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1200-dpi scan of 8 x 10 autographed photo of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s Liberty Pose at CPAC, which accompanied a fund-raising letter to mid-range donors

Ed. Note: The following letters were sent via Postal Mail by SarahPAC. Every attempt has been made to reproduce them as faithfully as possible to their original formatting.

Though not requested in these letters and not authorized by SarahPAC, now is a good time to bundle a small-donor money bomb with this. Imagine if half of the over 3.5 million supporters on Gov. Palin’s Facebook page donated just $2. SarahPAC would raise $3.5 million minus transaction fees. If half these supporters donated just $5, SarahPAC could have $8.75 million. With $10 donations, half of the supporters on Gov. Palin’s Facebook wall could generate $17.5 million for SarahPAC. Though this fund-raising letter is geared toward mid-range donors, donations of any amount will help SarahPAC and make a big difference.

Dear [Donor],

Last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington, DC, Gov. Palin brought the house down.

During her speech, she paused for a moment, pulled out a “Big Gulp” soda pop, and took a nice long drink.

The crowd went wild.

As she put it, “Oh, Bloomberg’s not around. Our Big Gulp’s are okay. Shoot, it’s just pop with low-cal ice cubes in it. I hope that’s okay.”

It was such a great moment.

A wonderful illustration of how absolutely ridiculous the liberals have become in their efforts to have the government run every aspect of our lives.

And as one of SarahPAC’s generous supporters, I want you to have this exclusive photo of that special moment.

After the speech, some even called it the “Palin Liberty Pose” saying Gov. Palin looked like the Statue of Liberty as she held her Big Gulp aloft.

But if you know Gov. Palin, you know it’s never about her. It’s about this great country you and I love.

And that’s what Sarah talked about during her speech:

If “Believe in America” is more than just a catchy campaign slogan, then we have to believe in America’s exceptionalism, and her greatest achievement that no one is guaranteed success but everyone is guaranteed an equal opportunity at success.

The greatest lie that the government tells is that government is the way to realize this guarantee. There is a simple reason why Washington, DC is an island of prosperity in a nation mired in near recession. Whenever government expands, it’s the well-connected that reap the benefit. The more government intrudes into our lives and businesses, the more it picks winners and losers.

The more crony capitalists win, the more the rest of us lose. Whether it’s green energy or free Obama phones or prophylactics, if you don’t have a team of lobbyists in DC or a canceled contribution check, you’re not at the table – you’re on the menu.

As you know, [Donor], our goal here at SarahPAC is to put an end to this big government, crony capitalism approach by electing principled leaders who will stand for freedom.

People like Sen. Ted Cruz, who’s been doing an amazing job in Washington and introduced Gov. Palin at CPAC by stating: “I would not be a Senator today if it weren’t for Sarah Palin.”

[Donor], Ted Cruz can say that because of you.

It’s your support for SarahPAC that allows Gov. Palin to have such an impact on political races.

And, my friend, we’re just getting started.

Gov. Palin concluded her remarks at CPAC with this:

I have been so blessed to spend so much of these past years getting to know even more of America, not from the top down, but from the heart looking out.

And this I know, there is more wisdom, more character, more grit and common sense in the soldiers and the Mom’s and the teacher’s and the laborers and the firemen and the fishermen and the students and the cowboys – and other extraordinary Americans that I’ve met along the way, than will ever be found in the cocktail parties of power across the river.

And if “We the People” have one message to send to Washington, I’m sure it would be this: Get Over Yourself. It’s not about you.

Isn’t that the truth!

It’s not about the consultants and pollsters and power brokers who think they know so much.

It’s about America. And freedom. And liberty. And principles. And the Constitution.

[Donor], I’ve said this before, but let me just say it once again.

The Left wants to elect people who will help Barack Obama “fundamentally transform America.”

We want to elect people who will “fundamentally transform the way Washington does business.”

Leaders who will put:

*** real people over petty politics

*** strong principles over empty promises

***and foundational ideals over self interests

Will you continue to help us, [Donor]?

