How do you stop a blow-torch that's named Sarah?

- by ehvogel
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I don't know how the title came to mind, but it's reminiscent of this.

At any rate, consider this:

Obama appears before the AFL-CIO and we get this Facebook post, skewering Obama for his hypocrisy. Did the media take notice? You betcha!

Obama continues to pursue his lawsuit against Arizona, trying to stop the state from enforcing federal immigration law. Sarah Palin responds here and the lamestream media has a conniption fit over it, ignoring its own leftist's comments.

An ill-considered plan has been put forth to build a mosque in the shadow of the World Trade Center, ground zero on 9-11. Sarah responds and ignites a national debate, here, here and here.

In many ways, Sarah is responding to national events with a voice that echoes mine. Every new Facebook post elicits a fist-pump and a resounding "YES"!

I don't remember anyone in my lifetime that was so willing to speak out against things that rubbed them wrong and ended up speaking my opinion. I certainly hope she continues to act as an outspoken, verbal blow-torch that voices my opinion on a whole host of national issues.

- ev

Tx4P contributor ehvogel resides in North Texas where he presides over Generational Dysfunction.

Video: Gov. Palin talks domestic policy on 'Hannity'

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From TheRightScoop:



- JP

Video: Sarah Palin on FNS - August 1, 2010

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Gov. Palin made her third appearance on "Fox News Sunday" today. Here's the video from Fox News:



- JP

Sarah Palin: Brewer Has 'Cojones'; Obama, not so much (Updated)

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Sarah Palin offered praise for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Sunday morning for defending her state's immigration law in court against Eric Holder's lawsuit. Gov Palin said her friend Brewer has the "cojones" that President Obama lacks on the critical issue of border security:

Palin said on "Fox News Sunday" that Brewer is tackling border security and putting her faith in legal immigration where Obama is not.

"Jan Brewer has the cojones that our president does not have," she said. "If our own president will not enforce our federal law, more power to Jan Brewer."

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Palin called the judge's ruling "unfortunate" but hopefully "temporary."

"There are many, many more steps to take," she said, adding that the case could come before the Supreme Court.

Gov. Palin also called Obama and congressional Democrats "all wet" for planning to let the Bush tax cuts expire, adding, "It's idiotic to think about increasing taxes at a time like this."

Asked by host Chris Wallace what she had written on her palm, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate held up her hand to show the words "$3.8 trillion over 10 years," the cost, Republicans say, of allowing the cuts to expire. Wallace inquired why she wrote the palm note, and she replied:

"...so I don’t say ‘$3.7 trillion’ and then get dinged by the liberals saying I don’t know what I was talking about."

We'll have the video of her comments up when Fox releases it, and, no, we're not going to link to any of the biased lamestream media stories on this FNS appearance. The usual media suspects can float down the River Styx in a hand basket to Hades. Frankly, we've grown weary of giving them page hits to spread their DNC attack memes about Sarah Palin.

Update: More quotes from Gov. Palin's FNS appearance via Chris Wallace's blog:

"To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you rein in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his. His commitment to let previous tax cuts expire are going to lead to even fewer job opportunities for Americans, because it's the job creators who will be taxed.”

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“I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. It just amazes me that he continues to look backward and blame solely President Bush for the conundrum that we're in right now… We're not out of the problem. We have a jobless recovery and that's no recovery in the minds of most Americans.”

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“As for the unfavorable, you know, I don't blame people for not really knowing what it is, in some instances what I stand for, what my record is because if I believed everything that I read in or heard in the media, I wouldn't like me either.”

- JP

Sarah Palin returns to 'Fox News Sunday'

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Gov. Palin, who last appeared on the program was May 23, will be Chris Wallace's guest for the third time on Fox News Sunday this weekend (watch the promo at Palin TV):

Sarah Palin joins “Fox News Sunday” to discuss the 2010 midterms, the Obama Administration, and her own political future. Plus, the former Alaskan Governor weighs in on a federal judge’s decision to block some key parts of the controversial Arizona immigration law.

The program airs on the Fox Network at 8 AM Texas Time and repeats on the Fox News Channel at 1 PM and 5 PM.

