Palin Tells Hannity: "We Told Ya So" On Obama Economics

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will assert on Monday night that the early returns on President Obama's economic policies validate the concerns she raised while on the campaign trail - mainly that his administration is creeping toward socialism.

In a pre-taped interview with Sean Hannity, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate will claim political vindication. "We told ya so," she will say, when asked if Obama was effectively spreading the nation's wealth.

"That's how I feel," she will add. "I feel like, and I think that more and more constituents are going to open their eyes now and open their ears to hear what is really going on and realize ok, maybe we didn't have a good way of expressing that, or articulating that message of 'here is what America could potentially become if we grow government to such a degree that we cannot pay for it and we have to borrow money from other countries, some countries that don't necessarily like America.'"

The interview, a transcript of which was leaked to the Drudge Report, represents some of the most public political posturing from Palin since the end of the '08 election.

In it, Palin expresses her disappointment and frustration with the Obama administration for increasing domestic spending and accelerating growth of government.

"It's expanding at such a large degree that if Americans aren't paying attention, unfortunately our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize," she says in the interview.

In private, Republican strategist have urged her to avoid the national spotlight and to concentrate on state issues. They think she should wait to launch another national campaign until her political resume has grown. But Palin has proven unable to avoid that national spotlight, at least in part because of family matters.

On Monday, the Alaska Republican will hit on an issue that is all business -- and one of the fronts on which Obama appears to be a bit vulnerable.

"When you consider that the federal government is about eleven trillion dollars in debt, and we're borrowing more to spend more," Palin says in the interview "it defies any sensible economic policy that any of us ever learned through college. It defies economy practices and principles that tell ya, you gotta quit digging that hole when you are in that financial hole."

Comments

[bwilder]

Wouldn't you think, that if this nit-wit really wants to move up
the political ladder, she'd learn how to speak properly???

Some intense English and grammar classes?

While it's hysterical to listen to her 'speak' it's also quite
embarrassing as a woman and an American....ugh.

[Fremon]

She is appealing to the vast American audience that likes mediocrity. They are really with us as witnessed by the audiences she attracted and those that wanted to have beer with Bush. That is why the Republicans do so well in the poorer and undereducated southern section of this country There is a great distrust in our country that don't want an age of enlightment. It appears to me that they think that everything is fine in this country and it was done by people as themselves. In part they are correct as they built bridges and roads, etc. What they fail to realize that there was another more educated and smarter group that planned and developed and became the managerial classes. No, I am not talking about the finance industry that succumbed to greed and had no concern for the country and their companies.
I had a neighbor that said that he wished Palin had won. I asked why and he replied "because she is real". I responded "Yes really bad?". No further conversation and I didn't go into her ability to do anything. Is there anyone out there that could rationally believe we would have been better off with McCain/Palin. It would have been just more tax cuts (for the rich and trickle down economics) and deregulation as the panacea as to what ails the country.

[blaising]

Hey Jaws! If ya' think government is growing too big, why doncha leave? That'd be one less mouth ta' feed.

[Kassandra]

Can you IMAGINE having this female buffoon as OUR president? My gawd! She'd be worse than Bush!

[alenaspoppa]

We've had a "War on Terror."

We've had a "War on Drugs."

We've had a "War on Poverty."

When do we get a "War on Ignorance?" Or a "War on Hypocrisy?" Or a "War on Intolerance?" Or a "War on Disinformation?" These are the biggest problems facing America (and frankly, too much of the world) today, the ones that are leading too many of the Republican base to fit the very definition of the adjective "base:"

7 a: lacking or indicating the lack of higher qualities of mind or spirit : ignoble; b: lacking higher values; c: deserving of contempt because of the absence of higher values. base stresses the ignoble and may suggest cruelty, treachery, greed, or grossness .
— base·ly adverb
— base·ness noun

[Kassandra]

NAH, too many "Wars" already. Says something, doncha think, that everything in America is a WAR??

[alenaspoppa]

That's basically my point. We like to throw around the word "War," but if we're going to use such a loaded term, why don't we at least direct it toward the real root of the problems we're facing. We have uneducated masses, failing schools, a media that's more interested in ratings than facts, a dying newspaper industry (where at least you get some of the facts, some of the time), and representatives in our government who are more concerned with feeding their own egos (hello Chuck Grassley! Sarah Palin! Eric Cantor! etc, etc) and covering their own asses than serving the greater good.

