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Sarah Palin: Ryan Will Mean ‘More Enthusiasm’ for Romney From Tea Party, Says McCain Camp Didn‘t Have Her Back in ’08

Sarah Palin Paul Ryan

AP

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Sunday she‘s excited about Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, and predicted that it will invigorate Tea Party voters who were lukewarm about his candidacy.

“I think a lot of, maybe Tea Party patriots have understood, wisely, that they’ve had no choice — of course they’re going to go with anybody but Obama,” Palin said on Fox News. “And now yes, I believe there will be a strengthening, more enthusiasm.”

The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee said a Romney-Ryan ticket “will certainly offer an alternative to the vision that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have for America.”

Palin said Obama’s philosophy is based on “growing government and taking away personal freedoms” while Romney and Ryan offer a “sound and secure vision for America that understands the free market, it understands what it takes to get the economy roaring back.”

“With Paul Ryan, who’s known for his conscientious concern for our budget and for getting America out of debt, this makes it tougher for Obama to do his continual distracting and dividing and pivoting off the economy because this ticket represents this campaign is about the economy,” she said.

Asked what Ryan and his family have to look forward to in their introduction on the national stage, Palin said he will be scrutinized and vetted, but that “there are a lot of us who will have his back and we will call out the media for their lies, for their distortion as they try to thrash his reputation and his record.”

Echoing themes she’s raised before, Palin said she felt Sen. John McCain‘s campaign staff didn’t always support and defend her in 2008.

“I felt, Shannon, that when I was thrust into that spotlight, didn’t have a whole lot of people in the McCain campaign who had my back and would correct the media because they had a lot of friends in the media and they wanted jobs with the media afterward — they didn’t really defend what I really stood for,” she said.

Watch Palin’s full appearance below:

Comments (139)

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  • david3755
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:44pm

    A good looking, smart woman standing in front of the Texas Flag. It don’t get any better than that!!

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    • NoUseForLogic
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:47pm

      She’s actually one of the most uneducated and dimmest “politicians” there are, and has trouble forming a sentence.

       
    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:22pm

      I can’t believe Palin is selling out now. it’s over. Kiss Our Freedom Goodbye

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    • mopman64
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:25pm

      @NOUSE, but she made Gov and ran for VP how about you. Can you list those on a resume? Well how about it? How far in life have you gone?

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:37pm

      NoUseForLogic

      -Dim politician like Ted Kennedy? Kicked out of an Ivy league School for cheating.
      -How about Al Gore. How many schools did he go through?
      -Then there is George W.Bush who the left claims is stupid. When we look at his GPA it compared favorably with Gores. Yet the left still makes the claim.
      -The there Baruch Obama. His transcripts are sealed under lock & key. He spent 1 to 4 million dollars in legal fees to keep his grades hidden.

      You FAILED so BADLY in your arguments. Please play again :)

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:41pm

      George W Bush (2.35 GPA Yale) Intel to low vs Gore (2.2 GPA).

      And Kerry? Kerry is a wreck.

      http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html

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    • mbriz
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:37pm

      I’d IQ test anyone who thinks this women is smart.

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    • DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:50pm

      Maybe now Sarah can acknowledge Romney as our candidate and vocally support him? That would be nice. A few rallies, maybe? Come on…don’t make me angry, Sarah.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 8:05pm

      Sarah Palin is beautifully educated and she saved Alaska from a horrid take over and theft of their natural resources. She loved America enough to leave her office (in good hands) so she would not scuttle the economy of AK… YOU ghouls, you demons, you thankless, gutless wonders keep knocking her…you aren’t worthy to shine her shoes.

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 8:26pm

      @ PATTY HENRY not me ,I voted for Sarah and that old guy (WHATS HIS NAME) back in 08 and would vote for her again .

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    • stumpy68
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 8:37pm

      @mbriz
      In the 160+ range last time i took a test, you?

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    • americansfightingforcommonsense
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 9:33pm

      This is what the Left does. Call normal down to Earth People who are honest and hard working, that they are stupid. Sara is far from stupid and is smarter than the idiots making these claims against her.

