Palin retakes stage, hits Obama's policies

This woman is a total waste of space and she should just shut up already.

I notice all the G.O.P. carping doesn't say what they would do differently, other than let Chrysler or GM fail. They surely don't talk about the costs in unemployment that will result. They don't talk about how to get the private sector to have the confidence to invest again.

What Obam DID do is get involved EARLY in the process, instead of waiting around for stuff to happen. He pushed the issue to get to the endgame NOW, so the companies can move forward with a plan. Having ANY decision is better than no decision right now.

Easy to complain from the sidelines.

Not my favorite sitting politician, but someone has to begin taking the punches at this Teflon President, since the media is skirting its duty to watch him. Of course any criticism is paramount to racism in the eyes of the Dems, but that is standard procedure for a party that rhetorically victimizes its base in order to fool it into thinking they need big government to save them. Democrat Party = Institutional Racism

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!

mmm... complaining with no alternatives proposed... why does this sound familiar?? oh ya!! that's right - anything Bush did after 9/11!! "whaaaa, Iraq... Whaaaa Iraq!!"... "well, what else should eb do to combat Muslic Exterrmeists?"

"Whaaaa iraq!!"

LeftOut
Great idea "do anything"!
How about keeping campaign promises.

Governor Palin has a short memory. Her Republican cohorts spent the previous eight years mucking up this country. May she and Dick Cheney return to a undisclosed location and stay there...

Sarah Palin - Good For You !!
She's right .... and the only buffoons laughing on here are Obama Shoe-Lickers who don't understand she is EXACTLY RIGHT !!!!

Palin 2012 !!
(It can't get here fast-enough !!)

"When the well is dry, we know the worth of water"... Ben Franklin
Tax and Spend -- for what? We're getting nowhere fast and deeper and deeper into a socialist hole. Time for this sitting government to hear some dissention... and I don't care what color you are.

another lovefest interview. "do you miss the spotlight?". real hardball. she might, but I don't miss her being in it.

If only Obama would quit.

I love it!! Give the podium to Sarah and Rush!!

God the GOP is "RIP"....

Oh why even bother. This woman knows absolutely nothing about the economy. What's the difference between Sarah Palin and George W. Bush? Lipstick.

A Palin interview on Hannity? I'm sure that Obama was taking notes during that one.

I would "LOVE" to get a straight-up (no teleprompters) impromptu (no previously reviewed questions) political-debate between Palin & Obama.

She would crucify him.

The only reason people have a degree of question on Palin (and her political stance/speaking & appearance) is because she was "forced" into being someone she wasn't by McCain's Campaign.
As a proud GOP Member myself, I blamed McCain and still do.

Let Palin be herself....she would leave Obama behind in a blink on world issues, domestic matters and more. Kid yourself not, this is an extremely bright woman and is 150% correct in what she said here.

Only Obama psychofants (Messiah-Bow-Before's) laugh here....
But Palin is RIGHT !!

"Palin 2012 !!
(It can't get here fast-enough !!)

I agree. The best thing that could happen to the Democratic party is for Republicans to pin their hopes on this "dumb it down" empty pant suit. Wow, would a gift that would be.

No one gave Gov. Palin the memo that you aren't allowed to criticize the One? Dissent ceased being patriotic on January 20, right?

Palin: ".....unfortunately our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize. Certainly that is so far from what the founders of our country had in mind for us.”

Really Sarah? Really? It already did evolve into something we don't recognize under the Bush/Cheney dictatorship. Were you watching in Chicago when Obama sparked a new generation? She is dishing out more tired old republican BS. Anyone who buys what she's selling deserves what they get....a whole lot of nothing.

AS A LIFE LONG DEMOCRAT I CAN SAY THAT THE REPUBLICANS HAD PLENTY OF HELP FROM MY CONGRESSMAN BARNEY FRANK AND HIS FRIENDS SCREWING UP THIS COUNTRY, AND THE BEAT GOES ON.

Those bashing Sarah Palin's perceived lack of intelligence, you didn't vote for Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden, or Tom Menino for the same reason, right?

