[rabscuttle385]

[rabscuttle385]

Real “toughness” might include not just using the same old Bush jargon, but a serious cost/benefit analysis of the U.S.’s habit of putting soldiers in harm’s way halfway around the globe for no discernible reason—while just mindlessly assuming our government has America’s best interests at heart.

Above all, real conservative “toughness” might require a real questioning of government at all levels. Unfortunately, conservatives whose attachment to the warfare state remains every bit as passionate as liberals’ attachment to the welfare state, continue to prove they have no serious intention of dismantling big government–only making noise about it.

DUH!

[Man50D]

Palin on Amnesty:

As governor, how do you deal with them? Do you think they all should be deported?
There is no way that in the US we would roundup every illegal immigrant -there are about 12 million of the illegal immigrants- not only economically is that just an impossibility but that's not a humane way anyway to deal with the issue that we face with illegal immigration.

Do you then favor an amnesty for the 12 or 13 million undocumented immigrants?
No, I do not. I do not. Not total amnesty. You know, people have got to follow the rules. They've got to follow the bar, and we have got to make sure that there is equal opportunity and those who are here legally should be first in line for services being provided and those opportunities that this great country provides.

To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?
I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country.

Palin is parsing words. She is trying to appear against amnesty while allowing illegal aliens to remain in this country. The existing rules per the Federal Immigration and Nationality act require illegals to be deported but Palin doesn't like thos rules so she wants to ignore them. Also, what of all the thousands of foreigners waiting to enter this country legally? They suddenly would get pushed to the back of the line with Palin's approach. She couldn't be more disingenuous.

[J40000]

Sarah is NOT the ‘same old Republican Party’!!

She is what they SHOULD be.

[dirtboy]

I see your true Paultard streak is coming out here, Rabs.

[mnehring]

Conservatives as thoughtful as columnist George Will and as bombastic as radio host Michael Savage have asked recently if American dollars and lives are worth spending in Afghanistan. But for Palin, still, there is no question.

Talk about Clinton-esque waffling. At least Palin is consistent, these guys jump from side to side on the issue depending on whatever is popular at the time. I guess you can say they were for it before they were against it? Where have we heard that before?

[kabar]

Today, defense spending remains the largest part of the federal budget, dwarfing the bailouts, stimulus, healthcare, and other government programs that offend tea partiers most

Simply not true. Annual defense spending is smaller than any of the others and the entitlement programs make up almost half of the federal budget and the number is increasing every year as the baby boomers retire. The entitlement programs represent an unfunded liability of almost $60 trillion.

[rsflynn]

Talk about going off the deep end. You sound like a Pat Pukecannon isolationist. Why don’t you go post this crapola over at HuffPo where it belongs.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I see the “palaeos” have discovered another “fat Zionist.”

[roses of sharon]

This Hunter guy needs to study up on the Federal Budget and military spending.

[junta]

Simple Pentagon good, Department of whateverelse bad.

[McGruff]

Read my tagline.

[LIBERTARIAN JOE]

One tea party event was enough to make me give up on them. The first half of the show was pretty good - one speaker after another trashing gov't spending & taxes.

The second half sucked - one speaker after another praising GW Bush (best president mexico ever had!), his limitless spending and his endless wars.

As far as Palin goes, I didn't like some of the things she was saying during the campaign... she seemed weak on immigration and very pro-war, but I was willing to cut her some slack because I figured she was just parroting McCain's positions. I don't even hold it against her for endorsing McCain - you dance with the one who brought you. He put her on the national stage and she's grateful to him for doing so.

Unfortunately, it's starting to look like she shares the same foreign policy outlook as GWB, McCain and obama - the idiotic neocon BS belief that the US has the right to intervene in the affairs of any nation (as long as it's weak and seemingly defenseless), anywhere, any time and for any reason.

Lest we all forget, she was one half of the GOP presidential ticket that was advocating military confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia over an event taking place on their border, of no strategic interest to the US, and on the wrong damn side too!

[Monorprise]

They should rename it the southern national convention.

A movement for liberty should not be a centralized movement, but rather one that advocates each individual people’s of the united States desire for more liberty.

That means in liberal pro-drug states they should be nullying drug laws. In Conservative pro-gun and pro-life states they should be nulling gun laws and nullying the Federal Roe v. wade. And everything in between!

The Very idea of Liberty is not a uniform homogeneous consent, it is different to each of us, and it speaks in the very simple language of decentralized power.
We need not agree on how to uses that power, indeed that is the whole point! we don’t and will never fully agree on that.

We should not even try, for trying is to compromise where we do not need to compromise!

In truth only “compromise” we need make is to leave each other alone so that we can each best pursue our own happiness. That should be our one and only Federal policy, as any other policy forces us to compromise more then necessary.

To this same end we need not a signal political party, but rather we should utilizes BOTH political party’s where they are willing to help us. We are a movement of people pursue our own happiness, not a political party.

Liberty is not something that has an identical image for every man,woman and child. Indeed the very nature of liberty defy that cookie cutter image because the very nature of individuals are different form each other.

Liberty is that which WE define and choose for ourselves, and our own communities. We should not and need not agree on theses things because we are not all the same person!

[rintense]

A Truther, Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin supporter?

Why do you post this crap?

[Lakeshark]

It's hard to imagine why you would post something from this source.

Such sophomoric crap, something only an undergrad might believe.

[editor-surveyor]

Hunter is a total nut case!

I thought that we wern’t supposed to post his crap here?

[DakotaRed]

Well well, I see the anti-liberty Libertarians are still hard on in bashing Mrs. Palin.

Little wonder Paulies couldn’t get their boy to move beyond single digit support in real polls.

Jack Hunter needs to get a life.

Paul is going nowhere and just may be soon out of his seat as well.

[N. Theknow]

Remembrances of the gracious Southern Ladies of Charleston, SC serving Oleander tea.

[Melian]

Palin has something most politicians don’t have: a down to earth attitude and a real understanding of the American people.