Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drew the largest crowd in the decade-long history of the Iowa Republican Party’s Reagan Dinner Friday in Des Moines with her keynote speech.
About 1,500 people attended the dinner at Hy-Vee Hall, raising about $100,000 for the GOP. The national and regional media turned out in full force, using two camera risers and a press area in the rear, resembling settings for the 2008 presidential race, and also some recent appearances by President Obama in Iowa.
Mrs. Palin's speech lasted about 33 minutes and included some of these quotes:
“We have to hold the press accountable when we know they are making things up and telling untruths”
“the lame-stream” media as she calls them, were disrespecting American military men and women by not reporting accurately.
“It is not fair to our troops willing to sacrifice all for your freedom, journalists”
Calling the Obama administration “enemy-centric” and also saying:
“There’s a disturbing pattern here of reaching out to sworn enemies while slighting our proven friends”
Mrs. Palin also joked by saying that Todd her husband told her:
“I guarantee you, If anybody spots you in the tennis shoes the headline is going to be in Vanity Fair, they’re going to say, ‘Palin, in Iowa, decides to run’"
And referring to November she said:
“It may take some renegades going rogue to get us there”
Most people that I talk to either love her or hate her, and the only reasons I have found that people hate her is because that say she is "dumb" or "nobody takes her seriously" or "she is a hick". Well judging by the attention she has garnered over the last 2 years, and major political wins that she has aided by giving her support, ummmm.... I think people need to start taking her seriously now.
