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Palin would not have dismissed the Black Panther intimidation lawsuit that the government had already won.

Palin would not have seized two auto companies and give them to her cronies in and out of the UAW.

Palin and her supporters would not be claiming that her opponents were racists for disagreeing with her policies.

Palin would not have tried to block Boeing from building a factory in South Carolina as a gift to her union buddies in Washington state.

Palin would not have toured the world apologizing for America.

Palin’s Homeland Security Department would not have classified patriots as security threats.

Palin would have expanded oil and gas exploration on federal lands instead of reducing it, make the US even less dependent on foreign oil.

Palin would not have allowed the Pigford suit to be settled that gives billions of dollars to “farmers” that never farmed.

Palin would not have shipped thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels so that they could be found next to the bodies of murdered Mexicans and American agents.

Palin would not have encouraged the IRS to harass Tea Party groups.

Palin would not have encouraged the IRS to illegally reveal the names of contributors to conservative groups to Liberal organizations so that contributors could be harassed.

Palin’s IRS would not ask groups seeking 501(c)4 status about their prayer life.

Palin would not have passed a national health care bill that is a 2000 page “train wreck” and that threatens to destroy America’s health care system.

Palin would have focused on reducing unemployment as it skyrocketed instead of wasting a trillion dollars on green boondoggles.

Palin would have known that in today’s regulatory state there is not such thing as a “shovel ready jobs” program.

Palin would not have spent a trillion dollars to prop up state and local government employees when private sector employees were losing millions of jobs.

Palin would not have handed out “Palin phones” to welfare recipients.

Palin would not have attacked Libya, without congressional approval, turning it into a rogue state.

Palin would not have allowed her ambassador to Libya to be slaughtered, along with three US service members, and told would-be rescuers to stand down.

Palin would not have blamed a demonstration that did not occur caused by a video that no one saw for the attack by terrorist in Benghazi.

Palin’s UN ambassador would not have gone on national TV to lie about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi because she would not have broken Libya in the first place.

Palin would not have been stupid enough – or naive enough – to support the Islamist take-over of the Egyptian government.

Palin would have given encouragement to demonstrators in Iran when they went to the streets to protest a fraudulent election.

Palin would not be giving the Islamist regime in Egypt billions of dollars to keep it in power.

Palin would not have told Putin to wait till after she was re-elected because then she would have more flexibility.

Palin’s appointed officials would not be lying to congress and the American people when they are not invoking the Fifth Amendment against incrimination.

Palin would not be sending Secret Service agent to her critics’ homes demanding to do a search, go through his medical records, his computer, his cell phone and pretty much anything else, and then threaten to come back and confiscate his guns if he “stepped over the line.”

Finally, Palin would have taken responsibility for the things that happened while she was President instead of telling us that she only read about it in this morning’s newspaper.

The toughest question that never got answered is, “Just what are these ‘extreme policies’ of Sarah Palin?” Her critics, be they Obama fans or be they something else, can’t field that one.

But more important than that, I see a lot of people are missing the point: Many potential presidents right about now, would not have done these things. Much of the problem is partisan, in that it is in the nature of democrats to obsess much about what’s being said when it’s all over, how loud each voice is, and who has the last word. It’s worked well for them, so why should they stop. But the real issue is this “transparency” thing. We can’t really have any with a democrat in charge. Implicit in all of these bullets is the unstated extra, “If President Palin ever made any movement in any of these directions, the media would light her up like a fucking Christmas tree.”

But, Obama gets to do what Obama wants to do. For now…

Update: Welcome Instapundit readers. Writing credit for the bullet points goes to The Virginian.

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- What President Palin Would Not Have Done | The American Catholic | 06/15/2013 @ 07:50
Alas, one must point out that Sarah Palin was not even the candidate for President.

Funny, that. You know when people get hyper about her it always seems to be in the vein that she was the presidential candidate. Think about that – the mental shift that seems pre-programmed into people’s brains. Where does that come from? How does that happen? Why does that happen?