Can I count on you to continue standing with Governor Palin and SarahPAC?

Will you renew your support today by sending a contribution of $100, $150, or even $200?

Whether $100, $150, $200, or any other amount, every dollar you can send will make a real difference as Governor Palin and our entire SarahPAC team work to elect a new generation of conservative leaders.

Leaders who will stand against the big government, big spending, crony capitalists in BOTH parties.

Thanks in advance for your generosity and faithfulness. And thanks for standing with Gov. Palin for liberty and freedom!

Sincerely,

Tim Crawford

Treasurer, Sarah Palin’s SarahPAC

P.S. [Donor], I hope you enjoy the picture of Gov. Palin at CPAC, holding her “Big Gulp” aloft and standing for liberty. Thanks again for your tremendous support of SarahPAC and Gov. Palin. God bless!

P.P.S. There’s a reply form on the back of this page. fill it out right now and send it back to me today.

Mail Checks and Money Orders to:

Tim Crawford, Treasurer
Sarah Palin’s “SarahPAC”
PO Box 220700
Arlington, VA 22207-9500

Please make check payable to “SarahPAC”

Kevin Scholla, Pennsylvania State Coordinator, American Grizzlies United / Organize4 Palin and host, SarahNET Radio yesterday defended former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s interactions with the grassroots and her involvement with pop culture on the Dr. Gina show in a 20-minute segment. The interview followed his written response to Scottie Hughes’ infamous meltdown over not getting an interview and / or meet and greet with Gov. Palin. Hughes was on the show the day before to discuss her position on the issue.

Whisper Campaign?

Dr. Gina spoke about a “whisper campaign behind the scenes at CPAC” amongst journalists in both mainstream and new media complaining about their lack of access to Gov. Palin.

“Like you, I know Scottie Hughes….I spoke with her at length yesterday after the piece came out. Scottie was a guest on my show in January, so just two short months before she wrote this article. Listen, everybody has their right to an opinion on how they feel they’re being treated or what they want to do with Sarah Palin as far as an interview,” Scholla said.

He continued, “Scottie Hughes has Sarah’s book autographed on her mantle. She has a trivet – or whatever you ladies call these things hanging in her house with Sarah’s quote on it. This isn’t someone who is not a supporter of Palin or was. That said, it’s the way it was done. OK, I think if you want to talk about, ‘hey I wish Sarah came out and did an interview,’ fine.

In concluding his answer, Scholla said, “but some of the parts of the article that were written, ‘you’re starting to worry me’ as the opening line; talking about the Chick-Fil-A shirt and the Phoenix Suns game, and the teleprompter. I think that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way and it’s really not helpful. We know the left is after Sarah, we know the moderates are threatened by her. The last thing we need is a narrative out there – false or not – of ‘oh look now the conservatives don’t even like her.’”

Could Blogosphere Rumblings over Access Harm Gov Palin More than Hughes?

Dr. Gina asked,

“What if there is such a rumbling in the blogosphere and the new media…that they would just stop talking favorably about Sarah Palin right in time for the 2014 elections, therefore, somewhat muzzling her message which has always been … such a clear voice for conservatives? If that were to be muffled, is the greater harm in that message being muffled or in Scottie saying some things – perhaps poorly chosen verbiage – but maybe a message that might penetrate now that it’s become such a story for Sarah Palin? What do you think about that?”

Scholla said Hughes’ article “came across as negative – the message – because things were said along the lines of ‘fame, Hollywood’. Sarah Palin is the furthest thing from that. This is a woman who spent her birthday this year at the funeral of Chris Kyle, the Navy Seal. This is someone who does things the right way pretty much all the time and loves this country, and so I guess the way it could have been presented – I wouldn’t have written the thing at all.”

