Posted on 03/19/2011 10:18:33 AM PDT by unseen1
Sarah Palin is the first Republican leader to speak at the event in New Delhi. Sarah was invited to speak on her Vision for America.
Today’s tea party is a strong and vibrant movement in the US. The former VP candidate is emphasizing energy challenges. “We all face energy challenges in the international arena.” ENERGY is the key. My vision for a free and prosperous America involves an emphasis on energy.
On green energy– I am in favor of an “all of the above approach” to energy. Unfortunately, though some have stymied responsible drilling. It means we continue to transfer hundreds of millions of American dollars to foreign regimes. Everything is touched.
As government locks up land – they try to tell us that green jobs are our future. “A recent British study found that for every green job, 4 jobs were lost.” This is social engineering.
Americans can tap into our own natural resources. And natural gas- green and efficient. Natural gas is an ideal “bridge fuel” to the future. It’s a false fairy tale for government to interfere and for Americans to believe that we don’t need oil and gas.
“Big government ideas are once again being thrown into the ash heap of history – but they’re not going quietly.”
The future lies with us. There are few limits to what India and America can do together. We both want to expand trade and investment with allies.
It is our people who are driving this relationship.
Our ties and our bonds are deep. They’re not driven by a free people and a free markets not by conclaves.
We will lead because we are on the side of people to make decisions for themselves. We are on the side of religious tolerance and women’s rights. I admire India’s history of strong women leaders.
I supported South Carolina’s first Indian governor Nikki Haley. I support the tea party a vibrant and growing movement.
On social media- We should look at this as an opportunity to advance freedom.
This hunger for freedom is not just American. We have such a connection. Half a world apart but connected by this. We can lead by example.
On trade with India– Sarah Palin: We are thankful for the free trade agreements throughout the world.
On foreign policy- Sarah Palin: There would have been more decisiveness. We have a rich tradition on being on the side of those who seek freedom. “Less dithering and more decisiveness.”
On China- Sarah Palin: China has a choice. We need to be sure and India needs to be sure that we are clear with their expectations… We say they manipulate their currency. They accuse us of the same. …What’s with the military buildup? We have concerns… Again we look forward to see them making the right choice.
On the tea party movement- Sarah Palin: The tea party patriots just want the Constitution to be followed. It’s smaller smarter government. It’s too good to have a leader.
On campaigning for VP- Sarah Palin: You can’t really trust the media. You have to have the boldness and courage of setting the record straight. Especially when they have made their choice… I’m not just going to sit back and take it. I’ve learned you can’t just trust the media to set the record straight. Republicans have the fighting instinct of sheep sometimes. I don’t play the victim card when they do choose to set the election straight.
On losing election- Sarah Palin: Obama was a change agent. Question: But so were you. Sarah Palin: But I wasn’t on the top of the ticket.
Sarah Palin: It’s time a woman became president of the United States of America. (Applause)
Sarah Palin: I am a strong supporter of peace through strength… If we want a more peaceful world India and America must work more closely together.
Her role in Republican Party- Sarah Palin: I’m pretty independent and some people don’t like that… I’m a mom and I just don’t have the time to play some of the games the guys want to play.
On reviving American economy- Sarah Palin: It’s common sense free market principles. Cutting spending.
Last question – Will you husband be called the first man? Sarah Palin: First dude.
Closing statement: When I was waiting for your speech I was talking to an official and he said he was looking forward to her speech. I asked him why and he said, “Because Sarah Palin is a a friend of India.”
Gets kind of old pointing out how godlike and perfect I am—I must needs share my immeasurable wisdom with others.
;)
I don’t know who is running yet and neither do you.
Well, Sarah is not running yet either going by your standards so why would you have decided that there are more qualified people than Sarah if she's not in the race?
To say that All them that were Governors are more qualified than Sarah Palin sounds to me like ANYBODY BUT SARAH PALIN would be good.