- JP

Perry will stand with Brewer and pass on border governors meeting

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The governors of Texas and Arizona will not be attending when New Mexico hosts a meeting of U.S. and Mexican border governors in September. The conference was originally planned to take place in Arizona, but Gov. Jan Brewer cancelled it after the Mexican governors said they would boycott the meeting in protest of Arizona's new immigration law.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, provided the new venue for the conference after the Mexicans announced that they intended to boycott the meeting and Brewer scratched it.

Now the governors of all six Mexican border states say they will attend, but Governors Brewer and Perry won't be there:

"It was Arizona's turn to host this, and [Gov. Perry] respected their decision to cancel it. He still intends to have a working relationship with all of the border governors," Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said.

Perry has the endorsement of his former colleage Sarah Palin, and the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate has actively supported Brewer in her defense of the Arizona law.

h/t: Eric Dondero

- JP

Sarah Palin talks immigration while O'Reilly constantly interrupts her

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Sarah Palin talked -- or at least tried to talk -- about immigration on Friday's "Factor" program on Fox News. Trouble is, host Bill O'Reilly, who is a pompous, self-absorbed jerk, wouldn't shut up long enough for her to get even a few complete sentences out. He kept interrupting:



- JP

Mark Levin defends Rand Paul

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Courtesy of TheRightScoop, here's audio from Mark Levin's radio program of The Great One defending Rand Paul on the issue of "anchor baby" citizenship for the offspring of illegal aliens:



Sarah Palin endorsed Rand Paul in the race for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky February 1. Dr. Paul won the Republican primary May 18 with about 59 percent of the vote to the GOP establishment candidate's 35 percent.

h/t: HotAirPundit

- JP

Labrador supporter admits he used 'propaganda' to defeat Vaughn Ward

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Lucas Baumbach, the most vocal of Raul Labrador's supporters, has admitted that the viral YouTube video he created to help Labrador win a Congressional primary race over Vaughn Ward was "a piece of propaganda." Baumbach heavily edited his video to give the impression that Ward plagiarized Obama’s 2004 DNC speech by juxtaposing phrases from speeches Ward and Obama.

“No, it wasn’t accurate - it was a piece of propaganda,” Baumbach told Eye on Boise today, “and people thought that there was enough truth in it to change their votes.” Baumbach said he decided to exercise his video-editing skills after a May 13 blog post from the Idaho Statesman’s Dan Popkey pointed out similar turns of phrase in the two speeches, and Dustin Hurst of the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s IdahoReporter.com followed up with a May 21 story including video from both speeches. “That wasn’t attracting much attention,” Baumbach said. Simply posting both videos wasn’t enough, he said, “when you’re trying to get the word out, sensationalizing something.”

“I admit that there was a lot of editing that went on there,” Baumbach said.

But the good ol' boy Republican establishment just loved Baumbach's video takedown of Ward:

He’d just finished being congratulated by other like-minded Republicans after a GOP unity rally today at the state Capitol, where some were throwing around the word “brilliant;” last night, at GOP election-night headquarters, Baumbach attracted similar praise from some in the crowd who called him “the man of the hour.” Baumbach’s mash-up was featured on the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” last night, though Leno left off the final scene in which Baumbach shows Ward’s face slowing morphing into Obama’s.

We just hope that the "Tea Partiers" who supported Labrador are proud of the fact that their guy is an immigration lawyer "who represents clients before immigration judges, sometimes to help them remain in the United States after they’ve violated laws and are subject to deportation," according to the Spokesman-Review, and has been critical of Arizona's tough immigration law. Because that's one of the reasons why Sarah Palin wisely endorsed Ward.

- JP

Some incovenient facts for Raul Labrador

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At NoisyRoom.net, Carolyn Cooke wants Idaho Republicans to say "no" to Raul Labrador in the GOP primary for Idaho's 1st Congressional District:

Fact: Immigration attorney Labrador fought to keep Javier Sotelo from deportation. He was convicted of smuggling illegal aliens and document fraud...

Fact: Labrador represents illegal aliens in his practice.

Fact: Attorney Labrador has worked for the Idaho Dairymen’s Association, ardent supporters of Larry Craig’s AgJOBs amnesty...

Fact: Idaho Rep. Labrador voted against SB 1157, a bill that required verification of legal status to receive non-emergency taxpayer-funded public benefits.

Fact: Labrador wants more foreign guest workers...

Yikes! No wonder Sarah Palin endorsed Labrador's primary opponent Vaughn Ward.

