Posted on 10/23/2010 2:40:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin is a trendsetter, and she’s going to make this George W. Bush character popular on the campaign trail no matter what challenges stand before her. Yes, Palin invoked he-who-shall-not-be-named at a campaign event earlier today to get Republicans and independents fired up about foreign policy, fiscal responsibility, and “good ol’ Reaganism.” Too soon?
Palin was in Florida with RNC Chairman Michael Steele to energize voters and supporters to get out the vote and get involved in the few days leading up to the midterm elections in early November. She began first and foremost by plugging her new program, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, and, because no Palin gets left behind, left time for a Dancing with the Stars joke later on. She then got into the heart of the matter, and warned the crowd, to cheers, that they would be hearing Ronald Reagan’s name come up a lot in her speech, and not so much “Alinsky or Ayers or Mao.” She riled up the crowd sticking to the values she talks about best, and most generally: fiscal responsibility, individual freedom, “restoring our country.”
Then her speech took an unexpected detour back to 2003 as she praised Florida “native son” Jeb Bush and his presidential brother. One would have to research it, but this has to be one of the first times a nationally-recognized political personality brings up President Bush positively and receives cheers– not just because of the visceral disgust with Bush typical on the left, but because the garden-variety Tea Partier on the right has accepted that a major contributing factor to the current economic crisis was the overspending during the Bush years. Even more shocking than their cheering of President Bush was that of his specific policies– “the national security policy of ‘we win and you lose,’” as Palin put it. You’ve got to hand it to her: cheering on Bush foreign policy the day after the massive Wikileaks document dump on the Iraq War is a risky move, and, judging from the crowd, she pulled it off.
Watch the first part of Palin’s speech via CNN below:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
It was that awful 4.8% unemployment rate - oh, the horrors.
Some of W’s spending may have been misguided, but that’s not what cause the financial crisis (which Obama’s spending has indeed deepened and prolonged).
Ad: place Obama behind the steering wheel, with Pelosi and Reid pushing the car into the ditch, showing the years 2006-2007-2008 flying by.
IMHO, 80% of the spending that shouldn't be done was done not by Bush but by representatives those who complain about it a lot elected. Bush stayed afraid that Congress would start to get funny with the money for Iraq and Afghanistan if he pushed back on them too much. Blaming him for what Congress was up to isn't much better the Barry blaming him for the Baawknee Fwank Fannie & Freedie Follies that brought to a crashing close the idiotic policies Carter started and Clinton expanded.
Regards
Classic bubble. I'm surprised you give credit to Gov’t for jobs.
Obama personally sued CitiBank forcing them to give out bad loans.
I give them credit when they have their hands of the private sector...that is a link to employment.
Bush was the right man for the right time, imagine if Gore had been in there after 9-11.
The economy will miraculously recover soon after the stupid socialist bitch from Frisco and her comrades that seized power in 2006 are sent packing in a few weeks (the "economists" will be amazed).
I would sell my gold now, the price is going to go down quick.
Because Michael Steele and the rest of the GOP "leadership" are criminally incompetent.
GW Bush really? So all this Tea Party stuff is for a return to the days of Neocons and GW?
As if the plight we find ourselves in really just started 11/4/08?
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice or thrice or multiple times?
Watch the video of her speech and you will see that this story is a crock.
You are right. Our business FLOURISHED under President Bush. He warned about Fannie and Freddie and he had the Iraq war and Katrina to contend with.
He did a great job. I miss him.
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