Palin’s First Step to 2012
23 September 2009 5:00 pm by Taylor Marsh
“We simply cannot turn a blind eye to China’s policies and actions that could undermine international peace and security. China has some 1,000 missiles aimed at Taiwan and no serious observer believes that it poses a military threat to Beijing,” she said. “Those same Chinese forces made our friends in Japan and Australia kinda nervous. China provides support for some of the most questionable regimes from Sudan to Burma to Zimbabwe.” Palin said her comments did not show any hostility towards China. “We simply want them to rise responsibly,” she said. – Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin’s first speech towards reinvention was today. Real Clear Politics has a short clip. Where to begin on her comments regarding China? Perhaps here:
“It was a very safe speech,” said Suyeon An of RCM Asia Pacific Ltd, who left before Palin stopped talking. “Boring I have to say.”
That said, why shouldn’t Palin get a chance to reinvent herself, competing with here record which still stands as an impediment to higher office? John Ensign is still a senator, as is David Vitter, with Mark Sanford still a governor; with Newt Gingrich seen as a guiding Republican light, a man who was having an affair when he was simultaneously trying to impeach WJC. Palin shouldn’t be held to lesser standards just because she’s a woman.
Reviews also saying she was “well-prepared” sure to drive Palin haters to distraction:
A number of people who heard the speech in a packed hotel ballroom, which was closed to the media, said Mrs. Palin spoke from notes for 90 minutes and that she was articulate, well-prepared and even compelling.
Randy Scheunemann, her adviser from the McCain days who remains by her side, must be proud. He made sure Mrs. Palin got in the classics. Via AP:
She also criticized the U.S. Federal Reserve’s massive intervention in the economy over the last year, arguing its actions only exacerbated the crisis, according to another attendee. She also praised the conservative economic policies of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The reviews from the right were raves: Don Surber: Palin gives ‘em hell in Hong Kong. With 184 excited comments greeting their girl over at Conservatives4Palin.
But in the end it looks like Mrs. Palin did herself some good.
Mr. Goodé, a New Yorker who said he would never vote for Mrs. Palin, said she acquitted herself well. “They really prepared her well,” he said. “She was articulate and she held her own. I give her credit. They’ve tried to categorize her as not being bright. She’s bright.”
Rumors are that she received as much as $300,000 for the speech. Not bad for a “quitter.”
