Sarah Palin's advice to the 2012 GOP presidential candidates

From the opinion pages of Friday's edition of the Washington Post:

Given the concerns I have for some of the Republican field’s focus thus far, I must implore the candidates to do something that sounds self-promoting, but whatever. Candidates, please turn to Chapter Three of “Going Rogue” and read what it takes for our country to step toward energy independence. Note the lesson I share in the same chapter about taking on the “elite,” the crony capitalists and the permanent political establishment to get a job done.

Do you really realize what is at stake? What is at stake is our republic. The gravity of today’s situation is real. We count on you to lead our nation on the right path. Please let us know you realize this. Understand how the left’s terrifyingly naive assault on American industry exposes us to the mercy of foreign regimes whose prime objective is, at worst, our permanent demise and, at best, is stripping away our freedom. God has blessed America with ingenuity, natural resources and the strength of our workforce. Let’s use them. Tell voters that you understand this. Talk about this on the campaign trail. And quit gripin’ and moaning about “inside baseball” partisan machinations and maneuvering. We have other things to worry about. Stay strong. Focus on defending our republic and how we’ll re-industrialize our most exceptional nation in order to defeat the incumbent and win for America.

- JP

A Very Special Love

Video compiled by Mona Breed Johnson.

The Lady Who Can Make The Sun Shine

Video compiled by Mona Breed Johnson.

Pictures provided by Lynda Armstrong.

Gov. Palin is on Newt Gingrich's list

The final caller in Wednesday night's Faith & Free Coalition Tele-Town Hall asked Newt Gingrich if he would consider choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate:

"She is certainly one of the people you would look at. I am a great admirer of hers and she was a remarkable reform governor of Alaska, she’s somebody who I think brings a great deal to the possibility of helping in government and that would be one of the possibilities."

"There are also some very important Cabinet positions that she could fill very, very well. I can’t imagine anybody who would do a better job of driving us to an energy solution than Gov. Palin, for example. Tell her that she would certainly be on the list of one of the people we would consider."

Though some among the Paliniste continue to harbor an irrational hatred of the former Speaker, of all the announced GOP presidential candidates, he has been the most supportive of her. And, unlike some of the Janie-come-lately candidates, his appreciation of Gov. Palin is not a conveniently recent phenomenon, as this clip from the 2008 RNC Convention attests:


- JP

Dana Loesch on Media Matters' Clothing Hypocrisy

Big Journalism Editor-in-Chief Dana Loesch calls out Media Matters for engaging in "wardrobe hypocrisy":

Media Matters decides to throw another noodle at the wall and reverse its position on “class warfare” by defending the $2k dresses (to say nothing of the shoes and handbags) worn by the First Lady...

[...]

Not only will the media not report on this, but propaganda sites like Media Matters defend it – yet they attacked Sarah Palin for slamming the wardrobe criticism and tried to justify it by saying that the other political candidates were subjected to the same level of scrutiny, which was a lie.

[...]

Progressives on Twitter, led by a man who is so paranoid that he thought the Verizon worker at his house was James O’Keefe sent by Andrew Breitbart, are desperately trying to move the goal posts to mask their hypocritical actions in criticizing Palin over her clothing and defending Michelle Obama for hers.

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Just another day in Liberalica, a country quite different from the one most of us live in.

- JP

Ed Morrissey on the Palin radio ads for Iowa

At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey discusses the "Earthquake" ads running in Iowa to try to persuade Sarah Palin to reverse her decision no to jump into the 2012 GOP presidential race:

Iowans might feel a bit overwhelmed by the choices for next Tuesday’s Republican caucuses for the GOP presidential nomination, but one independent group has begun running radio ads insisting that there is still room for one more choice. Calling itself “Sarah Palin’s Iowa Earthquake,” the group will target specific markets in Iowa asking voters to line up behind the Republican Party’s most prominent non-candidate, and other ads will apparently follow:

Can Iowans caucus for Palin at this late date? Sure. Unlike primary states, there is no “ballot” in the legal sense at caucuses. Attendees can write in names on the list of candidates they receive at the caucuses, and those votes will count. Of course, without Palin on the ballot and not officially in the race, not too many caucus-goers may choose to vote for her. If enough are dissatisfied with the current choices, though, she might be a handy code for None of the Above — and might get some significant level of support if the ads prompt enough Iowa voters to consider this as an option.