He continued,

“But, if there was a disappointment about being not able to interview the Governor, I think the way it should have been presented is ‘hey it was a great speech Gov. Palin gave, that Big Gulp meant a whole lot more than soda pop. It stands for liberty. We need her voice out there. She could really speak to conservatives. I hope she does more of these and I hope we have her on more shows.’ That would have been a positive way to write it instead of bringing up questions of – why are we even talking about her at an NBA game or about Dancing with the Stars?”

Dr. Gina Playing Both Sides or Stopping Circular Fire?

A caller said Dr. Gina was playing “both sides of the street,” but Dr. Gina defended her lengthy record supporting Gov. Palin. She said “circular fire is the last thing conservatives need. What do you think, Kevin?”

Scholla answered,

“I think the reason we’re seeing such passionate responses here is because this shouldn’t have been done the way it was done. You know, I run a show exclusively based on Gov. Palin and her values, and I wasn’t upset. I knew ahead of time that she was not doing interviews. I mean, sure I’d like to interview her at CPAC and many other times. Heck, I’d like to have her come and watch the Bears with me every NFL Sunday night, but you know Sarah Palin is going to do what she wants to do. She can’t be drafted into running for President and she’s not going to be guilted or pushed into doing interviews or anything that she doesn’t feel she wants to do at that time.

The other thing I think we need to point out here, Dr. Gina is that Sarah Palin is unique – as we know – in so many ways, and her speeches do a lot as far as her message. You know a lot of other folks are reading the teleprompter; a lot of other folks are talking about talking points. She really does get it all out there a lot of the time, so people should be able to get the information they need for the time being until an interview does happen, and I think that’s another thing to take into consideration here.”

SarahNET Radio About Gov. Palin’s Message, Values

Dr. Gina asked Scholla if Gov. Palin has been on his show.

Scholla said,

“We have had her family on. We had a special show with Bristol during her latest adventure on Dancing With the Stars – Breaking it Down with Bristol, where Bristol was on every week. Todd has been on. We’ve had her dad and her brother on, but the thing about Sarah Palin – and people have asked us about this before – we don’t even ask Sarah Palin to come on. We wait for Sarah Palin to do what she needs to do….Sarah Palin is a wonderful person, but it goes beyond just her. It’s her message, it’s her values….the whole reason for the show in the first place was to give her fair coverage for her Presidential run in 2012. Well, when that never happened, we said ‘are we still going to do the show?’ and we said, ‘yeah, we are,’ because it’s not just about her. It’s what she represents – her values.

It’s about my daughter as well. It’s about having someone – especially a woman – like Sarah Palin who’s out there and doing everything the right way so you know with all the beatings she’s taken over the years from the media – I mean unbelievable – just mean-spirited attacks, you’ve got to realize when Scottie or anyone puts out an article like this, it hurts people. It hurts supporters. Palin, it probably hurts the least. She is so tough, but she is so human, but it hurts her kids, it hurts Todd, it hurts her family when [Scottie]‘s saying she doesn’t get out there, doesn’t shake hands; she needs a teleprompter. It’s just not true!

Dr. Gina on Celebrity Wife Swap

Dr. Gina shifted to how taking part in popular culture is condemned by so many facets of conservative media and mentioned her own appearance on Celebrity Wife Swap which airs March 28.

Scholla said, “Well, we wish you the best of luck with that tomorrow. We’ve been praying for you on that and rooting for you as well, but to answer your question we should absolutely be involved in everything.” He continued, “first of all, there’s this persona out there that the left likes to paint of conservatives – you know – the old country club conservative or the old Republican – the stuffy, old guard that is just out of touch with everything. We love sports, we love music, we certainly watch television and listen to the radio, and when we do hear people talk about “normal things” from our side, that’s very refreshing.”

Gov. Palin Reaches New Audiences via Pop Culture

Scholla harkened back to Gov. Palin donning the Chick-Fil-A tee shirt and attending the Suns game. He said, “I think she gets under the skin of the left so much, but another thing she does. When a picture is posted of her in a Chick-Fil-A shirt…it brings up the conversation of Sarah Palin, and it brings up the conversation of what she stands for and that’s about businesses being able to make their own choices and present things the way they wish to. I think getting involved in that is absolutely a top priority.”

