Hands down, the top-rated speaker at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was former GOP vice presidential candidate (and half-term Alaska governor) Sarah Palin – who reaffirmed her star status among this impressionable assemblage of sound bite swallowers.
The self-styled “Mama Grizzly” lit into the leadership of her own party, most notably establishment “Republican” consultants like former White House political guru Karl Rove.
“The next election is 20 months away,” Palin said. “Now is the time to furlough the consultants, and tune out the pollsters, send the focus groups home and toss the political scripts. Because if we truly know what we believe, we don’t need professionals to tell us.”
She also had some strong words for U.S. President Barack Obama.
“Mr. President, we admit it. You won. Accept it. Now step away from the teleprompter and do your job,” Palin said.
At one point during her speech, Palin even pulled out a Big Gulp drink – mocking the ban on large sugary sodas being pushed by liberal New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The crowd? They went wild … repeatedly.
“She ruled,” one GOP operative told FITS.
“Out of the park,” another said of Palin’s speech.
The “conservative” press agreed … praising Palin for her performance.
“Palin electrifies CPAC crowd,” Townhall columnist Katie Pavlich wrote as her headline.
However the mainstream media – while acknowledging the rousing reception Palin received – used the occasion of her speech to discuss whether there was anything to Palin beyond the clever one-liners.
“What’s clear from Palin’s speech … is that her primary concern at this point is promoting her brand – a sort of conservative entertainer-in-chief, the person willing to stick it to Democrats and ‘tell it how it is’ to Republicans too,” wrote Obamaphile Chris Cillizza of the (Obamacare-fed) Washington Post. “What Palin seems far less interested in is laying out a vision for what the GOP should do.”
As much as we’ve dogged out Cillizza in the past (and with good reason), he is 100 percent correct in his assessment in this case. In fact we’ve been making this same basic point about Palin for several years.
“Palin’s ability to arouse fiscal conservatives (in more ways than one) is impressive – and if she’s able to craft a coherent fiscal policy and channel that base of support behind it, watch out,” we wrote more than two years ago in our initial assessment of the 2012 GOP presidential field.
Unfortunately Palin never shifted into a substantive gear – which is why instead of becoming a serious (and potentially game-changing) 2012 candidate she has become nothing but a “conservative” side show.
That’s too bad. The “conservative” movement, Palin’s “Republican” party and the country in general doesn’t need another clever quipper … no matter how attractive she may be. That’s because clever quips absent specific ideas serve no one … except Palin. What’s needed are leaders who can combine cults of personality with substantive, pro-free market policy.
Palin has never been able to do that … which is why as far as we’re concerned she will continue to be “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Ironically one of Palin’s best lines at CPAC wasn’t a critique of either party, it was a slam of the increasingly dysfunctional Washington, D.C. establishment.
“We don’t have leadership coming out of Washington. We have reality television,” she said.
Palin is right. Sadly, the same thing can be said for her, though …
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God, I wish people would stop giving her a fucking microphone. Just ignore her and maybe she’ll go away…
::LIKE::
Yet when FITS throws this red meat to his idiot-leftwing disciples…you cannot wait to express how much you hate her for not being you, and the dangerous Crap you and FITS espouse….
Your game is to HATE..and that’s all you and Obama have…you can “BUILD” nothing on your own…you must have Truth and right to hate…otherwise you’d be left w/ the inane and Wonkish Bull$#!* FITS and Sanford try to peddle as interesting…
BigT: We “built” the website which gives your life a purpose. Enjoy! -W
You just give me the best example of Leftwing-libertarian folly and ignorance on display….
For that, I am thankful…No one would believe it, if you did not so clearly demonstrate it everyday…
“…No one would believe it, if you did not so clearly demonstrate it everyday…”
Sat WHAT? Someone get Ricky Gervais, we have an A-1 idiot right here!
Edit: Say
What about the lunacy (oh, and copied and pasted Drudge headlines) you “so clearly demonstrate” here every day? Why don’t you go “BUILD” something of your own – then we can all comment on it.
God, I wish people would stop giving her a fucking microphone. Just ignore her and maybe she’ll go away…
::LIKE::
Yet when FITS throws this red meat to his idiot-leftwing disciples…you cannot wait to express how much you hate her for not being you, and the dangerous Crap you and FITS espouse….