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To learn which candidates Ed thinks these ads have the potential to hurt the most (hint: not Mitt Romney) and to view all five commercials, follow the link.

- JP

Day By Day: ‘Wishes’

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Texas Tune Up: 'O Little Town Of Bethlehem '

by Michael Martin Murphey (2010)


- JP

The Gospel according to Luke...

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while [a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register.

4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”

15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

21 On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Texans for Sarah Palin

- JP

Texas Tune Up: 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel '

by Riders in the Sky (1999)


- JP

Gov. Palin praises Conservative of the Year Paul Ryan

Sarah Palin added her own words of recognition for U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin on the occasion of the Congressman being named "Conservative of the Year" for 2011 by the editors of Human Events:

"Paul Ryan has shown needed leadership in addressing America's crucial need for entitlement reform. I was an unapologetic early supporter of the Ryan Roadmap and still hold out hope that many of his ideas won't get derailed by the Left's 'politics-as-usual' antics."

Gov. Palin was named Human Events' "Conservative of the Year" in 2008.

Texas Tune Up: 'When It's Christmas Time In Texas'

by George Strait (1986)


- JP

Merry Christmas from SarahPAC

Here is the email version of this year's Christmas card from SarahPAC:

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Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee

www.SarahPAC.com

P.O. Box 7711
Arlington, VA 22207

- JP

Texas Tune Up: 'Remember the Alamo'

by Johnny Cash (1970)


- JP

Sarah Palin: Merry Christmas!

As posted on Facebook:

Merry Christmas!

My family and I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! I offer this to all because Christmas is a holiday for all, whether you are a Christian believer or not. The message of Christmas is full of hope, peace, joy, and the fellowship of all mankind; so I find it amazing that every year we hear more accounts of a ramped up “war on Christmas.”

How sad and ironic that a handful of grinches are at war with the annual celebration of the birth of the Prince of Peace, whose coming was prophesied centuries earlier and was then gloriously heralded by the angels with a blessing for “peace on earth” and “good will toward men.” Even if one doesn’t believe the story, can’t one at least recognize the beauty of the message? Or at the very least, let everyone else enjoy the season without throwing a temper tantrum at the sight of a Nativity scene? People who feel affronted by a baby in a humble Manger display or a few Christmas carols have truly lost all sense of proportion and seem to be most in need of some holiday cheer.

At a time when our country is divided on so many things, Christmas unites us. It’s a beautiful part of our culture, and for many of us it’s a beautiful part of our Faith. In fact, for believers it’s “the main thing.” In today’s tumultuous times we can remember the bible’s record of Three Wise Men from the East who received an angelic message of Jesus’ birth. They may have been unsure of the message, so they sought truth. They trekked to Bethlehem to find out more. There, they found Jesus and they honored Him. The story of the wise men reminds us that today wise men still seek Him. So in this season especially, let’s seek truth.

Let’s celebrate with family and friends. Let’s shout a cheery “Merry Christmas” to everyone we meet. Let’s remember our brave men and women in uniform defending us far from home. And let’s all pray for a peaceful New Year.

From our home to yours, Merry Christmas.

-Sarah Palin

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 2:14)

Texas Tune Up: 'Texas Cooking'

by Guy Clark & Friends (1976)


- JP

Texas Trivia (December 21, 2011)

Posted by Martha

Image designed by Mona Breed Johnson

Texas Tune Up: 'God Blessed Texas'

by Little Texas (1993)


- JP

Texas Trivia (December 20, 2011)

Posted by Martha

Image created by Mona Breed Johnson

Gov. Palin: Obama 'terrifyingly naive' on energy security

Here's video of Sarah Palin from her "Follow the Money" appearance on Fox Business tonight:


h/t: SarahNET

- JP

Sarah Palin: Happy Hanukkah

As posted on Facebook:

Happy Hanukkah

As Jewish families gather this week to celebrate the Festival of Lights, Todd and I would like to wish them a very Happy Hanukkah. This beautiful holiday commemorates the story of the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem, following years of struggle by the Maccabees, when one-day’s worth of consecrated oil miraculously lasted for eight. This story never ceases to inspire because it reminds us of the power of faith, hope, and perseverance.

