Governor Palin, her husband Todd and daughter Bristol today attended Tammy Haddad's Brunch to raise money for Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, followed by the White House Correspondence Dinner, Greta Van Susteren reported on GretaWire. When asked about meeting Donald Trump, Gov. Palin said he is a "buddy" and she respects him.

Photo by Greta Van Susteren. Governor Palin and Todd Palin arriving.

Photo by Greta Van Susteren. White House correspondent April Ryan with Governor Palin

Photo Courtesy of Greta Van Susteren.

H/T Laurie Beitman, for Tammy Haddad Brunch story lead.

Bristol Palin attends the TIME/CNN/People/Fortune White House Correspondents' dinner cocktail party at the Washington Hilton on April 30, 2011 in Washington, DC.

 

Bristol Palin (L) and Molly McCann (Gov. Palin's sister) attend the TIME/CNN/People/Fortune White House Correspondents' dinner cocktail party at the Washington Hilton on April 30, 2011 in Washington, DC.

 

Ayla Brown (L) and Bristol Palin attend the TIME/CNN/People/Fortune White House Correspondents' dinner cocktail party at the Washington Hilton on April 30, 2011 in Washington, DC.

 

Bristol Palin attends the TIME/CNN/People/Fortune White House Correspondents' dinner cocktail party at the Washington Hilton on April 30, 2011 in Washington, DC.

 

 

Obama's energy policies are responsible for the 67% increase in gas prices, Governor Palin said tonight during a Fox News interview with Bret Baier from an undisclosed location. Baier pressed Gov. Palin to give her opinion on the other 2012 hopefuls, but she declined.

Sarah Palin Blasts Obama's Energy Policies retrieved from Fox News

Dear Friends,

I am so thankful for the American patriots across our nation who voted this past November to bring Congress back to the ideals of our Founding Fathers.
The White House and Congress heard loud-and-clear that Americans don’t want cradle-to-grave government control of our lives. We don’t want government bureaucrats deciding what kind of light bulbs we should use, what kind of cars we should drive, and which doctors can and can’t care for us and our families. And we don’t want our president continuing to manipulate the U.S. energy supply. What we want are the freedom and opportunities to make a better life for ourselves in this most exceptional nation on earth.

Taking back control of the House last year was only the first step. Now you and I must fix our eyes on 2012. Our goal is to take back the White House and the Senate. We must take back control of Congress and the White House in order to undo the damage done by the disastrous Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda.

I’ll be supporting commonsense conservative candidates in crucial off-year elections and doing all that I can to ramp up our preparations for 2012. And I promise to join you in holding new members of Congress accountable to ensure that they live up to their campaign promises to rein in out-of-control government spending and to repeal and replace the massive, burdensome, and unwanted Obamacare bill.

Can I count on your support as we look ahead to 2012?

I know what a sacred trust it is to be asking you to contribute your hard-earned money to SarahPAC. I take that trust very seriously, especially in these hard economic times. But there’s so much at stake now -– we are the most powerful country on earth and the world is better off because of us. Yet our own president and our liberal Senate seem determined to weaken us.

It’s imperative that you and I fight to end deficit spending - protect our free market entrepreneurial system - drill here and drill now for responsible energy independence - secure our borders - and strengthen our national defense to stand up to Islamic extremists and other enemies of America.

If you want to help me lay crucial groundwork, please send your best gift possible to SarahPAC today.

Thank you for joining me in the fight to keep America the country we know and love!

With an Alaskan Heart,

Sarah Palin

P.O. Box 7711
Arlington, VA 22207

"Obama wrapped up a week on the campaign trail...instead of focusing on challenges facing our country, such as Libya and $5/gallon gas," Governor Palin said tonight in a single segment interview with Greta Van Susteren from an undisclosed location.

Tonight's interview follows in the wake of a scathing Facebook Note in which Gov. Palin took Obama to task essentially for shirking when he should be working on Libya. "We cannot afford our commander-in-chief, our CEO to" to not focus on his job, she said. "He needs to help get the economy back on track. The perception he gives on some issues is that he can't be bothered." Gov. Palin said if that's the case, "government should get out of the way, don't monetize debt, no quantitative easing and no wars we can't afford."

She said Obama "has been extremely inconsistent on why we're in Libya. First, Gaddafi had to go...then it's not our job to tell Libyans what to do...why there? Why not Syria? What is our interest in Libya?"

