Palin Good Against Biden But Still Has Some Wrong Answers

J.J. Jackson* | October 4, 2008

Filed Under Eyes on 2008, Sarah Palin, The Democrats, The Republicans

There is no doubt that Gov. Sarah Palin wiped the floor with Senator Joe Biden in Thursday night’s debate. Once again, for the sake of disclosure and setting the babbling moonbats straight, I am not voting for John McCain this November. My support is for Alan Keyes.

So, now that we can effectively dismiss the partisan attacks that some would use to try to discredit my opinion let us speak frankly as to why Sarah Palin won the vice-presidential debate. She won not necessarily because she always had the right answers, but because she generally had better answers that were not quite as wrong as Biden.

Biden returned to claiming that paying taxes was indeed “patriotic” while telling essentially millions that they would not be “patriotic” because their taxes would be cut. Biden spewed basically every socialist talking point and piece of class warfare rhetoric he could squeeze in behind his snake like smile.
He pimped the certainty of man made Global Warming when Al Gore’s love child has been all but discredited with hard scientific data and overall showed why he should never be allowed near the switches of power.

But as for Sarah Palin, in addressing the “economic crisis” which we have falsely been led to believe will doom us all if Congress didn’t add pork spending and business welfare programs to its budget, she had very harsh words for the “greedy” lenders that someone put one over on people who couldn’t afford the loans that they were being offered. What she either did not mention or glossed over was the “greed” of those that, if they had a fifth grade education, knew how to do simple math and make a determination as to whether or not they could afford that $300,000 house on a $40,000 a year salary. She also failed to properly and fully address the role of Congress in creating this mess by using Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to distort the market by buying up bad paper that other institutions wrote for fear of reprisals from the government.

Basically she tried to play populist instead of saying bluntly something like, “Listen there was greed all the way around and it was shared on all levels and if you took out a loan that you knew you could not afford you are not blameless.” She should have also come out strongly against the pork laden bailout.
She did not.

Sarah Palin also did not call out Senator Biden the way a rock ribbed conservative/libertarian would and start asking the Senator where exactly in the Constitution half of the programs his running mate was proposing were to be found. Every time he mentioned healthcare and government’s role in providing it, she should have asked for the exact citation in the document where that is found. This should have been repeated over and over and over and over again every time he proposed some socialist and unconstitutional spending.

She did not however.

I think Gov. Palin gets it, for the most part. Although she is wrong on several issues. One thing I do believe however is that I could at least hold my nose and vote for her if she were the actual Presidential nominee because she gets enough of it.

But she is not the top of the ticket. John McCain is. That means that I cannot vote for her either.

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