Limiting the Size? Palin campaigns for GOP ticket in must-win Ohio
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Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin focused on tax and leadership issues Sunday as she opened two days of campaigning in this must-win swing state.Palin told a crowd of more than 3,000 at a field house that she and Republican presidential candidate John McCain are committed to cutting taxes and limiting the size of government. She said Democratic candidate Barack Obama favors bigger government and that he has lowered the income threshold for those considered middle class and deserving of a tax cut from $250,000 to $120,000.
His votes for higher taxes, she said, show “he chose the side of bigger government and taking more from you.”
At the same time, Obama has proposed $1 trillion in additional federal spending without specifying where the money would come from, Palin said.
“You could either do the math or just go with your gut,” said Palin, standing in front of a huge U.S. flag and a blue and white “Country First” banner. “Either way, you can draw the same conclusion: Barack Obama, based on his record, is for bigger government and raising taxes.”
Obama’s tax plan calls for no tax increases on working families making less than $250,000 a year or individuals making less than $200,000 annually. He also has promised to cut taxes for the middle class.
Palin hammered home the same point during a later stop in the small southeast Ohio town of Marietta.
“The choice could not be clearer. Our country faces tough times,” Palin told the audience at Marietta College. “Now is the worst possible time to consider raising taxes on our residents and our businesses.”
Palin said McCain, a former Navy pilot and prisoner of war, has the experience to handle tough situations.
“He knows how tough challenges are overcome,” she said.
Similar remarks at a later stop drew raucous chants of “USA, USA, USA” inside an airplane hangar at Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus. Palin said the country needs a leader who won’t retreat from Iraq.
“We need someone who isn’t afraid to use the word ‘victory,’” she said. Democrats “can fill a stadium, but they cannot keep our country safe.”
Palin ended the campaign day at a fairgrounds in Owensville in heavily Republican Clermont County.
She introduced country music star Gretchen Wilson and then clapped along with the crowd as Wilson sang. Palin said McCain did well in his “Saturday Night Live” guest appearance, adding that she hoped comedian Tina Fey would hang on to her Palin lookalike wardrobe.
“She’s going to be needing it in the next four years,” Palin told the crowd.
The Republican ticket’s top advisers know they have to win Ohio and its 20 electoral votes if they are to be successful in their White House bid.
Underscoring that fact, Palin planned a quick campaign stop Monday in the traditionally Democratic Cleveland area.
Polls have shown Democratic nominee Obama with a slight lead or running neck and neck with McCain in Ohio. An Associated Press-GfK survey released last week shows nine in 10 Ohioans fear for the economy.
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