Comments by libs that let slip that they think Sarah Palin writes well

1: “If only Sarah could write all her thoughts she would be president. Fortunately they expect you stand and speak at the same time if you are going to be president, something she proved she can't do. So people are excited about a quitter from Alaska. They must be from some other second tier state. Their are 45 ****y states in the US. and Alaska is one of them."

Posted By: friend | December 15, 2009 at 11:14 PM” A user comment from Politico re Sarah’s “greener-than-thou” facebook note

2: “I seriously doubt leather-skirted Sarah wrote this.”

re Sarah’s cap-n-tax op-ed

3: "Oh that silly Palin, still has someone alse ghost writing for her. Who should Vice President Gore respond to? What is Palin's ghost writer's name? Hmmmm? Palin does have a big nose and a flat butt."

Posted By: flat ass Palin | December 15, 2009 at 11:56 PM A user comment from Politico re Sarah’s “greener-than-thou” facebook note

4: Karl rover @ 01:26 writes:

"Did Sarah write that herself or was it a ghostwriter?"

I think Christopher Hitchens is spot on regarding flako palin:

Christopher Hitchens Slams Palin: 'A Disgraceful Opportunist And Real Moral Coward'

"Christopher Hitchens followed up his long Slate column detailing the dangers of Sarah Palin's brand of populism with more harsh criticism on MSNBC's Morning Joe today. Appearing with the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson, who has an op-ed in today's Post about Palin's shifting stance on climate change, Hitchens denounced Palin as a "disgraceful opportunist and a real moral coward." However, he cautioned that we should not be too hard on her for her climate-change denying op-ed because "she didn't write that piece and she probably hasn't read it."

Posted By: Shelby | December 16, 2009 at 02:14 AM

A user comment from Politico re Sarah’s “greener-than-thou” facebook note

5: "This lady is dangerous at the most with a mean spirit.

STOP GIVING HER PRESS TIME WE ARE SICK OF THE SILLY POSTINGS.

Her ghostwriters should get her millons since they are behind these twits and FB postings. We all know Sarah dumb as a rock!"

[if ur reading this Tommy, u need to learn that when criticising someone's intelligence, you need to make an extra special effort to proofread ur own pearls of wisdom.]


see here 

Tommy, December 19th, 2009 4:18 pm ET

[pass more sourced lib comments on to me and I'll add them here :)]

Sarah Palin, Peter Schiff and von Mises

http://www.youtube.com/user/SchiffReport - if you listen to Peter Schiff, you'll come away convinced Sarah is absolutely right re financial crisis. She's being a maverick in going against the grain that lack of regulation was the cause. BUT SHE IS RIGHT. :) And her economic views will be proved right. But in order to help get those views out there, we need IMHO to support economist Peter Schiff in his campaign for senate in Connecticut. Sarah's economic views are part of an economic movement we need to support: Schiff is the focus of that movement. his stated himself that his aim is to educate Washington in real economics. make them see sense.

I think this needs to be emphasised: Sarah Palin's position on the economy is outside of the mainstream but the mainstream is wrong. Her views are right BECAUSE they are the views of Peter Schiff - the stock broker who predicted the 2008 financial crisis because of the housing bubble. But ... both Schiff and Ron Paul frequently say that it is not their genius it's Mises ie Ludwig Von Mises. Please check out his wikipedia entry. So Sarah has some serious intellectual force behind her economic views whereas obama has .... Keynes at best and Marx at worst.

Sarah Palin is more advanced economically than Ronald Reagan who was a monetarist eg a follower of Milton Friedman who was halfway there but not part of the Austrian School of economics.

I'm impressed, coz it is only she, Schiff and Paul who know any proper economics. :)

perhaps this is why she has quoted Plato and Aristotle in the past: she's smart.

So in summary: von Mises is the intellectual giant who vindicates common sense economics: the market should determine interest rates and we must return to the gold standard.

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My favourite Palinisms/quotes

My favourite parts are in bold.

1: [the one re her Down's Syndrome son Trig]
"As for our baby boy, Trig, for Todd and me he is only more precious because he is vulnerable. In some ways, I think we stand to learn more from him than he does from us. When we hold Trig and care for him, we don't feel scared anymore. We feel blessed."

2: "Given such statements, is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats' proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care by—dare I say it—death panels?" - rhetorically brilliant because based in truth. - definitely a Palinism. Is already being written into history books. Written here on 2009-09-08 in her Wall Street Journal piece.

