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The Hill -If Sarah Palin had been on the ballot for the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference, there is little doubt she would have won.
The former Alaska governor received far-and-away the most spirited and enthusiastic reception at this convention of about 10,000 conservative activists.
She drew the audience to its feet more than a dozen times during her keynote address on Saturday.
The cheers for Palin were so loud that they drowned out her remarks again and again. Conference organizers had to set up three overflow rooms to accommodate the throngs of supporters eager to hear her words.
“The president says small-town Americans, we bitterly cling to our religion and our guns because we’re just doggone frustrated with his pace of change,” Palin said. “We say, ‘Keep your change. We’ll keep our God, our guns, our Constitution.' ”
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“Hope and change? Yea, you gotta hope things change,” she said.
“He says he has a jobs plan out, a jobs plan to 'Win the Future.' W.T.F. — I know,” she said.
And Palin, embracing the unconventional, defiant quality that helped her become a Tea Party luminary, warned Republicans not to take the movement for granted when more Tea Party candidates are elected in November.
“This time, establishment, we expect them to get leadership posts in Congress,” she said.
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Washington, DC the IBT -- It wasn't speeches by Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich that generated the most enthusiasm at CPAC 2012.
That honor would go to former Alaska governor and Republican vice president nominee Sarah Palin, who stole the conservative summit with a rousing speech on Saturday.
Palin mania was palpable throughout the Marriott Wardman Park hotel. Earlier in the day hundreds of attendees swarmed Palin for photographs and an opportunity to get a glimpse at one of the most famous conservative women in the United States.
Elsewhere thousands of CPACers waited in line to try to get into the main ballroom where she would be speaking. There was so much interest in her speech, that the conference's organizers opened up three overflow rooms with project televisions to appease her zealous following.
It was an incredibly impressive showing given that Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum didn't get near the amount of attention when they spoke on Friday. It also directly went against the narrative that she has become irrelevant within the Republican Party