I mean those governors could range from Mitt Romney to ARNOLD.
To describe any criticism or rebuttal or challenge of anything Sarah Palin says or does as an "attack" or as "P.D.S." is to enable Sarah Palin to run away from any accountability by hiding behind the Victim Card.
Leaders welcome challenges to their positions and statements in order to debate and defeat their opponents. Professional victims incapable of defending their positions whine that they are being "attacked" and their supporters whine about "(Insert name here) Derangement Syndrome".
Playing the role of professional victim in America should be left to the likes of Al Sharpton and the geek on YouTube since such behavior guarantees you nothing but ridicule when you are not simply preaching to your own choir.
When I posted that, the only thing on Google were multiple links to different sites that all were using the Gateway story.
The Fox link is the same story at the front of this. I havent seen any other journalists covering this story.
But the point I was making is that the Gateway article is very vague, he doesnt use quotation marks on that sentence, and there hadnt been another source to confirm.
So were the fathers of:
1.) George Washington.
2.) John Adams
3.) Thomas Jefferson
4.) James Madison
5.) Andrew Jackson
The first President whose father was NOT a British citizen at the time of their birth was Martin Van Buren.
The U.S. Constitution says absolutely NOTHING about the citizenship of your father.
Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States and "one heartbeat away from the Presidency", was born in 1918 in the U.S. but the 1920 U.S. Census listed the nationality of his father, Theodore Agnew, as still being "Alien".
If we do not want the liberals to fabricate what the U.S. Constitution actually says, we should not fabricate what the U.S. Constitution actually says either.
You would have loved the “Allen West is a RINO because he’s not a birther thread.”
So called Constitutionalists adding pieces to the Constitution in order to claim that someone else isnt following the Constitution.
"I won't waste my time debating the issues because you are nothing but a RINO and have P.D.S. (Palin Derangement Syndrome).
"I won't waste my time debating the issues because you are nothing but a Fascist and have P.D.S. (Pelosi Derangement Syndrome).
Same Church. Different pews.
Maybe that is why Nancy Pelosi and Sarah Palin both have the Unfavorable ratings that are over 50%.
Where have you been? Sarah Palin has stated her positions on many major issues (her website has all of them) and has been a vehement opponent of Obama for far longer that the other wannabe presidents that the media always seem to find far more 'electable' than Palin (until they run, that is). She has been on Fox News answering questions about the economy, Libya, the Japanese earthquake/tsunami and so on - and she has been doing so for months. That so many alleged 'conservatives' seem to be against Sarah Palin is very strange. Whatever is behind the opposition, I have no doubt that she'll announce and campaign as needed to secure the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
I believe that Sarah Palin takes the concept of having the power and responsibility of being the U.S. president very seriously and knows that her every every word will be distorted and criticized by her opponents in the media, the Democrat party and the elitists of the GOP, as her comment about it being time for a woman president has been instantly used to attack and disparage her. Sarah Palin will survive this onslaught, as she has all the previous attacks, even those by alleged 'conservatives'. As she's been doing for months, Palin will address issues as necessary, not to satisfy her opponents or to meet the demands of those who wouldn't vote for her if their life depended on it.
That is the very dangerous trend that I see in conservative Republican politics today:
"Anybody one inch to the Left of me is a "RINO", at best, or a RAT, at worst, and is just as bad as Far Left-wing Obama."
That works great in a Republican primary since 60% of all Republicans are conservative.
In a general election in America in this day and age, that is a recipe for disaster since 71% of all voters are not Republicans.
To use a football field analogy, Ronald Reagan won in a landslide by attracting conservatives, "RATS" and "RINOS" all the way to the other guy's 40 yard line.
Attracting everybody from your own 29 yard line ( actually, your own 17 yard line since 40% of Republicans are demonized as "RINOS" ) to your own end zone and demonizing everybody else on the playing field is a guaranteed formula for an electoral defeat of Biblical proportions in a general election.
