PALIN: ‘Age of Obama is Almost Over. This is End of an Error’…

The crowd here at the Conservative Political Action Conference gleefully embraces the political figures Democrats and the media love to hate, and it is full of adoration for Sarah Palin.

“You love her because she drives liberals crazy,” the National Rifle Association’s Chris Cox said as he introduced the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee.

Palin delivered the closing remarks at this year’s conference and, in a speech that touched on topics ranging from Obamacare to the Republican establishment to Ted Cruz to the war on women, she brought the audience of approximately 11,000 to its feet repeatedly with the sassiness and attitude that has become her calling card.

“The age of Obama is almost over,” she announced. “This is the end of an error, he is the lamest of lame ducks.”

Palin also launched an assault on the party establishment, which she said is urging Republicans to lay low while Obamacare and the president’s feckless foreign policy create problems for Democrats.

“You do interrupt when they are in the process of destroying your country, and that’s what we’re gonna do in 2014,” she said. Audience members interrupted to exclaim, “Run, Sarah, run!” (She garnered just 2 percent in the conference’s annual presidential straw poll.)

Palin’s message to President Obama, who is in the midst of a stand off with Russian president Vladimir Putin over his incursion into Ukraine: ”Mr. President,” she said, “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.” Then she acknowledged she should be more understanding in the face of the president’s troubles. “After all, who could have seen this one coming?” she quipped, referring to her 2008 prediction that American inaction in the face of Putin’s invasion of Georgia would encourage him to invade Ukraine. 

“I love coming back here because there are always so many young people or, as you’re known by the folks across the river, Obamacare suckers,” she said. “Turns out, you have the change that they were waiting for: You have the $5s, the $10s, and the $20s.”

“They said the train of history was roaring to the left,” she said, “but then, something happened. That ‘Hope and Change’ went from a catchy campaign slogan to a reality and along the way, ‘Hope and Change,’ ‘Yes we can,’ it became ‘No You Can’t’: No you can’t log on to the website. No, you can’t keep your health care. No, you can’t make a phone call without Michelle Obama knowing this is the third time you dialed Pizza Hut delivery.”

Pushing back against the Democrats’ claim that the Republican party’s pro-life stance constitutes a war on women, she told the women in today’s audience, of the Democratic party, “Don’t let them use you unless you choose to be their political pawn or just their accessory on their arm. Honey, that’s not liberation, that’s subjugation, and this sisterhood fights against that.”

Palin electrified the audience at last year’s conference by tacitly rebuking New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, pulling a Big Gulp soda from beneath the podium and taking a big sip. “Shoot, it’s just pop with lo-cal ice cubes in it!” she shrugged, and pumped the cup over her head when she left the stage.

Moments before Palin took the stage, Rand Paul claimed a victory in the conference’s annual presidential straw poll for the second year in a row.

Palin, who heads a political action committee dedicated to backing candidates that she supports, and who will host the show “Amazing America” on the Sportsman Channel starting next month, has not backed a 2016 presidential candidate yet, but did give a special shout out to freshman senator Ted Cruz. “Liberty needs a Congress on Cruz control,” she said, praising Cruz’s all-night filibuster and his attempt to defund Obamacare, which she said had helped to wake people up to the horrors of Obamacare.

Palin offered her own version of “Green Eggs and Ham” after offering praise for Cruz, who read the book on the Senate floor during his filibuster against Obamacare last fall.

“I do not like this Uncle Sam, I do not like this health care scam. I do not like these dirty crooks, or how they lie and cook the books,” she said. The audience laughed and cheered.

“I do not like this spyin’ man, I do not like ‘Oh, yes we can,” she continued. “I do not like this kind of hope, and we won’t take it nope, nope, nope.” 

[H/T National Review: Eliana Johnson]

Ben Carson: Time to kick people out of office

“We cannot be free if we are not brave.”

That’s how Ben Carson summed up the predicament every American faces in the era of President Obama, while speaking at CPAC, the annual gathering of conservatives just outside Washington, D.C.

The world-famous neurosurgeon said if Americans use the example of the greatest generation they can save the nation and, “We can get our country back, but we have to be brave.”

Carson invited the audience to remember the incredible dangers and hardships Americans faced during World War II. With all of civilization on the verge of collapse and chaos everywhere, only one thing saved the day: The one country with enough strength and determination to fight, and win, wars on two fronts on the opposite sides of the world.

He poignantly recalled how Americans had made tremendous sacrifices so that people all across the world could have freedom and justice.

“You want to tell me were not an exceptional country? You go jump in a lake!” exclaimed Carson and the crowd responded with a huge ovation, standing and cheering.

Carson used another stark analogy to describe the economic peril America faces.

