Sarah Palin Blasts Obama's Handling of Egypt (Obama handing over Egypt to Muslim Brotherhood)

Sarah Palin blasted the Obama administration's handling of the Egypt crisis on Saturday in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.

"This is that 3 a.m. White House phone call, and it seems for many of us trying to get that information from our leader in the White House, it seems that that call went right to the answering machine."

Palin's reference to a 3 a.m. phone call referred to the 2008 bruising primary battle between now-President Obama and now-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over responsiveness to unexpected foreign policy crises.

In the CBN interview, which was conducted Friday immediately following Palin's speech in honor of President Ronald Reagan's 100 birthday but aired Saturday night, the former Alaska governor questioned who might lead Egypt after President Hosni Mubarak if he were to resign.

“The Republican insiders (RINOs) always go after conservative challengers to their candidates with accusations about “not offering solutions” or “not getting things done.”” ~ Nextrush

Case in point for the dufus’ and trolls among us:

The Limbaugh Rule Rules the Day: It’s Washington vs. The Rest of Us
September 15, 2010
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091510/content/01125106.member.html

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RUSH: Well, it looks like a lot of voters in Delaware employed the Limbaugh Rule. You got a conservative on the ballot you vote “yes,” period.

[]Anyway, great to have you here. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Full three hours of broadcast excellence straightaway.

It’s a fun day; it’s an interesting day; it’s a great day, and it is shaping up here as what we’ve always known is going on. It’s Washington versus the country. It really is Washington versus the country. I can’t tell you, my e-mail started going nuts last night with Karl Rove appearing on Sean Hannity. If you didn’t hear it — and, by the way, a lot to say here and I’m going to try to keep it somewhat organized, but the brain neurons are firing all over the place here. Remember the argument was, “We gotta support Castle. We gotta support Castle because we need 51 seats in the Senate. It’s all that matters. We gotta get 51 seats. We gotta get the majority. We gotta get 51 seats.” Okay, now we have a Republican Senate candidate in New Hampshire, and the 51-seat argument is gone?

Last night word got out the national Republican senatorial campaign wasn’t gonna fund her. They don’t like the Tea Party; don’t like Christine O’Donnell. “She’s on her own now. I mean, you gave her to us, you take care of her. She wants to get elected she can handle it herself.” That’s what was coming out last night. Cornyn put out a statement saying, No, no, no, no, no, that’s not true. We congratulate Christine O’Donnell. “I personally as the committee’s chairman — strongly stand by all of our Republican nominees, including Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. I reached out to Christine this morning, and as I have conveyed to all of our nominees, I offered her my personal congratulations and let her know that she has our support. This support includes a check for $42,000 — the maximum allowable donation that we have provided to all of our nominees — which the NRSC will send to her campaign today.”

Now, last night they weren’t going to do this. Now, it’s not that they slept on it and they got over their mad. They know they’re facing an uprising. They know that if they don’t fund Christine O’Donnell they’re not going to get any money from anybody. But it doesn’t matter ‘cause, my friends, if each of you just sent Christine O’Donnell a dollar, if each of you just sent every Tea Party candidate a dollar, we wouldn’t need the NRSC, we wouldn’t need the RNC, we wouldn’t need the Congressional Campaign Committee in the House for the Republicans, if you sent her a dollar. It’s up to you. I mean I’m not a fundraiser here. But it is interesting to watch all this play out, because the sides are definitely showing themselves now: Washington versus the rest of the country. But this argument going into the elections, “We gotta get 51 seats. Castle’s the only way. We gotta get 51 seats.” Now they don’t care about having 51 seats. Now what difference does it make who’s in the 51st seat? Getting the majority is important. What does it matter? I mean they didn’t care that it was Castle in the seat. Now all of a sudden they care that it’s O’Donnell in the seat? Why? Because it’s Washington versus the rest of the country.

Here’s the audio sound bites of Rove last night. I watched it. I was saying to myself, “If he had just gotten this mad at Democrats during the Bush administration, why, who knows how things would be different today.” Karl has admitted that one of his mistakes was not defending Bush against all these insane, stupid, slanderous, libelous attacks against Bush for eight years. But I’ve never heard Karl so animated against a Democrat as he was against Christine O’Donnell last night. He appeared with Hannity who said: “I think there’s a battle going on, what we define as the establishment, talking about Dana Perino and Stuart Varney that were on earlier in the show, those that are taking strong conservative views. I mean Mike Castle’s one of the seven or eight Republicans in the House that voted for cap and trade, he’s not pro-life. You have the establishment over the years, look who they’ve backed: Arlen Specter, Charlie Christ, Murkowski. They didn’t support Rand Paul, Sharron Angle. There seems to be a schism here, seems to be a divide.

ROVE: One thing that Christine O’Donnell is now going to have to answer in the general election that she didn’t in the primary is her own checkered background. I met her. I wasn’t, frankly, impressed as her, you know, abilities as a candidate. And again, these serious questions about how did she make her living? Why did she mislead voters about her college education? How come it took her nearly two decades to pay her college bills so she could get her college degree? How did she make a living?
RUSH: They never ask these questions about Democrats. Everybody I know that saw this were just perplexed, they couldn’t figure it out. What’s going on? Why is he so mad at a Republican? Where was this anger directed at a Democrat ever? And it continued. Hannity said, “I disagree, Karl. I don’t see it this way.”

[]ROVE: This was about Mike Castle’s bad votes. It does conservatives little good to support candidates who at the end of the day, while they may be conservative in their public statements, do not advance the characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character that the voters are looking for. And we’ll see how she could answer these questions. I’m for the Republican, but we were looking at eight to nine seats in the Senate. We’re now looking at seven to eight. This is not a race we’re going to be able to win.

RUSH: We’re gonna throw in the towel here? By the way, yesterday she was down 25. Today she’s down 16. In some polls she’s only down 11. She just needs to make up half of that. But why not fight for it? Why not fight for it? You know, Castle is okay as the 51st vote, but this woman isn’t with her character problems and her rectitude problems? For crying out loud, when did we ever hear about the character of Ted Kennedy? When do we ever hear about, for God’s sakes, the character of Barack Obama? He is destroying our country. Single-handedly and with the help of his party he is destroying the very job creation that leads to prosperity in this country. Joe Biden, our current vice president, is a known plagiarist. We’re talking about Christine O’Donnell’s baggage, where is this criticism of Democrats? Where has it been? What is so sacrosanct about showing respect to them and eating our own? And who’s to say that she can’t be the 51st seat? If 51 seats was really the objective, if getting that majority is really that important, then let’s go balls to the wall for Christine O’Donnell. But, no, no, no, we’re not going to do that because for some reason we don’t want Christine O’Donnell to be the 51st vote. Some Republicans do not want her to be the 51st vote.

