This may be of some assistance
Posted on 01/27/2011 5:52:59 AM PST by Lazamataz
PALIN: Well, speaking of last night, that was a tough speech to have to sit through and kind of try to stomach because the president is so off base in his ideas on how it is that he believes the government is going to create jobs. Obviously, government growth won't create any jobs. It's the private sector that can create the jobs.
And his theme last night in the Speaker of the House was the "WTF," you know, "Winning the Future." And I thought, "OK, that acronym, spot on." There were a lot of "WTF" moments throughout that speech, namely, when he made the statement, Greta, that he believed that we can't allow ourselves to, I guess, eventually become buried under a mountain of debt. That right there tells you he is so disconnected from reality! The problem is, we are buried under a mountain of debt, and jobs cannot be created by the private sector. We cannot grow and thrive and prosper as a nation when we are buried under this $14 trillion debt.
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“Reagan Profanity Asserted
UPI
Published: March 30, 1985
WASHINGTON, March 29— President Reagan became ‘’angry and profane’’ at Representative Bill Alexander, Democrat of Arkansas, when he telephoned the Congressman this week to seek support for the MX missile, a Congressional aide said today. The aide, Steven Skardon, said Mr. Reagan got angry when Mr. Alexander told him he should instead propose a balanced budget. Mr. Skardon quoted the Congressman as saying Mr. Reagan ‘’got angry and started cussing me,’’ but did not disclose what words the President used other than to say they were ‘’angry and profane.’’ A Reagan aide called the conversation ‘’confidential.’”
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“When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. ... As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.”
George S. Patton
This is the FUTURE leader of the free world... not a Sunday school teacher.
LLS
While her intentions are good, again, Sarah misspeaks:
“The problem is, we are buried under a mountain of debt, and jobs cannot be created by the private sector. “
WTF???? JOBS CAN BE CREATED BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR!!!
Did she mean to say “Jobs cannot be created by the GOVERNMENT???”
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And this:
PALIN: “That was another one of those WTF moments, when he so often repeated this Sputnik moment that he would aspire Americans to celebrate. And he needs to remember that what happened back then with the former communist USSR and their victory in that race to space, yes, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union.”
There are two things wrong with this:
1) The Sputnik moment did NOT aspire Americans to celebrate at all. It motivated Americans to COMPETE against Russia.
2) The Sputnik victory in the race to space was a minor victory (we were close behind them anyway) and any debt they incurred during that program “at that time” MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT result in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union. Rather, it was the gradual military buildup during the cold war culminated during Reagan’s term and the communist system itself that deprives individuals of their incentive to produce that caused their system to collapse.
So, therefore, this is just yet another example of the many vapid comments made by Palin (in spite of her intent and her philosophy being in the right place).
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Then there’s the way simplistic “Spudnut” analogy about a doughnut shop. So is she saying we need more doughnut shops and that’ll get us out of this economic malaise? Well, yes, but we need to have more world-class scientists & engineers. We need less government, etc.
This type of simplistic thought and inarticulateness has appeal to a lot of Americans but it turns off many conservatives, including me.
I want someone more articulate like Michelle Bachman or Mike Rogers to be the spokesperson for our movement. Palin would be a good RNC Chairwoman.
WTF?!?!?
(Loved it)
Context is in this instance Palin was referring to the problem (burden of debt) and what it causes (no lob creation).
She was making the argument that more debt will not create jobs...
There are two things wrong with this:
1) The Sputnik moment did NOT aspire Americans to celebrate at all. It motivated Americans to COMPETE against Russia.
She was referring to Obama calling him offbase for referring to "Sputnik moment" as a rally cry...
2) The Sputnik victory in the race to space was a minor victory (we were close behind them anyway) and any debt they incurred during that program “at that time” MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT result in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union. Rather, it was the gradual military buildup during the cold war culminated during Reagan’s term and the communist system itself that deprives individuals of their incentive to produce that caused their system to collapse.
She simply made an analogy comparing the Soviet system versus the American Capitalist system -one centrally controlled and one not -one big government and one not -one in debt as a result of communist system and one not. ALL the government 'projects' were flawed in this way -space and military. The space race was but on flawed debt ridden project that contributed to the downfall. It was not all military debt. It was a flawed system trying to compete with a productive system that did them in...
That’s very good. Now, if the letters were tattoo’d on his forehead...
LOL - I like it! :-)
Oh my, overcome by a case of the vapors.
Millie do fetch my fan!
...”She was making the argument that more debt will not create jobs... “
Then why didn’t she SAY that??
It’s gobbledy goop mangling of words that is so characteristic of her.
Many of her sentences like this DO NOT MAKE SENSE. She is not the best person to serve as the mouthpiece for our conservative movement.
She is honest and on the right page.
I think the problem is even though her heart is totally in the right place, she misspeaks and sounds sophomoric far too many times for my tastes when we’ve got other better conservative speakers.
I agree she’s honest and we don’t want a lying ideologue, but there are plenty of far-more articulate people who have those same qualities but don’t sound like a high-school cheerleader with a vapid understanding of many issues.
Think: DeMint, Michele Bachman, Mike Rogers.
Palin has good bedrock values, but her understanding of each issue lacks depth. And it shows.
All I’m saying is that if we put her up to the task of running in 2012, she’ll be such easy fodder for ridicule. Of course, not as easy as Ovomit, but, she won’t be the asset that you think she is. We need a candidate that appeals to all conservatives. I won’t vote for her if there are other conservatives like the 3 I mentioned above.
Of course I’d vote for her over Ovomit or any other Democrap they throw into the ring.
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