Palin became Governor "not for the glory, but because this busy mom saw jobs that needed to be done"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

February 07, 2011 04:00 AM
Kate Obenshain Plays the Victim Card for Palin at Reagan Event

By Heather



http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/kate-obenshain-plays-victim-card-palin-rea

The Young America’s Foundation’s Vice President, Kate Obenshain, introduced Sarah Palin at their conference celebrating the anniversary of what would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday at the Reagan Ranch. Obenshain started out by comparing Palin to Reagan and playing the victim card for both of them, portraying both of them as being unfairly demonized by that evil liberal media that just wants to keep conservatives down.

OBENSHAIN: Now in 2008 conservatives felt again that we had lost our way. We had strayed so far from the vision of Ronald Reagan. The media and many on the left even declared the end of conservatism. Then seemingly from out of nowhere another leader emerged. A woman from humble origins, self made and hard working, an entrepreneur married to her high school sweetheart; a woman who has taken on the establishment time and time again and won.

She had become a mayor and then governor, not for the glory, but because this busy mom saw jobs that needed to be done and she knew how to do them. So she sacrificed an easier way because she loved the state and she loved her freedom more than she loved her comfort. Because of her courage and her ingrained sense of right and wrong she stood tall for freedom even when she was told to sit down.

Time and time again she ignored the establishment on both the left and the right and she did what she believed was right for her family and her country, without even intending to, she led the largest spontaneous grassroots movement our nation has ever seen. She brought other hard working, tax paying, law abiding, god loving Americans who have never even considered being civic activists to their feet saying “Enough is enough.”

[TBF]

1. lolol - and then I suppose she stopped when she was done. Heh. nt

[truebrit71]

2. ...and then she quit...

What a steaming pile of moose shit..

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

20. +1

[el_bryanto]

3. the largest spontaneous grassroots movement our nation has ever seen?

Why is my bullshit detector going off?

Bryant

[jmowreader]

11. It's more like a "sod" movement

You know, grassroots you have to pay for.

Remember always: Dick Armey's Freedomworks and the Koch Brothers started the Tea Party.

[FailureToCommunicate]

19. Wow, that's a good one!

Better than "astroturf"

[jmowreader]

22. I never liked "astroturf"

Astroturf has no roots.

[era veteran]

31. Perfect

[chemenger]

32. How about a kudzu movement???

:shrug: :eyes: :evilgrin:

[malaise]

24. Easy

Because that's bullshit

[gratuitous]

4. Then Palin took the podium, started her prepared remarks

And quit after two sentences. The crowd broke into a spontaneous standing ovation.

[Denninmi]

5. Not for the glory ...

... some are strictly in it for money and power.

Puke and gag!

[tanyev]

6. They got a river named Denial in Quittistan too, huh?

[louis-t]

7. "jobs that needed to be done.."

Like doing away with permits for building a house, that Todd took full advantage of, then giving his builder buddy the contract to build a sports arena.

[LeftishBrit]

8. Then what made her suddenly decide to stop being Governor?

[jmowreader]

13. To stop all the investigations

Everyone talks about the huge Troopergate scandal, but Palin, as an official in a right to work state, had the perfect right to fire him for anything or nothing.

The Wasilla Hockey Rink scandal, I think, was the one that would put her in prison. She cut and ran to prevent that investigation from happening.

[Botany]

9. " saw jobs that needed to be done and she knew how to do them "

R you kidding me? She quit every fucking job she has had.

Mayor she hired a city manger to run the town, Alaska oil and gas commission she quit,
Governor of Alaska ......

[jmowreader]

12. You haven't heard about the Wasilla city manager...

From everything I've read, the reason Wasilla hired the city manager was to stop the city council from recalling her for incompetence.

[Botany]

15. Well she did take a town of about 5,000 and put it 20 million into debt ...

... to build a hockey rink for her son but that was before he had to move to
Michigan and then join the army to stay out of jail.

Liberal Media .... sure thing.

[jmowreader]

21. There's a lot of quid pro quo stuff there

Dig a bit and you will find that Palin's house was built with the same materials (the items of concern are the commercial doors and windows she has; NO ONE puts commercial millwork into a house because it's really expensive) and by the same people who built the hockey rink she put up to keep her son from doing drugs and her daughter's boyfriend from sleeping with her.

[Botany]

28. What you don't think "TAWD" and his buddies just built this place on .....

.... weekends?




BTW The Village Voice did a great story on Mooselini's house such as why material for
a wood framed home was being billed to the city of Wasilla by the same company that
was building a steel framed building for the hockey rink. She is pure grifter.

I would guess that she was given a choice about staying in a Governor of Alaska and answering
questions about her her home's construction costs or just leaving office and the matter was dropped.

[Rex]

10. EPIC FAIL.

Two years of fail...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. Seeing "jobs that needed to be done"

was obviously SO important to her that she had to quit halfway through her FIRST term for reasons that we may never know, let alone understand. :eyes: :banghead:

[underpants]

16. Kate, looking a bit wined out, you lost me on the first two sentences

Education/careerObenshain is a graduate of the University of Virginia where she was editor of the campus conservative newspaper, the Virginia Advocate.<2>

Political experienceFrom 1995 to 2000, Obenshain served as an appointee of Governors George Allen and Jim Gilmore on the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, implementing both governors' vision for budgetary reform and programmatic accountability.<3>

Obenshain served as chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia from 2003 to 2006 and is the first woman to serve as Chair. She stepped down from her post as Chair following the November 2006 midterm elections to serve as Senator George Allen's Chief of Staff for the remainder of his term in the U.S. Senate following the Senator's loss.<4>

As chairman, she garnered national attention for her active opposition against tax increases and the expanding role of government at the state and national levels. During her tenure, she earned the designation from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as one of the rising stars in the GOP.<5>

Family and personal lifeObenshain is the daughter of former party chair and 1978 U.S. Senate candidate Dick Obenshain.

Her brother, Mark Obenshain, is a member of the Virginia State Senate.

She is a Virginia native and currently resides in Winchester, Virginia, with her four children.

She was formerly married to Phil Griffin, a lawyer, and the father of her four children. The marriage ended in divorce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Obenshain

[Arkana]

17. Then why'd she quit?

Because she's a lazy, craven waste of oxygen who abandoned her state to go make money?

Nah, that couldn't be it.

[Ilsa]

18. Entrepreneur? When? Tawd was a snow machine dealer, but so? nt

[bluesbassman]

23. Did he actually ever sell any? They probably set it up for the write-off.

My understanding was that he worked for oil companies.

So how the hell does that make her an "entrepreneur"?

[elias49]

25. Oh my. And on the 7th day she rested...

:puke:

[johnnie]

26. Actually..

..it was on the 2nd day.

[w4rma]

27. She obviously feels that she can say anything and her followers will keep following her.

(And keep giving her money)

[lunatica]

29. We might as well just start calling her St. Sarah

This is what they did with St. Ronnie. A little myth here, a white lie over there and behold you've got a demi-god in the making.

[ReggieVeggie]

30. "...and then quit when she didn't feel like doing it anymore"

I guess she left that part out :eyes: