Posted by Matt Hawes on 09/24/09 3:58 PM Last updated 09/24/09 4:01 PM [Newer: Re: Audit the Fed hearings] [Older: "We Should Never Be Afraid of the Truth."]

Slowly but surely, more mainstream conservatives are criticizing the Federal Reserve.  For those of you who know Sarah Palin supporters who still think the Federal Reserve isn't an important topic, this piece from the Wall Street Journal's Alex Frangos would be a great article to forward on to them (along with a link to End the Fed).

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fired a shot at the Federal Reserve in her coming-out speech in Hong Kong today, blaming the central bank for the current crisis and disagreeing with the idea that the Fed should have a greater role in preventing the next crisis. It was an echo of fellow Republican and Texas congressman Ron Paul, who has led the charge in Congress to perform an audit of the Federal Reserve with an eye to eventually eliminating it....

Read the rest.  (Thanks to Kory.)

Posted 09/24/09 4:58 PM ShedPlant Slough, United Kingdom

Whether she's come round to our way of thinking or is jumping on the bandwagon is unimportant. The point is we're winning the argument!

Posted 09/24/09 6:02 PM Josiah Keller Hillsboro, WI

Yeah!

Posted 09/24/09 6:09 PM CV NL Doetinchem, Netherlands

Hopefully she doesn't screw up on this in the media like she did on so many things in the 2008 campaign.

Posted 09/24/09 6:13 PM jwfox1965 Las Vegas, NV

I didn't think much of Sarah Palin as a candidate during the election but lately I'm starting to like Sarah Palin if for nothing more than her ability to piss off the collectivists by speaking common sense. Not to mention if the extremists on the left hate her so much she can't be all bad.

Posted 09/25/09 12:06 AM DarStar Fairfax, VA

Oh Lord, she is the worst. Shes a total neo-con. One thing the article doesn't mention is that she went with this Randy Schueman guy, who was the foreign policy advisor to McCain during the recent election. The guy whos lobbying firm made a deal with Georgia (not the US state...the baltic country!), and was basically going to drag us into a war with Russia over the catfight between them and Russia. This is the guy she is being advised by....wonderful! She is just awful. Ron Paul is against practically everything she stands for, except for his fight against the fed , which she is just jumping on board with. Another commenter on the site linked in the story said the following below. I agree 100%, so am including his comment below: I agree with what she is saying, but what she is saying is not her own thoughts or words. She’s just a puppet being told what to say because it’s popular right now to be against the Fed. It’s amazing that neither her nor her ilk (neo-cons) saw the collapse coming and now that it happened, she gives no credit to Dr. Paul for having the knowledge and foresight to predict it. She’s only trying to play on peoples weaknesses to bring power back to the neo-cons (not the republicans). She’s just a shill pandering for votes. If she’s elected in 2012, it will be business as usual. On a lighter note, I would like to watch this speech. As pathetic as her interviews and speeches were last year, I can only imagine how bad it sounded with her trying to explain economics….like a 1st grader talking about trigonometry.

Posted 09/25/09 01:13 AM Matt In Hoboken Cedar Knolls, NJ

Sarah Palin is poison. If any politician other than Ron Paul talks about the Fed, I just take it with a big grain of salt. Be glad for the support, but let's not get too excited over some person who is just paying lip service.

Posted 09/25/09 05:24 AM Lawful Money Woodstock, GA

Darstar & Matt: Right on. We can all pat ourselves on the back for making the FED, tea parties, and the liberty message in general - "fashionable". However..... This is just another completely fabricated farce with a bad actor reading a script written by the same cabal who have betrayed us since 1913..... and the beginning of a lecture circuit tour, in a foreign land no less, in front of a hand-picked room of sychophants so the foundation & groundwork for an ongoing creation of a false image in the personage of an airhead puppet can be promoted. Carefully choreographed, photographed, and reported appearances can be expected to follow by the dozens and with increasing frequency over the next 3 years. Other similarly compromised non-entity Neocons such as Jindal, Jeb, McHuckster, and even Romliani & Newt can be expected to be recycled...yes, even the fraud Mark Sanford could be reconstituted to provide the full array of imposters paying just the right amount of lip service to (Neo)-con supposed Republicans, and well-meaning Ron Paulers & associated patriots. All the while, true Republicans & patriots such as Schiff, Rand, and Ron will be subject to inane questions such as: "Why are you running as a Republican?", or (Cavuto already telegraphed the script the other day when he asked Rand something like): "Will you run on a 3rd Party ticket?" HUH? Will any of the frauds be able to answer even one significant question about the FED accurately? That could be a telling moment....if they are EVER permitted to be asked non-scripted non-prearranged questions.... We don't need Obama-lite in any of these shills. No Jindal, No Romliani, No Sanford, No Airhead puppets from Alaska, No Jeb, No McHuckster, No IRS, No FED, No UN, No IMF, No NAU, No Rhodes "Scholars", No Bilderberg, No CFR, No Treason, No Surrender, No Compromise, NO KIDDING

Posted 09/25/09 10:54 AM acbullseye Brighton, CO

I think this whole trip to China begs of the question of why she was there? I agree that she can not be trusted. In my eyes, this trip was a monetary backing fishing trip if you will, for her possible bid for President in 2012. We already know the Chinese are in disagreement with our monetary policy. I think the Chinese would like to see someone like her in place to bring things into more of there line of thinking. As you said another puppet, just like all of them.

