Palin knocks Democrat control freak government

DesMoines Register:

A Democratic lock on the federal government would diminish the virtue of personal responsibility in the United States, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin said in Iowa on Saturday.

The Alaska governor’s warning at a Des Moines rally for GOP presidential nominee John McCain went a step further than the campaign’s recent criticism of Democrat Barack Obama’s economic plans.

“Unchecked power there, with control by big spenders, big government agenda in all three — House, Senate, White House — the lessons I believe we have taught our kids would start to erode, those lessons about work ethic and hard work being rewarded,” Palin said at the Des Moines rally.

“Higher taxes, more government, misusing the power to tax leads to government moving into the role of some believing government has to take care of us,” she added. “They do that in other countries, where people are not free.”

Palin stopped short of describing Obama’s plan to increase taxes on upper income brackets as socialism. Instead, a man’s voice rang out from the crowd of roughly 10,000 at Hy-Vee Hall: “Socialist!”

Palin headlined a mid-morning rally in Sioux City and capped the day in Des Moines in front of the McCain campaign’s biggest Iowa audience to date.

Polls have shown McCain trailing Obama in Iowa with just nine days until the Nov.4 election. The GOP ticket has kept up a vigorous campaign pace in the state, which Republican President George W. Bush narrowly carried in 2004.

McCain plans to make his fourth Iowa visit in about five weeks with a midday rally Sunday at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls.

The reception that Palin received, making her solo Iowa debut in GOP-heavy western Iowa, defied the difficulty she has encountered nationally in recent weeks.
About 4,500 people packed the gymnasium and an overflow room at Sioux City West High School.

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Palin was presented with an Iowa Chops hockey jersey.

She continues to draw big crowds and she makes an important point about the control freak agenda of Democrats. You get a little taste of that agenda when Michele is talking about all the things Barack is going to make people do.

Palin also talked to 13,000 in Fort Wayne Indiana.

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