The modern State of Israel is the living embodiment of the Hanukkah miracle – a country that was not expected to survive the onslaught of its enemies, and which has not only survived but thrived as a beacon of freedom, tolerance, and innovation. In a region consumed by chaos and oppression, Israel continues to be a light of inspiration. As Jews around the world sing “Maoz Tzur,” we remember that our nation, too, was conceived in faith in our “mighty stronghold.” Let us cherish the values and warm bonds of friendship that unite us in this season.

- Sarah Palin

Texas Tune Up: ‘Yellow Rose of Texas’

by Hoyt Axton, John Hartford & friends (2007)


- JP

Gov. Palin will appear on Fox Business tonight

She's be the guest of Eric Bolling on "Follow The Money" at 9PM Texas Time:

"WOW!!!!...Dream come true?... Did Gov
Sarah Palin leave the door open for a
White House run?.... 10p et FBN...
seriously!!!"

Bolling seems to be referring to a quote from tonight's interview which was apparently leaked to TIME's Mark Halperin:

"It's not too late for folks to jump in. Who knows what will happen in the future."

Before anyone gets too excited, this is essentially the same thing she said during her weekend interview on Fox News.

- JP

Texas Trivia (December 19, 2011)

Posted by Martha

Image designed by Mona Breed Johnson

‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ may have second season after all

According to a New York Post report, producer Mark Burnett says he is in discussions with TLC to bring “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” back for a second season next fall.

“The plan would be to shoot this in the summer of 2012,” he tells The Post.

New episodes of the outdoorsy reality series — which shows the former vice-presidential candidate fishing, hunting and dog sledding with her family — would not air until after the November presidential election.

“By the time we edit it, the election will be over,” Burnett says. “But I am sure the election would be mentioned [in the show].”

“It makes perfect sense, because that is what’s going on. But it would be again Sarah in Alaska, living with Todd and the family and having adventures juxtaposed with doing her Fox News bits and discussing whatever is going on.”

Burnet denied a Hollywood Reporter story from last week to the effect that TLC and other networks had turned down a new $1 million-per-episode spin-off series featuring Todd Palin husband on the professional snowmobiling circuit. Calling that report “totally inaccurate,” Burnett explained that the snowmobiling idea was proposed as only one episode of ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ rather than a series.

- JP

Texas Trivia (December 18, 2011)

Posted by Martha

Image designed by Mona Breed Johnson

Sarah Palin: Tea Party is a movement, not a group

h/t: SarahNET

- JP

Gov. Palin on Fox News at Noon Sunday

From Fox News Insider:
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Tune in to America’s News Headquarters today at 1p ET for Shannon Bream’s interview with Governor Sarah Palin. Where does she think the GOP candidates stand as the Iowa Caucuses fast approach?

That's 12 Noon Texas Time.

- JP

Sarah's Wit and Wisdom (December 17, 2011)

Posted by Martha

Image created by Mona Breed Johnson

Why not Rick Santorum?

The 2011 GOP debates have concluded. We've seen candidates rise and candidates fall. We've seen the Washington media and GOP establishment gnashing their teeth trying to define "the" conservative candidate for the Tea Party.

Sarah Palin supporters have seemingly fallen into two camps: those who have let go and are examining or supporting other candidates and those who refuse to let go and instead hang onto the notion that the Governor can be convinced to rejoin the field.

The one common denominator amongst all is the palpable fear of an Obama re-election and what that re-election would mean. Republican elites fear an erosion of their power in the halls of government from a partisan point of view. Tea Party and Sarah Palin supporters fear the erosion of individual liberties through the continued growth of government. For me, I stand firm with the later.

Something happened in the very recent past that gave me a bit more clarity. It happened on December 1st while I was watching Governor Sarah Palin's appearance on the Hannity Show (skip ahead to the 9:00 mark). Governor Palin drew my attention back to Senator Rick Santorum when she talked about "ideological consistency".

