Ready. Willing. And Able! Former VP Candidate Sarah Palin told Fox.com yesterday in an exlusive interview that she is willing to run for President in 2012 against Barack Obama!!! We’ve been waiting to hear that since the day after Obama was elected in 2008!
“Sarah Palin has President Obama in her sights, telling FoxNews.com she “would be willing” to challenge him in the 2012 presidential race.
The former Alaska governor, in an interview Saturday on the sidelines of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, said President Obama’s “lack of experience” has held him back his first year in office and that she would put her credentials up against his any day.
“I would be willing to if I believe that it’s right for the country,” Palin said when asked if she would run for president in 2012.”
Former VP Candidate Sarah Palin does not want another Katie Couric moment. She had a big weekend with her tea party appearance. She also apparently had the jitters.
Worried that she might lose her place or forget some key points, Palin apparently used the school kid method of writing note on her hand…(video below). What’s the difference between notes on the hand and Obama’s teleprompter?! He has demonstrated over and over again he can’t speak without it! Bob’s Bites website has a funny visual of the comparison here.
If you can’t read them, Yahoo! Buzz says, “Web researchers zoomed in on her left palm and found the following words scrawled in black ink: “Energy, Budget cuts (with “budget” crossed out), Tax, Lift American Spirits.”
We can defend this. Who wouldn’t be nervous? After having worked so hard, why would anyone want another Katie Couric-type moment? Again, Obama writes notes on his hand/teleprompter and dems don’t mind.
Regardless of how we would try to defend it, however, it doesn’t look good. We say that about the teleprompter, so we need to mention it here. This only feeds her enemies and adds fuel to the incorrectly lit fire that Sarah Palin is stupid. We know she’s not, but this doesn’t help her cause.
We will still love her. The other side of the political aisle will still hate her. This changes nothing. Unfortunately though, it gives the Socialist-Democrats some ammo.
Conservative American Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is making a big name for himself lately. He’s one of the good guys and we’re happy to see the national media paying more attention to him.
A frequent criticism leveled at “the party of No” is that no alternatives are offered. It’s a lie, but it makes a nice sound bit for the liberal news media. Paul Ryan is man who does have alternative plans. And, the New York Times noticed:
“Across the first thirteen months of the Obama era, Wisconsin’s Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, has been one of the few conservative politicians offering detailed alternatives to the Democratic agenda. When Obama released his initial budget, Ryan responded by issuing a sweeping fiscal roadmap that envisioned bringing the U.S. budget back into balance across the next three decades. While many of his fellow Republicans were greeting Obama’s health care push with Medicare demagoguery, Ryan was busy co-sponsoring (with Tom Coburn, among others) the “Patients’ Choice Act,” an imperfect but impressive alternative to the Democrats’ approach. And now, with the release of Obama’s second budget, which projects deficits as far as the eye can see, Ryan has updated his fiscal roadmap as well — and suddenly, people are paying attention to him.”
They are paying attention because Ryan’s plans make sense! He proposes a simplified tax code, “consisting of a two-bracket income tax with a large standard deduction and a business consumption tax, would pay for a means-tested safety net, and a system of tax credits, risk pools and low-income subsidies would underwrite a free (or, well, somewhat freer) market in health care. In other words, Ryan would balance our books by shifting away from programs that shuffle money around within the middle and upper-middle classes — taking tax dollars with one hand and giving health-insurance deductions, college-tuition credits, home-mortgage deductions, Social Security checks and so forth with the other — and toward programs that tax the majority of Americans to fund means-tested support for the old, the sick, and the poor.”
Ryan told the Times: ““I pay off the debt completely, and over time I wipe all these unfunded liabilities off the books. But if we do half that, that’s fantastic.” And he was emphatic, in our conversation, about the plausibility of bipartisan conversation: “I’m just trying to get this debate going. I put this plan out there is hoping that other people would do the same thing, and then we can start debating it.”
AP reporter Erica Werner says President Obama now admits his ObamaCare Nightmare may be coming to an end…
“No, maybe he can’t. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation’s health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress… The president’s newly conflicting signals could frustrate Democratic lawmakers who are hungry for guidance from the White House as they try to salvage the effort … “I think it’s very important for us to have a methodical, open process over the next several weeks, and then let’s go ahead and make a decision,” Obama said at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser. “And it may be that … if Congress decides we’re not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not,” the president said. “And that’s how democracy works. There will be elections coming up, and they’ll be able to make a determination and register their concerns.”
Former VP Candidate Sarah Palin did not rule out a possible run for the White House today when she spoke at the National Tea Party Convention.
Fox News reports: “The Democratic agenda is “running out of time,” former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Saturday at the National Tea Party Convention, claiming that the conservative tea party movement is part of a brewing “revolution” that constitutes the “future of politics.” Palin, who delivered the keynote speech on the closing night of the three-day gathering of conservative activists, aligned herself squarely with the movement, frequently using the word “us” in describing it.
“This is the future of our country. The tea party movement is the future of politics,” she said.
Meanwhile, Ellen Ratner (Washington bureau chief for Talk Radio News Service and a Fox News contributor) says she found the Palin speech to be “worrisome” and “unnerving!”...
“Governor Sarah Palin has a reputation of being a very nice person. Most people who meet her really like her. So it was quite unnerving to hear her give such a tart speech at the Tea Party Convention on Saturday night. Although towards the end of her speech she talked about the need for stability and constructive debate the major part of her speech was filled with jabs at President Obama and the his administration.
In fact, most of the speech was chapter and verse criticism of the Obama administration. It was worrisome how much of her speech was a broadbrush attack. She did not manage to get to specifics till the end. ”