“The ship is about to sail off Niagara Falls and were all about to be killed,” he gravely warned about the nation’s more than $17-trillion in debt.

The doctor implored voters, that even if their preferred candidate does not win in the primary elections, they still must vote for Republicans in the fall.

He said whether the candidates are tea partiers, RINOs (Republicans In Name Only), or “whatever you want to call them – we need them!”

However, he was careful to add, voters must “kick out of office those who keep voting to raise the debt ceiling,” which included some key GOP leaders.

Carson jumped into the national spotlight after giving the keynote address at the National Prayer Breakfast in February 2013. With President Obama sitting just a few feet away, Carson delivered a 27-minute stinging rebuke of the administration’s policies and “moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility.”

After that speech, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial that practically begged Carson to run for president. That wish may come true.

The world-renowned neurosurgeon was greeted with a hero’s welcome at CPAC as the crowd delivered a boisterous standing ovation, with many holding Carson for president in 2016 signs.

Carson did not mention his humble origins, born and raised in a single parent home to a mother who was one of 24 children, and who married at age 13. He rose from poverty in inner-city Detroit to become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins.

He said he was able to achieve his dream of becoming a physician because he had a mother who tolerated no excuses and “because I believed in God.”

Strongly hinting his destiny may next lead him in the direction of the White House, Carson said after he retired last year he had expected to play golf but, “I think the good Lord had a different plan.”

The doctor said he is not sure what the culmination of that plan will be, but he and his wife love traveling the country and meeting Americans.

He said people are relieved to find someone speaking common sense because the political correctness police have made them think they were alone, and beaten so many Americans into submission.

Carson described the technique pushed by radial leftist Saul Alinksy that is used by today’s liberal, to “make the majority think their way of thinking is outdated” and to get the media to buy into that.

The cure?

“It’s time for people to stand up for what they believe.”

Carson said the reason leftists “repeat these lies over and over again is because they cannot talk about the actual facts. We have to understand, this is what these people do.”

He said they are following Alinsky’s guidance to not have an intelligent conversation with their opponents because that would humanize them, and what the left seeks to do is demonize its enemies.

The physician also insisted “the most important thing people have is there is their health care” and that’s why the most important thing is “we must fight to make sure it stays in their hands and not the hands of the government.”

Carson called Obamacare “the most massive shift in power that has ever occurred. We need to redo it and put the power back in the hands of the American people!”

He noted how, in the medical world, people debate ideas. But the political world is populated by ideologues, and the only people who can stop them are the American people.

“I hate political correctness. I will continue to defy the PC police who have tried, in many cases, to shut me up.

“I still believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

“Of course gay people should have the same rights as everyone else,” he said to loud applause.

“But they don’t [get] extra rights,” he said to even louder applause.

[H/T WND.com: Garth Kant]

Sen. Cruz Calls for Abolishing the IRS

(Infowars.com) – Senator Ted Cruz told CPAC 2014 on Thursday the government needs abolish the IRS. There should be a flat tax, he said. Americans should be able to file their taxes on a postcard.

 

 

Cruz first called for a flat tax in 2013 as the IRS scandal picked up steam. “We ought to abolish the IRS and instead move to a simple flat tax,” he said on Fox News. “Put down how much you earn, put down a deduction for charitable contributions, for home mortgage, and how much you owe. It ought to be just a simple, one-page postcard.”

 

Mr. Cruz’s proposal would not, however, be a true flat tax. Strictly speaking, a flat tax would eliminate all deductions, tax credits, and other tax brackets, including deductions for mortgages and charitable contributions. Under a pure flat tax system, only earned income would be taxed. Dividends, interest on savings, and capital gains would not be taxed.

 

Republicans, including tea party Republicans, are unfortunately not philosophically opposed to taxation. “They have no problem taxing the American people to fund foreign aid, bloated defense budgets, U.S. military adventures around the world, the CIA, FBI, and anything related to law enforcement or homeland security, faith-based welfare programs, educational vouchers, abstinence education programs, farm subsidies, the space program, the war on drugs, and various conservative pork projects,” writes Laurence M. Vance.

 

Instead of a flat tax, Senator Cruz and the Republicans should call for the 16th Amendment to be repealed.

 

“Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of its history. Prior to 1913, the government operated with revenues raised through tariffs, excise taxes, and property taxes, without ever touching a worker’s paycheck,” writes Ron Paul.

 

“Is it impossible to end the income tax? I don’t believe so. In fact, I believe a serious groundswell movement of disaffected taxpayers is growing in this country. Millions of Americans are fed up with the current tax system, and they will bring pressure on Congress.”

 

Senator Cruz and the Republicans should get behind this movement and call for not merely abolishing the IRS bureaucracy, but eliminating income taxation altogether.

[H/T Inforwars.com: Kurt Nimmo]