Palin and CPAC crowd shout down Occupy hecklers

Published February 11, 2012 5:00am ET



Occupy hecklers tried to disrupt Sarah Palin’s CPAC speech, in which she regularly turned President Obama’s rhetoric against him, but the crowd shouted them down and Palin turned the moment into a example of how grassroots conservatives can beat Obama.

“We aren’t red Americans, we aren’t blue Americans, we’re red, white, and blue and President Obama we are through with you,” Palin said in an appropriation of Obama’s 2008 campaign lines. She called for “Change that we can believe in, change we need,” she said, continuing that meme, explaining that “we can’t wait — our country hangs in the balance.”

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