Sarah Palin: ‘They’re trying to crucify this man and rewrite history’

How's That Hope-y, Change-y Thing Working Out?

This ad, by Minnesota Majority, answers Gov. Palin's question:
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h/t: John Hinderaker

- JP

Sarah Palin: Now He’s Blaming Europe

As posted on Facebook
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Now He’s Blaming Europe

On Monday, during a fundraiser in California, President Obama declared that Europe’s debt problems and their inability to solve them was “scaring the world.” He went on to explain that Europeans “have not fully healed from the crisis back in 2007 and never fully dealt with the challenges that their banking system faced” and that “they’re trying to take responsible actions, but those actions haven’t been quite as quick as they need to be.”

This of course is coming from a President who has done nothing to deal with our own country’s enormous debt crisis and who is in fact eager to incur even more debt with another useless stimulus bill (now called a “jobs bill” though the last stimulus failed to produce the jobs it promised, which is perhaps why Harry Reid doesn’t seem too eager to bring this new bill to a vote despite the President’s demands to “pass this bill”). Yes, Europe has serious debt problems, but for President Obama to be lecturing our allies about not being “quite as quick” in dealing with a debt crisis is downright hypocritical.

When his all-too-common finger-pointing is directed at Republicans, President Obama’s search for a scapegoat is swallowed as merely the typical Beltway politics of our permanent political class. But pointing fingers at our allies when they are working to get their own financial house in order is counterproductive and can have a serious negative affect on our ability to lead the free world.

One German newspaper denounced the President’s comments as “overbearing, arrogant, and absurd.” Another wrote: “The gloomy state of the economy is putting a damper on Obama’s future prospects. The optimism of the past is gone, replaced by a cheap search for a scapegoat.” And still another wrote: “That’s not how friends talk to each other. That applies particularly to friends who have themselves failed to get a handle on their own, self-made crisis.”

Can we blame them for feeling this way? Keep in mind this was a President who was supposed to make the rest of the world “like” us again.

It’s about time the President showed some leadership and took responsibility rather than campaigning on blaming everyone else for the financial mess his policies have exacerbated.

Between President Obama’s hypocritical lecture poking our allies in the eye again and one Democrat governor’s call to postpone lawfully mandated elections for two years, I suppose nothing should surprise concerned Americans anymore. But that doesn’t mean we have to accept these misguided memes. 2012 can’t come soon enough.

- Sarah Palin

- JP

Gov. Palin reveals a big clue about her Sept. 3 speech

A tantalizing Thursday tweet from Sarah Palin:
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I'll be talking about this and more on September 3rd. http://fb.me/129u9eYLN

Which followed this tweet:

America is waiting for the President to make good on this promise. http://fb.me/uSeI9Fkh

Expect that TEA Party speech of Gov. Palin's to be quite the barn burner.

- JP

Gov. Palin: 'Still contemplating whether I should jump in there or not'

"They just keep messin' it up, Greta"
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Sarah Palin joined Greta Van Susteren Thursday night to discuss Obama's vacation at a time when the markets are tanking, unemployment is on the rise and consumer confidence is in the basement:


- JP

Sarah Palin: Obama is 'very, very tone deaf'

"I fear that he's going to keep his head in the sand."
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Gov. Palin appeared on "America Live" with Megyn Kelly Thursday:


h/t: SarahNet

- JP

Gov. Palin: 'Pres Obama, you're losing our future'

A free market economy cannot support a socialist welfare state
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Sarah Palin tweeted today:

Pres Obama: you're losing our future. No
more pretending "with ever more manic
protestations" that this could continue
http://tgr.ph/qsHQqE

The article she linked to in her tweet is the same Janet Daley op-ed we linked to this morning as a related item in this post.

- JP

Gov. Palin to President Obama: Woman Up and Lead!

"How about a balanced budget amendment?"
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Barack Obama today urged people to tweet GOP Congressmen and tell them to "compromise." Sarah Palin figured the president could use some tweets himself, and got busy with her Blackberry, chiding him for his scaremongering:

@BarackObama you're wrong, threatening to throw seniors under the bus because you refuse to prioritize govt spending.Time to #womanup & lead

Just minutes earlier, Gov. Palin had tweeted that if the president really wants a balanced deficit solution, he should drop his opposition to a balanced budget amendment:

@BarackObama wants us to support a "balanced deficit solution." Great idea! How about a balanced budget amendment?

@BarackObama wants us to contact Congress. Great idea! Tell them to rein in our dangerously unsustainable debt to protect our credit rating.

