Sarah Palin Tells Tea Party U.S. Ready for ‘Another Revolution’
By John McCormick
Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — Sarah Palin, a hero amid the leaderless Tea Party movement, told hundreds of fans at the group’s inaugural national convention that their efforts will empower voters and change America.
“I am a big supporter of this movement,” Palin said. “America is ready for another revolution.”
The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice- presidential nominee said the current Democratic administration can no longer blame the previous one for the nation’s ills.
“It’s been a year now,” she said. “They own this now, and voters are going to hold them accountable.”
The appearance — the first of several Tea Party events Palin plans to attend in the coming months — marks the end of the three-day National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
The convention at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel is the first national meeting of a movement that emerged last year amid protests over the policies of President Barack Obama and the Democrats who control Congress.
Palin’s supporters at the convention say the media has been overly critical of her and there is plenty of time for her to decide whether she will run for president in 2012.
“If that’s where God puts her, that’s where she’ll go,” said Tammy Holmes, 36, a small-business owner from Farmington, Missouri, who is attending the conference.
Tea Party activists, drawn to Palin’s anti-Washington rhetoric and working-mother personality, would form a natural base for Palin should she decide to make a White House bid.
Little Downside
There is little downside for Palin, 45, in so closely associating herself with the grassroots movement, a Republican strategist said.
“The more she can talk to them and talk to conservative evangelicals, the more she can have a passionate following and appeal to a fairly large swath of GOP voters and independent voters,” said John Feehery, who advised former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
“She has attained rock star status,” he said. “That doesn’t necessarily mean she has a great voice, but she has attained celebrity. For a lot of folks she is off-key. But for her supporters, she’s the best thing since Elvis.”
Feehery said he is skeptical Palin will run for president.
“What she is doing, frankly, I think, is trying to make some money,” he said. “The media is fascinated by her and that’s a very big asset.”
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After seeing more of her speech, I think she did a good job. I do wish she’d have hit Obama more on the economy. She might have, but it wasn’t in this clip, anyhow.
“It’s the economy, stupid!” Never truer words have been expressed of the American electorate.
Someone needs to spell out the cost of red ink we are going to have kill us. Again and again, they need to hit that. Because that’s what Obama is about, and he’s going to bribe as many voters as possible; if they have been forewarned of the perils of bankruptcy spending, it will be more likely to not work.
Then we can hit them on the National Security issue much harder.
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