Sarah Palin endorsing John McCain in the AZ primary is inexcusable and unjustifiable. She must be held accountable.
ex animo
davidfarrar
Posted on 01/25/2010 7:01:47 PM PST by DB9
We’ve now seen three landslide Republican victories in three states that President Obama carried in 2008. From the tea parties to the town halls to the Massachusetts Miracle, Americans have tried to make their opposition to Washington’s big government agenda loud and clear. But the President has decided that this current discontent isn’t his fault, it’s ours. He seems to think we just don’t understand what’s going on because he hasn’t had the chance – in his 411 speeches and 158 interviews last year – to adequately explain his policies to us.
Instead of sensibly telling the American people, “I’m listening,” the president is saying, “Listen up, people!” This approach is precisely the reason people are upset with Washington. Americans understand the president’s policies. We just don’t agree with them. But the president has refused to shift focus and come around to the center from the far left. Instead he and his old campaign advisers are regrouping to put a new spin on the same old agenda for 2010.
Americans aren’t looking for more political strategists. We’re looking for real leadership that listens and delivers results. The president’s former campaign adviser is now calling on supporters to “get on the same page,” but what’s on that page? He claims that the president is “resolved” to “keep fighting for” his agenda, but we’ve already seen what that government-growth agenda involves, and frankly the hype doesn’t give us much hope. Real health care reform requires a free market approach; real job creation involves incentivizing, not punishing, the job-creators; reining in the “big banks” means ending bailouts; and stopping “the undue influence of lobbyists” means not cutting deals with them behind closed doors.
Instead of real leadership, though, we’ve had broken promises and backroom deals. One of the worst: candidate Obama promised to go through the federal budget “with a scalpel,” but President Obama spent four times more than his predecessor. Want more? Candidate Obama promised that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” but President Obama gave at least a dozen former lobbyists top administration jobs. Candidate Obama promised us that we could view his health care deliberations openly and honestly on C-SPAN, but President Obama cut deals behind closed doors with industry lobbyists. Candidate Obama promised us that we would have at least five days to read all major legislation, but President Obama rushed through bills before members of Congress could even read them.
Candidate Obama promised us that his economic stimulus package would be targeted and pork-free, but President Obama signed a stimulus bill loaded with pork and goodies for corporate cronies. Candidate Obama railed against Wall Street greed, but President Obama cozied up to bankers as he extended and expanded their bailouts. Candidate Obama promised us that for “Every dollar that I’ve proposed [in spending], I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.” We’re still waiting to see how President Obama will cut spending to match the trillion he’s spent.
More than anything, Americans were promised jobs, but the president’s stimulus package has failed to stem our rising unemployment rate. Maybe it was unfair to expect that an administration with so little private sector experience would understand something about job creation. How many Obama Administration officials have ever had to make a payroll or craft a business plan in the private sector? How many have had to worry about not having the resources to invest and expand? The president’s big government policies have made hiring a new employee a difficult commitment for employers to make. Ask yourself if the Obama Administration has done anything to make it easier for employers to hire. Have they given us any reassurance that the president will keep taxes low and not impose expensive new regulations?
Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people.
- Sarah Palin
Perry is way better than Hutchinson...by miles!!!!
How many in the Zer0 Regime do not bother to file their income tax?
Your Sarah is a gracious lady.
She isn’t coaching, she is slicing and dicing the Zer0 Regime like a verbal Ginsu knife.
He was on the news tonight with Diane Sawyer and he was crying like a baby saying how some of the things people said about him hurt deeply.
Boo ho ho! Poor baby got his feelings hurt.
Apparently a lot of our local olympians are not included among Perry’s so-called Cronies. My fear is that if Kay loses, some will shift their support to White. So far as Medina is concerned, her position is somewhat like Palin’s was in Alaska, but who would be her allies in the Legislature? The Democrats all seem to be liberals/ethics. Is there any of her position they could support. And does she have any support among the Republicans? The governorship is a weak office, unlike the office in New Jersey, say.
bttt
Nope...zzzzzz
Sorry Sarah - not giving you the time of day until you come out of McCain’s camp.
Alaska and New Jersey were among the states that tied for second in Governor's power rankings.
Are you kidding? Plymouth!
Sarah Palin endorsing John McCain in the AZ primary is inexcusable and unjustifiable. She must be held accountable.
ex animo
davidfarrar
Imagine the “I told you so”s in 2012.
I’m sure in the world of politics, this is her way of recognizing that McCain is responsible for her fame and shot at a future.
But that’s not my problem.
If she succeeds in campaigning well for him - it becomes everybody’s problem.
Since Allan Shivers term as Lt. Governor, the office has had more power than the governorship. Shivers succeeded Beauford Jester as Government in 1949 and then continued in that office until 1957. For some reason he then dropped out of politics at that time, even though he was only 50 at the time. No one served longer as governor until Perry passed his record. Wonder why he vanished from the public scene?
What the hell are "Palin Haters?"
There are no Palin "haters." Some of us may disagree with her, just as married people may have disagreements with their friends, spouse, and children.
Grow up and stop using Democratunderground lingo.
That is not likely to happen. Those who use these terms, just because one merely critiques Palin, are of a definite minority (amongst Palin's supporters) but very vocal.
The irony is that the tactics they claim to abhor, they use themselves against the "Paulistas" and "Romneyites". It's oft like watching an Our Gang/Little Rascals episode.
Then a few of them are outright creepy in how they've made Palin the center of their universe. Wouldn't surprise me if a few had a life-sized cutout of her --- and actually spoke to it as if it were human.
I'm sure Mrs Palin appreciates the great majority of those supporting her, and winces at the thought of some.
No, not kidding :) Although I’ve been gone for a while.
That’s the kind of camparision we need....make it a 30 second spot and start running it now....You deliver it, Madam President...just read it and close with: “how can you believe anything he says....”
And Possibly a “paid for by Palin for President 2012”.......
Just saying...
The definition of a Palin Hater on the Free Republic is someone like steve-b that scours the internet for every anti-palin hit piece they can find or someone that can’t pass a Palin thread without a derogatory comment. There are plenty of them on the Freerepublic.
Read any two threads about Palin, and you’ll see the same names with the same attacks, over and over again.
I ask them all the same question, who do you support? I rarely get a straight answer…..
If Sarah runs, she will have my support, Money, Time and Vote.
So who do you support?
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