Palin Power: Rick Perry

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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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.
 
Palin backs Perry over Hutchison
By Sean J. Miller - 02/08/10 11:13 AM ET
Sarah Palin knocked Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) as a Washington insider during a rally with Gov. Rick Perry (R) in Houston Sunday.

"So on March 2 you have a clear choice," Palin said during her first campaign appearance of 2010. "I want to hear Texas, what's it gonna be: the way they operate in D.C. or the way y'all get things done in Texas?"

Perry, already the state's longest-serving governor, is seeking a third term. He faces Hutchison in next month's GOP primary.


Palin backs Perry over Hutchison - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
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Governor (Republican) Votes In: 100%
Rick Perry (I) 51.1%
Kay Bailey Hutchison 30.3%
Debra Medina 18.6%



Politics and election news | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

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Texans overwhelmingly chose the more conservative candidate between Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison. The mainstream media will attempt to display these results as simple "anti-Washington DC" sentiment, when in fact, it is far more a repudiation against Big Government liberalism. Hutchison was widely viewed as a John McCain style Republican - Perry the staunch anti-DC states-rights governor. The people spoke with a landslide primary victory for Perry.

And Sarah Palin is among that handful of conservative political figures who appear to have the finger on the pulse of current American sentiment.

All signs continue to point to a major reset election in 2010, and Palin will continue to play a significant role...

Why did Perry win? Simple. He carries the water for the conservative values crowd in Texas. Those folks vote in great numbers. The vote is not a repudiation of McCain and Bailey as much it as "let's get state-sanctioned prayers back in school and evolution out of the text books."
 
Palin backs Perry over Hutchison
By Sean J. Miller - 02/08/10 11:13 AM ET
Sarah Palin knocked Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) as a Washington insider during a rally with Gov. Rick Perry (R) in Houston Sunday.

"So on March 2 you have a clear choice," Palin said during her first campaign appearance of 2010. "I want to hear Texas, what's it gonna be: the way they operate in D.C. or the way y'all get things done in Texas?"

Perry, already the state's longest-serving governor, is seeking a third term. He faces Hutchison in next month's GOP primary.


Palin backs Perry over Hutchison - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
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Governor (Republican) Votes In: 100%
Rick Perry (I) 51.1%
Kay Bailey Hutchison 30.3%
Debra Medina 18.6%



Politics and election news | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

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Texans overwhelmingly chose the more conservative candidate between Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison. The mainstream media will attempt to display these results as simple "anti-Washington DC" sentiment, when in fact, it is far more a repudiation against Big Government liberalism. Hutchison was widely viewed as a John McCain style Republican - Perry the staunch anti-DC states-rights governor. The people spoke with a landslide primary victory for Perry.

And Sarah Palin is among that handful of conservative political figures who appear to have the finger on the pulse of current American sentiment.

All signs continue to point to a major reset election in 2010, and Palin will continue to play a significant role...

Rick Perry is a leftwingnut wearing a GOP outfit.
 
Many were doubting Perry's conservative street cred.

When he received the Palin endorsement, those worries all but vanished and he easily won the Republican nomination.

Palin Power is both real, and considerable.

A remarkable development to be sure...
 

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