Comments on: Making sense of Sarah Palin’s third-party threat

By: CDN_finance

CDN_finance — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:37:04 +0000

I never really had a problem with John McCain – a tad old, but generally a pretty reasonable guy. But I will NEVER forgive him for bringing this woman to (in her words) ‘Lame-stream media’ and giving her an agenda to push. If Neo-Cons could take off their partisan hats and instead put on thinking hats I would sleep so much better and Sarah Palin would return to obscurity – or Hollywood?

Also – though not as if Americans care – but the rest of the world thinks LESS of Sarah Palin than even her most strident haters in America. Food for thought…

By: arnonerik

arnonerik — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:11:46 +0000

Don’t worry! The GOP will “go along to get along” with the Tea Party instead of with the Elite because there is a new sheriff in town. Whether or not it is a lasting change will depend on the “sheriff” staying involved with the principles of fiscal responsibility, shrinking the size and scope of the Federal Government, and the restoration of the Constitution.

By: section9

section9 — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:59:03 +0000

Look, one of the things Palin realizes is that the news media will largely try to blame economic misfortune on a Republican House (I suspect the Senate will remain in Democratic hands).

She also gets, instinctively, the utter estrangement of the “cocktail party” (HT: Hillbuzz’s Kevin DuJan) ruling class that controls the GOP from the rank and file that licks envelopes and sends in the 15 and 20 dollar contributions. They are all for Romney.

So she has decided to run against the DC Republicans (the Murkowski/Miller shenanigans are a foreshadowing of this) and only then against Obama. She has to triangulate, as Clinton did. Palin is aware that the first thing the GOP Establishment will do once they are back in a Majority is go straight down to K-Street, kick the Democrats out of the way, and dive into the hog trough.

The last thing she wants to do is be identified with the Neo-DeLay Republicans. Palin will remain a renegade, and run for President that way.

By: DrZero

DrZero — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:39:35 +0000

Interesting article. I would suggest that “Free Trade” in any form is not a winning issue. America’s industrial economy is down to 12% of GDP. Much of the recession is the inevitable result of the ridiculous free trade agreements, and the fantasy of the “service economy”. My fortune 1000 company is now outsourcing marketing jobs to India. What’s left for Americans to do: empty bedpans of flip burgers? Of such occupations great nations are not made.

Palin, or other successful GOP candidates would do well to take up real populism, not the mock-populism of the Forbes-magazine crowd. Free trade has failed. The proof is all around you. Our biggest car company is a bankrupt hulk, Kia’s and Hyundai’s rule the streets. India and China will soon want to import cars here – cars built in subisdized factories, by low-wage workers, without any overhead of the EPA, OSHA, Unemployment Insurance, state run Disability Insurance, Medicare and Medicaid mandates, Social Security and powerful union contracts.

If we want free trade then we need to get rid of all those things. We don’t want to get rid of all those things, so we can’t have free trade.

The ruling elites of both parties have turned America from a manufacturing powerhouse into a giant banana Republic. Here in Oregon we see raw trees as a our biggest export. The “added value” of milling into lumber is done in Asia. One simple definition of a third-world nation I learned in junior high is: “exports raw materials, imports higher priced manufactured goods”.

We’re a 3rd world nation with a big Army. No wonder we fight so many wars!