Palin makes surprise visit to supporters, event could be large

 

URBANDALE, Iowa -- Hundreds of supporters greeted Sarah Palin as she made a somewhat unannounced visit to a Conservatices4Palin meeting here last night at a local restaurant.

On the eve of her much-anticipated appearance at a Tea Party rally in Indianola, Palin barely made her way through the packed room in The Machine Shed restaurant. On-going chants of “Run, Sarah, run” broke out as she shook hands, took pictures, and signed autographs with those in attendance. To the disappointment of some, she did not give any formal remarks or get all the way around the meeting space. And she also took no questions from the media.

If last night’s “surprise” visit is any indication of today's event, it is going to be large. An entire bus from Texas dropped off a few dozen people with a big “Texas is Palin country” sign on the side of the bus. Supporters were also there from California, Illinois, and so forth.

Palin and her aides have not said if the former Alaska governor will give any indication on her presidential plans. Palin also has a trip scheduled to that other early nominating state -- New Hampshire -- Monday, which is Labor Day.

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And she also took no questions from the media.

Now there's a shock! lol

Supporters were also there from California, Illinois, and so forth.

Did they also have to pawn personal possessions to come to visit the fancy pageant walking pit-bull in lipstick?

*wink wink*

At least we know where 'ground zero' of the certifiably insane will be this weekend!

  • 15 votes
Reply#1 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:03 AM EDT

Speaking of insanity, Feisty...

Now that our nation knows exactly what an Obama Administration actually entails...not as an abstraction, nor as a vague, ill-defined campaign slogan ("Hope And Change", for example)...

But instead, as a reality, more than two-and-a-half years into it...

Wouldn't it be insane to reelect President Obama? I mean...given the popular definition of insanity?

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Do we really need to do that again?

  • 16 votes
#1.1 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:41 AM EDT

People do love her. I think it's got something to do with all the negative media she receives. People just naturally hate liars and bullies. Such behavior repulses them and causes them to rally around the person being mistreated.

Did they also have to pawn personal possessions

At least the taxpayers didn't pay for it. BTW....ground zero is still Illinois. You know.....the state where more jobs are lost and more people leave for better digs.

Right, fisty?

  • 8 votes
#1.2 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 12:06 PM EDT

People just naturally hate liars and bullies.

Then people hate Palin. "Surveyor Marks" anyone? And the list of her lies goes on and on and on...

  • 3 votes
#1.3 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:37 PM EDT

I don't see Why Not Mixed, you Dummies Re-Elected Chicken George & Darth Cheney because yall were'nt finished with World Devastation !

Have'nt you seen all the Polls showing Real Americans Blame George Walker Bush for How thier Lives are now 3 years after he left office. Just in case you have'nt noticed Mixed, 52% Blame Bush-32% Blame Obama. I'll take those numbers any day & twice on Sunday going into an Election Year. Real Americans are'nt as Dumb as TeaPartyChristainConservativesPraying forWorldDevastation.

BTW Mixed, you seen Mommar lately?

Top 2 Terrorist in the World gone in less than 3 years at the Fraction of the Cost of Saddams Pistol. O Yeah, when is it that Amuricans can see that Multi-Trillion Dollar Pistol?

Whazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzup!

  • 5 votes
#1.4 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 2:50 PM EDT

Real Americans? What does that mean? I thinking real Americans don't use ATMs either right? anyways......Obama can kill all the terrorist he wants and nobody will disagree with you, but he's worse than Jimmy Carter when it comes to domestic policies and that you can't argue with.

At least you can still blame Bush, when that fails you can throw out the race card, when that fails you will most likely see a new POTUS, when that happens you will hear the next 4 years the election was fixed

  • 3 votes
#1.5 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 3:49 PM EDT

Poor-Paul, still suffering from Brurnt Brain syndrone.

Race Card, aint that what yall wanna throw around Paul?

Keep undermineing the Future for you & Yours Paul, that is if You have ever succeeded in haveing Kids.

I Know, I Know, You Got Yours, Screw E1 else.

  • 4 votes
#1.6 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 4:30 PM EDT
Reply

"Conservatices4Palin" - is that just spelled wrong, or have I not had enough coffee this morning?

