You said she cut spending. I showed you otherwise. She was only there two years, and ran out before TSHTF.
You’re just all wrong to go after her about her fiscal record as governor and I don’t know what so motivates you.
All wrong eh? No, the budget of the State of Alaska says you are wrong.
Look, when she showed up at the convention in 2008 I was all for her. Then I did my homework and witnessed her choices, particularly endorsing Fiorina over DeVore in California. I winced at her appearances on TV, blathering little more than pabulum, repeatedly, waiting in vain for some sign of depth. Nice to look at, but little substance. Hence, as to why I don't like her, she's a grandstanding cheer leader whose record is not nearly as conservative as advertised offering blandishments so vague as to be capable of translating into anything when it comes to hard choices. Wasn't her string RINO endorsements enough for you?
You didn’t show otherwise. You’re quoting from a source from her first year in office, I showed you numbers over all her budgets—of which she got three years through.
I take it you don’t live in a purple or blue state, where sometimes you’ve got to go with the most electable—or the Dems entirely get their way.
And yeah, I wish she’d do more wonk-speak in her appearances, but it is the general principles that she connects with people on—and better than any other conservative pol out there—and her actions are all wonk accomplishment.
I’m not a reality TV/celebrity-type fan, and I’d rather she’d spent her time making less money but working putting out serious policy papers on energy and the global economy at the AEI. I also wish she spoke more clearly and strongly against illegal immigration, rather than cutely, like McCain and most in the GOP do. But I don’t get to micromanage the career paths of our political leaders.
You ought to go and double check your work on her gubernatorial record—and you’ll see that she did more cutting than any of our national-class pols has ever done. She was hugely popular in the voting booth in Wasilla, and grew the town, which is what the residents wanted, by building infrastructure and making it more business friendly.
If you didn’t have some sort of personally-motivated antipathy toward her, you’d see she has a better record of cost-cutting and executive governing than anyone else we have in the national arena.