she started promo-ing about 15 mins ago http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/8745380920

Pulling up a chair, getting popcorn…

You can watch on MSNBC or CSPAN. 600 tea baggers and a question and answer period after.. highly anticipated. expected ot be aggressive and outspoken in her criticism of Obama

Cult figure or candidate?

oh man, community organizing is thuggery
and yet what are they trying to do?

Here’s Palin’s twicam live http://twitcam.com/egz0

intro’d by Andrew brietbart…

What is he talking about? Got right of it two days later.

and that’s so them, happy to irk.

Sarah Palin “red meat for the tea-baggers” at this convention, well meeting of 600 people

Billions of books?

Brietboy says says she is independent and can;t be conrolled by GOP.

she forgot her blouse

Sassy new highlights.

brietboy said “They got rid of death panels two day later” menaing after she brought them up

Hpapy Birthday Ronald Reagan

I had forgotten how much palin pisses me off.

The necklace doesn’t work wiht the dress..
ice tea BAD JOKE

Yes Sarah, the Tea Party movement is a giant movement.

drinking words can’t be “Common sense” or you’ll have alcohol poisoning

Oh… okay, “real people” go to Tea Parties. Everyone else is animatronic.

scott brown was just a guy with a truck (and 5 houses)

She is making a definitive link between the baggers and the Republican party – by referencing Scott Brown

yay, incite revolution!

Scott Brown: Guy with a truck..my ass

but what did they get rid of? there were no death panels?

Essentially this speech will be a hijacking of any prior tea party ‘independent’ principles

S’okay if I call you Joe? Oops, wrong script…

agenda!

I see she has the GOP buzz words of the day memorized.

0 for 3 if you don’t count House elections. nah wouldn’t want to count those

omg, she’s a cliche in high heels!

rudepundit: “Hi, I’m Sarah Palin and I’m here to oversimplify the recent past so you can misunderstand it.”

Did everyone get their Palin Bingo cards? http://palinbingo.com/

My connection isn’t fast enough to watch on-line so please, give lots of details!!

Does Scott Brown really reflect her values?

a room full of white people

Did she just take credit on behalf of the Tea Partiers for what happened in MA? Scott Brown didn’t seem to think she had a whole lot to do with it.

Nice graphic accompanying the post, BTW.

Who wrote this for her? ” Contested primaries aren’t civil war…they’re democracy at work, and that’s beautiful.”

When is she gonna be here for a book salon?

“The future so bright…I’ve gotta wear…a John McCain visor with his name crossed off.”

seems she lost the timing she had at the conventin

I love this;

“obama found a way to blame bush”

this is like saying;

“obama found a way to say water is wet”

Steak is too high, like $12.99/lb

That’s nothing, she’s still charging Alaska per diem.

Oh wait stakes..n/m

Both parties are changing the way they’re doing business? I think not.

Michael Steele is not exactly what this crowd is looking for.

you got that right!

as sara palin mocks the teleprompter, she looks at her notes to see what she is supposed to say next…

ahh good ole teleprompter. that never gets old.

Okay–the people she is giving the name checks too..those are the folks progressives need to tap into

Is that huge lump on top of her head gray matter?

Same person who writes her tweets and facebooks?

Not Top-Down…except when you have Fox, Limbaugh, “Tea Party Express” and some guy from the Chicago Board of Trade pushing it.

I wasn’t all that happy with what Bush/Cheney did re our national security. Seriously, using the word “war” says a lot about their worldview. I don’t think Palin’s sophisticated enough to have a substantive worldview.

I can’t stand Palin’s brand of phony populism

SamSeder tweets

watching Palins speech, I honestly forgot just how unimpressive she is – wonder if she’ll quit speech half way through? #TCOT

I though this ‘foreign terrorist’ was a kid who lit his underwear on fire.

I guess she is for water boarding and torture then?

Abdul Mutallab…received his visa under George W. Bush. Just as all but two of the 9/11 attackers entered the US after George Bush’s inauguration and most after the CIA warned Condi about the threat.

A room full of angry, smug, clapping white people. I am nervous.

Quitter twitter.

Selective Constitutional rights…

They’re all mad we didn’t use torture. Standing O for that.

What does she know about what info they got from the undie bomber?

