Grab your popcorn. Sarah Palin is talking to pro-lifers. Watch a one minute clip above from her speech at the Vanderburgh County Right to Life fundraising dinner in Evansville, Indiana Thursday night.
She says, “A baby is God’s opinion that the World should go on”
Look, she had the pro-life community at “hello”. The question with Palin has always been can she broaden herself to the point where she becomes more credible on other issues? After her debut on the national stage last year she has some work to do. The good news for her? She may benefit from the fact that expectations for her now are so low based on the media bashing in 2008. She may surprise a few people.
More about the event from The Christian Science Monitor below
As it was a right-to-life event, Palin was expectedly well-received. And because it was carried live by some cable networks, the State of Alaska couldn’t have had better PR with the governor spending a sizable chunk of her speech talking about the benefits of living in the 49th state.
“Alaska is the only state in the nation with a negative tax rate,” she said. “No income tax, no state sales tax, no state property tax and I want to keep it that way because I believe our families and small business can spend the money they earn better than government she can.”
But it was when she spoke of her son Trig that the most personal side of Palin came out. Specifically when she mentioned the thoughts she had upon getting word that her yet-to-be-born child was diagnosed with Down syndrome.
“There just for a fleeting moment I thought, I knew, nobody knows me here. Nobody would ever know. I thought, wow, it is easy. It could be easy to think maybe of trying to change the circumstances. No one would know. No one would ever know.”
But it was time, she said, to “walk the walk” in regards to her long-standing pro-life convictions.
“I had just enough faith to know that trying to change the circumstances wasn’t any answer,” she said.
Regrets? None.
“The moment he was born, I knew that moment my prayers had been answered,” Palin said. “Trig is a miracle. He is the best thing that ever happened to me and I want other women to have that opportunity.”
Any shots at the president?
Not directly. She criticized the economic stimulus package as giving her heartburn proclaiming that “this isn’t free money, folks.”
And she said that deciding when babies get human rights isn’t above her pay grade — a reference to then candidate-Obama’s answer on an abortion question posed to him by Pastor Rick Warren during the campaign. He said such questions were above his pay grade.
As for her own remarks during the campaign, she stood by at least one of them. She repeated perhaps the most lampooned of her campaign remarks when discussing the importance of Alaska’s geographical location to the country’s defense.
“Yes, you can see Russia from Alaska,” she said to much laughter.
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