So it’s Washington versus the country. Karl is talking about the rectitude of character when talking about the Biden seat? Can we talk about the character of Harry Reid and some land deals over the course of his time? For crying out loud, the rectitude of character, John Kerry? Yesterday we had Castle saying he talked to Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, and she said, “Beware of these people,” meaning the Tea Party. “And it was really a shame. It was really, really a big shame out there because so many Democrat senators respected Lisa Murkowski.” Is that our objective here? Charlie Rangel just won. He wins the nomination and the all-but-guaranteed seat which means that he, Charlie Rangel and his scandals will not go away. Pelosi will have either to drain the swamp or swamp the drain, one of the two things she’s going to have to do. Can we talking about rectitude of character for Charlie Rangel? The Republicans are training both barrels on Christine O’Donnell. You know, a lot of people over the years have been suspicious of the motivations of establishment Republicans, and it is becoming clear that those suspicions were valid. Here’s what Christine O’Donnell said today on Good Morning America. George Stephanopoulos said to her, “Karl Rove was on Fox News, very tough talking about your checkered background, saying some nutty things. Can you answer those questions?”

O’DONNELL: Everything that he’s saying is unfactual. He’s the same so-called political guru that predicted I wasn’t gonna win, and we won, and we won big. He’s eating some humble pie. My Republican opponent did not have a record to stand on. He supported the Democrats more than he supported the Republicans, and when we started gaining momentum and we started gaining credibility in this race, it made the Republican establishment look like lazy people who did not care about their principles. But I hope that we can put that behind this, because if they’re really serious about winning — I was ahead in the general election, according to Rasmussen before this Republican cannibalism started — so if they’re serious about winning, we could repair the damage done and move forward and that’s the challenge that I put out to them.
[]RUSH: That’s a legitimate question that she’s got, “If they’re serious about winning.” I mean they couldn’t wait to win with Castle. And one thing Karl said last night on the Hannity show, he said, “Sean, you keep making my point. This election is all about Castle.” Well, so? Castle is unqualified. He’s a fraud. He’s not a conservative. Mike Castle is not gonna lift one finger to reverse the direction this country’s headed. The vast majority of the American people want it reversed and yesterday, and they are going to support people who say they’re going to do this. They’ve been around long enough to learn that conservative rhetoric in a campaign isn’t enough anymore. They’re gonna look at voting records. I mean the same people that told us we had to support Crist said we had to go with Castle. The same people that said we had to support McCain, we have to support Castle. Every person they tell us we have to support is a dud, is a loser. They said Scott Brown doesn’t have a chance. Don’t waste any money on Scott Brown.

The same people that told us we had to go with Charlie Crist told us we had to go with Mike Castle. The same people told us we had to go with Arlen Specter told us we had to go with Mike Castle. The same people who told us we had to go with McCain told us we had to go with Mike Castle. The same people that told us we had to support Dede Scozzafava told us we had to support Mike Castle. The same people who told us that we have to love the two female RINOs in Maine told us we have to go with Mike Castle. The same people who told us, “Oh, it’s a shame that Chris Shays is out of there, we have to have Republicans in the northeast,” told us we had to go with Mike Castle. As I said all along that what this is about is the Republicans, conservatives taking back the Republican Party. And that’s the process. Here’s the bottom line, folks. When they told us we had to support all these people, if they won, we did. When Specter won, we got in line, we were loyal. Okay, the party, the party. We supported somebody that opposed Specter, but Specter wins, we got in line. Now look at the petulant attitude, these people, “Well, screw you, Christine O’Donnell wins, she’s on her own, you’re on your own.” So it’s always a one-way street.

Anyway, where’s the importance of party unity now? We keep talking about party unity up till this election. Now they don’t care about party unity. “Fifty-first vote. That’s all this election is about, Limbaugh, we gotta get the 51st vote. We gotta get control of the Senate. We know we’re going to get control of the House. We gotta get control of the Senate.” Now all of a sudden they don’t care about it. The 51st vote might be Christine O’Donnell, so they don’t want to control the Senate. Where’s the big tent? They keep telling us we have to have a big tent. The Republican Party is going to have a big tent. Well, where is the tent? The tent has collapsed. The truth is there never was a tent. The media, ruling class always says Republicans can’t win. The only one they said that could win was McCain. Why listen to Democrats who say, “Hey, there’s something amiss here,” whenever one of their candidates loses? They said Reagan couldn’t win. They said Reagan would be bad for the country. I’m talking about Republicans. Reagan would be bad for the party. The GOP establishment was never comfortable with Reagan, and even today when they praise Reagan you can sense it’s lip service. They think they have to. But Reagan was as big a dunce as they think I am.

So Castle, who’s whole career was based on conservatives holding their nose and voting for the guy. I mean, we had to. “Well, he’s northeast, that’s the best we can do, Rush, Mike Castle is it.” We had to hold our nose. Now Castle says he won’t support O’Donnell. So big tent, party unity, establishment guys are training their guns on Christine O’Donnell. Interesting to see. But they know they face a revolt now. Cornyn, the Republican Senate campaign, I imagine when the word went out last night — I mean Cornyn is from Texas — I imagine what happened when the word went out last night, whether it was accurate or not, the word was out that the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee was not going to fund her. (laughing) In Texas? (laughing) I’ll bet you the people that work for Cornyn heard about that. I’ll bet Cornyn got some e-mails. McConnell’s getting some e-mails. Anyway, brief time-out here, folks. We’ll get to your comments on all this as well as we dig deeper, uncover what this is really all about, which we all know.
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[]RUSH: You know, it’s such a shame today. It’s such a shame that Harry Reid can’t call Mike Castle and start asking him to switch parties like he did with Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords and Arlen Specter. Christine O’Donnell, I like what I hear of this woman. She was on Fox & Friends today. She was everywhere. She referred to Castle as “an Obama Republican.” That’s exactly what he is, exactly what he was! He’s an Obama Republican. Christine O’Donnell came up with that, and according to all the Wizards of Smart on our side, it was Mike Castle — only Mike Castle! — that could beat the Democrat in November. By the way, this Democrat is a Marxist. I mean, there’s a joke going around that here’s a bearded Marxist or Marxist with a beard. He describes himself that way! This guy is a sitting duck.

