Srah Palin and the Tea Party

This past Saturday evening, Sarah Palin delivered, what I thought to be, a marvelous keynote speech at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennesse.

As much as I like Palin, I have to confess that my greatest enjoyment comes from watching the heads of the liberal left in this country explode every time she speaks.  There is something about this woman that strikes fear into the hearts of the liberal left of this country!

As expected, a myriad of progessive craniums went "kaboom" within hours after the end of Palin's speech. 

The Associated Press (A): “ Sarah Palin, in a speech that was short on ideas but big on enthusiasm, took aim at President Barack Obama and the Democrats, telling a gathering of "tea party" activists that America is ripe for another revolution."

Bill Press (Radio Host on MSNBC): “…there was a string of platitudes, but there was a lot of cheap shots. But she didn't offer one idea, and the only ideas she talked about, as you mentioned, well she's talked about energy. Who has put out there new money for energy projects? Who's talked about nuclear power? Who's talked about offshore drilling? Barack Obama. She talked about tax cuts. Who's put tax cuts out for small business? Barack Obama. I don't think she even knows what's going on in Washington.”

Joel Klein (Time Magazine Columnist): “It matters what you say. And that's where I have a problem with Palin. What she said was drivel…Those who celebrate Sarah Palin's lack of knowledge as a form of "authenticity" superior to Barack Obama's gloriously American mongrel ethnicity and self-made intellectuality are representatives of a long-standing American theme--the celebration of sameness, and mediocrity, in a country that has succeeded brilliantly because of its diversity and restlessly eccentric genius.”

MikeHalperin (Time Magazine Political Aanalyst): Sarah Palin “longs for -- and talk incessantly about -- an America that no longer exists.”

Bob Shrum (Democrat Operative): “… what we heard tonight was more a masterful exercise – masterful – in paranoid politics. I mean, she came across to me as a merchant of hate with an oh gosh smile."

I am amazed that both the liberal left and their friends in the main stream media still haven't figured out this "Tea Party" business yet.  It is not a third political party nor is it a organizational structure run by one or a few specific individuals. And it is certainly not a group of uneducated, racist, un-american,  activists that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Pelosi would have you to believe.

The "Tea Party" is a loose knit coalition of concerned and involved American citizens who have lost faith in their government and elected representatives.  They recognize the current political system has grown corrupt, venal, and out-of-touch with the the very people that they’re supposed to represent.  Thus the people, once again, are reasserting themselves acorss the nation in various states in this loose confederaion known as the "Tea Party."

The liberal left and main stream media would have you think that Sarah Palin is the head of the Tea Party, a idea that could not be further from the truth. 

All one has to do is listen ckosely o Palin's speech when she speaks about the Tea Party.  She describes it as a "bottom up", grass roots organization comprised of "the people."  Palin even went so far as to recommend that the Tea Party not go out of its way to identify individual national leaders but rather to utilize the power of the American people to press for reform in the form of smaller government, less spending and tazes and a strong national defense.

For the conservative movement, Palin represents a potential solution to the right's unending problem of a news media that consistently sides with the political opposition. She is the first public figure to utilize (and, in some cases, dominate) multiple media, including traditional (television, books) and new (Facebook, Twitter) media platforms. The sum of her efforts should be the model for conservative politicians and public figures going forward.

Palin reaches more Americans with a Facebook message (just under 1.3 million) than Keith Olbermann reaches during his 8 p.m. broadcast slot on MSNBC (roughly 1 million). Fox News now has plans to build a television studio in her home in Wasilla. Her recent book Going Rogue has spent 11 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list, and has netted her somewhere in the 8-figure range.

Although it is not widely known or reported, Palin, for some time now, has been receiving daily briefings from several high level staff personages in the beltway on a myriad of issues ranging from domestic and foreign policy to terrorism and has boot strapped herself far and away from the myopia of Alaska politics.
She has gone from a political corpse to one of the most prolific and influential persons in the conservative movement in under a year. 

Sarah Palin's political metamorphisis and the accompanying birth of the American Tea Party can only bode well for the future of our nation as their words and ideas are not spoken as a democrats or  republicans,
but as  "We the People!" 

And that,  ladies and gentlemen, is how our founding fathers meant it to be!