Palin: No ‘go along to get along’

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) added her voice to GOP hard-liners
who say the party should be in no mood to compromise with President
Obama and congressional Democrats if, as expected, it makes significant
gains after Tuesday.

“No, they should not compromise on principle. Absolutely not,” Palin said on “Fox News Sunday.”

The
2008 GOP vice presidential nominee criticized the “go along to get
along” attitude that she said many lawmakers, including Republicans,
adopt once they get to Washington. She extended her position to the
possibility of a “grand bargain” that would combine deep spending cuts
along with smaller tax increases to close the nation’s soaring budget
deficit.

Palin that even in that circumstance, similar to one now being
adopted by the ruling Conservative Party in Britain, Republicans should
oppose tax increases. “It’s a false premise to believe we have to
increase taxes on the American people to balance budgets,” Palin said.
“We don’t have a taxing problem. We have a spending problem in this
country.”

As for the midterm elections on Tuesday, Palin predicted a “political earthquake.”

“The
message is going to be sent to the left that they blew it,” she said.
Voters are “going to say, ‘You blew it, President Obama.’”

She did not put a number on how many House and Senate seats she thought Republicans would win.

Palin
continued to hedge on whether she would run for president in 2012,
saying she would talk it over with her family and see what other
candidates step forward.

“I don’t need to run for office. I don’t need a title,” she said.

Yet
when pressed by host Chris Wallace on whether she was so happy in her
current life that she would not jump into the race, Palin suggested she
was “willing to make the sacrifice” that candidates need to make when
running for president.