The site looks fantastic. Great job. cant wait for the fun to begin

thanks for doing this. We need inspiration and uplifting!

Do not know how you will broadcast this. Hope you will use livestream. http://www.livestream.com/

Preparing for the Earthquake is great. Helping it along is even better! See you Saturday!

Hey guys, I’m Emily from Conservatives 4 Palin, a college freshman, and ready to rock out! (Now where’s my sparkly Converse?)

We’re here….we’re clear….get used to it!!!

Unfortunately, I have other commitments that day so I won’t be able to be able to be there for the *live* online summit

Will there be a way to access the summit for viewing/listening later?

This sounds wonderful and thank you to everyone for doing this!

We definitely need some inspiration & motivation!

Looks really good, thanks for putting it together so quickly. Looking forward to hearing more about it.

YouTube:
(10:56)
“Sarah Palin – The Reluctant Candidate (Full Version)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pasaawEXPFw

(4:26)
“Sarah Palin – The Reluctant Candidate (REMIX)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPIks_SnFok

http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/ needs to be listed in your Blogs 4 Palin

It would be nice if someone (maybe. Susan) could design a simple 8×10 flyer announcing Grizzly Fest. Post it on this site for the rest of us to print out and post on bulletin boards, storefronts etc.

Here’s a few thoughts on a possible way forward for the Palinista movement  in the future which Grizzly Fest participants might want to consider. 
What follows is an argument for  organizing around advocacy of a set of principles which we all want to see adopted in society which are essential to a lasting restoration and renewal of America but which are not dependent on or centered on  individuals, personalities or candidates.   This appears to be consistent with Sarah Palin’s own thinking about the way forward from here.  
A disturbing trend noted on the C4P site as well as Sarah Palin’s FB page is the scramble for an endorsement of one of the GOP candidates.   It is splintering the Palinista movement.  It is setting Palinista against Palinista.  It is the result of placing hope in an individual rather than principles.  There should be no Palinista endorsement of a Presidential candidate other than Sarah Palin.  That path is fraught with risk to the unity of the Palinista movement going forward.
Sarah Palin herself has stated that she is going to wait and see what “floats to the top” of the Republican primary process.  That is a wise strategy.  Rather than endorse a Presidential candidate, Palinistas should insist that all candidates embrace the principles of restoration and renewal.  The movement should develop and advance those principles no matter who succeeds to the White House in 2012 and it should hold that person’s feet to the fire during the entire term.   
Down ticket endorsement, support and encouragement is another matter.   Those who embrace the Palinista principles should be endorsed at a local level in a way that does not splinter the movement on a national level. 
Sarah Palin presented what amounts to the “The Palin Doctrine” for the restoration and renewal of America in a cornfield in Indianola, Iowa on Labor Day weekend Sept. 3, 2011.    
The Palin Doctrine presented to the country that day is nothing short of the most comprehensive, multi-layered  and ambitious proposal to address the problems America faces which has yet been put forward by any candidate for President in the 2012, including the incumbent. 
The first step toward putting America back on track is an accurate reading of the real nature of the problems directly in front of us.  Sarah Palin defined those problems and put them in sobering context.    She constructed a bold battle plan for the country to meet them head on and pointed the way to a comprehensive,  practical , achievable  set of solutions to those problems . 
 Over the course of the past year or so Sarah Palin succeeded in shaping  the 2012 political battlefield  and  chose the ground the GOP field  has been fighting on  and which  Barack Hussein Obama  will have to fight  on in the general election.  
Sarah Palin has led and continues to lead where the other candidates must follow.   Why?  Because the American public has responded to her in various ways to one degree or another even if it is opposition to what she stands for.  That includes her:    A) strategic long term vision; B)  accurate and cogent recognition of the nature of the problems  immediately confronting us in the short term ; and C) the pragmatic and necessary tactics Palin  has proposed for steering the nation through B to get to A during  what she has termed “those heady days ahead.” 
The Palin Doctrine is the first and only comprehensive plan for fully restoring the nation that has been placed on the table in 2012.  That Doctrine is  planted on the high ground of “Constitutional Conservatism” and the need for national renewal and restoration.   All of the seekers of national office  will have to  fight  it out on that ground  now in relation to the “Palin Doctrine”.  They will have to push her and the people attracted to her cause and her message off that high ground.  That is going to be a tall, tall order. 
The Palin Doctrine identifies  and addresses at least four broad problem areas and calls for “a sense of urgency” in  simultaneously tackling each part of the complex set of problems which lie right in front of America–some chronic  and some temporary— which fall  under these broad categories:
SPIRITUAL RENEWAL— POLITICAL PROCESS REFORM—ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION—CITIZENSHIP
Unlike any of the candidates, Sarah Palin has linked simultaneous progress in these four areas –not simply the economic or fiscal problems—as the key to constructing the basis for a permanent  renewal  of American society.   These should not be construed in any order of priority.  Progress in all of these problem areas identified in Palin’s Sept.3 speech is required to get to the desired result.  Here in short form is what the Palin Doctrine would address:
SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:  America needs to acknowledge that God has shed his grace on America.  Our freedom, our liberty, our Revolution of 1776, our Constitution, our prosperity, our well being, our way of life, our American exceptionalism  is the result of  and derives from  and depends on the continuing presence of  that grace and Divine Providence in our public affairs.  How does God work his grace in the world?  God works through people whether they are aware that He is working  through them or not.  If we assent to this dependence on grace God will work through each and every one of us to bring about His will for America.  Sarah Palin has made that personal commitment.  We need, as a Nation, to both pray for the continued shedding of that grace and to once again comport ourselves in a way that is consistent with this reality.  On Sept. 3 Sarah Palin mentioned that we must reach for God’s hand and let Him guide us along the path of national renewal.  This insistence and reliance upon  Divine Providence to inform  and guide our actions  promises to be one of the most controversial but necessary aspects of  the Palin  Doctrine.  In truth this is the foundation and bedrock of that Doctrine. 
