Sarah Palin complains of corporatism, permanent ruling class of the left & right

[TexMac]

She'll find out how hard it is for a 3rd party to get on the ballot. She's too lazy to try that.

 

[WilliamC]

As far as I know Palin didn't ask McCain to be his nominee, he chose her as a strategic move to appeal to folks with a libertarian bent.

She may have made some compromises, maybe not, I really don't know, but I haven't seen anything yet to make me actively distrust her.

I say an endorsement from her would be great, and a Paul/Palin ticket would be acceptable to me.

 

[TexMac]

As far as I know Palin didn't ask McCain to be his nominee, he chose her as a strategic move to appeal to folks with a libertarian bent.

She may have made some compromises, maybe not, I really don't know, but I haven't seen anything yet to make me actively distrust her.

I say an endorsement from her would be great, and a Paul/Palin ticket would be acceptable to me.

He wanted her to appeal to women (big mistake) not libertarians. She went Full Neocon (pallin' around with terrorists, etc.) all too willingly because she's a stone cold political opportunist with no principles.

 

[Cleaner44]

It is possible she is waking up just as we all have done. We want to see people wake up but then many doubt that people like Palin or Beck ever could. It could be that she has been listening to Ron Paul and finally realizes he is right. It could be that she is learning...

 

[TexMac]

How would you know she was "waking up?" Because she said so? How can you believe someone who lies all the time, whenever it benefits her political career? One of the things we love about RP is his consistency; he walks the walk. Hooking up with a known liar would not look good for RP.

 

[Cleaner44]

How would you know she was "waking up?" Because she said so? How can you believe someone who lies all the time, whenever it benefits her political career? One of the things we love about RP is his consistency; he walks the walk. Hooking up with a known liar would not look good for RP.

Only time will tell. I really could not care much less about Palin, she is an author, nothing more. I am only saying that we have to be open to the fact that people do learn that Ron Paul is right.

 

[emazur]

How would you know she was "waking up?" Because she said so? How can you believe someone who lies all the time, whenever it benefits her political career? One of the things we love about RP is his consistency; he walks the walk. Hooking up with a known liar would not look good for RP.

If she's not running, it's good that she talks the talk (good for RP if more people have these ideas in their head), but most of us here should know that if she was put in power she wouldn't walk the walk. For example, she sounds a lot like Paul on foreign policy here (May 2011):

First, Palin said, “we should only commit our forces when clear and vital American interests are at stake. Period.” That point led to her second, dismissing nation-building as a “nice idea in theory,” but not the “main purpose” guiding American foreign policy.

Palin continued down that track by insisting that a president must be able to articulate “clearly defined objectives” before foreign interventions – a standard she has recently Obama failed to live up to in Libya. As her fourth point, Palin declared that “American soldiers must never be put under foreign command.”

Palin’s concluding statement deviated somewhat from ideology she had been espousing, as she stated that while “sending our armed forces should be our last resort… we will encourage the forces of freedom in the world.” That last point is somewhat consistent with the non-interventionist ideology Palin has been growing fond of in recent weeks – but also provides her a clever escape clause from her stated theory that has allowed her to criticize Obama for, as she has said, acting too slowly in Libya.

“We can’t fight every war, we can’t undo every injustice in the world,” Palin said. Sunday’s attack on bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan was “an effective use of force,” Palin said, unlike the “ill-defined” mission in Libya.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54165.html#ixzz1XfQdjlmO

Yet only 2 months before that she was supporting the Libyan attack:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142708#.Tmz07NTem70

Regarding the situation in Libya, where dictator Muammar Qaddafi is fighting to retain control, Palin came out in favor of a US-imposed no-fly zone there.

"Yes, 41 years of Qaddafi, he's got to go," she stated. "I think what was unfortunate there in Libya was that it took our Administration so long to finally have any full-throated support for ousting Qaddafi. We finally saw the writing on the wall

Of course she could always (and actually did) come out and say "Well I supported Libya initially but we didn't do it right". Well you could say that about anything - like Herman Cain initially supporting the bailout but later claiming it wasn't done right (Palin also supported it initially BTW). When will these people learn the government never does anything right? Never.

 

[TexMac]

Exactly. No principle, just political expediency. Thumbs down.

 

[Tod]

Sounds like Dr. Paul wrote it. She should endorse him in return for the gig as the last Secretary of the Interior. She could oversee the sale of all the federal land to pay off the national debt and fund social security and medicare.

LOL! That's a good one!

It is very important that she is bringing up this issue. The more people who understand this, the more people will come to realize that Ron Paul is the one who offers a viable alternative to the status quo.

However, I personally don't believe she would make a good VP selection (Last Secretary of the Interior would be a good one, perhaps! ) if for no other reason than she lacks the qualifications/experience/understanding for the job. There are other reasons too.

 

[rockandrollsouls]

Strange, but that's the vibe I get, too. I think it'd be exciting to see a third party headlined by someone who was "in" with MSM, but I doubt it.

I decided this week that Palin is angling to run. She is going to run independent, or invent something called "The Tea Party" whos banner she will run under.

 

[muzzled dogg]

they're really tryin to get us to bite

 

[libertybrewcity]

She's probably on the road so much that her only "media" influence is from the internet and not from the traditional biased newspaper and tv

 

[emazur]

It's a topsy turvy world - Nader praises Palin:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ralph-goes-rogue-nader-gives-sarah-palin-props-for-populist-speech/

“I think she’s a lot smarter than most people credit her,” said Nader. “Judging by her comments, she is squarely in the camp of conservative populism, opposed to corporatism and its corporate state.”

“When she was governor of Alaska she really did take on the oil industry, and [she also] approved a statewide referendum that resulted in the first state in the Union to regulate cruise lines and their pollution offshore,” he says. “So there is a precursor to these remarks.”