Posted on 01/25/2010 6:37:44 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner
We’ve now seen three landslide Republican victories in three states that President Obama carried in 2008. From the tea parties to the town halls to the Massachusetts Miracle, Americans have tried to make their opposition to Washington’s big government agenda loud and clear. But the President has decided that this current discontent isn’t his fault, it’s ours. He seems to think we just don’t understand what’s going on because he hasn’t had the chance – in his 411 speeches and 158 interviews last year – to adequately explain his policies to us.
Instead of sensibly telling the American people, “I’m listening,” the president is saying, “Listen up, people!” This approach is precisely the reason people are upset with Washington. Americans understand the president’s policies. We just don’t agree with them. But the president has refused to shift focus and come around to the center from the far left. Instead he and his old campaign advisers are regrouping to put a new spin on the same old agenda for 2010.
Americans aren’t looking for more political strategists. We’re looking for real leadership that listens and delivers results. The president’s former campaign adviser is now calling on supporters to “get on the same page,” but what’s on that page? He claims that the president is “resolved” to “keep fighting for” his agenda, but we’ve already seen what that government-growth agenda involves, and frankly the hype doesn’t give us much hope. Real health care reform requires a free market approach; real job creation involves incentivizing, not punishing, the job-creators; reining in the “big banks” means ending bailouts; and stopping “the undue influence of lobbyists” means not cutting deals with them behind closed doors.
Instead of real leadership, though, we’ve had broken promises and backroom deals. One of the worst: candidate Obama promised to go through the federal budget “with a scalpel,” but President Obama spent four times more than his predecessor. Want more? Candidate Obama promised that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” but President Obama gave at least a dozen former lobbyists top administration jobs. Candidate Obama promised us that we could view his health care deliberations openly and honestly on C-SPAN, but President Obama cut deals behind closed doors with industry lobbyists. Candidate Obama promised us that we would have at least five days to read all major legislation, but President Obama rushed through bills before members of Congress could even read them.
Candidate Obama promised us that his economic stimulus package would be targeted and pork-free, but President Obama signed a stimulus bill loaded with pork and goodies for corporate cronies. Candidate Obama railed against Wall Street greed, but President Obama cozied up to bankers as he extended and expanded their bailouts. Candidate Obama promised us that for “Every dollar that I’ve proposed [in spending], I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.” We’re still waiting to see how President Obama will cut spending to match the trillion he’s spent.
More than anything, Americans were promised jobs, but the president’s stimulus package has failed to stem our rising unemployment rate. Maybe it was unfair to expect that an administration with so little private sector experience would understand something about job creation. How many Obama Administration officials have ever had to make a payroll or craft a business plan in the private sector? How many have had to worry about not having the resources to invest and expand? The president’s big government policies have made hiring a new employee a difficult commitment for employers to make. Ask yourself if the Obama Administration has done anything to make it easier for employers to hire. Have they given us any reassurance that the president will keep taxes low and not impose expensive new regulations?
Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people.
- Sarah Palin
Now, do a History search on Duncan Hinter threads from 2007/2008 and see the exact same arguments presented.
Let Pence run for Senate against Bayh and look ahead to 2016 or 2020 — he’s young enough. He might also be reasonable VP material in 2012, but not likely — someone like Palin would probably want someone “older” and “more experienced” (ala Cheney for GWB), though she does like to buck “conventional wisdom”. Romney would potentially like Pence as a sop to conservatives, but would Pence go along?
Mike Pence can beat Obama.
Romney can’t.
By 2012, pretty much anyone except a true squish in the Romney/McCain/Graham mold could win the general election against Obama, the way he’s going.
The key is getting there.
If I had a vote and obviously I do not - Gov Palin.
Keep believing in your pipe dream.
It’s going to be Palin or Romney.
That’s the way politics works.
Romney 2012 = McCain 2008.
In other words, a waste of money.
Could you get a U.S. citizenship in 3 years IF you are passionate as I gauge you to be?
That is SUCH an excellent post! Totally agree with ya. Is there anyway to get her notes to Steele and the folks who advise Steele (who ARE they, anyway, anyone know?) and make it perfectly clear that Sarah has hit another nail on its head and driven into the heart of what needs to be done, and done QUICKLY.
Palin is our best hope to get a conservative in the WH.
Better to have someone who is both principled and adept with the media.
You may have noticed that she is getting better in those interviews if your being objective.
“Better to have someone who is both principled and adept with the media.”
...and that would be...?
She has gotten better.
She still needs less qualifiers and less commas in her statements.
And I have conveyed my #1 candidate already:
Mike Pence.
Good principled conservative but nobody outside of conservative message boards knows about him.
It’s going to be Palin or it’s going to be Romney.
That’s reality. I supported Duncan Hunter initially last election, but that was because there were no name recognition conservatives.
Palin has name recognition and is a player if she wants to get in. If not, Romney will win hands down.
Duncan Hunter was a good guy without the charisma and media savvy to rise to fame.
Mike Pence has the charisma, and he has the media savvy.
If he gets into the 2012 Presidential primaries, his speeches and his debate performances will catapult him into a high level of popularity and a high level of name recognition very, very quickly.
The “already pre-existing national name recognition before the primaries begin” argument that you’re making was made for McCain in 2008. People bought it. He got the nomination.
People always buy it.
That’s my point. It will play out again.
There are only 2 candidates with serious support and recognition...Palin and Romney.
Watch and learn.
If it played out that way again in the primaries, the general election would play out the same way again too.
That’s why someone like Mike Pence has to be promoted as the best nominee over someone like Romney.
Not a logical conclusion.
Yes it is.
“If it played out that way again in the primaries, the general election would play out the same way again too.”
The “If” is not a valid statement to prove your “thus” statement. That’s basic logic.
This is not an opinion situation. You are stating something to be true based on something that is not causally related to it.
Thus, your contention below it is not supported and invalid.
That’s clear and not up for debate.
It is apparently your opinion that there is no relationship between repeating the same 2008 primaries pattern in the 2012 primaries and correspondingly repeating the 2008 general election pattern in the 2012 general election.
However, that relationship does exist, and it exists as I have conveyed it.
Thus, your opinion is wrong, and my logic is flawless.
Give up, you might as well debate Spock.
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