Palin says Obama agenda is ‘backasswards,’ defends Angle from president

Angle’s position is a familiar conservative one. She believes that younger workers should be able to create their own private accounts that part of their Social Security taxes are funneled into, so they control the money and not the government. Conservatives make the case that in the system as it exists, younger workers will pay far more into Social Security than they will ever get out in the future, in large part because of demographics as the Baby Boom generation retires and places a heavier and heavier burden on the fund.

But Angle’s original website, which was taken down by Republicans after she won the primary and replaced with a more polished site, only to be recreated by Democrats, said that Social Security should be “transitioned out.”

Palin’s missives are interesting for a few reasons. It continues a pattern of Palin responding to Obama and Democratic leaders on select issues with the megaphone she has built for herself through social media such as Twitter and Facebook.

Secondly, Palin did not endorse Angle, who has had an extremely rocky past few weeks since winning the Republican nomination in early June. Angle was endorsed by the Tea Party Express, but is viewed by many Republicans as so inexperienced and unpolished that she was the only Republican in the primary incapable of beating Reid, whose unpopularity in Nevada is high.

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