She's a dingbat and a hustler, out to make a buck at the expense of the emotions of the ignorant. It's just that simple.

So the $300k "honorarium" she was given to speak to Asian businessmen during an hour's premium catered lunch doesn't count as "open to being bought and sold"?

Admittedly I am all for people being able to make money for themselves based on their skills and accomplishments, but overall I am really not sure exactly what she has done.

She was a "family values" candidate who was unable to apply the same values to her own personal life as she would like the rest of the country to follow.

She was a "government responsibility" figurehead who quit her job when it became "too tough".

Just those two simple things seem like they should wash away whatever other high-standing she might have had based on the hipocrasy of it all.

Personally I think we should all feel ashamed that these hard-working candidates who have actually accomplished something of historical notice are having much of their credit taken away from them as they are stuck being associated with Palin's plucky political bandwagon.

Can't we just accept these laudable women as capable people in their own right?

I agree, Obama was given a runaway stagecoach. However the poor SOB has no clue how to pull on the reigns and will run it over a cliff soon.

Did Obama Have 2 years. Yes. He Failed. he was more worried about passing his Social Agenda on this country then worring about the Economy..

And this Economic Crisis was Caused by the Congressionally Controlled Budgets passed by the Democrats. ..

In 2 years we Fire this FAILED PRESIDENT..

Just like we should of fired FDR for not solving the great depression in 2 years.

Lets hear it for the new do nothing congress and another round of FAILED starve the beast fiscal policy, as proven by our last 3 Republican presidents.

GOP senators consistently blocked legislation that would have held the financial industry more accountable and eliminate tax breaks for the rich, while blaming Obama for increasing taxation (which he didn't) and cozying up to big business (which is laughable). It's unfortunate that so many uninformed voters continue to believe GOP rhetoric over actual facts.

to dumb a— — people who said that obama should fix the republicans eight years mess in two years you are why americans are known as dumb a— — es around the world. That is why the criminals are having a field day stealing peoples identity because they are people in this country who are gaulible.

Yea, but starving the government of its funding from the 01/03 tax cuts did little to help the fiscal situation of the government and made it drastically worse to handle such a mess so a lot of blame can be placed on GWB, let alone medicaid, medicare, ss and increased Defense spending.

The Peoples Money does not belong to the govt........ Tax cuts are not the problem it is the 5 Trillion dollars worth of Spending the Democrats have Added to Debt since they took over control of Congress in 2007.. ..

In the mean time.. I will send you a WAAAAAMBULANCE James..

Why didn't Reagan institute the recommendations from the "Grace Report"? The savings on waste in the government would have immediately balanced the budget and eliminated the national debt in 5 years. No new or increased taxes and no loss of money to essential programs. AND, to top it off, the report cost $75,000,000.00 without paying a single cent from taxpayer money. The companies represented by the 170 or so CEO's, CFO's, accountants, business development companies, etc. funded the report which took 2 years to finish. Reagan wanted it, Congress, Senate, House did not.

Thank You! This financial crisis started long before Bush. Yet no one seems to pay attention as to how long ago this mess truly began (1990's). When you rob Peter to pay Paul it eventually bites you back.

Actually Steve I think you will find Starve the Beast to be a failed policy. When Bush enacted the tax cuts, he said it was to act as a fiscal straight jacket for congress while increasing the federal spending that year by %6, so it actually had the opposite effect (he basically lied to the American people) of what was suppose to happen.

By all means, put up or shut up, if your gonna cut the taxes, cut spending to match the loss in revenues. Once upon a time, Republicans actually cared about the deficit.

Your right its the peoples money, so I guess its China's job to finance our nation, since obviously the tax payer shouldnt have to pay for those taxes, but if China refuses to fund us anymore, bye bye to both, tax cuts and popular government services like SS and Medicare.

James..

all one has to do is look at the spending of congress and you will find that the Democrats are the ones that have done the Majority of the Spending..

How do you Explain the Democrat controlled Congress adding 5 trillion dollars of Debt since they took contorl of Congress in 2007... here this is a Graph of the Spending. by Both parties.. .. it doesn't take into account the last 2 years since Obama took control of Congress.. Yes.. .. i understand you like to blame Republicans because thats what you have been told to say.. but the facts dont bear out what you have been told...

http://i44.tinypic.com/34g1xu1.jpg

Well the President can veto any spending by congress he finds ludicrous, in the 6 years Republicans had Congress under Bush there was not one spending veto, and supply-side economics calls for tax cuts that affect our government revenues.

