SARAH PALIN TO ADDRESS CPAC IN MARCH - SARAH! SARAH! SARAH!

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SARAH PALIN TO ADDRESS CPAC IN MARCH

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by TONY LEE 18 Feb 2013 1403 POST A COMMENT

The American Conservative Union (ACU), which runs the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), announced on Monday that Sarah Palin will speak at the 40th annual gathering of conservatives in March.

“We are pleased to again welcome Governor Sarah Palin to CPAC in March,” ACU Chairman Al Cardenas said in a statement. “Governor Palin electrified the crowd in 2012 and we are thrilled to welcome her back this year.”

CPAC 2013 will be held Thursday, March 14 through Saturday, March 16, 2013 at its new location in National Harbor, MD at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. 

The non-Washington, D.C. location of this year's conference is fitting for Palin, who blistered the permanent political class and crony capitalism during her 2012 address last year in the nation's capital in her first appearance at the conference.

Last year, she was mobbed in the hallways before her speech. Palin stayed for nearly an hour after speaking, engaging conservatives and supporters who were there to listen to her. Reporters and observers at CPAC noted in 2012 they had not seen anyone who resonated with the conservative base more than Palin. 

At CPAC 2012, Palin said Washington, D.C. had become "something that our forefathers never envisioned, and they would have sworn their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor to change."

Palin said the "old Washington of our Founders" was a place where people "came to serve your government, not prosper over it and on it and from it and off of it." She mentioned the country's wealthiest counties were all around the D.C. region, a theme director Stephen K. Bannon and Peter Schweizer's Government Accountability Institute would later document a year later in "Boomtown."She referenced her speech in Indianola, Iowa in 2011 when she spoke of "crony capitalism" that "isn't the capitalism of free men and free markets, of risk and sacrifice, of innovation and hard work." She said the new crony capitalism is one of "connections" and of "government bailout and handouts" and waste, "corporate welfare and corruption." 

After her Indianola speech, "crony capitalism" and "permanent political class" were injected into the political vocabulary. 

"This is the capitalism of Barack Obama and the permanent political class," Palin said at CPAC in 2012. 

She lambasted the Occupy protesters who were at the conference in 2012, saying they should be instead protesting at Obama's White House, which has "spurred the expansion of government which diminishes freedom and opportunity for all to rise and to succeed."

Palin derided politicians who come to Washington, D.C. "denouncing the place as the cesspool of corruption" only to, after a year or two, see it as a hot tub. 

"And they are hopping in and enjoying the jacuzzi," Palin said, noting it was "time we drain the jacuzzi and throw the bums out with the bath water."

After Palin turned down Fox News' offer to renew her contract, she spoke exclusively to Breitbart News about her future. When asked what her response was to the mainstream media's declarations that she and the Tea Party were "buried," Palin said she was raised "to never retreat and to pick battles wisely, and all in due season."

"When it comes to defending our republic, we haven’t begun to fight! But we delight in those who underestimate us," Palin told Breitbart News last month.

SHERIFF JOE TO The-1984-Manchurian-Animal-Farm - LET'S MEET 'MAN TO MAN' TO DISCUSS IMMIGRATION

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Defiant and reflective, 80-year-old Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio told Breitbart News after winning re-election that he has a message for President Barack Obama: granting amnesty to illegal immigrants is unfair to legal immigrants.

And Arpaio would like to discuss amnesty -- along with border security issues -- with Obama “man to man” directly at the White House. He would also like to reach out to Hispanic groups he said have misunderstood his intentions and bought into the negative “propaganda” about him.

“I wish the president would invite me to the White House,” Arpaio told Breitbart News. “We’ll have some wine and beer, and light up cigars.”

When it comes to potential amnesty provisions being discussed in Washington, Arpaio said he is against amnesty because, to him, it is a fairness issue the elite media and career politicians in Washington do not understand.

“It's a fairness issue, nobody thinks about that,” Arpaio said. “Why should we reward people who come here illegally?” Arpaio noted that “everybody around the world is waiting for years to come here” and “they don’t all come sneaking in.” “I'm an old-time guy, I just use common sense,” Arpaio said.  

Arpaio said he wanted to talk “man to man” with Obama, whose administration recently accused him of a “pattern” of misconduct that violated the civil rights of Hispanics in Maricopa County and sued him for what Arpaio says was his merely following the immigration enforcement laws that were on the books.