3: “Never have so few defended the liberty of so many.” - compares well with Churchill's original: "... never has so much been owed by so many to so few". Written in her facebook note on 9/11, 2009

4: Re 'Cap and trade' bill, the supply-side economics phunny
"The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics." - Great wit. :) My fave liberal review of this "i doubt leather-skirted Sarah wrote this." - obviously they thought it was a good article. Sarah's piece is located here. I chose the Guardian site coz of the picture of the caribou.

5: "We eat therefore we hunt" - Governor's picnic farewell speech.

6: re tort reform
Full quote. my fave bits are in bold.

"As Governor of Alaska, I learned a little bit about being a target for frivolous suits and complaints (Please, do I really need to footnote that?). I went my whole life without needing a lawyer on speed-dial, but all that changes when you become a target for opportunists and people with no scruples. Our nation’s health care providers have been the targets of similar opportunists for years, and they too have found themselves subjected to false, frivolous, and baseless claims. To quote a former president, "I feel your pain."" Sarah's fb article is here.

7: [re being pregnant at age 44 with a Down's Syndrome child] “Plus I was old. And i thought Yeah - very funny god. My name is Sarah but my husband is not Abraham. He’s Todd. Yeah. And just like Sarah of old, I too, I laughed.” [in a speech at Vanderburgh County’s Right to Life banquet in Evansville, Indiana, April 16th, 2009] Transcribed from a You Tube vid located here. Please watch.

8: “thumped up charges” – i initially thought that this must be Sarah's one and only twitter typo but after listening to a radio interview where she mentioned a book called “The Thumpin’*” [about how to exploit ethics laws to bring down a politician], I realised this was an incidence of Sarah being far too clever for her own good. ;) [2009-12-14 update: confirmed by the title of one of her chapters in her book Going Rogue]

* = From the way she said it, I'm assuming the book title has no 'g' at the end. ;)

· More suggestions welcome. lets get it up to 10. :)

 9: "Flying from Fairbanks 2 Wasilla, looking 4 dancing Northern Lights.The frigid,black sky paints perfect backdrop 4 hem of the Aurora Borealis" - a poetic tweet [her twitter is SarahPalinUSA] on 2009-12-14

10: [BRACE YOURSELF] - Now she has more time on her hands [ie not being governor, not writing a book and not book touring], I expect Sarah's best writing is yet to come.  She has the talent, the techne, the temperament and now more time.  The 4 Ts of writing. :)

US energy independence .... - tricky. :(

Coal could be turned into oil. The Germans tried that in WW2. But I believe that would be expensive. Depends on the technology and the price of crude that WILL go up due to the weakening dollar [keep an eye on the dollar index folks] and increasing world demand in the longterm.

Bottom line: even if the US drilled offshore and in Anwar(sp), the US is unlikely to produce enough oil to meet present demand.

'Present demand' - however future demand may be low enough to be met by domestic production.

What can be done now:
Diesel is more fuel efficient than petrol [which is why a lot of cabs use it] and you can still have a proper big car that can travel a proper distance. Diesels have come a long way - they are a lot cleaner and a lot quieter than they used to be. As an interesting side note: the Diesel engine was invented by mister Diesel to run on peanut butter oil that's why some penny pinching Brits in 2008 ran their Diesels on a type cooking oil [usually 9 parts cooking oil to 1 part diesel to not ruin the car engine]. The government wasn't happy coz .... it didn't provide any tax revenue. They made it illegal.

So US domestic demand for oil can be reduced by greater fuel efficiency: diesel and petrol engines. However, there is one other factor: it is harder to make a lighter car as driver/passenger safe as a heavier car.

And other forms of combustible fuel could be used eg alcohol as in Brazil.

Electric cars: don't use oil but do pollute indirectly ie the electricity that charges them comes from the burning of coal.

No body asks: where is all the electricity gonna come from to charge electric cars? I bet an electric car would use more electricity than a house ... if driven for long enough. ;) How long?

So where will the electricity come from?

Nuclear power plants?

IMHO: too dangerous.

- what would happen if terrorists flew a plane into one? So they would need to be built into mountains like cold-war bunkers. Where would the nuclear waste go?

So it looks like we're down to renewables and the holy grail: nuclear fusion.

They should have spent the stimulus on that. But that's another story.