- JP

Sarah Palin Was Right #35: The American Majority on Illegal Immigration

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Sarah Palin has often been praised for her ability to to verbalize a message which resonates with the American people. Of her many statements on the issues of the day, none strikes a more responsive chord perhaps than the former Alaska governor's recent comments on illegal immigration. When she urged U.S. border states this week to emulate Arizona in enacting tough new immigration enforcement laws, it was as if she had her fingers on the pulse of the American electorate:

“Every other state on the border should emulate what Arizona has done. Jan Brewer, the governor of Arizona, has taken it upon herself and the state government to do what the feds should have been doing all along,” Palin said during an interview Wednesday night with Fox Business Network.

“Yes, other states should do what Arizona is doing,” she said.

The day after Gov. Palin's remarks, the results of a survey conducted by Opinion Dynamics for Fox News were released. The opinion poll's findings reveal that voters by a 2-to-1 margin think each state should have the right to formulate its own immigration laws, and a majority would like their own state to emulate Arizona in enacting no-nonsense immigration legislation:

A Fox News poll finds 65 percent of American voters think states should have right to make their own immigration laws and protect their borders "if they believe the federal government has failed to act," while 32 percent disagree. Moreover, a 52 percent majority favors their own state passing a bill similar to Arizona’s new immigration law.

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The key provisions of Arizona's immigration law receive significant support. Over two-thirds (65 percent) favor allowing local authorities to question anyone who they think may be in the country illegally, while 76 percent favor allowing local officials to detain anyone who cannot prove their immigration status.

Fully 84 percent favor requiring people to show documents proving their immigration status, if officials have reasonable cause to ask for them.

The evidence continues to mount that Sarah Palin, perhaps more so than any other public figure, is in perfect harmony with the American people, while President Obama and the Democrat left is sounding a woefully discordant note.

Update: According to the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), 17 states have some form of legislation similar to that of Arizona in various stages of development. The states include Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.

- JP

Quote of the Day (May 20, 2010)

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Ed Morrissey:

"Sarah Palin keeps the debate and focus on immigration enforcement, making the point that the impact of uncontrolled immigration falls hardest on those who entered the country lawfully, and implicitly making the point that the federal government created this problem by refusing to enforce its laws."

- JP

Sarah Palin on the Fox Business Network

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Sarah Palin appeared on "America's Nightly Scoreboard" on the The Fox Business Network Wednesday...


Part 1: Sarah Palin on the May 18 primaries and putting the country back on the right track:




Part 2: Sarah Palin on the need for immigration legislation and to protect the American border:




Part 3: Sarah Palin on the Greek bailout and the need for financial reform:




Part 4: Sarah Palin on BP, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, corruption, terrorism and national security:



- JP

Sarah Palin: Obama Administration's Apology Tour Continues

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Tuesday morning on her Facebook Notes page, Sarah Palin gutted the Obama Administration like a red salmon for its endliess apologies to China and preposterous pandering to opponents of the popular Arizona immigration law:

American Apology Tour Continues

On Fox News this morning, State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley became the third Obama administration official in short succession to admit that he hadn’t actually bothered to read Arizona’s 10-page long “secure the border” bill before condemning it and criticizing Americans who support Arizona’s necessary efforts to do the job the Obama Administration should be doing. Crowley’s statement follows similar admissions from Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.

At first blush this revelation seemed unbelievable, but maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. This now seems “the Washington way” of doing things. If the party in power tells us they have to pass bills in order to find out what’s actually in them, they can also criticize bills (and divide the country with ensuing rhetoric) without actually reading them.

Still I can’t help but feel outraged on behalf of Arizona’s citizens for the incompetence shown by these Administration officials. Arizonans have the courage to do what the Obama administration has failed to do in its first year and a half in office – namely secure our border and enforce our federal laws. And as a result, Arizonans have been subjected to a campaign of baseless accusations by the same people who freely admit they haven’t a clue about what they’re actually campaigning against.

The absolute low point of this campaign came last Friday, when a U.S. State Department delegation met with Chinese negotiators to discuss human rights. Apparently, our State Department felt it necessary to make their Chinese guests feel less bad about their own record of human rights abuses by repeatedly atoning for American “sins” – including, it seems, the Arizona immigration/pro-border security law. Asked if Arizona came up at all during the meeting, Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner answered:

“We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session, and as a troubling trend in our society and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination, and that these are issues very much being debated in our own society.”

