KGO-TV Video: Gov. Palin's Bay Area Speech

*
Courtesy of KGO-TV in San Francisco, here is Sarah Palin's full speech as delivered Thursday to the Liberty & Freedom Foundation's Bay Area Forum in San Jose:


h/t: Conservatives 4 Palin

- JP

Sarah Palin rallies the conservative faithful in liberal bastion of San Jose

*
Sarah Palin ventured into liberal territory Thursday, rallying an estimated crowd of 1800 at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. Her message: Fire the Democrats on Capitol Hill and replace them with candidates who embrace the conservative values of lower taxes, less spending and smaller government. here is an excerpt from the story written by biased reporter Karl Kahler for the left wing Mercury News:

"Are you ready to take it back," she asked, "and put government back on the side of the little guy and have government work for you instead of you having to work for government?"

[...]

Palin parodied "Saturday Night Live" by saying, "Nov. 2 is right around the corner. I can see it from my house!"

The public forum was sponsored by the conservative Liberty & Freedom Foundation, whose executive director, Victor Cocchia, asked: "What better place to come to educate people as to the conservative message than the Bay Area, where conservatives are marginalized and not heard very often? "

Instead of hecklers, people in the crowd shouted in agreement. When one man hollered, "Throw the bums out!" Palin replied,

"Amen, brother. You betcha."

Palin attacked "Obamacare," President Barack Obama's landmark heath reform package, as "the mother of all unfunded mandates," and she assailed the 2009 stimulus bill and all the "shovel-ready projects" it was supposed to fund.

"Now we know what they were shoveling, and it wasn't asphalt," she quipped.

Palin ridiculed the leadership of Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, saying they're like "permanent residents of a unicorn ranch in Fantasy Land."

In a speech tailored to California interests, Palin also lambasted the cutoff of water to millions of state residents because of "a two-inch fish," the endangered Delta smelt.

"Where I come from," she said, "we call that bait."

There was a question and answer period after the address, and then a VIP reception was held at the Marriott Hotel. There, fans willing to donate $500 to the foundation were able to meet the first woman to be the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate and have their pictures taken with her. That was followed, reports the Mercury, by a dinner for those who contributed $350 to LFF.

Update: TheRightScoop has a short video clip from the governor's speech.

- JP

LFF to Host Gov. Palin at San Jose Forum on Oct. 14

*
The Liberty & Freedom Foundation, which brought Sarah Palin to West Texas last March and is bringing her to South Florida Wednesday, annonced today that it will also host the 2008 vice presidential candidate at an event in California's Bay Area October 14:

The Liberty & Freedom Foundation (LFF) is honored to announce that it will sponsor a San Francisco Bay Area Forum with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Thursday, October 14th, 2010 beginning at 3:00 p.m. As part of her recent appearances nationwide to discuss a broad range of topics that are important to the American people, Governor Palin will speak at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, followed by a VIP reception and dinner.


Event open to guests and the media:

WHO: Liberty & Freedom Foundation, Governor Sarah Palin
WHAT: Bay Area Forum
WHEN: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 3:00 p.m.
WHERE: San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
255 Almaden Blvd.
San Jose, CA 95113


Events open for guests:

Marriott Hotel San Jose (Reception & Dinner)
301 South Market Street
San Jose, California 95113


Governor Palin, the 2008 GOP Vice Presidential candidate, will address a variety of critical issues facing our nation today and the impact on Northern California residents.

Tickets for the event are available through LFF's website, www.liberty-freedom.org and through the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, www.sjtix.org or (408) 792-4111. For those interested in the reception, dinner and sponsorship opportunities, please contact LFF via their website or (415) 994-3524.

The Liberty & Freedom Foundation is dedicated to educating the public about conservative principles and promoting active participation in the political and public policy process. By investing in grass-roots activism and informing the American people about conservatism, the Foundation will help to ensure that our nation is led by conservative principles and ideals.

To paraphrase St. Matthew, there shall be leftist weeping and gnashing of teeth in the city by the bay...


- JP