Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz lead shutdown protest at war memorial

[Peikko 1,575]

Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz and other conservative Republicans led a protest on Sunday which tore down barriers at a second world war memorial in Washington and confronted police outside the White House. Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee, accused President Barack Obama of using war veterans as pawns in the two-week-old federal government shutdown.

"We are here to honour our vets," she told a crowd at the national mall, which has been fenced off since 1 October. "You look around though and you see these barricades and you have to ask yourself is this any way that a commander in chief would show his respect, his gratitude to our military. This is a matter of shutdown priorities."

Obama could lift the barricades if he wished, she said, adding: "Our veterans should be above politics."

Cruz, a Texas senator and fellow Tea Party darling, accused Obama of targeting the memorial: "He said, 'If you open the memorial I will veto it'."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/13/sarah-palin-ted-cruz-veterans-shutdown

[Penny Lane 8,159]

They have some real f*cking nerve, don't they?

Sarah, sweetheart, you wanted to shut it down. You got what you wanted. Who are you to point fingers now?

Edited October 14, 2013 by Penny Lane

[Danno 1,228]

YOu know Obama screwed up when Palin out plays him on a story.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

YOu know Obama screwed up when Palin out plays him on a story.

Palin outplays him? How? She's a hypocrite.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Funny how these numbnuts and dimwits are standing there lambasting the very shutdown that they not only forced but also celebrate. And yet there are people that take these clowns seriously.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Palin outplays him? How? She's a hypocrite. [/quote

How

Tell us how she voted

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Funny how these numbnuts and dimwits are standing there lambasting the very shutdown that they not only forced but also celebrate. And yet there are people that take these clowns seriously.

They are very good at firing up their uninformed base.

They supported a shutdown, now they complain about the shutdown. Absolutely ridiculous. And look who eats it up.

[Danno 1,228]

Palin outplays him? How? She's a hypocrite.

Thats not the point, that was a huge PR blunder, Obamer looked petty to close down an open air memorial, it was so open they had to bring in barricades to close it down.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Palin outplays him? How? She's a hypocrite. [/quote

How

Tell us how she voted

Palin supported a shutdown. Even you must know that. She said it would be a good thing.

Thats not the point, that was a huge PR blunder, Obamer looked petty to close down an open air memorial, it was so open they had to bring in barricades to close it down.

Not the point? How is it not the point that Palin wanted a government shutdown and is now complaining about the government shutdown?

[Peikko 1,575]

I think she has an eye on the presidency, go girl, go! President Palin has such a cute ring to it

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

YOu know Obama screwed up when Palin out plays him on a story.

You need to get out of the right wing echo chamber. Outside that echo chamber, the tea party dimwits and the party they have infected are the obvious losers of this whole theater play. They have worked themselves and their party into a corner and they have no idea how to get out. Outside the right wing lunatic fringe, nobody thinks that these idiots are doing anyone any service. Hell, conservative business folk are preparing primary challenges to these numbnuts for 2014 to get people with brains and a will to govern back to DC. The Tea Party is done, Danno. You don't know it yet but you'll find out soon enough.

I think she has an eye on the presidency, go girl, go! President Palin has such a cute ring to it

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Her exact quote was "That sounds pretty good to me. Let government chill for a bit."

She's getting exactly what she wanted. But now she's complaining that things are shut down. And people support this? Good lord.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Her exact quote was "That sounds pretty good to me. Let government chill for a bit."

She's getting exactly what she wanted. But now she's complaining that things are shut down. And people support this? Good lord.

What do you expect?

[Peikko 1,575]

What do you expect?

A couple made in heaven, just what America needs. Presidency prom, you betcha!

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Hey Palin,

What does Russia have planned for the U.S.? Being that you can see Russia from Alaska and all.