Scholla continued, “you’ve seen the wonderful response when she’s gone on something – say Saturday Night Live. Why shy away? At worst, you walk out of there breaking even, at best you change a couple of people and they realize, hey wait a minute, the media is painting these conservatives to be something they’re not at all. So, when you see somebody like a Palin, a Bristol out there like that – I think you can reach another audience.”

Can’t Criticize Lack of Coverage if we Cower in Corner

Dr. Gina said conservatives can’t criticize the media for lack of coverage if they cower in a corner.

“And on the flip side, if you do those things, you can very well criticize, because you can say, ‘hey, we were right there with you, we did the same things, and now you’re making up these false narratives about us.’” Scholla referred to an interview with Ben Shapiro in which Shapiro said leftists should be called out when we go on their shows. Scholla said Gov. Palin does precisely that.

“When she calls Obama out, she calls him out. She says exactly what we’re saying at our kitchen tables and at work, not like McCain, not like Romney, where the message was, ‘I’m good, so is Obama, but vote for me please’ and then ‘he’s over his head.’ She talks about the fact that he knows exactly what he’s doing, and he wants to institute far left European policies in this country,” he said

Reality TV Perfect Medium to Showcase Conservatism

Dr. Gina said the left is going to bad-mouth us whether we engage the culture or not. The left also likes to portray us as deeming ourselves perfect, then exposing some imperfection. The antidote to that is to admit our imperfection, and reality TV is the perfect medium for that.

Scholla said, “you mentioned Sarah Palin’s Alaska. You saw the humanness of her family, the way they acted. She’s so ordinary, yet so extraordinary. You get that from the family. The way she deals with Piper or her other kids – not like some of these other politicians – and I hate to even use that word for Sarah Palin, because it’s become such a bad word – you look at the way they interact and you look at others – it’s all packaged.” On Sarah Palin’s Alaska, you see normal family interaction.

He continued, “we need to be out there, because we’re doing these things. We’re listening to music, we’re consumers too, and there are certainly a lot of athletes out there that are conservative in baseball, football, NASCAR drivers. I think country music, and I think a lot of metal music you have conservatives….but yes, Sarah Palin and all of us need to get out there, but at the same time, Sarah Palin is going to do what she thinks is best.”

“Another thing we need to realize for people who wanted to interview her but didn’t: she was on that Fox contract for quite a while, so some of these things that didn’t happen could have been related to that as well. I don’t know the verbiage of her contract obviously, but I do know for someone else at Fox – for them, not for Sarah Palin – that Fox frowned on them going on other shows – and that’s one thing that was not brought into this whole flap this week.”

Kevin Scholla’s segment with Dr. Gina begins at 01:16:20.

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Michelle McCormick, Texas State Coordinator, American Grizzlies United / Organize4 Palin yesterday defended former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s interactions with the grassroots on the Dr. Gina show in a 15-minute segment. The interview followed on the heels of McCormick’s written response to Scottie Hughes’ infamous meltdown over not getting an interview and / or meet and greet with Gov. Palin. Hughes was on the show prior to discuss her position on the issue.

Hughes – a CPAC Organizer – Should Have Known Better

In her response, McCormick said,

“Well, I thought it was a rude and incredibly immature thing to write. Everybody has to understand that Gov. Palin is an incredibly busy lady. I mean, you’re a mom, you can appreciate, she’s got kid’s schedules to worry about, and so just on that surface, she needs to understand that Gov. Palin can’t be everywhere and meet with everyone. I understand her being upset about that, maybe a little frustrated, but the way that she expressed those feelings I thought was incredibly immature, and flat-out rude and inaccurate and that’s basically what it all came down to. That’s just not how the whole CPAC stuff went down, and she should know better, because from what I can tell she was an organizer with CPAC, and so I’m not sure where this anger from her is coming from.”

