From the presidential peanut gallery in New Hampshire…
The Tea Party has declared Mitt Romney is a non-starter for them. Their reigning spokesperson Sarah Palin weighed in from New Hampshire, as Romney declared his candidacy in a speech that claimed “Barack Obama has failed America.”
When a reporter followed up that Romney has distinguished his state mandate from the federal one President Obama signed into law in 2010, Palin responded that even state mandates are problematic.
“He makes a good argument there that it does. States rights and authority and responsibility allowed in our states makes more sense than a big centralized government telling us what to do,” she said.
“However, even on a state level and even a local level, mandates coming from a governing body, it’s tough for a lot of us independent Americans to accept, because we have great faith in the private sectors and our own families … and our own businessmen and women making decisions for ourselves. Not any level of government telling us what to do.”
Don’t look now but we now know Sarah Palin’s role. She’s the wingnut ombudsman from Tea Party country putting the Republican establishment on notice. Keeping them honest, making sure they are held accountable.
From this perch she’ll throw pot shots at presidential wannabes not keeping true to We the People, as defined by the Tea Party people, a significant group that holds sway over who wins the primary. It’s from here she’ll also amass her platform for Fox News channel as conscience of the new conservatives.
Barry Goldwater is cringing from beyond.
The Dims need a Sarah Palin.
Sure, the Democrats need a lying sack of crap like Palin. I actually was flipping channels and saw this part, and I realized that she doesn’t exagerrate like most politicians, or even “bullshit” like some, she lies as a way of life. And then finds someone who disgraces the term journalist lke Great S.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/31/232600/the-7-trillion-lie-palin-falsely-claims-debt-has-grown-more-under-obama-than-all-other-presidents-combined/
She has personally set back political discourse in this country. Maybe if she smell enough of those emissions she calims to love so much she’ll go away.
All this crap about states rights has gone to far. What’s next? The Articles of Confederation! That worked out real well. Someone needs to start talking about this , it could be dangerous.
If things go haywire, I’m off to the Republic of Vermont. Hell, may go there anyway.
Fangio,
Articles of Confederation-great response!
The Dems and too frightened to to really attack the Repubs and wingnuts on the states rights issue. They are afraid of making or even attempting to make a case that the Federal Government can and does play a vital, necessary, and positive role in the lives of its citizens.
Right now they are riding the medicare gravey train that the Repubs gave them, and are riding it well. Given that we are talking about the DC Dems you keep waiting to see if they can crew that up.
Of course the Democrats are frightened. They should be. Their social models is failing. People are fleeing Blue States like California, New York and Illionois and moving the Rick Perry’s Texas and Nikki Haley’s South Carolina, where people who start businesses don’t have to worry about a looter class stealing the sweat off their brow.
Now imagine the blowback against Democrats as Obamacare eats into Medicare and Social Security. You all think Palin is stupid. Nope. She’s the shrewd one. She stood by while your party threw itself off a cliff the way the Bushies did with the GOP over the Iraq war.
You liberals will reap what you have sewn. You just refuse to answer for it.
Why don’t you explain to us who is in the looter class?
People are moving to SC for what? That state has has had double digit unemployment for years. The only people moving to SC are retirees because it’s a lot easier to loll around on Haley’s plantation for free than that actually have to pay for something.
I guess you don’t realize that SC is the biggest welfare state in the nation do you?
Senor Cuevo, the lies win no matter which repug is spouting them. And the media repeat them endlessly until they seem like the truth to anyone not paying attention–and most aren’t.
Political discourse was set back long before Sarah Palin although she’s found a new way to set it back further.
I don’t no what Sarah Palin’s plans are, proberly only a few do. I am thinking she might run for office, doesn’t mean for President, but she did just bought a million dollar home in Arizona which makes me think she might run the Jon Kyls seat in 2012, why would she buy a home in Arizona, and not pick another state to move too.