Palin starts off trying to connect with the audience by complimenting them on how similar their town is to Alaska, pointing out a snowmachine in one of the yards, calling them bold, and expressing a desire to shoot one of the deer she saw walking in somebody's yard. The audience responds with laughter and cheers, so she has definitely found her crowd. (Snowmachine riding deer murderers.)
She then says how happy she is that there are only twenty six graduates because she wanted to bring them "presents" but if there were any more she would be "incurring debt as fast as Congress." So much for not making her appearance political or turning it into "circus."
She said that the goody bag she had brought "might get them kicked off campus" if they had not already graduated, as it contained items that might not be "politically correct."
It was then that she told the gradates to "get up and look under their seats" saying she got the idea from a Wasilla High graduation.
"There are two life lessons to this dollar that they found tapes under their seat. The first one is you gotta get off your butt to make a buck. And the students would not have found that 'gift' if they had not taken the time to look for it. And I want them to take this the right way, but I would hope that that's the last dollar that someone just hands them, just give to them, because anything that's worth getting in life, anything that they really want, only comes with hard work." Said the woman who walked away from her job as Governor to make money sitting on her ass while having books written for her, and had to be hunted down by Fox News staff in order to actually do her job as a commentator.
Palin then went into her usual spiel about what made America great and how small towns like Republic are the foundation of that greatness, and how she and her family are also part of that tradition of small town America. (Hang on, I threw up in my mouth a little.)
Interestingly enough it seemed that the camera operator got bored about six minutes into this seventeen minute speech and started to scan the crowd for reaction shots, which found several audience members talking among themselves and fiddling with their cameras and phones. (Or as the Sea O'Pee will write it, "They were hanging on her every word.")
Nobody could blame the camera operator as Palin then tells an excruciatingly boring story about her dad taking his young children to Alaska, However she then spices things up by taking a shot at the Seattle Weekly and attacking the media for covering her appearance in Republic, essentially framing it as an attack on small town America by the media elites. (After all, do they get MORE elite than over at the Seattle Weekly?)
Palin then wrapped up her bumbling speech by hurling a few last insults at the government and media, and then asking any military vets, or future military vets, to stand up at which time she bizarrely yells "Whoahh" at them.
Palin was also often breathless and her speaking disjointed during the speech as she kept referring to notes that often did not appear to be in any real order. I have covered a lot of Palin speeches and I would say that the graduates of Republic got what they paid for, which was a rambling, Palin written soliloquy about nothing in particular, that bounced from topic to topic like a crack addict looking for a piece of rock to smoke.
But hey, at least I'm pretty sure she wrote it herself. Either that or RAM has finally lost her last few marbles as well.
Oh well students of Republic, at least now you know what can happen if you fail to get a good education. You could end up paying high school kids a dollar to listen to you while talking about killing deer on snowmachines in front of less than seven hundred people in the middle of fucking nowhere.
P.S. Here are some pictures of the event.
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