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maybe snowbilly sarah and Bachmann can duke it out for the crazy vote? looks like Bachmann is in Bachmann To Join GOP Debate In New Hampshire On June 13
agree That's why Fox is keeping her around. they're going to have a lot more money to spend when Beck is gone. A timeslot too!
Amid media circus, Palin lays out policy positions TAGS: afghanistan aid to egypt Barack Obama Byron York deficit fox news Gettysburg Greta Van Susteren Iowa Iowa caucuses Muslim Brotherhood new hampshire One Nation Paul Ryan RealClearPolitics sarah palin South Carolina SHARE PRINT By: Byron York 06/02/11 8:05 PM Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork Former U.S. Vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin greets some of the thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts and military veterans participating in 'Rolling Thunder' rally May 29, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia. In the last week Sarah Palin has commanded the attention of the national press corps simply by taking in a few tourist sites on the East Coast. Whenever she stops her "One Nation" bus, reporters lucky or canny enough to keep up with her have asked about her political intentions. Will she run for president? Is she thinking about running for president? If she ran for president, how would she campaign? One thing many viewers have probably missed in all the horse-race speculation is that Palin is perfectly willing to discuss her positions on key issues, if anyone wants to ask. In fact, in recent days, weeks, and months, we've seen a lot of policy commentary from the former Alaska governor. For example, during the bus trip, Palin took a stand on an issue that is crucial for candidates considering a run in the Iowa caucuses. "I think that all of our energy subsidies need to be re-looked at today and eliminated," Palin told RealClearPolitics. "We've got to allow the free market to dictate what's most efficient and economical for our nation's economy." What that means is Palin opposes the infamous ethanol subsidy that some presidential aspirants are afraid to question, lest they lose support in heavily agricultural Iowa. Palin has also been speaking out in support of Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan -- another question that Republicans, and certainly all Republican presidential candidates, have had to answer. Palin supports the Ryan plan and even adds that she'd like to include Social Security in the deficit-cutting mix (something Ryan left out). And when Palin criticizes President Obama's inaction on the deficit, even David Brooks, the New York Times columnist who once said Palin "represents a fatal cancer to the Republican Party," observes that, "Sarah Palin is right about that. He has no plan." Palin has also been talking about foreign policy. In an extended on-the-bus interview with Fox News' Greta van Susteren, Palin addressed a proposal for $2 billion in U.S. aid to Egypt. "We don't have the $2 billion!" Palin said. "Where are we going to get it? We're going to go borrow it perhaps from China? We'll borrow money from foreign countries to give to foreign countries." The problem would be far worse, Palin said, if the Muslim Brotherhood plays a significant role in a new Egyptian government and "our U.S. dollars go to support a government that perhaps will not be friendly to the American government." When van Susteren wondered whether U.S. aid would "help us rather than hurt us," Palin shot back: "We're going to buy their good will?... Hey, here's two billion bucks that we had to borrow. We'll give this to you, and you know, we'll cross our fingers and hope it does some good?" Palin also questioned the usefulness of the billions in aid that the United States has given to Pakistan. For those interested in her positions on issues, Palin's Facebook page is filled with notes and commentary. Recent entries include titles like "New Afghanistan Development Dangerous to NATO," "Obama's Strange Strategy: Borrow Foreign Money to Give to Foreign Countries," "Barack Obama's Disregard for [Israel's] Security Begs Clarity," "Obama's Failed Energy Policy," and "Removing the Boot from the Throat of American Businesses." They're not think-tank white papers, but they are substantive statements on key issues. To critics, publishing statements on Facebook seems less serious than releasing them from an office. But Palin has three million followers on the social media website. That's an important forum, especially when combined with Palin's books and television commentary. None of that, not even a bus trip that might include stops in Iowa and South Carolina in addition to New Hampshire, necessarily equals a Palin presidential candidacy. Palin is teasing the political world every step of the way of her current trip, saying she hasn't made any decisions about her future and that she simply wants to bring attention to America's founding principles. But she's careful to say there would be room for her, if she chose to run. "The field isn't set yet, not by a long shot," Palin said during a visit to Gettsyburg, Pa. "It's going to change up a lot. And I think there will be more strong candidates jumping in." Will Palin be one of them? The political professionals who cite her utter lack of a campaign organization still say no, and they're probably right. But run or not, Palin is establishing herself as a long-lasting voice in the Republican Party. Byron York, The Examiner's chief political correspondent, can be contacted at byork@washingtonexaminer.com.
