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).
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.
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.