Posted on 11/04/2010 2:30:24 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Reporting from Washington Sarah Palin is urging Republicans to see their 2010 victories as the start of a longer effort to "revive and restore" America, a goal that she says is possible only if President Obama is ousted in 2012.
In an online commentary, Palin outlines how she would like to see the new Republican forces in Congress follow through when they take control, and what it would mean for the next election.
"The 2012 story should be about conservatives in Congress cutting government down to size and rolling back the spending, and the Left doing everything in its power to prevent these necessary reforms from happening," she writes for the National Review. "In the next two years, if all we end up doing is adopting some tax hikes here, some Obama-agenda compromises there, and a thousand little measures that do nothing to get us out of the economic mess we're in, the same voters that put the GOP in office will vote them out in the next election."
Palin also offered a defense against critics who say she backed candidates in some primary races who proved to be unelectable in the general election, Christine O'Donnell of Delaware foremost among them.
"We saw in the last decade what happens when conservatives hold their noses and elect liberals who have an 'R' after their names," she said. "Certainly we can and should back sensible center-right candidates in bluer states, but I see no point in backing someone who supports cap-and-tax, Obamacare, bailouts, taxes, and more useless stimulus packages."
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We HAD to start somewhere to clear out the Progressives and their RINO co-horts.
It's refreshing to hear someone who brings PRINCIPLE back to the table.
Let the whiners on FR who say Races were lost due to the Tea Party Candidates go whine elsewhere; RINO's have been put on notice. It may take time, but the snowball is rolling now.....join it, or get out of the way.
While I am still angry with Sarah for supporting Juan McCain she did a hell-of-a job this election cycle.
Hope everyone who sees Rove on TV will keep in mind that he said it was Obama not the TEA party that helped get republicans elected this cycle.
FOX should let Rove go.
As much as I would LOVE for Sarah to run in ‘12, I just don’t think Americans are willing to give somebody else a chance with little to no experience again.
She’s young and has PLENTY of time to really get ready for a serious run.
The job that she did this last election cycle was superb. And you know what? She did exactly what Michael Steele should have been doing.
Palin would be OUTSTANDING in the meantime as head of the GOP.
Just my 2 cents.
“We saw in the last decade what happens when conservatives hold their noses and elect liberals who have an ‘R’ after their names,” she said. “Certainly we can and should back sensible center-right candidates in bluer states, but I see no point in backing someone who supports cap-and-tax, Obamacare, bailouts, taxes, and more useless stimulus packages.”
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Makes a whole lot of sense and is very well stated. She was right about Castle. And you are right that we had to start somewhere or it would have been business as usual . . . and that earned us a depression and government takeovers that I did not dream were possible.
While I am still angry with Sarah for supporting Juan McCain
Let it go....
“Hope everyone who sees Rove on TV will keep in mind that he said it was Obama not the TEA party that helped get republicans elected this cycle.”
Seems like a case of “what comes first, the chicken or the egg”
Because of Obummers policies it gave rise to the tea parties.
Exit polls showed %29 associated themselves with the tea party movement. Those same people would have voted and voted the way they did tea party or not.
He is such a big socialist RINO, and I am letting it go.
Sarah DOES have experience.
While I never thought that I’d advocate for a woman candidate,(women are desirable, but illogical, and yes, I have a boss) I voted for her last time around, and I strongly hope she’s on the ballot in ‘12.
So far as I can see, she’s doing very, very well.
You got elected. Great.
Now go DO what is right for our country!
You mean like a community organizer? That kind of relevant leadership experience?
I think Sarah Palin would lose to Barack Obama, period.
Here is the punch line. I love Sarah. I think she would be the best President we have seen in many, many years. She would DO something about the border, taxes, unions, ObamaCare, etc.
The Media controls a vast portion of US society and frankly, many people are non-political out of apathy, disgust or merely a lack of knowledge. They eat pizza and watch American Idol, believe in global warming, get their lip pierced and listen to Lady Gaga.
The Left claims Sarah is dumb, the funny part is that the Left’s implicit and explicit strategy is to keep people uninformed, scared and dependent.
Welfare is not designed for compassion, it is operant conditioning to create a need for Government. Sucking in the lowest rung of society onto the dole creates a power base that votes Democratic, not out of philosophy, but out of economic necessity. Schools do not teach critical or objective thinking and the more people need Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare and Medicaid, the more power is usurped from the people to Government.
In effect, Government creates its own artificial gravity that gives people a basic existence, working or non-working and the need, via open borders and unions, to keep themselves in power.
Eventually, it becomes the USSR and everyone realizes there is nothing produced, so the place falls apart.
I think we should remember to refer to Rove as Tokyo Rove...this man and RINO’s destroyed Christine O’Donnell. I’m sick of seeing Tokyo Rove’s face on every fox news show.
Look at her record before you start parroting the lies of the media. SHE HAS EXPERIENCE; both political and private sector!
2-term City Council
2-term Mayor
Gas Commissioner
Governor (2 years or so)
She has more political experience than Mitt Romney, for crying out loud.
And she and her husband have run their own small business for at least 2 decades. She’s a small-business person through and through.
Jeez.
Amen!!
And the crawling left wets themselves at the mere sound of her voice.
Her whole column is here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/252477/midterms-lessons-learned-and-way-forward-sarah-palin
Hope everyone who sees Rove on TV will keep in mind that he said it was Obama not the TEA party that helped get republicans elected this cycle.Then we can also make the case it was he (him?) and the republicans that gave us Obama, Pelosi, Reid the last 2 cycles.
She's clearly talking about folks like Scott Brown and Fiorina - Republicans who are conservative on core issues and will be there with you when it counts. She's not talking about @ss-hats like Mark Kirk and Mike Castle.
Knee-jerk Politico talking points.
Governor Palin has 16 years of public office experience.
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