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    • ERP
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 10:00pm

      “I felt, Shannon, that when I was thrust into that spotlight, didn’t have a whole lot of people in the McCain campaign who had my back and would correct the media because they had a lot of friends in the media and they wanted jobs with the media afterward — they didn’t really defend what I really stood for,” she said.”

      Smells like sour grapes there Sarah

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    • cbrown
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 10:07pm

      UPDATE NEWS: Sarah Palin has not been invited to speak in 2012 Republican convention.Gov Plain just broke the news that she will not be attending the convention. I believe the lamestream media is responsible for this :)

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    • grayling646
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 10:36pm

      @MBRIZ

      My IQ is around 70 on a warm day and I’m still not dumb enough to vote for Obama. So what would your IQ be?

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    • jzs
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 11:21pm

      What is it about Sarah Palin that makes people think she’s the second coming of Christ? I think I know why, but it isn’t because of her grasp of policy or foreign affairs.

      Sarah Palin will go down in history as worst pick for VP in the history of the United States. After the convention, where she gave a pretty good speach I’ll agree, she doomed the ticket. The American people aren’t stupid, and anyone could see that beyond the platitudes, there was nothing, no depth, no understanding of the issues.

      And that’s the way it is now. She can give little soundbites. Will she ever again, as long as she lives, appear on any non-FOX news show or every again be interviewed by a legitimate journalist? Answer: no. Will she every hold another elective office? Answer: no.

      Palin is out of her league outside a PTA meeting, except as an attractive woman with name recognition who can recite the Tea Party line.

      Do you know what’s sad? She thinks she’s a deep thinker even as she parrots the Republican Luntz approved talking points. That‘s what’s sad.

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    • The Giver
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 11:22pm

      You’re right. Sarah in front of the Texas flag is awesome. May God bless Sarah and her family. She said it right…Be happy and let your enemies know it : ) I hope the GOP backs Ryan and don’t do to him what they did to her. I hope they learned from that mistake. God, please heal this country.

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    • randy
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 11:48pm

      Yeah and we’ve seen how good Obama is at forming a sentence when his teleprompter breaks down……

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    • calypsocoral
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:49am

      There are two distinct forms of “Smart”– academic intelligence, and wisdom.

      Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama have plenty of academic intelligence, yet they both ran the country into the ground.

      Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin (yes, I’ll put them together, if you don’t like it, read something else) didn’t possess the most academic intelligence, yet their actions led to prosperity for the USA in Reagan’s case, and Alaska in Palin’s case. How can that be? They learned from life experience, for which there is no substitute.

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    • DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 7:43am

      JZS – soil, dirty and destroy all good. The liberal way – touched by evil.

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    • pitman44
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:30am

      NoUseForLogic, you’ve obviously never heard Obama speak without a teleprompter. The man cannot express a simple thought without the use of a dozen uhs.

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    • WestTexasCountryBoy
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:01pm

      Amen Brother!

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  • Daveed
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:36pm

    pretty much America’s treasury has been absconded with. The pretend that Obama campaign does not have money is just another putrid lie.

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:56am

      JZS Something is in your ‘eyeball’. Better have a doctor look at that right quick. How can you guys think O-blame-a is the second coming of Christ?

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:32pm

    McCain’s incompetent team tried to muzzle Palin when she should have been left to bloody obama/biden/pelosi/reid’s noses. Nobody respects a groveling, especially when it is before of a bunch of America hating appeasers. They slap America- you put the beat down on them – HARD!

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    • NoUseForLogic
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:40pm

      I agree, they should have let Palin lose the election for McCain twice as much as she did…

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:52pm

      NoUseForLogic

      Palin’s school teacher father did not pay for her education. She worked her way thru college. She has a degree in communications with an emphasis ion journalism. Are you going to rip Palin to shreds for a communications degree when many news anchors & reporters have such degrees & you hang on their every word judging by your political slant & who watches those leftist journalist?

      BTW have you graduated college or do have an honest job in the trades? You seem a might bit defensive.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:11pm

      Walkabout
      There’s nothing wrong with a degree in communications, but if communications and journalism are her field of study, doesn’t that make it even worse that she is so dumb that she thinks “what newspapers do you read” is a gotcha question and she fell for a Canadian comedian who called her up using a Pepe le Pew accent and claimed to be Nicholas Sarkozy.

