Now, please demonstrate WITH A TRANSCRIPT where Palin said that the Merck donations to Perry were pay-to-play. I watched the interview on the Fox website, and what I saw was Palin putting emphasis on Perry's chief of staff leaving and becoming a Merck lobbyist as evidence of crony capitalism. And only the most obtuse hacks can pretend that the revolving door between government and corporations is not a problem.
I am willing to be shown wrong, but you have to put something up to do that other than a claim not based on a transcript (and not as a few words lifted out of a larger paragraph, either).
THere were several reports last night of “what Palin said” that were wildly wrong. One report claimed she said Merck contacter her to force Gardasil on her state, and she responded “hell no”, and had e-mails to prove it.
It turns out she didn’t say that, her e-mail was about the chicken-pox vaccine, and in her e-mail she says that the governor has no control over which vaccines are mandatory in Alaska, it’s controlled by the Board of Education. Also she opposed the CP vaccine (she didn’t say that by name, just said she opposed mandating shots for our girls, but since she didn’t push to end mandatory vaccines, I assume she was talking about the CP vaccine).
Palin was right that Perry’s CoStaff going to Merck, and then coming back and lobbying to get better government treatment of his new company, is a form of “crony capitalism”. But she didn’t say Perry was using “pay-for-play”, so far as I can tell.