Sarah Palin Unedited: February 1, 2016 

So listen up Steve King, yeah, I guess I do have to confess though, little tiny bit that I’m busted, you’re right, yes yes, Mr. Trump did make me a promise, and I will be better off when it’s fulfilled, and I do believe that my kids, they’re gonna be more secure too, so that is why I’m here today, I’m collecting on the promise. ‘Cause Mr. Trump promised me that he will make America great again and that’s the only thing I’m askin’! So some of these Republicans, and I’m proud to stand on the planks of the Republican platform, we’re right, we are right, and really adhering to them and building upon those planks America will be made great again. But these Republicans, dogonne it, when I look at them trying to beat up Mr. Trump and claimin’ he’s not conservative enough, and I’m thinkin’, what’s their definition of conservatism? Look at the mess that they’ve helped get us into! You know, if that’s the definition of conservatism, growing government and allowing some of the things that are going on today, well then we gotta redefine conservatism.

And that blank check too, making no sense because it’s led us to things, oh gosh, to pay the bills then, we have had to print money out of thin air.

We worked really really hard to send Congress a GOP majority, didn’t we, in these past elections. What did they do? We handed them the majority, they handed Obama a blank check. A blank check that opened borders for un-vetted illegal aliens to come in and take American jobs, and a blank check that funded Planned Parenthood against our will. And it funded bloated budgets and jacked up trillions and trillions of dollars of new debt that our children are going to be handed, that is so immoral, to think that they can get away with that, they hold the purse strings but that’s what’s happened. And that blank check too, making no sense because it’s led us to things, oh gosh, to pay the bills then, we have had to uh, print money out of thin air, [indecipherable] we’ve had to borrow money from foreign countries to turn around and give to foreign countries, that’s not a whole lotta common sense, I think common sense is an endangered species in D.C. And that’s why we need to make these changes. No—

That blank check too, what it did for crony capitalists? It paid for perks. But really, the only thing they paid lately especially is lip service. Lip service to the idea of reining in spending other people’s money, their addiction to opium— other people’s money—needs to be cured. We know what the cure is, get someone in there with private sector experience who has had to balance budgets, he has had to produce and not just rely on government and spending that other people’s money, we have to be able to have someone in that highest CEO position in the land to turn things around and to teach those within our own party and hopefully, if some of ‘em aren’t a lost cause in the other party, to teach them too how our economy can really get roaring again by doing the right things. It’s been a lot of talk, talk, talk instead of do, and that’s what we hire them to do, is fulfill their campaign promises and rein in this bloated government. Well Trump’s campaign is beautiful, because it’s exposed all this, and he’s exposed it because he’s a doer.

And Donald Trump, he builds things. Big, big things. You have to ask yourself, what have his opponents ever built? Big, big vocabularies. Big debt. No, big, um, big war chests.

And Donald Trump, he builds things. Big, big things. You have to ask yourself, what have his opponents ever built? Big, big vocabularies. Big debt. No, big, um, big war chests again, being able to spend other people’s money, and that is the problem, that we have no leadership in D.C. to stop the D.C. insanity. So Iowa, are you ready to fix the problem? You are gonna be leading the nation tonight, it’s you! The eyes of America are upon you, you’ll lead the nation in this. You know why Barack Obama really trashed our constitution and just ran roughshod right on over Congress and rammed those executive orders down our throat? You know why he did that? Because he could. He knew that he could.

You are a part of this great awakening that is so needed, and it’s a movement, and it’s an energy, and it’s a strategy.

This, though, this great awakening that you are all a part of, is telling those in D.C., those good ole’ boys, that we’re not gonna take it anymore, that enough is enough. You are part of this great awakening that is so needed, and it’s a movement, and it’s an energy, and it’s a strategy. It’s a strategy where we all know, we know that it’s now or never to make America great again, that’s how important this election is. It is now or never. And this campaign was borne of that urgency. And really, it is all about you. You who grow our food and teach our children, you who run our main streets and run our factories, own the businesses, you who fight our wars, you know that we are at a tipping point.

It’s so funny though that the beltway pundits, so many in the media, they don’t know that, though. They won’t admit it anyway. They’re still saying, “Dang, I can’t figure out this Trump thing! Where’s all this energy coming from?” And I say, “Daaang, what’s not to figure out?” We love our country, and we’ll fight for it! We love our freedom and we’ll fight for it! A lot of us here, we proudly cling to our god, our guns, and our constitution, and those who don’t, they still want to be with us to fight for it, our rights, to exercise that, that is why we are here as a part of this movement. Those who maybe don’t believe in those specific values and things that, listed there, they still want to fight with us so we can save the freest, most generous, most exceptional nation in the history of mankind! So what is not to get? We’re clear, we’re here, get used to it!

They’re still saying, “Dang, I can’t figure out this Trump thing! Where’s all this energy coming from?” And I say, “Daaang, what’s not to figure out?”

We need to send a message tonight, Iowa. We need to be able to count on you leading the charge for the rest of the nation. We’re rootin’ for Donald Trump, and you know why? Because Trump roots for us. He has worked so hard, and he has seized opportunity to earn his success, and he wants that great success for the rest of us too. And he’s using it to help his fellow man, he wants that for all of you. He is beholden to no one but we the people. And he is beholden to nothing except doing the right thing, to restore constitutional government back into the system, that’s the only way we save our Republic. So you’re here for the right reasons, he’s in it to win it, he’s runnin’ for the right reasons, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for speaking on behalf of so many millions of millions of Americans tonight when you go to caucus and you cast that vote for Trump. He wants that success, he wants the best for all of you. So to make America great again, let me introduce to you the next president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump!

From a speech she gave on Monday, Feb. 1 at a Trump campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this has been Sarah Palin Unedited.

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