Comrades! Check this out!

[spindrifter]

Sam Stein
Huffington Post
October 25, 2008

Sarah Palin had a few memorable moments during her campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday. But the most eye-opening of them all came, it would appear, when the Alaska Governor somehow drew a connection between Barack Obama's tax policy and an encroaching, nightmarish, communist government. The Illinois Democrat, she hysterically suggested, would, through his proposals, create a country "where the people are not free."

"See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody. Obama, Barack Obama has an ideological commitment to higher taxes, and I say this based on his record... Higher taxes, more government, misusing the power to tax leads to government moving into the role of some believing that government then has to take care of us. And government kind of moving into the role as the other half of our family, making decisions for us. Now, they do this in other countries where the people are not free. Let us fight for what is right. John McCain and I, we will put our trust in you."

That yarn goes well beyond what Palin and McCain have, to this point, been comfortable asserting: mainly that Obama is proposing economic socialism. But there are a few things to keep in mind here: the McCain-Palin ticket does not oppose a progressive tax system. In fact, back in 2000, the Arizona Republican said rich people paid more in taxes because they could afford to do so.

"I think the first people who deserve a tax cut are working Americans with children that need to educate their children," he said, "and they're the ones that I would support tax cuts for first."

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When will she stop this bullcrap??

[morillon]

1. Wow. This is just crazy.

She watched that old Red Dawn movie a few too many times, I think.

[spindrifter]

5. I saw her give part of this tirade

on CNN and couldn't believe it. I think she is going with those famous, "talented politician" instincts that some have mentioned when she goes into this communism rant.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. Sure, the Constitutional Scholar is the one who will take away our freedom, unlike Shrub... WTF?

[truthisfreedom]

3. I guess this is the "mavericky" side of Sarah Palin as a loose cannon, unable to be controlled by

her bush handlers.

Crazy talk, comrades. Crazy talk. Now where did I put that Hammer and Sickle flag I was saving for just such an occasion? Ah, yes, behind the case of Smirnoff.

[TheKentuckian]

4. Nope more reaching in desperation

Socialism wasn't frightening enough so its on to the Red Scare material. They just have to pretend that somehow all the nationalizing and the public taking on private risk under a Republican watch will be ignored.

This is well beyond stupid considering these dullards didn't bother to at least try to roll out a flat tax so they would at least be making a different point. A progressive tax, is a progressive tax. They are counting on people to be really, really stupid.

[nc4bo]

6. Finally, Sarah is being Sarah. Stand back while she puts nails in her own coffin. nt