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To: Psalm 144

Seriously? Are you being serious?

If so, have you even been following the GOP debates and Palin’s comments after the debates?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63343.html


Sarah Palin took a hard swipe against her friend Rick Perry in a post-debate TV appearance, calling him out by name for “crony capitalism” for his effort to mandate an HPV vaccine for girls in Texas.

Asked by Greta Van Susteren about someone in Perry’s office going to work for a drug company that made the vaccine, Palin sought to put a finer point on it: “That someone, as Michele Bachmann pointed out, was Governor Perry’s former chief of staff.”

She went on: “That’s crony capitalism. That’s part of the problem that we have in this country is that people are afraid, even in 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 have been doing for the last 20 years … calling out the corruption in government. Michele Bachmann tried to make that point tonight and she’s going to get potentially crucified.”

Van Susteren asked another question, but Palin wasn’t done: “Let me go back to that issue with Governor Perry,” she said. She pointed out that at the time Perry was boosting the vaccine in Texas, she was opposing it in Alaska, and she thought Perry’s order was strange “because it just didn’t sound like Governor Perry,” who she thought was against big government.

“I knew even at that time something was up with that issue. And now we’re finding out, yeah, something was up with that issue,” she said

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63343.html#ixzz1a4jhVXBA


339 posted on 10/06/2011 11:41:46 PM PDT by Carling (Mitt Romney Signed a Bill that Mandated Taxpayer-funded Abortions)
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To: Carling

“Seriously? Are you being serious?”

Yes, that is why I asked.

“If so, have you even been following the GOP debates and Palin’s comments after the debates?”

No. I have been away for several weeks, trying to detox from toxic people. With this thread I am remembering why.


348 posted on 10/06/2011 11:48:26 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: Carling

Well . . . and?

The remark about crony capitalism seems to be aimed at a former chief of staff, more than at Perry himself. Hard to tell from the Politico excerpts.


363 posted on 10/07/2011 12:02:03 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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