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"Sarah Palin supports Cap & Trade? (which she derides as Cap and TAX). Link please???"

She derides it with words now, but has supported the concept with action when she was the Governor of Alaska. It was in 2007 that she issues Executive Order 238 Establishing the Alaska Climate Change Sub-Cabinet http://www.gov.state.ak.us/admin-orders/238.html Number 13, under Purpose and Duties reads: "the opportunities for Alaska to participate in carbon-trading markets, including the offering of carbon sequestration" That is the essence of Cap and Trade. Very few other Governors have went this far in support of the environmentalist agenda.

"As for TARP, she was running on a ticket where the candidate on the top of the ticket supported it, so she couldn't exactly come out against it."

I do not buy the excuse that she had to go along with McCain because she did voice her difference of opinion with him on Alaska drilling, so she could have on this issue if it was important to her. This is just an excuse, pure and simple.

"I also believe she later said it was a mistake."

She later opposed Obama's version of this mess, but that was AFTER supporting the McCain backed Bush version. While she was supporting this mess, House Republicans were leading the charge against it and even helped to defeat it the first time through, Not only does she not voice support for this opposition, she blamed these brave souls in her book for McCain losing the race. Here is what Palin says in “Going Rogue” about the bailouts, on page 270: "The House of Representatives rejected a Bush-backed economic bailout plan in a vote in which two-thirds of Republicans voted no. The impression this made on the electorate was not helpful to our cause. Millions of Americans were poised to go bankrupt or lose their savings, and the perception was that Republicans had failed to respond." In short, it was not the support for the Bush backed TARP bailout that she is calling a mistake, but the House opposition to it..

Why take a chance on picking a leader who was on the other side when conservatives were fighting against this when we can select a leader who has consistently been on the side of limited government? I like Sarah but she has been as inconsistent as Mitt Romney when it comes to standing in opposition to big government. The difference is that she is getting a pass on this by a large number of conservatives.

The Cap & Trade charge is bull. Palin, saw the reality that even if based on junk science and hysteria, Federal “Climate Change” legislation, that would deeply affect her energy producing state, was a very real possibility. Because of this, like any good governor should, she formed a committee to determine what the implications of this might be on her state, and what the state could do to deal with those implications.

As for TARP, it would be asking a lot to expect either VP candidate could go against the top of the ticket on an issue as big as that, in the middle of what was sold to the American people as the greatest economic crisis of our time. It would be even harder to expect a newcomer VP candidate to also go against the sitting POTUS from her own party.