Conservative pundit and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has offered her solution to the instability in Russia and the Ukraine.
– Sarah Palin’s advice to Barack Obama: ‘Stop Putin with nukes’ (News.com.au, March 9, 2014):
Sarah Palin has offered unsolicited advice to US President Barack Obama on containing Russian aggression, saying “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke”.
The Republican former vice presidential candidate used a predominantly crass tone throughout her appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
But she hit home by attacking what she called a feckless Obama foreign policy that she said has helped embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Failing to show peace through strength has allowed some “very, very, very bad dudes (to) gain ground”, said Palin, who remains a darling of the far-right.
Obama “would gut our arsenal while he allows others — enemies — to enrich theirs”, she said.
“Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.” The comments follow Russia’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine last month, action which sent tensions soaring and US-Russia relations to perhaps their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.
The remark may have sounded flippant, but it was red meat to conservatives mindful of similar language used by the head of the National Rifle Association, America’s largest gun lobby.
In the aftermath of a December 2012 mass shooting in Connecticut, NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre poured fuel on the gun control debate by saying that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”.
Why are you covering this twit?
She is a US media creation…..why are you buying into it?
@Marilyn Gjerdrum,
I saw this article and just thought that I am covering all the other f****** idiots, elite puppets and traitors like the Bush’s, the Clintons, the Obama’s, Biden, Cheney, McCain, Pelosy, Rand Paul etc. as well and thought to myself that maybe she deserves to be in the list (because total insanity seems to have reached another all time high), so that even the last uneducated ones of the sheeple might slowly get that they have no choice and that the game is rigged.
I knew that the game is rigged and that our politicians (in important positions) are all bought and paid for since I started to study economics (a long time ago), because I’ve had really excellent Prof’s back then (which have become an extremely rare breed these days).
And for my regular readers this post may look (understandably!!!) like a complete waste of time.
It is intended not for you but for all those that still don’t have a clue what idiots we have allowed to run this country.
Best,
Infinite Unknown
Nice one Marilyn.!
Nice reply Infinite.
Must keep the balance and a sense of humour!!!