Sarah Palin Talks PTSD and Veterans in Surprisingly Un-Gimmicky CPAC Speech

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin closed the first day of the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference with a speech surprisingly lacking in partisan barbs and heavy on advocacy for U.S. military veterans suffering from PTSD and reacclimatizing to civilian work.

Contrary to her 2013 CPAC speech, Palin did not use any props; and contrary to her 2014 speech, she did not focus exclusively on her usual brand of hokey jabs at her nemeses.

Rather, as even many media members noticed, her speech was a rather straightforward and serious one that focused on the government’s poor treatment of U.S. military veterans — especially those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder — and her take on ISIS and the fight with “radical Islam” abroad.

She largely avoided partisan issues until she addressed Obama administration claims that we cannot simply kill ISIS out of existence. “Tell that to the Nazis!” she replied. “Oh wait, you can’t — because they’re dead.”

The former governor also took a “lightning-round” of word association questions, notably answering “Sorry” for both “Hillary Clinton” and “Barack Obama.”

Watch the full speech below, via NBC:

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