Palin would crucify him? OMG did you watch any debates during the election? She was standing in the media capitol of the world and couldn't name a freaking NEWSPAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry but she is to use a pun "Bush League" It will be a cold day in H#ll before I would ever vote for sarah palin. She doesn't take any responsibility for what the GOP did to this country and yes I am not comfortable with all the spending,but we wouldn't be in this mess had the GOP had the balls to do what is right for the people and not dick chenney's wallet. Exactly how much did Bush accomplish in his first few months? Besides taking vacations. Please.

Kevin P - You are an idiot. Typical rhetoric... It's funny how the people referring to the Obama "shoe-lickers" sound exactly like said "shoe-lickers" when they talk about Rush, Palin, Newt, Hannity, Coulter, etc, etc. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If you think it was McCain's fault that she stuttered more times than G.W.B. in her debate, I think you may deserve to be called a Palin "shoe-licker".

"She would crucify him (Obama)".
Really? She couldn't handle Katie Couric, and you think she would crucify Obama? Puleeze.

I can't think of a better reason to vote Democrat in 2012 than stupid Sarah Palin. Her and the Flip Flop Man would be a great ticket.

When posters here demean Sarah Palin, call her names...it indicates how much they fear her in the future. And they should fear her. If the US is to HAVE any meaningful future, we need her and people like her who have sense, judgement and a sincere desire to rescue this great nation from those who are rapidly turning it into a socialist with a socialist governement.

Now, now, folks. We shouldn't discourage continuing evidence of just how much we need to improve our country's education system. (Yes, supporters of this (right-) wing-nut, this means you too.)

Interesting... It's America, let's listen to what she has to say...

Ted Kenedy graduated from Harvard undergrad and the University of Virginia law school. Joe Biden went to the University of Delaware undergrad and then Syracuse for his J.D. - he was never extremely studious, but surely he can't be compared to Palin. Mumbles Menino is a total hack and I have no idea how comparing a Mayor to a Presidential hopeful works, but even he graduated from Chamberlayne Junior College and UMass Boston.

Palin spent time at 5 different colleges and junior colleges before somehow escaping with a degree in Journalism(!). You're sure you want to get into a debate on intelligence by bringing that spork to a gunfight??

Holy cow.

Right, the Editor of the Harvard Law Review up against a twit from the backwoods. Obama wouldn't stand a chance. LOL! I don't think any sane person believes that Sarah Palin is a viable candiate for POTUS. I'm sure the fringe elements of the Republican Party do not believe this, or that they are the fringe. The Party itself is now a fringe element, and until the Adults regain control of it we're in for a few years of high, unintentional comedy. Pass the Popcorn!

Sarah Palin 2012!

And for those blaming the Republicans, yep, they are just as much at fault. But Sarah isn't speaking about the Democrats, Sarah is speaking about BARACK OBAMA and HIS policies. We have all complained about Bush's. That's why we wanted SARAH! She isn't a Bush Republican.

This thread has been very educational for me. Now I know where all the brain-dead Lefties are gathered - up there in the north east. Vapid comments full of the left wing religion. You all should use your spare time to study history and learn what befell every nation that went left and chose the socialist path. Britain would make a good case study as it swung its ideological pendulum between labour (socialists) and the tories (not socialists). Each spell of socialism has been a feast of 'wonderful' ideas always ending in chaos and a tory government.

Like her or not she is dead on.
The CBO, Ben Bernanke and others have warned that we must concentrate on paying down the national debt.
Folks, China is no longer going to continue to lend the United States $$$ if the value if the dollar keeps going down. Of course if we know the Obama admin they will simply print more $$$ causing the greatest rate of inflation we have ever seen.
This debt we now have is by far too much, with tax revenue down the government needs to decrease spending or increase taxes to pay down the debt. I vote decrease spending even if it means no stimulas and no bail outs.

One has to admit that Palin is politcally savy and puts a good "spin" on the issues, but as we all witnessed in November and in the past few months, she has no depth (knowledge, inegrity, charachter), and will be warmly welcomed back to the political stage by every late-night talk show host, political satirist, and op-ed page editor for her miscues and bloopers. Remember her discussion with Katie Couric about the Soviet Union? Geez......how can Republicans honestly support her?

There are a lot of Big Government lovers on this board. Complaints about George Bush. Bush's deficit was peanuts compared to the current one. Why such hatred for Palin? Because she wants states to run their own affairs?

