Posted on 06/13/2010 8:20:54 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
A few days ago, I did a post in which I linked to an article about Sarah Palin. The article was published shortly after Palin was nominated for vice president. My purpose in citing the article was to say something about Palin and Israel. But I noticed something else in the article that I thought I’d bring up here.
In the 2000 presidential cycle, Palin was mayor of Wasilla. And she was formally with . . . whose campaign? Steve Forbes’s. I think that most people think of Palin as a “social conservative,” as indeed she is. But she’s also a raging free-marketeer — in fact, one of the most robust, full-hearted, and full-throated proponents of a free market in American politics today.
Funny that she’s so seldom described this way. Many of the “cool” Republicans disdain her. You know the type of Republican I mean: the type that wants the party to drop abortion and other icky, discomforting issues. But, if entrepreneurial capitalism’s your thing, Palin is your woman, or at least someone to appreciate. She ought to have the appreciation of the entrepreneurially minded everywhere. It’s just that some people can never forgive her for not aborting a Down-syndrome child. Believe me, I know such people (I’m sorry to say).
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Tell you something I appreciate about Palin — one more thing. In the general election of 2008, the candidates talked a lot about the home-mortgage crisis, as well they should have. And they said how evil Wall Street was — how evil the lenders were. They had hoodwinked the people and all.
But Sarah Palin did something quite unusual — she certainly did this in the vice-presidential debate. She said that the borrowers had a role to play too: something to answer for. Didn’t our parents tell us to live within our means? she said. “We need to make sure that, as individuals, we’re taking personal responsibility through all of this.”
Why do I get the feeling that once she starts rolling down the tracks nobody will be able to stop her...
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A few days ago, I did a post in which I linked to an article about Sarah Palin. The article was published shortly after Palin was nominated for vice president. My purpose in citing the article was to say something about Palin and Israel. But I noticed something else in the article that I thought I’d bring up here.
In the 2000 presidential cycle, Palin was mayor of Wasilla. And she was formally with . . . whose campaign? Steve Forbes’s. I think that most people think of Palin as a “social conservative,” as indeed she is. But she’s also a raging free-marketeer — in fact, one of the most robust, full-hearted, and full-throated proponents of a free market in American politics today.
Funny that she’s so seldom described this way. Many of the “cool” Republicans disdain her. You know the type of Republican I mean: the type that wants the party to drop abortion and other icky, discomforting issues. But, if entrepreneurial capitalism’s your thing, Palin is your woman, or at least someone to appreciate. She ought to have the appreciation of the entrepreneurially minded everywhere. It’s just that some people can never forgive her for not aborting a Down-syndrome child. Believe me, I know such people (I’m sorry to say).
P.S. I apologize to The Atlantic magazine for the gullible assumption that Palin is actually Trig’s mother. You know how in the tank we are, enchanted by Palin’s winkin’ eyes and can’t-stop comeliness.
P.P.S. Palin is what I’d call a true-blue Reaganite, a Reaganite across the board: a free-marketeer, a social conservative, and a hawk. Beautiful.
I hear that train a comin’...comin’ round the bend....mmm,mmm,mmm
‘Jane’ Nordlinger? Mr. Nordlinger has been a rare supporter of Palin, writing from Manhattan, for the last couple of years. He deserves better than that!
Steve Forbes would be the first person I’d call to ask for help turning the economy around. Larry Kudlow would be a quick second.
(((((((Palin Ping)))))))
Palin has always understood that first and foremost “it’s the economy, stupid”.
Most politicians forget this, and start engaging in sexier policy issues or politics. Not Palin, she’s like a laser on this and always has been as Mayor or Governor, and a more true conservative in the sense of letting the private sector drive growth than any conservative I have known in the recent past, including Daniels (who I like).
< /Wicked sarcasm >
As Palin stated today in a FB note energy jobs and national security are all tied together.
One couldn’t read her book & not get this about her.
Yep, She will suck the air out of all the others potentials!
Just wait till the public see the retail side of Palin’s politcs. Nobody on our side can match it.
Dang. I read “forbesian” as four-bezian...and thought it was a new kind of lesbian. I got a little exited.
My wife bought into the media attacks, Tina Fay, etc., two years ago. I bought Going Rogue, left it around the house and today she started reading it. Got a long way into it too. Has it bookmarked.
So, there’s hope others will start to realize ugliness of those who attack her.
Dude, you are high. Duncan Hunter is so going to kick Sarah’s butt in 2012.
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Palin comes close to being a libertarian, but —as the man says,—her decision to give birth to a down’s syndrome child—is regarded as an existential threat to
radical feminists. It was as if a candidate for governor of Mississippi in the 1940s was revealed to have had a black great grandnother. Never mind that he looked like a Swede, the shock to his constituents would have sunk him immediately.
I was always under the impression that Steve Forbes is/was a prolife social conservative.
I wanna see Sarah in a rematch with Perky Katy, and the other interviews, where mastery of basic geography and being clueless on the division of North Korea from South Korea was seen as not much of a resume maker.
Sarah has the cash for hiring the kingmakers now, and she’s hired them. With consultants and speech writers, she’s looking dang good, while preaching to the choir ...in the absence of a test and safely out of the line of fire from anyone. It’s my hope that she has been taken to school on basic foreign study and international politics since she is clearly not slow. Good luck to her, but a lot of us are waiting to see her field some issues that aren’t soundbites.
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