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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It’s posters like you that can sometimes make one think for a moment they’re on a liberal site instead of FR.
So you are being dishonest by a half. You are a long-standing shill for Keyes.
That’s BS, and you know it.
I take it that means that, again, you can’t back up your BS.
Whereas you have been an active part of past Keyes campaigns. So comparing my activity to yours is ludicrous.
But we expect such from those trying to mask their motives for trolling.
You would, weasel. Tell us here and now that you wouldn’t be part of a Keyes 2012 campaign launch if he expressed an interest in such.
I have to admit that I would like to see Obama debate Keyes! lol
Obama already ran against Keyes. It wasn’t a pretty sight.
We’ll pick our candidate for President on Jan. 3, 2012. It is up to our affiliates who that will be.
I can assure you that it won’t be someone who talks in vague generalities about what is wrong with our free republic, and what it is going to take to save it.
LOL on the village idiot comment.
To be fair, I think the GOP served Keyes up as a sacrifice. But, I don’t recall a national televised Presidential debate between Keyes and Obama. Keyes would wipe the floor with the Kenyan.
She will pick a conservative but maybe not outside the political class. People might be more comfortable with an established Republican figure such as Pence, etc.
Eliminating the EPA and starting to use our bountiful natural resources for ourselves instead of financing countries who hate us and who will use the money for our destruction.
That’s one. I have more.
Are you actually somehow employed or working for Alan Keyes?
Can you answer that one simple question?
Really? She’s called for an end to the EPA? Can you give me a link?
Well done.
No, I’m not. That’s a straw man they’re using to deflect.
I thought as much.
You have a lot of nerve lecturing Palin supporters about answering your question when you won't answer mine, even as you call my claims about your support for Keyes BS.
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