Gov. Palin said "when you have a trillion-dollar deficit and $14 trillion in debt you have to be careful with the wars we engage in....We should only get involved if we're in it to win it." She added that we have to make sure a replacement government is not something worse than the predecessor.

"We cannot afford to be the world's ATM and babysitter," Gov. Palin said.

When asked how she would handle today's high oil prices, Gov. Palin responded, "there should be no moratorium on drilling...the EPA is making it impossible for responsible drillers...there should be no subsidizing Brazil and other foreign countries' drilling."

Gov. Palin noted that the State of Alaska had already completed studies on whether speculation and collusion were at the root of high oil prices. The study concluded that it was a supply and demand issue. Gov. Palin said that Obama needs to work with these results and similar results from other states' studies and support domestic drilling. She said his "hare-brained schemes" for green energy were no solution.

"A devalued dollar combined with the lack of domestic supply results in higher prices," Gov. Palin said adding that it was a "deadly combination."

Greta did not ask Gov. Palin about her own 2012 plans but asked her about Donald Trump's. Gov. Palin said that she "respects what Trump is doing regarding the birth certificate and college records, and hopes that now he will force a shift in debate to other more important issues." She added that "the media is loving this," and they are "making curious Americans sound kind of crazy." Gov. Palin dropped a hint that Obama's memoir may have been co-written by domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. She said there is nothing wrong with asking Obama to disclose his thesis and other college papers - not because of the grades he may have gotten - but to understand his thought process, and "what goes into his thinking."

"It is not inappropriate to ask why our commander-in-chief would want our troops under the control of NATO....People want to be able to trust their government," Gov. Palin said.

Regarding Katie Couric's retirement from CBS, Gov. Palin said jokingly that she read about it in one of the many papers she reads online and wished her luck in her new "multi-dimensional story-telling."

Palin: Make Up Your Mind, Mr. President retrieved from Fox News.

Will be a Guest on Tonight's Dancing with the Stars

Seven months and five days after Bristol Palin established her official Facebook page, she secured 50,000 Facebook friends, with the 50K milestone being achieved around 1100 (11:00 AM) EST on April 26, 2011. In a record-breaking 30-hour 6,000-friend spike, her numbers hit 21,000 on November 18, 2010 at 1938 (7:38 PM) EST.

She is both a teen advocate and an entertainer. Bristol, who is Gov. Palin's eldest daughter, launched her page on Tuesday, September 21 at 1442 (2:42 PM) EDT. She has completed her memoir "Not Afraid of Life", which is to be published June 21, 2011, by William Morrow, a Harper Collins imprint.

Bristol was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, and finished the competition in third place. She will be a guest on tonight's show.

Bristol is an advocacy advocate for the Candies Foundation, which released a public service announcement (PSA) featuring her and "The Situation" promoting abstinence. She also appeared solo in several other Candies Foundations "Pause Before You Play" PSAs.

Bristol, following in her mother's footsteps is a sought after speaker. She can be booked through Single Source Speakers, and has spoken about teen pregnancy in several venues this year. Bristol often tag-teams with Gov. Palin at events. She was present at Gov. Palin's speech delivered to Long Island Association on February 17, 2011 and at her Madison, Wisconsin speech of April 16, 2011.

Bristol cut "Inside This World of Mine," with Static Cycle, an Alaskan rock band.

A comprehensive dossier of Bristol's accomplishments can be found at US for Palin's dedicated Bristol page.

Governor Palin today posted on Facebook:

Please make up your mind, Mr. President. You can’t vacillate when spending America’s human and fiscal resources in yet another foreign country without good reason. You said that Libyan leader Gaddafi has got to go. Many of us heard that as your call to action and agreed, “Okay, you’re right. He’s an evil dictator who kills his own innocent people, so enforce a no-fly zone so he can’t continue an aerial slaughter.” But then you said our mission in Libya isn’t to oust Gaddafi after all. (Or vice versa on the order or your statements. Between you and your advisers the public has been given so many conflicting statements on why we’re intervening in Libya that I apologize if I can’t keep up with the timing and rationale of your murky foreign policy positions.)

