Tea Party Movement Welcomes Sarah Palin

On Saturday, Sarah Palin used an address to the conservative Tea Party movement in Nashville, TN, to declare that the United States needed a commander-in-chief and “not a professor of law standing at the lectern”.

Speaking to a crowd of 1,100, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate, said: “America is ready for another revolution.”

Her address to flag-waving supporters of the American grassroots “Tea Party” movement garnered multiple standing ovations and cheers from the audience. Hundreds of reporters from every corner of the globe were present, trying to figure out if the movement signals a sea change in the electorate.

Palin offered a conservative prescription, saying she supported a simple plan based on free-market principles for the US economy. On national security, she blasted President Obama for reaching out to the US’s enemies, declaring that the bottom line of her plan, to paraphrase former president Ronald Reagan, was “we win, they lose.”

Palin said Washington needed to “rein in spending.” But she also backed “jump-start” funding for energy projects.

“We don’t have all the answers as fallible men and women so it would be wise for us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again,” Palin said.

“To have people involved in government who aren’t afraid to go that route, not so afraid of political correctness that, you know, they have to be afraid of what the media said about them if they were to proclaim their alliance to our creator,” she added.

The former GOP vice-presidential candidate gave her political pitch at an event billed as the first national Tea Party convention, for which she was paid a $100,000 fee.

The Tea Party, which began last year as a group of alienated voters opposed to big government and the machinations of Washington, has developed into a strong political force that Palin said yesterday should be embraced by the Republicans.

“America is ready for another revolution and you are part of it,” she said. Later, during a question-and-answer session, Palin told the moderator that the Republican Party would be “really smart” to absorb as much as possible of the Tea Party for upcoming elections. “It’s a beautiful movement because it’s shaping politics,” she said.

At one point, the moderator raised the question that she might become President Palin, and the crowd shouted “run, Palin, run.” Palin smiled, and shifted the conversation to spending cuts and energy needs.

Palin also said President Obama’s administration was “immoral” and guilty of “generational theft” because of its $787billion economic stimulus plan.

Palin´s full-frontal assault on the leadership of Barack Obama that has rekindled speculation about her ambitions to run for the White House in 2012.

On a Sunday interview with Chris Wallace for “Fox News Sunday,” Palin said terrorists should not be given civilian trials like the one for self-professed 9/11 mastermind and four other men being held at Guantanamo Bay.

“There are many things that (Obama’s) doing today that cause an uneasiness in many, many Americans. I’m one of those who looks at the way that he is treating the trials of these terrorists,” Palin told “Fox News Sunday.”

The Americano / Agencies

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