Why do people want MORE stuff run from Washington? Why? Why are people so infaturated with socialism?

It's freedom this country was founded on. Why not continue with it? Sarah is saying good stuff.

Look at all the "blue states" around this country - they are all indebted up the wazoo. California is bankrupt, NY, MA, and IL are technically bankrupt (remember that states can keep all sort of liabilities off their books). Then look at the states run by FISCAL CONSERVATIVES - Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina etc...prospering, don't need stimulus. The NEW DEAL is bankrupting our country. Now Obama wants to expand it even more and nationalize large swaths of private industry. No better than Chavez in Venezuela. GM and Chrysler deserved to go into bankruptcy where real reform would have happened without all the taxpayer funded relief.

Let me see....what college did Bill Gates graduate from? Harvard and Yale are two of the biggest negative influences on this country.

#25 - Buffalo Bob

EXACTLY !!

I have had a blast reading all this left-wing vomitus.
Palin would embarass Obama in a debate., without previously-reviewed telemprompter prepared Q&A for the empty-suit Obama.

Leftwing Nuts have a lot to fear in Sarah Palin.
They really do.... I enjoy reading how much name-calling she gets from lefties.
....And it's all out of fear.

Palin 2012 !!

(Heck, she may even keep (at least) 1 campaign promise afterwards....lefties !!)
LOL

There is still time to join our GOP....before the Socialist/Marxist Obama eats away at America's Core.

All you moonbats are right. I forgot it was Gov. Palin that commited vehicular homicide driving off a bridge and gave away the location of a secret bunker. Boy, I am sure glad the democrats are in charge.

# 32 - EXACTLY !!!!

The liberals get really mad when they hear Sarah Palin speak. For that reason alone, I say "Palin in 1212". She is one tough woman who can take on the liberal press, the unions and Barack Hussein Obama.
Posted by Daniel / Groton MA

I fear Sarah Palin. The woman can barely string two sentences together and she sounds like she's reading directly from her policy cards. Even the possibility that she could become president should fill everyone with fear. This country barely survived 8 years of George W. and I doubt we could withstand 4 years of her and her "know-nothing" politics. I just wish Obama had been elected at a time when he didn't have to spend 24 hours a day trying to fix a country in crisis.

Posted by J.B. June 8, 09 01:20 PM

Uh, JB, there's no such thing as the "Democrat Party". But thanks for playing anyway.

I love how the Obama sycophants are using the same crybaby tactics their god is... blame Bush! You can say Sarah has lack of depth, blah blah blah, but you know something? She's 100% spot on right on the economy. Obama's economic knowledge is 'throw a dart at a balloon'. He lacks even the most rudimentary concept of how to stimulate growth. How's that stimulus package working? The second one? And where are the millions of jobs Obama promised to created? Sorry, folks, you fell for the oldest line in the political playbook- hope and change. I bet you all hope you have a roof over your head in the coming months and have change in your pocket. Lemmings, cliff, die. You know the drill.

Interesting how all of the negative comments attack her personally but don't address the topic of the article. The fact remains that our leader is going to bankrupt this country before his 4 years are up.

Interest rates have already risen past 5.5% slowing any real estate recovery
The stimulus plan which was going to "save 3 million jobs" has succeeded in convining other nations that they don't want any more of our debt
We had to save GM to prevent its bankruptcy (which I will remind you would have been catastrphic for this country) but once we dumped all of our taxpayer $$ into it it goes bankrupt anyway
Now the chosen one wants to ram healthcare reform down our throats to the tune of another trillion

Like Palin or not - someone needs to stand up to these hacks spending our $$

Whenever my credit cards get maxed out and I don't have any $$ left but want to buy something extravagant I ask myself one question - what would obama do? Then I buy three of whatever I was looking at....what could go wrong?

I am always puzzled by those who say that Governor Palin is 'uniformed' or lacking in curiousity' or is some kind of an extremist, who appeals only to a far right fringe of the GOP or to religious conservatives. Yet my liberal friends are always surprised that Palin's bitterest opponents in Alaska are on the far right of the local GOP, and that she could not have got elected without the support of middle-of-the-road Independents, who form the largest block of voters in that state. The are even more surprised that she risked the anger of religious conservatives by protecting the acquired rights of same-sex couples in Alaska. And their heads explode when I tell them that governor Palin was the first Governor to set up a cabinet sub-committe to examine climate change and has the most ambitious 'green' energy policy in the Union. JThe wilful ignorance of liberals never ceasees to amaze me.

