For this Governor Palin gets a “atta-gal” from yours truly!
Sarah Palin has parted ways with the neoconservative foreign policy advisers who had been writing speeches and advising her on policy since she joined the McCain campaign.An aide to Palin, Tim Crawford, confirmed that Orion Strategies’ Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb are no longer working for her PAC. They parted, both sides said on good terms.”Randy flat out said, ‘We can’t give you the time,'” Crawford said.”I very much enjoyed my time working with Governor Palin and wish her and her family all the best,” Scheunemann said in an email. “If she decides to run for any office again, she will be a formidable candidate.”Crawford said they’ve been replaced by Peter Schweizer, a writer and fellow at the Hoover Institution who blogs regularly at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Peace.The personnel shift carries an ideological charge. Scheunemann, the former executive director of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, is a longtime neoconservative stalwart, as is Goldfarb, a former reporter and protege of Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol. They crafted for Palin a policy platform and voice reflecting an eagerness to use American force. The pair, who helped Palin with press and debate prep in 2008, were also something of Palin’s last link to Washington’s political establishment.But Palin parted ways with that aggressive internationalism in a speech yesterday, condemning U.S. involvement in Libya and laying out a more cautious philosophy of the use of force. Schweizer has articulated a more skeptical view of the use of American force and promotion of democracy abroad.
via Palin splits with neocon advisers – Ben Smith – POLITICO.com.
I rarely praise the woman; for in this cause, she has earned it. Good going Sarah! 😀
Here is why I feel this way —- It was Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb that basically ruined John McCain’s ability to get elected. Further more, it was these two dolts political ideology that screwed this Country into the ground and put us in the position that we are in now; financially and foriegn policy wise. Needless to say, that Neo-Conservative political thought is no longer popular. So much in fact that many well-known Conservative Jews are bailing on it.
So, to Governor Palin I say; Good Job Lady and here is hoping that this is a sign that Sarah Palin comes to the “real” side of Conservatism and really starts acting like a real Conservative.
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