Posted on 09/08/2011 11:58:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After Palin gave two speeches this weekend that positioned herself on the side of reform, with a proven and demonstrable record, and squarely against big government and crony capitalism that invoked the outsider spirit of Ronald Reagan, the GOP establishment, along with Rick Perry's cheerleaders, immediately saw Palin as serious threat to their plans.
But this was hardly the first time where the GOP establishment and Palin's competitors saw her as a threat.
Soon after the 2008 election, in which Palin was forced to basically become a press secretary for a candidate who seemed to not know anything he stood for and perhaps the most disastrously and incompetent presidential campaign in the history of the United States, she spoke at a Republican Governors Association meeting.
Unshackled from the constraints of the McCain campaign, Palin was at ease, and it was clear she was a threat then to the GOP establishment and, in particular, current presidential candidate Rick Perry, who abruptly, awkwardly, and prematurely ended Palin's press conference 15 minutes before it was supposed to, when it was clear Palin was not the bumbling idiot many had assumed she was.
Should Palin enter the 2012 presidential contest, she would threaten Mitt Romney and Perry, and this moment may be symbolic of where the rivalry between Palin and Perry began even though reports have said that Palin and Perry remain friends, especially after Palin's endorsement of Perry during the 2010 election cycle enabled Perry to essentially win his primary against Kay Bailey Hutchison and get elected again.
In the few minutes Palin had to speak at the RGA conference in 2008, Palin said now that the campaign had ended, she was essentially free to do press conference. When a reporter referred to her "political celebrity," Palin, without batting an eyelash, shot the notion that she was a celebrity and focused on substantive issues such as domestic energy production and the Republican governors working as a team to balance budgets and work on health care and immigration reform in the states. When a reporter cluelessly, and in a condescending way, referred to Palin's news conference as her first formal news conference, Palin reminded those in the room that she had been doing press conferences for years in Alaska (this was perfectly symbol and harbinger of a national media that did not know anything about her record of reform and fighting crony capitalism in Alaska).
One thing that was striking was how often Palin called for everyone to be on the same team while Perry seemed jealous that Palin was shining. Since then, Palin has been trying to unite the GOP while her rivals and purported teammates have done everything to try to not be good teammates.
Jack Thompson, who covered the event for HUMAN EVENTS, described the scene from that day:
The Republican Governors Conference Press Guidelines promised that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would “take approximately 20 minutes of questions” at today’s morning press conference. Instead, this press conference, attended by 150 local and national media and taped by 26 video cameras, disintegrated into a fiasco when Texas Governor Rick Perry shut it down after only five minutes and four questions.
Eight other governors assembled on the stage, all men, seemed visibly uncomfortable with the “Palin at center stage” format. When Perry stepped in front of Palin at the podium to announce it was over just as it was getting started, Palin looked irritated, and the media shouted, “You’ve got to be kidding,” “This is ridiculous,” "Come on,” and “We were promised more questions.”
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Later, Palin gave remarks, described by Thompson, that eerily resonates today, especially her reliance on her husband Todd and her warnings about the Obama Adminstration being addicted to "OPM (Other People's Money). Here's Thompson's account of Palin's speech:
Palin, after the truncated press conference, gave a prepared twenty-minute speech in a large hall to approximately 400 members of the RGA ... and the media. Palin recounted what it was like to go through the campaign and what lay ahead for the GOP. Some quotes of note:
--She began by joking that she filled the last two months “with a few speeches, meeting important people who change the world, like Tina Fey, and opportunities to expand my wardrobe.”
--She thanked President Bush for having discharged, over the last eight years, his most important duty of office -- keeping us safe. This was met with long applause.
--“God is in control, and He decided it was not our time and not our moment.”
--“We wish President Obama well, but as the chief executives of the various states it will be our job to lead by example, to oppose any more unfunded federal mandates and the growth of the federal government. All Republican governors embrace the federalist principle that the government closest to the people is the most responsive and most responsible.”
--She took a swipe at what she called the addiction to “opium (Other People’s Money),” found in bail outs that reward bad corporate decisions.
--Finally, in the area of policy, she repeatedly noted that the Republican leadership in Washington had over the last decade betrayed the conservative principles and values of the Party, and that it is up to Republic governors, not to the failed GOP leadership in Washington, to lead the GOP back to power.
To conclude her prepared comments, she got very personal in tone. She said that, during the campaign, her “real right hand man was my husband Todd, and, in the future, I am to rely upon him more and on others less."
She received sustained applause when she remembered all the teenaged girls who came up to her and told her they were excited she had shown “[t]here is no glass ceiling on achievement” and “[o]ne day, a woman will be President.”
