February 7, 2010

PALIN STOMPS OBAMA AGENDA AT TEA PARTY

Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska and U.S. vice-presidential candidate, wowed the National Tea Party Convention Saturday night at Nashville, Tenn.

She predicted a banner year for conservatives seeking public office.

“A string of recent Republican victories at the polls -- including Scott Brown’s long-shot win in last month’s special election in Massachusetts to replace Senator Kennedy who died after 45 years in office, indicates more victories.”

Palin told the convention that “if there’s hope for the tea party movement in Massachusetts, there’s hope everywhere!”

“It’s so inspiring to see real people -- not politicos, inside-the-beltway professionals -- come out, stand up, and speak out for common sense, conservative principles.

“I am a big supporter of this tea party movement,” Palin said. “America is ready for another revolution!

“The current Democratic administration can no longer blame the previous one for the nation’s ills.  It’s been a year now.  They own this now, and voters are going to hold them accountable.”

COLLAPSE AND RECOVERY

The Obama administration argues repeatedly that the nation’s financial system was on the verge of collapse when he took office last year, and now it is in the early stages of recovery.

Nonetheless, Palin challenged the Obama administration to take note of the election results.  She declared:

“You better stop lecturing and start listening.

“The Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb of big government.  Voters all over the country are sending a message that they want change in Washington, D.C.”

Palin leveled a sharp jibe at President Obama’s campaign slogan by asking him: “How’s that hope-y, change-y, stuff working out for you?”

She pointed out the failures of national security and terrorism – such as the attempt of a Nigerian Islamic terrorist to bomb a passenger plane over Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day-

and then treating him as a civilian, having Miranda silence rights and a free lawyer.

TRUTHS

Palin insisted to a standing ovation that Americans deserve to know the truths about the threats we face.

“To win that war, we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at a lectern.  We need a foreign policy that recognizes its friends from its enemies.” Palin called for sanctions against Iran.

On the economy, Palin criticized “the federal government’s bailouts, the use of stimulus funds for pet projects, and called for oil drilling in the United States.”

She called the national budget-deficit  “generational theft.” Palin declared the list of broken promises is long.

 “Washington has broken trust with the people.  We are drowning in debt, and many of us have had enough!”

So say all of us!

If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.

--- Will Rogers.

When escaping a lion’s den, don’t go back for your hat.

If something doesn’t fit, use a bigger hammer.

By Lindsey Wilger Williams, retired newspaper publisher and syndicated columnist