At this point, to avoid further mission creep and involvement in a third war – one we certainly can’t afford – you need to step up and justify our Libyan involvement, or Americans are going to demand you pull out. Simply put, what are we doing there? You’ve put us in a strategic no man’s land. If Gaddafi’s got to go, then tell NATO our continued participation hinges on this: We strike hard and Gaddafi will be gone. If, as you and your spokesmen suggest, we’re not to tell Libya what to do when it comes to that country’s leadership, and if you can’t explain to Americans why we’re willing to protect Libyan resources and civilians but not Syria’s, Yemen’s, Bahrain’s, Egypt’s, Israel’s, etc., then there is no justification for U.S. human and fiscal resources to be spent.

I would also ask you to better explain your thinking on Libya. We can’t afford any actions that don’t take care of crucial U.S. needs and meet our own interests at this point. You are the Commander in Chief, so please explain what you believe is our “interest” there and not elsewhere.

Mr. President, your hesitation and vacillation in the Middle East breed uncertainty. It’s symptomatic of the puzzling way you govern. See, uncertainty is one of the factors over which you have control, and I would think you’d want to eliminate that additional element that helps breed problems like higher oil prices. Higher oil means exorbitant gas prices weighing down our economy.  Consistency and strength – and greater domestic energy production – will help fix higher gas prices and help heal the economy. But only with leadership. These sorts of problems don’t fix themselves.

It’s unbelievable to me that you spent last week in campaign mode, gallivanting around the country to start raising the billion dollars for your reelection bid that is still 19 months away “while Rome burns.” Our economy is in the tank; jobs are as scarce as ever; you’re asking Congress to let you incur even more unsustainable, immoral, freedom-stealing government debt; and many of our brave men and women in uniform are shaking their heads in disbelief over your befuddled military directions. Yet instead of working with Congress and a wise multitude of advisers to fix some problems, you choose all this campaigning, already? As was recently asked: When do you ever just “roll up your sleeves, unplug the teleprompter” and do the job of governing and administrating for which voters hired you?

I know, I know, granted you will be even busier very soon. After all, golf season kicks into high gear shortly. NBA and NHL brackets await. Summer vacations and that all-consuming campaign whistle stop tour will no doubt slam you. But I would ask, while the rest of us are also busy working, saving, planning ahead, fighting to protect our Constitution, and trying to keep up with where and why you’re spending our Department of Defense funds – I’d ask that you find time to tell Americans the truth about the state of our union and what you are doing to find solutions to our challenges. Please start with explaining Libya.

- Sarah Palin

Retrieved from: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150165452518435.

Governor Palin today posted on Facebook:

Easter is the celebration of what hope really means. In Jesus’ triumph over death through His resurrection, we believe that death was defeated and hope became the expectation of eternal life with God.

Hope is the great driving force in many of our lives, and it has been the driving force in our country’s history. America has always had a strong sense that God’s providence is abundant, that no challenge can ever be too great and no enemy too strong. It was this hope that inspired us to carve a nation out of the wilderness, to appreciate opportunities to responsibly utilize nature’s resources, to engineer skyscrapers towering over our gleaming cities, and to fly to the moon.

As a country and as individuals, we can always have true hope to guide us. Our best days remain ahead of us. And working together we will leave this country to our children a better place than we received it from our parents.

On this blessed day let’s remember our Lord’s sacrifice that led to the Resurrection; and from the whole Palin family, have a wonderful Easter!

- Sarah Palin

Retrieved from: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150163639123435.

The sun is rising....

Easter Sunday is a celebration of rebirth and resurrection....

...redemption and starting fresh...new life...

A new day is beginning.

Let this Easter Sunday herald a new era...

...not a fundamental transformation to an effete Western European style socialist nation, but a return to our founding principles, American exceptionalism, and the pioneering spirit that built our country.

The Time is NOW!

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-Praesis ut prosis, ne ut imperis.

-Lead in order to serve, not in order to rule.

During this past Holy Week and Passover, we saw both the worst and the best of humanity on display. We bore witness to deranged attacks on an innocent three-year-old spurred by a "pro-choice" site. And we bore witness to three, then 11, then 23, 43, and now 44 advertisers standing up and doing the right thing - and pulling their ads off that site. With each development of the story, we emphasized how these deranged attacks on Trig Palin are rooted in pro-abortion ideology - or what what pro-abortionists call "pro-choice." We further cited the statistic that fully 90% of Down Syndrome pregnancies are aborted. Wonkette and its followers went unhinged, because Governor Sarah Palin - Trig's mother - chose life.

What is "Pro-Choice"?