Gov. Palin One of the Most Humble People in Politics….

Dr. Gina said she had met Gov. Palin many times, often backstage, but she never was able to get the elusive media interview with her, though she has chased after her and begged people with connections. Of course, access to political figures or lack thereof, has been a complaint among journalists since time immemorial.

“I certainly am not privy to Gov. Palin’s schedule, but from what I have experienced doing events with her teams and I know you’ve seen this too, her schedule is just so tight plus the fact that anytime she goes somewhere, she’s completely mobbed by people. I know, and you know this as well – she is one of the most humble people in politics, and she is such a team player that I would imagine that any disruption caused by her presence – I’m sure she would just want to avoid that, so it really is difficult it appears to me with her travel schedule to do things – I’m sure along the way she can fulfill media requests. Tony Lee pointed out in his Breitbart article – that one of the first interviews she gave after separating with Fox was with Breitbart News.”

Can’t Get Enough of Gov. Palin….

Dr. Gina asked, “we know Gov. Palin is super-accessible. Is it just that we want more of her?”

“Oh yeah, that’s what it comes down to,” McCormick replied. “You know…her staff are some of the most professional, kind people I’ve ever run across in my very brief time in doing this with politics. I know that in Iowa, there were staffers for other candidates who were not very friendly at all. With Gov. Palin’s team, they are incredibly polite, they are professional, and they do make time for Gov. Palin to go and meet with folks – and you saw from the various pictures that came out of CPAC. She was hugging people and taking pictures and I’ll speak for myself. I’m truly a nobody in all this and she had a few words with me and it’s great. She is so appreciative of everyone’s support and all the work that they do who are ultimately just out for the cause. She sees that and she is very supportive and appreciative of that.

Shedding Light on Experiences with Team Palin….

Dr. Gina said McCormick is not a “nobody,” adding that grassroots organizer are the most powerful people in politics, because they can effectuate change. She said McCormick is worth any political figure’s time. Dr. Gina said we should not have circular fire amongst ourselves and asked if “we could have a peace agreement” whereby Hughes likes Gov. Palin very much and just wanted an interview.

“Oh, sure. I didn’t want this to be a personal attack on Ms. Hughes. I think we tried to at least with Conservatives4Palin in our response. We just wanted to shed some light on on our experiences with Team Palin and they’ve been always wonderful and favorable and maybe a lot of it was disappointment that she chose to express herself in such a snarky manner. That’s unfortunate.”

It’s About the Movement, Principles, Not Gov. Palin

Dr. Gina asked, “Is there anything else you want to tell us, Michelle?”

“There are a lot of people who go unnamed – there are a lot of wonderful folks who go to Tea Party rallies, they block walk, they make phone calls, and they never ask for anything in return except for clean government and honest politicians and they see those qualities in Gov. Palin and they support her. That is why they do it. They don’t ask for any glory or any titles, so those are the people really we need to raise up and support and be thankful for, and the first person who definitely understands that and recognizes that is Gov. Palin, and that is why she has so much support behind her. It’s not about her. It’s about the movement and the principles and we definitely need to support people who think that way in politics.”

The segment featuring McCormick’s call-in begins 01:05:38 into the video. The segment with Hughes began at 00:16:31.

File Photo: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin works the rope line at CPAC 2012 one minute after my moment with her.

By now, everyone has seen Scottie Hughes’ meltdown over not getting a media interview and/or meet and greet with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin at CPAC 2013. Tony Lee, Adrienne Ross, Kevin Scholla, and Michelle McCormick, Brian Lerch have more than adequately responded to it. Now it is my turn.

On Meets and Greets

In a prepared statement I left for today’s Dr. Gina Loudon Show, I referred listeners to the page titled “Gov. Palin Experiences” which is a repository of memoirs from staff who have interacted with Gov. Palin at her events over these past nearly five years. You can read about all our interactions there – including mine – and draw your own conclusions.