- JP

Quote of the Day (July 22, 2011)

The Lame Duck President Versus Sarah Palin
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John Scotus, at The Tree of Mamre:

“I will take the housewife over the Harvard grad any day.”

- JP

Sarah Palin: Lame Duck President

“2012 can’t come soon enough.”
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Published just minutes ago by Governor Palin on her Facebook Notes page:

Lame Duck President

After listening to the President’s press conference today, let’s keep in mind the following:

This is the same president who proposed an absurdly irresponsible budget that would increase our debt by trillions of dollars, and whose party failed to even put forward a budget in over 800 days! This is the same president who is pushing our country to the brink because of his reckless spending on things like the nearly trillion dollar “stimulus” boondoggle. This is the same president who ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations and demonized the voices of fiscal sanity who proposed responsible plans to reform our entitlement programs and rein in our dangerous debt trajectory. This is the same president who wanted to push through an increase in the debt ceiling that didn’t include any cuts in government spending! This is the same president who wants to slam Americans with tax hikes to cover his reckless spending, but has threatened to veto a bill proposing a balanced budget amendment. This is the same president who hasn’t put forward a responsible plan himself, but has rejected reasonable proposals that would tackle our debt. This is the same president who still refuses to understand that the American electorate rejected his big government agenda last November. As I said in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Tax Day Tea Party rally, “We don’t want it. We can’t afford it. And we are unwilling to pay for it.”

Now the President is outraged because the GOP House leadership called his bluff and ended discussions with him because they deemed him an obstruction to any real solution to the debt crisis.

He has been deemed a lame duck president. And he is angry now because he is being treated as such.

His foreign policy strategy has been described as “leading from behind.” Well, that’s his domestic policy strategy as well. Why should he be surprised that he’s been left behind in the negotiations when he’s been leading from behind on this debt crisis?

Thank you, GOP House leaders. Please don’t get wobbly on us now.

2012 can’t come soon enough.

- Sarah Palin

Quote of the Day (July 14, 2011)

Sarah Palin Is Right!
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Stacy McCain, at The Other McCain:

“Say what you will about Sarah Palin, love her or hate her, she has put the hammer on the nail of the essential problem with Obama’s presidency...”

- JP

Walter Williams: Irksome Things

"All the evidence that I see is that academics and intellectuals have messed up the world."
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There are a great many things, both large and small, that irk Walter E. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He discusses a few of them in his syndicated newspaper column:

One of them is our tendency to evaluate a presidential candidate based on his intelligence or academic credentials. When Obama threw his hat in the ring, people thought he was articulate and smart and hailed his intellectual credentials. Just recently, when Newt Gingrich announced his candidacy, people hailed his intellectual credentials and smartness as well.

By contrast, the intellectual elite and mainstream media people see Sarah Palin as stupid, a loose cannon and not to be trusted with our nuclear arsenal. There was another presidential candidate who was also held to be stupid and not to be trusted with our nuclear arsenal who ultimately became president — Ronald Reagan. I don't put much stock into whether a political leader is smart or not because, as George Orwell explained, "Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them."

All the evidence that I see is that academics and intellectuals have messed up the world. I challenge anyone to show me a major calamity that was engineered by a stupid, inarticulate person, but those caused by intelligent, articulate persons are too numerous to count, from the likes of Hitler, Stalin and Mao to Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Obama.

My vision of a good presidential candidate is a person with ordinary intelligence but great respect and love for our Constitution. Maybe Palin's and Reagan's respect and love for our Constitution qualified them as dumb in the eyes of the mainstream media, intellectuals and academics.

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We can emphasize with Professor Williams. We have our pet peeves as well. Chief among them are those newspaper editors who endorsed Barack Obama for president and now complain that the man they declined to properly vet "stinks up the joint," without admitting how wrong they were to endorse him in the first place. We find it even more irksome when they have bashed Sarah Palin for more than three years and now complain about her taking her time deciding whether to jump into the race for the GOP presidential nomination.

- JP

AWR Hawkins: Think Big, Re-Elect President Palin, 2016

The author sees the way everyday Americans listen when Sarah Palin talks, and how she relates to them
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Military historian and Ph.D. (Texas Tech) AWR Hawkins surveys the political landscape and figures that things don’t look very encouraging for President Obama. Yes, it's the economy, as high unemployment and fuel prices are two things Americans just can't "get used to”, as Obama has decreed we must. As we cut our budgets and do without, the slacker in chief hasn't even tried to feel our pain, as Bill Clinton did, or at least said he did. Ten vacations a year via Air Force one and 70-plus rounds of golf are just two of the signs of his arrogance.