They said only Mike Castle could beat this guy. Mike Castle couldn’t even beat a woman with all this character rectitude, all this baggage that has been labeled on her and dumped on her. Castle couldn’t even beat here and Castle is the guy that ran the negative campaign. Delaware’s not used to negative campaigns. You know what? When people hear Karl and others talk about whatever baggage Christine O’Donnell has, let me tell you people in Washington something. Everybody in the country thinks all of you are corrupt! So Mike Castle is not innocent. He’s not clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. So when you Republicans start talking about all the baggage Christine O’Donnell has, you’re going to have to understand that voters around the country think all of you have baggage and voters around the country understand what it is to run up against a bureaucracy, a federal bureaucracy.

All these problems that she has, paying off loans and so forth? Who the hell doesn’t? Who the hell hasn’t had a run-in with the IRS? So she’s had a run-in with the IRS. That’s a resume enhancement to a lot of people! The government is the enemy here to a lot of people. The government needs to be downsized. The government’s too intrusive. The government is chipping away at personal liberty, private property rights and so forth. The people of this country do not view Washington as a way to promote politicians. It’s not a place where chairmanships are the reward. So Castle is going to run around and talk about baggage, and all these other Republicans want to recite the baggage that Christine O’Donnell has, fine and dandy. Let’s hear you talking about the baggage that Charlie Rangel has. Let’s hear you talk about the baggage that Harry Reid has or that any of these Democrats have, the baggage that Clinton had and has. Somehow it only disqualifies Christine O’Donnell? This is reminiscent of 1994 but in one distinct way: Voters are not gonna react all these charges of character rectitude because, in their minds, every politician’s got a character problem. It’s part and parcel of being one.
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RUSH: Mitt Romney has endorsed Christine O’Donnell. The day after the election, Mitt Romney has endorsed Christine O’Donnell. Now, we should point out Karl Rove — who you all loved. When he guest hosted this program, you loved Karl Rove. He is supporting Sharron Angle. There’s something in this O’Donnell business that we don’t know. There’s something there. Maybe Castle’s campaign manager is one of Rove’s best friends, I don’t know. I’m just throwing something up against the wall here, but, you know, campaign managers and consultants these people are thick as thieves like anybody in the same business. Who knows? There’s something about this race. I mean, Karl turned personal in ways he has never gotten before, with anybody. At the end of the day, though, we’re going to have one less RINO in Washington. It’s a great night! There’s one less RINO and before we’re through in November, there’s going to be a lot fewer RINOs there. I feel like George Patton, folks: I love the smell of battle out there! I can see the Carthaginians out there. The Limbaugh Rule. By the way, Arlen Specter has weighed in on the Limbaugh Rule.

(playing of Arlen Specter spoof)

[]RUSH: Arlen Specter on the Limbaugh Rule. This campaign is not about creating and saving Republican jobs. The Limbaugh Rule: If a conservative is on the ballot, you vote for him. Period. The Limbaugh Rule. It’s very simple. We are at a crossroads. You know, there’s a fork in the road up there, and you take the wrong direction, the country’s finished. I’m not stating this idly. I’m not being gratuitous in any way. I’m not exaggerating, and the American people know it. The American people fear for this country’s future, and if elected officials in the capital don’t see it — if they don’t see it that way, if they don’t understand the gravity of the situation — people’s lives are at stake here! People’s ability to earn a living is at stake here. The very essence of being an American, liberty and freedom, is at stake here.

We already are living a soft tyranny, and if anybody in Washington ostensibly on the Republican side does not understand this, they are gonna go! It’s not politics as usual. You know, party loyalty is not on the ballot here. America is on the ballot! People who are for it; people who are against it. People who are against it or who don’t realize the gravity of the future are going to dispatched. It’s really not complicated. It’s... I guess it is complicated if you live in Washington and that’s your world, and you don’t have interaction with anybody outside Washington except pollsters and other campaign consultants and news media types. I don’t say this lightly. I mean, this is not talk. By the way, I don’t say things I don’t believe or even exaggerate for the sake of being noticed or getting ratings or shocking people.

It’s been something I’ve format-wise, philosophically opposed ever since I started this kind of show. If I can’t back up what I actually believe, if it’s all phony and make believe, I’m not gonna go anywhere. I’m not going to have any credibility or loyalty with an audience. If I say it just to get noticed, say it just to shock people. When I say, “The American people fear for the future of their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren,” I am dead serious. I’m not exaggerating. And if Mike Castle doesn’t get that, he’s gone. This is where we are. And, by the way, I got a Stack of Stuff here. Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post, ohhhh, this is so bad. This is so bad! She claims she doesn’t care about whether the Democrats have a majority or hold onto their majority. It’s not that, but, boy, we need more moderate Republicans in the Senate and in the House if we’re going to have any hope of everybody getting along, and this is just so bad to get rid of somebody like Mike Castle that everybody can get along with.

I’m listening to all these people on the cable channels of the left, and they’re talking about, “Oh, man, this was exactly what we wanted: the Republican Party with an internecine war. The Republican Party splitting up, the Republican Party at war with itself.” I am not seeing a party atmosphere among Democrats. I’m not seeing all this celebration that we’re being told is taking place. I don’t see all this ebullience. I don’t see all this happiness that we’re told exists within Democrat circles ‘cause of what’s happening with the Tea Party. All these Tea Party candidates are winning. This guy that beat Lazio in New York? I can’t wait to see this guy debate Cuomo. You know, Andrew Cooomo is going to have to debate this guy. I can’t wait to see that. That’s going to be national television. Ha! That I can’t wait to see.

And I don’t see all these parties. I don’t see the party atmosphere among Democrats today or last night, after all these Tea Party candidate victories. You know, the Tea Party’s ascension is supposed to save the Democrats. I mean, that’s the template. That’s what we’re being told by the partisan political operative media. That’s a “strategery” that’s being advanced out there. So how come you don’t see a lot of smiles on the faces of people on the left? How come you don’t see a lot of honest gloating out there? In fact, a Politico story today says it’s over for the Democrats 2010. They’re on their own, it’s over, it’s history. And try this. The Politico is just so disappointed. They are saddened to have to write this story by Alex Isenstadt.

