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Some of Sarah Palin's Ideas Cross the Political Divide (good, from NY Times)
New York Times ^
| September 9, 2011
| Anand Giridharadas
Posted on 09/09/2011 2:10:30 PM PDT by MN_Mike
But when her throat was cleared at last, Ms. Palin had something considerably more substantive to say.
She made three interlocking points. First, that the United States is now governed by a permanent political class, drawn from both parties, that is increasingly cut off from the concerns of regular people. Second, that these Republicans and Democrats have allied with big business to mutual advantage to create what she called corporate crony capitalism. Third, that the real political divide in the United States may no longer be between friends and foes of Big Government, but between friends and foes of vast, remote, unaccountable institutions (both public and private).
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; iowa; nytimes; palin; teaparty; times
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Heads exploding at the New York Times over this one.
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:10:40 PM PDT
by
MN_Mike
To: MN_Mike
Ahh yes...the”broken clock” theory of political discourse is alive and well..even at the NY SLIMES...
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:14:09 PM PDT
by
Nat Turner
(I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)
To: MN_Mike; Jim Robinson
Sarah Louise Palin
Born February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, ID (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Charles R Heath, born in ID
Sarah Sheeran, born in WI
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Sarah Palin is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:14:45 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
To: MN_Mike
We will know that the fall of America has been averted when all of them do.
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:15:24 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
("That is the great eternal question: Are 'Liberals' evil or stupid?" ~Ann Coulter)
To: MN_Mike
On one side would be those Americans who believe in the power of vast, well-developed institutions like Goldman Sachs, the Teamsters Union, General Electric, Google and the U.S. Department of Education to make the world better. On the other side would be people who believe that power, whether public or private, becomes corrupt and unresponsive the more remote and more anonymous it becomes; they would press to live in self-contained, self-governing enclaves that bear the burden of their own prosperity.By George, he's got it! I am properly impressed.
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:15:54 PM PDT
by
Publius
(Every time Sarah Palin speaks, somewhere in America a Leftist's head explodes.)
To: MN_Mike
So the libs at the NYT praising Palin and people like Coulter and Ingraham bashing her. Could it be both see her as a spoiler?
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:17:22 PM PDT
by
normy
(Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
To: MN_Mike
Thank you for posting this: The wrong folks are waking up though. If Sarah is wishing to sneak up on them they might be on the her. However, it probably wont make any difference she it always one step ahead at least.
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:18:04 PM PDT
by
vicar7
("Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers" Sarah Palin)
To: ASA Vet
Thank you for the Palin pic
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:19:00 PM PDT
by
vicar7
("Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers" Sarah Palin)
To: MN_Mike
Okay, should I repost what is always posted whenever anything mildly positive is said about Perry by the MSM?
"This just proves that Sarah is a RINO, and the MSM is trying to push her on us to stop a real conservative like (Perry/Bachmann/Cain/Santorum) (choose one) from being nominated!"
/sarcasm
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:19:13 PM PDT
by
CA Conservative
(Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
To: MN_Mike
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:19:32 PM PDT
by
I see my hands
(Keep your sunny side up!)
To: Publius
On one side would be those Americans who believe in the power of vast, well-developed institutions like Goldman Sachs, the Teamsters Union, General Electric, Google and the U.S. Department of Education to make the world better. On the other side would be people who believe that power, whether public or private, becomes corrupt and unresponsive the more remote and more anonymous it becomes; they would press to live in self-contained, self-governing enclaves that bear the burden of their own prosperity.In other words, on one side are brain-dead big government socialists, and on the other side are freedom-loving conservatives. Nothing has changed. The whole "anti-big-business" face the Democrats try to put on is just that, a facade.
To: MN_Mike
To: MN_Mike
Until they get the MRS. Right I read nothing.
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:24:26 PM PDT
by
The Wizard
(Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
To: normy
It might prove that you can tick both sides off and not be a centrist.
Sarah sees the problems expresses them with clarity and ponders if she is the one to go clean up the mess.
She is counting the cost which could be great to her family and really her very life in an angry violent time.
Wish I could not even think about that last sentence let alone write it.
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:27:37 PM PDT
by
vicar7
("Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers" Sarah Palin)
To: MN_Mike
Well if she is going to get in, the upcoming GOP Tea Party debate would be an excellent time to start hammering this message.
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:28:36 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: MN_Mike
I thought this thread was pulled.
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:29:11 PM PDT
by
Steamburg
(The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
To: normy
Could it be both see her as a spoiler? The Slimes article is too particular to be pushing a spoiler.
This is probably an attempt by the Slime to rebuild credibility, the Old Grey Whore now has the rep and motto of "Every leftist lie we can get in print"
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:29:43 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
To: MN_Mike
They’re signaling the other media sheep that she needs to be welcomed into the race.
They need her.
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:30:42 PM PDT
by
Finalapproach29er
(God humbles and (if need be) destroys the false idols of the peoples. Be patient, folks...)
To: normy
This is very clear to me that they think Sarah Palin is easier to beat than Rick Perry. They are scared to death of Rick Perry. They really don’t realize that Sarah Palin is a formidable foe with whom I share ALL her values. I don’t like Rick’s policies on immigration but he would be a vast improvement over the socialist with a fake birth certiciate and social security number we have now.
To: normy
They are raising a warning to not take her lightly because she is the one that threatens the establishment, not Perry. She has the ideas and the ability to go over the heads of the MSM the way no conservative since Reagan can.
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posted on
09/09/2011 2:34:54 PM PDT
by
Leto
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