“I’d like to hear her say she opposes the Wall Street bailout, the McCain healthcare plan, (ironically, Obama’s plan is closer to the one McCain campaigned on than the one Obama campaigned on),”
You see, that’s where some of us run into a problem with Palin and her supporters who ignore her own words.
Everyone is ‘waiting’ for her to ‘come out’ and oppose some things most of us really dislike. We’ve had dozens of threads about amnesty...no one can agree on what she says about that.
And she supports McCain’s vote on TARP.
Here is what Palin says in “Going Rogue” about the bailouts, on page 270.
“[T]he House of Representatives rejected a Bush-backed economic bailout plan in a vote in which two-thirds of Republicans voted no. The impression this made on the electorate was not helpful to our cause. Millions of Americans were poised to go bankrupt or lose their savings, and the perception was that Republicans had failed to respond.”
http://washingtonindependent.com/68578/yes-palin-backed-the-bailouts
There’s that phrase again...’our cause’...
The problem some of us have with Palin/McCain is figuring out what ‘our cause’ means. The above quote, from Palin’s book, shows she approved of McCain’s vote for TARP.
This is an interesting find AuntB. Yet in the end, enough cowardly house republicans were either bought off or intimidated to support the TARP bailout passage. What message did that send? It sent the message that Republicans (represented by the face of GWB pleading for TARP on national TV ) will cut the capital gains on “The Rich” during the boom, and then bail them out with taxpayer money during the bust. It said that anyone not a Washington-Wall street insider is a sucker.
House republicans committed political suicide by voting for TARP, and the biggest fool? Their leader John McCain who tried to claim he really opposed TARP after polls started showing it was a loser.