[Mike]

After watching Sarah Palin's keynote speech at the National Tea Party Convention, I am left with even more doubts and questions about her.

She's sharp, she's attractive, she presses all the right hot-buttons and doesn't pull punches. Does she understand conservative Americans are wanting to hear about Republican policy and not witness Palin publicity?

She got a lot of applause from the attendees, but let's cut through all the rhetoric. What did she really have to say?

She showed she really has little understanding about the tea party movement. She failed to mention how the RINOs have expanded government at nearly every step. She failed to address the issues of making government smaller.

I think she is more than a little confused about how the tea party movement doesn't trust the RINOs any more than anyone else.

During her post-speech interview, an interesting question was posed to her, asking her what she felt needs to be done in America. Her reply was, 'we need to rein in spending'. I'm sure there's not a conservative alive that wouldn't agree with you, Governor Palin. However you failed to explain how we should go about doing just that.

To borrow a phrase from her speech, I'm tired of all the talk, talk, talk.

I just watched her on Chris Wallace and she seemed to be capable of firing off answers as quickly as Wallace was asking them. But once again, it was all talk, talk, talk.

[VegasBruce]

This looks she is trying to start her own party.

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[Mike]

I'm still trying to sort if she's looking to adopt the tea party movement, or if she hopes the tea party movement will adopt her.

Like I mentioned above, she says all the right things. But she always comes up short on details.

I think the media rallied to strike her down in 2008 and I don't think that was fair. But I still don't think she was (or is) qualified for the job. She just sounds a bit too neocon for my tastes. I agree with her opinions of President Reagan, but that's pretty much where it ends.

As for SarahPAC, I noticed this morning she insisted to Chris Wallace the check she received for last evening's speaking engagement would be turned back to support building a better America. So does that mean the funds are going to SarahPAC? If not, why didn't she just refuse the fee?

[Mike]

I will have to say one thing. She's learning and she's learning quickly. Say the right things and sway people to your support.

In discussion with Ron Paul about the legalization of marijuana, she stated she was against legalizing it. But she then qualified her statement by saying, "We need to prioritize our law enforcement efforts. If somebody's gonna to smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody any harm, then perhaps there are other things our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems we have in society."

What have groups like NORML been saying for decades? If we were to release all prisoners incarcerated for simple possession of marijuana, our prisons would finally have the room and the resources to get the real criminals off the street. Legalize it, tax it and sell it in liquor stores. Hell, today's youth don't bother trying to find someone to buy booze for them, they go into school and buy pot from their classmates. Of course the powers that be realize the legalization would stick a fork in the Mexican drug cartels, but they refuse to do anything.

I've little doubt Palin came up with that observation on her own, but she's proving the theory that even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and again.