Posted on 09/13/2011 4:56:17 AM PDT by SueRae
Edited on 09/13/2011 5:27:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sarah Palin says she is not afraid to call out fellow Republicans when she thinks they have been "part of the problem." On Monday night, Palin accuses Republican candidate for President Rick Perry of engaging in "crony capitalism." Perry, as governor of Texas, mandated that young girls get a vaccination for the HPV virus in an executive order. Perry is criticized for this in part because of his connections to the drug manufacturer Merck.
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Your real issue is that your girl wants to throw the first stone and you know how the rest of that biblical saying goes.
If you are such a paragon of honesty then take a genuinely honest look at every aspect of your heroine...the rest of America has or will.
Other way around. If she chooses to announce, her contract with Fox is effectively suspended. Same terms that Newt had with them.
>My point is that “crony capitalism” festered at times under Bush, and TARP was a whopper in that department.
So in our haste to replace Obama, we need to make sure we won’t install someone who is hunky-dory with an albatross like TARP as well. Otherwise, our gains are minimized as opposed to getting someone who will fight that kind of rot in DC that is prevanlent on both parties. Palin did that on a statewide level. She has the bona fides to raise the subject.<
In fighting amongst ourselves, we face a very real risk of getting another dose of Barry Soetero in 2013. I understand that TARP was enacted under Bush. “Crony capitalism” infers the enrichment of the politician from the corporations involved. Did Bush actually derive benefit from TARP? Did he make an error in pushing TARP? Looking back of course, but did he personally benefit?
Sarah Palin’s political action committee will report raising almost $1.7 million in its semi-annual report for 2011, according to a spokesman.
The money was raised between Jan. 1 and June 30.
“SarahPAC more than doubled the amount we raised as compared to the same time period in 2009,” said SarahPAC treasurer Tim Crawford. His organization received more than 36,700 contributions from over 24,000 people.
Crawford said SarahPAC has about $1.4 million in cash on hand. It has spent about $1.6 million, including donations totaling $65,000 to candidates and a grant of $18,700 to the Young America’s Foundation, during the filing period.
OOOPS! That's only 5%.
Crony capitalism also implies looking after the power structure that donates to politicians when the power structure is in trouble. TARP was just that. There was not a quid pro quo to Bush that I can see. Instead, the entire process stunk - up to and including Bush hiring the Democrat Paulson from Goldman Sachs to be Secretary of the Treasury, who later pushed for TARP - and then twisted the very nature of the program after it was passed.
THAT is what we need to fight. Palin has fought it. She is in a position to comment on it as one who has stood up to it - and beaten it at its own game.
But all I see are Perry supporters bashing her high and low for stating an obvious truth, because they don't like the truth being spoken here.
I predict *crickets*
>Instead, the entire process stunk - up to and including Bush hiring the Democrat Paulson from Goldman Sachs to be Secretary of the Treasury, who later pushed for TARP - and then twisted the very nature of the program after it was passed.<
I absolutely agree with you on this.
In attending a political luncheon last week, I heard a conservative warn about getting tied into supporting one candidate this early, since events are still very fluid. He went on to suggest that voters look at a candidate’s actions as opposed to what they say.
I think that speaker gave very good advice.
Yep. It's hard work, and the media won't do it. It's hard work because understanding is always at the level of "detail."
Picking an example from the Gardasil debate, here: the opt-out for the HPV vaccine was the same one used to opt out of chicken pox, hepatitis, mumps, measles, etc. It requires swearing that one has a conscientious objection to vaccine. It is true that Perry made it easier to get the form that contains a suitable affidavit; but the expectation was (had to be) that a critical mass of the population (about 70%) would be inoculated.
Get over your stinkin PDS crap. You twisted the same fact between two posts. You are trying to impugn Palin with a liberal line of attack that has no merit. Only trolls do that.
Your real issue is that your girl wants to throw the first stone and you know how the rest of that biblical saying goes.
No, your problem is that Palin has stood up to a corrupt power structure and beaten them, so she has moral authority to speak about the issue. And you don't like what she is saying here about Perry ... but it needs to be said, and Perry needs to address the issue instead of having his supporters shout it down.
If you are such a paragon of honesty then take a genuinely honest look at every aspect of your heroine...the rest of America has or will.
Oh, I have, I agree Palin has flaws. I just know liberal bullcrap when I see it - and I see you throwing it like a PDS monkey in a cage.