  • 5 votes
Reply#2 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:04 AM EDT

"Conservatices4Palin" - is that just spelled wrong

No! I

t's spelled correctly according to tea baggers grammar!

Have YOU seen some of the signs they wave around - further proof edijucation is not high on their list of priorities! lol

Read em & weep!

Warning do not attempt to drink something while viewing:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.buzzflash.com%2Fcontributors%2F2073&ei=6DViTvWKFeaosQK9-fjDCg&usg=AFQjCNFJu4Z5e0sZlxeK96Vx38dVAdSL3Q

  • 9 votes
#2.1 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:14 AM EDT

Thanks for the no-drinking warning, lol. It's a regular amnety horror... or is that amensty horror.

  • 4 votes
#2.2 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:21 AM EDT

It's "Amityville Horror".

Hey, Alex Moe- it's been an hour- how about fixing your typo?

  • 6 votes
#2.3 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:00 AM EDT

Nice Feisty. I liked those signs. Do you think Bev was carrying one?? Her spelling is usually spot on even with a spell check feature available!!

  • 4 votes
#2.4 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:30 AM EDT

lmao...you mean Bev "put the pipe down" Sharpton.

She's a shining example of our public education system and public housing.

But hey!, still have an internet connection!

Ooops, almost forgot....Lean Forward!...lol

  • 6 votes
#2.5 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:40 PM EDT
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Okay, wait a minute. This restaurant was crammed with out-of-state potential campaign volunteers? You mean, they piled out of their buses, then the potential candidate piled our of her bus, they all enjoyed a chant together in Bob's Steaks n Bait... and left? And Bob's patrons out for a quiet Friday dinner had to endure all that and didn't even get to meet the potential candidate?

That's just weird. I mean, not your typical, "hmmm, hadn't seen that before." I mean kind of awkward, staring in disbelief that these are adults and not some frat pledge stunt weird. That's radio morning show gag kind of weird.

  • 10 votes
Reply#3 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:12 AM EDT

Palin offers hope, Obama offers what?

  • 17 votes
#4 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:12 AM EDT

Obama must be very depressed that he's lost that spark from 2008 when everyone believed he actually represented 'Hope and Change'! It is Palin and others now who now represent the hope that they can turn around the mess we're in! How do you easily reverse a slide that has had 3 years to fester?

  • 17 votes
#4.1 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:19 AM EDT

Sanity?

  • 4 votes
#4.2 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:24 AM EDT

Palin offers hope, Obama offers what?

Results.

Just ask Osama bin Laden, Ben.

Oooops,....wait a minute,......

  • 9 votes
#4.3 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:30 AM EDT

Obama's recent EPA moves would indicate he's copying Palin's platform! Wise move on his part, but too little, too late I'm afraid. And it is perceived as a desperate move by most Americans.... no one believes for a second that Obama is sincere, just politics!

  • 15 votes
#4.4 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:38 AM EDT

BenSnead- the electorate will not be buying any more hope based on hype this time.

I don't think Palin will run, but I DO think she wants to remain in the eye of the public. That's fine.

Either Perry or Romney will be getting the nomination- neither will be choosing Palin as V.P. Both understand that the V.P. Nominee needs strong foreign policy credentials.

Mitch Daniels stated that, had he run and gotten the nomination, his first choice would have been Condaleeza Rice. Great choice- let's see the liberals TRY to make her look dumb.

I don't know who's on the short list any more than anyone else- or even if any candidate has gotten that far yet, although I assume they have.

I DO want Palin out there inspiring her base to work for the eventual nominee. The GOP needs to be energized, and to take advantage of the democrats' discouragement.

For the good of my country, Obama needs to be defeated. Heck, I'd throw a party if he got mad and resigned. That would be good news for all Americans.

Obama shelved in 2012.

  • 12 votes
#4.5 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:45 AM EDT

Great choice- let's see the liberals TRY to make her look dumb

Don't have to - she does a fine job doing that all by herself!

Tears and all...

I DO want Palin out there inspiring her base to work for the eventual nominee

GREAT!

Didn't we get enough of the 'KILL HIM' & 'palling around with terrorist' crap in 2008?

See my post #2.1 - excellent example of her base! LMAO

  • 7 votes
#4.6 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:50 AM EDT

no joe - like you, I don't see Palin getting into the race, but I really like her moxie and her confidence! I especially like the way she can outrage the libtards! I think they have Palin envy, lol!

