How can far-right Republicans support a fellow member who is against abortion,but lies everytime she speaks?
WASHINGTON – Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time.
Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer’s dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition.
PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as Alaska governor, asking "only" for reasonably priced rooms and not "often" going for the "high-end, robe-and-slippers" hotels.
THE FACTS: Although travel records indicate she usually opted for less-pricey hotels while governor, Palin and daughter Bristol stayed five days and four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House luxury hotel (robes and slippers come standard) overlooking New York City’s Central Park for a five-hour women’s leadership conference in October 2007. With air fare, the cost to Alaska was well over $3,000. Event organizers said Palin asked if she could bring her daughter. The governor billed her state more than $20,000 for her children’s travel, including to events where they had not been invited, and in some cases later amended expense reports to specify that they had been on official business.
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PALIN: Boasts that she ran her campaign for governor on small donations, mostly from first-time givers, and turned back large checks from big donors if her campaign perceived a conflict of interest.
THE FACTS: Of the roughly $1.3 million she raised for her primary and general election campaigns for governor, more than half came from people and political action committees giving at least $500, according to an AP analysis of her campaign finance reports. The maximum that individual donors could give was $1,000; $2,000 for a PAC.
Of the rest, about $76,000 came from Republican Party committees.
She accepted $1,000 each from a state senator and his wife in the weeks after the two Republican lawmakers’ offices were raided by the FBI as part of an investigation into a powerful Alaska oilfield services company. After AP reported those donations during the presidential campaign, she said she would give a comparative sum to charity after the general election in 2010, a date set by state election laws.
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PALIN: Rails against taxpayer-financed bailouts, which she attributes to Obama. She recounts telling daughter Bristol that to succeed in business, "you’ll have to be brave enough to fail."
THE FACTS: Palin is blurring the lines between Obama’s stimulus plan — a $787 billion package of tax cuts, state aid, social programs and government contracts — and the federal bailout that Republican presidential candidate John McCain voted for and President George W. Bush signed.
Palin’s views on bailouts appeared to evolve as McCain’s vice presidential running mate. In September 2008, she said "taxpayers cannot be looked to as the bailout, as the solution, to the problems on Wall Street." A week later, she said "ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy."
During the vice presidential debate in October, Palin praised McCain for being "instrumental in bringing folks together" to pass the $700 billion bailout. After that, she said "it is a time of crisis and government did have to step in."
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PALIN: Says Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession than the one that appears to be ending now, and "showed us how to get out of one. If you want real job growth, cut capital gains taxes and slay the death tax once and for all."
THE FACTS: The estate tax, which some call the death tax, was not repealed under Reagan and capital gains taxes are lower now than when Reagan was president.
Economists overwhelmingly say the current recession is far worse. The recession Reagan faced lasted for 16 months; this one is in its 23rd month. The recession of the early 1980s did not have a financial meltdown. Unemployment peaked at 10.8 percent, worse than the October 2009 high of 10.2 percent, but the jobless rate is still expected to climb.
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PALIN: She says her team overseeing the development of a natural gas pipeline set up an open, competitive bidding process that allowed any company to compete for the right to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48.
THE FACTS: Palin characterized the pipeline deal the same way before an AP investigation found her team crafted terms that favored only a few independent pipeline companies.
Well I’m a Republican & I don’t support palin she’s naive & uneducated
I voted for Mitt Romney
Well I’m a Republican & I don’t support palin she’s naive & uneducated
I voted for Mitt Romney
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lol same way you can support a lying Obama..
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What about the liar in the WH we have now.
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How can you be a democrat and support putting our country into bankruptcy?
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Why do you people fear her so much?
I haven’t seen anyone whinning about Obama taking his family all over the world on the tax payers dime.
You must really be afraid of Mrs. Palin.
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you took a really long time on this! guess what! idc! 2 points, -5 for you. woohoo
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i’m a repub and i don’t pay attention to every thing palin does. why do libs care so much if i don’t?
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Sounds like a RANT and the pot calling the kettle black! You support the liar obama…….
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Haven’t you noticed the Republicans have no facts on any issue? Their entire strategy is basically lie, repeat, lie, repeat, scream, lie repeat. Because their fan base is so trashy and uneducated, they fall for the shtick!
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Palin has actually worked before, unlike barack insane obama.
You are not trying to convince anyone that Palin would be worse than barry. Are you ?
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Obama has taken how many trips and cost the government how much? The night out in New York cost many times more than Palin has ever spent.
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I don’t support neither party, and never will. for trashing my country I have lost all respect for anyone who calls themselves right or left wing. black or white, for or against. Or whatever???
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Wow you can copy and paste!! Congratulations!!.. It took 11 reporters to find that in her book!
I’ll just take on two point there just to show you how ignorant you are. She aimed for frugality, how many Hotels did she stay at? And all they can come up wit is one account? This is what the mainstream media does best under the control of the White House. Smear and discredit on any point they can because they are trying to hide Obama’s massive quantity of errors. Like the bottom as well. they try to discredit her but Obama announced that he talks to Andy Stern and SEIU before working on Health care. And you complain because her staff had favorites? A group of favorites… not one that makes the rules for them? I’m sorry for you truly I am. But it’s O.K. not everyone can have intelligence and make it work… just look at Bill Maher
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Truth
because they know no better
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People support her because she is willfully ignorant. And so are they.
@Booth: You want to talk over-spending? How about the hundreds of thousands of dollars our dear Sarah spent on her OUTFITS during her campaign? Sounds to me like that’s not in the interests of your country.
Unless you care whether or not she’s clad in Gucci.
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Your making a lots of claims—-we will just have to wait until the book goes on the stands!
Scary how imitated the left is by Sarah
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