Paul Mulshine: Two questions for Palin worshippers

Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine, a card-carrying conservative, has plenty of questions about Palin and her nomination. Here is his most recent sally.

Two questions for Palin worshippers

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Posted by Paul Mulshine September 04, 2008 8:49PM

As you might have guessed, I am not the sort of person to go into ecstasy over something a politician says. Thus I was perhaps the only conservative in America not overly impressed by the Sarah Palin appearance at the Republican National Convention.

Sure, she did a good job of reading a speech before an audience of supporters. But I didn't hear a lot in there on some of the key questions of this campaign. So I invite you to weigh in with predictions on how Palin will handle the following questions.

ONE: What are the chance she will oppose the neoconservatives on their immigration amnesty? Both George W. Bush and John McCain are ardent advocates of an amnesty that would permit as many as 12 million illegal immigrants to stay in the country. Here's my prediction of the chance that Palin will come out against the McCain-Kennedy bill between now and Election Day: Zero.

What's your prediction?

TWO: What are the chances she will oppose the neoconservatives on their liberal internationalist foreign policy?

Both the traditional conservatives such as Pat Buchanan and the libertarians who post on the Lew Rockwell blog have expressed worries that Palin will fall into the nutty neocon policies that led George W. Bush into his nation-building exercise in Iraq.

Buchanan recently wrote: "Look for the neocons to move with all deliberate speed to take her into their camp by pressing upon her advisers and staff, and steering her into the AEI-Weekly Standard-War Party orbit."

As for the libertarians, they worry that Palin will endorse the Bush/McCain policy of endless wars fought for the benefit of foreigners rather than Americans.

Again I put the chances Palin will stand up to the neocons in favor of traditional conservative values at zero. But if you've got any evidence she is truly willing to stand up against the open-borders/endless-nation-building crowd, please feel free to post it.

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