“That also suggests she would have supported voting FOR this bill,:
Ummm. No.
Greta: "I'm sort of curious whether the american people will not sort of take a bow, those who are tea party activists, and go back to their lives which are very busy and very full and they're worried about their own lives, or whether they are going to take this victory and move on, I don't know."It is clear that Greta believes the Tea Party should "take a bow" because of the bill that was just signed. And she wonders whether they will now GO HOME. Sarah clearly says there's a lot more work to be done. But she does NOT dispute that we just had a victory.Palin: "I think that we shall take this victory and make sure that our politicians in office today are learning from this victory, realising that it's not a 100% pure genuine victory, because realise, greta, we just handed the most liberal president, I believe in US history, a 2.4 trillion dollar debt increase, we are allowing him to increase the budget even more, and without without guaranteed cuts and without guaranteed reforms and we have to make sure that we realize that yes, this is a victory because tea party patriots did shift the debate however there is so much more work to do in order to get the economy back on the right track and to restore the exceptionalism that is America.
I don't think Sarah Palin is that hard to understand, but it never ceases to amaze me how many interpretations people here have for what she says.
She hasn't said whether she thinks we could have won a bigger victory by rejecting the bill, so you are right about that. We'll eventually know -- if she calls for primaries against "tea party" house members who voted for the bill, that would indicate she didn't support voting yes for the bill. But she didn't say anything in this interview to suggests she disagrees with the decision they made to vote for the bill, or against the bill.
She simply says that tonight conservatives should consider this a victory, not a defeat. Since we can't re-live the night with a rejection of the bill, we'll never know if she would have considered voting the bill down a victory or not.
One thing is clear -- she doesn't believe conservatives should feel shafted, or that we lost, or were screwed over by the results -- she says we "WILL TAKE THIS VICTORY" and build on it.
I don't expect to see Palin attacking West and Ryan like some people here.