Your game is to HATE..and that’s all you and Obama have…you can “BUILD” nothing on your own…you must have Truth and right to hate…otherwise you’d be left w/ the inane and Wonkish Bull$#!* FITS and Sanford try to peddle as interesting…
BigT: We “built” the website which gives your life a purpose. Enjoy! -W
You just give me the best example of Leftwing-libertarian folly and ignorance on display….
For that, I am thankful…No one would believe it, if you did not so clearly demonstrate it everyday…
“…No one would believe it, if you did not so clearly demonstrate it everyday…”
Sat WHAT? Someone get Ricky Gervais, we have an A-1 idiot right here!
Edit: Say
What about the lunacy (oh, and copied and pasted Drudge headlines) you “so clearly demonstrate” here every day? Why don’t you go “BUILD” something of your own – then we can all comment on it.
LMAO , failed in her bid for vice president and failed in here reality show , now why do people follow this loser . She sounds bitter and I hope the nut bar right keep following the path there on to there own doom .
LMAO , failed in her bid for vice president and failed in here reality show , now why do people follow this loser . She sounds bitter and I hope the nut bar right keep following the path there on to there own doom .
It took you this long to figure this out?
It took you this long to figure this out?
When her looks go, she’ll have nothing.
It appears that they are going and will be gone before the next election.
I’d still do her, of course.
She’ll have Millions that she has earned, just for going around speaking the TRUTH about liberals and Dumb@$$#$ like you…
I’d love to have what she has, and she’s beautiful and very sexy on top of that…
It’s gotta hurt you Boz. You have tried to convince any dolt who will listen that you KNOW better than anybody and everybody. You swear anybody in office that is not you…is corrupt, and you can prove it…
Yet, you NEVER succeed in bringing down all the meenies that so haunt your very existence…
People listen to her, and she moves mountains…I’d say she has a H#!! of a lot…
Thanks, BigT for removing all doubt.
Earned bilking dumbasses like you? Damn, hate to say it but you have a point!
She did not get all the $$, some went to puchase post apocoliptic seed from Beck, and some went to stock brokers who specialize in hiding your stocks so they can’t be seized by Obama and sent to poor people in Kenya.
Boz has “tried to convince any dolt who will listen that you KNOW better than anybody and everybody?”
I thought that was what you were doing, T.
Doesn’t look that it will be to much longer, she starting to show her age
When her looks go, she’ll have nothing.
It appears that they are going and will be gone before the next election.
I’d still do her, of course.
She’ll have Millions that she has earned, just for going around speaking the TRUTH about liberals and Dumb@$$#$ like you…
I’d love to have what she has, and she’s beautiful and very sexy on top of that…
It’s gotta hurt you Boz. You have tried to convince any dolt who will listen that you KNOW better than anybody and everybody. You swear anybody in office that is not you…is corrupt, and you can prove it…
Yet, you NEVER succeed in bringing down all the meenies that so haunt your very existence…
People listen to her, and she moves mountains…I’d say she has a H#!! of a lot…
Thanks, BigT for removing all doubt.
Earned bilking dumbasses like you? Damn, hate to say it but you have a point!
She did not get all the $$, some went to puchase post apocoliptic seed from Beck, and some went to stock brokers who specialize in hiding your stocks so they can’t be seized by Obama and sent to poor people in Kenya.
Boz has “tried to convince any dolt who will listen that you KNOW better than anybody and everybody?”
I thought that was what you were doing, T.
Doesn’t look that it will be to much longer, she starting to show her age
GOP keeps her, Rush, Beck, Hannity, etc as “friends”/”leaders”, then they will continue to suffer. Look for the new generation of GOP to take over, if they expect to be successful going forward. The plain truth is that America is changing rapidly and the old speeches are sounding more and more tired.
GOP keeps her, Rush, Beck, Hannity, etc as “friends”/”leaders”, then they will continue to suffer. Look for the new generation of GOP to take over, if they expect to be successful going forward. The plain truth is that America is changing rapidly and the old speeches are sounding more and more tired.
Palin/NikkiHaley vs. Hillary/Michelle in 2016????
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Most people would weep upon seeing that ballot.
Palin/NikkiHaley vs. Hillary/Michelle in 2016????
