Posted on 03/17/2010 7:46:25 AM PDT by MaxCUA
THE ISSUE: Whether presidential candidates today have character, as their predecessors did. In looking for a president with the character of Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan, Ralph Peters asks, "Will we ever again have a president who didn't go to an Ivy League school, who knows what it's like to struggle -- as so many Americans struggle every day -- and who's tasted defeat, but got back in the ring with his dukes up?" ("Why Our 'Post-Modern Presidents' Fail,").
The answer is "yes." Her name is Sarah Palin. etc...
(Excerpt) Read more at citizenpalin4president.blogspot.com ...
The adults have already snickered at you.
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Man you are a tough one. I won’t sleep tonight.
Once again, I don't have a problem with Palin. I have a problem with people like you who don't live in the real world. I thought conservatives were supposed to be realists.
Who have I missed?
Lady Gaga.
I see the 'hidden agenda' crowd is out tonight...LOL.
The person you responded to is a Mitch Daniels supporter...or he/she is an ObamaBOT. Not sure which.
Interesting that he/she is so active bashing Palin supporters recently. Yesterday (coincidentally, wink wink), an article on 2012 GOP prospects in the "Daily Beast" anointed Daniels as "The Man to Watch", while calling Mitt Romney "Tanned, Rested, Rich, Ready, Re-loaded, and Re-Branded".
They called Sarah Palin "Most Likely to Replace Oprah." LOLOL.
The article was written by David Axelrod's BFF Mark McKinnon. McKinnon and Axelrod worked together in the '90s here in Houston and as 'the Beast' said, "McKinnon and Axelrod remain the closest: 'There the bond developed and never broke,' says McKinnon."
Like I say, maybe he/she is a true Team Bush/Romney/Daniels guy. Maybe an ObamaBOT. We'll see but I don't believe much in coincidences. One thing for sure, the Left and its organs like The Daily Beast are hard at work pickin' GOP candidates again and they're getting plenty of help here.
Gawd you went to so much trouble for all that drivel. Daniels is the Governor of my state, so I chimed in on him. I also didn’t give him a clean bill of health, not that that would matter to a bot.
Is Palin your Governor? Are you from Alaska?
I am having trouble finding where you point out my Romney support. Never mind. Insanity rules in the posse.
Keep your kookiness to yourself. You are getting boring.
“Palin is what Reagan could only aspire to being. Real.’
Agreed. There is nothing more real in this world than sports broadcasters with an anemic GPA from six colleges.
“Reagan’s chosen career was acting, remember. He did a truly amazing job to put fantasy behind him...”
Agreed. Putting “Bedtime for Bonzo” behind him took everything he had. Me too.
“...still Palin would REALLY RIF — reduce the Federal government...”
Like she did in Wasilla AND Alaska. She left Wasilla in debt and all the Federal earmarks she denied in Alaska don’t equal the money she took for the brige to no where, you know, when she was against if after she was for it.
“...and Palin would have never run from Beirut.”
I see. Now you’re calling Reagan a pussy. I thought Palin was Reagan reincarnated?
“Palin also wouldn’t have us playing footsie with the ‘right-wing’ nacroistas against the Sandistas.”
What are “Sandistas”?
Time to take a break or I’ll be in another time out..or worse.
You're lying about her record again, Bob. Cut it out.
I've never complained to management about you, Bob, but if you don't stop lying about her record that's gonna change.
“nacroistas”
And what is that? Is it ike a “necroista”?
So your saying she didn’t keep the 250-400 million Congress gave Alaska for the “BTNW”? Seems to me I read where it was deposited into the general highway fund never to be seen again.
If Palin was against it she should have returned the money to the other 49 state taxpayers no matter when it came into Alaska.