Just ask the Democrats when they tried to impose Left-wing political purity on Senator Joe Lieberman. The voters turned their backs on the political purists on the Far Left 17 yard line and reelected Joe who was on the 40 yard line.
Well stated.
I like Palin, but not ask the Republican nominee for POTUS - my position isn’t popular here and lots of posters would like for me and others like me to go away, stop posting - they are willing to give up my vote, my voice in favor of their “perfect” candidate.
They will lose.
You are entitled to your wrong information. She IS the most qualified - whether you like it or not.
Perhaps you're unaware that Sarah Palin has been asked and offered her opinion on a host of major issues in her position as a Fox News analyst by FOX News commentators and anchors (as well as a few 'mainstream' outlets) and has been doing so for well over a year. No potential Republican candidate has proposed a detailed program to address the economy (or other major issues) but most have, like Palin, offered broad-based solutions. She has been a very vocal advocate for drilling for oil on U.S. land to help offset our dependence on 'foreign oil' and she has recently urged a 'no-fly zone' over Libya, long before Obama and the U.N. agreed to it.
The conception that Sarah Palin has been relatively silent on her ideas for how to address the major issues of our time, including the economy, is absurd. That Palin (and other potential GOP presidential candidates) haven't spelled out very specific, step-by-step proposals is typical a good 18 months prior to the actual campaign and is hardly the lapse in gravitas you seem to believe. Unfortunately, this thread has devolved into a Palin-bashing fest and serves no real purpose so, I'm done with it. Think what you will.
-—That is the very dangerous trend that I see in conservative Republican politics today:-——
I have little actual feel for the greater scope of conservative Republican politics beyond Free Republic. My thought is that there is a holier than thou attitude present on Free Republic that accounts for the RINO creep.
My question is, does it carry on outside the important but limited boundaries of Free Republic?, enough to be a trend of major scope across the larger conservative landscape.
I live in a very conservative area and I don’t think most of my conservative friends would have much thought on the matter of RINO. They would likely think something like
All conservatives are Republican but not all Republicans are conservative.
Yes. But some people support her for other reasons. And some people get downright fangirly about her.
Well, you shouldn't be. If you believe in her you should stick with it. If Sarah does a good job going into details sooner rather than later she may win over almost all republicans and without even trying the majority of independents and many democrats
Primaries are always the hard part. But it's how the candidate gets sharpened for the real race.
No need to start out with a snide remark. I can assure you I “keep up.”
In my view, none of what you cite, facts of which I am well aware, is sufficient to conclude that Palin can even get the nomination, much less win. (Although I think winning the general election might be somewhat easier than winning the nomination this time around.)
Time will tell. If she gets the nomination, I’ll vote for her.
Actually, "making specific proposals on major issues" is exactly what Ronald Reagan did for years before he ever became a candidate:
Many conservatives just seem to have much lower standards today.
The emotional gushing over Sarah Palin has become an irrational Cult of Personality and is at odds with the substance that conservatives used to champion during the days of Ronald Reagan.
Sarah Palin has become the Princess Di of American conservative politics.
"She's conservative!"
"She's a woman!".
"She's cute!"
"Let's all vote for her!"
"Even if she didn't know the al Sadr militia from the Knights of Columbus when her own son was headed for Iraq in 2008!"
"She is soooooo CUTE!"
Remember how such childish foolishness has worked out before:
It's deja vu all over again.
Yes to all you said.
I also find the extreme fangirliness off-putting. Sometimes I feel as though I’m being subjected to the Claymates of a few years ago.
I’m also looking at Palin, but I’m looking at the entire process, too. The point of the remarks made on this thread were really to point out how, whether she meant to or not, she and her supporters need to be aware of the realities that most voters are not very forgiving, particularly this time around.
Voters got burned badly by the Obambi debacle and I think it behooves those of us who want to see a conservative elected to realize the electoral mood.
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