Arapaio insists he was just enforcing Arizona’s S.B. 1070 immigration law, which requires officers -- after detaining individuals for other crimes -- to ask those who they reasonably suspect may be illegal immigrants for documentation. The Supreme Court upheld this particular provision, which the left calls the “papers, please” provision. And a majority of Americans, as a Breitbart News/Judicial Watch Election Night exit poll found, favor Arizona-style immigration laws.

Arpaio wants politicians to quit saying they “must secure the border first”  before discussing other immigration issues, because he sees those words as code words to punt on issues in the interior that are just as important. “They’ll never secure the border 100 percent,” Arpaio said. “So it’s a cop-out so you don’t do anything in the interior.”

Since Arpaio first got elected in 1993, he has been reviled by the left, he says, for just doing his job and enforcing the law in the interior. And this year, he had to raise over $8 million dollars to ward off an organized effort on the left to get former Phoenix police Sgt. Paul Penzone to defeat him. “They tried to destroy me,” said Arpaio, who won with 53% of the vote. “The more they go after me, the more I fight. I'm still standing.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also sued Arpaio and Maricopa County, accusing Arpaio of violating the Fourth Amendment in his “zeal to rid the community of persons that it believes are undocumented immigrants.” Arpaio said he is “not going to surrender to the ACLU” even though they -- and groups on the left -- “really went after me this election cycle.”

Arpaio said part of the reason why the left reviles him is because they think he is prejudiced against his inmates. Arpaio acknowledged that he does things differently, but it is for “deterrence” and not “to be mean.”
He said he wanted potential criminals to see his chain gangs and not ever want to come to his jails. And he wants his inmates to not want to come to his jails again. "If they don’t like it, don’t come back to my jails,” Arpaio said.

He noted many of his arrests are for drug offenses, stolen identification, and he takes people off the street that could harm people in the Hispanic community. He also said that he harshly deals with those who are found to have abused their dogs or cats.

Arpaio said much of this has been lost amidst the “propaganda” against him, and so he would like to make concerted efforts to reach out to the Hispanic community to engage in dialogue these next four years.

Known for his tent-city jails, putting inmates in pink jumpsuits and underwear, and ferociously enforcing immigration laws that are on the books, Arpaio said he has discovered recently he could get more done through constructive dialogue than through bluster. And that will be one of his major goals the next four years. 

He noted he discussed border security issues over blueberry pie and whiskey with Mexico’s president and attorney general, and he would also like to do the same with members of the Hispanic community whom he says have misunderstood his intentions by believing all of the “propaganda” about him. “I got more done with blueberry pie than a big stick,” Arpaio said.

And he insists he could have productive discussions with Obama. “I won’t even ask you for your birth certificate,” Arpaio quipped, of Obama.

And for those hoping Arpaio will leave the stage, Arpaio said to not even think about it. He has already decided to run for reelection in 2016, and he says the “age issue” is not going to work. Arpaio said his opponents threw the age card at him but it did not matter to voters. “I'm a senior citizen, and I'm proud of it,” Arpaio said.

Arpaio said he wanted to announce he would be seeking another term so his opponents did not view him as a lame duck. “I won’t be a lame duck. I’m not going anywhere,” Arpaio said. “I’m a fighter.” 

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VIRGINIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL REJECTS MICHELLE OBAMA REQUEST TO SPEAK

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A Chesterfield County elementary school in Virginia rejected First Lady Michelle Obama’s request to speak on Thursday, citing school policy.

Tim Bullis, the school division’s community relations director, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that School Board policy 6100 prohibits “the use of school facilities during the school day for political purposes.” 

Jim Holland, the only Democrat on the school board, said the school board’s denial would be appropriate if the Obama campaign’s request was for a political event, but the board could have allowed Michelle Obama to speak if the request had been for an event designated as “non-political” or “official.” 

The Obama campaign said  “any time the campaign looks at venues for events, we consider a range of options” and “the school was only one of several options being considered in the greater Richmond area ...”

This is the third time in the last month the Obama campaign has been denied use of a venue the campaign would have preferred in Virginia. The University of Virginia rejected the Obama campaign’s request to use its Charlottesville campus for a campaign event and the owner of  the “Crumb And Get It” bakery rejected a request by Vice President Joe Biden’s staff to use the store for a campaign event because the owner disagreed with Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comment.  