That got me thinking: Why NOT Rick Santorum? I have to admit that I hadn't paid a lot of attention to him in recent months due to all the media attention on the "flavor of the week". To reacquaint myself with Senator Santorum, I went back to a conversation he had with the San Fernando Valley Republican Club prior to the GOP debate at the Reagan Library back in May.

I'm going to be playing clips of that conversation tomorrow on the Roderic Deane Show. I encourage you to listen in at Noon ET. With that conversation in mind, take another look at his performance during the last few GOP debates.

Cross-posted from RodericDeane.com

Texas Trivia (December 17, 2011)

Posted by Martha

Image designed by Mona Breed Johnson

Texas Tune Up: 'What I Like About Texas'

by Gary P. Nunn (1996)


h/t: Into The Morning

- JP

Texas Trivia (December 16, 2011)

Posted by Martha

Image designed by Mona Breed Johnson

Say Yes to the Sled

Via TVGuide.com:

With her presidential ambitions behind her — at least for the 2012 race — Sarah Palin is pitching a new reality series that would focus on her husband, Todd Palin, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The project would specifically center on Todd Palin's career as a championship snowmobile racer... Sarah Palin, 47, is pitching the project with Mark Burnett, who also produced her TLC reality series Sarah Palin's Alaska, which aired last year

Discovery Communications, parent company of The Discovery Channel, TLC, and A&E Networks, have passed on the project, so producers are shopping it to other channels.

- JP

Texas Trivia (December 15, 2011)

Posted by Martha

Image created by Mona Breed Johnson.

Don Surber: Curse you, Sarah Palin, for killing the death panels

Don Surber at the Charleston Daily Mail finds some fallout still in the air from Gov. Palin's warning about death panel back in 2009. He recalls how her remark cause heads in the liberal media to explode, including some at the sham site Politifact, which disingenuously branded it Lie Of The Year:

Calling it a lie was problematic since Obamacare had yet to pass and no one would know what was in the bill until the president signed it into law in March 2010. Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi even said we have to pass the bill in order to see what is in it. Yet 8 months before its passage, the Mensas on the left knew what was in it.

But what was wrong with Sarah Palin’s statement was not that it was false but that it was true, and the truth is poison to liberals.

[...]

I want to thank Eric Kleefield who in his eagerness to demonize Sarah Palin helped bring the planned death panels to the public’s attention.

So there are death panels and they are designed to kill people in order to save money because Obamacare — like the NHS — is about saving money, not lives. Socialists want to making life optional. This is why they support abortion on demand and why they death panels.

Ezra Klein is not the first to complain that we spend “so much” on grandma before she dies. I heard the same arguments 20 years ago when liberals were preparing us for Hillarycare. The argument is simple: We spend too much on medical care knowing we are going to die eventually anyway.

Sarah Palin instead killed the death panels. Well played

[fallout]

- JP

Judge: No plea bargain for the Christys

Remember Sean Christy, the Pennsylvania lad who had a restraining order slapped on him for stalking Sarah Palin? Christy and his father, who now stand accused of harassing Sarah Palin's Alaska lawyers by phone, are not going to be able to get a plea deal, a federal court judge ruled Wednesday:

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Burgess rejected a plea deal for Shawn Christy, 20, and his father, Craig Christy, 48, and instead ordered the men to stand trial in early January. The plea agreement would have let the two avoid prison time and six-figure fines.

Burgess said the plea agreements prosecutors had reached with the Christys were not acceptable to him. The judge cited what he described as a disturbing pattern of threats.

"They seem undeterred in their conduct," Burgess said.

The Christys were arrested in Pennsylvania in August and are in custody in Anchorage. Prosecutors said the men were upset about state restraining orders issued on behalf of the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, along with Palin family members and friends.

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Thankfully, the state restraining orders against the Christys have been extended another six months. These creeps are two seriously messed up walking time bombs.

- JP

Quote of the Day (December 12, 2011)

PolitiJim, at Rants for Reasonable People:

“Why ANY Palin supporter would still be against Newt after witnessing this is beyond me.”