  • 14 votes
#4.7 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:16 AM EDT

I really like her moxie and her confidence!

Confidence?

You mean like she will not speak to any media outside of the one who provides her with a paycheck?

Yeah - that's a whole lot of 'moxie'! LMAO

  • 11 votes
#4.8 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:20 AM EDT

BenSnead, it seems feisty is proof of your theory! Palin envy is spreading amoung the libbies....

  • 15 votes
#4.9 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:26 AM EDT

Just ask Osama bin Laden, Ben

Instead of trying to ask a dead man he had no part of killing (can't wait for Panetta's memoir)......why don't we ask the 14 million unemployed?

  • 14 votes
#4.10 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 12:12 PM EDT

I can speak for the 14 million unemployed as I am one as of last October. I am sick and tired of the republicans obstruction to any bill that might turn the country around or create more jobs.

Bachmann who claims she can turn the country around in 90 days should tell us her secrets as she is already on the payroll.

The only thing I can hope for with Palin is more tax cuts to the rich and cuts for the poor. I am just waiting for the republicans to end unemployment for 14 million families. That will prove to me they care for the rich and not for our country.

Ah, shucks and you wanted me to blame Obama like you.

  • 8 votes
#4.11 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 12:23 PM EDT

Americans First - Maybe if you got away from the computer in your mothers basement and actually went out and looked for a job you could find one. But then I suppose you haven't finished getting all of your unemployment benefits yet. BTW, wasn't it Obama that said he was going to create millions of jobs, especially with his stimulus and that was when the democrats controlled the House and Senate. Wasn't it Obama that said "the first thing I think about in the morning when I get up is jobs, and the last thing I thing about before going to sleep is jobs." Someone forgot to tell Obama that just thinking about jobs doesn't actually produce jobs. Of course he had a plan but had to wait until his vacation was over.

  • 13 votes
#4.12 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 12:41 PM EDT

sfcret

How can Obama produce jobs in this country?

For every one job he produces the repubs send 5 more overseas.

  • 5 votes
#4.13 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 12:49 PM EDT

Palin envy is spreading amoung the libbies....

Repubs/Connies know this:

With every personal appearance by Palin I get gladder and gladder she is on your side and not mine.

  • 5 votes
#4.14 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:05 PM EDT

sfcret, You know as well as I do that the republicans have obstructed every bill that could have created jobs. This is only the second time in my life I have been on unemployment and the last time found a job within a couple months.

I was the 2008 employee of the year for my innovative collections, not a slacker. Thirty (30) people were laid off the day I was. Some had been with the company 30 years, I had only been there 8 years.

I have put out hundreds of applications and with my work history being 62 have only had 3 interviews. One friend ask me to put in an application and then told me that instead of the usual 3 applications to monitor the elderly on exercise machines part time and this year they got 12 and 3 had P.H.D.'s.

I own my own home and believe me I am not in the basement. I know all liberals and especially the unemployed are lazy and just because there are no jobs is no excuse in the republican brain.

Most of all I do not blame President Obama for the republican obstructionism. I blame republicans and their hatred for America and putting the rich before country.

  • 3 votes
#4.15 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:10 PM EDT

American First & GOP - Typical liberal talking points, blame the republicans, blame the Tsunami and the Arab uprisings, blame the tea party and mostly blame Bush. You liberals never want to take responsibility for anything just the same old blame, blame, blame.

GOPisextinct states that the republicans send 5 jobs overseas for every one Obama creates, don't really suppose he can back that up, but for your information General Electric just closed plants in the US, laying people off, and shipped those jobs to China, and who is the CEO of GE, well gee it's no other than Jeffery Immelt, Obama's Jobs czar, the same one that is going to help Obama create jobs, how's those apples. You might want to check and see how many corporations have donated to Obama's political campaign.

Americans First - Maybe you should look for jobs in other states (I don't know where you live) I understand Texas and N. Dakota have job openings. N. Dakota's unemployment is around 3.5 %, sometimes you have to relocate, people do it everyday.

  • 7 votes
#4.16 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:28 PM EDT

sfcret and just who is fighting to keep the tax cuts to make it even more profitable to move companies overseas but our friends the republicans.