“Democrat health bill foes escape payback. “Dem Health Bill Foes Escape Payback.” Every anti-Obamacare Democrat is winning. “After 34 House Democrats voted against the health care bill in March, liberal groups and their allies in the labor movement vowed to exact revenge. The threats ranged from crippling primary election challenges to a withdrawal of support for some of the offending lawmakers. In a few cases, activists even went so far as to say they would run third-party candidates against the Democrats in November. But five months later, the group of 34 has emerged from primary season not much worse for the wear. Every one of the 30 lawmakers who voted against the health care bill and is seeking another term won re-nomination.”

So where is Bill Clinton? (doing impression) “Heh, heh. If you want to hold onto your seat, you gotta vote for this health care bill! That’s why we lost the House back in 1994, because, people, we didn’t pass health care. You gotta pass health care. If you don’t pass health care, you have no provider coming back here.” So they marched off the cliff like a bunch of lemmings following Clinton, except Clinton’s got angel wings. He keeps flying; they hit the beach. Meanwhile, these 34 who are told, “You are history. You may as well get ready, Al Capone is coming for you,” are winning. Democrats opposing their own president are winning, and we’re told that the Tea Party ascension is causing glee on the Democrat side. This is the real reason we keep getting stories from the Democrat media complex decrying the failure of the Obama army.

We’re getting these stories, “Where is the Obama army?” Remember we were going to have all these people on the Internet and in the streets? They were going to be flooding the country and whatever Obama wants is gonna get passed. But these people can’t even punish wayward Democrats. What kind of revolutionary discipline is this? Castro at least was able to put his political prisoners in jail. But the dissidents, the Democrat dissidents going up against the regime are winning. They’re winning! And, meanwhile, we’re being told that Christine O’Donnell’s got a lot of baggage and we should look the other way and let a mosque be built at Ground Zero. We’re told Christine O’Donnell’s got baggage, character rectitude.

What about Obama? Character rectitude? Confiscating one-sixth of the US economy with the health care business, destroying the US economy? Can we talk character? If you don’t want to talk character rectitude, can we talk policy? I’m gonna tell you something: There are a bunch of Democrats in this country who are willing to join the Tea Party in stopping the direction the Democrats are taking this country. Slowly but surely, Washington Republicans are starting to see it. They’re still rebelling against it. They’re still fighting it. But it’s clear what’s going on: It’s Washington versus the country. Obama and the Democrats are governing against the will of the people. Professional politicians and pollsters see them getting away with it. Obama is not being punished by it. He’s out there playing golf, he’s out there smoking, he got a good tan. I thought these stories on Boehner were actually stories on Obama ‘til I read further.
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[]RUSH: We all know what’s wrong with RINOs. We all know the essentials, the basics. But there’s something else. When these RINOs get in, the Senate or the House — let’s focus on the Senate — and when they vote with the Democrats, they tarnish the whole brand of Republicanism and they make it much more difficult for conservatives to exact lines of demarcation. If we’re going to have a liberal in the Senate, let’s have a genuine liberal who is going to call himself one rather than a Republican who’s gonna pretend to be a conservative and then votes liberal and confuses everybody else. Fred Barnes has a piece out there today listing Castle’s problems, why he lost, and one of the problems was in a primary he wouldn’t even deign to call himself a conservative. Okay, for once he got honest. What’s he supposed to do, lie about it? Act like a conservative just to win? At least he was honest and didn’t try to tell people he’s something that he’s not. Fred Barnes, his magazine was all against O’Donnell, the Weekly Standard was. I mean they were all over the place, anti-O’Donnell, building up Castle. Fred’s got this piece out on why Castle blew it. Fred’s one of the two editors there, Bill Kristol is the other. I don’t personally know what Fred wrote about this bylined or not. I’m just quoting his piece today: “Why Castle Lost.” He’s got some good points in it.

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RUSH: Eric in Bloomington, Delaware, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Great to have you with us.

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Like I tell my sons, you’re one of the best people on the radio. So flattery should get me everywhere.

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir, I appreciate that.

CALLER: Okay. I’m calling ‘cause I live in Delaware and I voted for Castle every election, you know, to keep the Republican in because we want a Republican in there, but after he voted for cap and trade and I wrote him a letter, e-mailed him, and he sent me a form letter saying why he was for it, it’s like he didn’t really even care. And he’s voted for stem cell. That’s why I supported Christine O’Donnell. At least I know what I’m getting, and I’m not gonna get stabbed in the back by their vote.

RUSH: I’m glad you mentioned it. You know, cap and trade, that’s not just a piece of legislation. That is a sledgehammer to freedom. It is going to boost the cost of the fuel of freedom beyond people’s ability to afford it. And therefore their freedom is going to be lost. Energy prices via taxes would skyrocket, which means much less freedom. You know, oil is the fuel of the engine of freedom. The more expensive you make every carbon transaction, the less freedom, on purpose, for a bogus reason that we are destroying the planet, that there is global warming. People know it’s all bogus. So when you have lamebrain, mind-numbed Republicans supporting this for whatever insane reason, I’m sorry, the electorate is sophisticated enough today that they are not going to support it just because there’s some R behind it, the name of somebody who happens to live in Delaware in the Northeast. It’s not an excuse anymore.

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RUSH: I tell you, the Tea Party this election cycle has been amazing. It has transformed a lot of boring, hardworking American men and women, moms and dads, grandfathers, grandmothers into a bunch of racist, homophobic, Islamophobic hatemongering insurgents who want their country back. It’s a great thing. Media Tweak of the Day. Wait ‘til you see what they do with that.
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RUSH: Robert “Fibbs,” the White House press secretary today in his daily briefing. “Jacob” Tapper, ABC, says, “Christine O’Donnell, who won the Delaware Senatorial primary for the Republicans, in 2008 said that then Senator Obama was so liberal that he’s anti-American. Does the White House have any comment on that?”

GIBBS: Look, I mean, last night showed that there is a very vociferous debate going on inside the Republican Party for the hearts and minds of Republican voters. I think if you look at what people like Karl Rove or people like the state GOP chairman have said, the Republicans in Delaware nominated somebody that they don’t believe can win. I think words of the state party chair, “couldn’t be elected dogcatcher.” I think comments like that [are] probably what led to her losing 2-1 in Delaware in 2008.

[]RUSH: All right. Now, there you have it. So here you have the White House press secretary, a partisan Marxist, quoting Karl Rove and a Republican state chairman to support the Obama cause. I mean, this Marxist opponent, this Coons guy in Delaware can just take snippets of video from Rove’s appearance last night on Hannity and make campaign ads out of it. The Jake Tapper exchange with “Fibbs” continued.

