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Gov. Sarah Palin story of the day
The geniuses at HuffPo think they’ve caught Gov. Palin in her first “official” gaffe as John McCain’s veep nominee. It all stems around comments the Gov. made in response to what she said this weekend in Colorado Springs about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (via Memeo):
Gov. Sarah Palin made her first potentially major gaffe during her time on the national scene while discussing the developments of the perilous housing market this past weekend.
Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” The companies, as McClatchy reported, “aren’t taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization.”
Economists and analysts pounced on the misstatement, saying it demonstrated a lack of understanding about one of the key economic issues likely to face the next administration.
“You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. “These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country’s mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn’t speak well for her, I’d say.”
Unfortunately for the clueless wonders at the HuffPo and their liberal cohorts elsewhere, Gov. Palin was right on target, as Kim Priestap carefully points out in a lengthy post here. Tom Maguire has a good post up on this non-gaffe as well. Former presidential contender Fred Thompson wrote a story about this for Townhall magazine, and it was published this morning before reports of Gov. Palin’s “gaffe” surfaced on HuffPo.
But hey – let’s say, just for laughs, that Gov. Palin really did mess up this past weekend with what she said about the FMs. She’s still got a long way to go to catch up with The One.
Related: Factcheck definitively debunks several false claims that have been made this past week about Gov. Palin’s record. They’re a little late to the ballgame, but their joining in the effort at keeping the left honest re: Gov. Palin is welcomed, nevertheless 
More: To get a good idea of how Gov. Palin conducts herself during a press interview, click here.
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They’re going to have to try harder.
Somehow, I don’t think they’ll give up anytime soon…
Factcheck is a solid site that debunks rumors no matter the candidate.
The Gov. Palin hyperventilation by the Left is puzzling to me. For the Left, there’s plenty of issues that you can go after Palin about (and I’m sure she will come right back). But after going nuts (and rightfully so) concerning the slime thrown at Senator Obama (Muslim Machurian candidate, Larry Sinclair, etc), going after Palin the same way just reeks of desperation. To Obama’s credit, at least he’s staying on his “McCain = Bush” message and not engaging in “Destroy the Tower of Palin” tactics.
And for the record, I’m not a member of the Left, I’m a member of the Slant Wing…
T-Steel, Do you honestly believe that most of this garbage about Sarah Palin hasn’t had the approval of the Obama Campaign??? Did you see David Axelrod on Fox News Sunday, what a pathetic lowlife he is. He reiterated some of the rumors and brought up the ugly things that have been said about Sarah. Exactly who is Axelrod to the Obama campaign?? – Lorica
factcheck is owned by annenburg, the same people that used to be obama’s employer. I suppose if factcheck used to employ palin, it would be perfectly ok with the left. right.
The reason the feds took over fnm and fre, as has been stated too many times to mention, is that there was ambiguity about whether the fed was behind it. So, the people that say the fed wasn’t behind them are equally as wrong as palin.
We’ll be defending all the way till the election, and then we’ll still be defending at her inaug.
Lorica, If you recall, the dems said that everything that the swiftboaters said in 04 was attributable the the bush campaign. Now the dems say that obama has nothing to do with what the rest of the left is doing.
this is why they must be defeated. they would govern just the way they campaign. or worse.
T wrote, “at least he’s staying on his “McCain = Bush” message”
It’s an incorrect message.
Look at it this way with statistics T.
McCain is the Rebublican who crossed party lines the MOST statistically.
ALL members of the House and Senate consistently vote with their own party between 90% and 95% of the time on any given year. For Mr. spin Obama and his ilk to keep pointing out that McCain has voted with Bush 90% of the time it IGNORES the fact that that is the same statistic for ALL members of the House and Senate but that McCain is THE member of the Senate that has crossed party lines the MOST.
He is at the edge statistically.
You get it T? Or will you keep playing and spinning?
To keep doing so would be …. lying… Yep. I said it.
Yeah I remember Yo. Whatever can be used, will be used by the elitists in the MSM. If they could pervert a story they will. They said themselves that they got John Kerry 15 extra points in 2004. Any other situation would have made Lurch un-electable. The MSM HAD to do what they did to make it look close. – Lorica
T-Steel, what is the deal with the
moderateextreme voice folks doing crap like this????It is understandable that people HAVE an opinion.
It is NOT understandable that these characters make up what is ethical or illegal or whatever they want to do to SMEAR somebody.
Per diem was paid legally and it gets paid to employees all over Alaska BY THE RULES ALLOWED.
Tell your fellows over there to START getting things right with respect to the rule of law…. Ignorance is no excuse at this point. It is now lying if this stuff continues over there in my mind…
Since it is OK to state McCain votes 90% of the time with the Bush administration it can be noted Obama worshiped with Rev Wright for 20 years and left less than one year ago – that is over 95% agreement. And he never publicly disagreed with Ayers- that’s 100% accord.
BTW, if experience matters to the DNC, they could have placed Biden on the top of their ticket.
Statistics can be used to make just about any claim one chooses in an attempt to sway public opinion. People who have no clue have an opinion. The scary thing is that they can show up in great numbers on election day while people who feel strongly about a single issue may reject a worthy candidate, or simply stay home on election day.
BIG NEWS for those in the DNC who hate GWB – the Constitution guarantees his term ends on Jan 20, 2009. It is OK to give up on the recount and the hanging chads!
omapian, I moved your comments on the Obama/lipstick story here since another poster linked up to his lipstick comments in that same post (in the comments section – and I noted it in an update).