Sarah Palin Tells Rush Limbaugh the Magic Word
Sarah Palin took her book tour to the Rush Limbaugh Show this morning. The Oprah and Barbara Walters interviews have been fun, because they mostly just asked her about Levi Johnston, and it's gratifying that God sent him to ruin her life and save the Republic. (Sometimes God opens a door. And it's to Bristol's room.) But the Rush interview was different. To Rush's credit, he actually asked her about politics.Todd Palin is an example of someone who has common sense? He belonged to a political group that advocated Alaska secession from the United States. That used to be called treason, but as long as Sarah Palin is redefining common sense might as well get used to some strange twists and turns.
Policy. That's where she shines.
See if you can pick out a theme to her answers.
Unemployment?
But those commonsense solutions there, especially with the cutting taxes on the job creators? That's not even being discussed.
Healthcare reform?
Not when there are commonsense solutions to meeting health care challenges in our country... So lots of commonsense solutions that need to be plugged in before ever considering federal government taking it over.
The 2010 elections?
It's all about Americans who are hurting right now and what those solutions are that are so obvious, so commonsense that need to be plugged in.
The recent special congressional election in New York State?
They are seeking commonsense, conservative solutions to all the challenges that we're facing. I'm glad to see this.
Independent voters?
Todd's not a Republican and yet he's got more commonsense conservatism than a whole lot of Republicans that I know... But in answer to your question, I don't think that the third party movement will be what's necessary to usher in some commonsense conservative ideals... In Alaska, about 70% of Alaskans are independent. So that's my base. That's where I am from and that's been my training ground, is just implementing commonsense conservative solutions.
.......In answering about a dozen questions, Palin said some combination of "solutions," "conservative" and "commonsense" twenty-five times. Is this an interview or a drinking game? Was Rush rewarding her by tossing her fish?
Her excitement got the better of her when she said, "But those common sense solutions there." This was a shoehorn too far, as the correct form, in Hillbilly, is obviously "Those there commonsense solutions."
Mencken identified those-there this as a perfectly good hill country adverbial pronoun. (His example, from everyday use: "Those-there wops has all took to the woods.") But he warned that the adverb promised to coalesce with the pronoun so completely as to obliterate all sense of its distinct existence, even as a false noun or adjective. Little did he know.
But splitting an adverbial pronoun, just to squeeze in one more "commonsense?" That's just wrong.
For her less then common sense views on Israel see here
"I disagree with the Obama administration" on Israeli settlements, Palin told Barbara Walters. Fair enough. It sure seems like the administration's heavy focus on getting Benjamin Netanyahu to commit to a settlement freeze has backfired, making the Israeli prime minister more popular than ever and exposing the impotence of Palestinian leader Mamoud Abbas in the process.So any country who's population is expanding has the right to take land from another country. Sense just about every country in the world has an expanding population - not expected to bottom out for a few years, can we assume a Palin presidency will have the U.S. expanding into Canada and Mexico.
But that's not what Palin meant.
"I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow," she continued. "More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don't think that the Obama administration has any right to tell Israel that the Jewish settlements cannot expand."
