IF YOU DON’T DO WHAT I SAY, YOU’RE SUPPORTING THE SOCIALISTS (/rant)
I think Sarah Palin is way smarter than people give her credit for; probably far smarter than Obama, Clinton and Gore put together. I think she’s wonderfully bold. And I think she’s going to be a far tougher candidate in 2012 than any of the pollsters and talking heads suppose she might be.
I’d just like it if we actually found out her positions on issues before we coronate her the new queen. Everyone writes off her gushing, over-the-top praise of McCain as simply necessary politics. Well, first off, I don’t WANT another typical political gameplayer. And secondly, that’s a huge presumption on an awfully important issue. I’d like to hear her come out against McCain’s “pathway to citizenship”. (Sorry folks, simply saying she’s against “amnesty” doesn’t cut it, because McCain, Graham, Bush, Kennedy, Reid and everyone else involved with the McCain-Kennedy amnesty said they were against amnesties, but McCain Kennedy wasn’t really an amnesty.)
I’d like to hear her say she opposes the Wall Street bailout, the McCain healthcare plan, (ironically, Obama’s plan is closer to the one McCain campaigned on than the one Obama campaigned on), that she’d repeal McCain-Feingold, that she’d support official English and repeal Executive Order 13166 which mandates that everyone eventually adopt 130+ languages.
So far all I know about her on issues is she’s very pro-life. Which is paramount of importance to me.
None of this is to presume she’s BAD on any of these issues, or that anyone else is better. I just think it’s rather odd that no-one else seems to care about anything other than her personality.
“Id like to hear her say she opposes the Wall Street bailout, the McCain healthcare plan, (ironically, Obamas plan is closer to the one McCain campaigned on than the one Obama campaigned on),”
You see, that’s where some of us run into a problem with Palin and her supporters who ignore her own words.
Everyone is ‘waiting’ for her to ‘come out’ and oppose some things most of us really dislike. We’ve had dozens of threads about amnesty...no one can agree on what she says about that.
And she supports McCain’s vote on TARP.
Here is what Palin says in Going Rogue about the bailouts, on page 270.
“[T]he House of Representatives rejected a Bush-backed economic bailout plan in a vote in which two-thirds of Republicans voted no. The impression this made on the electorate was not helpful to our cause. Millions of Americans were poised to go bankrupt or lose their savings, and the perception was that Republicans had failed to respond.”
http://washingtonindependent.com/68578/yes-palin-backed-the-bailouts
There’s that phrase again...’our cause’...
The problem some of us have with Palin/McCain is figuring out what ‘our cause’ means. The above quote, from Palin’s book, shows she approved of McCain’s vote for TARP.