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    • DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 8:32pm

      NOUSE, CHET…the woman has been a mayor, a governor and candidate for vice-president. She’s obviously got more brains than the two of you.

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    • Look4DBigPicture
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 9:28pm

      @NoUseForLogic

      I had enough sense not to want Obama to win, but were it not for Palin, I wouldn’t have even bothered to vote in 2008. McCain was a horrible candidate, lousy debater, and is a big government RINO. I always change channels when he’s on TV because he creeps me out.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:24pm

    …
    I remember when Sarah accidentally autographed an American flag that someone slipped to her to sign, while she was in a huge crowd being interviewed, and distracted by autograph seekers.
    The media ripped her to shreds for signing an American flag.

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-sarah-palin-sign-an-american-flag/

    Where’s the media when Olympic athletes greatly disrespect our American flag?
    When athletes win their event, they wad it up, drag it on ground, wrap their sweaty bodies in it, and use our flag as a sweat towel to wipe their faces.

    I saw a spectator at an event, who had written words on every white line of our nation’s flag. The cameras zoomed right in on it. The media thought it was great.

    Also, the American flag fell completely off the pole as it was being raised for our gold medallist on the podium, and it fell to the floor. The audience just laughed. They did not stop the music and reattach the flag, or redo the ceremony.
    Where was the media outrage? Where was the public outrage?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COm3J2QXDv0&feature=related

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  • SammyStutsfruckle
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:17pm

    She’s exactly right and that D-bag McCain endorsing Ryan is the kiss of death. Please Johnny Rotten, keep your pie hole closed until AFTER the elections. Don’t jinx it.

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    • Goldline_scam
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:28pm

      Why do they keep giving this brain-dead ditz a microphone? Who cares what Sarah Palin thinks? She hold no political office … isn’t running for any political office … quit the last government job she had … and is now just a media wh@re.

      Broad is dumb as a box of rocks.

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    • mbriz
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:35pm

      This women needs to shut her mouth, and go read her People Magizines, and leave the thinking to smart people. Stop blaming everyone else for you being a moron.

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    • grayling646
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 10:42pm

      @MBRIZ

      OK. So I’m a moron. I’m still not dumb enough to vote for Obama. What does that make you?

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  • ericsez
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:07pm

    john mccain was not only a joke as a candidate, but overtly psychotic as well.sarah palin’s dynamic persona exasperated things because she intimidated the hell out of mccain and his faithful as well as the repubilican establishment. they damned her with faint praise and took every opportunity they had to sabotage her behind the scenes. mccain, unintentionally, all but admitted it today on the fox sunday follies. the truth be known, she was more qualified than the entire field in 2008 combined. these guys talk a great deal of trash, but they are afraid of anyone that steers this country AWAY from socialism.

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    • Goldline_scam
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:25am

      Yet she can’t name any newspapers or magazines she reads, and can’t define the Bush Doctrine. Meanwhile, her kid gets knocked-up out of wedlock, then proceeds to go on a nationwide “family values” tour preaching abstinence.

      You couldn’t make this **** up!

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  • Miss Anne
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:03pm

    Sarah Palin had her chance, several times over, to make her mark on the GOP. However, her weird books and reality shows eventually got on everyone’s nerves. Well, Ms. Palin, you were our Great White Hope against Hillary Clinton, and you have let us down. Americans have become much more discriminatory in their choice of a female candidate, and your ramblings on Fox News have shocked even your most ardent supporters.

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    • Altair
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:20pm

      Another catty anti-Palin remark. Just eat up with jealousy.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:22pm

      I don’t blame McCain for not getting behind someone who had a preacher who believes witches actually exist lay hands on her.

      We have enough mysticism in government office already.

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    • PhilipJames
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:36pm

      Ooops…. a skank liberal slithering around here, dropping her turds of idiotic crap.

