Sarah Palin to Tea Baggers: ‘It’s time for a revolution’
ByFebruary 7, 2010
Sarah Palin, the mouth that roared, brought Tea Party activists to their feet in Nashville Saturday with a rousing speech that called for a “new American revolution.”
Palin, of course, was preaching to the choir — a conservative audience that provided the perfect venue for the former Alaska Governor and failed vice-presidential candidate.
Alternating between folksy humor and sharp jabs at President Barack Obama and Democrats, Palin asked “How’s that hope-y, change-y stuff workin’ out for you?”
She had high praise for the Tea Bag Party.
“This movement is about the people,” Palin said. “Government is supposed to be working for the people.”
Amid multiple standing ovations, the keynote speaker to the opening session of the Tea Party’s first national convention played to the heart of the group’s anti-establishment, grass-roots image.
Her audience waved flags and erupted in cheers during multiple standing ovations as Palin gave the keynote address at the first national convention of the “tea party” coalition. It’s an anti-establishment, grass-roots network motivated by anger over the growth of government, budget-busting spending and Obama’s policies.
She promoted limited government, strict adherence to the Constitution, and the “God-given right” of freedom. She said the “fresh, young and fragile” movement is the future of American politics because it’s “a ground-up call to action” to both major political parties to change how they do business. “You’ve got both party machines running scared,” she said.
Palin suggested that the party should remain leaderless and cautioned against allowing the movement to be defined by any one person. “This is about the people” and “it’s a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter,” she said, jabbing at Obama.
20 Responses to Sarah Palin to Tea Baggers: ‘It’s time for a revolution’
bogofree
February 8, 2010 at 3:11 pm
When Palin was on the campaign trail it was – at least to me – a joke. Was McCain serious? This was worse than Perot picking war hero Adm. Stockdale in 1992. A nice person but seems to subtract rather than add to the campaign. But now? A year or so later she is looking like a mystic thanks to the daily disintigration of the current administration.
As far as the TP they have found a reasonable message that folks are buying into but so far I have seen little substance as they focus on the negative. Still early in the game for them.
griff
February 8, 2010 at 10:47 pm
The tea parties have been compromised. End of story.
Sarah Palin is not your Moses.
Fall into the same trap that was laid by Bush in coronating Obama, if that be your will.
The Empire must be dismantled. No ifs, ands or buts.
Carl Nemo
February 9, 2010 at 1:01 am
“The Empire must be dismantled. No ifs, ands or buts.” …extract from post
Spot-on Griff, but…? Was Rome dismantled by astute citizens who so too witnessed the creeping core rot from top to bottom?
This nation is staggering into the abyss as all before in history that have lost both their meter and measure in terms of maintaining their core principles.
In a thousand years or less the U.S. will simply have become a footnote in the history of failed empires and nations; ie., if history is still written.
Dismantling takes both thought and effort which seemingly our populace is no longer interested or up to the task. So deadly crises shall be their motivator…no?
Carl Nemo **==
Warren
February 9, 2010 at 1:46 am
It interesting to speculate in one’s mind what will come. I see a relatively slow, continuing slide into the abyss. It may take another generation. We will become what the Soviet Union was, or worse (‘Improvements’ in technology), before things really change. I suspect the end result, in another 20 or 30 years, will be a ‘Balkanization’ of what was the United States into smaller regional nations separated by their religious and political and cultural differences.
Fueling the separation will be increasing acceptance of ‘world government’ along the coasts and great lakes, with rejection elsewhere.
The bad part about that is that it will be bloody. The standing government will not passively stand by and watch it happen, no matter what it is that actually happens.
—W—
byreen
February 7, 2010 at 7:59 am
Go ahead and drink the Wassily Tea America but rest assured the contents of the Bag at the bottom of your cup is weak to start with and it’s the only one you will get to make due for four long years.
Nogood
February 7, 2010 at 9:51 am
I watched a little bit of this “dummy” trying to make an effort of making a speech and it got so pathetic that I finally rolled over and went to sleep. She hardly ever looked up from her written manuscript. It reminded me of a teacher in school trying to read to a bunch of 3rd graders. If this is an alternative to the present Administration, then this nation is not only in the “outhouse”, we are down in the “hole”, after the “wiping”.
logtroll
February 7, 2010 at 10:27 am
Well, at least she wasn’t usin’ the dagnab tellyprompter thingy. And it proves she can read. Go to sarahpalin.corp/nakidopportoonist/lookitme!! and make a contribution!
As for the Tea Partiers, I’m confused about the proper metaphorical track to follow:
On the one hand I’m thinking a tea party is where little children get together and pretend that they are doing grownup stuff, stuff which grownups don’t actually do?
On the other hand, regarding the idea that the Tea Party is a grass-roots movement that is being hijacked by, what, “moderate” Republicans? That makes me think on an image where pirates have boarded a derelict nuclear sub right after the crew has ignorantly begun removing the control rods and the reactor is starting to go critical. Then sarahpalin.corp/throwgasonthefire jumps on board and closes the valves on the cooling system.
If you would like to vote for the more appropriate way of thinking, please sign on to logtroll-fool.disorg/insultexchange (aka CHB) and post your best insults.
Warren
February 7, 2010 at 10:33 am
I’m disappointed to see what started as a simple ‘more freedom less government’ movement being co-opted by the nutty fringe right.
It almost goes to self-refutation. ‘Nature abhors a vacuum.’ Political nature also abhors a vacuum. Enter the fruitcakes.