POLITICAL PROCESS REFORM:   The political process in Washington—and increasingly at the State and local levels—is corrupted and in need of cleansing.  “I am not for sale.”  This lays down the gauntlet for the rest of the field in Campaign 2012, especially and most particularly Barack Obama.  “Pay for Play” business as usual must come to an end.  Rewarding political contributors with bailouts, subsidies, contracts, and unfettered access to the federal Treasury is an evil that bedevils the nation and stands in the way of our renewal.  
Sarah Palin is challenging the entire entrenched Establishment –what she calls “the permanent political class”—that has inflicted this evil on the country over a long period of time.  The “Corrupt Bastards Club of America” is a logarithmically larger version of the “Corrupt Bastards Club of Alaska” that she successfully took on and defeated in her home state.   This will not be an easy job.    
That loci of corruption she is challenging on behalf of Middle America includes Democrats, Republicans, the lame stream media, thousands upon thousands of beltway lobbyists, the military industrial complex, the nanny state complex,  Wall St., foreign interests, and what she correctly identifies as “crony capitalism”. 
Sarah Palin is taking them all on.  All of it.  She is Undefeated.  “I am not for sale.”  She is saying she is not for sale and America can no longer be bought and sold to the highest bidder.   The Presidency must no longer be a $1 billion “investment” for “crony capitalists” expecting a tenfold or hundred fold, or thousand fold return on that investment through the U.S. Treasury and the tax payers’ pockets.
ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION:   For all its pain and misery our national economic problem is –of all the problems the Palin  Doctrine addresses — perhaps the most easily resolved.  Our economic problems—low growth/high unemployment/unsustainable trillion dollar fiscal deficits/ perilously high federal debt/inept monetary policy/ money printing/”Too Big to Fail” financial fragility—are in reality temporary in nature constituting correctible symptoms of misguided and counterproductive Progressive Socialist economic policy.  Change the policy and these problems resolve in a relatively short order and pass into the dustbin of painful and wholly unnecessary economic history. 
Essential elements of the Palin Doctrine for Economic Revitalization: 
Repeal Obamacare/ Energy Self-Sufficiency/ Zero Out Corporate Income Taxes/Entitlement Reform/Diminish the Government Footprint on the economy/Regulatory Relief/Empowerment of individual initiative/Encouragement of capital formation/ Keep what you earn/Free markets determining wages, prices and the allocation of scarce resources.
What is clear is that implementation of the Palin Doctrine’s economic policies would ignite a fast, ferocious, V shaped economic rebound.  Within 6 months the U.S. economy would be growing at an 8-10% growth rate.  Unemployment would be rapidly decreasing.  Financial markets would be booming.   The housing market would finally bottom out and beginning to improve.  Tax receipts would begin flowing in to the Treasury.   A rising tide would lift all boats and sooner than most people would expect.
The Palin Doctrine represents rocket fuel for the U.S. economy.  It remains for America to put the right leaders in place to light it off.  
CITIZENSHIP:  The Palin Doctrine requires a renewal of citizen participation in public affairs.  It recognizes that one person even as gifted as Sarah Palin cannot do it alone.  She challenged Americans to “Get off the couch!  Come down out of that deer blind!  Be prepared to sacrifice some of those leisure hours watching football!”   Aristotle said that “What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business—a matter common to most men receives least attention.”  We must take more individual responsibility for our government and our civic life.  This is a hard, sacrificial reality that Sarah Palin is going to hammer home to Americans over the course of this campaign and beyond.  We will have to give of our time and resources to secure our liberty and that of our grandchildren.  There is no way around it.  All of these core entrenched systemic problems and temporary economic problems cannot be corrected without this essential element of the Palin Doctrine.  Time to get off the couch if we wish to survive as the America we have taken for granted.   Time to teach our children what Citizenship means and what it requires of each of us.  We must take up the task of inculcating Citizenship  with a capital “C” into our children in the same way we inculcate sports into their lives.  Citizenship is more important to them then sports.
What is not included in this short description of The Palin Doctrine for the Restoration and Renewal of America is a definitive or distinct position on Foreign Affairs or Defense issues.  Perhaps Sarah Palin will expand upon these areas in the future.  What is clear in the Foreign Affairs area is that she believes that there should be no daylight between Israel and the United States.  Just guessing but a Palin Foreign Affairs doctrine might look a lot like George Washington’s.  Don’t go looking for foreign dragons to slay.  Stick by the treaties and alliances you make, if you must make them. 
Combined, the Palin Doctrine is a bold, comprehensive  but simple and easy to understand plan for renewal and restoration of America.  It has and will continue to  attract Americans by the millions.  
Above all, implementation of the Palin Doctrine will set us on the path of a new era of freedom, expanded opportunity, wealth creation, prosperity and national well being for ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren. 
So how is all this to come about without Sarah Palin in the White House?  Recall how many of us raised the battle cry: “I am Sarah Palin!”   That has to become a reality.  We all have to be Sarah Palin in whatever way we can.  
The Palin movement needs to rally behind a set of universal principles that we can all support and defend with vigor and conviction.  Individuals — their strengths and weaknesses–fade into the background in light of strong principles.  It is the message not the messenger—not even one as compelling as Sarah Palin– that counts.   We must all be messengers to the extent we can be.  The truth and the principles will attract growing legions of adherents like moths to a flame.  Americans are hungry and increasingly desperate for enduring principles that will sustain us. 
The job in front of C4P, the various Palin groups and individual Palinistas is to raise a platform and a vigorous growing network of support to develop, articulate and advance a consistent message based on principle until those principles are recognized and embraced by the public at large and the political class as essential and unavoidable if America is to be restored and renewed.   It is a challenge worth embracing and a fight worth making.  It may be a long march.  It starts by putting one foot in front of the other.

