Live at Sarah Palin’s Speech to Tea Party Convention

Wow.  This is the nucleus of conservatism in America.  Not the stars who are everywhere, but the people.  People who paid $600 plus travel and lodging and meals and everything else.  They did it because they are committed to causing the greatest political upheaval since Thomas Jefferson’s words landed in London in 1776.  I am surrounded by sacred honor, and I feel unfit to be in the room.

I just listened to Andrew Breitbart, the AMERICAN HERO who stood by the NOLA 4 when leftist hypocrites, lazy journalists, and cowardly conservatives convicted them on zero evidence.  I just heard singer John David’s beautiful, patriotic anthem.  And now, I”m standing about 40 feet from Sarah Palin.  Breitbart is introducing her.  This room is ready to explode.

Palin just took the stage to a roaring standing ovation of the National Tea Party Convention on Ronald Reagan’s 99th birthday. 

Fantastic slam on Obama’s lies about openness and transparency.  “Welcome to C-SPAN.  You might not  have an invitation to the healthcare debates, but you have an invitation to the Tea Party convention.”

The audience looks like the bench of a hockey that knows it’s about to win a Gold Medal or the Stanley Cup.  This room is alive.  I almost pity the leftists.  The tornado that will destroy their life’s work has just evolved from a funnel cloud.

I believe this speech will surpass her Republican National Convention speech as the most important of Sarah Palin’s life to this point.  Palin brings a humanity to politics that has been absent since Ronald Reagan left office. She speaks of the humanness of candidates and enjoins politicians to respect that humanity in their opponents.

“How’s that hope and change workin’ out for you?”  Palin Power.  I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an audience this in love with a conservative politician since Ronald Reagan’s rally under the Arch in 1984. Palin has a star power that will make her nightmare for any opponent should she decide to run for President in 2012.

Twenty minutes into her speech, Sarah Palin shifted gears. She shifted from red meat zingers to a serious policy discussion that sounds like a convention speech.  I mean, an acceptance speech.  Talking about how she can better serve the country in the years ahead. 

“We’re not looking for a leader like we’re all a bunch of sheep.”  Her mockery of the press who demand the Tea Party produce a leader and a platform cuts through the debate and rightly ends it. 

“Only limited government can spread prosperity, and freedom is a God-given right.” 

Forty minutes in, the crowd is not routinely rising to its feet.  She’s praising the Tea Party movement, both in its actions and its philosophy.  She’s attacking the press directly for their attacking candidates children and unethically lying about Tea Partiers.  Go Sarah!

“Let us not get bogged down in the little squabbles.  Let us get caught in the in big ideas.”

The loudest ovation so far as she talks about a world where special needs children are welcomed, not destroyed.

“Who can argue with movement that’s about the people?” 

And now, a roaring ovation.  “Run, Sarah, Run!” chants echo around the room.  The crowd refuses to sit down.  They don’t want this event to end. 

Now is a Q and A.  I am signing off.  I want an autograph.