[curiosity]

Okay...as a redneck from the oil patch and cotton fields back home....what the Hell is wrong with Sarah?

Lots of things. Here are just a few.

1) She lacks knowledge of just about every national policy issue, save enegery, and betrays a disturbing lack of curiosity about political philosophy.

2) She can't speak intelligently about economic policy. She appears to know even less about economics than McCain.

3) She couldn't speak intelligently about the financial crisis, beyond parroting platitudes about "greed and corruption on Wall Street," which...

4)Betrays a perverse tendency to succumb to economic populism, like Huckabee.

5) Favors amnesty for illegals.

6) Beyond a few small, token purely symbolic spending cuts, she hasn't governed as a fiscal conservative.

Beyond her being pro-life and pro-gun, there is very little to like about her.

Hopefully Huckabee will run in 2012, in which case he'll split the value voter vote with Palin, leaving an opening for someone who can speak intelligently about economics and who, instead of falling for populist snake oil, knows how to sell sound, market-based economic solutions to the middle.

[imfrmdixie]

Well, here you are again mixing misery and gin....you’re just a little ray of sunshine, ain’t cha’?

[pointsal]

Have fun in the big tent!

[exit82]

Points 1,2,3,4, and 6 are wrong, and are your opinion only.

Point 5 I haven’t heard her speak about enough to make a judgment.

Doesn’t unbderstand the financial crisis?

Almost everyone in DC doesn’t understand the financial crisis. That’s why their fixes aren’t working.

She’s been a small town mayor and a state governor. She knows more about economics than you do.

[Diogenesis]

RomneyBOT Curiosity (MIT XIV, professional attacker for Romney);
"1) She lacks knowledge of just about every national policy issue, save enegery,
and betrays a disturbing lack of curiosity about political philosophy.

Myth Romney ruined Massachusetts. He was rated a "C" by the CATO Institute.
That was before he tanked the state through his imposition of socialized medicine.

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

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Now compare with a Conservative winner:

Alaska House OKs Gas Pipeline Plan for North Slope - July 23, 2008
JUNEAU, Alaska -- Alaska's House of Representatives has approved a company's plan
to pursue a natural gas pipeline that could unlock 4.5 billion cubic feet of gas reserves a day.
Lawmakers in Alaska's House voted to support Gov. Sarah Palin's proposal to award TransCanada Corp.
an exclusive license to pursue federal certification for the 1,715-mile North Slope pipeline.

Is not THAT special. The rest talk (or less)
and Gov. Palin actually did something.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

A lot of these anti Palin people here in FR need taken out.

PLEASE OH PLEASE CAN WE GET A PURGE !

[JDNorcal]

1) Her debate prep coach said that in fact she was incredibly curious on political philosophy, and knowledgeable on National Policy issues.

2) She HAS spoken intelligently on economic policy. You have had too much of the establishment kool-aid.

3) In a campaign controlled by those same McCain staffers that now anonymously kick her, she had to tow the ticket line.

4) Her economic policy has been one of fiscal conservatism and lower taxes for her constituents.

5) Does NOT favor amnesty, rather a path to LEGAL citizenship.

6) See 4.

We don’t need another “McCain in the Middle”. Someone with sound fiscal conservatism is the right choice. Oh yeah, and strict adherence to the constitution wouldn’t hurt either.

[DoWhatsRight]

Curiosity,

Huckabee is unelectable on a national stage simply because of his name and looks...sorry, we're living in the age of image over substance. Palin was probably not allowed to go off-script too much about anything, economics included. Not all presidents are economists, especially “professors” of economics as you are. Do you think Obama’s ideas were great? I would much rather have someone who didn't have as much of a cerebral nature as they did an instinct for basic budgeting and common sense. I am afraid good conservatives will never see the light of day to the avg American as the media will no longer allow it. Let's hope the death of the MSM( the liberal democrat media) is at hand!
Palin was raised in a house of teachers and I doubt very much she is not curious as you say. Don't you as a teacher try to teach your own children about EVERYthing and encourage them to read widely and be well-rounded? My mom and dad both had teacher parents and were always reading and looking deeper into things, as I would expect Sarah does. There will be plenty of time now for her to focus more of her attention on national, and international issues.
I remember, speaking of being “curious” that Colin Powell called Obama intellectually curious. I would say he was curious pretty much exclusively to the Marxist left & I see no evidence of his curiosity anywhere else.
Too bad Newt couldn't make it past the MSM death squads!