I love what #2 wrote...Sarah Palin is a joke!!!! Nice candidate GOP LMAO!!! Ahh Sarah, do you have any foreign policy experience? Ahh yes Katie, I can see Russia from my front porch...She's a terrible public speaker and an even worse politician. Obama administration I bet is laughing at some of these Republican candidates for 2012. Palin isn't even the most popular woman Republican in her own STATE ALASKA, is that funny or what??

So you think Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden are smarter than Sarah Palin based on college education. Bush graduated from Yale and is the only US president to have a Master's, which he earned at Harvard.

Based on your logic, I assume you will now agree that George W Bush is smarter than Barack Obama?

It's easy to criticize from the sidelines, but it's a lot more difficult to actually do something. I am still waiting for Palin to offer suggestions, alternatives, what SHE would do in Obama's position.

She's still a lightweight.

She's a whack-job!
But hey if that's the best the GOP can do, well then, this is helpful to the Democrats.
The GOP should pay attention to its' moderate base and forget those on the far right with their bible thumping antics.

you have to love a country where arm-chair quarterbacking can be construed as valid input. We are all entitled to opinions, however, we(the opinionated) did not win or lose the election...Obama was on the winning ticket and Palin was on the losing ticket. Losers have to start early to try and overtake winners(wow, laying groundwork for 2012 already before the world forgets who she is)......Personally I can't remember any elected official who actually acted upon their campaign promises...that includes both those I voted for and those I did not vote for. I have come to the conclusion that regardless of who is elected all we get is M.O.T.S.

Yes, I am sure Sarah Palin would completely obliterate Obama in a debate--NOT. Perhaps she could wink him off the stage? Or throw out some more meaningless catch phrases. She was, and apparently still is, nothing more than someone to fire up the base. Instead of running for national office, she should apply to Fox News for a job. Wonder if Fox would pay for Sarah to fly back and forth to Alaska?

In reponse to "LeftOut"'s comment. We have bankruptcy laws in this country, or at least we did. All those people would not be out of work. Yes some would, but the company was way to fat anyway, as Vince Wilfork would say "Point Blank!" The company would have been able to reorganize, the bond holders would not have gotten the shaft that Obama gave them and the unions would have concessions and NOT get a better deal than the bond holders. Learn something about business and the law before posting you dope.

I have no idea how any person with half a brain can really believe Palin is a viable candidate for driver's license, let alone the presidency. I'm surprised she hasn't driven into the ocean yet, thinking alaska is attached to Russia.

And not every "brain dead liberal" up here in the Northeast is ignorant, nor enthused over spending, but what would you suggest?

Palin is a raving idiot. If she is an actual candidate, I may leave the country.

Does any republican REALLY think Palin has any chance of getting the party nomincation in 2012? Come on... she's just a fundraising machine and nothing more... she will NEVER be elected president - she makes GW look like a genius!

She'd have NO shot in a debate with Obama.
I agree with several of her points, but...she'd have NO shot.

Sorry, Sarah dear...but how did we end up owing China so much money? Seems to me there was a guy named Bush who borrowed extensively to pay for war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also borrowed pretty heavily to pay for a couple of stimulus checks we got in the mail. That money was also borrowed from China.
I may not agree with all of Obama's policies or positions, but I at least see the man doing something to address problems.

Let;s not forget Sarah Palin, as governor of Alaska, has been pretty fond of getting government money for highway work, etc. The Bridge to nowhere--she kept the $$

Palin 2012!
Presidential elections need to have some entertainment value. Can't wait for her interviews to start again... The late night comics will have to work extra hard to match the level of buffoonery.

1. "At least he did something," was not a valid excuse for Geo. Bush invading Iraq. Why is it now OK for BO?
2. Chrysler and GM are going in the correct direction. No one to blame but themselves. BO's plan is the same as Geo. Bush (and everyone else's).
3. We ARE overspending. Nearly all of the "economic stimulus" package was Dem pet projects. Only about 5% that's actually to be used for economic spending will be spent before 2011. Pathetic.
4. Sarah Palin's an idiot.
5. BO is 95% rhetoric. Little action so far. Lots of talk. Change for its own sake is senseless.