GIBBS: Delaware... Yes. I’ve said this for about two years. There is, was two years ago, not just because of the collapse of something like Lehman two years ago today. There was a frustration in the electorate about where we were economically. That frustration, I think, in many ways is still in the electorate. I said — spoke about this after Massachusetts. I think that same type of frustration was there, and I have no doubt that it continues today. I don’t think anybody would tell you that there’s not a frustration particularly based on, uhhh, what has happened economically and — and where we are in that recovery, and — and, uh, the president shares, uhhh, in some of that frustration.

RUSH: Well, what the hell does that mean? You want me to translate that for you? What that means is Gibbs just blamed voter anger on Bush — and the president’s mad about it too, by the way. The president is mad at this economy. Of course he’s mad at it. The voters are mad at it. Yeah. Collapse Lehman Brothers? It’s the Bush economy. We’re all mad about that. What was the real choice in Delaware: A Marxist with a beard, Coons, or a Marxist without one, Castle? Anyway, let’s... Oh. Here’s Reuters: “Tea Party Win Hurts Republican Senate Chances,” by John Whitesides. “A conservative ‘Tea Party’ favorite knocked off the establishment choice in Delaware’s Republican Senate primary election on Tuesday, dealing a blow to the party’s chances to recapture the U.S. Senate in November.” Well, Reuters should be elated, but there’s no happiness in this story. There’s no joy in Reutersville as you read this story. This job is not about saving or creating jobs for Republicans. It’s about stopping the Obama agenda and saving the country.
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RUSH: Joe in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. When Snerdley tries to spell phonetically, you would not believe what words look like. Hello, Joe, how are you?

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It’s John in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

RUSH: See?

CALLER: I thanked Mr. Snerdley for letting me through, and it’s an honor and privilege to speak with you.

RUSH: You bet, sir. Thank you.

CALLER: I’d like to tell you why so many of us voted for Christine O’Donnell, and, secondly, how she can win. We all felt we had nothing to lose. A vote for Castle was just a vote for another Democrat.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: The Republican Party, the lamestream press — and sadly I will include Fox in this — is that for the weeks and months going up to the primary, they kept referring to Mike Castle as a moderate. If they believe he’s a moderate they have their heads in the sand. So, you know, a lot of people were just so frustrated with the party —

[]RUSH: Well, but that’s because northeastern Republicans and the GOP think moderates is what the American people want. Moderates, you know, they don’t offend anybody and they’re very temperate and they cross the aisle, they work together. You won’t find in the library “Great Moderates in American History.” I will not find that book. But the Republican establishment thinks the American people wants people to cross the aisle, people to get along, want moderates, and that’s why they’re calling him a moderate. They think conservative is the dirty word in America. Liberal is the dirty word in America.

CALLER: Why they think it doesn’t matter, they’re dead wrong. If that’s the way they think.

RUSH: It is the way they think.

CALLER: Oh, it is.

RUSH: Don’t doubt me.

CALLER: And that’s why they lost yesterday. That’s why they lost.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: Secondly I’d like to tell you how I believe she can win this. If she and the party, and the party’s in quotes here can bring in Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity and, yes, Rush, you to campaign for her, she’d be a shoe-in. Who can Chris Coons bring in, Obama?

RUSH: Well, now, let’s face it. If I went in there you wouldn’t need those other people.

CALLER: Yes. In lieu of them I would —

RUSH: (laughing)

CALLER: But also, I’ve been running some quick numbers here, and the numbers aren’t confirmed, but with the votes that she got yesterday from the Tea Party, if the party could just get back 40% of the Castle votes, only 40% of the independent, and a small number of Democratic defectors, I do believe that number would add up —

RUSH: Well, look, you’re right, you’re right, I’m going to tell you, remember in a two-man race of Marco Rubio and Meek, with no Charlie — Charlie Crist stays a Republican, loses the primary, Marco Rubio slam dunk. But with Crist in the race as an independent, this is what they all told us, in the polls, in a three-way race if Crist goes independent, third party, whatever, he wins. And guess what? The latest Fox News poll has Marco Rubio up by 16 in the three-way race. When we were all told that if Crist bolted the Republicans and went independent it was over, that Rubio had no prayer. So these people doing all this “telling us” have a very poor track record. They don’t know what they’re talking about.
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RUSH: Here is Mark in New Jersey, great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.

CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. Sir, you are on fire today.

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir, I appreciate that.

CALLER: Yesterday and today have been, in my humble opinion, even more excellent than your normal excellence in broadcast.

RUSH: Well, thank you. I appreciate that very much.

CALLER: Today, sir, at the start of your wonderful conservative flamethrower RINO roast you posed the question about where Karl Rove’s anger against O’Donnell possibly came from. Well, sir, Karl Rove worked for the Castle campaign for months behind the scene. Karl negotiated with the 9.12 Project trying to get them and O’Donnell to drop out of the race and support Castle. She and the 9.12 Project refused. I think there in and of itself reflects Rove’s anger.

RUSH: Now, I read something about this last night and I didn’t know whether it was accurate.

CALLER: Yes, sir.

RUSH: And you’re sounding like it’s —

CALLER: The 9.12 Project has it on their website, and there was also during the acceptance speech last night, one of the 9.12 Project members was on stage and made a brief comment.

RUSH: So Rove worked for the Castle campaign?

CALLER: Behind the scenes, yes, sir.

RUSH: And was negotiating with the 9.12 Project trying to get them and O’Donnell to drop out of the race?

CALLER: Absolutely, sir. May I ask you a question?

RUSH: Look, I read this, but I don’t remember where, and I didn’t see it attributed. How do you know this?

CALLER: If you will check the 9.12 Project’s website, you will find this information along with it being posted on Hot Air. Drudge had an earlier link to it. I don’t see it anymore. I haven’t looked recently.

RUSH: Is it someplace called the Freedomist, is that the last — where I saw it, it was said that sources at the O’Donnell victory party last night revealed to the Freedomist that in December of last year Rove met with Tea Party leaders in Dover, Delaware, trying to get them to cut a deal.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: In which they would leave Mike Castle alone and not support O’Donnell.

CALLER: That’s correct. May I ask you a question, sir?

RUSH: Yeah, fire away. That’s what I’m here for.