It seems you have forgotten the condition of our country just 2 1/2 years ago. The country was bleeding jobs so hot and heavy I felt lucky to keep my tourist based job for as long as I did.

How dare we blame the very republicans some still in office who claimed to be fiscal conservatives and then gave tax cuts we had to borrow money for and then for the first time in history started wars without raising taxes to pay for them. Now we are in this debt situation and republicans are fighting hard to keep it that way by refusing to raise taxes on the richest.

But by all means don't point a finger at the ones that voted for this mess and are obstructing to keep it that way.

Lets all be like republicans and become born again fiscal conservatives and pretend the debt, the wars, losing jobs all started the day that Obama was sworn in as president.

  • 4 votes
#4.17 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:45 PM EDT

Texas has job openings. Goody, I can leave my home and go and drink sewer water in Texas and get paid below living wages. Texas unemployment is only 1% less that the country as a whole. So that means instead of 100 people for every job, in Texas there would only be 75.

No thanks, I have saved enough money with my last slacker job that I can last the 3 years until I retire even if they do end unemployment and the economy continues to be bad and still no jobs to be had. Just because I was lucky enough to have things fall together for me, doesn't mean I don't care what happens to the rest of my fellow unemployed or the soon to be homeless unemployed if the republicans have their way.

Or, that I don't see how heartless and proud of it, that republicans have become. Then they tell us to depend on our neighbors. You had better hope for Democratic neighbors.

We need a sea of blue in the congress to stop republican obstructionism.

  • 5 votes
#4.18 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 2:15 PM EDT

just who is fighting to keep the tax cuts to make it even more profitable to move companies overseas but our friends the republicans.

That doesn't even make sense .... how does keeping the cost down here in America make it more profitable for them to NOT be here?

We have some of the highest corporate taxes in the world. We have one of the highest costs of doing business in the world with all the over regulation. Obama is intentionally driving up the cost of energy. Obama has devalued the value of the dollar with all the QE crap driving up inflation and the cost of everything. Obama has spent us into a credit downgrade. Obama's regulators are creating a new rule or regulation every 2 hours and 20 minutes 24/7/365 year after year.

Why would a company not move? Many have to just to survive.

Obama is an epic failure. Obama's own "job czar" is moving his own companies overseas. Sheez ...... how blind can you be.

Yea the repubs are obstructing ...... OBSTRUCTING A CLUELESS IDEOLOGUE FROM KILLING JOB CREATION.

How dare we blame the very republicans some still in office who claimed to be fiscal conservatives and then gave tax cuts we had to borrow money for and then for the first time in history started wars without raising taxes to pay for them.

First, the cost of the 2 wars for 8 years under Bush were $760 billion. Obama is overspending that by a factor of 2 in this year alone. Bush's average annual war expense was $95 billion - Obama's is $160 billion and has added a third war and another rebuilding project.

Bush's tax cuts generated a revenue of 18.5% of GDP in 2007, higher revenue than the average going back all the way to the Great Depression.

So how does higher - above average revenue "costs" us revenue?

Now we are in this debt situation and republicans are fighting hard to keep it that way by refusing to raise taxes on the richest.

Obama's 15% of GDP revenue (same tax rate) is 20% below Bush's revenue. The problem is the economy Obama is strangling. And you want Obama to tighten his grip on the throat of business?

So business isn't hiring when they have a marginal tax burden. Your tax burden is not too great right now given your employment situation, right? Why don't you go out and "invest" in a new car, "invest" in new furniture, etc. ...... or would you prefer higher taxes on yourself right now?

Yea ..... shut off the tax cost ventilator for business and see how the sick job market responds.

This is so absurd.

But by all means don't point a finger at the ones that voted for this mess and are obstructing to keep it that way.

The repubs didn't vote for the clueless ideologue that has been office almost 3 years.

Obstructing?

Obama had the Office of the Presidency, the Senate and the Congress for the first 2 years. What did they block? Obamacare, Dodd Frank, the stimulus - all that actually had bi-partisan support AGAINST them?

Obama is spending money at a rate 3 times faster than Bush - so did the repubs obstruct Obama from spending money 5 times faster than Bush? Did they obstruct the unemployment rate from going to 20%?

