Extra, extra! Sarah Palin is exactly what you thought she was!

scaeagles · 09-03-2010, 12:26 PM

I'm not a huge Palin fan, but I understand her appeal. There have been....well, really no loud vocal champions of conservatives that get out and run for office. She is the anti-McCain. Do I think she represents everything an intelligent conservative does? No, What she primarily does is rally up a conservative portion of the republican party that is tired of republican officals losing their fiscal conservatism, and tired of the absolute immense size of govenment. I get that. I'm with her on that. But I don't regard her as a serious candidate for office.

Of course, many of the currently elected government I don't regard as a serious candidate for office.

If the government was smaller than it is, Palin would really not have any appeal. But it is huge, getting bigger, and it got bigger not only under Obama, but under Bush as well. She capitalizes on the sentiment of people who are tired of that.

flippyshark · 09-03-2010, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

If the government was smaller than it is, Palin would really not have any appeal. But it is huge, getting bigger, and it got bigger not only under Obama, but under Bush as well. She capitalizes on the sentiment of people who are tired of that.

SCA, it certainly isn't the support of small government policy that makes Palin and others repellant to me - for all I know, some version of fiscal conservatism might make sense and turn things around. (I'm too ignorant on economics to argue persuasively on behalf of a bigger fed) It's the "guns and Bible" anti-intellectualism that makes it impossible for me to take these people seriously. (And in Palin's case, well, she really does seem like kind of a horrible person.) I don't see much logical correlation between smaller government and all the God talk. (Unless it would be harder for a small government to quash a theocracy - I sure hope that's not what's bubbling under the surface of all the rallying.)

Ghoulish Delight · 09-03-2010, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by flippyshark

I sure hope that's not what's bubbling under the surface of all the rallying

Under the surface? “America today begins to turn back to God.”

09-03-2010, 12:26 PM	#1
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	I'm not a huge Palin fan, but I understand her appeal. There have been....well, really no loud vocal champions of conservatives that get out and run for office. She is the anti-McCain. Do I think she represents everything an intelligent conservative does? No, What she primarily does is rally up a conservative portion of the republican party that is tired of republican officals losing their fiscal conservatism, and tired of the absolute immense size of govenment. I get that. I'm with her on that. But I don't regard her as a serious candidate for office. Of course, many of the currently elected government I don't regard as a serious candidate for office. If the government was smaller than it is, Palin would really not have any appeal. But it is huge, getting bigger, and it got bigger not only under Obama, but under Bush as well. She capitalizes on the sentiment of people who are tired of that.
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