From Wiki;
“The controversy began with the 2006 National Appropriations Bill. This was an omnibus spending bill covering transportation, housing, and urban development for the next year. On October 20, 2005, H.R. 3058 [109th] act’s first version passed with 93 votes for, 1 against.[9]
On October 21, 2005, Sen Tom Coburn (R-OK) offered an amendment to remove funds for the Gravina Island and Knik Arm bridges, and divert the funds to rebuild a bridge over Lake Pontchartrain that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska became the object of strong media criticism when he strongly opposed diverting the Gravina and Knik Arm Bridge funds to help in the disaster aid.[10] In his speech on the Senate floor, Stevens threatened to quit Congress if the funds were removed from his state.[11] On November 16, 2005, Congress stripped the specific earmark allocation of federal funds for the two bridges in the final edition of the omnibus spending bill, without changing the amount of money allocated for use by Alaska.[3][12][13] The Coburn Amendment was defeated with a heavy bipartisan majority, 82-15 in opposition.[14]
On September 20, 2006, Sarah Palin visited Ketchikan on her gubernatorial campaign and said the bridge was essential for the town’s prosperity.[15]In September 2006, during her campaign for Governor, Sarah Palin visited Ketchikan to express her support for the Gravina Island Bridge project. At a public forum, Palin held up a pro-bridge t-shirt designed by a Ketchikan artist, Mary Ida Henrikson. The legend on the shirt was “Nowhere Alaska 99901”, referencing the buzzword of “Bridge to Nowhere” and the primary zip code of Ketchikan. In her public comments, referring to her own residence in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, she said: “OK, you’ve got Valley trash standing here in the middle of nowhere. I think we’re going to make a good team as we progress that bridge project” in response to an insult expressed by the state Senate president, Ben Stevens.[15]
In October 2006, when asked, “Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?”, she answered: “Yes. I would like to see Alaska’s infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now – while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.”[16] Later that month, at a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Wasilla, Alaska, Democratic candidate Tony Knowles criticized Palin for supporting the Knik Arm Bridge, the Gravina Island Bridge, and a road north out of Juneau instead of rebuilding the Parks Highway. The Ketchikan Daily News noted that, of the gubernatorial candidates, “Only Palin is consistent in support all of the projects”.[17][18][19][20][21]
During her inaugural address on December 4, 2006, Governor Palin pledged responsible spending.[22] On January 17, 2007, she sent a revised budget to the president of the Alaska Senate that would restrict capital spending and rescinded the $185M state share of the bridge funding.[23]
In August 2007, Alaska’s Department of Transportation stated that it was “leaning” toward alternative ferry options, citing bridge costs and the reluctance of Governor Palin to pay the state’s match to the appropriated federal funds.[24] A month later, in September 2007, Palin formally canceled the project.[25][26][27] Palin stated:
Ketchikan desires a better way to reach the airport, but the $398 million bridge is not the answer. Despite the work of our congressional delegation, we are about $329 million short of full funding for the bridge project, and it’s clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island. Much of the public’s attitude toward Alaska bridges is based on inaccurate portrayals of the projects here. But we need to focus on what we can do, rather than fight over what has happened.[28][29]
Asked why she initially supported the bridge, Palin’s communications director Bill McAllister said, “It was never at the top of her priority list, and in fact the project isn’t necessarily dead … there’s still the potential for improved ferry service or even a bridge of a less costly design”. She changed her mind, he said, when “she saw that Alaska was being perceived as taking from the country and not giving”.[30]
The city of Ketchikan has already begun to develop roads and a small amount of infrastructure for Gravina Island’s 50 inhabitants. However, residents continue to seek funding for the Ketchikan-Gravina span.[31]
[edit] 2008 campaign issue
On August 29, 2008, when introduced as Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s running mate, Governor Palin told the crowd: “I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere” — a line that garnered big applause but upset political leaders in Ketchikan. Palin’s campaign coordinator in the city, Republican Mike Elerding, remarked, “She said ‘thanks but no thanks,’ but they kept the money.” Ketchikan’s Democratic Mayor Bob Weinstein also criticized Palin for using the term bridge to nowhere, which she had said was insulting when she was in favor of the bridge.[32]
Although Palin was originally a main proponent of the bridge, McCain–Palin television advertisements since September claim that Palin “stopped the Bridge to Nowhere”.[33][34] Howard Kurtz called this a “whopper”, writing: “She endorsed the remote project while running for governor in 2006, claimed to be an opponent only after Congress killed its funding the next year and has used the $223 million provided for it for other state ventures.”[33] These claims have been widely questioned or described as misleading in several newspapers across the political spectrum.”
You’re right, I was wrong. It was 223 million that was never returned to the US taxpayers.
Palin canned the project because she didn’t want to spend the matching funds out of the Alaska budget...she could care less about the taxpayers in the lower 48.
So, Palin canceled the project because she didn’t want to pony up any Alaskan sheckles for it AND after it became a political hot football, then stole the 233 million advanced from the US taxpayer. How much to did she cut out of the Alaska budget the two years she was Governor before, you know, resigning?
Tis is what bugs me. Alaska is so rich in it’s natural resources and the royalties they generate, it has NO INCOME TAX, NO SALES TAX, does abyone know if they have a property tax?
Not only that, they have so much ectra cash lying arounf hey can afford to give EACH AND EVERYRESIDENT a check, every year in the amount of 1000-3000.
WHY DOES ALASKA GET ONE RED CENT FROM THE TAXPAYERS OF THE OTHER 49 STATES? We send Alaska hundreds of millions of dollars in support via earmarks, federal spending projects and “assistance” to the indiginous Inuit tribes and their politicians are writing checks to voters to buy support.
The economics of Alaska is a fantasy land and it nor the actions of it’s Governors can be compared in any rational way to way the rest of us “real americans” have to operate. Talking about or comparing Palin’s economic policies in Alaska to any other politician is like comparing Midas to Oliver Twist.
The Palinsistas are furiously thumbing through their copies of Going Rogue to find the “truth” about my statements.
I think I’ve seriously gone over the “time out” deadlne, buh bye.
Dear eska, perhaps you can address some of BobJ’s concerns.
God?
Turn on Hannity. Palin is on there. Actually this is a nice serious interview with her.
Before I respond further, please provide a link to the Wiki article you quote and specifically as it pertains to your WaPo/CNN buddy Howard Kurtz, I need a link to footnotes 32-34.
I keep referring to state of Alaska info and reputable journalists like Matthew Continetti at 'The Weekly Standard' who have interviewed Alaska state officials not related to Palin. You use Alaska bloggers and Howard Kurtz. I think I get it...LOLOL.
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