- JP

Gov. Palin: Congress, it's time to stop lining your pockets

"Congress and the White House need to earn the American people's trust again."
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Here's an excerpt from an op-ed written by Sarah Palin and published online Monday by USAToday.com:

Thanks to the solid new research and recent revelations in Peter Schweizer's book Throw Them All Out and the subsequent coverage on 60 Minutes, we have concrete proof to explain how members of Congress accumulate wealth at a rate astonishingly faster than the rest of Americans and have stock portfolios that outperform even the best hedge-fund managers'. (Full disclosure: Schweizer is employed by my political action committee as a foreign policy adviser.)

From sweetheart land deals to initial public offering (IPO) stock gifts to insider trading with non-public government information, the methods of unethical wealth accumulation for our permanent political class are endless. The reaction from the Beltway establishment to the revelations concerning insider trading among members of Congress was predictable. First they denied it, then they dismissed the problem as much ado about nothing. Some said there was no need for new laws or action because the Securities and Exchange Commission could prosecute members of Congress under existing laws against insider trading.

But under current law, there is no way the SEC will ever go after a powerful congressman or senator. The SEC never has, even though insider trading prohibitions have existed since the 1930s. Here's why: Congress sets the SEC's budget, and senators approve the head of the SEC. Congress uses its power of the purse strings to threaten federal agencies that get in their way.

For example, in 2006 the FBI got a search warrant from a federal judge to comb former congressman William Jefferson's office. The FBI already had evidence that Jefferson was taking bribes. Congress was furious that the FBI would dare search a fellow member's office. Members claimed the search was unconstitutional. They even threatened to cut the Justice Department's budget in retaliation. All this despite the fact that 86% of Americans supported the FBI raid.

A hands-off SEC

Does anyone really think the SEC under current law will have the courage to investigate the insider trading in Congress? Remember that this corruption (and failure to deal with it) encompasses both sides of the aisle. We fool ourselves thinking we can trust an agency dependent on Congress for its budget to investigate Congress.

I hate the idea of more laws, but because our politicians have shown a failure of ethical leadership, we must reassert the rule of law through strong new legislation that holds Congress accountable and prevents retaliation against whistle-blowers and regulatory agencies investigating corruption.

[More]

Read Gov. Palin's full opinion piece here. It will appear in USA Today's print edition Tuesday.

- JP

Quote of the Day (December 11, 2011)

P.J. Salvatore, at Big Journalism:

“Foreign documentary filmmaker with an axe to grind shocked that Palin doesn’t want to interview with him.”

- JP

Quote of the Day (December 10, 2011)

Adrienne Ross, at Motivation Truth:

“I will vet these candidates, research records, watch debates, pray, and wait. I will also continue to be grateful that Governor Palin is not going away. Rather, she continues to use the platform she's been given to fight for what's right for this country, even without a title.”

- JP

Quote of the Day (December 9, 2011)

Palin praises Gingrich, but won't make endorsement yet.
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Michael A. Memoli , at McClatchy-Tribune News Service:

“Sarah Palin says she won't make an endorsement in the GOP race just yet. But it sounds like there's one candidate who could earn her support...”

- JP

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- JP

Quote of the Day (December 8, 2011)

“Some of these candidates … are playing right into the left’s playbook”.
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William A. Jacobson, at Legal Insurrection:

“Some good advice which is being completely ignored already...”

- JP

Moving Forward!

Hi Everyone!

First, I'd like to thank Josh Painter for allowing me to be part of this GREAT team! As many of you know, I'm the founder of Palin Promotions and a co-coordinator for Organize For Palin (O4P) Texas.

Palin Promotions will have a brand new website soon, so you will see much of our material on here in the near future.

Also, you will be hearing about O4P/Texas events as we gear up for the upcoming elections, so....stay tuned!

Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome and may each and everyone of you have a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!

Sincerely,
Martha

Fast, Furious and Relentless

Hello everyone! I'm very happy to be a part of Texans for Sarah Palin. Josh was kind enough to reach out to me to assist with keeping this site rolling and relevant. I'm committed to doing that.

Although I don't anticipate a lot of changes, I do have some ideas that I'll be rolling out in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, please take some time to read Governor Palin's post regarding the unfolding Fast and Furious scandal in Washington. Although we've been told in the past that this effort was designed to provide a means to further restrict our 2nd amendment rights, we now have a certain amount of proof, which the Governor pointed out.

