Posted on 09/13/2011 7:06:06 AM PDT by Clyde5445
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. I take it from -- a little bit from your discussion -- I don't mean to read into it. You can speak for yourself, obviously -- but that you -- that you are -- that you're pleased with at least with the field tonight or with the way that they answered. Is that correct?
PALIN: Yes, I was pleased. I was very happy with it. Let me go back to that issue with Governor Perry. I was governor of Alaska at the time that that issue came down, and I told our health and human services department Alaska was not going to mandate immunizations for our teenage daughters.
And there had to have been something to that whole issue because it just didn't sound like Governor Perry. Governor Perry was, you know, the proverbial anti-government type of maverick there in Texas, and yet on this issue, he decided that he was going to know better than a parent was going to know in terms of what the health care or health benefit would be for their teenage daughters. So I knew there was something to it.
And remember when the media went a little bit crazy and demanded to see my 25,000 e-mails that I had written during my term as governor. In those e-mails, there is proof of there that the issue arose while I was governor of Alaska. And the e-mails reflect my -- my principle there was, No, government, stay out of the lives of family decisions like that, and do not tell a parent that their daughter must be immunized. ....... And it was a -- it was kind of an illustration or a big of evidence of some crony capitalism.
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Its the truth.
Nothing will change if we look the other way when its one of our own.
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“I think, though — and I’m going to take heat for saying this, Greta, but I think some of them don’t want to go there because they have been participants in some of the waste and casting votes for budgets that are full of waste just to go along to get along, or in their own states. They haven’t tackled debt and deficit spending to the degree that they should. So they don’t have a real strong record to stand on.”
In other words, some of them have already sold out. Is Governor Palin the only one who hasn’t?
Sarah Palin 2012 or bust
Using those leaked emails to back up her case. Great answer. The girl is on top of things.
I think Perry should answer for this. At least he admits it was a mistake. Romney, on the other hand, continues to be unapologetic for passing Romney care. Even better, he just named a guy who supported CaP and Trade to a major role in his caampaign. Of the two frontrunners at this stage, Mitt is of far more concern to me. Perry is not perfect but no candidate will be.
It looks like Merck was shopping a “solution” to a “problem”. Some bit and others didn’t.
You mean the Lady is on top of things.
She reminds me of the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher.
Right here Palin said she was well aware of Perry's corruption on HPV while she was still Gov, yet she endorsed him heartily for his Gov run a year later. Seems like there is either some deficiency in Palins judgement or she really didn't think this was an issue of corruption. Something doesn't add up here based on Palins own words last night.
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.
“Michelle Bachmann pointed out that Governor Perry’s former chief of staff who then went to work for a drug company who made the drug that would be required of the Texan government to mandate that our young daughters would have to be inoculated against a potential disease from this company that his former chief of staff was lobbying for. That is crony capitalism. That’s part of the problem we have in this country. People are afraid, even within our own party to call one another out on that. True reform and fighting the corruption and fighting the crony capitalism is a tough thing to do within your own party. You have to go up against the big guns. And they will try to destroy you, when you call them out on the mistakes that they have made. Believe me I know that. I have the bumps and bruises to prove it, because that’s what I’ve been doing the last 20 years, local, state then on the VP trail, different levels of government, calling out the corruption in government. Michelle Bachmann tried to make that point tonight,” Palin told Greta on FOX News.
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I’m glad Palin went there. I have been pointing out that Perry is not as conservative as he would like to promote himself as and I was told a few weeks ago by a FReeper that Palin thinks Perry is conservative and that is enough for him. When she does thing like this, it makes me trust her judgment more.
“That someone, as Michele Bachmann pointed out, was Governor Perry’s former chief of staff, who then went to work for a drug company who made the drug that would be required of the Texan government to mandate that, that our young daughters would have to be inoculated against potential disease from the company that his former chief of staff was lobbying for. That’s crony capitalism.”
“True reform and fighting the corruption and fighting the crony capitalism is a tough thing to do within your own party. You have to go up against the big guns. And they will try to destroy you when you call them out on the mistakes that they have made. Believe me, I know that. I have the bumps and the bruises to prove it because that’s what I have been doing for the last 20 years.”
-Governor Palin
No, she said that something seemed odd and not to add up about his Gardasil push back when she was governor. I highly doubt she knew the further details she knows today.
Likely the same with his mega-slush fund in which he picked technology “winners” just like Obama picks environmental “winners” now nationwide.
As to her endorsement of Perry, that was against Kay Bailey Hutchison, a go-along, get-along RINO. Texas is still probably better off for Palin’s endorsement on that one.
Perry did answer during the debate last night, expressing his surprise that Bachmann suggested he would make a decision over a 5K donation. I agree with him. This is a token donation, not something that gets the governor of a huge state to do a corporation’s bidding.
Obviously the former COS who went to work for Merck had access to Perry. Just as all of Michele’s former employees have access to her. Unless they left on non-speaking terms.
It’s just a fact of life that some people have more access to power than others. I don’t know what you can do about it.
Good that Palin is against crony capitalism. Can somebody tell me where the candidates stand on ethanol — that will determine who is really serous about it.
Good that Palin is against crony capitalism. Can somebody tell me where the candidates stand on ethanol — that will determine who is really serous about it.
“getting a kick out of getting out there, giving a speech, making some statements about things that must be discussed, and then the very next day watching some of the candidates get out there and discuss what it was that we just talked about, like the corruption, the crony capitalism”
A true leader is very rare. The rest of the candidates know when to follow, and they follow Governor Palin very well.
With Palin in the White House, many RINOs and conservatives will become the best they can be because they will have Palin’s leadership to guide them.
“Right here Palin said she was well aware of Perry’s corruption on HPV while she was still Gov, yet she endorsed him heartily for his Gov run a year later.”
Yes you are correct. However, we have to take a person’s entire record and potential into account. That means we have to judge how much weight to give to each issue. Look at how many people are willing to not give much weight to Romney’s tyranny of a health care law. I think that outweighs Perry’s vaccine outrage.
Thanks to forums like this one, we are free to bring up past issues and advocate how important or not they should be in the vetting of each candidate.
Look, I love Sara Palin alot.
But she is not electable. Gov Perry can win. Gov Palin has just been deamonized by the media and is best not running, especially now that is’t too late. Same with Michelle Backman. Great leaders, but not electable.
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