Sarah Palin becomes the first potential GOP presidential candidate to endorse Paul Ryan’s fiscal “road map”:
Put simply: Our country is on the path toward bankruptcy. We must turn around before it’s too late, and the Roadmap offers a clear plan for doing so. But it does more than just fend off disaster. CBO calculations show that the Roadmap would also help create a “much more favorable macroeconomic outlook” for the next half-century. The CBO estimates that under the Roadmap, by 2058 per-person GDP would be around 70% higher than the current trend.
Is Rep. Ryan’s Roadmap perfect? Of course not—no government plan ever is. But it’s the best plan on the table at a time when doing nothing is no longer an option.
Let’s not settle for the big-government status quo, which is what the president’s commission offers. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to make these tough decisions so that they might inherit a prosperous and strong America like the one we were given.
Is Rep. Ryan’s Roadmap perfect? Of course not—no government plan ever is. But it’s the best plan on the table at a time when doing nothing is no longer an option.
Let’s not settle for the big-government status quo, which is what the president’s commission offers. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to make these tough decisions so that they might inherit a prosperous and strong America like the one we were given.
When will other 2012 GOP contenders follow her lead? Update: I should note that although he hasn’t formally endorsed Ryan’s Road Map, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels has agreed to “at least the basic outline” of Ryan’s approach, and Ryan praised Daniels in July as the only potential candidate who really understands and is willing to defend the principles of the Road Map.