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    • Sosorryforyou
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:46pm

      Palin absolutely did more to hurt McCain’s election bid than any other factor, and McCain had to have had “buyers remorse” quickly after announcing her as his running mate. Only a very small slice of the American electorate have ever liked her but most people, including many conservatives and repubs think she’s was and still is a train wreck and does nothing to enhance the conservative cause.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:57pm

      ModerationIsBest

      After the numerous frivolous lawsuits that were thrown out, but were HeII to pay to defend against ($500k plus) & the failed political operatives that tried to sideline her, heII ya she should have done reality TV which is scripted, taken the money & ran.

      Only someone like you could be happy when libs force someone out of a job & then they turn around & cash in on it to survive & then thrive.

      We know where you stand rabid atheist.

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    • pharmacognosist
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:25pm

      You are wrong.

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    • grayling646
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 10:46pm

      Miss Anne is a plant.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:27am

      @WALKABOUT

      What does what you said have to do with what I wrote?

      I merely said that it would be difficult for McCain to back someone who had a preacher lay hands on her while talking about witchcraft.

      She’s a loon, by definition.

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:26am

      @ MODERATION
      An Moderates are Brain Dead
      Middle of the Road (get run over)
      Fence Sitting .
      Please Someone Tell Me what to Think
      Moron’s

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  • G.E.R
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:01pm

    Ryan is the samething she was nothing more than a window dressing.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:07pm

      They are both symbollic, but I’ll at least say that Palin was more of a conservative than Ryan is.

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    • Sosorryforyou
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:56pm

      The conservative issues that Ryan is for are the issues that will hurt him the most with key voters. But, whatever his views are, it won’t matter once he becomes VP because he will have very little to do with policy change. The GOP would have been better off keeping one of their most talented congressmen in Congress, not in a position in the White House where his talents will go to waste.

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  • NoUseForLogic
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:57pm

    Hahaha that’s about all it will mean, and all it was intended for.

    Willard was bullied by the tea party once again. Fatal error, well, what hasn’t been fatal, just keepin‘ the little show goin’ for as long as possible. It‘s why Mitt hasn’t spent any of his own money on this campaign.

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    • John 1776
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:10pm

      What’s not to like about a successful businessman and an intuitive budget planner teaming up on the ticket during a time when the nations finances are in a socialistic shambles?

      Romney is criticized for being a “Success.” Odd that we would not want our leader to have that kind of reputation. Somebody has to clean up what the prior Marxist has done. The only budgets that have been voted on (and passed in the house) have been the Ryan ones. The Dems haven’t put any budget together since March of 2009. This proves they are “true and present failure.”

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:19pm

      @John,

      That’s sorta true. According to the Budget Act of 1974, the POTUS now starts the annual budget process. He has actually done that. Now his budgets were absolute jokes and I think one was voted down 99-0 in the senate. But, your point is taken…it’s not like they tried again after the POTUS flopped.

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    • NoUseForLogic
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:51pm

      Nobody has criticized Romney for being a “success”. That’s just your perception that has been manipulated.

      Romney spent $42 million of his own money the last time he ran for President. This time he’s spent around $150,000. He knows he’s not winning anything. Just another business venture, maybe some writeoffs to avoid paying taxes…

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:25pm

      John 1776
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:10pm

      Romney is criticized for being a “Success.”
      =====================================

      Actually, Romney is criticized for being a Progressive:

      Romney in 2002: “My views are progressive……”

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    • Maxim Crux
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 9:30pm

      Hey…NoUSEforLOGIC…I have to hand it to you pal, you certainly picked a stage name that proves you are an idiot. Perhaps you should try this, Logic says, “put a the brakes on before your car goes over a cliff”, When you are faced with that kind of logic, take your own advice…ignore it! Thanks for giving me something to laugh about. You are a real treasure. Keep it up.

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  • lylejk
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:53pm

    Any ordinary VP candidate that was on the loosing ticket would have gone away a long time ago. Sarah Palin’s wonderfully not ordinary thank God. Even after nearly 4 years, she still more then relevent and continues to help get true patriots into office even against the party’s backed candidates. Soon, maybe, we can rid ourselves of the RiNOs, neocons and other GOP progressives and get back to what we should have. Again, all I have to say is you go girl. :)

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  • mikellyusabr
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:51pm

    I really hope Sarah one day becomes President or Vice.

