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"Sarah is the ONLY potential candidate/candidate who has actually ever reduced the size of government and returned power to local authorities and the people.
After zero, we can’t afford a run-of-the-mill candidate who’ll only maintain the status quo. We need somebody whose actually done it before.
We’re in a nose dive about to crash. Slowing down doesn’t solve the problem, it just drags it out a little bit. We need to pull out of the dive.
Romney increased the size of government and added a new entitlement.
Perry did a great job of holding state employee job growth to just under population growth while he amassed unprecedented powers in the governor’s office specifically designed to be a weak executive by the Texas founders. Maintaining the status quo with a bunch of czars will not pull us out of the dive.
Bachmann has no executive experience. Ditto Santorum. Cain has no foreign policy expertise.

We need Sarah, even if we have to wait until October."

Excellent summary. Bears repeating.

Regards, Mr. Sol.

"Sarah is the ONLY potential candidate/candidate who has actually ever reduced the size of government and returned power to local authorities and the people."

Well said and I don't understand why more people don't GET this.

We need drastic, unprecedented reductions in government and spending. We need entire goverment agencies completely shut down.

Excellent summary. Bears repeating. Regards, Mr. Sol.

This also needs to be repeated.

A nugget from today's Pew poll that deserves a post of its own: Forty-one percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters say there is "no chance" they would vote for Sarah Palin in a presidential race. ... That's the second-highest rejection rate of any Republican candidate, exceeded only by Newt Gingrich, who was ruled out by 48 percent of respondents. .... These are not the only reality-check numbers for Palin this week. A Gallup survey released yesterday showed that in a race that includes all the current candidates, plus Palin and Rudy Giuliani, the former Alaska governor would draw 11 percent of the vote — tying Paul for third place.

And those extremely toxic general election numbers are from REPUBLICANS.

Among ALL voters, the August 2011 FOX News Poll showed that 75% of ALL voters believed that Sarah Palin would NOT be a good President.

In the Rasmussen Poll, which usually polls Republicans better than they actually perform in elections, Obama absolutely slaughters Palin in the latest poll:

August 22, 2011 ... Obama 50%, Palin 33% ... If Election Day was right now, President Obama would defeat the former Alaska governor 50% to 33%, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. This marks the first time that the president has risen out of the 40s in hypothetical matchups with any of the major GOP presidential hopefuls.

If the ultimate goal is to defeat Obama in 2012, a Sarah Palin GOP nomination is suicidal.