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She’s Back!
Friday April 15th- Sarah Palin (R-AK) reclaimed her perch on top of the conservative movement as she began what can only be deemed as her reintroduction to the Lower 48. After her long break from the public eye after the tragic shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Palin came storming back without missing a beat. Speaking in Madison Wisconsin at a Tax Day Tea Party Rally, former Governor Sarah Palin called out the G.O.P., bashed the mainstream media, and trounced President Obama in a fiery speech reminiscent of her Republican Convention Speech from 2008.
The Smackdown
The content of her speech primarily focused on the budget issue. It is here that she lampooned Democrats and Republicans alike, and with good reason. The ‘Mama Grizzly’ cleverly pointed out that while the 2010 Republicans campaigned on reducing the budget by $100 billion, but then once elected settled for $61 billion, but then made a deal to cut only $38 billion from the federal budget. Perhaps even more upsetting is the fact that most of these ‘cuts’ are not budgetary reductions at all, instead they are a mere accounting slight of hand. In all actuality there are less than $1 billion of actual cuts, which as Palin said: “That is not courage, that is capitulation.” Ouch.
Next she turned her sights on the President and in the kind of blistering attack that has become the trademark of the ‘Mama Grizzly,’ she thoroughly dispensed of his tactics and policies. She pointed to the historic Republican electoral 2010 landslide as evidence that Obama is blatantly ignoring the American mandate. To support her argument Palin stated:
“But what was the President’s, what was his reaction to this mandate for fiscal sanity? Less than ninety days after the election, in his State of the Union Address, President Obama told us ‘nahh’ the era of big government is here to stay and we are going to pay for it whether we want to our not.”
The former Alaskan Governor then goes on to list two issues in particular that she finds to be ‘hairbrained’ examples of big government over spending on things the public does not need. She cites solar shingles and ‘really fast trains’ (a.k.a. bullet trains) as two primary exmaples that she says any “venture capitalist will tell you are non starters. Coming from the woman who auctioned off her gubernatorial jet on Ebay and ended the massive pork barrel project that came to be known as the ‘Bridge to Nowhere,’ the force behind it is all the more realistic; this is the stuff her record is made of. But Sarah Palin perhaps never said it better than when she rebuked Obama by saying: “We the people, we rose up and we decisively rejected the Left’s big government agenda. We don’t want it, we can’t afford it, and we are unwilling to pay for it.”
These moments, where Sarah Palin stand tall and draws the line in the dirt, these are when it becomes blatantly obvious that she truly is the perfect FOIL of President Obama. Most campaign operatives agree, to beat an opponent in an election, one must locate the antithesis of the person you want to oust. Sarah Palin is the only one with a nationally constructed platform that currently spans every media from social networking to cable television. President Obama won as handily as he did in 2008 because Republicans had yet to capitalize on the era of the social network. But Palin not only embraced this new tool but has wholeheartedly understands its capabilities and uses it to its fullest potential. Not many people can dominate a news cycle for weeks at a time by issuing a one hundred and forty character tweet, but Sarah Palin does it without batting and eye lash. Even more telling, is that when the top twelve Republican Presidential contender’s Facebook and Twitter followers are added up, Sarah Palin’s pages alone account for over forty-two percent of the entire online following. My message her is simple, buck up G.O.P., take advantage of the platform this women already has. It is a mighty tool she has at her dispense that actually makes her ‘limp and impotent’ comment from a few months back all the more telling. Sarah Palin is a political phenomenon unto herself and it would be best to rally behind rather than get in her way.
However, nothing in the fifteen-and-a-half minute speech was more fun nor more interesting than her closing remarks. As Governor Palin closed her speech she stood up straight, cocked a half-smile, stared straight into the camera and said:
“We will fight for America and it starts her in Madison, Wisconsin. It starts here, it starts now; what better place than the state that hosts the Superbowl Champs, to call out the Liberal Left and let them know, Mr. President – Game On!”
I bet Obama shivered when he heard that, and if he didn’t, he is woefully ignorant because that sounded like a challenge to me, a challenge that most likely will be settled on November 6th, 2012.
Later,
Cody
p.s. If you would like to watch this speech in its entirety, which I would highly recommend, here is the link: http://bit.ly/gTOZ11
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