Posted on 08/02/2011 9:55:56 AM PDT by EveningStar
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Monday’s House vote to lift the debt ceiling was a victory for the tea party, proving that conservative activists had shifted the conversation in Washington.
“We shall take this victory and make sure our politicians in office today are learning from this victory,” Ms. Palin said Monday night on Fox News, where she is a paid contributor. “It’s not a 100% pure genuine victory. We just handed the most liberal president, I believe, in U.S. history a $2.4 billion debt increase.”
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What do you think the odds are that she never gets back on her See America summer bus excursion?
Rush is Right.
Sarah is wrong.
So far, my decision to support principle (Bachmann) over the greatly renowned ‘executive experience’ of various Govs has proven to be a correct one.
If this ‘victory’ is what I was fighting for... then I’m turning in my tricorn hat and switching back to coffee right now!
Who the hell slipped Palin the Cammomile? Someone get her some real TEA... fast!
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:: We just handed the most liberal president, I believe, in U.S. history a $2.4 billion debt increase ::
Let me correct that for you Governor: “We just handed the most liberal president in U.S. history a $2.4 billion campaign fund that will be converted into the proverbial “walking around money” for Holder’s people and individuals in urban centers.”
Get an effin clue!
See post 40.
I remain hopeful because I remember how long it took Reagan to change the thinking in the Cold War. Appeasement, Mutually Assured Destruction and moral equivalence between the East and the West were the thinking when he took office. To actually speak of "winning" the Cold War was considered lunacy. It didn't happen until after he left office, but there is no doubt who finally won the Cold War because he was actually willing to fight the fight.
To speak of limiting the growth of government and entitlements is what is today considered lunacy and impossible. Reagan understood that winning the hearts and minds first was necessary to win legislatively. The Tea Party has been successful in getting the country to understand that the size and scope of the federal government is unsustainable. George W. Bush attempted to take on Social Security and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but retreated when he met resistance. We just now need a new Reagan who is willing to actually fight the fight.
“Sarah Palin is the only bonafide outsider I see as a potential presidential candidate right now......”
Yes, I agree, and That’s what makes the whole deal so nauseating.
This nonsense of putting a Happy Face on the indefensible in order to be perceived as not being “Too Conservative” to the media hacks, is what Got us where we are.
As Rush says; “How can you be Too Conservative?”
Even if we elect Sarah, Then What? Do we get ‘Bipartisan-ed’ again for Another 4 years as we sink deeper into debt, and tyranny, ..... because the R’s are afraid of actually living up to their purported platform of lower taxes and limited government?
Palin was IMO largely being polite in acknowledging some baseline of Greta’s assumption before challenging it.
Understood. But seriously, I would have shut that down right away. "Greta, you and I might have different opinions on the meaning of 'victory.' With all due respect, while we could have done a lot worse and the Tea Party has much to be proud of, our work has just begun. This is not a victory as much as it is a beginning. We must remain vigilant. It is vital that Tea Party members continue to do the work that the people have elected them to do."
Maybe she chose not to be skeptical on purpose. She probably got reamed alot for the "contested primaries" quote, and maybe she wanted to appear more concilliatory.
It’s a start. It’s not enough, not NEARLY enough. But it’s more than would have been done without the Tea Party, and in that sense, I guess you can call it a sort of “victory,” if you squint when you look at it.
That old proverb says “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” This is that single step. I’m just not confident that who we’ve got in Washington right now will be willing to take any more steps to keep us going on the path to fiscal sanity.
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She SAID Trillion, not billion as reported.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1090216652001/palin-vs-bidens-terrorist-tea-party-comments
Check 4:02 or so - clearly says Trillion.
Yeah. It's a 100% pure genuine defeat.
After pushing CC&B within 4 votes of passing Congress, we end up with $26T new spending over 10 years, Presidential increase of debt limit, and guaranteed tax hikes.
We're not looking for a "perfect" candidate. All candidates have flaws. We know that. Perry's problem isn't that he's "perfect" but that he's far from ideal. It's not unreasonable for freepers to want a reliably conservative candidate with a track record of winning tough elections. Perry isn't that candidate.
And it really is ridiculous for the Perry fan club to bring up the "nobody is perfect" argument but in the same breathe claim Sarah Palin's endorsements ARE perfect and must NEVER be questioned.
I do not support her contention in this case.
Too bad to....I - and I dare say many others - had such high hopes. Those have been diminished by her position on this.
Right. You guys can't defend St. Sarah of Palin(TM), so you point to some other subject not even mentioned in an article. Dodge, indeed.
“We shall take this victory and make sure our politicians in office today are learning from this victory,” Ms. Palin said Monday night on Fox News, where she is a paid contributor. “It’s not a 100% pure genuine victory. We just handed the most liberal president, I believe, in U.S. history a $2.4 billion debt increase.”
I hope this will be a wake up call to Palinistas that Sarah Palin is fallible and far from perfect. She is a politician.
I’m not denigrating Sarah Palin, she is still in the top three I am considering voting for in the primary. What my point is to extreme Palin supporters is that she is NOT perfect and the “great white hope.” She is one of the best of potential candidates, but she is not without error...and is subject to error....and subject to compromising even on principles.
By all means you should vote for her, support her, but STOP worshipping her. You are setting yourself, and the party, up for sorrow. No one can live up to the hype ascribed to her. She is no “RONALD REAGAN” of legend. Goodness, even President Ronald Reagan wasn’t the legend that is “RONALD REAGAN.”
We need to look at the candidates through realistic lens and examine each closely. Like I said, Sarah is in the top three of potentials (I don’t have a choice yet) and will get my close consideration. And, even if she should not get my vote in a primary, she WOULD in a general election if she is the candidate. I’m hoping others that are GOP voters will be a little less on the scorched earth thinking....(i.e. candidate “......” or nothing.
Now moving on, I think she was making a mistake to suggest this is a “victory” for the Tea Party.....that is the current MSMs tact. They will start changing their tune when Obama signs it. They will start calling it a “great victory for the Obama administration as a great unifier.” President Obama is the winner here.
Did Palin ever say how she would have voted were she in congress?
A couple weeks ago an acquaintance called saying he was starting the 9 hour drive to my home. 3 hours later he called and said he'd be late - he had gone west instead of east. That's what this bill is doing to us (you haven't read it, have you?): taking us trillions of dollars in the wrong direction.
It's not a start. It's a journey of a thousand miles, and the starting single step was onto a long-haul ferry heading the wrong direction.
I agree. She didn’t seem entirely natural in her response and she seemed to be holding her heart back on it, at least. I didn’t think it was her best appearance either.
I don't see where Molly or Politico are even mentioned here OR in the WSJ blog which is the subject of this thread. So I have no idea what you are talking about.
"We shall take this victory and make sure our politicians in office today are learning from this victory"
She did go on to qualify the statement somewhat, but it certainly appears she is calling this bill a victory.
And I disagree with her on that.
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