    The beast to conquer for this to happen is hoity-toity snobbism. Many intelligent people with this cancer in their hearts allow the mainstream press to say any old thing and they keep silent because it reinforces the story of their personal vanity. The tragedy is they damn well know better. This is precisely the crack in character where Progressive power-mongers enter and feed their sweet poison to intellectuals.

    Sarah is highly intelligent. She is not a dingbat. She has character of the finest kind. And she loves America with all her heart.

    This woman is well aware of the limits of power–which means she does not bring her church into her public policy affairs. Once, back in her Wasilla government days, while being a member of of a church that preached abstinence, she fought for the local bars to stay open at night–because it was THEIR right to live THEIR lives the way THEY wanted to live them, not hers. This is the mark of a person who knows and practices freedom fundamentals, not just gives lip service to them. And that was from the beginning.

    There is a new story of Sarah that needs to be spread in the mainstream–the true story–to undo the revisionist story the MSM pumped and the cowards who knew the real story, but kept quiet, didn’t refute.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:48pm

    …
    I had the greatest respect for John McCain and his family.
    When he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, I had even greater respect.
    Now, ALL that respect is gone.
    I can’t stand the sight of traitor John McCain or his idiot daughter.

    John McCain threw Sarah Palin, his Campaign, the election, and America, under the bus.
    McCain never even tried to win. He was too busy kissing Obama’s butt, and stabbing Sarah Palin in the back.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:58pm

      How long are conservatives going to play along. Look at the mid-90′s…that congress was FULL of rino’s. GWB? Rino. McCain? Rino. When are y’all gonna figure this out? The GOP ain’t conseravtive America.

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:36pm

    Sarah makes many mentions of Tea Party Patriots. Is she reading us? We love Sarah and agree that McLame sabotaged her political career. We are energized by the Ryan pick. I can not speak for the organization that is called The Tea Party Patriots, but as someone who knows their site, I can safely say “full steam ahead!”.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:04pm

      @OlefromMN
      The Tea Party Patriots is not “the tea party. It is one of thousands of tea party groups around the country. The tea party is not an organization. it has no headquarters, no president, no officials and no membership card. If you believe in America’s true founding principles, you are part of the tea party.

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    • OlefromMN
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:25pm

      @qpwillie

      Read “The Starfish and the Spider”. I understand the Tea Party is a leaderless organization.

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  • Want our country back
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:25pm

    OFF TOPIC:

    TO THE BLAZE, I think that you should go into making political ads. You have the researchers and the talent to make GREAT ads.

    I bought my 12 yr old granddaughter Michael Vey – Book 2 and she read it in 2 days and can’t wait for the next one. I read the first one myself and couldn’t put it down, it was so interesting. Haven’t read the 2nd one yet.

    Congratulation in all your new endeavors.

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  • ricckky
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:19pm

    Sarah doesn’t lie— that’s why she is hated so much!!!!!–sad commentary on our Government today!!! That includes the rhino republican ilks!!!!—LIARS, LIARS, LIARS——She has more common sense in her little finger than the entire dysfunctional talking heads!!!!

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  • jackact
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:18pm

    Yes Sarah you are right.
    More Tea Party enthusiasm will be generated due to Ryan’s nomination.
    Now when we vote for Romney we only have to hold one nostril.
    When we reluctantly voted for McCain we had to hold both nostrils.
    Even with the benefit of having you on the ticket Mrs. Palin.

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:15pm

    They have it wrong about Independents. Most Independents are conservatives who don’t want to be associated with the elitist Republicans.

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:21pm

      @QP. Finally a comment from you that i can agree with. Independents for Dr. Paul.

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    • Individualism
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:28pm

      Independents do not want war, they are fiscally conservative and socially liberal and prefer cuts that are not in entitlements or survival services.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:38pm

      @circleDwagons
      Paulbots are usually registered as Republicans or Libertarians. …And they’re more liberal than conservative. On foreign policy, they’re to the left of most Democrats.

      Paulbots conservative? Nope.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:57pm

      @Individualism
      Independents are simply people who don’t belong to any political party. You can’t make a one size fits all statement about them..

