Former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said on
Saturday New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie just isn't "rogue" enough for
her taste.
Palin sided with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul in his continuing feud with the popular New Jersey governor.
“I’m on team Rand," Palin told
Fox News.
"Rand Paul understands. He gets the whole notion of 'don’t tread on me
government.' Whereas Chris Christie is for big government and trying
to go-along-to-get-along in so many respects."
Many of Christie's classic moments were, in fact, set-up with what Palin called a “YouTube videographer.”
“Some people look at him as, 'Ah man, he’s a governor who goes rogue,'"
Palin told Fox. "No, he’s got a shtick going there where he’s got a
YouTube videographer following him around, kind of these set up
situations sometimes so he can be seen as perhaps going rogue. But
Chris Christie’s for more government and his record proves that."
Palin said Rand Paul has a "healthy libertarian streak that we need more of, in our politicians."
The war of words between the two potential 2016 Republican presidential
candidates began last month at the Republican Governors Association
meeting in Aspen, Colo.
Christie criticized Paul and other Republicans — and some Democrats as
well — for their non-interventionist views on foreign affairs and for
opposing the NSA surveillance programs.
Paul responded by saying on this Facebook page that "Chris Christie
worries about the dangers of freedom. I worry about the danger of
losing that freedom. Spying without warrants is unconstitutional."
Paul later called Christie the "king of bacon" for seeking federal aid to help the state recover from Hurricane Sandy.
Christie retorted that New Jersey paid more in taxes to Washington than
it received in federal aid while Kentucky got more federal money back
than it paid in taxes.
Palin also said on Saturday that 22 Democrats "should be thanked and not
condemned" for attacking Obamacare's cost-cutting board, which the 2008
GOP vice presidential candidate called a "death panel."
"It was a pleasant surprise — and we shouldn't condemn them for finally
trying to jump off the Obama train wreck that is coming down the pike,"
the former Alaska governor said in the same interview. "I appreciate
that they acknowledged it."
"But you have to remember that it's just one aspect of this atrocious,
unaffordable, cumbersome, burdensome, evil policy of Obama's — and that
is Obamacare," Palin added.
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean drew attention
to the Independent Payment Advisory Board designed to limit Medicare
cost growth when he called for its repeal in an op-ed late last month.
While the board's supporters attacked the former Vermont governor for
his ties to the healthcare industry as an adviser to a major D.C.
lobbying firm, the 22 Democratic senators and representatives have
backed legislation in recent months that would limit the board's powers.
"Of course, they're death panels," Palin insisted. "They couldn't go
forever and not acknowledge that or else they would look like complete
buffoons — and they would be deemed incompetent having not read the law
to understand that death panels are a part of this atrocity. It was just
a matter of time.
"As more and more of our congressmen and women actually read the law and
as more of us bring to light more things in the 20,000 pages of rules
and regulations accompanying Obamacare, more of them will jump off the
train wreck that's coming."
Palin continued her attack on the mainstream media, this time for not
pressing President Barack Obama to be more specific about the "fake
scandals" that he has been referring to in recent weeks.
"I wish that the press would do a better job of pinning him down," she
explained. "He pooh-poohs them and acts like it's no big darn deal."
Further, she dismissed Obama's comments about greater transparency
regarding the National Security Agency and its surveillance operations
at his news conference on Friday.
"There is no balance at all in this struggle for security and liberty
when we have an illustration going on today about our government having
lied about it, our government actually spying on innocent Americans and
gathering data on us based on our communications, which really is a
violation of our Fourth Amendment rights. There's no balance at all.
"That is stomping, trampling, a boot-on-the-neck of our liberty," she added. "That's not balance."
Palin also noted that former NSA subcontractor Edward Snowden, who
leaked information about the surveillance programs, was "the bad guy in
all this. They want to shoot the messenger instead of dealing with the
problem.
"The problem is the trampling on our liberty, the trampling on our Fourth Amendment rights."
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