15 Replies to “"Palin Will Blast ‘Compromised Political Class’ in Iowa"”

1. happyfeet says:

   September 2, 2011 at 10:58 am

   I think she should blast the compromised political class everywhere

2. sdferr says:

   September 2, 2011 at 11:19 am

   I hope she can work stultified in there somewhere.

3. Pablo says:

   September 2, 2011 at 11:25 am

   Yes. Let’s get the speculation out of the way and tear the roof off the sucker. Time to get it on.

4. Spiny Norman says:

   September 2, 2011 at 11:33 am

   I really hope she doesn’t run (or even angle for Veep) because she is far more effective at poking a sharp stick at the Establishment (Reps and Dems) and their Government-Approved Media lapdogs.

   Arf!

5. newrouter says:

   September 2, 2011 at 11:54 am

   hmmmm

   DES MOINES, Iowa — Though she won’t be a candidate when she delivers a major address at a tea party rally in Iowa on Saturday, Sarah Palin will make it clear that she if enters the presidential race later this month she will vociferously challenge Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s engrained image of solidarity with the tea party movement.

   In her speech at the bucolic National Balloon Classic field in Indianola, Palin will lean on loaded phrases like “crony capitalism” and “permanent political class” in laying out her view of the U.S. political system’s deep-rooted ills, according to a source close to Palin and familiar with the content of the speech.

   Though she will not call Perry out by name, Palin’s carefully couched rhetoric will leave the impression that she may soon draw more overt attention to one of the Texan’s potential vulnerabilities as a candidate: his history of doling out plum positions and other benefits to generous campaign donors during his nearly 11-year tenure as the nation’s longest serving governor.

   “Part of what she’s going to be addressing is the frustration that many Americans feel that nothing gets done in Washington, D.C.,” a Palin source told RealClearPolitics. “We know that we have a debt problem and that we need to rein in government waste, and yet nothing ever gets done. Why is that? What special interests are involved?”

   Link

6. cranky-d says:

   September 2, 2011 at 11:59 am

   Perry looks like a winner right now. I’m a big Palin fan, but I think she could do a lot more harm than good at this point as a candidate. She should not attack Perry.

7. Stephanie says:

   September 2, 2011 at 12:08 pm

   Attacking Perry as a declared candidate is SOP. Attacking Perry as a ‘talking head’ is no different than Rove attacking her and not SOP. She must be careful how she treads.

8. Mikey NTH says:

   September 2, 2011 at 12:10 pm

   I think she should go after the consultant class. Those people, to me, seem to be a big part of the problem because they advocate and lobby for things that have nothing to do with governing, nothing to do with constitutional principles. Instead, their actions are there only to get them money and power over others.

   And in this I include Democrats, Republicans, Greens, CPUSA, and every other alphabet soup cockwagons out there.

   First thing we do, we kill all of the courtiers.*

   *I know – we’ll end up with a new group of courtiers that’ll need a killin’, but that’s just the way the game works. However, if government is smaller there won’t be as many of them, so it’ll be easier.

9. cranky-d says:

   September 2, 2011 at 12:13 pm

   Yeah, Stephanie, you said it better than I. If she does run, she needs to attack him since he’s the clear frontrunner.

10. cranky-d says:

    September 2, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    If Palin clearly says she won’t run, will she lose MBM coverage? My magic 8-ball says, “Yes.”

11. Pablo says:

    September 2, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    She won’t attack Perry. I suspect she’ll endorse him.

12. Ernst Schreiber says:

    September 2, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    Not killed mikey, culled. You gotta keep that herd thinned out —otherwise they overpopulate and run over everything.

13. Sarah Rolph says:

    September 3, 2011 at 6:09 am

    I didn’t take the time to look at the background of the person who wrote the story at the link, but you have to be pretty dim to think that a Palin speech about crony capitalism is going to be aimed primarily at Rick Perry. I mean, really.

    Standard bullshit reporting, inserting unnecessary speculation.

    The story would be much stronger if the person simply reported the facts about the content. But reporting the facts would make Palin look too good, since fighting President Obama’s fascism (crony capitalism) is actually seriously important. So the reporter has to throw in some stupid ideas of his own, suggesting a squabble. (After all, Palin is female; girls mostly just fight about who’s more popular, right?)

    I am getting sick and fucking tired of people who treat politics as if it were a sport, just something amusing to watch and talk about.

14. McGehee says:

    September 3, 2011 at 9:09 am

    Oh, but all the Republicans in Texas are crony capitalists, don’cha know? It’s, like, their state religion!

15. Ernst Schreiber says:

    September 3, 2011 at 9:12 am

    Reporting the facts would be too much like actual work.

    And wouldn’t it be great if we actually could afford to treat politics like it should be, as an amusement?

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