There are plenty of people THERE, Sarah who want to destroy our Constitution.

Oh fuck me…”we need a CIC not a law professor”

2 words DANGEROUS LIASONS…far more entertaining…….i cantstand “CuddaS” voice

We need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern…does that mean that we don’t need a snow mobile driver at the lectern either?

misguided thinking–like WMD in Iraq?

She wants a dictator..a Commander in Chief who doesn’t follow the Constitution.

I coffee’d all over my screen at that!

…and now she’s trying to discuss international relations…brain pain

Palin does not realize that SCOTUS in 2008 ( under the Bush administration ) stated that Foreign Unlawful Combatant Terrorists Protected by US Constitution

“The US Supreme Court just ruled in a 5 – 4 decision that foreign fighters who are engaged in unlawful war practices and taking part in acts of terrorism should be protected by the United States Constitution and granted the right of habeas corpus. This is a new right which foreign unlawful combatants have never had before.”

North Korea tested Nuclear Weapons BEFORE Obama was elected…during BUSH’s term, Sarah!

More revisionism.

Aren’t there only 600 people at the entire teabagapalooza?

Yeah, Sarah, repairing our relationship with the rest of the world is soooooo dangerous….

OTOOLEFAN tweets

Sarah Palin wiping her ass with the Constitution to the cheers of 600 misspellers.

Someone tried to shove information into her cranium and her existing brain revolted, hence the lump.

I wonder how long she needed to learn them.

so she doesn’t like the teleprompter, but she has notes…uh…oh wait Obama’s is tek-nol-ogee and hers is good ole fashioned common sense

She’s Bobby Jindalling this…token applause.

is she wearing these?

http://www.funkytrend.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/wild-shoes.jpg

Effective Coalitions – you mean that we will lie and make false claims to goad foreign countries together again like we did over WMD’s?

“So tired of hearing talk talk talk.” (Well what are you doing, dumb dumb?)

I haven’t seen such a white crowd since… wait, I live in Maine. :(

Some of those folks are practically zombie-like in their enthusiasm.

We had a dictator who doesn’t follow the Constitution.

He was named Bush.

Frankly, I’m just relieved that he gave up power peacefully and left.

What was that about Alaska?

This is great, reading your recactions to Todd’s puppet! God did not give her any brains!

Oh god the necrophiliac romance of Bary Goldwater

Hand signals….or else she forget her Carly Fiorina “Lamb Chop” puppet.

Beacon of hope: Alaska???

There doesn’t seem to be 600 in that crowd. Far fewer.

Wow she references Goldwater… certainly not aligned to her Republican or moral values; the increasing influence of the Christian Right on the Republican Party so conflicted with Goldwater’s libertarian views that he became a vocal opponent of the religious right on issues such as abortion, gay rights, and the role of religion in public life.

Nashville is very progressive….shame on this

From the voice of experience: “Washington has now replaced private irresponsibility with public irresponsibility.”

Why not, she started off loving on Ronny Reagan!

Where are the fucking consequences for getting us into this economic situation? Who spent what to bail out Wall Street? Why was that bailout necessary? WTF is she talking about?

Is she making any sense?

what the hell is she talking about?? this is the worst speech ever. she was actually a good speech giver in 08. need a teleprompter, Sarah?

Damn, McCain thought he was her favorite corpse!

That means that Todd lets her think she’s in charge.

huh,,,,,,,,,wtf does that even mean……splainit

She’s attacking bankers but will her tea-partiers oppose the Wall Street restrictions on bonuses and salaries…

NO.

Listening to her talk about her days as Governor… she was with the conservative Govs before she quit them!

are we drinking on “tough”?

Mandate some things???

How much did she get paid for this?

Well, Obama handed this issue to her- she’s right, where are the consequences? The Democrats didn’t regulate Wall Street either. Of course the Pukes weren’t going to regulate them, but the point is the Dems handed this issue to them for free.

twolf: Sense? You ask too much, my friend, but I’ll have to get back to you on that one!

Is she talking about Joe O’Biden?

Even the crowd is lukewarm on her homey snark…

She’s literally blaming Obama and Biden for the problems that Bush/Cheney’s policies created.

Hopey changey? She’s reading Hullabaloo.

