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CNN is reporting that Palin is ready to “bust free” of the constraints placed upon her by the struggling McCain campaign and all I have to say is, “Thank goodness!”
I realize that “Palin Power” is waning and that many of us who were heartened by McCain’s VP choice have become disillusioned by consistent recitation of neoconservative talking points. However, I still maintain that of Biden, Obama and McCain, Palin has the most potential to reverse the trend towards socialism/fascism our country is currently on.
While I’m sickened to hear her utter such garbage as it being “God’s will” for us to be in Iraq, I’ve often wondered if she really believes what she’s saying or if she’s just regurgitating what she’s been told to say. Our own Rev. John Killian has said that setting Palin free to speak her mind, instead of spouting the party line, would ultimately benefit the Republican’s chances in November. At least we would finally hear some authentic “Straight Talk”.
Americans are tired of what the Republican’s have stood for during the past 8 years and they are ready for change. Obama is supposedly offering change, but those of us paying attention know that his “change” is just an accelerated path towards socialism. However, McCain’s march towards fascism is just as disconcerting for true patriots.
Palin’s governing record is not the rock-solid voting record of the imcomparable Dr. Ron Paul and her latest rhetoric leaves a sour taste in many mouths. But when the Republican Party is trampled across the board this November, hopefully they will step back and reexamine their wandering ways. Maybe the million plus votes that Dr. Paul received will give them pause and they will reconsider their big-government, nation-building methodology. And maybe Sarah will remember the way she used to talk- that she once stood for smaller government, less waste, lower taxes and state’s rights.
If the claims that she’s more interested in positioning herself for 2012, than she is in securing a Republican White House for 2009 are true, I only hope that she helps use her newfound conservative influence to help change the Republican Party for the better during the inevitable upcoming struggle for the heart and soul of the party. They may have wandered far from the path of limited government and a non-interventionist foreign policy, but she has a humble doctor from Texas ready to show her the way back.
If Sarah Palin is to give anyone any hope of influencing the direction of things in our country (assuming the McCain/Palin ticket is defeated) in a more conservative (as the term was once understood to mean) or libertarian direction, then she has a great deal to learn. We have to be very careful about putting trust in any politician based on the way he or she talks or “used to talk” (in the case of Palin). Politicians who talk about limited government and fiscal responsibility are legion in the Republican party, but those who actually govern that way or vote that way as legislators are few and far between. As they say, actions speak louder than words, and it is to Palin’s record as Governor and Mayor that we can look to see how reliable she might be on behalf of our cause. Most importantly, we should keep it in perspective that she is a politician, and a very clever one at that. The bottom line is: put not our trust in politicians. It’s better to cultivate better statesman out of those who enter politics with the promise of promoting liberty by keeping the pressure on, for these too can easily get led astray by the pressures and temptations of Washington.
“While I’m sickened to hear her utter such garbage as it being “God’s will” for us to be in Iraq, I’ve often wondered if she really believes what she’s saying or if she’s just regurgitating what she’s been told to say.” - It doesn’t inspire much confidence in her. I tend to believe that she is what’s wrong for the Republican Party - A phony populism backed by little in the way of intellect or principle.
I disagree with you that our country is headed toward socialism and fascism. I think there are many other shades in the political spectrum we’d pass through first. I see us as solidly conservative now (this is hard to deny), with a liberal taking us to the political center, or a conservative taking us to the center-right.
I believe Palin, on the other hand, has bizarre ultra-nationalist tendencies, such as taking about “American Exceptionalism,” which sounds nice to us, but of course has no basis in fact just like any other statements suggesting ethnic superiority.
To respond to “Kentucky”, I would ask, just what is “conservative” about the last eight years? Oh, never mind that… what is “conservative” about the past two months, with the $850 billion bailout and virtual nationalization of U.S. banks and much of the insurance industry? How is that anything but fascist? Let us not forget that McCain voted for that egregious, socialistic piece of legislation, and worked very hard on its behalf (as did Obama), and has given his blessing to pretty much everything the current administration is doing to bring us closer to fascism.
A few facts:
Palin’s record in Alaska:
- This year alone she cut $268 million of waste from the budget (cutting waste precludes having to raise taxes; this at a time when 29 states will have budget shortfalls in 2009).
- Palin signed a bill into law giving the state of Alaska authority to award TransCanada Pipelines a license to build and operate the $26-billion-dollar pipeline to ship natural gas from the North Slope to the Lower 48, through Canada.
- Budget surpluses were returned to the people (as Bush did with the gov’t surpluses — twice — to keep the funds out of Congress’ hands — a move supported by Greenspan)
- She passed a landmark ethics reform bill and shelved pork-barrel projects supported by Republicans
- She fought Big Oil corruption in politics, resulting in arrests and jail time for the convicted (no doubt, she has loads of enemies for pursuing that)
- She sold the governor’s jet and dismissed the governor’s cook (she said she can cook her own meals) to save taxpayer dollars
- She’s eliminated the gas tax for Alaskans
- “Alaska needs to be self-sufficient,” Palin says. “Instead of relying heavily on federal dollars,” as the state does today.
- Palin has strongly promoted oil resource development in Alaska, but also helped pass a tax increase on oil company profits.
As for her religious views, let’s look at her record:
- Like Biden, Palin opposes same-sex marriage. However, Palin’s first veto was used to block legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to the partners of gay state employees. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska’s attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation.
- Palin supported the open debate of creationism alongside evolution in schools; however, she noted that “creationism doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum” and that she would not use “religion as a litmus test, or anybody’s personal opinion on evolution or creationism” as criteria for selection to the school board.
The above you won’t find on many blogs, though. You usually get eye-rolling jokes about Andrew Lloyd Webber writing a diva musical like “Evita” for Palin. That or links to ThinkProgress, which falsely claimed Palin cut special needs funding. FactCheck.org had to undo that lie on its site.
Why do you think folks want to destroy her? I think it has nothing to do with her gender — and everything to do with what she stands for — smaller gov’t — and that scares corrupt politicians sucking on the govt teat.
Charles Kennedy: Agreed. I knew McCain blew it then. And then in the second debate, he blew it with his “we’ll buy up home mortgages” plan (taxpayers don’t need to! Banks and home owners can re-arrange loans through a Shared Appreciation Mortgages — http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122523972217878309.html).
I’ll still vote for McCain, though, as opposed to the alternative. I watched the VP debate after the bailout and thought it was a perfect op for Palin to depart from McCain and Obama’s position. I’m sure campaign strategists wouldn’t have allowed it, but it would have shown that she makes a tougher stand on behalf of taxpayers (it’s evidenced in her Alaska record, read above). It would have locked in the justsaynodeal.com voters (mainly PUMAs) who were raging about the bailout. She already strongly disagrees with McCain on ANWR, and said she’d get him to come around. So I think if she had come out against the bailout it would have been credible and given the campaign a big boost. She would have been tarred and feathered in the press for being irresponsible and ignorant of the issues, but the average Joe would have seen a person representing him at least go to bat for his ideas. Pelosi, Reid, Frank … no one sold the taxpayer on that bailout — they just pushed it through in a few weeks. Insane.
Conservatives have to do some house cleaning, starting with neocons.
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