CUDA '12........ Coming to voting booths in your area in 2012 (unless otherwise sabotaged by Acorn, the New Black Panthers or any other far left marxist-facist, neo-regressive brownshirts the chicago crime syndicate can muster between now and then)!

It is incredible to me how some people, obviously on the far right, especially Kevin P, can be so enamored by Palin, who is clearly an interlectual light-weight. If she ever became President, just imagine what would happen to our country. And those who parrot Fox's litany of the country being turned socialist, or is it fascist (I can't keep up), seem to have no mind of their own. Try being a little perceptive.

I see that Sarah Palin is still being irrelevent.

Doesn't have enough to deal with in Alaska and her family? Why is she wasting my time?

CUDA '12........ Coming to voting booths in your area in 2012 (unless otherwise sabotaged by Acorn, the New Black Panthers or any other far left marxist-facist, neo-regressive brownshirts the chicago crime syndicate can muster between now and then)!

And to all those who say she didn't provide a solution - she did, it was simple and clear... Stop spending $$ & creating programs that cost additional $$

I love all of these comments about Palin 2012...HELLO! People the whole reason the GOP is no longer leading this country is because we were all sick of the same lame duck policies we have had for 8 years prior. Palin's inexperience and lack of any real ability to manage policy (cuz Alaska is in really good shape...how's unemployment and the deficit there?) will take us right back to where we started. The blind leading the blind....

Obama inherited this mess, and is doing the best he can. If you saw Bernanke on 60 Minutes last night, you'll see that he knows all the mistakes the FED made in the depression. Palin would make them all over again, and force us into another depression. All these crazy posters are writing from a strictly left or right wing predisposition. If you can't get beyond it folks, you'll never solve anything. I don't care that Bush was Republican or conservative, but we know that we weren't getting the straight story. Whether Obama is right or not, he's running the country, he's not a proxy for his Vice-President, he's smart, and he's giving us the straight story. The Republicans have no answer for any of this - they don't know the first thing, so the complain and whine. It's not good enough.

"Unsurprisingly, she takes a rather dim view of how President Obama is doing."

Unsurprisingly, the mainstream liberal media like Time magazine, now better known as the "state run media", is attacking her for no apparent reason, other than she dared to show up in New York. How dare she , dont they know the 'reporters' are busy with stories praising the Obamas?

If you want to re-elect Obama, no matter what he does - support Palin as the GOP nominee. She is a dim bulb. Even Mitt the flip-flopper is sharper than her.

I'm a life-long democrat, and even I can't enjoy seeing this women as one of the only spokesmen for the GOP. What happened to the Rockafellers and other moderate conservatives? I'm ashamed as an American that this women thinks she represents ANYBODY outside of the high-school educated, lowest-tax bracket, angry white male, talk-radio listening irrelevants. Yes, I am afraid of her. She like Bush, but dumber. ::shudder::

HAHA- all the red states are prospering huh? That's why the teacher's union in South Carolina almost went on strike to get the stimulus money, b/c idiot gov sanford was about to cut tens of thousands of teaching jobs, and Tennessee is so far in debt they are now trying to tax almost every pro athlete that plays in the state. Most states and the federal government are bankrupt because Bush cut education spending, cut taxes for only the rich and spent hundreds of billions of dollars on a war that we went to under false pretenses!!! Palin is an idiot, as evidenced by her Katie Couric and Charles Gibson interviews where she couldn't even state a Supreme Court decision she disagrees with besides Roe v Wade, or even name a newspaper she reads. So Obama worked his way up from food stamps to graduate from Columbia and Harvard Law, and Sarah Palin needed five crappy schools to get a journalism degree, and u think she could debate him? HAHA! So what if he uses a teleprompter? He has to make 3-4 speeches on different topics a day, and deal with the economy, national security, two wars, health care, etc.... so he wants to make sure he gets his words correct. Bush used a teleprompter too and he still couldn't speak proper English. And in the debates, when he didn't use a teleprompter all pundits(including repubs not on fix news) thought Obama won. lRepubs can bash him all they want, but he is only fixing the repubs mess, b/c it wasn;t just Bush that messed everything up, it was the republican controlled congress who gave him a free pass.
Seriously republicans, u can bash him all u want, but until the repubs in congress actually come up with an idea that's not either 'no' to Obama, cut taxes (when we need the tax money), or have the racists like Newt and Rush(you know these moral people who divorced their wife when the had cancer, or who railed against drug addicts and was secretly one of them) spout off complete BS, you will stay in the wilderness.
I say bring on Palin in 2012, then Obama will get 4 more years, and by the end of his eight year term, our country will be better than ever.

