Happy Birthday, Sarah
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Palin: I am Not Going to Shut Up
Sarah Palin will not be silenced by the lefty propaganda media complex: “I am not going to shut up.”
Palin defended herself on Hannity from the blame leveled against her after a left-wing insane clown posse pothead who hated Bush and had stalked a congresswoman since 2007, shot and killed 6 people in Tuscon last week.
We Must Condemn Violence
“There are those who claim political rhetoric is to blame for the despicable act of this deranged, apparently apolitical criminal. And they claim political debate has somehow gotten more heated just recently. But when was it less heated? Back in those “calm days” when political figures literally settled their differences with dueling pistols? In an ideal world all discourse would be civil and all disagreements cordial. But our Founding Fathers knew they weren’t designing a system for perfect men and women. If men and women were angels, there would be no need for government. Our Founders’ genius was to design a system that helped settle the inevitable conflicts caused by our imperfect passions in civil ways. So, we must condemn violence if our Republic is to endure.” ~ Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.
Sarah Palin has posted the full text of her address on her Facebook page.
Sarah Palin in Haiti
Sarah Palin traveled to Haiti for the weekend with Franklin Graham, president of the Samaritan’s Purse, a charity that has worked in the stricken country since the devastating earthquake last January.
Governor Palin has worked with Graham before. Last winter, he went up to Alaska and together they handed out food parcels to families in Native Alaskan villages.
Greta Van Susteren of Fox News is also reporting on the trip. Van Susteren made trips in 2008 and 2009 to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with Samaritan’s Purse to report on medical work being done there.
More pictures and the story here.
Barnes: Never underestimate Sarah Palin
Fred Barnes, host of The Beltway Boys on Fox News Channel and executive editor of The Weekly Standard, is a good little inside-the-beltway conservative most of the time but he snarked on Sarah Palin’s presidential chances and that hurt him with his audience. Last week, he changed his mind … not that she would be a good candidate or president, but that her chances were as good as any other name Republican.
Barnes said the following at the Alabama Policy Institute:
When moderator and API president Gary Palmer asked the panelists for their take on potential 2012 presidential candidates, Stephen Moore, economics editor and member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board, brought up the names Chris Christie, Paul Ryan and Mike Pence.
“Moore forgot Sarah Palin!” exclaimed Barnes, who said that Palin is the most solidly conservative possibility with a tremendous following. While he considered Jim DeMint to also be a good potential candidate, Barnes said “Never underestimate Sarah Palin.”
And why do they keep bringing up Chris Christie? How many times does he have to say no, he’s not running in 2012?
Sarah Nails it Again
She’s got a good grasp on policy issues, although the left keep calling her stupid. Here is Sarah Palin’s Letter to the Editor at the Wall Street Journal:
While on a United Airlines flight from New York City to Los Angeles this week, a fellow passenger handed me a copy of the The Wall Street Journal Nov. 15 op-ed by Alan Blinder—”In Defense of Ben Bernanke“—and suggested that I write a letter to the editor if I disagreed with the Princeton University professor’s claims. Having read the piece, I told the passenger over my shoulder, “You bet I will.”
Prof. Blinder seems blind to the clear and present dangers of QE2. Instead of seriously discussing these dangers, he takes us on an excursion to a Keynesian utopia, a mythical land in which endless government spending is an amazingly effective job creator and investors’ confidence in U.S. Treasury bonds somehow increases as we sink ever deeper into debt while the Fed has its printing presses working overtime.
Here are some cold, hard facts from the real world: The first is the 8.7% 2012 unemployment rate predicted by the Survey of Professional Forecasters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. It seems the Obama administration’s record spending binge won’t result in job creation, but in unacceptably high long-term unemployment. The second fact is that long-term interest rates have actually gone up following the Fed’s recent QE2 announcement. The markets took one look at the Fed’s pump-priming plans and decided they had to increase interest rates—probably in order to compensate for the expected rise in inflation.