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:01pm

      @QP,

      Don‘t know what folks you know but you can’t be in the modern sense liberal and be for Dr. Paul. For some reason, conservatives really get stuck on the legalized drugs and non-interventionist foreign policy. Dr. Paul would shrink the government dramatically, and it would be to many entitlement programs despite indi’s assertion otherwise. These are in no way liberal concepts. To be staunchly contitutionalist is hardly liberal. Either your liberal friends are misinformed or you are.

      No matter, Dr. Paul isn‘t running so I don’t know why you folks keep seeing the boogeyman there.

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:02pm

      @QP. Nope on foreign affairs we are more conservative. We don’t want the Government dictating our lives why in world do we want our Govtmt in other countries?

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    • KC1
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:20pm

      @QP
      Really non intervention foreign policy is not conservative?
      Spending a trillion a year to force countries to behave the way we approve of and not leaving until they do is conservative?
      I see what you are saying, massive debt, disdain for the Constitution and bully attitude towards smaller countries is conservative. Well no wonder you all consider Mitt a conservative, by that standard Obamas a conservative also.
      You Republicans are not Tea Party, the Tea Party wants to return to the principals of the Constitution
      and that means Constitutionally declared wars.
      You war mongering Neo Cons are not conservatives rather you are Big Govt lovers just ike Obama supporters.
      You support more wars and you want Big Govt to pay for it via China and more Debt.
      Now thats a dangerous foreign policy aka bi partisan Bankruptcy.
      Romney voters and Obama voters actually agree on most policy issues, the only constitutionalists (conservatives) left are the Tea/Paul supporters, the rest of you are advocates of an unconstitutional, over sized Govt and that is not conservative, thats progressive.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:25pm

      No INDI it’s “Libertarians” that say they are fiscally Conservative (to the extreme) and socially Liberal (maybe even more morally banckrupt than the Dems).

      Did you fail that class last year in Ron Paul summer camp? Now that you’ve switched to Gary Johnson… you must really brush up on Liberal-tarianismismismismismism…

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:21pm

      qpwillie
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:38pm
      On foreign policy, they’re to the left of most Democrats.
      =========================

      Which just proves that today‘s ’conservatives‘ are no different from today’s progressives…..

      EVERYTHING costs money (ESPECIALLY foreign policy)……but today’s conservatives somehow believe that more newly-created dollars than the world can possibly absorb can be manufactured indefinitely.

      The Soviets found this out the hard way. After countless invasions in order to pilfer and confiscate the wealth of other nations, they couldn’t get the checkbook to balance any longer so the world stopped loaning them money. As a result, they went into a bankruptcy that took them approximately 10 HARD years to work themselves out of.

      I know that ‘conservatives’ believe that money grows on trees and nobody has to work for it, but if you put your ears to the ground then you are starting to hear the rest of the world grumble about being paid back in dollars with diluted purchasing power.

      When they finally stop buying U.S. debt, then the last thing you’ll be worrying about is foreign policy because gasoline will cost 20 bucks a gallon at that point and interest rates will go up to 30% (or more).

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:02pm

      The Soviets relied on export of gas & oil to Europe to float their economy. When the U.S. in conjunction with Saudi Arabia overproduced oil to cause the market to drop (Texas was hurt in the 1980s), the Soviet Union toppled. Plus the Soviets had no incentives for people to work hard. They pretended to pay people & they pretended to work. Their system sucked.

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    • Individualism
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:10pm

      in those ways the two are pretty related but you will find out the harsh truth in november.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:44pm

      Walkabout
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:02pm

      The Soviets relied on export of gas & oil to Europe to float their economy. When the U.S. in conjunction with Saudi Arabia overproduced oil to cause the market to drop (Texas was hurt in the 1980s), the Soviet Union toppled.
      =================================

      …….and what else?:

      “The USSR’s trade gap progressively emptied the coffers of the union, leading to eventual bankruptcy.”
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1982–1991)

      “The U.S. has held a trade deficit starting late in the 1960s. Its trade deficit has been increasing at a large rate since 1997 and increased by 49.8 billion dollars between 2005 and 2006, setting a record high of 817.3 billion dollars, up from 767.5 billion dollars the previous year.

      The US last had a trade surplus in 1975.”
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_trade#United_States_Trade_Deficit

      So why don’t you explain how the Soviets were no longer able to successfully run trade deficits year after year while the U.S. has been running ENORMOUS trade deficits for the past 37 consecutive years?

