Palin speech in Madison.
Breitbart introduction:
Its been a while since I posted anything on Palin, generally I am in a wait and see mode as to the US election, only posting the odd piece I find interesting.
Her speech in Madison though, is such an event. She has shown all of the fire that caused her to be the only bright spot on the otherwise lackluster McCain campaign before his handlers gave up and descended into recriminations and bastardry towards the end. There are some impressive points here:
… A pension is a promise that must be kept. Now, your Governor Scott Walker understands this. He understands that states must be solvent in order to keep their promises. And that’s what he’s trying to do. He’s not trying to hurt union members. Hey, folks, he’s trying to save your jobs and your pensions! But unfortunately some of your union bosses don’t understand this, and they don’t care if union members have to be laid off. No, they want to protect their own power, and if that means forcing a governor to lay off union workers, then so be it; they’ve proven that that is fine with them. But that’s not real solidarity! Real solidarity means coming together for the common good. This Tea Party movement is real solidarity!The rest is great; she really lets rip. Whether she stands or not, she can and will energize the base just like last time.
Well, I am in Madison today because this is where real courage and real integrity can be found. Courage is your governor and your legislators standing strong in the face of death threats and thug tactics. Courage is you all standing strong with them! You saw the forces aligned against fiscal reform. You saw the obstruction and the destruction. You saw these violent rent-a-mobs trash your capital and vandalize businesses. …
Because let me tell you what isn’t courageous: It’s politicians promising the American voters that, as we drown in $14.5 trillion debt, that they’re going to cut $100 billion out of this year’s budget. But then they cave on that and they reduce it down to $61 billion after they get elected. Then they get in there and they strike a deal and decide, nah, they will reduce that down to $38 billion. And then after some politics-as-usual and accounting gimmicks, we find out it’s not $38 billion in cuts. You know that $38 billion – we don’t have it; we’re borrowing it.
We borrow from foreign countries to give to foreign countries, and that’s insanity. We find out it’s not even $38 billion; it’s less than $1 billion in real cuts. Folks, that $352 million in real cuts – that’s no more than the federal government is going to spend in the time it takes us to hold this rally today! That is not courage; that’s capitulation!
So, to the GOP establishment: if you stand on the platform, if you stand by your pledges, we will stand with you. We will fight with you, GOP. We have your back. Together we will win because America will win!
We didn’t elect you just to re-arrange the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic. We didn’t elect you to just stand back and watch Obama re-distribute those deck chairs. What we need is for you to stand up, GOP, and fight. Maybe I should ask some of the Badger women’s hockey team—those champions—maybe I should ask them if we should be suggesting to GOP leaders they need to learn how to fight like a girl! …
Give me Ron Paul (or Rand) over Palin any day.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately she is empty. And the whole speech is empty. She states what she is against, although completely missing what she is for. No ideas, no principles. "Less" is not a principle, it is a degree/measure which is to be omitted if you want to formulate a principle.
ReplyDeleteThen her colleagues from GOP, why the hell people expect from them any meaningful cut? If they are driven by "less" instead of getting rid of whole deficit creating agencies , that is all what they can and will get. But ideas don't matter are they? Politics is a "real world" and has little or nothing to do with the ideals (aka principles) isn't it?