Posted on 09/04/2011 10:15:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As do her action to specifically reference McCain’s Hobbit sneer that officially put the stamp “Paid In Full” on her past association with him. It just shows that shooting from the hip is not your strong suit.
It's politics FRiend, it's just the way it is no matter how distasteful it may seem.
Excellent analysis of the speech. It’s refreshing to hear a concrete policy proposal out of Palin (eliminating the tax on corporations—very bold).
People are use to being and/or voting for back-stabbers I guess...sigh
I can never figure out why “days of ragers” would want to attack liberal enclaves like NYC and Wash DC.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for them to go to Texas?
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Her endorsement was a payback for a campaign he was going to win anyway. She no longer owes “the hobbit hater” anything and when she runs, you will see McLame attacking her on a regular basis.
I guess they hate rich people. They forget that’s where they get their paycheck. (If they work, that is.)
IIRC, she said she was happy to see McCotter enter the race. I said “Who”?
These are my notes from her speech. They are not as detailed as yours, but are what I got out of the very solid speech she gave.
She has five segments to her plan:
1) Stop expanding out-of-control Government. Enforce the 10th Amendment.
2) Repeal Obamacare. Rein in regulations.
3) No more run-away debt. Prioritize and reform entitlement programs.
4) Become the energy superpower we are capable of being. Link prosperity and energy.
5) Make America the most attractive place on earth to do business. Eliminate all corporate income tax.
[Make no mistake about it, ending corporate taxes is a very, very, smart strategy for destroying the democrat fascists ability to raise campaign funds and to reward the party faithful.]
It is a brilliant stroke I didn’t see coming. Palin is the first to lay out that getting rid of corporate taxes isn’t only an economy booster, but it is clear as a bell that it cleans out the Washington cesspool. At this point, I guess I am part of the pundit crowd (part time) so I should have known about this angle before. This one has legs.
After the speech yesterday I called it "Libertarian Populism".
Either way, it's the Western School of Goldwater. and it IS (l)ibertarian.
1) Perry will lose support — because he shot ahead of Romney too quickly.
2) Romney will win the nomination — because he was clever enough to let Perry pull ahead of him too quickly.
3) Palin will run as a 3rd party candidate — because the GOP establishment (the one she promises to clean up or clean out) won't welcome her.
What is this incessant demand that Sarah Palin should bow to the demands of others? It's her decision to make when to "officially" enter the race. To you it's drama, to me it's strategy. Patience is in short supply around here.
Somehow I think that "theory" has been around a lot longer than someone named McCotter.
Run Baby, Run!
There's another old saying, that comes close to the one we're trying not to repeat: “fish or cut bait”. Sarah is an experienced fisherman. She knows when it's time to fish. Meanwhile, it seems she thinks the bait still needs tending to.
I have seen entitlement reforms, and they can be carried through. In 1991 - 94 socialist Sweden decided to change our pay-as-you go public penaion system to a partly funded system ad modum Peter Ferrara (from Cato Institute) and Martin Feldstein. That is, socialist Sweden changed its pension system for a system with its intellectual roots in the libertarian Cato think-tank. Who would have thought that was possible. One person did, and she managed (without much support) to carry it through.
The alternative, which already had been tried, was to let the statists and the socialists take more and more money either from the younger tax-payers and/or from the pensioners. In short entitlement reforms is not just about fiscal probity it is about morals.
Work keeps me from writing much at FR at the moment, but I hope to be able to come back with a fuller story on how the Swedish pension system was reformed.
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