Of course the things listed are things she would not have done, if indeed she were the president — She would not have sicced the IRS or the DOJ on Media Matters just because they gave or would give her bad press.

Another list might be: What if Sarah Palin Had Become Vice-President?”

Now that would be a belly buster.
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It’s like taunting a dumb kitten with a laser pen.
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JAL | 06/15/2013 @ 08:13 wrote,

Alas, one must point out that Sarah Palin was not even the candidate for President.

Alas, one must point out that nobody said Palin was the candidate for president.

Funny, that. You know when people get hyper about her it always seems to be in the vein that she was the presidential candidate. Think about that – the mental shift that seems pre-programmed into people’s brains. Where does that come from? How does that happen? Why does that happen?

You know, when leftists talk about her it always seems that they just make stuff up. Think about that – the mental shift that seems pre-programmed into leftists’ brains. Where does that come from? How does that happen? Why does that happen? Actually, those are rhetorical questions. We know why.
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I think “What are the dumb things she’s said or done?” might give “What are her
extreme policies?” a good run for toughest question never answered. In both cases, there’s a lot less there than her opponents on both sides would like you to think.
- Rich Fader | 06/15/2013 @ 13:37
But…but…but…. she’s a quitter!

I stumbled across some lefty commentary the other day by mistake, and I swear that’s still one of the talking points over there. You know, among the geniuses whose favorite person was a half-term junior senator back before He was the Messiah.

I swear, the things liberals fret about…. and a hundred bucks says anyone who ever said that about Palin got into liberalism because he kept getting picked last in gym class.
- Severian | 06/15/2013 @ 14:53
This is why I say, only half-jokingly, that every President of the United States from now on should be a conservative Republican. WE KEEP THE MEDIA DOING THEIR JOBS. When Dems get into power, the media “goes on hiatus” (read: hibernates) for four to eight years, waking only when the country makes a course correction so it can trot out the standard “eek-the-Pubs-are-back-in-power” news stories — hey, look, homeless people! Expensive gas and hypermiling! Gitmo still isn’t closed! And we aren’t feeding our kids nutritious free lunches! Gahhh.
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- Steynian 474rd | Free Canuckistan! | 06/16/2013 @ 12:37
Now the “let Allah sort it out” thing is an excellent example of what I mean. Even in the edited form, I’m not seeing a problem with it. Why *is* this administration taking sides in Syria? For that matter, what the hell was it doing taking sides in Libya and Egypt? The most concrete result of that, as far as I can tell, was Benghazi. And the full quote is even more reasonable. Oh, you can argue with the style. I suppose. If you really want to. If you really think it’s that important and helpful to. Not the content. Unless you want to come up with an actual reason that what she said is wrong and stupid, instead of “because Palin”.
- Rich Fader | 06/16/2013 @ 21:05
That’s pretty impressive. A list of things that didn’t happen, and a claim that Sarah Palin wouldn’t have done them, either.

Americans were smarter than that, though. We looked at stuff she might do, and we’re quite happy with the stuff the president has actually done, though he could do more on several fronts.
- edarrell | 06/21/2013 @ 21:45
P.S. Cat haters, people who think kittens are “dumb,” automatically call into question any idea they give credence to. Miswiring somewhere.
- edarrell | 06/21/2013 @ 21:46
That’s pretty impressive. A claim that you’re smart, just because you say so, an apparent admission that you’re no smarter than a kitten that can be fooled by a laser pen, which poses an obvious problem for the “smarter than that” claim — and yet more hyperventilating about “stuff she [Palin] might do,” without any examples, after I specifically pointed out that no one can cite any examples.

Are Palin haters any more credible than cat haters? The latter is often seen at least providing a rationale, supported by observation.
- mkfreeberg | 06/22/2013 @ 05:16
If none of that happened during the Obama administration, then where’s Chris Stevens? Just for starters.
- Rich Fader | 06/22/2013 @ 16:07

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