      How is this possible?

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  • Individualism
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:12pm

    about as much as Ben Stein would. Sorry but Obama and Biden despite being liars are more interesting to listen to and know how to talk to people better.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:32pm

      Bullcrap

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:03pm

      I know telepromters in 57 states that would disagree with you. Probably some corpse-men too.

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:10am

      @ INDIVIDUAL
      Yea Right,
      Sarah Palin draws a Crowd of Enthusiastic Supporters
      Obama an Biden Bus in Payed Union Workers Who
      Snooze thru their Speeches.

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  • Jennifer_D
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:05pm

    The best thing McCain ever did was introduce the American people to Sarah Palin in 2008. She is such an intelligent lady who makes great points as always! :)

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:57pm

    The GOP was trying to get the Tea Party into their ranks and when they wouldn’t obey, then they pretty much dumped Sarah. The GOP is going to have to learn that they are going to have to come to the Tea Party and not the other way around if they want to survive much longer.

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    • Individualism
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:08pm

      yeah maybe giving Obama another win will give them that message.

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:27pm

      In two years the GOP establishment will hate Romney just like they hate McCain. They will blame Romney for being a huge progressive. Its not his fault, its just who Romney is.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:04pm

      @Mutiny,

      Shhhh, don’t spoil it man.

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:51pm

    “and predicted that it will invigorate Tea Party voters who were lukewarm about his candidacy.”
    =============

    No it won’t:

    CNSNews (August 9, 2012): “Romney Says Boy Scouts Should Admit Homosexuals”

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:05pm

      Run along and play, Paulbot!! Grownups are having a conversation here.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:06pm

      @QPWillie,

      Why won‘t you or anyone else talk about Romney and Ryan’s records? Why is it when someone brings up a topic like the one above about Obama all the comments come out. But when it is about Romney or Ryan it’s “shhhhh, shutup and get out”? Y‘all are doing a John McCain again and you just don’t want to admit it. Hearing about it makes you mad, so you just plug your ears like a toddler getting scolded by his mom.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:25pm

      @Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      One of two people will be president of this country, Romney or 0bama. Nobody wants to waste their time with a bunch of delusional idiots who would cast a write-in vote knowing it will help 0bama.

      We have a real fight going here. We don’t have time for your games.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:42pm

      Just for clarification, Gary Johnson is on the ballot…he’s not a write in.

      Don’t be fooled into believing there is a real choice. The two party system hasn’t produced much contrast for 24 years.

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:15pm

      QP Willie is just a typical war monger. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he is the Obama Supporter. Wolves in Sheep CLothing.

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:53am

      @ROTHBARDIAN
      So was Ross Perot in 92
      That worked out real well didn’t it.
      Sarah Palin an the TEA Party are The Future.
      of the GOP or they go the way of the Whigs.
      an by the way Ron Paul an his
      Supporters are Welcome to Join.
      Just not Run Things.
      Vote for Gary Johnson 99% of Americans
      Don’t even know Who He Is.

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  • Rob
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:46pm

    McAmnesty is a little angry RINO. He spawned his liberal, bovine daughter, and he was also a lousy pilot.

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  • www.TopTheNews.com
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:41pm

    Nice. A new soap opera that distracts from the issues.

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  • jhaydeng
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:39pm

    McCain didn’t have her back, but every other straight guy did! Sorry, folks pitch me a soft ball and I’m gonna swing!

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    • CatB
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:48pm

      LOL .. I was actually lucky enough to see Sarah in 08 without McLame … yes the men loved her (and still do) and the women respected someone who is a wife and mother and was PROUD of it! Here is a short clip where after the event she went into the crowd … also read some of the comments funny touting the end of her LOL … he who laughs last laughs best!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG22An7DkbU

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:38pm

    Oh, this one will rile up the Paulbots! Both of them.

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    • CatB
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:49pm

      Yes .. or as I like to call them … OBAMA VOTERS!

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    • Want our country back
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:04pm

      Cat, you once told me that you were involved in a large Republican woman’s forum in Florida. How’s Florida feeling to you… just your gut feeling?