Note that he said “We brought it up” – not the Chinese, but the U.S. State Department’s own delegation. Instead of grilling the Chinese about their appalling record on human rights, the State Department continued the unbelievable apology tour by raising “early and often” Arizona’s decision to secure our border.

Arizona’s law, which just mirrors the federal law, simply allows the police to ask those whom they have already stopped for some form of identification like a driver’s license. By what absurd stretch of the imagination is that the moral equivalent of China’s lack of freedoms, population controls (including forced abortions), censorship, and arbitrary detentions?

Surely our U.S. Ambassador to China, John Huntsman, must disagree with the Obama Administration’s continued apology tour? We have nothing to apologize for. If Administration officials want to apologize to anyone, apologize to the American people for the fact that after a year and a half in office, they still haven’t done anything to secure our borders, and they join our President in making false suggestions about Arizona’s effort.

- Sarah Palin

- JP

Rush: Right on, right on, right on.

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Here's an excerpt from the transcript of a segment of Rush Limbaugh's Monday show:

RUSH: A congressional report on border threats confirms that members of Hezbollah have crossed the border, contains photos, the Arab insignia reads: "Martyr: The way to eternal life." The other depicts a plane crashing into the Twin Towers. The congressional report reveals the route Middle Easterners take. People tell me they have friends from all over the world that can't get in the country. Why don't you just send 'em to Mexico? Why don't you just have them come in from Mexico? There's no effort to stop them there, or very little. Sarah Palin, this is from Saturday in Phoenix, a press conference to announce the launching of Arizona's new website Secure the Border. Sarah Palin spoke and she said this.

PALIN: It's time for Americans across this great country to stand up and say, "We're all Arizonans now, and in clear unity we say, 'Mr. President, do your job, secure our border.'" (cheers and applause.)

RUSH: Right on, right on, right on. Here's something else she said.

PALIN: And a final word to the boycott crowd and the majority of Americans who support Governor Brewer's stand. If you really want border security, if you want to halt the human rights abuses that have resulted from our failed border security policy, come visit Arizona! You could say that here they're doing the job that our federal government will not do.

RUSH: Human rights abuses, Sarah Palin, and she spoke with the governor of Arizona.

- JP

Ambinder: Palin Calls Huntsman Out (Updated)

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The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder takes notice of Gov. Palin's tweet today:

Sarah Palin has today called out Amb. Huntsman in a Tweet, which marks the first time, I believe, that Palin has referenced a fellow Republican and potential presidential aspirant in a provocative way. She's referring to reports that Assistant Sec. of State Michael Posner intended to admit to China that the United States's human rights record wasn't always exemplary, citing the Arizona immigration law is an example.

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Comparing China's regular and brutal and unapologetic detention of political dissidents to the temporary detention of citizens caught without papers is ... a tough case to make. Here's Palin's Tweet:

"AZ's pro-border security law invokes apology to China(w/its human rights violations)by U.S. State Dept;Surely Ambassador Huntsman disagrees?"

She's just asking a question, and we reckon many Americans would like to know the answer.

When Huntsman agreed to be Obama's man in Bejing, we doubt he saw anything like this coming. It probably seemed like a good plan at the time to kick back in China with a plush embassy job and no controversies for eight years, return to the states for an RNC coronation by the squish GOP establishment and cruise to the White House in 2016.

But Obama's neosocialist policies made him an unpopular president in just a matter of months, those pesky grassroots Tea Partiers kept raising hell with Washington, and now that woman! is putting him on the spot.

And it really did seem like such a good plan... at the time.

Update: Even Allahpundit gets it:

What she can potentially do that no other righty can do, Limbaugh and Beck included, is push stuff onto the media’s radar that they’d otherwise ignore...

Presumably a Facebook post about it is in the works; if it isn’t, it should be. The idea of State voluntarily introducing Arizona’s law into a discussion of human rights abuses with China may well be the single lowest moment on foreign policy that the administration’s had since The One was sworn in...

Evidently there are elements at State that consider this law a transgression so ominous that they actually feel compelled to apologize to a totalitarian regime for it...

That imbecile Posner should be fired immediately and both Hillary and Huntsman should be asked to explain, in exquisite detail, why a law that’s not even being enforced yet should be offered as some sort of diplomatic sacrifice to the Orwellian heroes in Beijing. Exit question: Seriously, what have they done on foreign policy that’s more loathsome than this? Honduras, maybe?