[supercat]

Lots of things. Here are just a few.

It will be interesting to see how those issues are developed when Palin isn't constrained by John McCain. When she was his running mate, she had an obligation to avoid showing him up. She is now freed from that.

What's important from a knowledge standpoint isn't so much 'book learning' as a combination of common sense and the humility to recognize the limits thereof. It's been said that every problem has a solution that's simple, obvious, and wrong. Thus, one should not always insist that the apparent 'common sense' solution to every problem is the right one. On the other hand, if a proposed solution would seem to defy common sense, one should look closely to ensure that it really is a solution.

Even more important than those things, however, is an ability to identify good and bad people. Common sense plays a big role in that, but the political world is infested with communist moles. Any Republican who knowingly or unknowingly gives power to such moles will seriously undermine himself and his party.

[Western Phil]

“someone who can speak intelligently about economics”

Don’t think that exists.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

1) She lacks knowledge of just about every national policy issue, save enegery, and betrays a disturbing lack of curiosity about political philosophy.

That's because she's never been asked in-depth national security and policy questions, other than the interview with ABC's Gibson, which she handled quite well.

2) She can't speak intelligently about economic policy. She appears to know even less about economics than McCain.

You have no proof of that. During the VP debate, she did let people know that those who willingly signed onto sub-prime mortgages should take responsibility as well. There are reports that she opposed the original bailout.

3) She couldn't speak intelligently about the financial crisis, beyond parroting platitudes about "greed and corruption on Wall Street," which...

That's not really her job as the VP nominee. That's McCain's job to set the message. She works for him, remember?

4)Betrays a perverse tendency to succumb to economic populism, like Huckabee.

I didn't see it. The deal she got for Alaskans from the oil companies for example was negotiating with the oil companies to make sure the people received their dividends as they were supposed to under the state constitution. IMO she's a far better free marketeer than Huckster.

5) Favors amnesty for illegals.

Post a link specifically where Gov Palin supported amnesty. This is part of the reason why I'm glad McCain lost. If McCain would have went through with amnesty, it would have damaged her own bid to run in 2012. But for the most part, illegal immigration was a non-issue this election.

6) Beyond a few small, token purely symbolic spending cuts, she hasn't governed as a fiscal conservative.

She has held the line on spending both as a Mayor and as a Governor. Her state isn't facing a deficit like 40 other states.

Beyond her being pro-life and pro-gun, there is very little to like about her.

You're kidding, right? Palin's story is classic Horatio Alger material. This woman pulled her ownself up by her bootstraps and made a name for herself. There was no Title IXX or no NOW speaking on her behalf.

[needtowakeup]

Think maybe you are on the wrong blog site.

[Proud2BAmerican]

[...] save enegery [...]

President Bush? Is that you? ;-)

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Just for the record, and to tamp down the flames a bit. I agree with you wholeheartedlz. But, the professional wrestling lover wing of the GOP also loes Sarah Palin. They shout a lot, so bring your ear plugs.

[antceecee]

LOL!LOL!LOL!

HUCKABEE!LOL!LOL!

[libbylu]

Sarah does not favor amnesty for illegals, that was johnboy’s view. Huck will NEVER garner the support that Sarah will. He tries to be slick like his hero 42. BUT he was the illegal alien’s hero while governor, took him a while into the campaign to figure out that wouldn’t fly and he lifted a website’s policy and put it word for word on his site. He seems to be busy now trying to convert centrists on his FNC show, which I won’t watch after he took a sublime, slime hit on Mitt for the millionth time.

Sarah is real and runs on her own instincts, JUST LIKE REAGAN AND MAGGIE. She has done an outstanding job in her political life in Alaska. She didn’t become a victimized whistle blower while on the oil commission, SHE WON THAT BATTLE AND WAS ELECTED GOVERNOR. She will learn what she needs to know.