Palin: GOP Establishment Embraces 'Status Quo'Thursday, 02 Aug 2012 11:17 AM
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she strongly supports Mitt
Romney as the Republican presidential nominee, but suggested the GOP
establishment is out of step with what voters are looking for in
their elected officials these days.
Referring to Ted Cruz’s surprising upset win in the Texas GOP Senate
primary this week over favored Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Palin said
it proves that voters are tired of the “establishment embracement of
the status quo.”
“We want reformers to come in there, take our tax dollars back from
politicians who are spending us into oblivion, put government back
on our side,” the former Alaska governor told Fox News Wednesday.
Palin said the Dewhurst campaign message was “basically just
business as usual, more of the same, go along to get along.”
“People are tired of that. We can’t afford it,” said Palin, who has
been crossing the country campaigning for Cruz and other tea party
candidates running for Congress.
Asked about the resurgence of the tea party, Palin, a contributor to
Fox News, said the conservative movement never faded away, as some
GOP leaders have claimed.
“Both the parties are a wee bit out of touch” on that score, she
said, pointing to the Cruz victory and other tea party campaigns
that have established GOP and Democratic candidates on edge this
year.
Asked if it was time for Romney to “bury the hatchet” with tea party
conservatives and invite her to play a role in the upcoming GOP
convention in Tampa, Palin replied: “There’s no hatchet to bury or
olive branch that needs to be passed between Mitt Romney and
myself.”
“We have a good relationship and I have great respect for him, and
am so thankful that the GOP has a strong candidate who understands
the private sector and what it takes to get the economy roaring
again,” she said.
But Palin added, “Whether I am [at the convention] or not as a
speaker, I am comfortable either way, just like [former House
Speaker] New Gingrich said he was comfortable either way.”
In the meantime, Palin said she plans to continue her focus on
“those down-ticket races” for the House and Senate “that will be so
instrumental in reforming government, shrinking it, allowing the
private sector to grow and thrive.”
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