BTW, my guess is that Palin won't run. Attacks from the MSM, liberals and uncritical trolls like you have damaged her too much. You might celebrate that, but it is a shame that someone who has stood up to corporatism has been slimed in such a manner as you and others have done. Pathetic.
Perry did not say that. You said that.
Perry said that his concern was to save lives from cancer. Perry pointed out that $5,000 was a completely irrelevant amount of his total contributions.
Just about every company making any worthwhile product makes contributions to political campaigns and they often give to both sides to appear non-partisan. If the Acme Company comes up with a drug that can prevent cancer in women and making it mandatory (but with an opt out clause that does not really make it mandatory) would allow low income women to have the cost covered, would Governor Lurker leave those women prone to cancer because Acme Company had given a routine $5,000 donation just like every other major company in the state had?
If the answer is, "yes", then you care more about sleazy "Gotcha Politics" that you do about saving lives.
Every single one of the females is now at risk for cervical cancer and every single male is now spreading HPV.
"But what does all of this have to do with my pure as the driven snow daughter?", somebody like Lurker might ask,
Well, Lurker, it has a lot to do with her, even if you keep her locked up in her room until her wedding day. You know why? Because you had ZERO control over her future husband.
Once a virgin bride sleeps with her husband on her wedding night, as far as a sexually transmitted virus is concerned, she also slept with every woman that her new husband ever slept with as well as all the men that those women ever slept with as well as all the women that those men ever slept with as well as all the men that those women ever slept with .... and on and on and on.
Before you believe that HPV only affects other people's daughters, think about that simple fact of viral epidemiology and then think about how much control you have had over your daughter's present or future husband.
Also think about the fact that the immunological protection built up by the vaccine is most effective when a woman is in her 20's when the regimen was started in her early teens.
After that, think about what the chances were that some boy in Wasilla, Alaska named Levi Johnston was a pure as the driven snow virgin when he started having unprotected sex with a 16 year old named Bristol.
After that, think about what girl from Wasilla, Alaska also has a very good chance of already being exposed to HPV and would have benefited from immunization.
To most voters in America, what Perry did was no different than trying to protect the young from all the other diseases on the laundry list of other required vaccinations and all the claimed "outrage" sounds no different than the outrage expressed by those in the 1950's that claimed that putting fluoride in the drinking water was a Communist plot against America.
>It is true that Perry made it easier to get the form that contains a suitable affidavit; but the expectation was (had to be) that a critical mass of the population (about 70%) would be inoculated. <
That will never happen, because the Gardisil vaccine in and of itself is flawed. The vaccine is geared toward only females. If a teenage boy is infected with HPV he is able to infect sexual partners throughout his life. So the unvaccinated 30% of females will continue to act as a reservoir for the virus.
A few months ago it was approved for boys. Merck would be stupid (in a business sense) to give up lobbying to make it at least encouraged, if not mandatory.
Doctors here gave my daughter the first shot, against HER express wishes. I should have filed a complaint with the state licensing board. There is lots of pressure to make the HPV vaccination regime as common as any other immunization ; and it will NOT take a law to put it into effect.
If anyone is qualified to speak about corruption it is Sarah Palin. Because she has been corrupted herself. Celebrity and greed have gotten the best of her. And someone please post that picture of her with that oversized Bible. Heck, Bill Clinton didn't even tote one around that big!
Reads just like the political careers of the Clintons/Obamas. Could you possibly provide more documentation about Sarah's spending of PAC money than just your words?
>Doctors here gave my daughter the first shot, against HER express wishes. <
That’s an outrage.
>> “That’s interesting because Palin endorsed Perry after the Gardasil kerfuffle.” <<
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She reluctantly endorsed him against KB Hutchinson (a hopeless insider), in the primary, and against the head of the Texas Trufers in the general.
>> “How can motive be proven here?” <<
The multi-billion dollar advertising might of Big Pharma poison vendors is what he sought to be on his side.
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>> “The answer is obvious to any honest person, that Gov. Perry did it to help fight cancer and hold down future medical costs” <<
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That is absurd. - Its a political representative’s job to know the facts, and the facts are that vaccines shorten lives universally. They are a huge cash cow for big pharma, and they spread that wealth to control the AMA, and the FDA, to prevent the facts from being on the front page of every paper.
You are a vile liar.
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Reluctantly? Exactly how do you know this? Did she tell you?
Nope, you are speculating to cover and spin.
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