Sarah Palin to the Tea Party: only dead fishes go with the flow UPDATE: Palin responds to Hoffa comments
UPDATE below.
I wasn’t going to post anything on this but I thought what she had to say in New Hampshire over the weekend was particularly appropriate in light of the “take out the sons of bitches” comments by Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa. It’s just a short outtake from an entire speech that really was pretty good, and can be seen in its entirety at www.therightscoop.com.
The most quoted part of this speech is where Palin describes the ideal candidate and the crowd begins to chant run Sarah run. I’ve included that below.
The far more important part of the speech came toward the beginning and I’ve cut it down just for you. This is where she tells her audience to go out and spread the word and grow the tea party because they’re so much more work to be done. More importantly she told them to ignore the name-calling you’ve already endured the worst continue to fight the status quo. Ironically she was speaking these same words at the same time that Hoffa was calling for an all-out attack on the tea party. I thought the dead fishes line at the end of the speech was particularly ironic.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI1DaWV2o5Q
I don’t know that she is or ever will be my choice for president of the United States, but few people if any other out there speak with more clarity and purpose when it comes to what this country faces and choices that need to be made. For that I am in her corner.
BTW, Here is the “run Sarah run” moment of the speech.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLuXWz2GUZM
UPDATE: Sarah Palin has responded to Jimmy Hoffa’s “sons of bitches” comment by reaching out to regular union members. In her Facebook post she reaches out to union members and asks them to think about who really represents the working class? Via www.therightscoop.
This collusion is at the heart of Obama’s economic vision for America. In practice it is socialism for the very rich and the very poor, but a brutal form of capitalism for the rest of us. It is socialism for the very poor who are reduced to a degrading perpetual dependence on a near-bankrupt centralized government to provide their every need, while at the same time robbing them of that which brings fulfillment and success – the life-affirming pride that comes from taking responsibility for your own destiny and building a better life through self-initiative and work ethic. And Obama’s vision is socialism via crony capitalism for the very rich who continue to get bailouts, debt-ridden “stimulus” funds, and special favors that allow them to waive off or help draft the burdensome regulations that act as a boot on the neck to small business owners who don’t have the same friends in high places. And where does this collusion leave working class Americans and the small business owners who create 70% of the jobs in this country? Out in the cold. It’s you and your children who are left paying for the cronyism of Obama and our permanent political class in DC.
And then she adds this by taking her own little jab that Jimmy Hoffa and his comments.
Recently someone commented: “I’m a union member. I’ve been a Democrat all my life. Now I’ll vote for anyone with a plan to save America.” I know what that person is feeling. I want all good union brothers and sisters to know that there is an alternative. The grassroots, independent Tea Party Movement articulates a real alternative rooted in free men and free markets, not the cronyism of Barack Obama and the permanent political class in DC. Their cronyism is why we have no job growth, massive unsustainable debt, and a housing market in the tank. Too many politicians are simply addressing the economic symptoms instead of fighting the underlying disease. The path forward is through reform. On Saturday, I outlined some ideas about that reform, and I will continue to do so.
In the meantime, good union brothers and sisters, don’t let Hoffa tell you what to do. He doesn’t represent the real interests of working men and women. He’s not doing you any favors. He’s just living off your paychecks.
As a union member, amen to that sister.
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They are trying to do to the TEA party what they did to Palin: use innuendo, lies, mis- and half truths, and propaganda to make them the object of ridicule.?
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To paraphrase Pogo: “we have met the TEA party, and it is us”.
I wish those small business owners, who create 70% of the jobs in this country that they started doing just that. What are they waiting for? The second coming, maybe? No risk? No uncertainty? What?
And I am waiting for those Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to kick in with all those jobs, too!
Sorry you missed it Crystal44. we’re you in a coma, on another planet?? As President Bush took office we were entering a ressesion, 9-11-2001, we were attacked, 2938 people murdered.? Pres. Bush cuts taxes across the board, amoung thoes cuts; child deduction goes from 500 to 1,000.? 55 straight months of job growth, gov. revenue increases by 44%.
crystal, you must be referring to all? those “shovel ready jobs” that the great economist, ?bama (and his court jesters) said would result from spending our country into historically high levels of debt.? Surely that is it, no?
With the prospect of ?bamacare regulations, ever changing tax code, ever changing EPA regulations, a continued recession/depression, would YOU hire more people?
Bullies like Hoffa, big mouths with no clue, cannot stand shoulder to shoulder with a Tea Party movement that’s all about American exceptionalism. ?Hoffa would like his union members to believe he’s “fighting” for them, whatever that’s supposed to mean. ?In truth, this thug is a parasite, living off his union brothers and sisters. ?I think there’s a special place in Hell for evil creeps like this.
I could not say it better?Eric.
The name calling is getting boring and dull: the same insults are used again and again. No creativity!
sammy22 -?”What are they waiting for?” , they are waiting for the government to get out of their lives.
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They are going “Gault”.
Why work harder if the government is going to just take it away? Let me run my life without interference from the local, state or federal governments. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness not you will do what we tell you.
I give Sarah Palin CREDIT because she calls it as she sees it.
Jimmy Jr. actually said, “let’s take these son of a bitches out”.?
“We need to have your help for candidates like me. We need you to take out some of these bad guys.”
Bachmann, ironically at a Tea Party gathering.
And Palin’s “Relock and reload” and “aim for” democrats…that was just fine.
The difference is that the unions interpret this as a call to violence and thuggery, while the TEA party interprets it as a call to get out the vote.
I LIKE Sarah, a lot.? The ‘experts’ keep saying she has no chance.? I agree with 95++% of what she says…yeah, her voice and delivery grate me a little sometimes.? But Ohzer0’s grate me all the time, content not withstanding.
@ Marilyn, no, no..I think you missed it. When Bush took office we had a surplus and were on track to be debt free, yes, debt free in 10 years (That’s by 2010)!
He instituted the tax cuts, then for the first time in history, we went to war without a tax increase to cover it. Then a 2nd war!
After 9/11 and the start of war, anyone in their right mind would have at least rescinded these tax cuts.
And so began our freefall into what the economy is today.
And why does Obama want to extend the current social security payroll cut another year? $1000 per year per worker. Social Security must be doing better than we think.
You forgot that the economy was recovering after 9/11 (with the Bush tax cuts) and that things truly went bad starting in 2007, when the Democrats took control of Congress.? It is documented.