p-marlowe stated, in part:
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Me thinks you are a bit too much of a perfectionist in your demands for the perfect Conservative.
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So perfection is not demanded from Gov. Palin. Yet perfection is demanded by more than a few Freepers from other GOP candidates
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I want a CORE conservative and not a PERFECT conservative.
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Gov. Palin raised taxes. Are those core principles?
Dear Freepers.
Do you seek the perfect conservative?
Do you want to find the conservative who agrees with you 100 percent?
Do you want to find your conservative soul mate?
Good news! It’s easy to find that person!
Just take the following steps:
1. find a mirror
2. look in it
Reflected in that mirror is the one person in the world who agrees with you politically, 100 percent of the time. To wit, the “perfect conservative.”
Perfect agreement, however, doesn’t automatically mean you’re qualified to be president.
Hardly. All of the candidates have their issues and some of them are core conservatives. Romney pretends to be a core conservative, but he is, in fact, a core liberal and a good actor.
Gov. Palin raised taxes. Are those core principles?
In the case of the "Big Oil" Companies (i.e., international corporations) YES.
She negotiated a royalty based on the profits that the oil companies drew from the oil they pulled out of the Alaskan State Property. That is not only a core conservative principle, but a shrewed capitalistic move. To do any less would have been to violate her oath of office and her fiduciary duty as the Chief Executive for the State and People of Alaska.
I suppose you would have preferred the prior situation where the State of Alaska was basically giving the oil away to these oil companies at a bargain basement price in exchange for hefty campaign contributions?
I'll betcha that Sarah Palin didn't get any campaign contributions from Exxon after she took them to the woodshed.