CALLER: So you are a friend of Mr. Rove’s. He co-hosted your program, and I personally loved it that day. I was really on fire and fired up. He was great, I thought. Don’t you think, I mean, you’re the genius here, but don’t you think you should get him on air? He will answer your calls. And basically pound him face-to-face, so to speak, just as you’ve done here? I think Karl Rove has lost a ton of support and fans, and with just his last couple of appearances on Fox this has been the most disappointed I think I have ever been in him.

RUSH: I know that people across the country were shocked. Like I opened the program today, my e-mail — and I watched it last night, I was watching it — my e-mail lit up. I mean every e-mail account I have, subscribers to my website, my personal e-mail account, the public e-mail account, I mean it was lighting up in droves. People had not seen anything like it. It didn’t compute. It didn’t make any sense. I got an e-mail today from... asking me what I thought’s going on here. I don’t know. Like everybody else, I’m guessing.

CALLER: I’d like to say that I really have loved your brother, David’s, book. And if you’re serving it up today, sir, I’d like my RINO slightly rare. God bless you, Rush, and God bless America.

RUSH: (laughing) All right. Thanks, Mark, for the phone call.
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RUSH: West Fargo, North Dakota, Diane, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.

CALLER: Oh, my gosh, I can’t believe I’m actually talking to you after listening to you for all these years. I have recently become involved in politics with the last campaign. I was really disappointed with McCain when he didn’t go for the throat, and it seems like the Republicans don’t. And now they’ve got this lady who won, and they’re going after their own. It’s like mothers who eat their children. I mean, what the heck’s the matter with these guys? Why don’t they go after the Dems like the Democrats come after them?

RUSH: I’m going to go back to this dinner on Saturday because this subject came up. This would have been a great dinner to have on television. It really would have been. And you people would be stunned to know who was there if I was to give you the names. But this whole subject came up of McCain. You would have been stunned at who said what I’m gonna quote.

CALLER: Nothing would surprise me about these politicians.

RUSH: Well, we were all talking about why did McCain tiptoe around? One of the most vociferous, quote, unquote, criticisms of McCain was that: “I don’t think he really wanted to win it. You know what? I think he was so ticked off after not getting the nomination in 2000, he just wanted to get the nomination, he wanted to have it on his resume, but he really didn’t want to be president, really didn’t want to win it because he didn’t have the guts to campaign against the first black president.” That’s what was said, that he didn’t have the guts.

CALLER: I don’t know if the first black president had anything to do with it. But it wasn’t just McCain. It seems like during the campaign is when I noticed it, but the Republicans just don’t seem to have the backbone to come out and say, “Well, you know, you did this and you did that.” They don’t want to draw any blood and I don’t understand it.

RUSH: Yes, you do because I’ve told you.

CALLER: (laughing) Oh, I’m so sorry.

RUSH: I’ve told you why. They live and work in Washington. It is a place controlled socially and politically by liberal Democrats and the media. They want to get along. They want to have the status of mattering in that town, in that community.

CALLER: Well, you know what? It’s a shame that we have to have the females being voted in who are carrying their gonads around in their pockets.

RUSH: Exactly.

RUSH: Which we have made mention of I don’t know how many times, that the Republicans with the gonads are the women. The women are the ones in our party who are going after the liberal Democrats.

CALLER: Exactly.

RUSH: Now, don’t discount this business of the first black presidential candidate. I remember Bill Cunningham introduced McCain in Cincinnati at an appearance and he happened to call Obama by his middle name. And the McCain campaign fired the guy. “We’re not going to put up with that. We’re not going to tolerate this.” What’s wrong? He calls himself Barack Hussein Obama. Don’t doubt me. There was a palpable fear, there is to this day in Republican Party circles, a palpable fear of criticizing Obama because the retort from the Obamaites is, “A-ha, you racist,” and it is true.

CALLER: Well, they better get off the pot because I think some of these ladies are gonna show ‘em how to run some politics.

RUSH: Well, that’s exactly right. They are. But there’s a fear, there’s a fear of being criticized by the ruling class in Washington. There is this fear of the charge of racism. And, look, we predicted this. Every criticism of Obama is said to be racist. And there are some people that don’t have the guts to try to put up with that and refute it. They don’t even want to deal with the charge. And so there is timidity, no question about it.
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RUSH: Todd in New Castle, Delaware, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.

CALLER: Rush, it’s so good to talk to you, especially today. Mr. Snerdley told me to get right to it. I’d like to spend some time saying about how important you’ve been in my political life, but I’m going to skip that. As a Delawarean who’s a Republican, I’ve been watching this campaign pretty closely, and in the past I’ve always been a supporter of Castle. It was kind of like you said: I’d hold my nose while I vote for him. Well, in the last year or so I’ve been able to listen to some of his calls. He’s been doing these calls to his constituents.

RUSH: Yeah, these robo-calls out there, yeah.

CALLER: Yeah. Well, not robo-calls, but town hall calls where you get to ask him some questions. And one lady asked him she says, “You know, I’m having a really hard time. My husband’s lost his job, and we’ve had COBRA, but I don’t know how I’m going to pay my health care.” His advice to her was, “Well, look at the state. We have some great programs to help you with your health care needs.” Instead of telling her she should keep looking for a job, you’ll find a job, stay in the public sector, stay in the health care system, he tells her go to the state, which kind of tipped... You know, I think that tipped his hand greatly there as to his beliefs. Another lady calls and says that she’s part of the government spending, and the problem is the way these guys are spending money in Washington. His response to her was, “Well, I hear what you’re saying; what you’re saying is that the economy is bad, and we’re working on that in the Congress,” which of course was not what she was saying. Of course he voted for all the spending bills and then runs these commercials that he’s some kind of fiscal conservative after spending —

RUSH: Right.

CALLER: — trillions of dollars.

RUSH: Right. And we’re bankrupt because of all the spending, yet he’s telling her, “Well, we got programs for you.” That’s who they are. That’s who these people are. They direct people in government, the government gets bigger, the people that work in government have more power, the state grows, freedom is lost. That’s the game.

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RUSH: Well, that’s it. It’s the fastest three hours in media, and another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence is now in the can.

