Posted on 07/10/2010 2:40:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
To her great credit, Sarah Palin is absolutely right on target in her insistence on maintaining a strong defense. Yesterday's Washington Post featured a little report about how Palin is "waging a battle inside the "tea party" movement to exempt defense spending from the group's small-government, anti-deficit fervor." Good for her. The GOP Class of 1994 in Congress had too many members who did the same thing Palin warns against: letting their admirable enthusiasm for lower deficits/balanced budgets get in the way of a commitment to putting national defense first. Palin rightly warns against abandoning the central part of the Reagan belief system that insisted that freedom at home is dependent on a strong, unmatched military -- firmly under civilian control, of course, and fully answerable to the need for efficiency and effectiveness, but not subject to arbitrary budget limits.(continued)
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Good catch.
It’s not the defense spending bills, it’s the add ons costing billions that have nothing to do with defense.
We must promote bills that are clean and without pork.
I personally thought she did well with her no-nonsense and pretty much, self-explanatory plan for securing the border as "Whatever it takes!"
And with regards to what she believes would be the best solution for the millions of illegals, I am "SATISFIED" with her retort that "YOU DON'T REWARD THEM FOR THEIR HAVING BROKEN OUR LAWS," and jobs should "First and foremost, go to American citizen."
That and agreeing with Bill that they should be forced to register would probably create a climate which would lead to self deportation.
SHEESH! What more do the Palin detractors want?
WHICH POL, DEM OR REPUB HAS EVEN SUGGESTED ANYTHING EVEN CLOSELY MORE SPECIFIC THAN THAT? Oh yeah, I forget, the old saw of "Comprehensive Reform," whatever that means other than being a code word for "Amnesty!"
As an aside, while Dana Perino tried valiantly to defend her former Pro-Shamnesty, RINO boss, Bush, in the end, she made a fool of herself when she could not articulate his wishy-washy "must go to the end of the line" proposal.
Palin did well. O’Reilly has gone too far for me. Somewhere along the line O’Reilly seemed to make the decision that if the winds were really blowing hard left he would play along to make sure that O’Reilly still survived and got some interviews . . . I’m series. Or O’Reilly really is just fascistic and doesn’t really care about limited government.
The thing about strong national defense that Sarah seems to understand, and that the other dopes don’t, is that the enemy has landed and seized the capital.
Dana Perino continues to defend Jorge Bush and promote Myth Romney. She is definitely NOT a Palin supporter and her comments should be taken with a truckload of salt.
It is unfortunate that others go wandering off into the irrelevant.
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Perino is pleasant to look upon but really was pretty much a non-entity in the WH. She is worth bringig to an Estblishment Chadonnay party and looking at while her soothing voice says nothing of not politically.
On the other hand, Palin has been taking on the Leftist Obama or his entire Presidency, in hard and strategic assaults against Big Govt Leftism.
I'm parallel, glad to meet you.
Good point!
Yes it is. Sarah understands the relationship between civilian-military leadership. As you know being Gov. Sarah has experience in this area.
I’ve noticed a lot of shifting going on.
The Tea Party is no longer a target of dismissive media disgust. More and more media outlets are actually taking the movement seriously.
Palin, as well, is (it seems) increasingly taken seriously, both as a political force and as an actual, real, honest-to-goodness non-Tina-Fey-stereotype political mover and shaker.
I think the Left is very nervous right now. Some of the more perceptive among them have started thinking that they may have tried to do too much too fast and have “awakened the sleeping giant.”
It’s up to us to prove them correct.
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