This is the bottom line. Palin is making sure people still want to listen to her after the election is over. If she actually tried to mount a campaign, she would crash, burn and be exposed. That would be bad for long-term revenue.
It's hilarious that Palin is trying to stay relevant but still hasn't bothered to learn anything about actual policy, and issues of the day. She is ignorant of what the Dream Act is. It is telling that the GOP and folks like basso are so lost that they put some stock into what this know-nothing willfully ignorant publicity hound has to say. The more she speaks the more she shows how little she knows, and how ill-prepared she is for any kind of national position dealing with actual real topics. The reason is, is because she's ignorant about them, and has no idea what the positions and policies are actually about. The fact that anyone actually supports her as political leader or listens to her ideas on policy is real black eye for that person or people. They may not feel the shame of following her, and listening to her, but every other person with even the slightest hint of politics and policies is laughing at her and those that think she has anything valuable to say.
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Among her excuses will be she finds not being a candidate "liberating" and "you don’t need to be in office to affect positive change". Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56243.html#ixzz1OKnDfAGh Well Sarah, let's see if GOP partisans will still give a care about your blathering when they get serious about choosing someone. May you'll get to give that keynote address after all.
Poor Newt. Gingrich's election campaign team resigns en masse (AFP) – 43 minutes ago WASHINGTON — After a gaffe-prone start, the fledgling presidential campaign of firebrand Republican Newt Gingrich was dealt a major blow Thursday when his senior staff resigned en masse. "The professional team came to the realization that the direction of the campaign they sought and Newt's vision for the campaign were incompatible," Dave Carney, a key Gingrich strategist who resigned, told NBC television. Gingrich dismissed the resignations with a two-line statement on his Facebook page, saying he was still tilting for the White House in the 2012 race in a bid to challenge Democrat President Barack Obama. "I am committed to running the solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring," he wrote. "The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles." Among the key staff who resigned were Rick Tyler, the campaign's press secretary and national campaign manager Rob Johnson. The top consultants in both South Carolina and Iowa, two key battleground states, have also left the campaign, according to media reports. Gingrich, who ushered in the Republican revolution while he was the leader of the US House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, announced on May 11 that he would seek the Republican nomination for US president. But the candidate found himself in hot water almost from the start as he joined a crowded field of Republican hopefuls vying for the party's nomination. Speaking just days later on NBC's Meet the Press, Gingrich broke with conservative orthodoxy by criticizing the Republican's plan to privatize medicare, the federally-financed health care system for the elderly, calling it "right-wing social engineering." The comment caused a furor, and Gingrich took several days to apologize to the plan's author, Republican Representative Paul Ryan. The thrice-married former history professor also drew withering comments when a Congressional newspaper revealed that he once owed the fashionable jewelry story Tiffany's $500,000. Most recently, with the campaign trying to build all-important momentum in its first month, Gingrich disappeared for a week to take a cruise with his wife, Callista, to the Greek Islands, another apparent bone of contention among campaign staff. As speaker of the House, Gingrich was best known for helping draft the "Contract with America," ten socially-conservative items the new Republican-dominated House put to a vote within the first 100 days in office. But his tenure is equally remembered for the infamous four-week government shutdown in 1995 and 1996, when all but essential government personnel were furloughed after a budget fight led by Gingrich and then president Bill Clinton. Gingrich has long been a polarizing figure in US politics, in part for his candor and in part for his ideas, which emphasize a sharply reduced role for government. He acknowledged as much last month in an interview with NBC, when he commented that his "great weakness" is a lack of personal and political discipline. "One of the painful lessons I've had to learn -- and I haven't fully learned it honestly -- is that if you seek to be president of the United States, you are never an analyst, you're never a college teacher," he said. "Because those folks can say what they want to say. And someone who offers to lead America has to be much more disciplined and much more thoughtful."
I don't think any of these old timer established Republicans like Newt have any chance. People just need something different and fresh for a change. I think that was the appeal of Obama. But Obama's outsider freshness has worn off now that he has been in power for almost 4 years.
WOW! Romney opting of the Iowa straw poll Newt imploding Gov Good Hair possibly getting in it just gets better and better!
If a minute detail of what she said happens to be correct, does that mean she was accurate in what she said of Paul Revere? Do you believe that Paul Revere was warning the British that they weren't going to be taking the Colonists guns?
That a straw poll taking place in August of the prior year in a piddly small place like Iowa has such a huge influence on selecting our president is an embarrassment to democracy. A straw poll!