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Most people would weep upon seeing that ballot.
demographics are changing very fast. Soon it will be over for White people. Hostile elite will come with their guns to take away our guns. this is not an ideological battle of left vs right, GOP vs Dems, Socialism vs liberty. This is ethnic warfare against white people.
Why are hostile globalist elite defending Israel as a Jewish ethnostate with Jewish only immigration, but ravaging white majority Europe, North America into a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Gulag with dystopian non-White colonization?
Why do gullible Whites kowtow to hostile Jewish & crypto-Jewish elite, who butcher White soldiers in bankrupting wars, infiltrate & subvert our banks & spying agencies, indoctrinate us in classrooms & mass media, & plunder our jobs & wages?
East Asia is 99% yellow. Africa is 99% Black. West Asia is 99% Brown. But 3rd world colonizers are annihilating Whites, just as Chinese colonizers are annihilating Tibet.
“Native” Americans are not native. They invaded from East Asia. Not just Whites, but Muslims, Jews, China, India, Mayans, Africans all are guilty of slavery, imperialism. Whites were victims of Islamic, Jewish, African imperialism, slavery.
Gullible Whites should reject subversive Jewish ideologies like libertarianism, feminism, liberalism, socialism, and reject hostile slanders of racism, collectivism.
Love to all humanity, but White people must unite & organize to advance their families, their fertility, their interests. Reading list:
goo.gl/iB777
goo.gl/htyeq
amazon.com/dp/0759672229
amazon.com/dp/1410792617
Seek help. Please.
You normally post under “Patrirot,” right? Your response is the same to every post, so why change your user name? Oh, and you’re a nutfuck.
I’m loving the sudden influx of white supremacists on this site, just like at CPAC! Coincidence? lol…
FITS is and has been nothing but a trailer park, just a new renter in FITS Trailer Park. The quality of his stories befits the mentality of the comments…trailer trash
Geeze. Awful hard on yourself, there.
demographics are changing very fast. Soon it will be over for White people. Hostile elite will come with their guns to take away our guns. this is not an ideological battle of left vs right, GOP vs Dems, Socialism vs liberty. This is ethnic warfare against white people.
Why are hostile globalist elite defending Israel as a Jewish ethnostate with Jewish only immigration, but ravaging white majority Europe, North America into a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Gulag with dystopian non-White colonization?
Why do gullible Whites kowtow to hostile Jewish & crypto-Jewish elite, who butcher White soldiers in bankrupting wars, infiltrate & subvert our banks & spying agencies, indoctrinate us in classrooms & mass media, & plunder our jobs & wages?
East Asia is 99% yellow. Africa is 99% Black. West Asia is 99% Brown. But 3rd world colonizers are annihilating Whites, just as Chinese colonizers are annihilating Tibet.
“Native” Americans are not native. They invaded from East Asia. Not just Whites, but Muslims, Jews, China, India, Mayans, Africans all are guilty of slavery, imperialism. Whites were victims of Islamic, Jewish, African imperialism, slavery.
Gullible Whites should reject subversive Jewish ideologies like libertarianism, feminism, liberalism, socialism, and reject hostile slanders of racism, collectivism.
Love to all humanity, but White people must unite & organize to advance their families, their fertility, their interests. Reading list:
goo.gl/iB777
goo.gl/htyeq
amazon.com/dp/0759672229
amazon.com/dp/1410792617
Seek help. Please.
You normally post under “Patrirot,” right? Your response is the same to every post, so why change your user name? Oh, and you’re a nutfuck.
I’m loving the sudden influx of white supremacists on this site, just like at CPAC! Coincidence? lol…
FITS is and has been nothing but a trailer park, just a new renter in FITS Trailer Park. The quality of his stories befits the mentality of the comments…trailer trash
Geeze. Awful hard on yourself, there.
No goofier than,Ron/Rand Paul
No goofier than,Ron/Rand Paul
If this is the cream of the republican crop, they’re in more trouble than I thought.
She does have a nice rack, sweet ass, and long legs. All that a bimbo could ask for.
YOU BETCHA!
YOU BETCHA!
I’d hit it!
Me too!!!!!
Maybe she will market a blow-up doll!
Didn’t she fuck a darkie basketball player?
If this is the cream of the republican crop, they’re in more trouble than I thought.