In each of the more than five times I encountered Gov. Palin and witnessed her interaction with others, she was gracious, kind, humble, and was one of us. She looks everyone in the eye. She remembers faces and names – and this through the hundreds of thousands of people she must have met. She’s signed just about anything that can be signed including body parts that got tattooed. She was gracious and forgiving even when people pushed beyond the bounds of appropriate behavior in various ways. She accepted all of us equally, with all our faults and imperfections.

On Media Interviews

No reporter got a media interview with Gov. Palin at CPAC 2013, and even the top flight pros have a hard time getting interviews with her as a general rule. With her online outburst, Hughes more than likely burnt her chances of ever getting an interview. Why should Gov. Palin or her staff want to even bother now? Given how the media has treated her, I don’t think Gov. Palin can be faulted for being parsimonious with and skittish about media interviews. Though I’m a site publisher, I never interviewed Gov. Palin, and I never attempted to either. For one thing, Gov. Palin’s speeches are clear and plain-spoken – everything that needs to be said is contained within them. Most interviews end up consisting of “when are you going to announce your candidacy for [fill in the blank].” If I were going to interview Gov. Palin, I wouldn’t even ask her about politics. My questions would be about leadership and time management and about her as a person.

On Choosing Palin Events to Attend

Not every Palin event includes an opportunity for the grassroots to meet and greet. It’s just a fact of life. Some, like the forthcoming Schiavo gala and Shareholders in Life are fund-raisers where the point of the event is to raise money for the organizer. Meet and greets at these events are reserved for tables of top tier sponsors. These events are often closed to the press too. Gov. Palin was not the keynote speaker this year at CPAC. She was a regular speaker with a 20-minute slot, and had over 20 speakers and panelists after her. As it was, she went over her allotted time. A rope line was simply impossible. What little time she had left was reserved for CPAC volunteers, the College Republicans and a few others.

Hughes – who up till yesterday at least was a Palinista – should have had the common sense and experience to know that Palin events come in different formats and flavors. Some Palinistas are content to just sit in the audience and see Gov. Palin at a distance. If this describes you, any Palin event is fair game for you to attend. Others like myself want what I can best call – “a more complete experience.” For me that means very carefully picking and choosing the events I attend and do on-location coverage for. That is why I was at CPAC 2012 and why I covered CPAC 2013 from afar. That is not an indictment of Gov. Palin in any way, shape or form. It’s a function of my own expectations and psychological makeup.

You don’t go to an event like CPAC 2013 and expect a rope line. If you want a rope line, you go to events like Indianola, CPAC 2012, or campaign stump barbecues. As an unknown media entity, you don’t go to any event and expect a media interview when even known entities are not getting them. You certainly don’t get media interviews by trashing the proposed subject of your desired interview in a public forum for all the world to see. Other figures may very well see Hughes’ behavior and decide they are not going to take a risk with her, and rightfully so.

Having met Gov. Palin does not make me any more important or better than anyone else. I’m just an ordinary person who has had extraordinary experiences and hope to have many more like them.

Palinistas are well aware by now that Karl Rove – who quit his job as White House Deputy Chief of Staff – made snide remarks about Gov. Palin’s resignation in July 2009. His remarks followed Gov. Palin’s, “we don’t need architects” line in her CPAC 2013 speech. Palinistas such as Michelle McCormick, Mr. L, Adrienne Ross, and others rose to Gov. Palin’s defense.

Two conservative publications have joined rank with us and one – ConservativeHQ – has launched a petition telling Rove to stop disrespecting Gov. Palin. In, Why Sarah Palin Is Right And Karl Rove Is Wrong, the site’s staff said the establishment loves fights within the Republican Party in which conservatives are attacked, but the media coverage actually proves Gov. Palin’s point.

“Rove’s beef with Sarah Palin goes back to the height of the 2008 presidential campaign and it is really nothing more than elitism and economic self-interest in their rawest form,” they wrote. “It seemed clear to many observers that what Rove was really saying was not that Sarah Palin lacked any specific experience, skills or knowledge that he thought a President needed to have, but that he just plain didn’t like what she was all about.”