- JP

Quote of the Day (May 16, 2010)

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Jay Nordlinger:

"Sarah Palin said, 'It’s time for Americans across this great country to stand up and say, We’re all Arizonans now.' (She followed that with, 'And in clear unison we say, Mr. President: Do your job. Secure our border.' There was JFK in Berlin, of course. And I remember when Reagan said, 'I’m a Contra, too.' A lot of people blew gaskets over that. I loved it."

- JP

Sarah Palin: Do your job, Mr. President. Secure our border.

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In the second Sunday morning commentary on her Facebook Notes page today, Sarah Palin called on Americans to support Arizona and on President Obama to do the job he should have been doing all along:

Mr. President, do your job. Secure our border

Let’s respect the hardworking, accomplished legal immigrants who sacrificed much, contributed selflessly, and helped build America into the greatest melting pot on earth! We need to understand the importance of America’s fair immigration laws.

Erasing U.S. borders will destroy our country as we become less safe – and this national security issue is what Arizona and other border states are addressing with reinforcement of federal immigration laws. They have to do it because the feds aren’t doing it.

I spoke with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer yesterday, and she reminded U.S. citizens that, despite President Obama’s ignoring this grave national security threat, his dismissal of the need for border security is no laughing matter – and it’s being used as a political tool to divide her state along racial lines.

The Arizona immigration law mirrors the fed’s own law. It sure would be helpful if the Obama Administration would read the short 10-page bill before laughing about it and condemning it. And it would be helpful if the media would actually read it before twisting reports on its content.

Log on to securetheborder.org to learn more and show your support for our sister state of Arizona!

We’re all Arizonans now and we say with clear unity: “Mr. President, do your job. Secure our border.”

- Sarah Palin

A majority of Americans support Arizona's immigration law, according to polls conducted recently by Pew Research, Rasmussen Reports and McClatchy-Ipsos. And in a Rasmussen Reports survey published today, even fifty-eight percent (58%) of likely voters in Pennsylvania favor a law similar to Arizona's.

Get with the program, Mr. President.

- JP

Sarah Palin: 'We're all Arizonans now'

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Sarah Palin appeared with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer at a brief news conference in Phoenix Saturday and called on Americans to declare "we're all Arizonans now" and to urge President Obama to secure the nation's borders:


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Gov. Palin said there is "a great deal of misinformation" about Arizona's law and said urged Americans to "come visit Arizona" to show support for the state and its governor on illegal immigration.

The event also launched a Web site, Secure The Border, which Governor Brewer said was an effort to educate America about border security.

A majority of Americans support Arizona's immigration law, according to polls conducted recently by Pew Research, Rasmussen Reports and McClatchy-Ipsos. But the media and the left are determined to punish Arizona and its governor for taking this courageous stand.

Gov. Palin is in Phoenix for a scheduled speech to the Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife Heritage Banquet.

Update: Video of Gov. Brewer's remarks and related story are here.

- JP

Arizona Governor asks for Sarah Palin's help

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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is recruiting the help of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to help address misconceptions over her state’s controversial new immigration law:

The two will team up for an event Saturday in Phoenix, at which they will announce a new website and a national effort to “educate America on border security and encourage support for Arizona.”

Brewer’s campaign spokesman, Doug Cole, said Palin is an obvious choice since she’s been opining on the issue with some regularity.

Right after the law passed, she went on Fox News to criticize President Obama for perpetuating a racial profiling “myth” in his portrayal of the law. Most recently, Palin encouraged an Illinois girls’ hoops team to “go rogue” after an administrator canceled their sports trip to Arizona.

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Cole said the website will try to correct what he said is wrong information about the law, and will also provide additional information on the longstanding immigration battle, by posting all of the letters sent to the federal government in the past eight years by Brewer as well as her predecessor, former Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, who now heads up the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Gov. Palin flew to Arizona late Friday afternoon. She's scheduled to address a sportsmen's banquet Saturday night.

By a considerable margin, most Americans support the Arizona immigration law, according to polls conducted recently by Pew Research and McClatchy-Ipsos.

Update: The Brewer-Palin event will be at the J.W. Marriott Desert Ridge resort in north Phoenix at 4:45 PM local time.

- JP