[triumphant values]

Palin long ago endorsed Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity plan, which includes Medicare and Medicaid reform: That's a serious, that's real, and that's specific.

Ryan's plan was a "cut" from the baseline budget of 6.2 trillion over the next ten years. Many of us strongly criticized it here on discussion threads about it.

And haven't most of us here spent the last week savaging what a sham "cutting" from a baseline budget over ten years is? I could have sworn we did. Maybe I imagined it.

[gov_bean_ counter]

What you have imagined is the value of your opinion here.

[Bigtigermike]

Palin said that she endorsed the Ryan Plan as the *base* for which to start BUT that it *wasn't perfect* and there were a lot MORE than that that need to be done ( PLUS she has stated that we need to go to a zero-based budgeting practices and ultimately a balanced budget)

The Conclusions are in....You are ignorant of anything Sarah has said and thus is unqualified to question her since you refuse to take the time to investigate what she has said but want us to lead you and explain it to you like a baby

[AHerald]

Ryan's plan was a "cut" from the baseline budget of 6.2 trillion over the next ten years. Many of us strongly criticized it here on discussion threads about it.

The debate and criticisms regarding the merits of the Ryan plan, or baseline budgeting is not the issue. You accused Palin of being unserious and unspecific about entitlement reform. The Ryan plan does in fact include a serious and specific plan on the issue of entitlement reform. Heck, the Medicare voucher program contained in the plan in and of itself clearly qualifies as a legit example of "serious entitlement reform".

[SuziQ]

Actually, I thought Paul Ryan has been talking about getting RID of Baseline Budgeting.

[kevkrom]

Ryan's plan was a "cut" from the baseline budget of 6.2 trillion over the next ten years. Many of us strongly criticized it here on discussion threads about it.

Which may be why Palin endorsed it as a good start, but also noted that it didn't go far enough.

Similarly, she backed the CC&B plan during the debt limit mess, even though she was opposed to raising the debt limit at all.

I fail to see what the problem is in having a long range plan and taking the intermediate steps that move you in that direction. Not all change (and in fact, very little of it) happens all at once.