California Conservative

Saturday night, I watched Sarah Palin deliver a spell-binding, stirring speech that, I suspect, reached well beyond the GOP’s traditional conservative base. In doing so, Sarah Palin demonstrated that this movement isn’t confined to the Republican Party, though she emmphasized that the “Republican Party would be very smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.”

One of her best lines was about Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts:

The White House blames their candidate, and Nancy Pelosi, she blamed the Senate Democrats, and Rahm Emanuel, he criticized a pollster. And yet again, President Obama, he found a way to make this all about George Bush. When you’re 0-for-3, you’d better stop lecturing and start listening.

Gov. Palin spent a substantial amount of time during opening portion of her hour-long speech criticizing President Obama’s foreign policy, first saying this:

Treating this like a mere law enforcement matter places our country at great risk. To win that war, we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

After that, she leveled this shot on President Obama’s SOTU speech:

It’s no wonder that our president only spent about 9 percent of his State of the Union address discussing national security, foreign policy, because there aren’t a whole lot of victories he can talk about.

The best tweak she gave to President Obama, though, was this line:

Well, a special hello to the C-SPAN viewers. You may not be welcome in those health care negotiations but you have an invitation to the TEA Party.

NRO’s Robert Costa reminds us in this post of another Palin tweak of President Obama: (more…)