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Doing Socialism v. Thinking About It

22 Oct 2008 01:34 pm

I didn't intend to turn the blog today in a Palin bash-a-thon, but when you've got the Alaska governor on the brain ...

This socialism thing.

A, it would have been more convincing had McCain opposed the original bailout and not proposed austerity for everyone and then ruled out lots of programs and then proposed lots of new spending.

B - Palin is going on about Obama and wealth redistribution.

Palin taxed oil company profits and cut $1200 checks for every Alaskans.

That's spreading the wealth. Redistributing some money.

The McCain campaign talks about Palin's executive experience.

So Obama might have socialistic inclinations... Palin's gotten it done.

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