He opened with a joke about her supposed book deal. “I hear Sarah Palin got a $7 million book advance, I’d take one of those if I wasn’t so busy with you all.”
He said it right after David introduced him (too glowing of a recommendation/introduction from David IMHO). It was tacky and nobody laughed.
If the GOP is to have a winning candidate in 2012, he/she has to be able to defend - articulately and with passion - free market principles.
The left thinks they’ve killed capitalism. The MSM pushes this lie. The masses don’t know what capitalism is - they just know that if it involves big banks getting trillions of dollars in bailouts, then they’re glad it’s dead.
If the left is to be pushed back, it’s going to have to be by someone who can defend free market capitalism as the only economic system consistent with human freedom. The defense is going to have to be on moral grounds. And much of what the GOP has done in past years is going to have to be repudiated.
The old guard, the McCains and Romneys and pretty much all of the congressional leadership - all of whom voted for the big banker bailout - are going to have to repudiate their votes or they’re going to have to be marginalized.
The “we had to do something” argument doesn’t cut it with me. They HAD to know better or they had no business being in their seats.
Maybe I’m wrong, but my sense is that this is the dividing line. Somebody on the right side of this issue gets my support. A candidate on the wrong side - and that includes ANYBODY who voted for or publicly supported the big banker bailout - is a no go.
Again, a lie... Never mind taking stuff out of context... You made up the second part of that!