Dull. Flat. Sophomoric.

Hard to believe she gets paid $100,000 for this drivel.

tru dat

Did she just say “Alaska” was a beacon of hope?

Closed to the public…kinda like your home-sized cabins that had to be detected by aerila surveillance.

I agree, it’s not good at all. But she’s hitting all the insane talking points. Waiting for death panels and birth certificates.

What district that didn’t exist? Is she pulling facts straight outta her *ss now?

She’s DYING

She’s all over the place! And seems very nervous.

Palin will be a Perot style spoiler.

It’s getting worse.

120

I “herd” that’s a bunch of “bull”, nor would I “steer” you wrong, her entire speech is “udder” nonsense

She definitely needs a teleprompter…even that kid is thinkin about pickin’ her nose.

True. But Republicans controlled Congress for 12 years (’94-’06), no?

leg-is-lat-ORS.

wtf?

oh good!

The crowd doesn’t know what the fuck she is talking about.

OK, the just said that we got the Louisiana Purchase from this administration. Again, who wrote this?

How ya doin’?

She’s rambling…will Brietbart still lust for her when she steps away from the podium?

She wants to rescind the Louisiana Purchase????

She’s making one hundred thousand dollars and zero sense.

Can she use a teleprompter while mocking Obama for using a teleprompter? With this crowd, why not!?

Where IS Louisiana? I can’t see it from my back door

I disagree that she’s flailing. Coherence is not required for her audiance.

I’d feel so ripped off if I’d paid to hear that speech. They’re not even excited.

I think it was a joke about how states got TARP $

ive always said she has a severe case of ADD…cant focus or finish anything

andrea mitchell tweets:

pretty big platform for this – all cables, snowbound viewers tonight in midatlantic states. attacking biden, stimulus, tarp – 2012 launch?

What a train wreck! Medic!

Oh right the Louisiana Purchase was a back-room deal. Of course she would be in favor of giving back New Orleans…must be a Colt fan.

But their own self-image demands that they will insist she was wunnerful….

MSNBC has a delay on this speech that is 10 seconds behind what’s on CSPAN.

Gosh, she sounds just like O. Gotta balance the budget, jest like HH.

Todd and I have ot budget…for our new home, our two cabins and oh, I made a $ !million+ this year…

yes

generational theft. that’s retarded

not too bad,cept for the hairy feet.hows your fine self?

OMG, I figured it out. Palin is pwning the TeaBaggers!

That should tick us off

What’s becoming evident is that she’s a slacker. This speech sucks. Her style sucks. She couldn’t have practiced this let alone been coached. And who wrote this drivel. Same old, same old.

Where’s Ashton and the camera crew?

tax cheat! tax cheat!

In case she swears? Or a rabble rouser rouses from the ramblin’

She opposes making the student loan program public of course…talk about stealin’ the future from our children…and making them beholden to foreign bankers and Wall Street.

Andrea Mitchell’s self-image demands that she insists Palin is actually saying something worth listening to. Why else would Andrea be in Nashville?

Big wigs

2012 launch?

I hope not! Obama wouldn’t have anything to worry about. Not good for us.

if you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus…splain, Lucy

LOL we be fine.

ROFL!

Now, now, now. It’s elitist comments like this that make the folks listening to her glad they can find someone on the public stage who thinks exactly like they do. Remember the Roman Hrushka principal of public service. The mediocre need representation like them.

They’ll show you elitists by turning out to vote for her. All 600 of them.

Red reset button joke FAIL

Red reset button

“bathroom dills”… huh?

Wait I thought she just said “bathroom dills”

Yes! Who needs Big Government when we want Big Business to screw us over? Go corporations! Sarah Palin has converted me! not.

Tort reform is truely the Only Answer to all ills.

Washington should jumpstart energy programs!!

Give me a “Drill BABY DRILL!”

Why would she resign from being the Guv of “That Beacon Of Hope”?

evidently hope is bad…

I keep my dills in the kitchen. Wow, tea baggers ARE different.

This is a gift to Obama. Repigs must be shitting in their pants.

Shill baby shill!

