In her Sunday column, former Alaska Gov. and vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin took on Washington, D.C.’s political establishment, wondering if it isn’t all that different from a group of ‘corrupt bastards’ she challenged in her home state during her time as chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
Palin likened her fight against political cronyism to the one of grassroots conservatives against Obamacare and the political class of the nation’s capital in the piece published on Big Government. Her opponents billed themselves as the ‘Corrupt Bastards Club’, Palin wrote, and needed a swift kick the way Washington needs one today.
“Today, doesn’t it seem like we have a Corrupt Bastards Club in D.C.? On steroids? It might not be as oily and obvious as its Alaska counterpart, but it’s just as compromised because its members, too, are indifferent to what their actions mean for We the People,” Palin wrote. “I’m prepared to be attacked for suggesting this comparison of the D.C. political establishment with the CBC. But I call it like I see it. And lived it. The fight over defunding socialized healthcare, aka Obamacare, should have opened everyone’s eyes to call it the same.”
Palin went on to rip the Republican establishment for what she perceived as selling out on the ‘defund Obamacare’ movement.
“GOP politicians claim they’re against Obamacare and promise to repeal it. But when it came time to stand up and use the Constitutional tools they have – the power of the purse strings – to finally halt the implementation, they balked, waved the white flag, and joined the lapdog media in trashing the good guys who fought for us,” Palin penned.
The Tea Party favorite said that this simply continued a disappointing pattern from the Republican Party — that it has campaigned one way, but governed another, leading to the conservative grassroots’ rise.
“Tea Party patriots rose up because the Republican machine ‘fractured’ itself years ago by marginalizing its conservative base,” she wrote. “The recent ‘slimdown’ didn’t cause the fracture. It happened because of the fracture — because wayward Republicans have refused for years to stand up and fight for economic freedom and limited government, despite campaigning on those principles every election cycle.”
Read the full column at Big Government.