Without question the organizers have done a great job setting up this event. Thank you. It bothers me though that your message appears to completely discount the possibility of Gov. Palin’s reconsidering her decision to not run in 2012.  Say it isn’t so.

Someone make sure that Sarah gets an invite to this summit. I’m sure she knows about it.

If Sarah were really to lead an Independent ticket against Obama then I think she would need to team up with one or a few individuals who could bankroll the logistics, i.e., getting all the signatures for the General Election ballot in maybe fifty states.

I doubt she could do it with simply grass roots money, unless the two major parties COMPLETELY screw up somehow.

I’ll be working during Grizzly Fest tomorrow, so here’s my main two bits to start out with:It seems like Sarah prefers to remain in the Republican party, but the political question becomes what role should she play in that party? I am thinking specifically about her two upcoming and very “official” sounding GOP speaking engagements (GOPink and GOP Florida). These clearly look like loyalty tests to me. She will not primarily be addressing the Tea Party or the Evangelical community in either instance.Personally, like Todd and Track, I am NOT a Republican but I am a lifer for Sarah Palin.

The power’s going on and off here! Snowing!…this is one of those “Get the NY guy” things isn’t it??

Hope this can be listened to later if my power goes out–and it will!

Well, that was a very interesting experience.   Pulling it  together was obviously a technical challenge.  It was a challenge for me to log on at the beginning but somebody scrambled to get us all hooked up.  Thanks.

What came through loud and clear to me is that there is a core of very intelligent, creative, energetic and UNDEFEATED people who are committed to expanding and broadening this Restoration movement in this election cycle and beyond.  It is clear that a whole lot of smart and articulate people understand what is at stake. 

It’s reasurring to know that something very powerful, healing and good is bubbling and forming and coming together in America. 

It may not look like it to most of the country but this is the movement and these are the people who are going to end the Establisment “permanent politcal class” and the crony capitialist  symbiosis which is leading the country to disaster.  

Good work everybody involved.