She does have a nice rack, sweet ass, and long legs. All that a bimbo could ask for.
YOU BETCHA!
YOU BETCHA!
I’d hit it!
Me too!!!!!
Maybe she will market a blow-up doll!
Didn’t she fuck a darkie basketball player?
Jeb Bush spoke for just 19 minutes, with a simple, direct message, basically: “We must change. Whether we call ourselves libertarians, republicans, tea-party members, or whatever, the drumbeat of being conservative and resistant to changing social values is leaving us behind.”
He got no applause during his speech, and polite applause at the end.
In fifteen short years the “minorities” will be “the majority.”
Jeb Bush spoke for just 19 minutes, with a simple, direct message, basically: “We must change. Whether we call ourselves libertarians, republicans, tea-party members, or whatever, the drumbeat of being conservative and resistant to changing social values is leaving us behind.”
He got no applause during his speech, and polite applause at the end.
In fifteen short years the “minorities” will be “the majority.”
Mostly a tea party cheerleader, not a leader or a contender
Mostly a tea party cheerleader, not a leader or a contender
MILF??? = You betcha (one of her own “sayings” – even though her legs aren’t all that great… basically shapeless with no real definition – unlike Mika Brezinski’s or Kim Bassinger’s gams – now those are some legs!!!)
Other than that, she’s bat-shit crazy. But she’s no fool (by evidence of all the dumb-assed “Tea Party” types who would eat the peanuts out of her stuff and stupidly hang on every word she says and buy the shit she hawks or shell out bucks to hear her speak – can’t blame her for doing that since most are blind suckers anyway)
But she’s bat-shit crazy just the same…
And she did get her ass bounced from Fox
Let’s take a look at the “Moma Grizzly” example Ms. Palin is so fond of using:
Get knocked up by the male who then leaves your ass and has absolutely nothing to do with rearing or taking care of the cubs (to include eating them if he gets the chance), work your ass raising & rearing said cubs off till they go off on their won, repeat process till you die………
Seems to me she should have used a better example. Maybe hawks or Canadian geese who share offspring care. KInda hard to compare yourself to a Canadian goose though….
Then again………………….
Canadian Geese: Loud,obnoxious,shit everywhere & are all around nuisance plus they show up where they they are NOT welcome but you can’t do much about it………..
Sounds like the “Morphed” Sarah Palin to me!!!
Nuff said…….
Except that REAL Canadian Geese are superb formation flyers…
Unlike the Palin clan fer sure!!!
They are Canada Geese.
MILF??? = You betcha (one of her own “sayings” – even though her legs aren’t all that great… basically shapeless with no real definition – unlike Mika Brezinski’s or Kim Bassinger’s gams – now those are some legs!!!)
Other than that, she’s bat-shit crazy. But she’s no fool (by evidence of all the dumb-assed “Tea Party” types who would eat the peanuts out of her stuff and stupidly hang on every word she says and buy the shit she hawks or shell out bucks to hear her speak – can’t blame her for doing that since most are blind suckers anyway)
But she’s bat-shit crazy just the same…
And she did get her ass bounced from Fox
Let’s take a look at the “Moma Grizzly” example Ms. Palin is so fond of using:
Get knocked up by the male who then leaves your ass and has absolutely nothing to do with rearing or taking care of the cubs (to include eating them if he gets the chance), work your ass raising & rearing said cubs off till they go off on their won, repeat process till you die………
Seems to me she should have used a better example. Maybe hawks or Canadian geese who share offspring care. KInda hard to compare yourself to a Canadian goose though….
Then again………………….
Canadian Geese: Loud,obnoxious,shit everywhere & are all around nuisance plus they show up where they they are NOT welcome but you can’t do much about it………..
Sounds like the “Morphed” Sarah Palin to me!!!
Nuff said…….
Except that REAL Canadian Geese are superb formation flyers…
Unlike the Palin clan fer sure!!!
They are Canada Geese.
That Big Gulp pales in comparison to the one she got while banging her ebony basketball player.
tsssssssss … NICE.
That Big Gulp pales in comparison to the one she got while banging her ebony basketball player.
tsssssssss … NICE.
“Step away froim the Tele-prompter and LEAD!!!!”…Sarah Palin to Barack Obama….