The term "pro-choice" sounds really warm and fuzzy. After all, who wants to be "anti-choice"? It's a loaded term leftists always use to describe pro-lifers. One pillar of pro-choice ideology is that a woman's body is hers to do what she wants with, and that abortion is a woman's inalienable right. Keeping abortion "safe and legal" is the second pillar of "pro-choice" ideology. Some center-leftists and "pro-choice" folks from the center-right add "rare" to the mix. But, the behavior of Wonkette and its followers was "anti-choice" to the core. These people were so consumed by blind hatred toward all things Palin that they staked an illogical position antithetical to their own stated ideology. They became the thing they hate.

Carrying a Pregnancy to Term From a Pro-Choice Perspective

So, let's examine Gov. Palin carrying Trig to term from a "pro-choice" standpoint. If we accept as true the notion that Gov. Palin's body is "hers to do with as she pleases," carrying a pregnancy to term is just as much a choice as aborting the pregnancy. You cannot call yourself "pro-choice" while simultaneously arguing against completing a pregnancy to term. It's Gov. Palin's body...as a woman if she wants to carry her pregnancy to term - choosing life - that is her prerogative and her right. Gov. Palin had the legal right to abort her pregnancy. She chose life instead. Is that not "choice"?

Just because something is legal, does not mean it is mandatory. Smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol are both legal, and in some jurisdictions, marijuana possession and smoking is also legal. Many people choose not to smoke or drink even though the law permits it. Just because something is legal does not make it right or smart to do.

Life is a Choice...

Gov. Palin did not carry Trig to term under threat or duress. She carried him to term of her own free will, knowing and understanding that he would have special needs. Free will is the essence of choice. Free will underpins "pro-choice." True pro-choice respects the choosing of life as a woman's right.

But, to hear some "pro-choicers" speak and read their evil anti-Trig rants, they practically wanted to ambush Gov. Palin while she was pregnant with Trig, hog-tie her and drag her to the nearest abortion clinic....simply put, these "pro-choicers" are "pro-choice," as long as the choice is abortion. Life is not a valid choice in their deranged ideology. These people are not "pro-choice," as they like to call themselves. They're "anti-choice" and they're pro-abortion. They have taken the leap from abortion being a "right" to being mandatory - anti-choice.

Gov. Palin Lives and Leads by Example

Though Gov. Palin is pro-life, we have never seen her trying to outlaw all abortion. Yes, she believes tax payer dollars should not be used to fund abortions. Yes, she believes partial-birth abortion should be outlawed - even most "pro-choicers" agree with her position on this. Yes, she has supported parental notification when a minor wants to have the procedure done. Gov. Palin believes abortion is an issue that should be decided at the state level, not the federal level. Being a limited government conservative, Gov. Palin is not interested in policing people's bedrooms. While she has strongly held beliefs that guide her life, Gov. Palin has said more than once that she is not out to convert anybody or shove anything down anybody's throat. For Gov. Palin, when governing, following the Constitution supersedes everything.

Gov. Palin has a simple faith and lives it. Gov. Palin does not merely preach pro-life. She lived it, as did her daughter Bristol. Both carried their pregnancies to term of their own free will, even though it was not "convenient," and they live in a society where abortion is "safe" (it's not quite as safe as its proponents crack it up to be, though admittedly safer than the back alley coat hanger abortions of old), legal, and - unfortunately - common.

Pro-Life is Pro-Choice

Gov. Palin's decision was not just pro-life. Her decision was also pro-choice in the purest sense of the term. To argue otherwise is patently absurd and irrational. Choosing life is a choice. Pro-life is pro-choice.

Tonight will most likely be our final update to the Trigs Crew Companies or Hall of Heroes, which now number 44 with Dominos Pizza jumping aboard. These 44 companies sent the message loud and clear that attacking an innocent three-year-old is a despicable act not to be tolerated. The Letterman debacle of 2009 was the beginning of the end of the era of the Palins being a leftist punching bag. His sexism and misogyny cost his show four major sponsors. This episode proves once more that unhinged, unprovoked attacks against the Palins carry severe consequences.

Trig's Crew Companies was created by Ellen, an engineering student and contributor to Standing4Palin.com.

