that Palin doesn't even know the fundamental difference between the Shia and Sunni factions of Islam. Hell, she doesn't even know the history of the Korean conflict.
"Right now, I'm looking at.. other potential candidates out there who are strong. They're in a position of having the luxury of having more information at their fingertips right now"...
Strong? Like who, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul? And Sarah, as weak as candidates as they are, any one of them has forgotten more "information" than you could learn in a lifetime, and none are dense enough that they'd have to write a talking point like "tax cuts" on their palm.
"So I think instead of lecturing, he needs to stop and he needs to listen on health care issues. On national security, this perceived lackadaisical approach that he has to dealing with the terrorists".
Listen on health care issues"? Listen to what, Sarah, idiots like yourself grossly misrepresenting issues, using the term "death panels", to describe elements of a proposed national health plan, for instance? When the President was elected, a majority of Americans favored a "public option", maybe he was listening to them, those who elected him,rather than the lunatic fringe that you represent.
And "perceived lackadaisical approach that he has in dealing with terrorist". So Sarah, do you even know the meaning of perceived? I think not, you twit, unless you're admitting that it's falsely attributed to the man. Maybe you should grab a megaphone, stand on a chair and say tough-guy stuff like "dead or alive" and "two Guantanamo's", and show Mr. Pres. how it's done for the Teatard crowd? Who knows, someone like Paulo might actually fall for that crap.
Posted by: America the Stupid | February 8, 2010 12:16 AM
Skeptic: I'm glad that you pointed out the pugs fiscal responsibility of their hero, and whom they all wish to emulate. Scott, I didn't know you were a fellow canuk, but I agree that CA has no interest in adopting retarded americans. John W, I'm glad to see that you still support the splitting of your pug party....it would be the biggest gift-horse the dems ever recieved. And I still believe you all have a frontrow seat in watching the US unravel. Pass the popcorn Scott.
Posted by: Xcellentform | February 8, 2010 11:37 AM
Fine if Tea Partiers won't sit down and won't shut up -- it's their right to stand up for themselves and state their case. What ISN'T their right is to continually shout down and try to intimidate those who disagree with them, denying their rights to free speech. Tea Partiers are a party of thugs, here to support thugs, and dedicated to getting what they want through thug tactics.
Posted by: Op109 | February 8, 2010 1:17 PM
"Is it just me, or is there something ironic about Palin reading off note cards a speech criticizing Obama's use of teleprompters?" -RomanB
There's a wee bit of difference between referring to notes while giving a speech and reading the entire speech off a teleprompter.
Posted by: Chris | February 8, 2010 1:24 PM
I wonder if the Tea Party would be around if Obama was, say, Tim Kaine.
Posted by: steve | February 8, 2010 2:25 PM
I'll take Palin over Pelousy any day of the week in a debate.
Posted by: Terry | February 7, 2010 9:58 PM
Oh, that would be a sight to see, Sarah sweating so badly that the smeared talking points on her palm were illegible. She'd be sitting there, panic-stricken and doe-eyed, like Bambi in the Moose-Huntresses gun sights.
Better yet, would be watching the "soccer mom" try and conduct a session of Congress. CSPAN would beat out Comedy Central on that one.
It is touching, Terrance, that you're such a champion of the incompetent class. I think Sarah could even trump W as the most cluless President ever.
Posted by: America the Stupid | February 8, 2010 2:52 PM
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Posted by: Xcellentform | February 8, 2010 11:37 AM
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You mean … they still let YOU post here? Well, there goes the neighborhood.
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Just kidding of course. It’s sort of good to hear from you again.
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But just to set you straight on a couple points:
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1. It’s not “my pug party.” I voted Libertarian in the November ’08 election, and I am still registered to vote in California as a Libertarian. My comments were directed at another purported Libertarian.
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2. I’m not trying to split anything; nor do I need to. The Republican Party is already split, and had been split for quite some time.
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As I see it, the Tea Party movement is a positive phenomenon within the Republican Party to the extent that it signals a return to fiscal conservatism and small government. To me, that beats the daylights out of the big-government, progressive, tax-and-spend, warmongering, Machiavellian type party the Republicans had become under the ‘reign’ of Duh’bya. We already had one Democratic Party; we didn’t need another one.