It don’t make no difeerence what she is…that’s for liberals and IDIOTS, like FITS, to bicker about….
What’s important: She’s RIGHT…too few w/ the Guts to Slap the P!$$ out the Sorry excuse for a president we have…
Maybe it does take a Woman….
“Step away froim the Tele-prompter and LEAD!!!!”…Sarah Palin to Barack Obama….
It don’t make no difeerence what she is…that’s for liberals and IDIOTS, like FITS, to bicker about….
What’s important: She’s RIGHT…too few w/ the Guts to Slap the P!$$ out the Sorry excuse for a president we have…
Maybe it does take a Woman….
She is nothing more than a media whore who craves attention. End of story
And Dumb@$$#$ like you and FITS Lavish it on her….
Looks like the joke’s on you…Idiot….LMAO…
She is nothing more than a media whore who craves attention. End of story
And Dumb@$$#$ like you and FITS Lavish it on her….
Looks like the joke’s on you…Idiot….LMAO…
Palin is a sideshow carnival barker,nothing more, and often much less.
Palin is a sideshow carnival barker,nothing more, and often much less.
Every time they give this woman the stage it begs the question of how can anyone take the GOP seriously anymore.
Every time they give this woman the stage it begs the question of how can anyone take the GOP seriously anymore.
Previously read somewhere that Palin received $50,000 to appear with Haley during the election. Nobody knew how Palin got paid. Could it have been the missing $50,000 the Temple said it never borrowed from the bank?
Previously read somewhere that Palin received $50,000 to appear with Haley during the election. Nobody knew how Palin got paid. Could it have been the missing $50,000 the Temple said it never borrowed from the bank?
Who woulda thunk it: When it’s all said and done…it’s the leftwing-nutjob-radicals waging a War on Women…
Another liberal lie exposed…thanks Sarah…
Who woulda thunk it: When it’s all said and done…it’s the leftwing-nutjob-radicals waging a War on Women…
Another liberal lie exposed…thanks Sarah…
Of all things she is,she is truthful!
Of all things she is,she is truthful!
People forget she was mayor of Wasilla first. If you want to see what a dump looks like, I’d start there. Then this noted free market capitalist governs a state that redistributes its natural resources wealth to its citizens via annual checks. What is that political “ism” that’s central tenet is redistributing wealth to its citizens? I suggest her backers rent “Idiocracy” as a view to their future.
Exactly, Alaska is the most Socialist state in the US, and Palin never says a word about it. Like their neighbor Russia, the government owns and sells its oil reserves and distributes the money among the citizens. No work requirements. All citizens receive a check.
People forget she was mayor of Wasilla first. If you want to see what a dump looks like, I’d start there. Then this noted free market capitalist governs a state that redistributes its natural resources wealth to its citizens via annual checks. What is that political “ism” that’s central tenet is redistributing wealth to its citizens? I suggest her backers rent “Idiocracy” as a view to their future.
Exactly, Alaska is the most Socialist state in the US, and Palin never says a word about it. Like their neighbor Russia, the government owns and sells its oil reserves and distributes the money among the citizens. No work requirements. All citizens receive a check.
This woman rose to fame when neocon Bloody Bill Kristol spotted Palin and thought she would make a wonderful replacement for GW Bush. The thought process being that if 72 year old cancer survivor John McCain won the election but died in office, we would have President Palin. With this idiot in charge starting several wars a time, all in the middle east, would not be a problem.
She is/was a puppet for the warmongers who has outlived her political shelf life. She is now left to make reality shows and visit venues where she can give a speech, get paid, and leave town.
This woman rose to fame when neocon Bloody Bill Kristol spotted Palin and thought she would make a wonderful replacement for GW Bush. The thought process being that if 72 year old cancer survivor John McCain won the election but died in office, we would have President Palin. With this idiot in charge starting several wars a time, all in the middle east, would not be a problem.
She is/was a puppet for the warmongers who has outlived her political shelf life. She is now left to make reality shows and visit venues where she can give a speech, get paid, and leave town.
Looking at that picture,I’m thinking Palin could suck a nail out of a two by four.
Gotta remember that one!
Looking at that picture,I’m thinking Palin could suck a nail out of a two by four.
Gotta remember that one!
one word describes sara palin—- JOKE
one word describes sara palin—- JOKE