Palin On OH: "We Have To Take This State"

[Joanne98]

LEBANON, Ohio - GOP veep nom Sarah Palin hammered Barack Obama today for securing earmarks for his state and reiterated her opposition to the "Bridge to Nowhere."

"As we reformed the abuses of earmarks in our state, our opponent was requesting nearly a billion dollars in earmarks as a senatorial privilege as I was vetoing half a billion as an executive responsibility," she told a crowd outside the historic Golden Lamb hotel before introducing John McCain.

Palin has come under fire from Democrats and some political analysts for saying she opposed federal funding for a bridge to a sparsely populated Alaskan town, when she originally supported the bridge as a candidate for governor. Regardless, she kept the line in her stump speech today to reinforce her gubernatorial record as a reformer, a key part of the pitch for the GOP ticket.

"It is now time to take that positive agenda of relief for taxpayers on a national level, and we will work for that tax relief for all of you," she said.

Palin, making her second visit to Ohio since joining the ticket, stressed the general election importance of the state, which she said would be a "tough battle."

"We have to take this state," she said.

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/09/palin_on_oh_we.html

[LisaM]

1. Even though the bridge went nowhere, didn't she keep the earmark?

And just send it to other projects?

That said, as a Michigander, I don't have much faith in the state of Ohio. Reassure me.

[abbiehoff]

2. Right - it hardly matters whether she was for the bridge

or against it.

She took the money.
Isn't that the point?

[TwilightGardener]

3. How many times is she going to lie, repeatedly, after she's been debunked?

Here, I'll answer my own question: She's got to keep on doing it, because without the Bridge and earmark and Ebay nonsense, she has NO REAL RECORD to point to. She'd have to stand there and talk about piddly things, and America would realize she's a pretty bag of nothing special.

[CitizenPatriot]

4. LIAR

"It is now time to take that positive agenda of relief for taxpayers on a national level, and we will work for that tax relief for all of you," she said.


and her plan is.....WHAT? these are a bunch of words that are exactly the opposite of their plan.

cuz what she's talking about sure sounds like that "socialism" i keep hearing about. you know, when you stop raping the middle class?

[progressivebydesign]

5. Palin got 10 TIMES the earmark $$ that Obama did, per resident.

She is a lying sack of moose shit.

[Berry Cool]

6. They will take this state when they pry it from our cold dead fingers.

What idiots. They're preaching "tax relief" in OHIO???

Ohioans don't NEED "tax relief." They need JOBS. And many of them who have jobs get tax refunds every year because they earn so little.

This is the WRONG state in which to use "tax relief" as your platform--unless you're talking only to the richest one-half of one percent of the state.