Folks, we need to really be excited about last night’s primaries and so many of these recent primaries as well. This is the start of taking back the Republican Party. This is how it begins. It’s the start of taking back our country one candidate, one election at a time. Congratulations to you.
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Read the Background Material...
• Newsbusters: After Delaware Race Called, Rove Continues To Rip O’Donnell
• Politico: Christine O’Donnell, Delaware Winner, Bashes ‘Cannibalism’
• ABC: Christine O’Donnell on Rove’s ‘Un-factual’ Remarks and ‘Republican Cannibalism’
• Newsbusters: WP’s Ruth Marcus ‘Despondent’ Over Castle’s Defeat and O’Donnell’s ‘Scary’ Win
• Politico: Dem Health Bill Foes Escape Payback
• FOXNews: RNC Supports O’Donnell in Delaware, NRSC Changes Tune
• Weekly Standard: Why Mike Castle Lost - Fred Barnes
• New York Times: GOP Insurgents Win in Delaware, New York - Jeff Zeleny

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Governor Palin’s Top 10 Policy and Political Statements of 2010
Conservatives4Palin ^ | Whitney Pitcher

Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:12:56 PM by Bigtigermike
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2648906/posts

Perhaps this can serve as an easily digestible version of some of Governor Palin’s policy stances for Charles Krauthammer, Dana Perino, Peggy Noonan and other Republicans ostriches who have willfully had their heads in the sands for the past two plus years. Through Facebook, op-eds that have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and National Review among others publications, and speeches, Governor Palin has weighed in on many of the important policy issues facing America today

1) The Midterms: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

Following the 2010 Midterm elections, Governor Palin penned a piece at the National Review entitled “The Midterms: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward”. In this piece, Governor Palin provided 4 lessons that Republicans can learn:1) set the narrative 2) fight back the lies immediately and consistently 3) get out the mother of all GOTV efforts in 2012 and 4) a winning conservative message must always be carefully crafted. Here is an excerpt from this excellent piece:

The last, and possibly most important, lesson is that a winning conservative message must always be carefully crafted. If candidates are going to talk boldly on the campaign trail about entitlement reform and reducing the size of government, they must be prepared to word it in such a way as to minimize the inevitable fear-mongering accusations of “extremism.” We are quickly approaching a fiscal turning point where these crucial reform discussions will be mandatory. We need to speak about them in a way that the public will embrace. During his first run for the presidency in 1976, Ronald Reagan found out that election campaigns aren’t necessarily the best settings for quasi-academic discussions about issues like Social Security reform. So for his next campaign, he resolved to build his platform out of tried and tested policies like tax cuts. Successful candidates in the next election cycle will have to test and develop similar policy platforms that address the crucial issues of entitlement reform and shrinking government in a way that the voters will find pragmatic and even attractive.

2) Why I support the Ryan Roadmap

A few weeks ago, Governor Palin wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal expressing her support for Congressman Ryan’s Roadmap to lead to a more financially stable nation through entitlement reforms, tax cuts, and spending cuts. Here is an excerpt:

Put simply: Our country is on the path toward bankruptcy. We must turn around before it’s too late, and the Roadmap offers a clear plan for doing so. But it does more than just fend off disaster. CBO calculations show that the Roadmap would also help create a “much more favorable macroeconomic outlook” for the next half-century. The CBO estimates that under the Roadmap, by 2058 per-person GDP would be around 70% higher than the current trend. Is Rep. Ryan’s Roadmap perfect? Of course notno government plan ever is. But it’s the best plan on the table at a time when doing nothing is no longer an option. Let’s not settle for the big-government status quo, which is what the president’s commission offers. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to make these tough decisions so that they might inherit a prosperous and strong America like the one we were given.

3)Peace Through Strength and American Pride vs. “Enemy Centric Policy”

In June, Governor Palin gave a speech at Freedom Fest in Virginia where she spent a large portion of her time speaking critically of President Obama’s foreign policy and his disdain for American exceptionalism. She later provided excerpts of this speech on her Facebook page. Here is a small part of that speech:

It’s not the only area where the Obama administration has failed our allies. They escalated a minor zoning issue in Jerusalem into a major dispute with our most important ally in the Middle East, Israel. They treated the Israeli Prime Minister shabbily in Washington. When a Turkish sponsored flotilla threatened to violate a legal Israeli blockade of Hamas-run Gaza, the Obama Administration was silent. When Israeli commandos were assaulted as they sought to prevent unmonitored cargoes from being delivered to Hamas terrorists, the Obama Administration sent signals it might allow a UN investigation into the matter – an investigation that would be sure to condemn our ally Israel and bemoan the plight of Hamas. Loyal NATO allies in central Europe were undermined by the cancellation of a missile defense program with virtually no warning. At the same time, Russia and China are given preferential treatment, while remaining silent on their human rights violations.

4)Bailouts Reward Bad Behavior

During her time as Governor, Governor Palin managed Alaska with such fiscal prudence that nearly bankrupt states like California, New York, Illinois, and Michigan would do well to study and learn from her how to budget and spend appropriately. She wrote a Facebook post highlighting what she did as Governor to help put Alaska on strong financial ground, and she suggests that struggling states who may seek a federal bailout to do the same. Here is a small part of the post:

It’s one thing to veto spending and reduce the size of government when your state is broke. I did it when my state was flush with revenue from a surplus – though I had to fight politicians who wanted to spend like there was no tomorrow. It’s not easy to tell people no and make them act fiscally responsible and cut spending when the money is rolling in and your state is only 50 years shy of being a territory and everyone is yelling at you to spend while the money is there to build. My point is, if I could fight this fight in Alaska at a time of surplus, then other governors can and should be able to do the same at a time when their states are facing bankruptcy and postponing this fight is no longer an option. So, let’s not continue to reward irresponsible political behavior. Instead of handing out more federal dollars, let’s give the governors of these debt-ridden states some free advice. Shake off the pressure from public sector unions to cave on this issue. Put up with the full page newspaper attack ads, the hate-filled rhetoric, and the other union strong arm tactics that I, too, had to put up with while fighting those who don’t believe a state needs to live within its means. Stand up to the special interests that are bankrupting your states. You may not be elected Miss Congeniality for fighting to get your fiscal houses in order; but in the long run, the people who hired you to do the right thing will appreciate your prudence and fiscal conservatism.