Lets all be like republicans and become born again fiscal conservatives and pretend the debt, the wars, losing jobs all started the day that Obama was sworn in as president.

Obama didn't realize there were 2 wars going on for years? Obama didn't realize there was a debt problem?

Wow. He sure did campaign about them, told us how bad Bush was .... said he he could fix things.

How about dems quit pretending this idiot has a clue, quit pretending that he is a victim of Bush, victim of tsunamis, victim of Arab Springs, victim of repubs, etc.

You need a job?

What you need is a leader - NOT A PITIFUL, HELPLESS VICTIM THAT DOESN'T HAVE A CLUE HOW TO GET THE JOB DONE AND GET AMERICA BACK TO WORK.

  • 6 votes
#4.19 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 4:18 PM EDT

I still wonder if, IF, Palin or Bachman, or Perry, or which ever GOP TEA party gets elected to the White House in 2012, and they come to the contusion after about 3 or 4 months, that they, THEY , can't keep their promises, either. Then what? "OH we can't fix/correct the massive problems left by Obama, so now WE have to raise taxes on EVERYONE, including the rich/wealthy, because EVERYONE needs to help!!"

  • 1 vote
#4.20 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 4:22 PM EDT

Instead of trying to ask a dead man he had no part of killing (can't wait for Panetta's memoir)......why don't we ask the 14 million unemployed?

No part in killing? Who do you think ordered the Seals to "Ghost" OBL,....Mother Teresa? If you do,...you're dreaming.

Why don't we ask the 14 million Chinamen and Indians who got the jobs of our 14 million unemployed? Those are the only places our noble "job creators" are creating jobs.

I don't know about you, but I'm working because of Obama, and so are about 2 million other people with automotive-related jobs. How's that for "stimulus"? Ask my mortgage company if they'd rather have me default on my mortgage, or ask the guy at the Home Depot if he'd rather I didn't buy a roll of insulation and a receptacle wiring box from him today.

I'm going to donate $100 to the Capuchin Soup Kitchen in Detroit tomorrow. Maybe the good Friars would rather pass on the money.

I'm generating a lot of economic activity because Obama saved my job.

  • 3 votes
#4.21 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 7:14 PM EDT

Ben:

[...but I really like... her confidence!]

Confidence is something you have before you fully understand the situation...

    #4.22 - Sun Sep 4, 2011 2:10 PM EDT
    Reply

    That's probably the way it was spelled on the bus. You know how educated the tea people are.

    I can't believe people would really raid their kids piggy banks just to go listen to her speak.

    • 8 votes
    Reply#5 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:13 AM EDT

    Good Luck Sarah, Keep using the media and making those liberal women hopping mad with envy !!!

    • 4 votes
    Reply#6 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:14 AM EDT

    Guns--"...making those liberal women hopping mad with envy"? Not bloody likely--in your dreams only! We just do not want an airhead like her representing our country. Why would we be envious of someone like her? If women like Palin and Bachmann are the best and brightest that the TP/GOP has to offer, we are all in deep trouble.

    • 8 votes
    #6.1 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:43 AM EDT

    If women like Palin and Bachmann are the best and brightest that the TP/GOP has to offer, we are all in deep trouble

    AMEN Sistuh! ;o)

    Envious?

    Hardly...

    More like EMBARRASSED!

    • 11 votes
    #6.2 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:47 AM EDT

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    • 2 votes
    #6.3 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:51 AM EDT

    You're happier with an airhead like Obama?

    Please remember that Palin was the not-experienced- enough vice presidential candidate.

    Obama was the not-experienced- enough top of the ticket, and we are paying for it.

    By the way- in terms of personality, (both are narcissistic), belief in simplistic solutions to complex problems, and ability to learn from constructive criticism, I don't think there's a dime's worth of difference between the two.

    • 14 votes
    #6.4 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:51 AM EDT

    "A new poll shows President Obama ahead of Sarah Palin 54 percent to 39 percent in a potential match up. You know what that means? John McCain could get Barack Obama elected twice." —Jay Leno

    • 8 votes
    #6.5 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:02 AM EDT

    Job that is too funny, McCain could get Obama elected twice. Isn't that the truth with everybody trying to out tea party each other.

    Perry/Palin for republicans who like making the same mistakes over and over hoping for different results.