Amazingly, the first lady seems to have forgotten about all those vacations and doesn't seem to know that hubby is sneaking off to the golf course, because she recently said, “This man doesn’t take a day off.” She must not watch the news or read the papers. As for the president, he recently said that he, Michelle and the girls could live with it if he becomes one term president. Hawkins is also okay with that idea:

My point is not simply that Obama is out of touch and beatable, but that he is way out of touch and extremely beatable. Not, of course, by some moderate Republican, but by a conservative Republican: and particularly by Sarah Palin.

Although her bus tour is over, the media still can’t let her go. Now they’re all busy letting us know how her bus tour didn’t help her numbers at all or trying to somehow persuade us that John Ziegler’s opinion matters. I’m sorry, but I see the way people listen when Palin talks, the way they react when she shakes hands with them, and the genuine love for country she displayed in her 24,000 emails the mainstream media thought they could use to bring her down.

In case you missed it, one thing the mainstream media did learn from Palin’s emails was that she agreed to have a baby shower thrown in her son Trig’s honor, with the caveat that all the gifts would be donated to military families. So on August 15, 2008, while Obama was counting up the number of golf courses he could visit if elected president, Palin was in Juneau, Alaska, holding her little boy in her arms and saying “thank you” for gifts that were sent to “the military families of wounded service members deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom.” (I hope Chris Matthews and that Keith guy who used to have a show on MSNBC are reading this.)

In subsequent news, Rasmussen recently released poll results that show “a plurality of Republican primary voters think it would be…bad for the party if…Sarah Palin joined the field.” And I couldn’t agree more if, by “Republicans,” Rasmussen means those folks who gave us presidential candidates Bob Doyle and John McCain, and who probably would have been dumb enough to give us presidential candidate Mike Huckabee if he hadn’t bowed out earlier this year.

Palin is very bad for the Republican establishment. And that’s why the same Rasmussen poll which showed that a plurality of Republicans view her entry into the race as a bad thing also showed that a plurality of Tea Partiers view it as a good thing. And that’s definitely the best thing.

If you don’t believe me, just reflect on the 2010 midterm elections, where 30 of the 43 House candidates endorsed by Palin won and 7 of the 12 Senate candidates endorsed by Palin won. These victories represented both a humiliating defeat of Obama’s party and his policies, as well as a wake-up call to “a plurality” of moderate Republicans who thought the way to win was by moving to the center.

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Hawkins, who sees Obama for what he is and Gov. Palin for what she is, concludes that there's nothing to fear. Declaring that it’s time to "think big," the author is calling for the re-election of President Palin in 2016.

- JP

The ultimate 'Sarah Palin is a moron' video

Must-see TV:
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h/t: iOwnTheWorld.com

- JP

Mark Whittington: Sarah Palin's Path to Victory in 2012

"Voters will have to decide whether they want four more years of the same"
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Mark Whittington sees a possible path to the presidency for Ssrah Palin. It starts in the GOP primaries, where the Yahoo! contributor says Gov. Palin has an excellent chance of winning the Republican nomination. she would have to position herself as "the anti-Romney candidate," which should be easy, and then she would have to knock him out, a much more difficult task, considering Romney's bags of money, established organization, and a huge cheerleading section filled with most members of the GOP establishment:

But, the conventional wisdom replies, winning the Republican nomination is worthless if one cannot beat Obama in the general election. That premise, though, is based on polls taken before the campaign even begins in earnest.

The scenario Palin is doubtless looking at is her presumed ability to get people to take a second look at her by performing well against mostly men the conventional wisdom finds more acceptable. The very act of beating Romney, Pawlenty, et al will make her stronger and thus more acceptable to the electorate.

Fast forward to August 2012, as Palin, the nominee, gives a barn burning speech to a delirious crowd at the Republican National Convention. Most forecasters predict a sluggish economy at best over a year hence. That
factor will be to the detriment of President Obama. Voters will have to decide whether they want four more years of the same or take a chance on someone new, albeit someone they have been told is a ditz.

Palin would count on delivering the knockout blow during the debates. Because of the unrelenting smear campaign against her, she will enter the debates with Obama with the lowest expectations in history. But her performance against Joe Biden in 2008 demonstrates that she can more than hold her own. If Palin goes toe to toe with Obama successfully, especially if she has a "there you go again moment," her path to victory will be open and clear.

