Sarah Palin tells conservatives to branch out: ‘Stop preaching to the choir’

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Sarah Palin may no longer hold public office, be a candidate for national office or have a paid contributor slot at a news network, but when put in front of a room full of conservatives, she still has no trouble riling up a crowd.

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference here Saturday, Palin was interrupted more than half a dozen times by standing ovations throughout a short red-meat speech, where she dinged the Republican Party and called on the conservative movement to be more inclusive. Palin, who delivered the keynote address at the same event last year, argued that Republicans acted "too calculated" and "scripted."

"Even our guys in the GOP too often have a habit of reading their stage directions, especially these days. They're being too scripted, too calculated. They talk about rebuilding the party. How about rebuilding the middle class?" Palin said. "They talk about re-branding the GOP instead of restoring the trust of the American people. Now, we can't just ignore, though, that we just lost a big election. Came in second. Out of two. Second position on the dog sled team--it's where the view never changes and the view ain't pretty."

"But we need to figure out then, our job. What will we do next?" she added. "Let's be clear about one thing: We're not here to re-brand a party. We're here to rebuild a country."(continued)

One thing conservatives can do to reach the general public is to make more contributions to net sources of information such as Wikipedia (preferably from a position of strength, with good sources and facts to back up anything written — don’t want to harm the reputation of conservatives with ill-founded revisions or vandalism). Just as the left infiltrated many public institutions and shifted them to the left, the right can do that too (not, of course, for the purpose of using them for propaganda, but rather to help them better reflect the truth).

"They talk about re-branding the GOP instead of restoring the trust of the American people. Now, we can't just ignore, though, that we just lost a big election. Came in second. Out of two. Second position on the dog sled team--it's where the view never changes and the view ain't pretty."

Prince and his folks need to listen. I just got an email from him saying how "Leadership" is trying to defund ObamaCare and we need to send money to help him save us. I sent the following response:

I see no evidence that the NRC is actually standing by Conservative principles or candidates. There are a few Tea Party folks who got elected despite the NRC's attempts to stop them and install RINOs. It is the few relatively new folks who are in the van when it comes to standing for us and not for some elitists set of "values". When you start marginalizing the RINOs and wholeheartedly backing true conservatives who won't water the Constitution and the people down to a watery, socialist gruel for some misguided sense of "expediency", you will regain my (and others') support. Until then, you are as much a part of the problem as the Democrats, and that's a HUGE problem. Start backing and offering true conservatives for elections and I'll give you another look. Get rid of the folks who currently make the political decisions - they are either morons or are working for the other side. Become unapologetic Constitutionalists and Conservatives or you do not deserve our support.

I know I'm wasting my breath on him, but can't help myself.

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