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Economist won't refudiate Palin endorsement
The Chicago Tribune ^ | December 3, 2010 | Robert Channick, Special to the Tribune

Posted on 12/03/2010 8:24:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 12/03/2010 9:38:48 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

In her latest book, "America by Heart," Sarah Palin knits together an eclectic list of philosophers, pop stars, Founding Fathers and politicians, invoking everyone from Plato to Juno in what many see as a platform for a potential presidential run in 2012.

No one, however, was more surprised to be on that list than Luigi Zingales, a somewhat obscure University of Chicago finance professor, whose pro-market policies and staunch defense of unfettered American capitalism were used by Palin to batter the Obama administration and set the table for her own economic priorities.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; Education; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2012; 45thpresident; economy; freepressforpalin; obama; palin; porkulus; recession; sarahpalin; tarp
She's running rings around the Democrats and RINOs while they're stuck in 2008 and "I can see Russia from my porch" or whatever nonsense it was that Tina Fey said.
1 posted on 12/03/2010 8:24:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Very flustrating.


2 posted on 12/03/2010 8:30:43 PM PST by SERKIT (TSA-Form 2 Lines: Irradiation or Humiliation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ha! She has got ‘em by the short hairs and she is twistin’ em! Too funny!


3 posted on 12/03/2010 8:34:41 PM PST by Mr. Jazzy (God bless the United States of America and protect her from the enemies of freedom.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>they’re stuck in 2008 and “I can see Russia from my porch”

Heh. Democrats don’t have knowledge or wisdom or God, so they ridicule endlessly.

2012 will hit them like a mack truck.


4 posted on 12/03/2010 8:36:40 PM PST by ROTB (Sans Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia when we finally revolt.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow. I’m pretty up on my anti-conventional-wisdom economists and even I’m not familiar with this guy. Very impressive.


5 posted on 12/03/2010 8:38:17 PM PST by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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......Sarah Palin knits together an eclectic list of philosophers, pop stars, Founding Fathers and politicians, invoking everyone from Plato to Juno in what many see as a platform for a potential presidential run in 2012.......

Well said and so true. I was stunned at the number and range of the
References she used in her book.


6 posted on 12/03/2010 8:40:41 PM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: UB355

The left has no idea what is about to hit them.


7 posted on 12/03/2010 8:49:57 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ah a REAL University of Chicago professor, unlike Obama


8 posted on 12/03/2010 9:22:17 PM PST by TXConservative25
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They probably wanted the economist to “refudiate” Sarah Palin. Probably a bit miffed that he did not do so.


9 posted on 12/03/2010 9:26:11 PM PST by Moorings
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"Economist Won't Refudiate Palin Endorsement"

Great new word, "refudiate", LOL.

A cross between "repudiate" and "refute", I presume. Did Sarah invent it?

Shakespeare like to coin new words, too.

Leni

10 posted on 12/03/2010 9:30:21 PM PST by MinuteGal
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Yes and it was named New Oxford American Dictionary's new word of the year.

Sarah Palin’s ‘Refudiate’ Named Word of the Year

11 posted on 12/03/2010 9:53:06 PM PST by t-dude (Sarah causes banal and vituperous evil snarks to shriek in horror!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I got refudiated once. It required 3 days of bed rest before I felt like myself again.


12 posted on 12/03/2010 9:57:47 PM PST by vigilo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I saw him iterviewed on Fox News. He was pleased as punch and quite surprised to learn that Sarah Palin has quoted him in her book but he said that she got it right.


13 posted on 12/03/2010 10:11:10 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: TXConservative25

Well, his career at the University of Chicago is finished.

Or at least his social life there is.


14 posted on 12/04/2010 1:07:48 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: ROTB
"(The Democrats).......ridicule endlessly"

They've been trying to do to Sarah what they did to Dan Quayle and it ain't workin' this time around!

Leni

15 posted on 12/04/2010 6:18:16 AM PST by MinuteGal
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So what you’re saying is that Sarah could have been Shakespeare? If only she decided to apply her talents in that direction probably.

Why can’t she just be allowed to admire people like The Bard or The Gipper, instead of us having to say she is better than them?


16 posted on 12/04/2010 8:18:58 AM PST by drubyfive
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To: drubyfive
Your take on my lighthearted post is so incomprehensively twisted that I can only say "out, out, damned spot."

Leni

17 posted on 12/04/2010 8:31:03 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

18 posted on 12/04/2010 7:05:24 PM PST by Diogenesis ('Freedom is the light of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
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