None of this should come as a surprise. Blinders off, common sense engaged, it’s time for us to “refudiate” the notion that this dangerous experiment in printing $600 billion out of thin air, with nothing to back it up, will magically fix economic problems that were caused in large part by the government’s interfering with our free market system in the first place, and then made worse by the government’s reckless spending experiments with our children’s fiscal future. Instead of the tired, old Keynesian ideas behind Obamanomics, we need to turn to time-tested practices that are pro-free market rather than pro-big government. Some call this “free-market populism.” It’s based on the realization that the best way to get the economy moving again is to get government out of the way, let the free market dictate winners and losers, and allow the private sector to grow our economy one job, one paycheck and one American dream at a time. It’s the only way we can restore much needed confidence and certainty in our economy. This is the only way we will all be able to soar from New York to Los Angeles and throughout the heartland.
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Wasilla, Alaska
AP: Palin is Popular for Some Reason
A new poll out by the Associated Press shows that the favorability rating for former Governor Sarah Palin is the highest it’s ever been.
Oh, they still take pot shots at her – constantly using the term “divisive” in the same sentence whenever mentioning her name, but at least they have to admit that her favorables are climbing.
FROM THE AP: Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee, is the best-known and most divisive of the bunch. In the wake of her high-profile role in endorsing candidates all over the country, 46 percent of Americans view her favorably, 49 percent unfavorably, and 5 percent don’t know enough about her to form an opinion…
In terms of winning the 2012 nomination, the question is how Republican-leaning Americans view the contenders. Palin comes out on top. Among adults who identify themselves as Republicans or GOP-leaning independents, 79 percent view her favorably, and 17 percent unfavorably.
These findings worry many Republican officials. The poll suggests Palin might be able to win the nomination. But among independents they could be the deciding factor in the general election — just 43 percent hold a favorable view of Palin, compared with 61 percent with a positive view of Obama.
Since it is the left-leaning AP, consider the poll to be skewed by a margin of 5% – 7% with more dems getting asked than indies or repubs.
And still, Palin is the ONLY major figure talking about what Fed chairman Bernanke is up to. Not Romney. Not Huckabee. Not Gingrich. She’s fighting every day for Americans, getting smeared by the media, while Mitt and Huck only come out when its safe. The AP needs to realize that people are beginning to develop respect for Palin after all the crap she’s been through for 2 years.
Oh, and the financial gurus are in agreement with her that QE2 is a bad idea. In a Wall Street Journal editorial yesterday, the editors noted the degree of sophistication that Governor Palin brings to the table as she attempts to focus the nation’s attention on the upcoming financial disaster that the Federal Reserve is about to unleash on us.
Economic Suicide Scheduled for This Week
NEW YORK (TheStreet) – The question being asked all across the world of business news is: Will QE2 be successful? Because this policy is literally economic suicide, the question becomes: Will the Federal Reserve be successful in the assisted economic suicide of the U.S. government? I find this an utterly appalling question — which highlights the intellectual bankruptcy of government policymakers and the bankers who goad them onward.
Quantitative easing is nothing more than a euphemism for printing money out of thin air. Its one-and-only purpose is to destroy the currency being printed. It is pure dilution and absolutely no different than a corporation vowing to improve its fiscal performance simply by printing a lot of new shares.We can illustrate the inherently evil nature of this monetary abomination by working through the “mechanics” of this policy. First, the explicit goal of QE2 is to increase inflation. By now, all readers should be familiar enough about “inflation” to know that it is literally nothing more than the speed with which our currencies are being destroyed.
While Sarah Palin is urgently writing on this topic, urging Ben Bernanke not to do this, President Obama hasn’t said a word. Think about that.
How’s That Leg Tingle Tonight, Chrissie?
Obama cheerleader and MSNBC mouthpiece Chris Matthews was humiliated by Rep. Michele Bachmann last night during the Fall of the Democrats in the national election. She goaded him with, “How’s That Leg Tingle Doing Tonight?”
The House of Representatives returns to Republican control. It was a glorious night for the Republic.
Sarah Palin’s Alaska Preview
Poll: Palin 63%, Obama 28%
It was a simple question from pollsters: “Who’s Views are closer to your own – Palin or Obama?”
Palin won by a landslide among us unwashed barbarians, the mainstream voters, Palin 63% Obama 28%.
The Elite, of course, went with The One: Palin 28% and Obama 60% – the exact opposite of the general public.Combined, the elite and the proletariat, still showed a positive result with Palin edging out Obama 52% to 40%.
On the other hand, Rasmussen is still showing that more people have an “unfavorable opinion” of Sarah Palin than have a favorable opinion, although the same can be said for Barack Obama.