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From your keyboard, Mark, to the providence of the Almighty.

- JP

Sarah Palin: Another 'WTF' Obama Foreign Policy Moment

Giving Away the Farm
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Obama foolishly believes that the U.S. can buy cooperation, if not friendship, from other nations by "giving away the farm." When what he wants to give away is our missile defense, it is no longer a laughing matter, but a deadly serious issue. Governor Palin's commentary on this question was posted early Thursday morning on her Facebook Notes page:

Another “WTF” Obama Foreign Policy Moment

As Governor I fought the Obama Administration’s plans to cut funds for missile defense in Alaska. So imagine how appalled and surprised I was to read this article by former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey, appropriately titled “Giving Away the Farm,” concerning President Obama’s latest bizarre actions relating to missile defense.

President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift. But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb. You can’t buy off Russia. And giving them advanced military technology will not create stability. What happens if Russia gives this technology (or sells it!) to other countries like Iran or China? After all, as Woolsey points out, Russia helped Iran with its missile and nuclear programs. Or what happens if an even more hardline leader comes to power in the Kremlin?

We tried buying off the Kremlin with technologies in the 1970s. That policy was a component of “detente,” and the hope was that if we would share our technologies with them, they would become more peaceful. Things, of course, didn’t work out that way. The Kremlin took western technologies and embarked on a massive military building program. History teaches that peace comes from American military strength. And a central component of that has always been technological superiority. Why would President Obama even dream of giving this away?

Members of Congress saw how foolish President Obama’s gambit was, so they put a section in the defense appropriation bill that specifically forbids the federal government from spending money to share these technologies with the Kremlin. President Obama actually threatened to veto the defense appropriation bill over this section of the law! Fortunately, the House passed the bill with a veto-proof majority, a whopping 322 to 96. Attention now turns to the Senate.

Why is it that President Obama seems to work so hard to give things to our enemies, while at the same time asking friends and allies like Israel to make sacrifices?

During these tough economic times when we are facing massive deficits and a competitive global economy, does President Obama really want to give away technologies that the American taxpayer paid lots of money to develop? Giving away our missile defense secrets won’t make us safer. What it will do is create a situation where we are facing an arms race with ourselves. Russia gets access to our technologies, and we are forced to spend even more money because of the need to stay ahead. Does this make sense to you? Me neither. File this under “WTF.”

- Sarah Palin

- JP

Obama admin. likes Palin wildlife management strategy

"Do we really want a President who champions such savagery?"
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Defenders of Wildlife and other "animal rights" groups have been conducting a years-long smear campaign against Sarah Palin. The organization, which is more about leftist agenda politics than any concern for the welfare of wild animals, even tried -- unsuccessfully -- to get the "Sarah Palin's Alaska" television series cancelled long before the first episode was even aired. For the background on this long running battle, go here.

The group feigns outrage over various methods of scientific predator control which have bee practiced by Alaska's Wildlife Management agency before, during, and after Sarah Palin's tenure as governor. To prevent the state's wolf population from decimating caribou and moose herds, the wolves are periodically hunted and some of their numbers killed so native tribes and sportsmen who depend on the herd animals will always have an abundant supply of food for their families. One of the various ways to keep the wolf population in check is to hunt them from aircraft. Defenders of Wildlife portrays this particular method of predator control as unusually cruel, although it is no more cruel than killing the wolves from the ground. It is from this practice that the myths of Sarah Palin slaughtering the poor wolves from a black helicopter have arisen, although we know of no instance in which she personally hunted wolves from any sort of aircraft. Come to think of it, she has never tracked down and killed wolves from the ground, either. But when leftists create a myth, they work really hard to make sure it will never die, the facts be damned.

It is with this background that we learn that the Obama Administration has sanctioned the killing of feral pigs through a number of means, including shooting them from aircraft:

When it comes to controlling the spread of feral pigs in San Diego County, the public hunting effort isn’t doing the job.

That has led federal agencies to launch an ambitious program that will use cage traps, corral traps, federal hunters with guns and dogs and even shooting from helicopters to exterminate the area’s population of wild swine. Officials see the pigs as a threat to fragile ecosystems and public health and safety. Environmentalists worry about the damage wild pigs will do to the county’s sensitive habitat, much of it rebounding from Southern California’s catastrophic wildfires of the last decade.

