Posted by
Kukee on Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:37:31 PM
Hello everyone, thanks for coming. My name is Sarah Palin and I am here to let you be the first to know of my intentions to run for the Presidency of the United States on the Republican ticket.
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There are so many things to talk about tonight that I had trouble deciding where to start and how to end, but I am certain that you already know much of what I am going to touch on. You have watched your wealth dwindle due to the meddling hands of our over-reaching federal government. You, we, who have been financially hurt the most, however, continue to give to those in need. Unlike our liberal friends and government programs, your charity isn’t based on wealth, political expediency, or taxation; it’s based on grace, on the goodness within your hearts, sincere brotherly kindness, love for your fellow man, devotion to each other, and the honor you bestow to others less fortunate than yourself. I want to say thank you. I could give you further praise but I do not want, in any way, to take away from your eternal blessings.
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The liberal Democrats seem to think that there is a problem with free markets and capitalism. They believe that a bunch of elitist government bureaucrats are better at handling your money than you. They believe that you should give up your hard-earned investments that you put into your 401K Retirement accounts and give it to the federal government. They believe that you should be obligated to share your wealth. They believe that taxation is a form of patriotism. They think that conservative ideas are a thing of the past. They believe that America is despised by the rest of the world and that we need to do something about that. They believe that the Constitution of the United States of America is somehow flawed because it restricts government intervention on our lives.
Well I have news for all you liberals. Capitalism and free markets are the genesis of ingenuity, innovation, and genius. Capitalism has nourished more hunger; quenched more thirst; healed more disease; provided more success; and arrested more persecution than any other economic system known to man. The economic crisis we have faced is not the result of capitalism-gone-awry; it is due a handful of liberal Democrats within the federal government who meddled in the affairs of the free market system. I hear that some say that we needed more government oversight, but that is not it. The lack of government oversight did not force viable banks to push loans on people who couldn’t afford them. The lack of government oversight did not force viable banks to accept unemployment checks as a form of income. The lack of government oversight did not corrupt the Mortgage lending system. The lack of government oversight did not cause Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Charles Shumer to continually ignore President Bush and his administration. Three months after taking office George Bush warned congress about the problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Democrats ignored the warning. In 2003, President Bush’s administration again tried to launch measures to bring Fannie and Freddie under stricter regulation; Democrats accused the auditor, Armando Falcon of attempting to lynch Franklin Raines. In 2005, President Bush again tried to regulate this failing system and John McCain cosponsored legislation that would have brought these failing government sponsored entities under control but the Democrats blocked the regulation. No my friends, Capitalism did not fail us, Democrats failed all of us, Democrats like Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters, Gregory Meeks, Lacy Clay, Melvin Watts, Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama who were warned about the problem but lied to the American people and stopped every attempt to fix this financial problem before it became a crisis.
This same group of liberal Democrats now tells you that they can do better than you in handling your retirement investments. I don’t know about you, but there is no way I would trust anyone of them with a nickel of my money. The evidence is clear as how well they handle money. These liberal Democrats accept no blame for our condition and refuse to give us a fair estimate of our situation. Most of them have never run a successful business; never meet a payroll; never lived by the sweat of their brows; don’t know what it is like to earn a paycheck; and will never understand what it means to live paycheck-to-paycheck. Well, I thinks it’s time that, those of us who do know about these things, give them that chance. You hold the power to do just that with your vote.
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The liberal Democrats have seen an opportunity to grab more power into the federal government and even before the election of 2008 the Democrats were scheming amongst themselves about how to confiscate your personal retirement investments, your 401Ks. They devised a plan to take away your money, put it into the federal government and tie it up in the bankrupt Social Security System. I don’t know about you but those are fighting word. Ronald Reagan once said, “When we deprive people of what they have earned, or take away their jobs, we destroy their dignity and undermine their families. We cannot support our families unless there are jobs, and we cannot have jobs unless people have both money to invest and the faith to invest it.” This horrendous idea, this despicable raping of your earnings and investments constitute nothing short of communism. Their plan is to limit the amount of your retirement money you can leave to your heirs. There is no way any sane person would continue to invest in their 401Ks knowing that their families would never see any of it. Consequently, the largest single source of business investment comes from our 401Ks. The liberal Democrats want to bankrupt your retirement and the businesses that depend on those investments.
