Is Palin A Neoconservative Project?

By Kleinheider Posted on September 16, 2008 at 8:25 am

They may think she is but Pat Buchanan says she is runnin’ stealth:

But make no mistake. Sarah Palin is no neocon. She did not come by her beliefs by studying Leo Strauss. She is a traditionalist whose values are those of family, faith, community and country, not some utopian ideology.

Wasilla, Alaska, is not a natural habitat of neoconservatives.

And her unrehearsed answers to Gibson’s questions reveal her natural conservatism. Asked if she agrees with the Bush Doctrine, Palin asked for clarification. “In what respect, Charlie?”

Gibson: “Do we have the right of an anticipatory self-defense?”

Yes, said Palin, “if there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against (the) American people, we have every right to defend our country. In fact, the president has the obligation, the duty to defend.”

Exactly. The intelligence must be legit and the threat “imminent.”

Interviewed by Alaska Business Monthly in March 2007 on the surge, Palin said, “I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place.”

That is not the language of empire or “benevolent global hegemony.”

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Reactionary Secessionist, Maybe, But Not A Buchananite

By Kleinheider Posted on September 1, 2008 at 9:50 pm

The John McCain campaign insists Sarah Palin was not down with the cause:

Governor Palin has never supported Pat Buchanan and every responsible magazine or blog that made the charge has since corrected the record, leaving only the Obama campaign peddling this smear. How is it that the media, so committed to fighting the smears against the Obama campaign, is more than happy to allow this one to fester?

Of course, the fact that she made common cause with secessionists who make Birchers look like a bunch of whiny liberals likely isn’t a cause for comfort amongst McCainiacs.

UPDATE: A loyal reader quips via email: “She can have Alaska if Obama can have the rest.”

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Secessionist Sarah

By Kleinheider Posted on at 11:23 am

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin addresses the Alaska Independence Party Convention, a party committed to, among other things, the secession of Alaska from the United States of America.

UPDATE: Confirmation.

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Governor Sarah Palin On Ron Paul: “He’s Cool”

By Kleinheider Posted on August 31, 2008 at 5:52 pm

MTV Street Team: Well, a lot of students asked me to ask you, Ron Paul, cult-following in Alaska….

Governor Sarah Palin: He’s cool. He’s a good guy. He’s a good guy. He’s so independent. He’s independent of like the party machine, I’m like, right on, so am I. The party machinery, on both sides of the party, ya know, Americans are tiring of the incessant partisanship that gets in the way of just doing the right thing for this country.

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