Hot Air's Ed Morrissey comments:

To paraphrase the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, do we really want a President who champions such savagery? Well, I don’t know about the president part of the question, but the practice is — and has been — a legitimate strategy for culling dangerous predators to protect livestock. Palin didn’t start the practice in Alaska, and Alaska didn’t pioneer the technique in any case. Congress included the exception for predator control in the original 1972 bill that made it illegal for hunters to track down prey by plane or helicopter. It’s been a longstanding practice in wildlife management, in the kind of regions that the San Diego Union-Tribune describes in its article on feral pigs.

Will the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund run one-minute national spots asking whether America should tolerate a brutal and unethical Barack Obama in the weeks prior to the 2012 election like they did against Palin in September 2008? Don’t hold your breath.

The problem, Ed, is that pigs just aren't as cute as little fuzzy wolf pups. It's relatively easy to spin up a thirty or sixty-second television spot which plays on the emotions by sympathetically portraying the wolf as noble and cuddly. Actually, wolves are neither; they're just another species of wild animal. But pigs just aren't perceived as cuddly by most folks.

We've noticed that Defenders of Wildlife's ads never show a pack of wolves stalking a cute little caribou calf, chasing it down and ripping it to bloody shreds before devouring it. Tough luck, Bambi, but wolves gotta eat. And so do the children of Alaska's native people. However, unlike wolves, Alaska's humans only hunt adult animals from the herd, and a clean shot from a carbine is much more humane than the comparatively savage way that wolves go about the business of stalking and killing their prey.

- JP

Gov. Palin On Borrowing Foreign Money to Give to Foreign Countries

"Throwing borrowed money around is not sound economic policy."
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Sarah Palin comments on her Facebook Notes page regarding the latest reckless, boneheaded move by our incompetent president:

Should we be borrowing money from China to turn
around and give it to the Muslim Brotherhood?

Given that we are running massive deficits and are drowning in more than $14 trillion in debt, and despite not knowing who will rule Egypt until its election this fall, this strange strategy may be the end result given President Obama’s announcement that he is committing $2 billion to Egypt’s “new government.” It’s part of a $20 billion foreign aid package laid out with the Group of 8 countries in Europe today.

Now, given that Egypt has a history of corruption when it comes to utilizing American aid, it is doubtful that the money will really help needy Egyptian people. Couple that with the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is organized to have a real shot at taking control of Egypt’s government, and one has to ask why we would send money (that we don’t have) into unknown Egyptian hands?

Throwing borrowed money around is not sound economic policy. And throwing borrowed money around the developing world is not sound foreign policy. Foreign assistance should go to American allies that need it and appreciate it, and for humanitarian purposes when it can truly make a difference.

Considering the Obama Administration’s continued strange strategies on the economy and foreign policy has us counting down the days to the next election. November 2012 can’t come soon enough.

- Sarah Palin

- JP

Boom, Taste Her Nightstick Again, Obama bin Panderin'

"That's gonna leave a mark" - John Nolte
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Just tweeted by Gov. Palin, after President Obama became the first president to call for Israel to return to 1967 borders and on the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's arrival here to meet with him:

"Dear Mr. President, please allow our ally, PM Netanyahu, to respectfully arrive through the front door this time. Thanks,Concerned Americans"

Even the liberal Jerusalem Post called Obama's statement "a substantial shift toward the Palestinian position."

- JP

Gov. Palin: 2012 election will be about the economy

"Obama has no clue how to allow the private sector to grow and thrive..."
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Editor's Note: This is another one of our posts which was a casualty of the May 12 Google Blogger outage. We're re-posting it here and re-linking it on The Book of Sarah, our Sarah Palin web reference site. - JP

In a Wednesday night appearance on Fox News' "On The Record," Sarah Palin told guest host Martha MacCallum that the economy will be foremost in the minds of the electorate in 2012. Gov. Palin also said President Obama showed poor judgment by inviting rapper Common to the White House for poetry night. The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate criticized the White House's timing, as it is Police Memorial Week, and Common wrote "A Song for Assata," about convicted cop-killer and former Black Panther Assata Shakur. Other Lyrics by Common called for the “burn[ing]” of then-President George W. Bush.


Gov. Palin expressed her view said that the killing of Osama bin Laden does not make the president a more formidable candidate for 2012. When asked about Newt Gingrich's entry into the 2012 presidential contest, she reiterated her opinion that the more candidates debating and contributing solutions to the nation's problems, the better. She also disagreed with some pundits who have criticized the GOP's field of candidates as weak and restated that she and some other potential candidates believe that it's too early to get into the race.

- JP