Former Republican vice presidential pick turned conservative media star Sarah Palin re-entered the news cycle on Wednesday when reports indicated the Trump transition team was considering her to run the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. The reality of these reports, which were sourced from Trump and Palin aides, has yet to be corroborated. What can be proven, however, is the fact that Palin published an op-ed on Friday criticizing Trump’s recently announced deal with Carrier to encourage the company to keep jobs stateside.
According to Politico, Palin’s “But… Wait… The Good Guys Won’t Win With More Crony Capitalism” was published by the website Young Conservatives on Friday afternoon. And if its title weren’t indicative enough, the former Governor of Alaska wasn’t too fond of the Carrier deal — especially in regard to how the details of its inner workings clashed with many of Trump’s campaign promises.
“When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent,” she asserted.
And in an apparent jab at Trump, whom she famously endorsed in a rambling speech earlier this year, she asked: “Republicans oppose this, remember? Instead, we support competition on a level playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony capitalism is one big fail.”
Despite her many criticisms, however, Palin didn’t spend the entire piece bashing on Republican candidate for president she ultimately endorsed during the primaries. “Gotta’ have faith the Trump team knows all this,” she wrote, adding she’d “be the first to acknowledge concerns over a deal cut by leveraging taxpayer interests to make a manufacturer stay put are unfounded — once terms are made public.”
Whether or not Palin’s published rebuke of President-elect Trump will affect her chances at nabbing the Veteran’s Affairs gig remains to be seen. Then again, seeing as how she once blamed President Barack Obama for the PTSD that caused Track Palin’s domestic abuse, who knows if she’ll actually get the job? (Probably not.)
(Via Politico)