Candidates “can’t just be preaching to the choir…Candidates should not be afraid to debate in front of the nation regardless of who the host is,” former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said tonight in a wide-ranging two-segment TV interview with Eric Bolling of Follow the Money from her home in Wasilla, Alaska.
Gov. Palin was referring to Donald Trump’s proposed debate which Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman both declined. She said both candidates should reconsider their attendance and if she were a candidate would be attend so as to get her message out to a diverse audience which includes independents and those who are “not into the inside baseball.”
Bolling said that he does not consider either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney true conservatives and queried Gov. Palin as to how someone like him should proceed with the field of candidates. “You and so many Americans are in the same boat,” she said. Our choice is between “being socialist” or “being a nation of free men and free markets.”
“You are looking for the perfect candidate,” she continued. “We’re going to have to support the GOP nominee.”
Like Hannity before him, Bolling asked Gov. Palin if she was going to endorse a candidate before or after Iowa. She reiterated that her endorsement will not come before Iowa and that Iowa is the beginning, not the end. She said that Gringrich has risen in the polls because he has reached out to Tea Party and Constitutional conservatives, who in turn have forgiven some of his past political sins. Romney has yet to reach out conservative voters.
But, Gov. Palin warned that Gingrich cannot pretend to be a DC outsider when he was an insider. She said that he had in fact done good things as an insider, such as balancing the budget during the Clinton administration, and he needs to remind voters what he has done to reform corruption.
Gov. Palin said whoever rises to the top must campaign on sudden and relentless reform. “If you’ve been part of the problem, you are not going to get my support or the support of Constitutional Conservatives.”
“Any of the candidates would be infinitely better than Obama.” Further, Gov. Palin noted that all the candidates have cut budgets, taxes or fought for smaller, more limited government. “I have studied their records.” She said a good bellwether on where conservatives might go would be to see who Ron Paul endorses if he leaves the race. Though Gov. Palin disagrees with Paul’s foreign policies, she agrees with his domestic spending policies.
Gov. Palin also again said that she did not believe this had become a two-candidate race. “History shows that the winner or second place in Iowa doesn’t necessarily get the nomination.”
In the second segment, Gov. Palin said that it was typical that Nancy Pelosi and others in Congress would lie about their insider trading – a practice that is illegal for every US citizen outside of the Congress. She said that this activity is appalling and accounts for why people of modest means leave the Congress unusually wealthy. Bolling spoke about how Senators and Representatives were calling and trading stocks after meeting with Treasury Secretaries – accessing both tax payers’ money and inside information.
The loans given by the Obama administration to campaign bundlers and friends are also a form of crony capitalism. Gov. Palin referenced Peter Schweizer’s Throw Them All Out and said it’s time to do precisely that.
About Obama’s forthcoming 17-day trip to Hawaii, Gov. Palin said he is “deaf, dumb, and blind” to what is going on in the nation. She predicted “he threw the number 17 days out there just to tick people off, then will come back in 15 days to address some issue in the White House and look like the hero.”
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