If I can borrow a few phrases and twist them to my own purposes, reform in Washington needs to be fast, furious and relentless!

My colleagues and I are hard at work preparing the stage for the next Grizzly Fest. That has been my primary focus of late, in addition to my BlogTalkRadio Show. As more clarity becomes apparent on the details on the next Grizzly Fest, y'all will be the first to know.

Suffice it to say that the upcoming Grizzly Fest will feature a bigger and better platform that we hope will bring you the unique experience that you all deserve. As we head into the meat of next years elections, we hope to bring you cutting-edge stuff inspired by Governor Palin that will help prepare you to make an impact on those elections.

Stay tuned!

- Roderic Deane

Day By Day (December 8, 2011)

Net Returns
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Quote of the Day (December 7, 2011)

Get Sarah Palin-Signed Copy of ‘The Undefeated’ for Christmas
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Jasmine Velasco, at Conservatives 4 Palin:

“SarahPAC is offering the opportunity to get a signed copy of Stephen Bannon’s ‘The Undefeated’ DVD for Christmas gifts. For a donation of $100 or more before December 18, they will mail the signed DVD in time for Christmas.”

- JP

Gov. Palin: Congress' crony corruption is 'appalling'

"I can't imagine that they're able to sleep at night very well."
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Gov. Palin was Eric Bolling's guest on "Follow the Money" Wednesday night:


h/t: SarahNET

- JP

Sarah Palin: 'Barack Obama is a phony'

"Now we know what that hope and change represented, and it was socialist policies, and they're not working."
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h/t: SarahNET

- JP

Please welcome Martha Cano to TX4P

Texans for Sarah Palin is now a triumvirate. Just as I was pleased to announce that Roderic Deane had joined the staff yesterday, today it is my pleasure to to announce that Martha Cano is now on board. Martha, as many of you may know, is the founder of Palin Promotions and Organize4Palin's Texas Coordinator. Like RD, she's no stranger to Blog Talk Radio, having been both a guest and a co-host.

With RD and Martha signing on, I believe Texans for Sarah Palin has a bright future. Please make Martha feel welcome.

- JP

Gov. Palin: ‘Smoking Gun’ in Fast & Furious?

As posted on Facebook:
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‘Smoking Gun’ in Fast & Furious?

For anyone following the Obama administration's scandalous cluster-of-an-operation Fast & Furious, which resulted in the deaths of innocent people, please see the article excerpted below. (And in my humble opinion, I do believe the anti-2nd Amendment characters working in the Obama administration purposefully used their Fast & Furious gun walking operation to propose more gun control regulations.)

Scour this article and let me know if you too think this might be a “smoking gun” in the Fast & Furious case.

ATF officials didn't intend to publicly disclose their own role in letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation called "Demand Letter 3". That would require some U.S. gun shops to report the sale of multiple rifles or "long guns." Demand Letter 3 was so named because it would be the third ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information.

On July 14, 2010 after ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. received an update on Fast and Furious, ATF Field Ops Assistant Director Mark Chait emailed Bill Newell, ATF's Phoenix Special Agent in Charge of Fast and Furious:

"Bill - can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same (licensed gun dealer) and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales. Thanks."

On Jan. 4, 2011, as ATF prepared a press conference to announce arrests in Fast and Furious, Newell saw it as "(A)nother time to address Multiple Sale on Long Guns issue." And a day after the press conference, Chait emailed Newell: "Bill--well done yesterday... (I)n light of our request for Demand letter 3, this case could be a strong supporting factor if we can determine how many multiple sales of long guns occurred during the course of this case."

This revelation angers gun rights advocates. Larry Keane, a spokesman for National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry trade group, calls the discussion of Fast and Furious to argue for Demand Letter 3 "disappointing and ironic." Keane says it's "deeply troubling" if sales made by gun dealers "voluntarily cooperating with ATF's flawed 'Operation Fast & Furious' were going to be used by some individuals within ATF to justify imposing a multiple sales reporting requirement for rifles."

