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Sarah Palin's mind-bogglingly incoherent immigration reform critique
Yahoo! News / The Week ^ | June 25, 2013 | Jeb Golinkin, Frum Forum

Posted on 06/25/2013 6:30:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Perhaps we should no longer be surprised when the former half-term Alaska governor jabs at GOP colleagues weighs in on public policy. And yet...

It's easy and tiresome to trash Sarah Palin as an uneducated embarrassment to the Republican Party (a party of which I am a member). But when the great anti-intellectual takes ridiculously simple-minded shots at Marco Rubio for supporting immigration reform, something needs to be said.

The Sunshine State News asked the former Alaska governor to comment on immigration reform. She took the opportunity to take a giant swing at Marco Rubio:

Just like they did with ObamaCare, some in Congress intend to "Pelosi" the amnesty bill. They'll pass it in order to find out what's in it. And just like the unpopular, unaffordable ObamaCare disaster, this pandering, rewarding-the-rule-breakers, still-no-border-security, special-interests-ridden, 24-pound disaster of a bill is not supported by informed Americans. [Sunshine State News] Let's take this particular pearl of vapid nonsense sentence by sentence. Right off the bat, Palin manages to set forth two incompatible premises in the same sentence. Her reference to "some in Congress" is clearly a shot at the Republicans looking to push the bill through, the most prominent being a young Tea Party star named Marco Rubio. Yet in taking that shot, Palin makes clear that immigration reform is not at all like ObamaCare in that ObamaCare was defined by the complete and total absence of bipartisan compromise, even during the negotiation phase. Immigration reform was heavily shaped by Republicans and is going to pass (assuming it passes) with multiple Republican votes.

Palin then claims that immigration reform is like ObamaCare because it is expensive. CBO actually disagrees with Palin on this particular point....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: amnesty; immigration; jebgolinkin; lawyer; palin; pravdamedia; rino; rubio; texas; zogbyism
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just like we should not be surprised when some libtard cannot even construct a gramatically correct first sentence for his article: Perhaps we should no longer be surprised when the former half-term Alaska governor jabs at GOP colleagues weighs in on public policy. Fail.
21 posted on 06/25/2013 6:44:32 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
He was still nursing in 2008.

YOU'RE RIGHT!!!


22 posted on 06/25/2013 6:45:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The problem with Obamacare was not that it was bi-partisan. It was simply terrible policy. It was also hacked together to ram through the Senate instead of worked out to make the law reform the system. The goal was never to fix anything, just like this amnesty does not aim to address the key problems. Because Rubio abandoned his voters and joined on to a Democratic wish list does not make this bi-partisan.


23 posted on 06/25/2013 6:45:35 PM PDT by ilgipper (Obama is proving that very bad ideas can be wrapped up in pretty words)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Can I kick him in the balls like a fairy?


24 posted on 06/25/2013 6:45:45 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: a fool in paradise

Hahahaha!!!


25 posted on 06/25/2013 6:46:15 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet



26 posted on 06/25/2013 6:46:27 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

(1) Is he through puberty yet?

(2) "FrumForum"? Is he aware that David Frum is 100% against the amnesty bill?

27 posted on 06/25/2013 6:46:57 PM PDT by montag813
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Perhaps we should no longer be surprised when the former half-term Alaska governor

When his first sentence rounds 32 months down to 24, you have a pretty good clue as to the integrity of the writing.

28 posted on 06/25/2013 6:47:12 PM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarians, Gays = in all marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws.)
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To: piytar

Jeb Golinkin is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and writes about U.S. politics and policy for TheWeek.com. From 2008 to 2011, he served as an editor and reporter for Frum Forum/New Majority. Email him at jgolinkin@gmail.com


29 posted on 06/25/2013 6:47:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Looking at the byline in the picture, I got the impression this boy was lighting cars on fire in LA.


30 posted on 06/25/2013 6:47:30 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

pro-gun control
pro-abortion
pro-amnesty

http://newsle.com/person/jebgolinkin/3981594

what a dupe


31 posted on 06/25/2013 6:47:57 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: ConservativeInPA

You’re assuming the kid has a pair.....I’m not so sure.


32 posted on 06/25/2013 6:48:35 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 4, 2008 and November 6, 2012.....Two days that will live in infamy!)
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To: ilgipper

Obamacare required the stealing of two seats to get the 60 Democrat senators necessary to pass it (Al Franken’s seat and the changing of the laws in Massachusetts after Ted Kennedy’s death to permit the governor to appoint his Democrat replacement).

Additionally it required the buying off of other Democrat Senators with kickbacks.

And promises about what it would or would not do were lies.

The only way to prevent something is to include it in the language of the bill as being prohibited.


33 posted on 06/25/2013 6:50:36 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

We are on the same page FRiend. :)


34 posted on 06/25/2013 6:50:51 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well then the little puke should know how to write. I'll edit this for him:

Perhaps we should no longer be surprised when the former half-term Alaska governor jabs at GOP colleagues and? or? by weighing in on?weighs in on public policy.

35 posted on 06/25/2013 6:54:48 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sheesh...are guys like this the reason why we’re going to have to build special bathrooms everywhere now?


36 posted on 06/25/2013 6:58:46 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: JSteff

I think the poster is referring to Palin...


37 posted on 06/25/2013 6:59:43 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey, is that idiot about ten years old?


38 posted on 06/25/2013 7:00:04 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Perhaps we should no longer be surprised when the former half-term Alaska governor (the first ridiculously simple-minded shot at Sarah Palin by the author) jabs at GOP colleagues weighs in on public policy. And yet...

It's easy and tiresome to trash Sarah Palin as an uneducated embarrassment to the Republican Party (the second ridiculously simple-minded shot at Sarah Palin by the author)...(a party of which I am a member). But when the great anti-intellectual (the third ridiculously simple-minded shot at Sarah Palin by the author) takes ridiculously simple-minded shots (the fourth ridiculously simple-minded shot at Sarah Palin by the author) at Marco Rubio for supporting immigration reform, something needs to be said.

Dang, four ridiculously simple-minded shots at Sarah Palin by the author in two paragraphs, who's calling whom the simple-minded one here?

39 posted on 06/25/2013 7:02:00 PM PDT by theymakemesick (Please join the corpse, please!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s Robbie from My Three Sons.


40 posted on 06/25/2013 7:08:37 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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