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Sarah Palin, Forbesian
Nation Review ^ | Sunday June 13, 2010 | Jane Nordlinger

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economy; elections; forbes; freemarket; freetrade; nationalreview; nordlinger; obama; palin; reagan; reaganomics; sarahpalin; srahpalin; steveforbes
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1 posted on 06/13/2010 8:20:54 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

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.”


2 posted on 06/13/2010 8:23:13 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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Why do I get the feeling that once she starts rolling down the tracks nobody will be able to stop her...


3 posted on 06/13/2010 8:30:30 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative ("I would rather be hated and be a pain in their side than hated and act classy".. me)
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Sarah Palin, Forbesian [Jay Nordlinger]

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.


4 posted on 06/13/2010 8:32:40 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

I hear that train a comin’...comin’ round the bend....mmm,mmm,mmm


5 posted on 06/13/2010 8:33:33 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: Bigtigermike

‘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!


6 posted on 06/13/2010 8:34:36 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Bigtigermike

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.


7 posted on 06/13/2010 8:35:07 PM PDT by onona (dbada)
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To: rodguy911; Canedawg; TexasCajun; Brices Crossroads; free me; justsaynomore; ...

(((((((Palin Ping)))))))


8 posted on 06/13/2010 8:35:13 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: Bigtigermike

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).


9 posted on 06/13/2010 8:36:06 PM PDT by militanttoby
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To: Bigtigermike; rabscuttle385; mkjessup; VRWC For Truth; stephenjohnbanker
Well Mike, apparently you didn't get the memo.
Palin's support for McCain pretty much nullifies any presidential aspirations she has, and voids her 16 years of accomplishments in public office.
Now let's just shut up and support one of the other potential Republican candidates, whom I sure have used Facebook to speak out against the corrupt Obama administration, have picked winning conservative candidates in primary elections, and can rally conservatives at the drop of a dime.

< /Wicked sarcasm >

10 posted on 06/13/2010 8:36:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: militanttoby

As Palin stated today in a FB note energy jobs and national security are all tied together.


11 posted on 06/13/2010 8:41:17 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: militanttoby

One couldn’t read her book & not get this about her.


12 posted on 06/13/2010 8:42:25 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

Yep, She will suck the air out of all the others potentials!


13 posted on 06/13/2010 8:43:40 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

Just wait till the public see the retail side of Palin’s politcs. Nobody on our side can match it.


14 posted on 06/13/2010 8:45:14 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: Bigtigermike

Dang. I read “forbesian” as four-bezian...and thought it was a new kind of lesbian. I got a little exited.


15 posted on 06/13/2010 9:10:16 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: anniegetyourgun

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.


16 posted on 06/13/2010 9:30:17 PM PDT by namvolunteer (End American communism in our lifetimes)
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To: Bigtigermike

Dude, you are high. Duncan Hunter is so going to kick Sarah’s butt in 2012.

/s


17 posted on 06/13/2010 9:35:03 PM PDT by rae4palin (RESIST--REPEAL--IMPEACH)
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To: militanttoby

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.


18 posted on 06/13/2010 9:36:42 PM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: Bigtigermike

I was always under the impression that Steve Forbes is/was a prolife social conservative.


19 posted on 06/13/2010 9:44:28 PM PDT by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
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To: mamelukesabre

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.


20 posted on 06/13/2010 9:48:30 PM PDT by RitaOK
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