You can not deny that Reagan lowering the marginal tax rate from %70 to %40 had 0 effect on revenues, not to mention his increased defense spending.

Look, I think we can both agree that cutting taxes prior to cutting spending is imprudent.

Also a lot of the debt in the last several years were from the Global recession, ontop of the lower tax rate. The lower tax rate was counting on exponential growth to pay for themselves, and not fighting a war on terror or the mortgage meltdown happening, they were highly imprudent tax cuts. In order for the Bush tax cuts to pay for themselves, we would of needed atleast double digit GDP growth, when we got more on par of about %2 and a much higher national debt.

And the only people to pay off that national debt is the US tax payer, like it or not. We can not file bankruptcy as a country. I think the future does hold severe cuts in socialistic programs like SS, Medicare and Medicaid, but also would call for higher tax rates so neither party will get it only their way if the national debt keeps increasing.

James...

What part of Democrats could have not Added Trillions of dollars to the Budget dont you understand...

Veto pen was there for Bush if he thought spending was too high, he passed one of the bailout bills on par of 700 billion. Bush was the opposite of a deficit hawk. Most non-partisan economists think the healthcare bill and TARP saved the economy from the brink of a great depression.

Tax cuts are the main culprit in the lack of revenues to pay for the Government spending. We need to go back to pre-Reagan tax levels to pay for defense, medicaid, medicare and SS, or our power as a whole will continue to dwindle.

Lets just agree that Obama inherited a terrible mess compared to the one Bush had. I do not think deficits would of been balanced overnight had McCain/Palin would of gotten in office, and people dislike Obama because of his party affiliation than his actual polices.

But if you want a do-nothing congress/government, then as a democrat whos party got voted out this election, atleast I can wash my hands of responsibility of the future of this country on the congressional side, just as we did when Bush was running the show.

Yes.. i agree Obama inherited a Mess that was given to him by the Democrat controlled Congress.............and Tax cuts are never the Problem. Ever.. its the Govt overspending . Always.............

Well tax revenues are directly tied to taxes enacted. Not all tax cuts are good, and not all tax increases are bad.

The governments purpose is to do things the people can not do by themselves, or private industry for that matter.

No james..

To many people Depend on Govt to do things for them that they can do for themselves..

James...

The govt's only purpose is checks and balances, the feds are there to protect our rights from being abused by the states. The only reason taxes were even innitiated was to pay for a standing military to protect the entire country. The founding fathers knew that not having a national military would only lead to infighting between the states and leave us open to other countries attacks... They never in a million years dreamed that the federal govt would become the monster it has become today.

Scottyboy - are YOU really talking about Kool Aid??? Man, the pot calling the kettle black!

Yes.. thats right.. Its Bush's fault.. errr.. Boehners.. err.. Fox news.. errr. The Tea partiers.. errrr.. Angry white people.. errrr... chamber of Commerice.. errrrrr......... Glenn Becks... .. errrrr.. Who will it be tomorrow...

When you piss off the people that actually Write your paycheck.. Expect to get Fired................

yup

Thanks hard17 ...I couldn't have said it better. She's the perfect political lightning rod...Says whatever she thinks the fans want to hear, regardless of how inaccurate and uninformed. She QUIT her elected position, disregarding the people who put her in office; and all of this so that she could go on the road/TV and "feel the pain" of the countless unemployed and repossessed. Or was it the infinitely more lucrative paychecks she now collects for doing...by the way, what DOES she she actually "do" to justify her lofty income???

I find Palin to be...uncultured, not so much as entirely stupid, but definitly not smart.

I think Matt Damon said it best, she is like the star of a really bad disney movie. The mayor of a small town of 7,000 people, who somehow got to be Governor of a very small (population wise) state, gets picked for Vice president. She uses her folksy demeanor as a hockey mom that she learned at the hockey rink (Hockey is popular up north I take it) to face down Vladamir Putin and win a currency war with China...Right.

That sounds like a crappy disney movie, and in reality, a political nightmare scenario for a dwindling superpower like the USA.