H/T Josh Painter, Texas for Sarah Palin for lead on Trig's Crew Companies Twitter

Trig's Crew Hall of Heroes
Standing Up and Doing the Right Thing

Trig's Crew Companies - or what US for Palin calls "Trig's Crew Hall of Heroes" now encompasses 43 companies whose executives pulled ads from the deranged pro-abortion site known as "Wonkette." The site orchestrated an evil Twitter attack on three-year-old Trig Palin after his mother, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin posted a birthday Tweet and photo. As reported by Stacy Drake, Adrienne Ross and Lori Calabrese, Wonkette has since pulled down the post, however, many other vile anti-Trig posts remain.

Trig's Crew Companies was created by Ellen, an engineering student and contributor to Standing4Palin.com.

H/T Josh Painter, Texas for Sarah Palin for lead on Trig's Crew Companies Twitter

Trig's Crew Hall of Heroes
Standing Up and Doing the Right Thing

Having just finished watching E! True Hollywood: Sarah Palin, in the main it was a hatchet job. The Heath family moved to Skagway, not Seward, as was stated on the show. In the first 10 minutes, a photo of young Sarah Heath with red eye was used constantly, perhaps in an effort to make her look demonic. Arch enemies Lyda Greene and Shannyn Moore were featured throughout the show, as was Lorenzo Benet who authored Trail Blazer an Intimate Biography of Sarah Palin. Gov. Palin's family and friends have expressed displeasure with Benet's work on past occasions. Gov. Palin was falsely accused of lying about her opponent's record on guns and abortion when she ran for Mayor of Wasilla. Toward the end of the show, Moore railed about Gov. Palin attending "anti-choice" rallies. They're called pro-life rallies.

Bottom Line: this show was a hatchet job.

The E True Hollywood Story: Sarah Palin airs tonight 10 Eastern/9 Central.

H/T Josh Painter, Texas for Sarah Palin for video lead.

Trig's Crew Companies - or what US for Palin calls "Trig's Crew Hall of Heroes" has more than doubled in size within the last few hours, now totaling 23 companies whose executives pulled ads from the deranged pro-abortion site known as "Wonkette." The site orchestrated an evil Twitter attack on three-year-old Trig Palin after his mother, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin posted a birthday Tweet and photo.

Trig's Crew Companies was created by Ellen, an engineering student and contributor to Standing4Palin.com.

H/T Josh Painter, Texas for Sarah Palin for lead on Trig's Crew Companies Twitter

Trig's Crew Hall of Heroes
Standing Up and Doing the Right Thing

Eight more advertisers today joined Papa John's Pizza, Huggies, and Vanguard Financial in expressing their disgust over Wonkette's evil and deranged Twitter attack on three-year-old Trig Palin, LifeNews reported. Joining the original three advertisers are: Bob & Evans Farms, Coldwell Banker, Deal Swarm, Holland America Cruise Lines, J. Jill, MetroPCS, Nordstrom, and Reliant Energy. Wonkette carried out the attack after Trig's mother, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin posted a birthday Tweet with a photo. The deranged attacks directed at Trig stem from extreme leftist resentment over the fact that Gov. Palin carried him to term. Fully 90% of pregnancies where the fetus is diagnosed with Down Syndrome are aborted. Wonkette is a hard-left pro-abortion site.

 

In our original coverage, we reported:

According to Ken Wheaton, Advertising Age, decent people from both the left and the right demanded that advertisers pull their ads saying the “post was beyond tasteless.”

“Know what doesn’t go over well with advertisers? Making fun of disabled children,” Wheaton wrote.

Wheaton's word ring loud and clear as 11 advertisers have now pulled out of Wonkette in a story that continues to develop.

Trig's Crew Hall of Heroes
Standing Up and Doing the Right Thing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In a still developing story, Vanguard Financial, Huggies, and Papa John's Pizza pulled their advertising from the Wonkette Blog following the site's disgusting and deranged ad hominem attacks directed at three-year-old Trig Palin on his birthday in response to a Tweet posted by his mother, Governor Sarah Palin. A look at the responses to her Tweet will take you on a journey through the most depraved depths of humanity. The deranged attacks directed at Trig stem from extreme leftist resentment over the fact that Gov. Palin carried him to term. Fully 90% of pregnancies where the fetus is diagnosed with Down Syndrome are aborted.

According to Ken Wheaton, Advertising Age, decent people from both the left and the right demanded that advertisers pull their ads saying the "post was beyond tasteless."

"Know what doesn't go over well with advertisers? Making fun of disabled children," Wheaton wrote.

Here the logos and links to the advertisers who stood up and did the right thing.

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H/T, Josh Painter, Texas for Sarah Palin for story lead.