Am looking forward to reading it..

I really like Sarah Palin. And the folks I talk to in this red part of Illinois feel the same way. She’s one of us.

She’s a normal, college-educated, church-going person who is raising family and has worked a variety of jobs, rather than having a career in one particular thing. We identify with that.

She’s an unapologetic conservative, one of those hyper-organized
super-moms using the tools at her disposal to advance the same general causes I want to advance. She’s being Alinskied by the other side.

And I, for one, have got her back.

I was so delighted when she catagorically rejected the global warming nonesense in an interview with Rush today. This is something that she was unable to do during the campaign because of McCain’s climate facisim views. This issue is one of the most important for me. Global warming facisim is the buggest threat to our liberty, prosperity, free markets, and way of life. Sarah is so far the only possible 2012 contender that holds this view. Don’t let Pawlenty’s 180 degree turnabout fool you.

Palin has been very tough to pin down on the illegal immigration issue. There are just a few quotes floating around which sound a lot like the same thin gruel that we got from Bush and McCain. Against amnesty but in favor of a path to citizenship which to many conservatives sounds like amnesty in disguise.

When it comes to nation-building. The United States, under Democratic and Republican rule, has a poor record over the last round-about half century. The last real success story when it comes to rebuilding nations in a way that is beneficial for a majority of its citizens was the Marshall Plan, which gave us the constitutions of Germany and Japan, and helped a great deal to create a social consciousness in post-war England.

The Chicago School of Economics, headed by the unfettered (cut-throat, corporate) capitalism of Milton Friedman, has done much to lower the quality of life of citizens worldwide, while enriching multi-national corporations.

Chile, is a prime example. Radical free-trade economic policies were instituted under Pinochet, supported by the CIA, and literally manufactured by Chilean students trained at the University of Chicago. Pinochet auctioned off the country’s wealth (formerly nationalized companies and land belonging to the public) to ITT, Ford, and other MNCs. According to Milton Friedman, the man who would prove to be one of the most powerful and influential economic minds of the 20th century, institution of these free-market policies seems to work better under authoritarian rule than democratic rule–precisely because they do not benefit all (they as a matter of empirical fact, benefit only a few).

In the late 1980s, as we were cracking into the Mexico market, we saw eleven plants with jobs paying a living wage close down in Flint, Michigan, and eleven open up in Mexico, where the workers were paid 70 cents a day. GM saw huge profits, we saw massive unemployment.

Free trade and privatization, paired with allowing companies to ship our jobs overseas with no consequence, or compensation to the great country they are hurting, creates a massive increase in unemployment and stagnating wages for the U.S. and us. Cutting corporate taxes eliminates the safety net created to help the unemployed.

stagnating wages with shipping jobs overseas for massive profit + mass unemployment + cutting the social programs that help people deal with these negative changes = an increase in crime, an increase in mortality rates, and an ever-increasing need for more prisons as people resort to desperate measures in desperate times.

Do I have the solid-gold answer? Do I propose socialism, a different type of capitalism, or communism, or some other ism?

I’ve come to a point where I try to stop thinking in isms, and only look at the practical results of policy.

MY BOTTOM LINE:
The practical results of the neoliberal (i.e. privatization, cutting corporate taxes, cutting government programs) economic policy instituted in full-force in the 1980s, have not resulted in promised economic prosperity for us all–it has harmed the majority of good, hardworking Americans and enriched a small few corporate monopolies.

These monopolies are our new monarchs. I may not like the government telling me what to do (and I don’t), but I hate when corporations start limiting my freedom and pursuit of happiness.

Patriotically Yours,
–Stevo

you totally ROCK and how absolutely KEWL that Sarah Palin should speak to the GRASSROOTS on Redstate through you! Thanks to both you!

“These monopolies are our new monarchs. I may not like the government telling me what to do (and I don’t), but I hate when corporations start limiting my freedom and pursuit of happiness.”

Stevo, without government protection, these corporations would be brought down to size by competition, so it’s not a matter of choosing between government intervention and corporate power — it’s a matter of attacking the problem at its roots by limiting government’s ability to provide protection to rent -seeking corporations.

I got it last night and read it today. It is a good read. She keeps her thoughts well connected and she writes in a style that is easy to read without talking down to her audience. It is worth the price and I am glad I bought it.

I have sent it to a friend so she can read it. By the end of the week that book will be read by 5 people. I believe Gov Palin would be OK with that.

She is a force if she chooses to be that.

I’m disappointed.

Still, I hold out hope that she will wake up one day and think to herself, “Goldurnit, If I’m goin’ to be President, I’m goin’ to need a good Black Bag Man! Now where’d Art Chance go to….”