The authors said Rove probably does not appreciate Gov. Palin’s state university degree, her love of family and small towns and Christianity. In other words, she is not “sophisticated” enough. They said Rove and the big government Republicans don’t like the throngs of Palinistas who “agree with her criticism of Washington’s bloated political establishment and the cronyism upon which it thrives.”

If all those people from the heartland, who support Sarah Palin (and who provide the manpower to make the phone calls, work the precincts and cast the votes necessary to elect Republicans) ever figured out they were the victims of a big insider joke — and that guys like Rove get paid millions whether Republicans win or lose — then there would be a rebellion of monumental proportions that would end Karl Rove’s multimillion dollar gravy train (emphasis mine).

What’s more, it would end government by the interchangeable urban elites (like Rove) who run Washington as a principle-free zone where it doesn’t really matter which Party is in power, as long as your lobbying shop or law firm or consulting firm keeps its Rolodex fresh and the revolving door spinning with enough dollars.

Be sure to sign the petition telling Rove to stop disrespecting Gov. Palin.

In Palin’s Defiance, Douglas Gibbs – a long-time Palinista who predicted that John McCain would pick her as running mate – recounted the politics of personal destruction and character assassination that have been waged on Gov. Palin in the past four – going on five years. “Then, the politics of personal destruction, used in the same way that Kennedy launched against Robert Bork decades before, was catapulted at Palin. Lie after lie, and attack after attack, was fired in Palin’s direction. The accusations of being a book burner, a secessionist, or unable to put together two thoughts in a reasonable manner, were all a bunch of crap, but each of the attacks hit their mark,” Gibbs wrote.

Gibbs yesterday got a phone call from … one of those men [who] helped her reach the level of McCain’s running mate … asking to remove his name from any articles I wrote about Palin, because he is trying to get a job and he believes being so closely associated with Palin back then can hurt his chances for new employment.” Gibbs honored the request, but told the caller “my principles are stronger than that, and I am not going to abandon mine as easily as he was willing to abandon his.”

Now, Sarah Palin is a joke to democrats, and a pariah to republicans. The true conservatives, however, still hold her in high esteem. We still recognize her as a force to be reckoned with (emphasis mine). Though she has stepped out of the political limelight as a candidate, and her time at Fox News has ended, she continues to be involved, acting in defiance of all of the attacks, and in defiance of the ill aura cast upon her by the liberal left.

Gibbs chronicled Gov. Palin’s CPAC speech: “hitting the Obama administration in ways conservatives had only hoped for,” especially on gun control and no budget passed in over four years. “With Big Gulp in hand,” she targeted ridiculous liberal policies running roughshod, “calling upon the Constitution, hammering on the intrusive federal government, accusing the mainstream media, and revealing the dangers presented by the GOP Beltway consultants as they continue to work to move the Republican Party to the left.” Gov. Palin slammed the permanent political class – the ruling class, he wrote.

In the minutes that followed former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s highly successful speech at CPAC 2013 last Saturday, she met with the College Republicans to whom she gave a shout-out. A jubilant Derek Woods Tweeted the photo of their meeting yesterday. The photo was added to the stack of eight that Gov. Palin posted from CPAC that night.

Gov. Palin obviously saw the future of the conservative movement and recognized them in a very special way.

UWF College Republicans and Sarah Palin! twitter.com/dereezy2010/st…

— Derek Woods (@dereezy2010) March 20, 2013

Holy Cow!!! Sarah Palin put US on HER BLOG!!!!!!!! bfarbbbbbb @annebelter hannakae instagr.am/p/XF89QdO1cF/

— Derek Woods (@dereezy2010) March 20, 2013

I just MET Sarah Palin!!! Needless to say I’m still on cloud 9!!!

— Derek Woods (@dereezy2010) March 16, 2013

H/T Lynda Armstrong, “I Stand With Sarah: a Tribute” Facebook Group.