    • 6 votes
    #6.6 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 12:38 PM EDT
    Reply

    "You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? At some point a pit bull does stop whining."

    • 6 votes
    Reply#7 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:52 AM EDT

    I see Sarah is now the new "Hope and Change".......... Well, it might be change, but not a whole dollar!

    • 6 votes
    Reply#8 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 11:27 AM EDT

    WHO CARES!!!!

    • 1 vote
    Reply#9 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 12:00 PM EDT

    Yes enough about Palin. Here's a quote to dwell on libbies: "There is only one way to kill Capitalism---by taxes, taxes, and more taxes." Barack Obama? Nope Karl Marx, but could be Obama. Let's wait and find out on Thursday!

    • 10 votes
    #9.1 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 12:28 PM EDT

    Give us a break Mark, tax have been the lowest in 50 years. Believe me the rich are not over taxed. Then they have had ten years of extra tax cuts.

    The republicans keep claiming our country is in such a bind, is it so awful to think the rich could help out the country they claim to love?

    Sorry King Norquist doesn't approve of taxing the rich, sorry America the rich come first. But if you are middle class, sure we can raise your taxes.

    How does it feel to defend the republicans when they are the ones to raise your taxes? Looks like you will be thrown under the bus with the rest of America so they can protect the rich.

    • 8 votes
    #9.2 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 12:47 PM EDT

    'Americans First' - you haven't been paying attention! If you listen to obama's "job creation" chat on Thursday you will hear obama repeat his mantra on raising taxes to create jobs. Unfortunately Mr. Obama is not a student of history, otherwise he would know that increasing taxes has never created private sector jobs! Increasing taxes will increase government jobs but I'm sure you realize those 'jobs' will increase our debt more than the little tax revenue they would generate!

    • 3 votes
    #9.3 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:44 PM EDT

    McClatchy Report (09-01-11): Regulations and taxes are not killing small business, so say the small business owners.


    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/01/122865/regulations-taxes-arent-killing.html#ixzz1WnAbTmEQ

    • 4 votes
    #9.4 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:57 PM EDT

    Robin you are so hot on history, check out way long ago during the Clinton presidency when he raise taxes several times and the economy was growing and the private sector was hiring and unemployment was low. I wonder how those poor rich people managed to grow jobs with all the high taxes. Then he raised taxes again and jobs continued to grow.

    If you go way, way back Reagan also raise taxes after seeing what cutting taxes was doing to the economy.

    We are talking about raising taxes on the rich, who have had an incredible tax cut for the last 10 years and now is the time the rich need to pitch in and act like this is their America too. But no, the republicans want to raise taxes on the working poor and middle class who can least afford it as a compromise for not raising taxes on the richest.

    Go ahead and defend the party that is raising your taxes, but not the rich.

    Pesky facts sure do have a way of getting in the way of talking points.

    • 3 votes
    #9.5 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 2:34 PM EDT

    Suzanne,

    They need Palin, that's all they have. They can't talk about what Obama has done, well except the "They" (what ever that means) got Osama. It amusing to read the rants about a person that might not even run for POTUS or that GOP thinks that all jobs that go overseas involved Republican's doing. That's what he was told at a Obama Kool-aid meeting.

    • 3 votes
    #9.6 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 4:00 PM EDT

    Give us a break Mark, tax have been the lowest in 50 years.

    Taxes under Reagan went from 70% down to 28%.

    Taxes were at 31% for 3 years in the early 90s.

    You realize this wasn't 50 years ago, right? You realize that 28 and 31 are less than 35, right?

    How does it feel to defend the republicans when they are the ones to raise your taxes?

    What a lie.

    And really, with Obama and his asinine spending, who is going to end up paying the tab?

    Gas prices?

    Think the rich are hurt by $4 gas?

    Inflation due to QE2?

    Think the rich notice that a little can of Campbell's Chicken Noodle has gone up to almost $2.

    Dems kill the middle class and blame it on the repubs - look at liberal cities and states.

    Why are you such a tool.

    Robin you are so hot on history, check out way long ago during the Clinton presidency when he raise taxes several times and the economy was growing and the private sector was hiring and unemployment was low.

    The marginal rates went up but Clinton dropped the capital gains tax about 8 points.

