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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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It was a speech saying it's once again "a time to choose", that mentioned the present policies are ruining america.
She also mentions how we need to choose once again the policies of limited government, exalting once again the American exceptionalism espoused by Reagan to overcome our present problems.
It wasn't a wonk speech, it wasn't a speech meant to provide specifics, so please go pound sand somewhere else.
As I said, no one wants to hear the campaign manager for Alan Keyes dishonestly attack a fine speech that honored the principles of Ronald Reagan.
Okay. Thanks. How strange.
Except, she never tells you what she would cut, or what the federal government is doing that it shouldn’t be doing. You haven’t noticed that?
Why do you have to set up an Alan Keyes strawman to knock down? Why can’t you just answer a simple question?
But do tell us what government spending Alan Keyes has actually cut.
Even better, please tell us what elections Alan Keyes has actually won.
5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
Zot!!!!
Maybe because your posting history is a good indication of what you are up to here?
I'm sorry you can't even applaud her tribute to Reagan and her simple statement that the present policies are bringing ruin the the US. It shows poorly on you and your candidate.
Really, at this point it isn’t about Sarah Palin, or Alan Keyes, or Ronald Reagan, or me, or you. It’s about whether our country is going to survive in liberty.
So, what specifically do you think we must do to get off this road to ruin?
He’s not my boss. You have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re just blowing smoke to cover the fact that you can’t answer the simplest of questions.
My posting history is one of firmly advocating for the principles this site says it stands for.
So, can you lay out the programs and agencies Sarah Palin intends to cut, if she's the "Tea Party candidate"?
Some links would suffice.
Gee. We are getting impatient for Sarah to announce, but you seem to think she already has and want her to waste her bullets.
Waste not, want not...and patience is a virtue...and other stuff like that.
You are really full of crap. You have a long, long posting history of pimping for Alan Keyes and promoting him as a candidate. So let’s turn this around. Tell us what government programs Alan Keyes has actually cut. And what elections he has actually won.
It's too bad you couldn't just say, hey, that was a nice speech honoring Reagan, because it was.
I’m not Alan Keyes. Why are you arguing against him? Can’t handle the conversation with me?
Palin with Rep Allen West or John Bolton experts on Foreign Affairs
Nice speeches, from Sarah Palin, or Alan Keyes, or anyone else, won't save the country.
And once again, Palin has delivered on spending cuts as governor of Alaska. So she has a history of delivering on her rhetoric.
Tell us again what Alan Keyes has delivered upon.
Oh, that's right, he's never won an election.
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