Finally, the woman CPAC audiences had awaited, Governor Sarah Palin, the Mama Grizzly of the Tea Party movement, spoke.
February 11, 2012, backed by the theme lyrics, "She's a soldier, not just a pretty face," Palin reiterated her signature line, a message the door was open to replace President Obama. In her throaty growl, she delivered line after line of pure red meat to more than twenty standing ovations. Time will tell if Sarah broke her Searchlight record.
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Barely into her rousing speech, a group of hecklers attacked. Instantaneous shouts filled the air, "USA! USA!" Her fans rallied mightily to drown the voices of the intruders. Security removed the dissenting group from the building amid loyal chants of "Sa-Rah! Sa-Rah! Sa-Rah!"
Though Palin did not endorse any of the Republican candidates, she may have taken a swipe at Mitt Romney, currently the GOP primary front-runner, when she said, "Our candidate must be someone who can instinctively turn right." Sarah stressed that conservatism is not something a candidate learns running for office, adding, "It's either there or it isn't."
Palin didn't let Republicans off the hook. She spoke derisively of "crony capitalism" but made it clear that she had nothing but praise and admiration for the steadfast refusal of elected 2010 members of Congress to go against their promises to the voters. All America needed was more Patriots such as they, suggested Sarah. It was time for America to support them in election 2012 by careful votes to add to their numbers.
Palin hit all the hot buttons issues while slamming President Obama. The audience stood longest and cheered loudest following her shout-out to Israel, when she slammed Obama as a weak Commander in Chief, vowing, "We will refuse to accept that a weak America means a better safer world." A president's job is protecting "... America people and our allies. God bless Israel! (Related: Sarah Palin: Obama is 'our temporary leader' Israel is our lasting friend)
Rolling her eyes, shrugging, gesturing, Palin recounted the rise of the Tea Party, "because Americans woke up." After three years of the Obama administration, Sarah underlined his chance was at a close because "We can afford no more -- he mucked it up!"
Palin ended CPAC 2012. Perhaps organizers timed her speech as a kindness to the GOP hopefuls. After all, no potential candidate would want to follow a star. As usual, Palin held the enraptured crowd from hello to good-bye, sounding the bugle call and leading the charge to the White House. But then, she has never made a speech where any would daresay Sarah Palin "mucked it up".
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