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Posted on 02/04/2011 11:48:34 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Republican Sarah Palin said on Friday an explosion of government spending and debt under President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats had put the United States on "the road to ruin."
In a tribute to former President Ronald Reagan, the potential 2012 White House contender said leaders in Washington had lost sight of the values that made Reagan a Republican icon and a hero to conservatives -- a belief in limited government, low taxes and personal freedoms.
"This is not the road to national greatness, it is the road to ruin," Palin said of the growth in government spending, budget deficits, joblessness and housing foreclosures under Obama. "The federal government is spending too much, borrowing too much, growing and controlling too much," she said.
Palin said Obama had revived the era of big government, and she ridiculed the infrastructure spending and investment he outlined in his recent State of the Union speech.
"The only thing these investments will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy," the 2008 vice presidential candidate said in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California, part of two days of festivities marking the late president's 100th birthday.
Reagan served two terms as president beginning in 1981, and his belief in limited government, reduced taxes and military strength has been the dominant political doctrine of his Republican Party ever since.
His legacy gained new momentum in the last year with the growth of the conservative grassroots Tea Party movement, which has focused on a push for limited government and reduced government spending.
Like virtually all Republican Party leaders, Palin and many of the other possible Republican candidates to unseat Obama go to great lengths to stress their belief in Reagan's principle.
But Palin said the Republican search for the next
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Failing to win elections is a bigger impediment towards saving the country. Alan Keyes is an expert at that.
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So, are you going to answer dirtboy’s simple questions?
You say she cut spending as Governor of Alaska. Fair enough. Was the state budget smaller after her two years in office, or larger?
Now, back to my first question: What programs or agencies does she advocate cutting from the federal behemoth?
A perfectly fair thing to do on FR.
Have you answered mine?
Except your premise is false, and therefore unfair.
I'm outta here, there will be no more responses to the thread hijacker from me. He's not worth it.
Nice questions for him from you though. I bet he won't answer very well........
And since so much of Alaska's economy is based upon oil, and so much of the state is owned by the federal government, the state is the source of infrastructure revenues for many localities - and that spending is cyclical, tied to the price of oil.
So, yes, spending did increase overall under Palin - but that is a reflection of the fact that the tax revenues were there for cyclical infrastructure spending.
And she cut half a billion in spending with use of the line-item veto.
So she did cut wasteful spending, and that's the key point.
So she has a history of upholding her campaign promises, so when she talks in generalities about cutting federal spending, I believe we will see specific proposals when and if she actually runs - and delivery upon promises if she wins.
But we don't know that about Keyes, do we, since he never has come even close to winning.
Or we are really weak. After observing republican politicians for the past 20 years, I’d say we’ve been taught to apologize, resign or compromise. Gov. Palin has chosen a different path. Only her faith in God can keep her from becoming the typical republican.
You're the ones fixated on Alan Keyes, not me.
I just asked a simple question which tests the substance of Governor Palin's rhetoric. And the response is a pretty good indicator that she hasn't given her supporters much, if anything, to work with.
Again, our country is on the road to ruin, as she said. Does she know how we got here? Does she know where the right road is? Does she have any credible plan to get there? Not that I've seen. Shoot, her supporters can't even point me to a single clue that she might get it.
You are a big fat liar, dude. You used to be honest enough to admit your underlying agenda. I see you can’t even live up to that standard any longer.
Once again, her history as governor. You know, the history she has from actually WINNING an election.
Something your guy wouldn't know about.
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Palin says Obama’s policies have U.S. on road to ruin
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Well, duh!
Obama’s plan is to create a total wreck of the country then become
the biggest “community organizer” (dictator) of all time.
Ah c'mon! Keyes has, and no doubt will again, walked up and down sidewalks pushing a baby carriage which held a baby doll splattered in fake blood.
Keyes' deplorable publicity antics actions have saved countless babies from being aborted. Roe v. Wade was overturned because of Keyes. Abortion is outlawed in all fifty states, again because of Alan Keyes and the utter social outcasts those that expand his bank account support him and the *juggernaut*, AIP.
Unanswered, as of yet, question: If Alan Keyes' lesbian daughter sincerely wished to join the American Independent Party would she be permitted to do so?
Well, other than your silly Alan Keyes strawman I’ll give you credit. At least you tried to paint a positive picture of your gal as a budget cutter as Governor.
Does Sarah Palin want the U.S. Department of Education gone?
italybob probably just needs a civics lessons
Can you point to a single post, on FR or anywhere else, where I've advocated for any candidate for president in 2012?
If not, your strawman attacks are just silly.
I did support Keyes in 2000 and 2008, yes.
Did you support McCain? Does that make you still a McCain guy?
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