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LEADING FROM BEHIND: EMPTY CHAIR TO VISIT LOUISIANA ON MONDAY

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Hours after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romneyvisited Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac on Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney announced President Barack Obama would call an audible in his schedule and visit Louisiana on Monday to assess the storm's damage. 

Obama's leading-from-behind reaction to Romney's visit reaffirmed Clint Eastwood's empty chair analogy, which upset the mainstream media, the iconic actor used Thursday night at the Republican National Convention when discussing Obama and his presidency. 

"The empty-chair analogy by Clint Eastwood might be far more accurate and impactful than the Obama campaign and its cheerleaders in the media care to accept," the insightful Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus wrote. 

The mainstream media juxtaposed images of Hurricane Issac hitting Louisiana next to images of the RNC throughout the week, and they continued to stress the seriousness of the storm. Mainstream media networks like ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and PBS reminded their viewers of Hurricane Katrina, and blamed former President George W. Bush for his inaction during Katrina. 

Yet Obama spent the week campaigning in crucial swing states like Iowa, Colorado, and Virginia (Louisiana is not a swing state). He even took some time to chat online, proposing a constitutional amendment to restrict political speech while on Reddit, an online link-sharing community. He never once visited Louisiana. 

And the mainstream media gave Obama a complete pass. 

"When somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go," Eastwood said Thursday night, in comments that could resonate more in light of Obama's inaction during and after Hurricane Issac.  

TEA PARTY TO GOP: WE BUILT YOUR MAJORITY

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Tuesday's theme at the Republican National Convention was "We Built It," but the night's speakers did not reference or mention the Tea Party movement that built the current Republican majority in the House during the 2010 midterm elections and infused a party that seemed all but moribund after the 2008 elections and the latter part of George W. Bush's presidency with enthusiasm, life, confidence, money, manpower, purpose, and a little swagger.

On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who, like his father, Ron, is one of the most prominent symbols of the Tea Party movement that revolted in part against the spending habits of Republicans and Democrats during the last decade, addressed the RNC.

But even Paul did not explicitly mention or make note, by name, of the Tea Party movement.

This has left many Tea Partiers to wonder if the Romney campaign and the RNC are deliberately trying to disassociate the Republican and Romney brands on the national stage from the Tea Party brand that has given them momentum against Obama. Tea Party members were also perturbed, to say the least, that the RNC passed rules concerning delegate selection and convention rules that stripped power away from the grassroots on Tuesday.

"Their words and their actions speak for themselves," Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the influential Tea Party Patriots wrote. "The term 'tea party' appears to have been banned from the convention."

This strategy is risky for Romney and Republicans for three reasons.

First, 2012 is going to be a base election, and Tea Party voters need to turn out enthusiastically for Romney for him to win. Second, should Romney win, this strategy could potentially create a rift between establishment Republicans and the Tea Party, making it tougher for Romney to govern and push his agenda. Third, should Romney lose, the feud with the Tea Party could potentially cause an even bigger internecine conflict.

On Wednesday, Paul spoke about some of the themes Tea Partiers hold most dear. He discussed how the “explosion of debt is unconscionable and unsustainable” and “Republicans and Democrats must slay their sacred cows” when it comes to military and domestic spending, respectively. 

He also talked about his aversion to Obamacare and defending “our God-given rights.”

"We have nothing to fear except our own unwillingness to defend what is naturally ours, our God-given rights," Paul said. "To thrive we must believe in ourselves again, and we must never -- never -- trade our liberty for any fleeting promise of security."

But he did not mention the Tea Party -- or its successes -- by name. 

On Tuesday night, three prominent Tea Party politicians -- Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley -- addressed the RNC without mentioning or making reference to the Tea Party movement of which they are a part.

Cruz spoke movingly about his father and said that when his dad came to America, "él no tenía nada, pero tenía corazón. He had nothing, but he had heart, a heart for freedom."

"Something extraordinary is happening, something that has dumbfounded the chattering class,” Cruz said. “What is happening is a Great Awakening.” 

The heart (or corazón, as Cruz would say) of this Great Awakening, though, has been the Tea Party movement, and it may be symbolic that the movement's greatest star -- former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- is, like any mention or reference to the Tea Party movement, nowhere to be found in Tampa, Florida. 

Photo credit: Human Events

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