The Gun Dealers' Quandary

Several gun dealers who cooperated with ATF told CBS News and Congressional investigators they only went through with suspicious sales because ATF asked them to.

Sometimes it was against the gun dealer's own best judgment.

Sarah Palin on 'Follow the Money' tonight (Updated)

9PM Central Time

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Gov. Palin will make an appearance on Fox Business Wednesday night. Via Twitter:

I'll be on Eric Bolling's "Follow the
Money" show today at 10pm EST
(6pm AK time).

Update: from Katrina Trinko at NRO's The Corner:

Sarah Palin told Fox Business Network today that she will not be endorsing a candidate in the next few weeks.

“Not before Iowa,” Palin said, in an interview set to air at 10 p.m. EST on FBN.

[...]

She said she was “most interested” in seeing in who Ron Paul, if he does not win the nomination, endorses, citing his strong record on “domestic spending issues.”

- JP

Day By Day (December 7, 2011)

In Your Face Politics
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Quote of the Day (December 6, 2011)

Double Standard: Madonna to Perform at the Superbowl
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Katie Pavlich , at Townhall.com:

“Remember when Hank Williams Jr. was yanked from Monday Night Football for indirectly comparing President Obama to Hitler during a Fox and Friends appearance? Apparently Madonna's vile words toward Sarah Palin weren't enough for the NFL to revoke her invitation to perform at the Superbowl in January.”

- JP

Please welcome Roderic Deane to TX4P

I'm pleased to announce that this blog has a new author and co-owner, Roderic Deane. He's a Texan and has been a fierce Palin supporter as long as I've known him. RD is host of the Roderic Deane Show on Blog Talk Radio, and his personal blog is simply named Roderic Deane.

Thanks to RD for taking on the extra responsibilities. Please welcome him to our little corner of the Web. I'm looking forward to his contribution to Texas for Sarah Palin.

- JP

Day By Day (December 6, 2011)

Proud
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Quote of the Day (December 5, 2011)

Moonbats Still Blame Sarah Palin for Gabby Giffords Shooting
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Dave Blount, at Moonbattery:

“Not even Loughner himself is sufficiently psychotic to see a connection between his shooting spree and Sarah Palin.”

- JP

Rewind: Jealousy

Let's take a stroll down Memory Lane and watch John Thune act like a 13-year old girl:


h/t: Timothy Donovan

- JP

Day By Day (December 5, 2011)

Render Unto Caesar
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Quote of the Day (December 4, 2011)

Frédéric Bastiat’s Nation of Plunderers
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Mark America:

“Many will have noted that when Governor Palin began making use of the term ‘crony capitalism,’ others began to notice the issue.”

- JP

Day By Day (December 4, 2011)

Standup Guy
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Quote of the Day (December 3, 2011)

Sound Bite For The Day
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Dana Loesch, at Big Journalism:

“It is a shame that the media won’t crowdsource White House visitor logs but will for Sarah Palin’s emails and GOP candidates’ private lives.”

- JP

Day By Day (December 2, 2011)

Weaning
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Quote of the Day (December 2, 2011)

Meghan McCain Is Still Talking About Sarah Palin
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P.J. Salvatore, at Big Journalism:

“Oh my.”

- JP

Gov. Palin on Hannity's radio program Friday

Courtesy of SarahNet.net, here's audio of Sarah Palin's segment on Sean Hannity's radio show Friday:


h/t: Ron Devito

Day By Day (December 2, 2011)

Child's Play
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Quote of the Day (December 1, 2011)

Tebow, Palin, and the Pain of Remorse
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Jeannie DeAngelis, at American Thinker:

“Much like Sarah and Trig Palin, Pam and Tim Tebow both pose a problematic contradiction to one of the strongest arguments abortion advocates use when arguing to justify disposing of the unborn.”

- JP

Sarah Palin: 'I know what Herman Cain is going through'

"In this day and age of media bias, he is guilty until proven innocent."
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Asked by Sean Hannity tonight if there's any part of her "that wishes she did get in" the 2012 GOP presidential race, Gov. Palin said no:


h/t: SarahNet

- JP

Day By Day (December 1, 2011)

The Police
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