Fairly Conservative

If it weren’t for the stupid audience laughing, this would be kind of cool.

Here’s the text of Shatner’s excerpt of Palin’s speech:

And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature’s finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it’s the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn’t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?

And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future.

Here’s Palin delivering the speech. The excerpt starts at 1:20:

Oh, I know the media is still desperate to discount Sarah Palin. They’ll do whatever it takes even though she’s stepped down. But I get a very strong sense that Palin understands Alaska and the people that are drawn to such a harsh but beautiful place.

Never mind. That counts for so little in today’s America. Bash on…