This is nothing more than a Republican party meeting, there is no need to call tea-baggers a third option, this is a republican meeting where the baggers have been jacked by Palin…

twolf, as my uncle used to say “If 2 people tell you that you have noodle in your beard, you have a noodle in your beard.’

sounds better in yiddish.

Drill here, drill now. She’s really grown up!

She wants the very features of “Health reform” that would reduce coverage and increase prices on insurance. And of course market-based means…controlled by the insurance companies.

I don’t know why there’s such a big delay at MSNBC. Also, their camera isn’t showing the crowd. Just her. I had to switch to CSPAN to see what you all were talking about.

of course this is DRIVING ME NUTZ

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/arlington/stories/DN-critters_02met.ART.State.Edition1.4b8cfe8.html

Godz-drilla from Wasilla!

Floaters.

waa?

Right, She meant to say the United States — and said Alaska instead.

600 in attendance and yet NPR had it as their lead story on Weekend Edition. They really played it up yet didn’t say the attendance was only 600. Listening to NPR you would have thought it was the beginnings of the 2nd Revolution. NPR. National Propaganda Radio.

Oh, oh. How can she serve?

I just went to twitter to check out reactions. 99.9% think she’s an idiot. I feel better for my country.

“Nearly 60 million Americans voted for us!” Yeah, but ya still lost.

What are those thinks down on the front. Why would they have monitors? Are those not teleprompters?

rudepundit: “Palin: Don’t spend any money. That will make sure the economy comes back. I are an economist.”

Too bad Obama’s agenda isn’t progressive. With opponents like these, a real progressive could have achieved so much…

The Tea Partiers need a leader? Did she just say that?

McCain. I think he’s an American hero…which I need to cross off my visor.

Frank Rich column re Mullen to look forward to once this abominable snowoman stops.

Keepon fighting and take the gloves of!

You don’t need a proclaimed leader to progress this movement.

I am so glad we ar enot drinking on “common sense”

Applauding Bart Stupak…

ahhh abortion – at last she mentions it

Like i said, the tea party is a big movement.

This barfly and a senile old asshole got 50 million votes

STUPAK- gah, I’m ashamed to call her a woman.

We’re not a bunch of sheep, except on the Demon Sheep commercial.

god bless you

God wrote our Constitution?

LOLOL

I went to Borders tonight. There were two guys at the entrance to the parking lot holding signs that said “Homosexuality is Still a Sin.”

twitter

Sarah Palin predicts good year for conservative candidates in ‘tea party’ convention speech 2 minutes ago from BreakingNews Headquarters Retweeted by 7 people

Where is anti-Choice in the Constitution? The Constitution says that citizens are BORN, not conceived. And how is the control over women and doctors “limited government”?

In Times New Roman

WE WE WE – notice her linkage that SHE is a part of them and thus THEY are a part of her and her beliefs…

Washington, Lincoln, Reagan and Sarah Palin walk into a bar…

So is Sarah still the GOP nominee? Do the Tea Baggers love her? Will the GOP leaders let her stay the GOP nominee is the question? How will they take her out without angering her base?
Who could take Sarah’s place in the heart of the baggers.

That’s not good. One more scumbag outta business.

You didn’t know that? Moses wrote the Pentateuch. God wrote the U.S. Constitution.

Lincoln would never be a tea-bagger….and he’s a demon in the South amongst the tea-bagger, still.

Washington to Lincoln to Reagan. Remarkable.

Oh, she does love her some Ronnie!

Two U Tenn. drop-outs, I betcha.

Ronald Reagan is 99 tonight

Will there be winks?

I thought Tea Partiers were supposed to be unhappy with the Republican establishment. Guess not.

She’ going the Full Boener.

Love the shot of a gal in a fur coat!

Nice ROI, teabagger organizers. $100K for fewer than 600 audience members and what appears to be a free-associative “speech”?

remind me never to let these people get their hands on my checkbook.

On Twitter:
Mr_MSG RT @ebonifiyah You know, I think Sarah Palin as a VP Candidate was more embarrassing as an American than 8 years of Dubya.

Is that Gene Simmons clapping?

Oh noes…this was tragisitcal

Most of these people won’t pay for public school much less the added expense of special needs.

Next, she’s gonna sing the National Anthem and throw out the first baseball!

his mind was 99 20 years ago,regrettably

“Our movement is fresh young and fragile,: And still steaming.

