That would certainly be a wild misstatement of what she said. I saw some of those threads a little earlier, and from the quotes being provided, it was clear those headlines were false — but I never got to post to any of those threads because they were all pulled.
This thread provided the video (although some of us missed the video posted at the link until it was pointed out — thanks to the freeper who let me know that privately), so it’s a good one to talk about what she actually said.
I’ve done a partial transcript, but I’m hoping there will be a complete transcript posted so we don’t get into an argument over the actual words.
I would argue that she thinks we could have done better, that there are bad things in this bill, but that “on the whole” she see this bill, and the entire process, to be a victory for the tea party patriots.
I also don’t believe she thinks West and Ryan sold us out, she certainly hasn’t said that and we know she will speak her mind.
I’m kind of sorry to be in this thread, because I see that there are a lot of frayed nerves from the earlier posts, so it makes it hard now to argue that she did speak somewhat positively about things, to those who think she was more opposed to it.
I don’t think she thinks we should be discouraged, or feel like we lost. Another poster said she was just trying to make us feel better, but I think it’s more than that, I think she thinks we SHOULD feel better.
I don’t think Sarah would tell us we should take a victory, if she thought it was a defeat.
partial victory. THAT is where the rubber meets the road here.
Greta was the one who said that the Tea Party was victorious because they changed the discussion in Washington. Palin agreed with only that (lame) point being a victory.
Palin went on to criticize the bill. She criticized the increase in the debt ceiling, she said that there were no spending cuts and she said that there was no entitlement reform.