Posted on 02/27/2015 9:11:20 AM PST by HomerBohn
The Sarah Palin who returned to the GOP stage Thursday had no props, few Palinisms, and just a ghost of her former folksy twang. So what if there were still falsehoods? Palin 2016!
Failed reality television star and mistress of liberal America Sarah Palin is strutting out onstage at CPAC, clad in a white blazer and black skirt. She places her water bottle on the floor next to the podium and opens a binder.
A typical Palin speech usually involves props: Dr. Seuss books or Big Gulp sodas. This year, she has none.
A typical Palin speech is usually an incoherent string of Palinisms haphazardly strung together in her folksy twang. This year, she is subdued and barely has any accent at all.
What the hell is going on? Have the last six years of Palin’s public life just been performance art? Has she purposefully been lowering the bar for her public appearances so that she could come out and impress just ahead of Republican primary season?
Palin opens with a story about George Washington being “overcome with emotion” over America’s first veterans. She asks if America has lived up to Washington’s hope that veterans be treated well and notes the obvious: It hasn’t.
She speaks of her own experience as the mother of a soldier: “Moms can’t be there when they hurt. I could pray and I did and I do, but few things are more difficult than to kiss a child goodbye, off into harm’s way, knowing that you’re not going to be there to protect…Those first deployments, that’s when a mother goes from calling him son to calling him sir.”
The war on terror, Palin notes, is the longest in America’s history and has cost thousands of lives, and damaged many thousands more with PTSD and insufficient health care—or a complete lack of treatment: “They wait for months, they wait for years to get treatment at the VA…We demand that the vets are first in line!”
Palin pivots to foreign policy: “Did we actually win in Iraq and Afghanistan before we waved the white flag? The jury is still out.”
The rise of ISIS, Palin says, “It doesn’t look like victory…the Middle East is a tinderbox, and it is coming apart at the seams.”
Palin claims the rise of ISIS “was predictable. Military brass warned the left: Do not pull out without residual force…The rise of ISIS is the direct result of this administration’s refusal to heed that warning.”
The speech isn’t completely devoid of Palinisms, however—though compared to speeches past, they kind of make sense: “While Christians pray for you, radical Islamists want to cut off your head.”
And it isn’t lacking in falsehoods, either. Palin needles State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf for saying that “we cannot kill our way out of this war.”
“Oh, really?” Palin asks. “Tell that to the Nazis! Oh wait, you can’t—they’re dead!”
Some Nazis are very much alive and were, in fact, receiving Social Security payments from the United States government until late 2014, when President Obama signed into law a bill that banned them from continuing to collect.
But never mind that. Palin 2016!
Put her on the Supreme Court where she could care for the bird-beaked 'justice' afflicted with sleeping sickness as well as a fried brain.
Oh, Olivia, aren’t you a clever girl?
PDS
Palin Derangement Syndrome
Some Nazis are very much alive and were, in fact, receiving Social Security payments from the United States government until late 2014, when President Obama signed into law a bill that banned them from continuing to collect.
I was at CPAC last year in the audience for Governor Palin’s speach, which was good. Missed CPAC this year, haven’t seen the video yet.
Sad to hear that Jeb “amnesty” Bush is getting time at CPAC. Alas, even last year they had GOPe there pretending to be conservative.
I think Sarah Palin is good right where she is at. She needs to go around talking to the conservatives and keep them motivated. Sarah Palin can do that!
If mozzarella is properly pronounced moot-sa-rella
Then Nuzzi must be pronounced Nutsy.
“Put her on the Supreme Court...”
I would love to see her on the Supreme Court (though, to my knowledge, she never studied law) only because the simultaneous large number of coronary events would reduce the leftist population by at least 25%.
There is nothing like the self-righteous self-satisfied liberal who, in decrying falsehoods, persists on telling her own.
That last line about the Nazis was pretty lame. She knew the point, maybe. Just snarkiness.
Ping.
They had to put in a plug for opuke? The left are hypocrites Sarah represents me!
Boy oh boy do they expect her to be perfect?
It’s funny.
Olivia is actually conflicted by this speech.
The Left always talks about respecting strong women. But of course they don’t believe it, it’s just political posturing. Women to the Left are supposed to be floozies whether married or not.
But here Olivia is confronted with a real woman, not a doormat prop like hillary. And now she has questions...wait, this is what we say we want: there she is.
Olivia finally ran into a no compromise woman who she can look up to. And the woman is not a Leftist.
Olivia is...confused. Her life is changing as she writes...
There is no requirement of being a lawyer to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
Lawyers want you to believe otherwise, Sarah Palin could be appointed to the court, now getting confirmed is another matter.
We know what liberals will say - let’s stop helping them say it on FR. Let’s ignore them.
We should start posting conservative reports of conservative ideas.
Sarah Palin: Obama’s VA ‘killing our veterans’
Foreign policy characterized by ‘weakness, retreat and defeat’
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/sarah-palin-obamas-va-killing-our-veterans/
Agreed, Olivia experienced cognitive dissonance between her preconceived Palin notions and what she actually heard.
While most of them were killed and we won.
and were, in fact, receiving Social Security payments from the United States government until late 2014, when President Obama signed into law a bill that banned them from continuing to collect.
But he wants employ Mulim terrorists.
Yeah no kidding. Maybe her daddy will buy her a car when she finishes high school.
Speaking of incoherent....(Olivia, not you)
You summarized it better then I did!
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