5) Passing the Buck Doesn’t “Plug the D#*! Hole”

Palin was pointedly critical of the Obama administration’s mismanagement of the oil spill in the Gulf this past Spring. As a governor of an energy producing state and as a former oil and gas commissioner, Governor Palin’s opinion is particularly relevant. In May, Governor Palin posted a note on Facebook regarding this topic. Here is an excerpt:

The 1990 Oil Pollution Act was drafted in response to the Exxon-Valdez spill in my home state. It created new procedures for offshore cleanups, specifically putting the federal government in charge of such operations. The President should have used the authority granted by the OPA – immediately – to take control of the situation. That is a big part of what the OPA is for – to designate who is in charge so finger-pointing won’t disrupt efforts to just “plug the d#*! hole.” But instead of immediately engaging with this crisis, our President chose to spend precious time on political pet causes like haranguing the state of Arizona for doing what he himself was supposed to do – secure the nation’s border. He also spent much time fundraising and politicking for liberal candidates and causes while we waited for him to grasp the enormity of the Gulf spill.

6) Lies, Damned Lies-Obamacare 6 Months Later; It’s Time to Take Back the 20!

In September, six months following the passage of Obamacare, Governor Palin coupled endorsements of 20 candidates up against Democrats who voted for Obamacare with a scathing rundown of all the ills of Obamacare. In November, 18 of these districts represented by Obamacare supporting Democrats elected conservatives to fill those seats. Here is a brief excerpt from that Facebook post:

So, yes, those rationing “death panels” are there, and so are the tax increases that the president also promised were “absolutely not” in his bill. (Aren’t you tiring of the untruths coming from this White House and the liberals in Congress?) When the state of Florida filed a challenge to Obamacare on the basis that the mandates in the bill are unconstitutional, the Obama Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss the suit by citing the Anti-Injunction Act, which blocks courts from interfering with the federal government’s ability to collect taxes. Yes, taxes! Once the bill was passed it was no longer politically inconvenient for the Obama administration to admit that it makes no difference whether the payment is a tax or a penalty because it’s “assessed and collected in the same manner.” The National Taxpayer Advocate has already warned that “Congress must provide sufficient funding” to allow the IRS to collect this new tax. Pretty soon we’ll be paying taxes just to make it possible for the IRS to collect all the additional taxes under Obamacare! Seems as if this is another surprise that the public found out about after the bill was rammed through.

7) Senate Republicans: Vote No on New START Governor Palin wrote a piece for the National Review earlier this month outlining why the Senate should not ratify the START treaty with Russia. Many supporters of the treaty tried to claim that President Reagan would have supported the treaty, as one of his goals was reduction of nuclear arms. However, as Governor Palin points out, President Reagan increased not decreased missile defense as President Obama has done:

New START recognizes a link between offensive and defensive weapons – a position the Russians have sought for years. Russia claims the treaty constrains U.S. missile defenses and that they will withdraw from the treaty if we pursue missile defenses. This linkage virtually guarantees that either we limit our missile defenses or the Russians will withdraw from the treaty. The Obama administration claims that this is not the case; but if that is true, why agree to linking offensive and defensive weapons in the treaty? At the height of the Cold War, President Reagan pursued missile defense while also pursuing verifiable arms control with the then-Soviet Union. That position was right in the 1980’s, and it is still right today. We cannot and must not give up the right to missile defense to protect our population – whether the missiles that threaten us come from Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, or anywhere else.I fought the Obama administration’s plans to cut funds for missile defense in Alaska while I was Governor, and I will continue to speak out for missile defenses that will protect our people and our allies .

8 ) An Open Letter to Republican Freshman Members of Congress In mid November, Governor Palin wrote an open letter to new Congressmen and women challenging them remain true to the principles they ran on and to remember that they are accountable to the voters. In this, Governor Palin also gave a great summary of her stances on the issues of Obamacare, spending, taxes, entitlement reforms, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, the START treaty, and border security among other issues. Here is a small excerpt:

You’ve also got to be deadly serious about cutting the deficit. Despite what some would like us to believe, tax cuts didn’t get us into the mess we’re in. Government spending did. Tough decisions need to be made about reducing government spending. The longer we put them off, the worse it will get. We need to start by cutting non-essential spending. That includes stopping earmarks (because abuse of the earmark process created the “gateway-drug” that allowed backroom deals and bloated budgets), canceling all further spending on the failed Stimulus program, and rolling back non-discretionary spending to 2008 levels. You can do more, but this would be a good start..

9)Domestic Drilling: Why We Can Still Believe

Governor Palin’s forte has always been energy. As a wife of a former oil field worker, an Oil and Gas Commissioner, and Governor of Alaska, she has the perfect expertise to speak to how energy independence provides jobs and helps secure our nation. She also provides the perfect antithesis to President Obama’s overregulation. Governor Palin is a firm supporter of industry oversight rather than industry regulation. This approach holds energy companies accountable to the people while giving them the freedom to produce and provide jobs. Following the Gulf oil spill, Governor Palin offered her continued support for drilling for oil to fuel America:

All responsible energy development must be accompanied by strict oversight, but even with the strictest oversight in the world, accidents still happen. No human endeavor is ever without risk – whether it’s sending a man to the moon or extracting the necessary resources to fuel our civilization. I repeat the slogan “drill here, drill now” not out of naiveté or disregard for the tragic consequences of oil spills – my family and my state and I know firsthand those consequences. How could I still believe in drilling America’s domestic supply of energy after having seen the devastation of the Exxon-Valdez spill? I continue to believe in it because increased domestic oil production will make us a more secure, prosperous, and peaceful nation.

10) Palin to Bernanke:’ Cease and Desist’

Governor Palin warned of the hazardous effects of the second round of quantitative easing by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. Printing money will inevitably lead to inflation and other effects that will not help an already severely hurting economy. The National Review Online published some of her remarks on this from a November speech in Arizona. Here is part of that excerpt:

We shouldn’t be playing around with inflation. It’s not for nothing Reagan called it “as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber, and as deadly as a hit man.” The Fed’s pump priming addiction has got our small businesses running scared, and our allies worried. The German finance minister called the Fed’s proposals “clueless.” When Germany, a country that knows a thing or two about the dangers of inflation, warns us to think again, maybe it’s time for Chairman Bernanke to cease and desist. We don’t want temporary, artificial economic growth bought at the expense of permanently higher inflation which will erode the value of our incomes and our savings. We want a stable dollar combined with real economic reform. It’s the only way we can get our economy back on the right track.

Governor Palin wrote numerous Facebook posts and op-eds on a variety of subjects in 2010. This list only provides a small taste. In addition to what was listed, Governor Palin wrote about the Bush tax cuts, border security, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Bush tax cuts, the mosque at Ground Zero, among others. Many of these posts were endorsements of candidates who received a great boost from her support. Her 140 character tweets even spoke volumes.

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