Sarah Palin, Oliver North Headlined NRA Stand and Fight Rally at Lucas Oil Stadium

Sarah Palin: ‘Waterboarding is how we’d baptize terrorists’ in her administration

Palin-Cruz 2016: Thousands of people filled Lucas Oil Stadium Saturday night, 4.26.14, for the NRA Stand and Fight rally. Palin and Oliver North, a political commentator, author and former Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, were the high-profile guest speakers. Palin, who was met with a standing ovation, spoke mostly about the importance of the Second Amendment and why gun control advocates are wrong.

Washington Times:

INDIANAPOLIS — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fired up a crowd of thousands inside Lucas Oil Stadium Saturday night to kick off the National Rifle Association’s “Stand and Fight Rally,” saying Americans’ constitutional rights as envisioned by the founding fathers are under attack and policies like gun-free zones constitute “stupid on steroids.”“They knew that if the Second Amendment goes, the rest of the constitution is not far behind,” she said of the country’s founders.

In her approximately 12-minute address, Mrs. Palin also derided what she argued is akin to a ‘blame the messenger’ attitude on gun violence many Americans take today.

“Gun stores are an accomplice to crime,” she said, “and that fork made me fat.”

Gov. Palin, plucked from relative political obscurity to be the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, still enjoys significant support among elements of the party’s base, and was at times received like a rock star inside the complex adjacent to the Indiana Convention Center, where much of the gun rights group’s annual meeting has taken place.

After 2008, she returned to Alaska and soon after quit her job, citing “frivolous” ethics probes and the associated legal costs. Her latest venture is a new show, “Amazing America,” on the Sportsman Channel.

A handful of potential 2016 GOP presidential contenders spoke or appeared in videotaped messages that aired Friday at the conference, but Palin was there in the flesh. Many in this crowd hope Palin will decde to run in 2016 for is the best and logical answer to both a Hillary Clinton run as well as to the Democrat carrot of electing the first female president!! Echos of Run Sarah Run were heard in the audience throughout Palin’s speech.

In addition to haranguing former New York City Mayor Michael I. Bloomberg’s gun control push and lampooning Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s recent testimony on Capitol Hill, she also tsk-tsked Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s suggestion last year to fire off shotgun blasts into the air to scare off would-be intruders.

“Just aim up in the air – that was his directive, his advice,” she said. “Well, fine, Joe Squirt Gun, if your rapist is a bird.”

She also derided those who she said place an emphasis on political correctness in handling the country’s adversaries “instead of putting the fear of God in our enemies.”

She said later in her address that if “I were in charge” — a line that drew applause from the crowd — “they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”

“It’s not just the Second Amendment they’re attacking,” she said, but also the country’s “foundational values.”

She also restated a joke commonly seen in bumper stickers and T-shirts, “Yeah, I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy,” amid cheers.

Video: Sarah Palin NRA Stand And Fight Rally 2014

Lt. Col. Oliver North with Wayne LaPierre behind him

The convention concludes in Indianapolis Sunday. The day’s events will begin with a National Prayer Breakfast at the JW Marriott, followed by a National Gun Collectors awards ceremony at the Indiana Convention Center. Exhibits and activities are scheduled throughout the day. Palin pal and supporter Mark Levin spoke on Friday and her friend Franklin Graham witl speak at Sunday’s prayer breakfast; Palin being there for neither because of her packed week of events.

Palin recently said on her show, Amazing America with Sarah Palin on the Sportsman Channel that it didn’t Occur to her that people went to the grocery store to buy meat until she left Alaska to go to college.

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