Posted on 01/28/2012 6:42:03 PM PST by traviskicks
Appearing on Fox News this morning, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin surprised her acolytes by singing the praises of the most libertarian-leaning GOP presidential candidate…Ron Paul.
I still sense his desire to be more of an isolated-type country and not be as aware and active on the international scene when it comes to protecting our allies like Israel and doing all that we can.
That is my hesitancy there still with Ron Paul's candidacy. However, on the domestic front, he is the only one who has been so adamantly passionate about doing something about the suffocating debt, about doing something about reining in government growth and actually slashing budgets - $1 trillion a year, he's been specific about until we get our hands around this - I respect that.
I appreciate it. His austerity measures that he wants to see Congress adopt in order to rein in government and let the private sector actually grow and thrive and hire more people.
Fresh off his strongest debate performance to date, Sarah Palin’s kind words could not have come at a better time. The Texas Congressman, who has abandoned all hopes of winning Tuesday’s presidential primary in Florida, is seeking delegates elsewhere by campaigning in Maine for the next two days. Paul, of course, is a long shot to win the Republican nomination, but a surprising victory in the Pine Tree State on February 4th could revive his faltering candidacy.
On the other hand, there is at least some reason to believe that Sarah Palin’s remarks may strike a chord with conservatives. After all, the former governor’s assertion that Ron Paul is the only Republican contender serious about cutting the size and scope of government is in some respects true. Indeed, his proposals to cut $1 trillion from the national debt and eliminate five federal departments are bold ideas that Tea Partiers and fiscal conservatives everywhere can embrace. While his isolationism is a deal breaker for some, reining in government spending has been a staple of his campaign since announcing his candidacy last summer.
In any event, if Ron Paul hopes to ride his newfound momentum to victory in 2012, he faces an uphill battle. Nevertheless, I suppose a little love from Sarah Palin can’t hurt.
BINGO!
Newt doesn’t need to ‘pick up on this’ as he knows the problem and has said time and again how he would fix it. Spending cuts are part of it but job growth and industrial growth are also a big part of it.
Newt’s balanced the budget AND paid down some of the debt once. I trust he’ll do it again only bigger this time around.
JB
I just can’t feature Palin endorsing a man who is so wrong about Israel, not to mention the rest of his foreign policy views.
Sounds great.
I don’t know why Newt does not run with this. In any case, Newt is in my prayers.
More like Treasurer of the United States.
Check out a dollar bill - two signatures.
Secretary of the Treasury = Federal Reserve
Treasurer of the United States = united States of America
PINGERS Greg!
Check it out!
I wanted Palin to run. But if you think the assault on Newt in the past week has been bad, you can multiply that times about 100 for what they would have tried to do to Palin.
The Washington Establishment, BOTH PARTIES, are scared to death of Sarah Palin. Quaking in their pants, peeing their drawers, scared of her. Reagan is the last outsider to be elected president. I’m convinced the “Elite Political Establishment” will do whatever necessary to keep Palin, or anyone like her, from gaining the presidency.
It’s absolutely great to see Palin supporting the Godfather of the Tea Party, Ron Paul.
No, Paul needs to stay in until the Virginia primary is over so that Romney can be denied a victory in VA.
For Virginians Ron Paul is the Romney stopper.
The moslums are very afraid that Paul might win or that his idea of cutting all foreign aid might carry through. Once America cuts aid to Israel, it also cuts the leash that America has had on Israel’s military, one which it has used to rein in Israel again and again when they were on the brink of permanently destroying their enemies. With no more leash, Israel would be UNLEASHED and they could no longer afford to wait. Israel would crush Islam and free the Arab people from the 7th century prison they have been held in.
Go Ron Paul
Chairman of the Fed, Ron Paul.
Critical reading is your friend. Palin is a deep, complex, nuanced and practical political thinker. Understanding her takes the whole box of crayons, not just black and white.
Unless, of course, you think you should just use, in politics, people who agree exactly perfectly in all effects with exactly the agenda you've decided upon - and absolutely nobody else.
Oh, by the way, if you were on a plane and the pilot died, and Ron Paul was the only one who could land the plane, would you keep him from getting to the controls?
How about screening firemen for their political views when your house is on fire, before letting them open up a hose?
You know Obama has signed a "law" allowing him to completel bypass the entire Constitution in every effect, and arrest and detain anyone forever without trial or notice, right? And you've also noticed that Obama has increased the debt by seven trillion dollars, right? And you've also know that Obamacare is not about medical care but the witholding of medical care to reduce the population, right?
Good. So, given that, what part of crashing plane and burning house don't you understand?
Here are some of the massive spending cuts, tax cuts and plans for revitalizing the economy that Newt is proposing:
Neuter the Fed. Privatize social security and medicare and eventually phase them out and eliminate the payroll taxes. Return some 185 federal welfare programs to the states and the people where they can be controlled locally or shuttered. Break up and unwind freddie and fannie and return to free markets. Fire everyone at the FDA. Shutter the Education Dept and send control of education back to the states and people. Repeal ObamaCare. Repeal Dodd-Frank. Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley. Reform the federal bureaucracy drastically reducing government and regulations.
Implement an optional 15% individual flat tax after deductions and a 12.5% corporate tax with 100% 1st year expensing for new equipment. Eliminate the capital gains tax and the death tax.
Fully develop American energy!
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dxv6bepdo_0#!
The Gingrich Jobs and Growth Plan:
http://www.newt.org/solutions/jobs-economy
Newt on the Government Imposed Energy and Jobs Crisis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PnIkbLXif1g
Much more here:
http://www.newt.org/solutions/american-energy-plan
And here:
She’s right. His plan to cut $1 trillion teh first year is something to look at. I’d do that with no reservations whatsoever.
Yeah, man, earmarks are bad. We need to let the bureaucrats in D.C. decide where all the money is spent.
What's so bold about eliminating 5 Federal departments? I have 9 I want to eliminate.
Palin just practically endorsed Newt on Fox News Judge Judy.
She said he was the only one who could rip Obama to shreds during a debate. She also blasted RomneyCare, saying it was identical to ObamaCare and all the country needs to find out
before they cast a vote for ROmney.
I think that on one narrow issue, the incestuous nature of the Treasury and Fed surrounding debt auctions, it would be a good thing if someone who hates the Fed as much as Paul does were SecTreas. We’d see an end to the under-the-table deals between the Treasury and Fed to mask just how bad our debt situation is.
On the other hand, I don’t think he knows enough about the financial markets to prevent from being gamed by the investment banks.
Exactly what I've been advising my Virginia friends to do -- vote however you have to vote to see to it that someone who is not Mitt Romney gets those delegates.
This has been thrown out there a few times already as a possibility in Gringrich’s cabinet. I think it sounds good: what does anyone else think?
I honestly think that any president-elect who selected Ron Paul for anything would catch h-e-double hockey sticks. While a Treasury position wouldn't directly affect our foreign policy, the sad fact is that Paul subscribes to "international banker" conspiracy theories that are classically anti-Semitic and you better believe that some of his supporters are out-and-out anti-Semites.
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