Comments on: Why I Was Disappointed With Palin’s Tea Party Speech

By: JadedByPolitics

JadedByPolitics — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:53:03 +0000

of SMALL GOVERNMENT hold for Jacksonians etc in this day and age those same arguments DO NOT hold water for the safety of America. I am sure WE all would love to believe (in a disney kind of way) that if WE just leave them alone they would leave us alone WELL 9/11 has proven that kind of thinking mute!

WE are going to have to KILL THEM over there to be safe here whether you and Ron Paul and Farah like it or not. This is indeed a global community when it comes to attacking America and WE will need to ensure that these idiots NEVER attack us again and that means having our troops set up around the world to DESTROY them at a moments notice.

By: aesthete

aesthete — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:24:22 +0000

in the case of the Tea Party movement. Heck, I’m not even sure if conservatives make up any more than a plurality in most Tea Party events: certainly, in the one that I attended, I couldn’t find a common thread or vibe beside, “get your hands off my stuff!” from the Tea Partiers. Again, it’s great that Palin has apparently hawkish tendencies on foreign policy, but the venue where she articulated those views was the wrong place to do so.

By: huskerchuck

huskerchuck — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:42:42 +0000

It was a reflective piece, but I think it takes her too much to task, too quickly. It was one speech, about 2 and 3/4 years before the next presidential election. We just got past Obama’s first years, unfortunately, but it’s something we need to keep in mind when criticizing potential candidates.

I think we all don’t mind an open discussion, but even here, I don’t think it brings into stark contrast problems with her views. I don’t see any reason to fault her for bringing foreign policy views to that forum. She wants to get the message out of how ‘we’, being the Conservatives, are different from the party in power, and how we can’t just ignore what we don’t like. But again… too early by half to be criticizing much of ANYONE, except the true off-the-walls.

I like Sarah. I need to see more from her before I give her my total support for ’12, IF she runs. But she definitely has my support for the work she’s doing for Conservatives right now. I expect, over the process of the next year, to see her in many places helping several of our candidates getting elected, as I expect to see out of many of those that seem to have a jump on the ’12 election. But we’ll see. This time next year will be the time to truly start analyzing candidates for a run. Right now, let’s concentrate on helping all of our candidates and those with an audience that are trying to get them elected.

By: The Pennsylvania Republican

The Pennsylvania Republican — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:19:04 +0000

at the libertarian crack, Scope – thanks for the morning chuckle! I don’t think RP would like my armory in the house, to be sure…I make Hannity look like a dove.

Jaded, I had to look up acolyte. Still not sure what it had to do with an analysis of Palin’s speech. I’m just trying to keep up with you…

Aesthete, you nailed it. Thanks!

Thanks for the comments all!

By: aesthete

aesthete — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:35:18 +0000

The Tea Party movement has nothing to do with Iran, Iran, or any other country, it has to do with reckless spending going on in the US. It’s a little bit unfair to criticize her speech exclusively, yes (especially when you consider Joseph Farah’s speech), but her statements on foreign policy would have been more appropriate elsewhere.

By: hickorystick

hickorystick — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:33:51 +0000

and make a Palin Girls video. All you to do is bash people who offer substantive critiques of your Idol. Palin is not the reason the big three Obama issues were defeated. Many thoughtful people went onto cable TV shows and explained logically their reasons for opposing them. If unquestioned support for a candidate, and trashing others who do ask questions is your MO, then reason has become your enemy. Remember Thomas Jefferson had a different vision for America and challenged even George Washington while he was in office. I don’t approve of TJ’s methods, but don’t need to label him “enemy”.
I’m not a Ron Paul fan, but he does a good job of raising some, I said some, questions. As far as Pauls war issues, they are based on old American custom called the Monroe Doctrine. He may be wrong, he may have some bad motives, but free speech will bring that out, not provincial condemnations.

By: Scope

Scope — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:06:48 +0000

This person is a Ron Paul Libertarian. I guess he skipped the Wallace interview the next morning when Palin said that Obama could increase his poll numbers if he went to war with Iran. His head would have shot off at that.

I’m sure that there are plenty of Paulites in the tea party movement, but, they don’t get to set the foreign policy agenda. That is something the Republicans have to be very careful of in their quest to bring as many under the tent as possible, and, in to leadership positions. We could wind up with our country being protected by “those few good submarines” that Ron Paul believes is all we need to protect America.

For PA Repub- Her 2008 VP acceptance speech was wildly popular, and, that shot her right to the top, and gave the weary demoralized Republicans a reason to vote for the McCain ticket. The fact that she gave the same type of speech at the Tea Party Convention only makes her “consistent” and, isn’t that refreshing?

The 2012 elections are far away, and, to feel the need to start shooting the Republicans you don’t like now, is to be a fool. She may never run, so why not hold your bullets until she announces, if she ever does. There are alot of Democrats you could be using those bullets on.

By: JadedByPolitics

JadedByPolitics — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:45:40 +0000

acolyte….grr! but none the less leave it alone with Sarah Palin I do believe WE here at a Conservative/Republican site have had MORE THEN ENOUGH diaries of you poor disillusioned Americans who just cannot take her. I suggest if you are TRULY an American who is against everything that is Obama that you will take whomever is spreading a message of SMALLER GOVERNMENT and revel in it instead of WHINING about someone who is DEFINITELY RIGHT OF CENTER!

Pick, pick, pick that’s all you whining little babies have OBTW when you find “perfection” report back and let us know who that is!

By: JadedByPolitics

JadedByPolitics — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:39:49 +0000

foreign policy talk TO BAD! It is a big ugly world with people who want to kill us because WE are Americans. They have no other reason just WE are American and if you think because some Ron Paul/Libertarians are in the TEA Party that WE are not going to be KILLING THEM OVER THERE you are CRAZY!

By: Viet71

Viet71 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:47:31 +0000

from becoming president is Palin.

She can do it, she is such a force.

But she’s either got some lousy advisers or some lousy instincts.