[SueRae]

She defends Michelle Bachman. Blunt, honest and unafraid. "She's got the bumps and bruises" from taking on the cronies in her own party over the last 20 years.

[SumProVita]

I’m not sure that Sarah is right on this one. How can motive be proven here?

[GatorGirl]

That’s interesting because Palin endorsed Perry after the Gardasil kerfuffle.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

(((((PING)))))

[cripplecreek]

The establishment trembles in fear. (and rage)

I’ve been saying it all along. Politics as we know it is over and the “conventional wisdom” no longer applies.

[cranked]

Sarah caught double-speaking? Say it ain’t so..... /s =.=

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

And thus pops the delusion that Palin will not run and endorse Perry instead.

[Cboldt]

I hope RealClearPolitics linked to the complete transcript, because the contention that Palin asserted “Rick Perry has partcipated in Crony Capitalism” is a figment of imagination or result of careless listening/reading.

[11th Commandment]

Make no mistake about it, GOP elitists are afraid of the TEA Party and Palin types. I remember an op-ed in the WSJ before the 2010 elections by Robert B Rieecccch. He warned the GOP insiders that although the TEA Party was fiscally conservative, they will go after big business/big government favoritism. He then said to support the Democratic Party because although they will screw you, at least we will throw you a bone once in a while. These are my words but the article was very blunt.

Perry is a 1/2 Tea Party 1/2 insider. That is why the elitists are moving to Romeny. IF PALIN gets into the race, the insiders will support Perry as the compromise candidate of Romney the insider and Palin outsider purist.

[ncalburt]

Another day and another sea of Perry haters posts. Odd how we see only Perry hater posts here and nothing on Romney or Bachman or anyone else. Palin is wrong.
That was a federal vaccine program paid by Medicaid and SCIPS programs.
No one is making money off a Medicaid vaccine program.

Michele Bachman looked foolish and ugly last night and very unpresidential.
Her comments to Perry were way out of line.
She appears to be working with Mittens.
She gave him a BIG KISS and never attack him.
She is looking for a VP spot now.

[bert]

Time for her to crawl back under her wasilla rock. She is destructive to the effort.

She as sat on the pot to long with no issue.

[normy]

I would simply say, Sarah, how much cash did you and your family of 7 receive from your windfall tax on oil profits. 10,000 a year?

Since "Alaska's resources belong to Alaskans" why didn't you tax you and your husband's commercial fishing enterprise? Are the salmon of Alaska not "Alaska's resources?"

If you are such a fighter for justice, why did you quit when the going got tough in Alaska and do you think whatever reforms you implemented will have any staying power since you left after fulfilling only half your term?

Sarah if Perry is a crony capitalist, and you imply that Perry is for sale for as little as $5,000, why did you endorse him in the Republican Primary after he issued the EO?

Sarah why did you say there was "no way you would deport the 12-14 million illegals because it would be inhumane" and that you were for a path to citizenship in an interview with Univision in 2008 but just a couple years later you agreed with Bill O'Reilly that you would build a fence from Brownsville to San Diego and deport all 12 million?

Palin had only the illusion of virtue as her strong point.

[EnglishCon]

It is something that needs to be hauled into the light, and one of my minor worries about Perry, or indeed any politician, is how deep they are in the hip pockets of their big donors. We know all about that here, and it ain’t pretty.

While I wasn’t terribly impressed with Bachman in the debate (only just watched it now and, while passionate, she did not look like ideal President fodder to me) it is a valid charge and really needs to be discussed.

My biggest regret is that Palin didn’t join the debate, despite the invitation to do so. This sniping from the sidelines is not her style.

[Vide]

Not cool Sarah.

[LibLieSlayer]

Perry... THE crony capitalist amnesty Governor.

LLS

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I found it interesting, that after about the 20th time of repeating “innocent 11-12 year-old little girls” (in the Tampa CNN-Tea Party debate, CNN post-debate, Fox News post-debate), when asked by Greta VanSusteren if she believed Gov. Perry used an Executive Order for the cervical cancer vaccine to get $6000.00 or because he believed it was a good idea and would help fight the spread of this cancer, Michele Bachmann actually stopped talking for a couple of nanoseconds, paused and said that she couldn’t look into his heart and know that answer.

The answer is obvious to any honest person, that Gov. Perry did it to help fight cancer and hold down future medical costs (not make money, reward a company (Merck contributes $Millions to political groups yearly) - encourage girls to become sexually active or even suggest that they do). The best time to administer the HPV vaccine is when girls are young (they can contract this cancer from their husbands – get oral cancer – thank you Bill Clinton for your part in making America's youth think oral sex isn't sex).

About deaths from vaccines – over 400 people die yearly in the U.S. alone from penicillin allergies. All medicine carries risks -- have you watched an Rx commercial disclaimer lately?

And it was opt out. The governor’s EO allowed easier payment due to insurance restrictions. And it was not opposed by Dr. David Stevens, CEO of the Christian Medical Association.

Why CMA supported Perry's HPV vaccination order

[Condor51]

Perry, as governor of Texas, mandated that young girls get a vaccination for the HPV virus in an executive order. Perry is criticized for this in part because of his connections to the drug manufacturer Merck.

First off, let's forget the 'crony capitalism' and just focus on Perry's action.

Good, now that that's out of the way, I ask, just who the (blank) does Perry think he is?

Caesar? Mao? Stalin? Hitler? Castro? Or just your average run of the mill tin-pot TYRANT! Because mandating that little girls in a public school system be injected with any Sexually Transmitted Disease Vaccine is NOT the action of a Conservative. It's statist at its best and tyrannical at its worst.

Yet last night when confronted by his heinous deed did he back down or apologize? No. He just 'clarified' that the way he went about this Gardasil MANDATE was wrong. Not that the policy in itself was. Some conservative that is, ha!

Furthermore, if I had lived in Texas when our girls were younger and this Mandate from Gov Good Hair came down his State JBT's would face one very (cough) 'ticked off' father who would defend his little girls at all costs!

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'Perrydactyl'
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[no dems]

It’s apparent that Sarah is going to endorse Michele if she does not run herself. If Rick Perry is such an ogre, why did Sarah endorse him in his 2010 reelection bid?

I’m so damn tired of the Pubbies destroying each other and getting ready to send our nominee into the General Election wounded, battered and already defeated. I love you Sarah, and you’ve been my first choice all along. But, either get in the race or STFU!!!

[MN_Mike]

Sarah Palin is the consummate hunter. She waits until her prey presents itself and when s/he does, it’s lights out.