Sarah Palin was interviewed by Greta Van Susteren on FOX the other day. Here is the transcript
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl ... 99302.html
here is one very telling portion of it
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, you talk about the -- that it's not the military. That's, indeed, true. We've got unemployment in Detroit, for instance, of 15 percent. Nationwide, 10.2 percent. California, Nevada, Rhode Island, all these states are getting hit terribly. In light of the fact that we do have this stimulus bill, it was passed in February and signed, what would you -- what would you do now if you were in charge?
PALIN: I would not start talking about a second stimulus package. This is bogus idea out there that growing more debt, another trillion- dollar stimulus package that we hear rumored about in Washington, D.C., that's being talked about -- when the first stimulus package that was almost a trillion dollars of moneys that the public coffers did not have -- to spend this again in a second stimulus is nonsense to most Americans.
The first stimulus package hasn't even been spent entirely, and it certainly hasn't been measured for any kind of success. So for Congress to start talking about, and the White House, a second stimulus package makes absolutely no sense.
What we need to do is reduce capital gains tax, reduce taxes on corporations and small businesses and our income so private sector, our families, our businesses can keep more of what we earn, can prioritize for our needs, reinvest, create jobs. That's how -- that's how the economy is going to roar back to life.
President Reagan did that back in the early '80s. He stayed true to his convictions that smaller government, tax cuts would rebuild the economy. It worked. Let's learn from what he did back there in the '80s, not go down this nonsensical road growing more debt, building more government and expect that somehow, magically, everything is going to just work out OK.
Notice that VS asks Palin what she would do and the first words out of her mouth, and what she gives most of her attention to is what she would NOT DO. And when she does get around to some actual actions its the old tired and worn out conservative mantra of low taxes and serving the needs of corporations and the business community. When she invokes the sainted name of patron saint Ronald Reagan, she conveniently ignores the massive increase in the debt that happened because of the Reagan policies.
In fact, she later says this
All of a sudden, we're thinking it's OK to grow debt in our country. It's OK to borrow money from countries that we will soon be so beholden to. It's OK to print money out of thin air and think, again, that everything's just going to magically work out.
Palin either ignores or is ignorant of the facts of the Reagan years. The massive debt increases that she and conservatives rail against got their great push during the Reagan years. It was during the administration of Bill Clinton that things turned around. But she is oblivious to the historical record and instead merely gives us conservative boilerplate.
This is a woman who will not learn anything new beyond the cliches of the right wing. She is only comfortable when she is attacking and criticizing like she did with her debut speech at the 2008 Republican Convention. She is not a builder of anything positive.