Posted on 03/05/2011 2:18:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In front of an Alaskan backdrop of mountains and a lake, Sarah Palin had a busy, busy night on television Friday. She found time to tweak a fellow Republican, dismiss the president, and scold a top rated Fox News talk show host.
Palin opened by questioning New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's toughness and attacking President Barack Obama for naivete. After that, she preached about cutting various government programs to Bill O'Reilly before telling him not to interrupt her. All in a night's work.
On America's Nightly Scoreboard, host David Asman informed Palin that Christie had told Fox Business News that he didn't see any politician as inspiring. "Do you?" Asman asked Palin.
"Heck yeah, I am so thankful for all these common sense conservative politicians to serve and cut for the right reasons," she said. "And with all due respect to Governor Christie, you know he has no choice but to cut budgets because he's broke, his state is broke. What courage really is, is in the face of having a surplus when you have opportunity to spend, spend, spend other people's money, and you still choose to rein in government to let the private sector soar."
Palin said as governor she trimmed Alaska's budget, although it had a surplus. She put a hiring freeze in place, reduced earmarks by 86 percent and vetoed the largest amounts of spending in the state's history, she said.
Without mentioning potential 2012 Republican candidates by name, Palin said, "I find inspiration in tea party patriots [and] those with common sense who aren't playing a lot of games."
On the same show, she said President Obama didn't understand the labor situation in Wisconsin because he is "so inexperienced in the private sector and in goverment, and in actually running anything and making any kind of budget."
She added that Obama has a "naive and destructive and terrifying anti-oil agenda" that "is going to bring our nation to our knees -- and his agenda must be stopped."
Wearing the same fleece and faux fur jacket, Palin appeared later on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" to discuss future plans for government entitlements such as Social Security. "Yeah, entitlement programs have to be reformed," she told the host. "They are going to eat our lunch. They will certainly consume our entire federal budget by 2035. unless we reform."
Palin cited Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's plan, "A Roadmap for American's Future" as one way restrain Social Security costs. She said his proposal "can nail it quite accurately, as when he talks about age 55 being a cut-off age" in the future for traditional Social Security payments.
Ryan's plan would preserve the existing Social Security program for those 55 or older but offer workers younger than 55 the option of investing more than one-third of their Social Security taxes in personal retirement accounts.
Palin chastised the hard-charging O'Reilly for interrupting her: "I really apologize that up here in Alaska we have this four-second delay so it's not an easy exchange to try and get my point across to you if you interrupt." O'Reilly let her make points on raising the retirement age and the possibility that safety net programs for the poor will have to be reduced.
"If we had a robust economy here and all across the country then we wouldn't have to be looking at these insolvent entitlement programs that, yeah, when we start pulling the plug on some of them there is going to be a shared burden across the country," she said.
Watch Palin's interview on budget-cutting.
(VIDEO AT LINK)
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Hey Barry, Sarah already knows whose ass to kick. That was a Palin triple.
That's your opinion.
Ted Baxter isn't very friendly to her, anyhow, so no great loss. He's been cuddling up to Mr. Obama for some time nowI think BOR has a Chrissy-sized tingle up his leg every time he sees/hears The One.
Who loves ya baby?
(wardaddy when u give em hell ma’am)
How anyone can consider themselves a conservative and love this country find anything negative about Sarah Palin astonishes me.
Run Sarah Run
Go Sarah Go
Win Sarah Win
Drill baby drill
Heck, I would give her a quadruple.
The PDS'ers around here have really been out of sorts (Extra, extra nutty), since her appearance on BOR :^)
O’rielly hard on Sarah soft on zero, keep up the good work
I watched Sarah Palin on the O’Reilly interview and was very pleased. She not only shut O’Reilly up for a few minutes (a rare feat worthy of acclaim) but made some good points. Her comments about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie were factual and because he is no conservative and has made condescending remarks about Palin, her comments were well deserved, in my opinion. Sarah Palin is always interesting and doesn’t change her views to suit a particular audience. She is ‘authentic’ in a positive way. Sarah Palin remains my choice as the Republican presidential nominee in 2012. Others may disagree but in my opinion, we need her. Most of the ‘contenders’ for the GOP nomination are political re-treads that leave me cold. Good on one or two issues but otherwise, RINOs. Sarah Palin is no RINO. Not ‘perfect’ but certainly a true conservative with brains and guts who hasn’t been intimidated by the leftist media onslaught against her. That matters to me. The other wannabes don’t impress. Palin does.
She could sneeze and they’d be out of sorts. ;)
Yes! That was beautiful!
You rang?
LOL they used to. Some unnamed FReepers (Don Morgan was one, heh heh) would shout "TURN OFF YOUR TAGS", as the whole thread would become italian or blink or bold. Really wild at times.
I can personally count 3 occasions where Christie took a cheap shot at Palin before she commented.
Said by a Newt Gingrich supporter. Well you should know.
I loved it when O’Reilly was giving away his hand-written notes for his Super Bowl interview with Barack as some kind of prize ... like that was worth something.
If we all get real quite and listen...
We can still hear the cheers and clapping from everyone
that works on the Fox channel with O’Reilly.
From the looks on their faces they are so sick of him interrupting.
I'd bet good money that Gov Palin does NOT wear faux fur.
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