Posted on 08/15/2013 11:25:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Five years after running for vice president on the Republican ticket with U.S. Sen. John McCain, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin showed she still has a following as she heaped praise on the people of the Upper Midwest at the ninth annual Ag PhD Field Day at the Hefty farms near Baltic.
With more than 5,000 people listening to her talks at two different locations on the farm July 25, Palin got the biggest applause when she said, “I would argue what farmers need most is for politicians to butt out and just leave them alone.”
Palin, who is said to be considering a run for the U.S. Senate in Alaska next year, said the farm bill is a good example as it’s loaded with 1930s-era relics and would churn out more regulations for farmers.
“The problem is a big, arrogant government,” she said, “when government is in every aspect of your life and in your business and collecting so much data on you.”
“It’s a bloated, out-of-control government, and it’s not just a Republican or Democrat thing, but big, stupid government making our life harder, not easier.”
She talked about an Illinois farmer who told President Obama that he preferred starting his day in a tractor or combine cab rather than filling out forms or applications for permits.
She said Brian and Darren Hefty talk about the “weed of the week” in their television and radio programming, and she suggested that Washington, D.C., should employ a reformer who would find a government program or bureaucrat that isn’t needed and call it the “weed of the week.”
She also got a big laugh and applause when she said she rather would be governed by the South Dakota Farm Bureau than “the bunch we have in Washington, D.C., right now.”
Palin, who was accompanied by her daughter, Piper, to the event, said farming has been called the “profession of hope.”
“That’s what I see when I visit. I see optimistic, good, hard-working and patriotic Americans who believe the tomorrows are better than today.
“I think that’s what our farmers give us. It’s the real hope, not this hopey-changey thing we hear from Washington.”
Palin said the “elitists on both coasts” call this area “flyover country.” However, she said, she thinks of it instead as the heartland and the salt of the Earth.
Using food metaphors, she likened this region’s people to the beef patties inside a Big Mac or the good, creamy filling in the middle of an Oreo cookie. “You’re the meat and the sweet stuff.”
She said she hasn’t been at many ag appreciation events over the years. In fact, the last time was at the Alaska State Fair when her cell phone rang with a number she didn’t recognize after her visit to the ag tent.
She went to a nearby tent at the fair, and it was McCain asking her whether she wanted to be his running mate.
With her husband working far away at Prudhoe Bay, her Down syndrome son Trigg only 15 weeks old, a son overseas in the military and a daughter who had just told her she was pregnant, Palin said, “Yeah, I have nothing else going on. Sure, why not?”
“Well, it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to,” Palin said about the election. “But I guess things turn out the way they are supposed to be.”
She spends most of her time in Alaska now, and she said that although fisheries, gas, oil and minerals are the main industries, Alaska has a vibrant agriculture industry.
She mentioned in particular the cold-weather vegetables that grow to huge sizes in the land of the midnight sun during the summer months.
She said Alaska holds the world record cabbage at 127 pounds. She also mentioned that state residents have grown a 96-pound kohlrabi, 82-pound rutabaga, 42-pound beet, 39-pound turnip, 35-pound broccoli and 18.9-pound carrot.
“That’s the size of a salmon,” she said of the carrot.
“We grow ’em big, but of course it’s nothing like you all produce for the U.S. and the rest of the world.”
Although farming is changing with all of the technology, she said what hasn’t changed is the American farmer.
“You not only feed America, but you are what has helped make America so special, so exceptional. You helped build America.”
In all, an estimated 6,500 people from 30 states, including a busload from Pennsylvania, attended the field day, the largest such event in the U.S. and the largest for the Hefty family since it started the event.
Darren Hefty said that Palin’s appearance wasn’t meant to be political, but with less than 1 percent of the U.S. population involved in farming, it was a chance to talk about ag issues with an influential person.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a Democrat, was the main speaker last year.