    The rich don't really care as much about the marginal rate as the capital gains tax. That's where they make their money and that's where jobs are created.

    You didn't know that?

    I wonder how those poor rich people managed to grow jobs with all the high taxes. Then he raised taxes again and jobs continued to grow.

    No need to wonder.

    Clinton went for national health care and the repubs killed it. Clinton wanted a big government stimulus and the repubs killed it. Clinton tried for big spending budgets and the repubs made him balance it.

    Clinton and the repubs created a business friendly environment and business took off.

    Do what Clinton did - get the economy going strong and if you want to bump up the marginal rate to Clinton's level - no problem.

    Bump it is now is sheer stupidity.

    History tells you what works - why does Obama do the opposite?

    I guess you are not too hot on history, huh?

    Don't feel bad - Obama is oblivious too.

    • 4 votes
    #9.7 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 4:58 PM EDT
    Reply

    This is one of the reasons why America is screwed up, to support a canidate who is no more qualified than me......but no matter who you are you always create your own folling...Goes to show you it doesnt matter who you are..........She making money off you and she loves it...Same with Bachman,,,,all glory and money while you eat all this up.....

    • 5 votes
    Reply#11 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 12:20 PM EDT

    What does anyone on this board think Palin would do for the job situation?

    What do you think she would have done to cap Osama bin Laden?

    What do you think Palin would have done when confronted with Somali pirates?

    What do you think Palin would have done about Libya?

    What do you think Palin would have done about the auto industry going under?

    What do you think Palin would have done about the need for Wall Street regulation?

    What do you think Palin would have done about Iraq?

    What do you think Palin would have done about Afghanistan?

    What do you think Palin would have done about the real estate crisis?

    Given that Palin cannot even manage to keep her own daughters out of a boy's bedroom; what makes you think she can manage a nation toward recovery that was destroyed by republican fascism?

    What makes you think that this opportunist, brain-dead, idiot bait, half-wit, half-term, quitter, loser can run a country if she can't keep her own daughters from squirting out welfare babies?

    Just a question to the party of "Family Values."

    • 5 votes
    Reply#12 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 12:59 PM EDT

    GOPisex, you just don't get it! It's not about Palin, she just represents the silent majority that knows only too well that you can't fix Obama! He's just not a good leader and we need a leader, especially now! You libbies are so easy to rattle, maybe you see the signs too, but are too stubborn to admit it! ......Lol, 'Palin Envy', I like it!

    • 7 votes
    #12.1 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:26 PM EDT

    I think we need to ask John McCain the same questions. If he had become president.

      #12.2 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 4:31 PM EDT

      you just don't get it! It's not about Palin, she just represents the silent majority............

      Memphis,

      It ain't me that "just don't get it".

      From day one it has been only too painfully obvious to me that Palin is in this for the money!!

      Money, money, money!!

      She flies into town on a Gulfstream jet, demands Evian water at all he "speeches", charges $100,000 a talk cause she's "grass roots", and then jets out after tossing right wing ding-a-lings all the red meat talking phrases they want to hear: "We're takin' our country back", "Take that Liberals", "Taxed Enough Already",...."Howz dat' hope n' change thingy workin' for ya"?..........

      See?

      I could do it.

      For someone who does not hold office, is a college drop-out, didn't know that Africa was a continent, quit everything she tried, and had no idea what the *bleep* Paul Revere did; she sure charges an awful lot for a speaking fee.

      All she knows is that if she trots out enough of those catch phrases and brings enough of her written-in-crayons books to those "Fleece The Idiots" rallies of hers; then she stands to make a giant heap o' loot.

      If I still came off unclear Memphis,....then let me spell it out for you real, real plain so that even a republican can understand this:

      She's doing more than laughing at Liberals. She's laughing at conservatives too, and at how easy it is to separate you dumbbells from your money.

      Get it now?

      Palin is a total waste of protoplasm otherwise, but she is a shiny object, with nice legs that is a reliable distraction for simple minds that, as you already implied,........desperately want to be led.




      • 2 votes
      #12.3 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 5:21 PM EDT

      demands Evian water at all he "speeches",

      You forgot the 'bendy' straws GOP! lol

      Other then that, I think you covered the bases... ;o)

      • 4 votes
      #12.4 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 5:25 PM EDT

      Thanks Feisty. I have such a great mentor in YOU lady.