      I ♥ Sarah and always will.

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:19pm

      Where is the love for Paul? Give him a chance i know he is young but he is better than some of the other choices.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:17pm

      @82A1,

      Nope, not riled. I feel bad for y’all.

      Not only did you get candidates that are progressives:
      1. NDAA (Ryan voted Romney supported)
      2. Patriot Act (Ryan voted, Romney supported)
      3. Gun Control (Romney in MA)
      4. TARP (Ryan voted, Romney supported)
      5. Stimulus 2 (Ryan voted)
      6. Increase in taxes/regs for small business (Romney MA)
      7. Auto bailouts (Ryan voted)
      8. Both support continued budget deficits
      9. Government Run Healthcare (Romney)
      10. Federalized Education (Ryan supported No Child Left Behind)
      11. Expanding the entitlements programs (Ryan voting for GWB’s Medicare D)

      BUT….

      Now y’all have to carry water for them. You’re going to blame the loss in November on too probably. We‘re going to get 4 more years of that freakin’ Kenyan fascist because the GOP insists on running milk toast RINO‘s on the ticket because y’all don’t speak up…you just play along. But yeah, it’s us PaulBots that have the problems.

      Go on now, tell me how good that stimulus package was. Explain how TARP worked out so well for everyone. Last I checked, conservatives were opposed to budget deficits, government expansion, and tyranny. Has that changed? The only thing keeping conservatives and liberals apart at this point is a job, a shower, and legalized pot. Outside of that, it looks like y’all are getting pretty chummy.

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    • Altair
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:36pm

      You immaturity is showing, Whatever-in-Cleve. Grownups understand that it is necessary to garner 51 % or so of the vote to win an election. Ergo, an appeal to the most people is desireable. That means MODERATION, not ludicrous dogmatism.

      Personally, I would like a president who was part Attila, part George Patton, part David Duke, and part Rottweiler. But we go with what is out there to beat the alternative. We don‘t sulk because we didn’t get precisely what we wanted, and write in some dumbass name to show the world our stand (the world, actually, nobody, gives a rat’s ass about your personal convictions, or mine). Write in Ron Paul’s name. Urinate against the wind. And give Obama another vote.

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    • KC1
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:49pm

      @Roth
      Well put, these two sides seem to only argue on rhetoric and not policy because their policies are exactly the same.
      @CatB
      Constitutionalist vs Progressives pick a side.
      Romney and Obama both support the Fed so they can finance more wars and huge deficits. So explain to me why it is us who are Obama supporters when your candidate agrees with all of Obamas policies? Both sides agree on Bankruptcy and we (Paul supporters/true Tea) are the lone voice trying to stop it, if anything a vote for Obama and Romney is a vote for Big Govt progressivism. I would say you are the Obama supporter, considering you will vote for his policies via Mitt.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:26pm

      @altair,

      I don’t want any sort of personal victory. And my dogmatism is just the physical manifestation of what all the conservatives pay lip service to. I want a candidate that simply says I will follow the constitution. That’s it. I won‘t settle for less and pretend that the constitution doesn’t matter. I swore an oath to defend it. For unwavering commitment to it, you’re labeled a kook, nutjob, wacko, bot, etc by the very people who claim to love the constitution. I’d expect that from liberals, but on the right? It just shows that hypocrisy knows no party. Dogma? Pfft. It’s the constitution.

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:13pm

      @Catb – I not riled up but offended. I never voted Democrat in my life. And cowards like you are telling me I’m an Obama Voter. Obama kills Americans with out trial. What makes you think I would ever support that? I am constitutionalist. I follow Jesus Christ. I follow the Golden Rule. I respect my neighbors. As a matter fact I talked with Obama Supporters and some of them said they are voting for Romney so what does that make you? CATB

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    • cykonas
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 11:57pm

      @Rothbardian

      Shame on you man! How dare you post a list of facts to the crowd in this thread? You need to invite some cute, sophomoric, insulting names like, maybe, Romrybot or something. Then you throw in some other assorted insults. You know call them a cult or immature.

      These folks aren’t interested in facts. Read their posts. Peace.

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    • Marine25
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:20pm

      @altair
      David Duke? Which part would that be?

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