Posted by: John W. | February 8, 2010 3:26 PM
Run, Sarah, Run and please, don't sit down and shut up. Maybe you can see if "Crash " McCain would be your running-mate. Now, that would indeed be the Republican-Libertarian's whining ticket !! Go, Sarah, Go !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | February 8, 2010 4:49 PM
Ah, that's what we need more liberal elitists whose Grandparents would kick in them in the ass for being such whiny crybabies.
The crybaby elitists have never BUILT anything ever. As opposed to the "uneducated" common sense ancestors that actually made the United States the greatest nation ever on the face of the planet. You whiny hand wringing liberals think that YOU can build a perfect world with a lecture in chief that has NEVER done anything. He didn't even have to pay his way through college. The ultimate elitist that has had everything handed to him. He doesn't KNOW squat. He has his radical marxist elitist theories and world view. History has already rejected all of this baloney, you betcha.
I would take a farmer with some common sense that knows how to balance his books over all the "educated" fools that have brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy. Oh, we are in it deeper than they will ever tell you. They have put us at the mercy of foreign creditors like China. These guys you liberals adore are so brilliant. Again, remember Wall Street is a LIBERAL haven.
You will soon find that the common sense American people have rejected you and your nanny state, along with the insanely irresponsible drunken spending spree that you have given us. You don't stand a chance of surviving the next election when compared to someone that speaks common sense and means what they say. I don't care if they mispronounce a few words.
Posted by: Free to Watch Whatever I Want | February 8, 2010 6:09 PM
Is Palin Marginalized—supporting McCain’s Campaign?
See McCain’s Indefinite Detention Bill
Why is Sarah Palin helping Sen. McCain’s campaign after he just introduced, S.3081, The “Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010” possibly the most Tyrannical Bill in Modern U.S. History?
On March 4, 2010, Sen. John McCain introduced S. 3081, The “Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010.”
Government too easily can use McCain’s bill S.3081 to arbitrarily disappear Americans—without probable cause. Your political opinions and past statements made against U.S. Government could in the future under S.3081 be used by Government Authorities to deem you a “hostile” “Enemy Belligerent” to cause your arrest and indefinite detention.
How might Americans respond should Government use this bill to take away their loved ones, family members and friends on mere suspicion? It is foreseeable McCain’s bill will drive lawful political activists underground, perhaps creating the domestic terrorists McCain said we needed to be protected from.
Under S.3081, an “individual” need only be Suspected by Government of “suspicious activity” or “supporting hostilities” to be dragged off and held indefinitely in Military Custody. Government will have the power to detain and interrogate any individual without probable cause. Government need only allege an individual kept in detention, is an Unprivileged Enemy Belligerent suspected of; having engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners; or has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. How could one prove to Government they did not purposely do something? “Materially Supporting Hostilities” against the United States could include any person or group that spoke out or demonstrated disapproval against an agency of U.S. Government. It is foreseeable many Americans might go underground to Resist Government Tyranny. The Definition for Unprivileged Enemy Belligerent: (Anyone Subject to a Military Commission)
At least under the Patriot Act, law enforcement generally needed probable cause to detain a person indefinitely. Passage of S.3081 will permit government to use mere suspicion to curtail an individual’s Constitutional Protections against unlawful arrest, detention and interrogation without benefit of legal counsel and trial. According to S.3081 Government is not required to provide detained individuals U.S. Miranda Warnings or even an attorney.
Similar to fascist laws in other countries, S.3081 if passed will frighten Americans from speaking out. S.3081 is so broadly written, it appears any “individual” who writes on the Internet or verbally express an opinion against or an entity of U.S. Government or its coalition partners might be detained on the basis he or she is an “unprivileged enemy belligerent”, “supporting hostilities against U.S. Government.”
See McCain Senate bill S.3081 at:
assets.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/politics/ARM10090.pdf
Posted by: Dan Scott | March 28, 2010 4:40 AM