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Great post - Palin is a considerable force in the current political dialogue.
Folks are welcome to disagree with her points of view - but cannot deny she has them.
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Folks are welcome to disagree with her points of view - but cannot deny she has them.
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Why is no one discussing her arguments? That is what we have to base wheter she is worth while or not.
I never liked Hillery or her arguments, but with Hillery there were ideas you could argue about. Obama just offered "hope and change." Home from what and change to what not defined.
Palin is offering ideas. Argue them rather than just calling her empty. If you aren't willing to challenge the ideas, then who is the empty one?
Palin's ideas as I understand them are
1) We should develop more of our own resources rather than depend on the good will of foreign despots for the feedstocks for our economy.
2) We should deal with other countries with an open mind, bearing in mind their needs and their goals when we deal with them, and not get all starry eyed about making progress until progress is made. She also claims she has dealt with foreign leaders successfully and managed negotiations with both the Canadians and the Russians successfully. She knows the Russians and has no illusions positive or negative.
3) Stimulus to the economy should be by making cutting taxes for productive folks, rather than taking money from the productive people and passing it out to connected politicians.
4) Schools should be accountable to the parents, and schools that are successful should be rewarded, schools that are failures should be disciplined, and we should move away from the current model of paying for failure, because the more we pay for failure, the more we will get.
Right now I don't see anyone arguing against her points. I hear more discussion of her hairdo and her figure than I do about her polices.
With Sarah, we know what we are getting policy wise. With Obama all we knew were puffs of hot air.