[Shashi0224]

I am so thankful Palin is doing interviews on Fox (big surprise) and not sitting in the VP's office! I am so thankful we have an intelligent, compassionate President now. I am so thankful America was smart and chose the right man for the office.
I am so thankful for President Obama!!

[mapleaforever]

"it defies any sensible economic policy that any of us ever learned through college."

Yes, her post secondary educational accomplishments are staggering in their brevity. Especially considering that her degree was in Communication Studies and not business or economics.

What an outstanding fr@ud.

[bannorhill]

At least she learned to balance a checkbook and budget. That is more than Harvard and Yale taught recent Presidents.

[alenaspoppa]

Okay, that is nearly the exact same thing a commenter with the username "antifluff" said yesterday in defense of Palin...so either you're an alias or you get your "news" from the same source...

[Fremon]

Actually she didn't balance the books and left Wasilla with a hugh debt brought on by a skating rink they couldn't afford and her mismanagement in not getting the easways to the rink that was privately owned and cost a great deal to obtain. So much for competency that one can believe in. Even though Alaska is an oil state and the people get revenue sharing checks it is one of the poorer states and relies on our tax monies to help pay the state expenses (they get more from the government then they send to D.C.).

[Countdown09]

Impossible to get this woman off the front page, don't have to like her, as a democrat you may be enjoying the comedy she provides but she is closer to the white house then you might think. As I watch democrats and every liberal interest group PILE on President Obama making his job impossible and fighting from within .....don't be shocked when this women is A REAL candidate for president handed to her on a plate from Democrats.

[Shashi0224]

This woman would be a great real candidate because it would guarantee another Obama term. I am all for her running. Except for Fox viewers, the rest of America sees her for the ignorant, hateful woman she is.

[vishnucoming]

OK seriously, the HP now has a story about Sarah Palin's toes? I think you people are a bit obsessed.

[iceage7]

LOL!! Palin is so cute. Sometimes she cracks me up. Such a caricature

[CorkiDeCat]

And she told us what again? If this is what they got for '12 ... Well God bless um..

[morphyous]

You are such a pathetic , unschooled, almost to the point of idiocy, ridiculous person, Mrs. Palin. What do you possibly think , even THINKIN", about running for President of the United States???? If the American people even consider you as their representative, I will lose what little faith I still possess in the Human Race. Give me a bloody break !!!!

[springsm]

If Sarah Palin had to take a blue book college test on socialism..she wouldn't know where to begin. Honest to god she is a shrill vacant brained female. A bit sociopathic too. Geez.

[Edwin Badulis]

Sarah...Sa­rah...Sara­h...just stay in alaska. Be honest. . .u can't go national. Simply, u can't.

[Robt]

Someone needs to do some comparisons of Gov Sarah Palin and Minn Congress woman Michelle Bachman.

These two have some striking similarities in character and psyche....

[alenaspoppa]

That's because Republicans all get their talking points from the same sources. If the Republicans want to rename the Democratic party, we might as well rename them the Stepford Party.

[noaxe397]

The Republicans (repeat, Republicans, not a misprint) are so worried about this woman that they've trotted out a disgraced, adulterous former House speaker to do battle with her. No one else in the party can match her star power and she will create momentum that will be hard to overcome. The GOP knows they must stop her now.

She is a classic transference Republican in the Karl Rove model. Blame on others what you are actually doing.

No state in the country suckles at the breast of the Feds more than Alaska (NM, maybe because of weapons research labs.) No state redistributes wealth from corporations to citizens more than Alaska.
No state government is more dependent on tax revenues from one industry than Alaska (maybe Nevada is.)

No politician of either party is more hypocritical on family values issues than the governor of Alaska.

This is the most dangerous person in America. She could do more harm to this country than Al Qaeda and that's just with her hair and make up.

[psychologist]

Your statements are at best half truths. Sarah is emerging as a great leader. IT's tax revenue is decreasing every year and its budget is based on the tax revenue of the pipeline not the feds. true we do receive a lots of money from the feds and rightly so for infrastructure but alaska is only fifty years old compared to the lower 48 who are 200. We have not had all those years to develop our infrastructure. Oil is a primary resource but the timber industry and fishing industry is also a large contributor. Timber was larger until bill clinton locked up the tongass national forest and put a hugh dent into the logging industry. Sarah is only a threat to the Democrats who elected a destroyer of their party and is handing the GOP the next victory like Johnson did in the eary 60's the only problem will be that it will take 4 years to clean up obama's mess.