So are Republicans and Tea Partiers going to fight it out for ownership of the Reagan icon?

Totally a third party spoiler.

And crowned they good with brotherhood.

that actually went by pretty quickly — considering

CNN wil be carryng Q&A portion live now..shall we continue?

That was it? $100,000 for that?

Just got back in from plowing through a foot or so of snow in my driveway and parking lot in Wasilla, only to discover my friends at fdl are having to plow through at least three times that depth of total bullshit from Wasilla.

How many people attended netroots nation? A friend who was there just told me 3,500 to 4,000 at one time or another. I can remember looking through memeorandum looking for even a mention of netroots nation. Now memeorandum has a whole fucking page devoted to the biggest pathological liar in recent American history.

Q and A

Oh goody, Q&A!

That was awful AND the steak is rubbery.

Breitbart’s closing remarks: fap fap fap

ooooh, there’s more!

Q&A. Pre-screened questions from “delegates.”

a masterful exercise is paranoid politics – love that !!

First question: what language was that?

Wish there was a ringer to ask her geography puzzlers!

poor thang is a muddlehead

WTF is Bob Shrum still paid as a pundit?

She brought piper with her because piper just finished writing the speech on the plane.

Oh COURSE she brought a kid as a prop! And made sure to mention!

Piper wants to do Nashville

do you see tea party movt becoming 3rd party.

Palin: Repubs should absorb it

The original teabaggers can forget forming their own party. Sarah just co-opted everything and she won’t let go, IMO.

She’s breaking up! going off-script!
She’s breaking up! going off-script!

I had a beautiful movement tonight also

Palin: tea party has both parties running scared

That’s $166.6666666666 per person. Note the 666′s.

The GOP is going to absorb the tea party? Thank you Sarah. Is she related to Sara Lee?

They’re not knowing”- no, we don’t need to be edumakated in Amurika!

Fresh folks should run for office

Yes, now that Sarah decided they could sit on the thrones.

oy………..where are the handlers

Q&A on CSPAN too

They are flabbergasted by how nonsensical that blather was…

end game for Teaparty in 2010: Conservatives in house and senate

So, she doesn’t want anyone to with a fat elitist resume to run for office. She’s saying “I want inexperience looneys like me running the new limited government”

rudepundit: “Palin: I only want inexperienced people to run for office, not fat elites, like John McCain.”

hey my roommate wants ot know: who is the creepy guy wiht mic?

her hair color is AWFUL

So sad, they think Reid,Pelosi and Obama are liberals.

uh oh GOD FEARING NATION

These guys think they’ll have a Conservative House and Senate next year??? Delusional…even if they won every Senate seat they couldn’t get that.

what is she even saying? good grief

Top 3 things?

1. Spending freeze
2. Jump start energy projects on God’s green earth, walking that walk.
3. Allowing America’s spirit to rise again by going back to our roots as a God-fearing nation. We need Divine Intervention.

God fearing nation. Divine intervention so we can be safe, secure and free!!!

God’s green earth… we need to walk that walk…back to our roots..where we’re not afraid to say: we need divine intervention

Oh no divine intervention

Calling for Divine Intervention? God please zap Osama!

I’m vomiting…seeking devine intervention to run the government

United Theocracy of America

We, we, we. We’re the real America…

She’s totally playing this crowd to get more money out of them. Charlatan. Swindler. Con artist. Actually, I’m impressed.

Plow baby plow!

Lamestream media

Jingo Bells, Jingo Bells

Where in the Constitution does “God fearing” appear?

“It doesn’t matter what the MSM says about us…as long as they are paying attention.”

Plow right on through it

conservative dems, blue dogs oh noes

Blue Dogs going to the Tea Party Pup Tent

We warned them, they didn’t listen.

Peeking under the tent

Todd is not reg REpub..e s a sessionist

Reagan/Palin 2012 : Zombie Uprising

what is she even saying? good grief

Obama can out debate all the House GOP reps Sarah however can terrify any media transcription dept.

“Confession….My husband is a member of the Alaskan Independence Party!”

she said “idio-secrecies”

I’ll come out the closet

My Husband Todd… how many times does a candidate usually refer to their spouse’s political views?

