Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin tonight called upon the GOP declared candidates to focus their energy on "who is is best equipped to take on Obama and his failed policies" in a single-segment TV interview with Bill O'Reilly from her home studio in Wasilla, Alaska.

Gov. Palin also urged voters to not listen to the negative ads put out by the super-PACS and the candidates and instead do their own homework, and do their own vetting. "It is imperative that voters do not become lazy," she said. O'Reilly said that while may viewers of his and other Fox shows would do it, he considered most voters to be ill-informed.

Gov. Palin said the candidates need to focus on how best to mount a campaign against Obama. She also said "it is not negative campaigning to call out records, past associations, and what another candidate has said and done in the past." She acknowledged O'Reilly's thesis that negative campaign ads ultimately become free ads for the Democrats to use against us.

"I hope that [the candidates] keep their priorities straight," Gov. Palin said adding that for her faith, family and freedom come first. Gov. Palin said she has a thick skin but is "sympathetic when she sees others going through what I have."

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin tonight called upon the GOP candidates to debate solutions and issues and stop the negativity during a TV interview with Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly from her home in Wasilla, Alaska.

On Romney's win - which as of this writing stands at 47% with Gingrich trailing 15 points at 32% with 79% of the precincts reporting - Gov. Palin said, "those are pretty large numbers for Governor Romney. $17 million bought lots of darts and arrows which were flown in one direction, and others were thrown back." Gov. Palin said that with this $17 million in ads all spent in Florida, the other candidates found it difficult to counter Romney. "Once a bell is rung, it's difficult to un-ring it."

On Romney's closing statement pertaining to leading the party, Gov. Palin said that is every candidate's mission. She called upon all the candidates to debate the issues, like why are we facing a huge deficit, and debate solutions to problems such as the rumor that U.S. currency will no longer be used for oil trades, which increases our dependence on foreign energy. She said the candidates should debate the war on religion, which is a "war on our first freedom." She said candidates should focus on normal every-day things, not nitpicking.

Baier asked Gov. Palin if she would carry her call to vote for Gingrich to Nevada in light of her having done it in South Carolina and Florida. Gov. Palin said, she would call on people to vote for whichever candidate would allow the competition and vetting to continue. Since Romney and Gingrich are the two front-runners, Gov. Palin said Gingrich is currently the candidate she would call upon Nevadans to vote for. "An even playing field allows the vetting to continue."

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A friend emailed me this notice from her local Alaskan school today. As the school notice makes clear: anything above -55 degrees below zero is warm enough for our Alaskan young’uns! Global warming? What global warming? I just had to share this with all those who are enjoying the balmy 65 degree (above zero) weather in the Beltway today and the 70+ degree weather our Florida voters are enjoying! And here’s a photo of my nephew doing his chores in -20 degrees. Last Frontier indeed. - Sarah Palin “Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.” - Henry Ford

 

Back in May 2009, during the controversy over Notre Dame’s decision to have President Obama as their commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient, I gave a short statement to the Boston Herald: “My favorite grandpa, Clem James Sheeran, was Catholic. Irish to the core, his favorite place (other than church) was Notre Dame. I can’t imagine what he would think as the university recognizes someone who contradicts the core values of the Catholic faith by promoting an anti-life agenda.” In his latest Washington Post column, Michael Gerson writes about the Obama administration’s war on Catholic institutions with President Obama's decision to strip conscience protections from Catholic universities, hospitals and charities. As Gershon points out, the timing of Obama's most recent slap won't go unnoticed by the faithful: "In politics, the timing is often the message. On Jan. 20 — three days before the annual March for Life — the Obama administration announced its final decision that Catholic universities, hospitals and charities will be compelled to pay for health insurance that covers sterilization, contraceptives and abortifacients. Preparing for the march, Catholic students gathered for Mass at Verizon Center. The faithful held vigil at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Knights of Columbus and bishops arrived to trudge in the cold along the Mall. All came to Washington in time for their mocking.” And in this we see how the faithful at Notre Dame got snookered and how Obama has shamefully repaid their faith in him:

Both radicalism and maliciousness are at work in Obama’s decision — an edict delivered with a sneer... The implications of Obama’s choice will take years to sort through. The immediate impact can be measured on three men: Consider Catholicism’s most prominent academic leader, the Rev. John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame. Jenkins took a serious risk in sponsoring Obama’s 2009 honorary degree and commencement address — which promised a “sensible” approach to the conscience clause. Jenkins now complains, “This is not the kind of ‘sensible’ approach the president had in mind when he spoke here.” Obama has made Jenkins — and other progressive Catholic allies — look easily duped.

- Sarah Palin