Did she ask about me.?

and great questions for Gov. Palin. Thank you for asking policy issues rather than fluff questions. It will be interesting what the anti-Palin commentors here have to say, if anything.

and great questions for Gov. Palin. Thank you for asking policy issues rather than fluff questions. It will be interesting what the anti-Palin commentors here have to say, if anything.

today, with the release of Palin’s book, and, her media blitz, that there is little to nothing being said about Palin, her book or anything. There can be no question that the few anti-Palins here have all but banned any proPalin opinions. Who wants to be called idiots, stupid, unintelligent for posting in favor of Palin.

today, with the release of Palin’s book, and, her media blitz, that there is little to nothing being said about Palin, her book or anything. There can be no question that the few anti-Palins here have all but banned any proPalin opinions. Who wants to be called idiots, stupid, unintelligent for posting in favor of Palin.

It should be obvious to any man or woman there is no global warming, forget cap and trade, recognize who and what illegal immigration involves (the poorest of the poor), America and her defense first, energy needs can and must be satisfied within our own shores. Rush said the fact that any men around can’t get it together to articulate basic ideas is a biproduct of the feminist movement. Men have been encouraged to sound weak. What the left describes as ‘hard right’ sounds like the only choice you have should survival be your interest. I know, it’s selfish.

You lucky bastard!

You notice no one ever really criticizes about policy. They want to talk trash about her kids, give Levi Johnston as many avenues as they can just to bash her. They just don’t realize that is what people do when they are loosing the argument. When they have no real argument. I’m going to get her book this week and see what she has to say. I hope she does well and is the superstar of the Republican party in 2012.

Republican party. It’s a shame that we don’t have a single, viable male worth a bucket of spit.

I, for one, would be interested in reading it. TBH, I’m not too impressed by what seem to be very general answers; I’m hoping that she went more in-depth in person than what was summarized here. (I liked her speech in Hong Kong, and thought it was pretty good, myself.) At any rate, it’s cool to see further evidence that RS has garnered some influence!

Congrats, EE.

Seems like a nice and productive chat with the former Governor.

Just one major criticism on this diary:

NO PICTURE? Even a small one? Ha! So unfair of you, EE.

About the economy:

“”I would start cutting taxes and allowing our small businesses to keep more of what they are earning, more of what they are producing, more of what they own and earn so that they could start reinvesting in their businesses and expand and hire more people,” Palin told Walters. “Not punishing them by forcing health care reform down their throats; by forcing an energy policy down their throats that ultimately will tax them more and cost them more to stay in business. Those are back(donkey)ward ways of trying to fix the economy.”

(didn’t know if I could use the word she did so I said back(donkey)ward

Amen! Go Sarah Go you rock! Great interview EE!

Palins stand on Illegal aliens isn’t clear yet. I will give her time for that. For consideration, Peter Jennings, news propagandist for the Democratic Party for over 30 years, WASN’T EVEN AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. Night after night that Canadian Communist lectured Americans on how “evil” they were. How, for over 30 years, did this America hater, work in this country and not become a U.S. citizen until just before his death? To avoid Canadian Taxes? Probably. How many other foreigner’s are on T.V. and radio badmouthing America? Point is we need to watch our northern border as well as the southern border for people who will plunder this country. Palin is capable of organizing conservatives and independants and that scares the Hell out of the Marxists in the Democratic party.

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I was unimpressed with Palin after the novelty and intrigue of her debut had worn off. I thought she did poorly in interviews and I quickly tired of the tabloid drama that seemed to define her family life (not her fault, but tiresome nonetheless).

All of that has changed in the past two days. I think she is handling this round of interviews with grace and poise and she clearly is not the bimbo she is portrayed to be by the MSM.

It is her firm position on support for the military that will get my vote (if she runs for anything). I am sick and tired of worrying about whether my son, a Marine machine gunner, will be provided the resources he deserves as he embarks — voluntarily and with my support — on his third deployment. The first two were in Ramadi and Baghdad and this one will be to Afghanistan. I demand some sign from the C-in-C soon that he gives a damn.

Where are the original ideas? She’s destined to become another rock-thrower like Rush and the rest of them. Always behind the curve. Reacting to the Other party.
The biggest danger of illegal immigration is the same principle in the Clinton-Lewinsky affair( he got a free pass for lying in a deposition). The rule of law was ignored for political reasons. It’s not really about jobs or border security. ITS ABOUT THE BREAKDOWN OF THE RULE OF LAW FOR POLITICAL REASONS! If the government chooses to selectively enforce laws then all laws become meaningless. A direct result of having too many laws.
If you have to fight a war, fight it to win. Overwhelming force. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Douglas MacArthur was the last successful nation builder. Why not use his model? Let the Marines run Afghanistan for a few years.
As far as I know communists are still our sworn enemy. How can you have “good relations” with a country that wants to conquer you? I could never understand why policy towards China was different than policy towards the Soviets or even Cuba.
Conspicuously absent from this “terrific interview” is mention of perhaps the most important issue of all, the debt. That is one issue Palin didn’t have to worry to much about here in Alaska. There are always plenty of ideas on ways to increase it but to few on reducing it. Or at least too few heard. Whatdaya say we bring the Grace Commission back? Oh if only The Great Reagan would have pushed it harder. Now it seems the only way to reduce Government is to forcibly starve it. Maybe China will do it for us.