Palin vows to balance budget in first term — 10 days after campaign says it’s nearly impossible.
Palin vows to balance budget in first term — 10 days after campaign says it’s nearly impossible.
Campaigning today, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) said that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would fix the economy by imposing a spending freeze. She also declared that a McCain administration would balance the budget by the end of their first term. Watch it:
Palin must not have gotten the memo. After promising a balanced budget (though on a constantly shifting timeline) for months, 10 days ago the campaign admitted that it would be virtually impossible to achieve that in just four years:
“The events of the past few months have completely thrown a wrench into that, there’s no way round it. He would still like to balance it. It’s going to be harder, take longer,” said [top economic adviser Douglas] Holtz-Eakin at a debate with his Democratic counterpart at Columbia University in New York.
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Guess they didn’t update her stump speech. And naturally, she wouldn’t know that what she is saying is wrong now, since she has no interest (or aptitude) on matters of issue.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:56 pmJesus Palin, just shut-up already.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:59 pmIn fairness, she thinks ‘balancing the budget’ means walking with it on top of your head… and although its been a few years since her beauty pageant days, I’m fairly confident she could cross the room with the budget up there by the end of the first term…
October 30th, 2008 at 7:02 pmPalin clueless? NO WAY!
October 30th, 2008 at 7:04 pmI think Sarah’s going to regret those words, after she heads back to Alaska.
If she’s going to try and remain governor, that is.
Ten trillion, in four years? If that’s the case, Alaskans will demanding she balance the state budget, before the next gubernatorial race.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:04 pmRepublicans: deceit is thy name…
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain-Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:05 pmSay anything ,promise the moon . Hey ,we’ll balance the budget while providing a 300 billion daollar tax cut to the wealthiest Americans and fighting 2 wars simultaneously , in just the first week with our one hand tied behind our back .
October 30th, 2008 at 7:06 pmHave I got your vote ?
Palin vows to balance budget in first term — 10 days after campaign says it’s nearly impossible.»
– - Goin‘ Rogue!
October 30th, 2008 at 7:06 pmAfter the train wreck that has been mcdribble’s campaign, I’m wondering how the public will react if this one’s stolen.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:08 pm“Palin vows to balance budget in first term…”
Will she dress like a princess and wave her magic wand?
October 30th, 2008 at 7:10 pmPalin seems to stumble almost every time she gives a speech. These stumbles lead people to ask: should she even be VP? Before you make your decision and cast your vote, visit The Daily Source’s special section on Palin, at http://www.dailysource.org/palinvideos.
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October 30th, 2008 at 7:21 pmThat’s because Sarah took the advice of Joe the plumber..
October 30th, 2008 at 7:21 pmre #11 – another shopping trip to Fifth Avenue will get her all gussied up. not sure where she’ll find the wand. Maybe Jeff Gannon can help.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:21 pmPalin is so incompetent, so ignorant, and such a liar– how can anyone listen to her, let alone vote for her? I was floored watching the interview on the Daily Show with the new mayor of Wasilla– asked if any mayor of Wasilla was ready to be VP or President, she said absolutely; then when asked, how are you ready, what do you do each day to make you ready, she had no answer. In fact, she looked bewildered. So then she was asked a simpler question– so what do you do every day as mayor- take me through a day as mayor of Wasilla. She looked like a deer in the headlights, struggling to think of anything. Do you deal with… (the interviewer tried several groups- firemen? police? National Guard? etc.) Each time, she said, no, we don’t have anything to do with them. Finally she said, well, on Monday we have a staff meeting, and on Thursday I sign cheques. And that was all she had to offer. So remember, ewveryone, that’s Palin’s background. Ugh.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:21 pmI’m wondering how the public will react if this one’s stolen.
I’m thinking the run on assault rifles over the past couple of weeks wasn’t just the Reichtwing on a shopping bender, but rather, the separatists who dwell secretly among us – and they’re not at all concerned about the election being stolen from them.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:24 pmIf there were a kind and just God? She would burst into flames or, at least, develop a bad case of laryngitis. And poor ol’ Flippy must be about ready to strangle her, and Bill Kristol, and anyone else who suggested her as a running mate.
BTW, C&L has a story about her speech at a solar power facility. Apparently her call to “drill baby, drill” didn’t impress the crowd.
http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/sarah-palin-speaking-solar-energy-wor
October 30th, 2008 at 7:26 pmi wish flailin palin would knock it off with the eva peron routine already and just die like evita.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:29 pmJust breathe into a paper bag for a while, Sara.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:35 pmflailin palin is one step away from promising to perform oral sex on anyone who votes for her. truly pathetic.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:37 pmGar Damn, Maam,
That is purely white of you!! Considering it will take you at least a week to find a way around the freeze–like a new winter wardrobe is in order–you may have a hellava hard time making those old clothes last another day or two. My heart’s a’bleeding for you, you poor old moose’s mate.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:59 pmA much better time for a spending freeze would’ve been January, 2003. Unfortunately the borrow-and-spend Republicans were in control and eager to blow money on invading Iraq. As I recall, McCain was very much with them on that issue.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:00 pmShe’s a pathological liar. Seriously.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:03 pmShe’s goin’ rogue again…
October 30th, 2008 at 8:14 pmDid you catch the wink we know what Sarah really means.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:36 pmThe whole campaign is whacked out!
McCain in vowing to bring back the auto industry after his famous MI straight talk.
These fools will be promising the moon in between smears all weekend.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:40 pmIf she says she’ll balance the budget, darn it, she will! With or without her Grandpa’s help! She’s just that kind of a mavericky reformerer!
Maybe Joe the Plumber can be her Economic Advisor, and stop that gosh darn leaky budget!
October 30th, 2008 at 8:46 pmSarah is talking to the men only. Look even a dumb person knows this budget can’t be balance in one term when Bill Clinton took two terms to balance the last budget and it wasn’t this bad. Sarah is talking out of her butt because she knows many are just looking and not paying attention to a word she says.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:07 pmSoon Palin will be unfettered from McCain to catapult balderdash at Americans. The far right has a new darling monster. We have just begun to hear her screech.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:13 pmOooooo, Sarah, what color is the sky in your world?
October 30th, 2008 at 9:55 pmCindy must have slipped her some of her meds, because that was a whacked-out, unrealistic thing to spew out of her dribbling mouth
October 30th, 2008 at 10:06 pmMaybe she’s going to give us some of that oil money the socialistic Alaskans get from owning something collectively. http://straighttalkonmccain.blogspot.com/
October 30th, 2008 at 10:18 pmdon’t forget, palin beleives in a being who can do anything. and luckily for god, palin is on his side. so she may actually believe what shes saying..
October 30th, 2008 at 10:29 pmShe’s just making up as she goes along. To her it doesn’t matter if it is true or not. She’s been sent on a mission from god.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:11 pmlol Balance the budget in the first term? Has that twit forgotten that she, as former Mayor of Wasilla, left a 20 million dollar debt in her own state?
Memo to Tiara Sarah: Step away from the koolaid please. The debt in this country is not the same as balancing your checkbook.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:23 amimpeachcheneythenbush Says: “Guess they didn’t update her stump speech….”
Do you mean Sister Sarah is an amputee?
October 31st, 2008 at 12:09 pm