“She was certainly a draw,” Hefty said. “We wanted her to speak to farmers about how their voices could be heard more effectively in Washington. I thought she delivered a good message about the importance of agriculture to our country and how farmers are viewed in a positive light by the general population.
“It was just an encouraging message that what we are doing is being seen by most people and we just need to unify our voice and speak to our legislators.”
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If he was in charge we would be trapped in a few more Iraqs and Afganistans, w him and his Robin Grahamnesty.
Neocons like them believe that the worlds problems will be solved if we just get third world nations poor uneducated losers to vote, even if they hate the USA.
I'd replace "kowtowing" with "being respectful to", but you're right. And like you, I don't have a problem with that. It's called good manners. It's something conservatives have, but many liberals are lacking.
Palin does oppose many of McCain's policies, and I'm sure she'll continue in that direction.
Palin says what farmers Americans need is to be left alone
She is not only “easy on the eyes” but brilliant as well. The total package! Farmers have said this for decades, but then the dayum subsidies started because production was waaaay too high—they over produced.
” She’s still cowtowing to McCain, personally.
It’s for personal considerations, the political issues aside, that she pretends otherwise.”
Well, that is certainly a great reason to support her......
Would you have a link?
It’s already been posted in this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3053689/posts
There you go.
Given what he’s doing with shamnesty I think it’s a horrible idea to give him praise on any issue especially out of thin air.
YES SHE DID!! She endorsed his ass.
Hayworth was not up to the task
BS. I'm sorry if it gives you cognitive dissonance but it's a fact, she helped him and that was unacceptable. She's not a perfect paragon, deal with it.
I forgot about that, they can be transfered to HHS along with anything else that’s worthwhile and not just a conduit for farm pork. The National Agricultural Library for example.
I would like to really downsize the Cabinet. Too many departments and too much unconstitutional spending.
Never said she was PERFECT, nobody is.
If you think Sarah caused the Primary Landslide Victory of McCain over Hayworth, think again. As I said, Sarah did one McCain Fundraiser before Hayworth even got into the Race.
She would have looked pretty petty not Endorsing the guy that brought her into the National Political limelight. I never said she didn’t endorse him BTW.
You said she didn’t help him. You are splitting hairs to defend her.
She did help and that WAS NOT COOL and I would dispute you claim that made it so little difference McStain may well have have won anyway, or maybe not we can’t know, but she damn well had an impact in all of her endorsements. The man is scum. I didn’t say she had to campaign with Hayworth (though she should have) but she could have damn well stayed out of it.
There are much more important things than not looking “petty”. McStain USED HER. She owes him NOTHING.
just a few simple laws that uphold property rights, patents , contracts and let individual private owners settle any disputes in courts. just the constitution and not much esle
so if the race for president were
Sarah Palin vs Obama
or Sarah Palin vs Hilliary clinton
would you vote for Palin?
she could help the USA ,Obama and democrats will only further socialism and turn the USA into a large detroit
Permits for what?
Don’t play games me with. Of course I’d vote for Palin or probably any Republican against Hillary or Osama. I voted for that piece of bilge McStain and that crapheel Romney after all.
I ask you what the hell the point of your stupid question was other to try to paint me as a democrat because I dared criticize a figure you admire. Childish nonsense.
Then you’re wrong. When his criticism of Mr. Obama is correct, you say so. Are you an Obot?
Lame vet, lame.
No one asked her, she posted praise of McCain apropos of nothing. Why?
Honest to God, I am real tired of this. Say a single negative word about a certain person they idolize and some fool calls you a democrat. Grow up man.
No?? HUMMMM
Palin at a McCain rally in AZ 2010 :”John the maverick spent his entire career fighting for common sense conservative solutions.... We are not the party of NO, we are the party of HELL NO”,
bringing wild cheers.
Palin: McCain's 'gonna win'(video March 2010 in Arizona rally)
Looks like common sense conservative Mccain got back with the party of 'YES Sir Mr President put it right in HERE, YES it feels good there..'
Well, there you go.
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