LOLOL!

why does she only take questions that were pre submitted. u know she has already been given a list of the questions. this is so scripted

FEAR EVERYTHING

Fear!

SARAH Palin plan, not Todd!

Palin Plan. Quite simple…no foolin’

simple minded mmmhhhh

The Palin Plan???

Simple.

Palin doesn’t give a shit about these people or about the Tea Party movement, other than what they can do for her.

When their spouse was the one actually running the government in Alaska…

Sarah – define free market principles…principals

To support those who understand the foundation of our country- the rest of you can eff off!

Whoops, drink- she mentioned Ronnie again!

lmao!

The LA Times got the attendance in their story this morning. I have to assume NPR is part of the Axilla of Evil.

this is closer to word compost than her usual word salad.

Fuck this chic is dumb…comparing Regan? WTF?

we win, they lose

“Movement” isn’t one of the drinking words is it? Everybody’d be smashed.

Palin’s plan is jingoism.

We win, they lose. And then what? Massive emigration

the Palin Plan “Keep your knees together until you don’t…”

ET, there are only 600 paid attendees to this convention.

So proud that her son has no clue about politics

Who the hell is she pointing to?

War,fear,vengeance,ignorance,graft,hate.

I thought TRACK was out of the military and joined up in the Obama-ist brownshirt VISTA program?

only in Palin’s America

I’m gonna assist because I can make buckets of cash!

The guy keeping track of the drinking game words had selected “progress” as a verb, and passed out a half hour ago.

That’s the tea party founder, who hasnt made the first repayment on the loan to pay Sarah’s $50K gurantee

EMBODIMENT OF loose cannon

scare liberals. President Palin. ABSOLUTELY correct. and not just liberal

Draft Sarah

Run Forrest run!

“Run Sarah Run” chant goes four rounds…such enthusiasm!

Run Sarah Run. Run Amurikans run

President Palin- wow, the drooling rabid nuttery

Drill kill bill

Bobblespeak tweets

Palin on foreign oplicy: “We win, they lose”. Nice, but a little too egghead for me.

Roommate says “Anyone with a brainstem”

President (Todd) Palin.

Bipartisan work ethic

Obama took questions from House Republicans. Not pre-screened. Unscripted.

Either Judson Phillips doesn’t trust this crowd to let them ask questions by themselves, or he didn’t think Palin could handle questions that she hadn’t seen in advance.

If God intervenes, these people are likely to be standing at Ground Zero for the intervention.

If there is no plan to be bipartisan, don’t fake it.

If Palin is elected we WILL need Divine Intervention.

ooohhh she’s going

who is the suckup questioner?

Actually, the idea of her being POTUS does scare me.

MSNBC just cut away.

YOu had nothing ot do wiht the ocntroversy..speaking fee Give it to the cuases..which causes?

OMG, she’s still gotta pay taxes on the $$

I will live I will die for the people of America

Not about money. Bullshit. She’d die for America. Bullshit.

That’s what I understand. So netroots had seven times as many attendees, many excellent non-batshit crazy speakers, and no media attention to speak of. So-called “liberal” media. I have to agree with the CW’s term “lamestream” media, though.

That was an easy 100K, eh?

That was a cool $115K.

trust me it woo dent matter
she speaketh GIBBERISH

She’ll just pretend it’s a cabin on her property and not report it.

What a panel of incompetents.

They must have guaranteed her that she’d only have to work 1 hour. What a patriot.

If she was willing to take the money and turn it around to help the movement (i.e. Sarah Palin, Inc.) then why didn’t she drop any speaking fee and allow the Tea Partiers to use it as THEY wished?

But she will donate it to non profits

Neal Boortz soooo is hating on Bob Schrum right now!

Her vice president

Ed’s turn. Neil Boortz? Ugh.

Prove it: I will live I will die for the people of America

“we will take America back’ yeha ot the dark ages

Boy am Im glad I missed all but the last ten minutes!

Ya, amazing what nutters will pay for raving loonies!

We pick die

oy she has a MARTYR complex…………..

“I never met Ronald Reagan…but I met Sarah Palin”….oooooh. How dare her compare herself to the great lord. And I thought they were not supposed to have idols?

