Posted on 07/09/2010 8:33:42 PM PDT by sinanju
My opinion of Sarah just took a dent. She was on Bill O'Reilly's show and he quizzed her about her opinion, in his overbearing fashion, on how to deal with the illegal alien problem.
I'm afraid it seemed instantly obvious that either she has not spent five minutes looking into the issue and talking to people who actually know something about the problem or she has and is keeping her real plans secret a la Chris Christie.
She did not bring up any specifics or actual ideas and plans and basically let Blowhard Bill lead her around by the nose for seven minutes. They then concluded with some meaningless cheery sentiments about the mama grizzlies and concluded. BOR moved on.
I realize she is busy building up chits playing kingmaker and tweeting and all that but I would like to at least see and hear some evidence that she is doing some serious policy formulation and (if she does run for prez) will have a battle plan on day one.
Appearing on Bill's show for barely enough time to smile and chirp for less than ten minutes is decidedly discouraging to people like myself, who desperately want to take her seriously.
"So you've closed the borders, now you have ten million people sitting here looking at you, what are you going to do about them?" "Make them register?"
"Well, I, uh.."
She should not have set herself up like that. Bill barely gave her enough time to recite the Pledge of Allegiance but she could have gotten her message across if she had had a message.
Not good.
“You got Mr. and Mrs. McRINO.”
And you are waiting for the primary to see who the establishment and the media wants to run?
I’ll back Palin right here and right now over anyone you can dream up....but you wont even put out a name...
What are you...yellow?
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
O’REILLY: So you’re president of the United States, Sarah Palin. You send how many National Guard to the border right away to secure it?
PALIN: However many you need. This is a top priority. This is a national security issue.
O’REILLY: All right, but I’m talking Texas, California, New Mexico, all of them. So you’d send maybe 10,000, 15,000 National Guard down there to assist the border patrol, yes?
PALIN: Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes.
O’REILLY: All right, so you’d militarize the border. You’d finish the fence, finish building the fence from Brownsville to San Diego, yes?
PALIN: Yes.
O’REILLY: Now we have 12 million people staring at you. And you say to those people you’re in here illegally. You broke civil law by coming in here. Now are you going to deport them? What are you going to do?
PALIN: Well, again, first, let me go back to the importance of securing the border. They’re talking about amnesty—
O’REILLY: No, but we got that, governor. Everybody—
PALIN: No, we don’t.
O’REILLY: Yes, the people watching this program have it. We have it. We assume that you, as president would secure the border. I have confidence that you would do that. But now you have to look inward. All right? And you’ve got 12 million people staring at you. What are you going to have them do?
PALIN: You’re not going to give them a free pass. You’re not going to say okay you and anybody else who wants to scurry across this porous border between now and when we finally do finally get it fenced in and physically secure, we’re going to give you a free pass.
O’REILLY: All right.
PALIN: And just because you’ve broken law in the past—
O’REILLY: So no amnesty—
PALIN: —we can trust you. No, no amnesty.
O’REILLY: But what do you do with these folks?
PALIN: Which means—
O’REILLY: Do you make them register with the federal government? Do you tell them they have 60 days to get out of here before we put you in jail? What do you do with them?
PALIN: Do we make them register with the federal government? Yes, we do.
O’REILLY: Yes, so we know who they are.
PALIN: We have — exactly, yes. I want to answer to that question absolutely.
O’REILLY: All right.
PALIN: We’re not going to give them a free pass.
O’REILLY: So you make them register with the federal government.
PALIN: We’re not going to reward the bad behavior.
O’REILLY: And if they don’t register with the — say you gave them 60 days to register with the federal government. There’s a form at the post office they have to send in like a Census form. All right, say they didn’t do it.
PALIN: You deport them.
O’REILLY: Okay.
PALIN: You have to get them out.
O’REILLY: So the ones that don’t—
PALIN: We don’t reward their continued bad behavior.
O’REILLY: —after period of time. Okay, after a period of time—
PALIN: Yes.
O’REILLY: —the ones that don’t cooperate, you catch them, they’re gone.
PALIN: Right.