Some might say that they have good intentions, hogwash! Don’t capitulate, don’t appease them, and don’t accommodate them. Liberal Democrats have not done one thing in the past 50 years that was solely based on a good intention. Since 1964, they have openly admitted that they want to raise your taxes, share your wealth, regulate success, construct a welfare state, garner more power, strip away more of your freedoms, and alter the Constitution to fit their mold. President Johnson declared war on poverty. It isn’t going so well, is it? They should have called it the war on the impoverished, because that is what it is. Theodore Roosevelt once said, “If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can and accept defeat is he must, without seeking to place on his fellowman a responsibility which is not theirs.” The liberal Democrats have the completely opposite view. They see your success and blame you for the failings of others. How dare them; how dare any elected official to destroy the moral fiber of hard working Americans by telling them that this economic crisis is somehow their fault.
We have been told that paying more taxes is patriotic and that doing so is good for us, hogwash! Mister President, Mister Vice President, why don't you make the ultimate patriotic sacrifice and give the government every cent of your income that you don’t need to live on. There is nothing stopping you, sirs, from writing a check to the US Government. You show us that you really mean what you say. Pay up! Pay up or shut up! Your foolhardy statements don’t match your actions and every American knows it. We are not fools like you wish us to be. I quote Ronald Reagan again, “The American people, the most generous on earth, who created the highest standard of living, are not going to accept the notion that we can only make a better world for others by moving backwards ourselves. Those who believe we can have no business leading the nation.” Mister President, you have no business leading this great nation and I am going to see to it that you go back to the community you so love to organize.
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I continually quote the words of others like Ronald Reagan to prove to you that true conservatism is not dead. You cannot kill a set of values. They do not die of old age. The values that define conservatism exist in the hearts and minds of every American who believes that government’s sole responsibilities are to protect our liberties, to maintain law and order, to defend our country from all threats foreign and domestic, uphold our freedoms, our rights, our property, and to remain beholden to its citizens. The Constitution begins with these words, “We the people”. The government gets its power from “We the people.” “We the people” expect our appointed representative to swear on the Holy Bible that they will preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. Our very President stated that he believes the Constitution is too restrictive and needs to be altered so that Government can wield more power over “We the people”. He essentially lied under oath when he took the oath of office or the best of his ability isn’t worthy of the high calling of President of the United States. I personally believe the Presidency is above his pay grade.
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America is in turmoil, she is struggling to survive as the last best hope for man on Earth. Millions upon millions have entered through her borders to find a better life. Let me ask you. Does that sound like a nation that the world hates. How many people have flocked to Russia, Iran, North Korea, Vietnam or Venezuela? How many find hope in socialism, communism, or totalitarianism? Ronald Reagan said in 1964, “Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy ‘accommodation’. And they say if we’ll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he’ll forget his evil ways and learn to love us…Admittedly, there’s a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.”
I quote that because “We the people” face an enemy of freedom and as a warning that “We the people” cannot accommodate such a one as this. “We the people” must confront this enemy face to face. This enemy steals elections and harasses voters. This enemy despises success and hates truth. This enemy lives and breathes within our borders. This enemy attempts to strip away more of our freedoms every day it exists. This enemy is liberalism, socialism and communism. It is up to “We the people” to preserve for our children a country and a form of government that has created a quality of life for its citizens that is the envy of the world. “We the people” want leadership in Washington, one that can unleash the greatness or the American people and one that does not hinder the great human experiment started by our founding fathers some two-hundred and thirty years ago.
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God bless America, and God bless “You the people”.
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The crowd begins to chant "SARAH SARAH SARAH!"