—W—
logtroll
February 7, 2010 at 10:42 am
I don’t know what your local experience has been, but the B.C. Tea Party organizers in my community (before co-option), were already predisposed to vacuum-headedness (Dittoheads, all). I have not seen any of the original goodness of the movement (pun resisted), in fact, in person, in situ.
Perhaps there is a Tea Party ideal, which has never quite existed in reality?
neondog
February 7, 2010 at 11:03 am
Tancredo!
Joe Farah looking for Obama’s birth certificate!
DeGerolamo eliminating forced bussing in North Carolina!
Let’s just call these people what they are.
REPUBLICONS: Same old black helicopter crowd that serves as the RepubliCON Party lynch mob.
AustinRanter
February 7, 2010 at 8:53 pm
We can all grovel about Palin as much as we want but she is getting paid big bucks from publishers and speaking engagements.
If she wasn’t a payoff commodity…then she wouldn’t be where she is.
It wouldn’t hurt my feelings to be considered a hot commodity.
issodhos
February 7, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I must admit that it is humorous to see the predictable hatred being spewed out like clockwork at the various modern-lib controlled fora. I am reminded of Pavlov’s doggy.:-))
Yours in humor,
Issodhos
DejaVuAllOver
February 7, 2010 at 10:20 pm
I’m about as liberal as they come in the original sense of the word, meaning pro-working-class, but I must admit the Tea Partyers do have a point. They seem to be the only ones standing up to the pervasive and omnipresent corruption of our government. I wish liberals would get their s*&t together and see that they are being used by a bunch of ethnic-corporate con artists, the same ones who have also co-opted the GOP. If they did, maybe our filthy-dirty ME wars would end and the robber class would be forced to reinvent the manufacturing sector, or at least do something useful. “The only thing worse than violence, is cowardice.” —-Gandhi
Carl Nemo
February 8, 2010 at 1:10 am
I finally worked up the strength of spirit to listen to this Tina Fey lookalike’s vidclip trying to play the game of politics.
The woman is cursed with an annoying, screechy voice for starters with nothing but the equivalent of a “chicken in every pot and Ford in every garage” type bromide issuing from her cursed vocals. These modern era Tea-Baggers wouldn’t have made a pimple on an 18th century revolutionary’s butt who fought to cast off the chains of British hegemony much less the monsters that control our modern computer surveilled Welfare/Warfare state.
The mere fact she draws an audience at all frightens me especially thinking of her as ascending to the presidency post the wreckage in which Obama & Co. will leave this nation no differently or worse than Bushco; ie, if we’re still around as a nation.
It brings me back to the days when crowds went nuts over Ronald Reagan at the convention center in the early 80′s. They chanted Reagan…Reagan ad infinitum ad nauseum etc. for so long post his nomination that the network news commentators covering the convention where exchanging both stunned and pained glances the whole time; Reagan grinning and waving like “Howdy Doody” along with his “Mr. Bobblehead” routine. Witnessing the mass enthusiasm for Reagan left me stunned because the American flags they were waving along with their hyper-enthusiastic chanting morphed in my mind’s eye into the Nazi flag of another era with the citizens shouting with similar, rabid enthusiasm for their not so dear leader to come.
Someone once said that if totalitarianism comes to America, it will be under the red, white and blue of Old Glory and not some flag from the past such as Nazi era Germany. Nationalism and blind enthusiasm for silver-tongued pols invariably will lead a nation down the same path of destruction.
Rest assured if Ms. Palin gets elected the shadowy controllers will be jerking her too up by the shorthairs while issuing their marching orders no different than our current “disappointement in chief”;ie., President Obama. All candidates talk the talk, but will never walk the walk concerning their campaign trail promises and she’s no different than those before her.
Carl Nemo **==
Warren
February 8, 2010 at 2:01 am
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
- Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here. (1935?)
Carl Nemo
February 8, 2010 at 2:26 am
Thanks Warren. : ) I usually credit quotes, but struck out concerning this one although it’s one of the premier passages I’ve read in my lifetime. I read the book many years ago and feel ashamed that I couldn’t give credit due for such brilliant writing on Lewis’s part.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here
I’ve had a stressful day concerning family issues so I’m not up to my game. Still no excuse. : |
Nemo **==
AustinRanter
February 8, 2010 at 2:44 am
Has anybody wondered why Porn is so wide-spread and consumed on the Internet…and let me include adult stores, and magazines too? BECAUSE A WHOLE BUNCH OF FOLKS ARE BUYING IT! It’s profitable.
When people stop buying other peoples beliefs, philosophies, ideologies…and T-shirts…they go away. Then people find another demi-god to spend their money on.
There’s absolutely no mystique about why people cling to political demi-gods. They promise to give stuff to people if the people will loan the government their credit card. People stand in election lines to do just that.
People are standing in line to buy what Palin is selling. Hey, this is capitalism at its best!
Carl Nemo
February 8, 2010 at 3:18 am
AustinR, wut are you smokin’ tonight? : )
Nemo **==
AustinRanter
February 8, 2010 at 3:30 am
Carl, I’m smoking the truth, my friend, the truth.
Zengine
February 8, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Ironic to hear Palin talk about ‘that hope-y change-y’ like it’s some sort of joke. Just because Obama and the Democrats aren’t handing it out doesn’t mean that the Republicans were ever trying for it. They were just the same old crap and even worse.
Now, although they want nothing but religio-fascism in a new Corporatist America, Palin is taking some sort of ‘told ya so’ attitude.
Ha. Screw her and her dimwited gaggled of fans.