Posted 09/25/09 12:18 PM ticsani Boca Raton, FL

She makes me nervous. The problem with politica americanus is people fall in two camps either they are big gov't apologists or non-participant, non voters. With an all powerful mainstream media cheerleading the gov't line daily and a nation as diverse as the States. I find RP's message being contained. RP message containment as much as possible to limit the damage to the gov't sponsored party's strategy policy. For now it seems the threshold could tip and one gov't party could adopt the RP's message as their own to prep for the next by-election. Make no mistake the gov't party will not adopt the RP platform fully they will dilute its power to suit their purpose. And I think Palin is the front person for the RP message dilution.

Posted 09/25/09 2:03 PM jwfox1965 Las Vegas, NV

"And I think Palin is the front person for the RP message dilution. " That's just silly, like it or not Sarah Palin has more name recognition with main stream Americans (and more popularity with conservatives in general) than does Dr. Paul so her talking about the fed is a good thing whether you like her other views or not. As far as accusations of her being a "neo-con", personally I've seen absolutely no evidence of that, social/religious conservative perhaps but neo-conservative not very likely.

Posted 09/25/09 5:55 PM ticsani Boca Raton, FL

She may be a hit with the main-streamers but she's not with the main-screamers those people actually pounded-pavement to protest gov't policy. They'll be calling the shots politically as their numbers grow by the by-election.

Posted 09/25/09 11:56 PM DarStar Fairfax, VA

Well jwfox1965, then you haven't been following her closely. Because she is most certainly a neo-con. The single most defining characteristic of a neo-con is the "entangling foreign alliances" angle, of which Ron Paul (and the founding fathers) rightly had so much disdain for. In her interview with Charlie Gibson on ABC news in Sept 2008, she expressed full support for the induction of Georgia and Ukraine into the NATO alliance, and acknowledged that such membership could require the United States to join militarily in defense of Georgia if Russia was to move against it again. That is 100% neo-con, and 100% against what Ron Paul and almost every other editorial author on this site is against.

Posted 09/26/09 08:10 AM DarStar Fairfax, VA

Well jwfox1965, then you haven't been following her closely. Because she is most certainly a neo-con. The single most defining characteristic of a neo-con is the "entangling foreign alliances" angle, of which Ron Paul (and the founding fathers) rightly had so much disdain for. In her interview with Charlie Gibson on ABC news in Sept 2008, she expressed full support for the induction of Georgia and Ukraine into the NATO alliance, and acknowledged that such membership could require the United States to join militarily in defense of Georgia if Russia was to move against it again. That is 100% neo-con, and 100% against what Ron Paul and almost every other editorial author on this site is against.

Posted 09/28/09 11:40 AM nofivecent Urbana, IL

I lean toward thinking the opinion that I'd rather NOT have her support on our side. The fact is...we do well without her, and do we really want the package deal that comes along w/ Palin. Let's not forget CFL isn't some poster-boy for Auditing the Fed & our stance on Healthcare....There is a MUCH larger picture to liberty. Embracing Palin would be embracing WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR! Plus a still growing gov. to boot! I love how readily the whole country will throw there 2 cents in on healthcare and fincance...the problems that they see as directly affecting their lives, but all-the-while when we are bickering we keep expanding militarily. Big gov. folks probably in all honesty DON'T CARE what the main news topic is, as long as it pulls a nice, fat curtain over these 100% SHAMEFUL wars that we are involved in. The fact that we all know is that the wars DO directly affect the americans people's finances. BUT EVEN THAT IS MISSING THE PICTURE. What we are doing is morally WRONG! This was all I could think about when I saw one of the more recent freedom watch's w/ the author of "a return to common sense" (?title?). As much as we should respect and uphold the constitution...NATURAL LAW reigns supreme, and let me tell ya...natural law is PISSSSSSSED. sorry for the rant. I just can't believe the bickering that is happening while we allow real people with real families DIE. And I'm not just talking about U.S. troops, I mean my fellow humans anyways..thanks for the publicity sarah, now if you would just agree with all of the ideals behind freedom and liberty I wouldn't be playing devil's advocate out of spite! haha

Posted 09/28/09 3:32 PM bert zamichow Holland, OH

You can say that again...Embracing Palin would be embracing WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR WAR! Or is she changing her tune on that one too? You know when would have been a great time to mention the Federal Reserve?...How about during her run as vice-presidential candidate for the Republican Party!! Anyway, think the first Couric interview was hysterical? Just wait till she sits down to talk about monetary policy and economic freedom. Maybe that's why she's practicing on the Chinese. I think she'd be a burden not a boon to our campaign. but some people do seem to really like her. and not just as a strange curiosity. they seem to actually want her as a leader. those people are a little scary to me.