Sunday, February 07, 2010

Sarah's 'common sense' at Tea party convention; Special open thread


It's all about Sarah...

Sarah: 'Divine intervention' for America and no rights for terrorists:
Former governor Sarah Palin made "a call to action" to thousands of tea partiers during the group's first convention in Nashville on Saturday night.
As the keynote speaker, Palin called the Tea Party movement "the best of America" and "the future of politics."

"Opponents of this message, they are seeking to marginalize the movement. They want to paint us as ideologically extreme," Palin said. "But unlike the elitists who don't want to hear this message...I've travelled across this great country and I've talked to the patriotic men and women who make up the Tea Party movement and they're good and kind and selfless and they are deeply concerned about our country...the best of America can be found in places where patriots are brave enough and free enough to be able to stand up and speak up and where small businesses grow our economy one job at a time."

Palin also wasted no time in attacking President Obama, referring to him as "that charismatic guy with a teleprompter."

The Obama administration's handling of the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day was evidence that it cannot handle the war on terrorism, Palin said.

She went on to say that treating the bomber, Umar Abdulmutallab, as a criminal defendant and not an enemy combatant was a mistake. Questioning the suspect for 50 minutes and then reading him his Miranda rights is not the way to treat an alleged terrorist, she said.

Palin said President Obama doesn't understand that terrorists don't deserve the constitutional rights that U.S. soldiers are willing to die for.

"We need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern," Palin said.


And this:


Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand?
Saturday night, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin spoke to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, TN, an event that was ditched by other high-profile Republicans who disliked its for-profit model. After her speech, organizer Judson Phillips asked Palin several questions. One of them was about what needs to be done when there is a “conservative House and a conservative Senate.” Palin jumped right in and said, “We’ve got to rein in the spending, obviously.” However, she then seemed to forget her next talking point and glanced down at her left hand, as if there were notes she had scribbled down. She went on to talk about “energy projects.”


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The tea party goers are looking like a bunch of kooks, they are dressed in the era of the original tea pary, talking with fake Brit accents. They need to give it up.

Anonymous said...

The tea party goers are looking like a bunch of kooks, they are dressed in the era of the original tea pary, talking with fake Brit accents. They need to give it up.