As We See It: DC corruption and Sarah Palin

Nonsense. Every time Palin bogarted an event or announcement by somebody who was running by showing up outside or around the corner...every time she played coy...every time she tweeted about the need for someone new...every time her organization spoke about a coming announcement she was setting the expectation and yanking your chain.

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Totally agree with you Sarah Palin was the biggest political tease in my lifetime, and before people flame away at me please look at my past comments, I was one of her staunchest defenders. She left us when we needed her the most, the PAC, her appearances, the books, tweets, and FB posts were just one gigantic tease and she quit on us. Sarah Palin is about Sarah Palin. I wouldn’t be so upset if she didn’t consistently say that if there wasn’t anyone in the race that she could endorse that she would run and when she was asked repeatedly if there was anyone in the race she could endorse that she said no. I never thought I would say this, but Palin is a quitter, she quit on us and she played us for fools. Btw, I love all the Palin supporters here on FR, good solid conservatives, and I was looking forward to fighting with you to get her elected, but that will never be.

The sad part is that a number of long-time freepers who saw through her early on and called her out for what she is were villified in the worst way here with the not-so-tacit approval of the management. A few good ones just left.

I think SP made some very good points and she was vilfied unnecessarily by a few freepers. If she was running today I would support her, but after she decided to not run after dropping hints and opening up a PAC and making campaign adds I no longer support her.

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.

Yes. As long as Congress controls how TRILLIONS of dollars are spent, people will consider spending a million or two on a congressman to be a great investment with a high rate of return. The only way to reduce corruption is to reduce the federal government.

Just cutting it back to it's set of roles in 1960 would eliminate the deficit overnight.

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