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As We See It: DC corruption and Sarah Palin
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ^
| November 20, 2011
| The Editors
Posted on 11/20/2011 10:25:42 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 11/20/2011 10:44:59 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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If Romney and Gingrich are the frontrunners, we need to add someone to the bench.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’m so lucky to have what is apparently one of very few honest representatives. After 20 years in state and federal politics, my congressman still lives a modest 6 figure lifestyle.
Still, I’m turning heavily in favor of term limits.
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posted on
11/20/2011 10:34:31 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
11/20/2011 10:35:23 AM PST
by
Berlin_Freeper
(For years the Left protested "the occupation of Iraq"- now they want to "Occupy" all across the US)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I really regret that Palin isn’t running. I don’t blame her, but... maybe when her kids are older.
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posted on
11/20/2011 10:36:07 AM PST
by
A_perfect_lady
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Who would dream that in this year of rising discontent against Wall Street and big government, it would take Sarah Palin to fix the blame where it truly should land.”
Yep, without Sarah, who would know this?
Honestly folks...
Evidently 100% of the people on this forum should be running for president.
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posted on
11/20/2011 10:40:09 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Obyema 2012 - he has addition deficit disorder... (not my line, but a great one to repeat))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I supported the lady and defended her tooth and nail from the rabid moonbats and rinos for three years, the lefties were right, she’s a quitter. Left us all twisting in the wind.
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posted on
11/20/2011 10:41:06 AM PST
by
DirtyHarryY2K
(The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
To: DirtyHarryY2K
Left us all twisting in the wind.
Your expectations of Sarah Palin let you down.
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posted on
11/20/2011 10:44:04 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: DoughtyOne
Who would dream that in this year of rising discontent against Wall Street and big government, it would take Sarah Palin to fix the blame where it truly should land.
Yep, without Sarah, who would know this?
It looks like someone forgot the "captain obvious" alert. There is a reason why Congress' approval ratings are so high. Congressional corruption was a major theme of the 1994 uprising led by Gingrich and company. Rick Perry has taken aim at all three branches of government. Still, this is aiming at the wrong target. I have always maintained that corruption in government was a symptom of the centralization of power in government. IOW, the focus should remain centered on the core problem, which is the expanding role of government. We need to keep in mind Lord Acton's dictum that "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". I would add that this is especially true of political power as the state is rooted in the justified use of force. Centralizing power in the hands of an entity that has a monopoly on the justified use of force is just asking for problems.
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posted on
11/20/2011 10:52:27 AM PST
by
rob777
To: DirtyHarryY2K
Did she personally promise you that she would run?
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posted on
11/20/2011 10:52:48 AM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
To: DirtyHarryY2K
Left us all twisting in the wind.Nah man..It was her supporters that kept raising the furor over her running; not Sarah. I'm a diehard Palin supporter as well, so I feel your pain. But she didn't leave us twisting in the wind man.
To: A_perfect_lady
Nice article on Sarah, and from a looney, left-wing, moonbat paper in Santa Cruz.
Me thinks that Sarah is as wiley as a fox. Now that she’s not a threat to the establishment (at least in the upcoming elections) they are not consumed with destroying her 24/7, which allows her an opportunity to get her message out to people that wouldn’t normally give her a fair hearing.
Perhaps there’s still a possibility we will see a “President Palin” in the future.
Just a thought.
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posted on
11/20/2011 10:58:03 AM PST
by
Ernie Kaputnik
((It's a mad, mad, mad world.))
To: cripplecreek
Yeah, you’re right, From now on I won’t expect much of anyone, I’ll just take it for granted that the leftists are way smarter and listen to them.. hell I’ may even vote for barry if you moderates keep teaming up with the left alinsky style to destroy any and every conservative and nominate an establishment socialist liberal idiot.
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posted on
11/20/2011 10:58:39 AM PST
by
DirtyHarryY2K
(The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
11/20/2011 11:02:30 AM PST
by
Syncro
(Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The point was that the left said she was a quitter.. All hat and no cattle.. millions of us defended her, end the end she quit.. No getting beyond that fact..
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posted on
11/20/2011 11:03:05 AM PST
by
DirtyHarryY2K
(The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
To: Ernie Kaputnik
registration to be on the ballot for 2012 is after august...
all the registration talk is strictly for GOP primaries.
and the GOP is part of the problem, as they are infected with progressives
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posted on
11/20/2011 11:03:46 AM PST
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: A_perfect_lady
The media and establishment would never allow ANYONE IN THAT WOULD TRULY CLEAN IT ALL UP.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
As I’ve noted before, Sarah Palin is just about the only politician I know who actually DID something about this. She shoveled out the Republican Corrupt Bastards Club in Alaska, as well as the Corrupt Dems. A number of them landed in jail. And she turned down earmarks and pork, even as a free gift from the feds to Alaska.
Sure, Newt ran as someone who would clean out congress. And he started out well, for a few months. But soon enough he caved to clinton, joined the pork gobblers and traitors, where he has remained ever since.
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posted on
11/20/2011 11:06:42 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius.2)
To: rob777
"There is a reason why Congress' approval ratings are so high. "
Of course it should read "low".
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posted on
11/20/2011 11:07:55 AM PST
by
rob777
To: Berlin_Freeper
California has shown that term limits don't work. Instead of a revolving door for the entrenched thief what you get is a revolving door for the anonymous incompetent thief with absolutely no loyalty but to the sponsors on the way in and whoever offers a job on the way out.
Anybody who thinks they can get rid of influence by controlling employment after serving in Congress is deluding themselves. It will only make the system more opaque than ever.
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posted on
11/20/2011 11:08:23 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(In the GOP, desperation is the mother of convention.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Santa Cruz Sentinel editorial staff must have run out of pot last night, it seems the have a headache today.
Even if Palin didn't write the piece, or the ideas came from an aide, this is new territory for a major political figure in the Republican Party. Palin isn't running for president, this year, but none of the 2012 candidates are talking about the corruption that has made Congress beholden to big business, personal enrichment schemes and lobbyists.
My goodness, while Palin has been a nonpartisan anti corruption crusader from her very first day of public service, the SCS can't even give her credit for her record of ideas. Interesting considering the left wing silence of the SCS for decades on these ideas.
That's what Sarah Palin is asking.
And so should you.
Even though Sarah is still dumb, right, SCS?
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posted on
11/20/2011 11:09:07 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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