O’REILLY: Now, you have these people that register. You’re going to have millions of them. Then they register and they said okay, we obeyed what President Palin told us to do. Then what? Do you give them green cards to work right away? What do you do with them?
PALIN: You know, there has to be that expectation that they will work and that they will incident contribute. Bill, it makes me uncomfortable that we’re even going down that path so far—
O’REILLY: you have to, thought.
PALIN: —when — no, no.
O’REILLY: You have to go down the path because it’s going to come up.
PALIN: American citizens who are here lawfully, they need to be the ones with the first shot at getting these jobs. We cannot make it easy on those who have chosen to be illegally here to disobey our laws. No—
O’REILLY: No, we can’t make it easy, but they’re here. And we can’t starve them to death. And if they can’t work, if they don’t have a green card to work, they’re going to be hosed. I mean, they got to pay rent, they got to buy groceries—
PALIN: Well—
O’REILLY: —this, that and the other thing. So this is where it gets very complicated, governor. You know, it gets very, very complicated—
PALIN: No.
O’REILLY: —because you are rewarding bad behavior. You’re letting them stay in the United States. And they came in illegally.
PALIN: Then let’s keep it — then we won’t complicate it anymore. Let’s keep it simple. And let’s say no, if you are here illegally, and if you don’t follow the steps that at some point through immigration reform, we’re going to be able to provide, and that is to somehow allow to you work. If you’re not going to do that, then you will be deported. You will be gone.
O’REILLY: Okay, we’ve established that.
PALIN: But let’s look at case history.
O’REILLY: Yes, we’ve established that.
PALIN: Let’s look at what, you know, political hero Ronald Reagan tried to do with 3 million illegals all those years ago.
O’REILLY: He botched it, though, governor. Reagan botched it.
PALIN: Exactly.
O’REILLY: He botched it.
PALIN: That’s what I’m saying. So we learn from history. We won’t do what he did.
O’REILLY: No, but you’re going to have to do—
PALIN: He did in that respect, in that realm.
O’REILLY: —whoever the next president is, is going to have to deal with 12 million people. And that’s going to be very, very difficult.
I’ll go with A...he’s trying to save his stinking RINO hide...
I didnt vote for McLame...I voted for Palin...and I will again...
“Obama pals around with terrorists”
It is self evident...yet NO other GOP canidate has the BALLS to say it...
"Establishment" and "media" permission isn't required to qualify for the ballot. Read a book.
So you can post...but can you read?
The transcript directly controdicts what is asserted in the oringial post.
“Establishment” and “media” permission isn’t required to qualify for the ballot. Read a book.”
Oh I can read just fine...and your yellow dog who cant even back anyone yet...
C’mon...name someone you would support to run in the primary...
You can do it...who do you want to see run?..and WILL they actually run?
Backwards.
"She did not bring up any specifics or actual ideas and plans and basically let Blowhard Bill lead her around by the nose for seven minutes."
In 1986, the bill was supposed to have two components:
1. Amnesty
2. Security (Former Sen. Alan Simpson botched that)
Name a name...WHO do you support? put up or shut up...
Not McCain. Or any of his underlings.
What "specifics or actual ideas and plans" did she bring up?
Who announced that he or she is running for President? I may have missed the news of the announcements.
I liked the way she tried to NOT answer BOR. She's for enforcement and securing the border before talking about anything else. Smart Lady.
Yep...the dem congress stabbed him in the back...
Amnesty first ...secure the border second...same as obama wants to do...
Palin wants the border secured FIRST...then well talk about a system....notice she clearly says the word DEPORT.
And she also clearly supports 1070
Even Mitt hasn’t officially announced yet (although he has been running since November 2008).
“Who announced that he or she is running for President? I may have missed the news of the announcements.”
Ah...you want to play duck duck goose too eh?
You cant think of a single person you would support?
Anyone?
Bueller?
I’ll say it right now...
Palin/West 12’
What you got?
Is that "amnesty" or "total amnesty"?
Palin has, at best, sent mixed signals for her position on amnesty for illegal aliens but it would be inaccurate to assess her response to BOR without having read a transcript of the interview having not seen the interview.
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