Nice to hear from the Unable half of the McCain ticket

Sarah Palin is easily the smartest woman in politics. Just as she ran circles around Katie Couric in that 2008 interview, so she'd trounce B. Hussein O. in the 2012 election. Remember when Couric asked her what periodicals she read and she stumbled, unable to recall ever having read anything? That was a ploy to keep the DEMONcrats off guard for her 2012 run. And when she quoted Reagan by saying "There you go again" during the VP debate, it was a splendid and poignant way to show that for the Republicans it's still 1980, and any rumors you may have heard about being in the 21st century are LIBERAL nonsense. Um, I mean (consults talking points from RNC) ... SOCIALIST nonsense! Go Palin in 2012!

J.P., you knew that Ted Kennedy was expelled from Harvard for cheating, right?

You knew Joe Biden lied about his academic resume' and was busted for umm, appropriating someone else's literary work as his own, right?

You've heard both men speak in public, right?

You knew Sarah Palin WAS a mayor, right? So was some former presidential hopefulnamed Rudy Gulianii.

We're not debating public intelligence because you've already lost.

Wow, Sarah Palin is back. I think part of the problem with the GOP right now is that they have no leadership and no real agenda or alternative - which in turn has allowed the "de facto heads" like Rush, Cheney , Newt, and Palin, apparently to be in charge of the GOP. Besides "hit and run", "hit and run", the GOP has failed to offer real alternatives, and when they were given the chance to be different, they ran the economy into the ground, saddled the country with wars on two fronts, trampled all over civil liberties, and left the bar so low for the next President that even talking to people can seem like a success.

Unfortunately, there is no one "unifying figure" within the GOP right now because they have leadership problems. Their leaders won't allow new ones who do have the chance to win to develop because they're too busy clinging on to the past or slinging mud at Obama. Until the old (and i do mean "old") guard steps aside, the GOP will be stuck as a bitter sore loser who are stuck behind on the times.

Sarah Palin has so much class compared to the libtards on this site.

Here is proof that America is great. The village idiot criticizes the president right after she is brief on what to think.

Some observations on James' idiotic comments above:
"This thread has been very educational for me." (If you think Caribou Barbie is anything but a sad joke, you're one of the numbnuts who could certainly use some education.)
"Now I know where all the brain-dead Lefties are gathered - up there in the north east. Vapid comments full of the left wing religion." (Brain-dead would be a better label for the right-wing sheep the GOP recruits with oooh-scaaary stories about government coming to take your guns or make you divorce your sister if you vote Democrat. Oh, and look up"vapid.")

I fear that the NEOCONS will actually bring her back to the RNC convention. How could our party keep sinking, sinking, sinking, thinking that she is the best we can offer? So, she is emulating the rhinestone cowboy in NYC. Its not about her intelligence or political savvy. The woman just doesn't have an original thought, let alone the strength of character / experience to play out a presidential term. She flunked interviews 101, world leaders 101, and had a couple of snappy comments at the RNC. Why do the NEOCONS keep bottom dragging for a party leader. Its always easy to lay out a critique as an armchair quarterback. She couldn't even carry Obama's tool belt. Telling America that they are coming for your guns, won't sell you ammo, gays will be leading your children astray, saying god bless America just doesn't make it anymore. How about Palin - Quayle in 2012, now thats a winner!

@OnTheLeft

New Yorker commentator Hendrik Hertzberg wrote:
There’s no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. 'Democrat Party' is a slur, or intended to be – a handy way to express contempt. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, of course, but 'Democrat Party' is jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams 'rat'.

Democrat Party = Change you can smoke