Posted on 09/06/2011 3:17:38 PM PDT by kristinn
Virginia Democrats are using part of Sarah Palin's weekend speech — in which the former governor of Alaska criticized the D.C. area and its "permanent political class" as unsympathetic to the country's economic woes — to attack Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and GOP Senate candidate George Allen.
“Her ridiculous comments about Northern Virginia are just further proof of what people already know: Sarah Palin doesn't understand what Virginia families are going through, and she doesn't care," said Virginia Democratic spokesman Brian Coy. "It shouldn't be difficult for any Virginian to condemn her absurd rhetoric, particularly for people like George Allen and Bob McDonnell, both of whom have lived in Northern Virginia and have spent much of their lives in Virginia politics.”
In her speech, Palin argued that those in favor of shrinking the size and scope of government would need to battle entrenched forces in the D.C. metro area that were unsympathetic to the recession.
"They don't feel the same urgency that we do," Palin said. "But why should they? For them, business is good. Business is very good. Seven of the 10 wealthiest suburbs are suburbs of Washington, D.C."
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I do not believe she will need or want money from GOP Establishment
What does palin suggest?
1. Drill baby drill. Extracting natural gas coal and oil could broadly increase national wealth and reduce funding for terrorism. Why can we not do this? Oh the USFG says it’s illegal.
2. Reduce taxes. The USFG is stealing huge sums of money. Fannie Mae & Mac stole huge sums playing this mortgage market. This happened when congressional dems deregulated the entities. Changing the senate would be a huge help.
3. Stop the democratic party everywhere.
Perhaps not money, but support at the local level? You can betcha that she’ll need it to win over Obama states. Again, if her idea is to run as some anti-establishment Maverick, she needs to do it as an independent. She was the VP lackey for our last so-called “Maverick”, Juan McLame.
Quick google search of “expansion of federal government under Obama” yields tons of data and examples.
Wash Examiner editorial from July 2011 summed it up nicely. O’s added > 100,000 fed jobs since being immaculated. Avg fed job salary is well over $100K, nearly 2X avg private sector salary.
TSA was functioning and populated prior to O.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/obama-pro-growth-government
I live in one of those wealthy suburbs of DC, and we have a lot of good conservatives here. Robert Duvall lives fairly nearby. Mark Levin is in the area. Ken Cuccinelli used to be a senator from this area, and my state representative is the guy who authored our Marriage Amendment.
But I didn’t take Sarah Palin’s speech as a slap at us. I understand political rhetoric. It’s hilarious that after the Hoffa speech, a democrat would dare to complain about people not apoligizing for someone else’s speech.
Our home prices in the DC area dropped in half. Maybe there were places in DC itself that didn’t drop as much, but the Virginia counties around DC were crushed by the real estate bubble like everybody else.
I’m not complaining, the feds provide a steady source of labor. On the other hand, compare Maryland and Virginia, and you’ll see that what makes Virginia great isn’t just proximity to DC, but also our conservative leadership and Virginia values. (Even when we have a democrat in charge, they govern in a more fiscally conservative manner than some liberal republicans from the north).
I don’t work for the government, but I do benefit from being in an area where others do.
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