How can far-right Republicans support a fellow member who is against abortion,if she 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.
These are just a few of Palin’s half-truths and lies. Anyone who cannot follow current affairs should not run for dog catcher. The bailouts most certainly were started under the Bush administration and if she continues to lie about that, then anyone foolish enough to vote for her should have their head examined. It is too easy to check on the internet. I can still see McCain rushing back to DC supposedly to conference with the republicans. Apparently, the did not see the dire need to conference with him.
Palin also alleges that the RNC is charging her for the cost to vet her as VP. Actually that 50 thousand is the legal fees with her battle with her sister’s ex-husband who is a State trooper. Palin abused her power…plain and simple.
c’mon she doesn’t lie every time…i have heard her say "my name is Sarah Palin"
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I believe you are calling left wing rants facts, I support Sarah and believe she would make a great leader. Cant wait for her book.
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If Sarah lied as much as you claim she would be welcomed with open arms by the Dems, her honesty and decency are why the libs hate her unreasonably, no sale my friend.
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The truth has not mattered to Republicans since 1999. Those of us who did care about the truth left the Republican Party once we read the Patriot Act.
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Thank you so much Please post again
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Sarah Palin had to repay $20,000 in travel expenses before she resigned. There are other considerations to chosing a bid besides the cost. The recession you speak of was inherited from the Carter administration so it was longer than 16 months. I suspect she meant 16 months into the Reagan administration. I believe that as a conservative, she thought McCain would be against the tarp program. I guess McCain makes up his own mind. Shame on him. Allowing businesses that are too big to fail, and then promising to continue to bail them out is not her way of thinking. What is the lie about that? All governors get financial support from their party committee. It is just assumed that people know enough about government to understand that. Political activist groups get their money from individuals. Do you understand that?
Do you want to hear some Obama lies? He said he would have transparency in his administration. See any? He said he would get rid of lobbyists, until he found out what good scape goats they make. He said that cutting Medicare wouldn’t change the kind of health care the seniors get but he said grandma gets a pain pill instead of a pacemaker. He said he would be a bipartisan president but instead calls the Republicans obstructionists among other things. He said the stimulus would create millions of jobs and unemployment wouldn’t go over 8% if it passed. Gosh, its 10.2%. Where are the millions of jobs. He said that the lost jobs to globalization would be replaced by millions of green jobs. See any? He spoke badly of the Patriot Act, yet he is renewing it. He said that he would take a scalpel to bills to remove the pork. He hasn’t removed anything from any bill. Oh, I’m tired of typing, but you get the idea. Now, can you refute any of that? Send it to FactCheck. I’m sure they’ll find some way to spin it for him.
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And people actually believe she’d win the POTUS in 2012. Rofl!
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These are just a few of Palin’s half-truths and lies. Anyone who cannot follow current affairs should not run for dog catcher. The bailouts most certainly were started under the Bush administration and if she continues to lie about that, then anyone foolish enough to vote for her should have their head examined. It is too easy to check on the internet. I can still see McCain rushing back to DC supposedly to conference with the republicans. Apparently, the did not see the dire need to conference with him.
Palin also alleges that the RNC is charging her for the cost to vet her as VP. Actually that 50 thousand is the legal fees with her battle with her sister’s ex-husband who is a State trooper. Palin abused her power…plain and simple.
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"Do you want to hear some Obama lies? He said he would have transparency in his administration. See any? "
Yes, everyone talks to the press relatively honestly and he has just opened up the white house logs.
"He said he would get rid of lobbyists, until he found out what good scape goats they make."
He did hire one *corporate* lobbyists, which is what he said he wouldn’t do. If you think that is equivalent to Palin’s lies, you are being absurd.
"He said that cutting Medicare wouldn’t change the kind of health care the seniors get but he said grandma gets a pain pill instead of a pacemaker."
Medicare cuts are simply getting rid of Medicare Advantage, which is a Republican program that costs more than medicare for those can afford it and gives more payments for elective surgery.
" He said he would be a bipartisan president but instead calls the Republicans obstructionists among other things."
Now your being funny. He has bent over backwards for the Republicans, who really have been obstructionists and the party of no. Although he has compromised a lot, they have not compromised at all.
"He said the stimulus would create millions of jobs and unemployment wouldn’t go over 8% if it passed. "
Your saying if your a bit wrong in your economic predictions your a liar? You are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
"He said that the lost jobs to globalization would be replaced by millions of green jobs. See any?"
He has not been able to start his green program, except for the ones in the stimulus, which have indeed been green jobs.
" He spoke badly of the Patriot Act, yet he is renewing it".
Finally you got something. You have an instance – and there are several – of him changing his stance on a political issue, given new information. The new information that he has received has been all the classified information and reports the president receives. I would hardly call this ‘lies’.
"He said that he would take a scalpel to bills to remove the pork. He hasn’t removed anything from any bill".
In order to get his budget and stimulus bills passed, he has not been able to cut as much pork as he wants. To say he has removed no pork is false.
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Don’t worry about the republicans, you need only worry about the party in office and if you google almost any of their names you’ll find a list of scandals, lies, sex, and what not follow. Palin isn’t in office right now, worry about it when she is.
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