{"id":663631,"date":"2010-02-13T09:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=65875"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:33:51","slug":"sarah-palin-not-a-true-libertarians-cup-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/663631","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin: Not a True Libertarian\u2019s Cup of Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I was puzzled by the idea that Sarah Palin thought saying she hoped Obama would declare war on Iran would be a good way to appeal to the large anti-war isolationist libertarian contingent<\/a> that has been attracted to the tea party movement — a movement whose leaders cast it as drastically different from the mainstream GOP. But then, I was reminded that the folks leading the tea party organization are just plain old movement Republicans<\/a> looking to con voters into thinking they’re not really Republicans (h\/t DDay<\/a> and Digby<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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The announcement came with an official platform that could help define what the multi-faceted tea party movement stands for and expects from the candidates it supports. The group\u2019s leaders plan to support candidates who stand for a set of \u201cFirst Principles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those principles are: fiscal responsibility, lower taxes, less government, states\u2019 rights and national security. Prospective political candidates will be expected to support the Republican National Committee platform.<\/strong> If a particular candidate meets the proposed criteria he or she would be eligible for fundraising and grassroots support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wonder how many of the persons who got sucked into the movement don’t yet realize that it’s just another wing of the GOP<\/a>?<\/p>\n

This also explains why Palin, the mother of a Down’s Syndrome child who was so quick to take umbrage against Rahm Emanuel for his “f—ing retards” comments, has essentially — after a brief few hours where it looked like she might have been willing to do what no Republican has ever done<\/a> and stand by a criticism of Rush Limbaugh — given El Rushbo permission to use that language as he will. If she really was a maverick of the sort that the Tea Party rank-and-file favor, she’d be willing to take on the de facto<\/em> leader of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

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I was puzzled by the idea that Sarah Palin thought saying she hoped Obama would declare war on Iran would be a good way to appeal to the large anti-war isolationist libertarian contingent that has been attracted to the tea party movement — a movement whose leaders cast it as drastically different from the mainstream […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MDJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765126,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663631\/revisions\/765126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}