I strongly disagree with you. She is stating the other side without alienating or being obnoxius. Surley you don't think Chris Christie has a foot in both camps because he compliments good teachers. Taking an Ed Shultz or Michael Savage approach is not going to get anybody to the table. We need the extreme, intolerant comments, but not from the leaders who are going to have the responsibility to solve the problem.
Calling someone your “brother and sister” is a bit stronger than a “compliment,” wouldn’t you say?
More damage has been done to the conservative movement by a desire for a "seat at the table" than you can possibly imagine.
Seat at the table? You don't get it. Walker (a governor who understands the immediacy and severity of the problem) doesn't want to give them a seat - hell, he doesn't even want them to have a table. He is, quite simply, trying to undo the collective bargaining process BECAUSE IT IS BANKRUPTING THE STATE. No public service unions, or at least, no collective bargaining for those unions.
To everyone but Palin (apparently), this isn't a negotiating. It's a dissolution. To quote Nick Nolte from "48 Hrs"...
"Now, get this! We ain't partners. We ain't brothers. And we ain't friends.
" THAT'S the message conservative leaders should be sending. Nothing more, nothing less - especially when not even a majority of DEMOCRATS believe there should be public service unions.