Palin has formidable skills when she is her own person and candidate. It is something another formidable politician (much in the way an aging quarterback gets threatened when he sees someone younger and better get drafted), Perry, saw immediately. Should Palin enter the race and be a challenger to Perry, another video clip that will probably be played endlessly is the one below in which Palin, while delivering a substantive speech on energy policy in Texas, playfully referred to Texas as Alaska's "little sister state."
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Maybe instead you could concentrate on saying why those Perry critiques are wrong or off base.
Implying that Palin is acting like Perry does nothing to deflect the criticisms.
Who Perrybots or Palinbots? It’s all so confusing.
Gov. Perry chairs the RGA committee.It may be why he took the microphone when Palin stepped back?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58305.html
What in God’s name are you talking about? What was paranoid about my post?
Cindie
The truth is that Perry may consider her a threat to his being the nominee, but then I believe all the candidates know the others pose the same threat.
The jealousy thing. No
Some of them are right on.
Implying that Palin is acting like Perry does nothing to deflect the criticisms.
In what way did I do that? Palin and Perry are both espousing the exact same policy positions. Perry is obviously more electable than Palin as her negatives (whether she deserves them or not) are literally through the roof. So why is it that the rabid Palin-Onlyists on this forum are so committed to destroying Perry?
Palin isn't even running. Yet her supporters will destroy anyone who gets in her way.
I have merely pointed out the hypocrisy of the rabid Palin supporters and not surprisingly they refuse to acknowledge her blemishes.
Palin bots.Look at the title of the thread and then the video according to them apparently showing Perry jealous of Palin.It is untrue and childish and I am not anybodies bot but maybe a West bot but he is not running and I don’t say he is jealous of anyone or call all others RINO’s JUST to support him- so I am not a bot.LOL I support all of the tea party.I do not support Romney.
Of course it deflects criticism, because it causes me to think about how perfect any conservative really is.
There is none perfect, no not one.
Therfore, we are insane to kill our own to defend our favorite.
We end up with a bunch of dead candidates, and the enemy walks on to victory.
Then we get Obama or Obama-lite (Romney).
Like you were asked earlier, what basic conservative positions do Palin and Perry differ on? Not any fiscal issues, not on life, not on God, not on guns, not on big government, not on marriage and family, not on a strong America, not on our military, and on and on and on.
They differ a bit perhaps on how to deal with border security and with illegals already here, but I don't know.
Are we going to destroy Perry so he can never be senator from Texas? Or Palin so she can never be senator from Alaska?
Will that help us take back the senate some day?
LOUD APPLAUSE and what will they do if Perry picks Palin as VP or energy secretary? He will be Saint Rick all of a sudden.
Agreed. Now this video is strange. Are they all best buds that chat over golf while the country rots?
http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/180551-boehner-boasts-to-biden-about-golf-round-of-the-decade-
Insert: Pic of a pretzel here. (It's all twisted up)
I did see the video. Repeatedly. Four or five times. And I came to another conclusion, sorry. Oh, wait -- not sorry.
The Dims were running it as one of their main ads in support of the feckless and useless Don Antonio Sanchez de Santa Anna, their candidate for goobernator in the "year without white men", when two DemoGenderFems were running the Dim Party and decided to run their Dream Ticket of the Future America: Black guys, Mexican guys, women all over the place, and only old John Sharp in the No. 3 or 4 position on the ballot (lieutenant-governor) to bring the Yaller Dog Democrats out of their East Texas piney-woods trailers to vote for the New America Ticket. Yaller dogs saw the reverse Jim Crow attitude, stayed home, Dims crashed and burned across the board. I cried all the way to the bank.
But I still recognize in Rick Perry a self-important jerk who acts one way on a dais, and another way when he doesn't realize there's a camera watching.
...Thanks to all the clowns that are currently running for head sideshow conservative circus clown. No wonder half the population doesn't vote! Your vote means NOTHING! It's the SOS, different year! What a disgrace!!! (no sarc here)
I agree we shouldn't eat our own. But we need to make sure the winner of the nomination has the strength to win in the general as well. McCain is a prime example of where that failed.
Were they candidates then or already in the WH? For me that would make a difference.
Cindie
As opposed to what, the Liberatarian Party freak show your profile says you are a member of?
And a guy who voted for Ron Paul in 2008 is worth listening to?
Pah.
Somehow I think that Palin supporters would not consider themselves “bots” either. It appears you are a “bot” if you are supporting someone that the person who is calling you a “bot” does not.
see post 111...it was right before the 2004 convention
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