Well comparisons to Netroots Nation should refer to the first YearlyKos, such had about 900 in attendence.

CSPAN has closing remarks, cnn and msnbc wrap ups

She knows that wrapping herself in controversy is profitable.

Sarah Simple Mcpherson?

“The Keep Levi Johnston Away From Baby Tripp Foundation”

And I thought the Tea Party Express was supposed to be anathema…yet Palin is showing up again to another one of their conferences?

lolz

KEITH and John Stewart,Letterman…will have field day with this

600 but after hotel fees, security, expenses, paying Sarah will they make any money?

Ahahahaah!

I’m at a cafe watching this thing and SP got a “yo Saracuda” ovation.
Yeah,RLY.

Don’t forget the gift bags http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGUE0_tJ3o

Teabaggery Deficit Spending.

this is who saracudda…reminds me of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson

they come wiht dunce caps!

aHAHAHAHA
he didn’t know what the megaphone was LOLOL

That is maybe $35 worth of shit.

Fee back to the cause? LOL!

Jon Walker is upstairs!
FFEL: $80 Billion Wasted On Crony Capitalism

Birther Speaker Takes Heat at Tea Party Convention

Either Judson Phillips doesn’t trust this crowd to let them ask questions by themselves, or he didn’t think Palin could handle questions that she hadn’t seen in advance.

Agreed Knox Sarah can’t even handle Katie Couric Katie is about as softball as you can get with the questions.
The GOP needs to ask itself can they afford another Bush with the prescreened questions against Obama?

Wow, that Palin woman should run for public office! Maybe governor…oh,wait.

Sarah wants all the change for herself. Cha Ching

Thank you for hosting Lisa, you always throw a great party

Reading back through the thread – good job, Lisa!

Thnaks, the pups rocked it!

They better have liked her it cost over two hundred dollars a person to have Her speak.

I guess it was better than listening to water drip.

Copy of Palin’s speech

$100,000 plus for a speech that was written for a pep rally, In that it succeded.

As an address that might have set the agenda for a populist movement, she succeded in part and failed in part.

As an effort to widen her appeal beyond that of her fan base, it failed.

How so? The folks in her audience clearly liked her and what she had to say. She sounded the right notes in the anthem that the Tea Partiers sing.

She laid down some basic tenets for the movement: less government, fewer taxes, more energy independence, keep the country secure, listen to the people, be faithful to the constitution. What she did not provide was an guidance as to how the movement should promote those ideals.

Should the movement organize more formally as a party or as a political special interest group? Should the movement seek a more formal association with the American Conservative Movement, or with the GOP? What policies should the Tea Party endorse? If the movement is for less spending then where do we cut? The three biggest areas are: entitlements (medicare and social security), defense (internal and external), and government infrastructure (salaries, and program managment). Details please.

The lack of details is where she failed to widen her appeal. The Tea Party Movement is vocal and visual. It is also small. To grow it, its ideas must appeal to wider audience. Folks like me look for logic, argumentation. Tell me that you are for a better energy program and that you want America’s truckers to convert their rigs to natural gas. We have a 500 year supply of natural gas. If truckers convert to natural gas dependence on foreign oil imports drops by 50%. (These details courtesy of T. Boone Pickens). That will get me to listen.

What Ms. Palin did tonight was to provide a motivational address. That is fine. If that is what she is setting out to do. I had hoped for me. The country needs a vibrant set of grass roots movements representing its diversity.

I suggest that many of those who supported Obama’s nomination and election represented such a movement: progressive. Those who defied the odds in their support of Ron Paul represented another movement: libertarian. The Tea Party Movement could well be an energetic and informed voice of populist conservativism.

For that to happen, it will take more than a rally.

I am monitoring traffic on this topic on six blogs. The level of activity is low. The number of respondents is low. It appears that Palin’s critics are dominating the discussion. Interesting.

give the woman credit

she is fleecing the wing nuts.

she represents the worst of american racism and greed.

capitalism has done its thing again but no roosevelt to bail us out this time

just a guy that gives great speeches.

the culprit: capitalism left unchecked.

and the middle class lined up to vote for this man.

I knew folks that were personal friends with dutch reagan and he was no friend to the middle class.

like bush jr he knew his base the have mores and the dumbed down.