      She certainly knows how to work a crowd doesn't she?

      • 2 votes
      #12.5 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 5:36 PM EDT

      Besides,....I kinda' like the "Loop d' Loop" straws myself.

      ;o)

      • 1 vote
      #12.6 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 5:40 PM EDT

      Thanks Feisty. I have such a great mentor in YOU lady.

      Aww shucks... thanks!

      *blushes*

      She certainly knows how to work a crowd doesn't she?

      I've seen more intelligent vegetable gardens then Palin's crowd! ;o)

      We do refer to them as stuck on stupid for nothing you know... lol

      • 3 votes
      #12.7 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 5:41 PM EDT
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      Let's say - for arguments sake - that you righties are correct in your evaluaion of Obama, can you honestly say you would rather have Sarah Palin as president? If it came down to the two of them, you would really want her to be president?! 

      Now, that is scary.

      Heck, guys, even my tea party mother and my republican wife and son-in-law can't stomach the thought of her in the White House. 

      • 5 votes
      Reply#13 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:16 PM EDT

      No question, the nation needs a real leader. If it was the radical leftwing economic disaster and failure Obama vs Palin, I would vote for Palin.

      • 2 votes
      #13.1 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 2:24 PM EDT
      • 2 votes
      #13.2 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 4:28 PM EDT
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      Maybe Palin thinks that if she holds out long enough that she won't have to participate in any debates or give any interviews.

      I still think she's really campaigning for VP again.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#14 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 1:18 PM EDT

      The woman does not speak...she screeches..!!!

      The words out of mouth are directed to the yah-hoos in the audience....The Fox Crowd who do not think for themselves.

      They screen, they holler, they shout, and they only listen to the talking points that the GOP/TeaParty uses...

      If you can picture them in the White House do you think they will be running the country....No, The Koch Brothers want to get in that house so bad they can taste it.

      Keep on screeching Sarah...it is like chalk on a blackboard...America is listening to you...really listening to you and Slick Rick...!!!!

      • 3 votes
      Reply#15 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 2:26 PM EDT

      I can't stand this woman's speaking voice. She has a coy screechiness going on that sounds like she thinks she knows it all, like she has reduced a complex world to the lowest common denominator of crude and simplistic understanding, and like the next thing she is going to say is "I told you so" even though she was wrong to begin with. Just as America does not need a know it all professor in a smelly suit like Ron Paul to tell them how to live, they sure as hell don't need this PTA Bible Spice moose gutting Barby Doll to confer her wisdom on them!

      • 2 votes
      Reply#16 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 2:59 PM EDT

      She has a coy screechiness going on that sounds like she thinks she knows it all

      True dat James.

      Kind of like someone trying to pull the fur off a live cat.

      Excuse the imagery for the cat lovers out there.

      • 3 votes
      Reply#17 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 5:39 PM EDT

      Excuse the imagery for the cat lovers out there.

      I'm a cat lover & that was funnier then hell! ;o)))

      • 3 votes
      #17.1 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 5:42 PM EDT
      Reply

      yes it would be nuts to give the Republicans another chance to finish Destroying America

      We sure don't need more tax cuts for the Rich, Big Business, Big Oil, Wall Street, Bankers, Koch Brothers

      But I guess if you want to Kill Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Middle Class, Unions, Teachers, Firefighters, Police,

      Allow Big Coal the Koch Brothers to polluate the Air and Water we breath and drink

      Allow the Rich and Powerful take control of the Government

      Then Republicans are the ones to vote for, they will finish the job Bush and Cheney Started

      it will be Government for the Rich by the Rich

      Vote out the Republicans

      • 4 votes
      Reply#18 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 8:33 PM EDT

      Memphis Kelly above asks: "How do you easily reverse a slide that has had 3 years to fester?" referring to the Obama Administration's tenure in office.

      Just as we did in 2008 to reverse the previous 8 years of George's messy slide that festered, my dear, by VOTING!

      OBAMA 2012!

      • 4 votes
      Reply#19 - Sat Sep 3, 2011 10:52 PM EDT

      Palin offers hope. Really? In what? I know, how to scheme to scam the naive out of their hard earned dollars by pretense and empty, veiled innuendos full of meaningless blabber.

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