I listened to the speech and I actually posted the pajamas TV link all over the net beforehand so anyone who didn't have cable news could listen to it online
Your responses missed the point. I pointed out that Palin had discussed how the goals of the tea party movement are reduced taxes and government contrary to Ostrowski's comments that she said nothing anti-statist. You then reply that she criticized Obama's incompetent security policies. So what? That wasn't the only thing she said. She ALSO discussed reducing government. And the two aren't even contradictory. Calling Obama incompetent is not calling for increased DHS funding. Do you assume that anyone who thinks Obama is incompetent at keeping homicide bombers off planes is less libertarian because they think he is incompetent? Wouldn't that depend a lot on their solution to that problem? I think the Lew Rockwellian reaction to her is thoughtless and Pavlovian and shows a complete lack of practical wisdom. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:43 PM, M. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ostrowski > Pure neocon drivel so far. Nothing about making government smaller. She is > more interested in fighting for the liberty of Iranians than Americans. She > is clueless about the tea party movement. It’s populist and its core concern > is economic freedom. She blew a great opportunity. Also, Sarah, I see you > are having trouble reading the speech written for you. Here’s a tip: Courier > font, 14 point type, triple-spaced. Works like a charm. Update: So far > it’s a purely partisan speech with no criticism of how the GOP grew > government whenever it could. Sarah, hire new speechwriters. The current > jokers don’t seem to understand that the tea party movement doesn’t like the > GOP either. Sarah had a choice about what to do with her new-found fame > and fortune. She could have grown. Instead, she chose to take the path of > least resistance. The incredible shrinking woman, Sarah Palin. Wrap-up: > She threw in a few nuggets of faux-libertarian rhetoric to con the masses > just as her hero Reagan did. Here’s a relevant quote from my new book on > Government > Schools<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0974925322?tag=lewrockwell&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=0974925322&adid=0JK16G7AGK06YB0GTNYQ&;>: > Thanks to the disastrous Bush administration, libertarianism has now > replaced conservatism as the dominant alternative to the progressive-liberal > welfare-warfare state. Conservatism held center stage in American politics > from 1964 through 2008 but utterly failed to make government smaller or our > liberty larger. Conservatism was never able to defeat liberalism simply > because it shared too many of its premises. Hence, under Bush we got an > expansion of the federal welfare state in education and prescription drugs > and two Wilsonian wars to “make the world safe for democracy.” > Bruce Majors > > That's simply a lie. All she talked about was reducing taxes and > spending > MJ > According to THIS report > (http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/06/palin.tea.party/?hpt=T1), > she stated: "It's not politicizing our security to discuss our concerns > because Americans deserve to know the truths about the threats that we > face," she said, criticizing Obama's approach to foreign policy with such > hostile regimes as Iran. Which has NOTHING to do with reducing taxes > and/or spending. > Apparently she talked about OTHER things than you claim. > > Bruce Majors > > You can disagree with her without having to tell lies > MJ > Perhaps you could post a transcript of the speech. > > > Regard$, > --MJ > > "The trouble with you Republicans is that you are proposing to clean up the > whore house but you expect to leave the business intact." -- Frank Chodorov > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
