Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
the pantsuit sisters of a liberal pro-choice pro-hillary bent are going to vote in droves for an anti-abortion, moose-burger loving incarnation of annie oakley? these republicans are clever.
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
only in amay-rik-ka
lets see, mayor of a town of 9000?
recent governer of a state with population less than that of chicago’s outh side..
niether did lincoln, and JFK aside from being a mayor,..while W ran texas…
nuff said..
affilitaions dont mean jack, otherwise we can say taliban came to texas and met with certain ppl and their representatives…but no..taliban were not bad then eh?
as fa as her integrity goes…you have not heard about her investigation? hmmmm let us see
not only does she come of as a liar and someone abusing her power,
but at best as someone who did not know what was going on in her own govt..even if we buy that bullcrap that she did not know.
looks like for being in power just 2 years, she sure decided to use her position for some personal vendettas
Palin faces ethics investigations in Alaska - John McCain News - MSNBC.com
In interviews last month with KTUU, Monegan said Todd Palin pressured him numerous times to fire Wooten, but Todd Palin said they had had only one discussion.
“I met with Commissioner Monegan, showed him some information about Wooten and left it at that,” Todd Palin said.
Then, on Aug. 13, Sarah Palin called a news conference to acknowledge that the Law Department investigation had found that 14 members of her administration made more than 20 calls to Monegan and other public safety officials regarding Wooten since she became governor in 2006
Among the evidence was an audiotape of a telephone call in February to a state troopers lieutenant by Frank Bailey, Palin’s director of boards and commissions. In the tape, Bailey says the Palins are puzzled why Wooten remained on the job.
“Todd and Sarah are scratching their heads, why on Earth hasn’t — why is this guy still representing the department?” Bailey said on the tape.
Palin called the tape a “smoking gun” and said she recognized that “I do now have to tell Alaskans that such pressure could have been perceived to exist.” But she said she never knew of the apparent pressure until this month as part of the Law Department inquiry.
“I have only now become aware of it,” Palin said.
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
I like McCain. He is less dangerous for Pakistan. But then again, a vote for McCain means the wacky redneck type america wins, which leaves me to vote for...bugs bunny. Foreign policy you ask? Have a carrot doc.
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
McCain means war for another 4 years, country in recession which can very likely turn into depression for another 4 yrs.
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
6 things that Palin pick says about McCain:
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He’s desperate. Let’s stop pretending this race is as close as national polling suggests. The truth is McCain is essentially tied or trailing in every swing state that matters — and too close for comfort in several states, such as Indiana and Montana, that the GOP usually wins pretty easily in presidential races. On top of that, voters seem very inclined to elect Democrats in general this election — and very sick of the Bush years.
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He’s willing to gamble — bigtime. Let’s face it: This is not the pick of a self-confident candidate. It is the political equivalent of a trick play or, as some Democrats called it, a Hail Mary pass in football. McCain talks incessantly about experience, and then goes and selects a woman he hardly knows, who hardly knows foreign policy and who can hardly be seen as instantly ready for the presidency.
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He’s worried about the political implications of his age. Like a driver overcorrecting out of a swerve, he chooses someone who is two years younger than the youthful Obama and 28 years younger than he is. (He turned 72 on Friday.) The father-daughter comparison was inevitable when they appeared next to each other.
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He’s not worried about the actuarial implications of his age. He thinks he’s in fine fettle and Palin wouldn’t be performing the only constitutional duty of a vice president, which is standing by in case a president dies or becomes incapacitated. If he were really concerned about an inexperienced person sitting in the Oval Office, we would be writing about vice presidential nominee Mitt Romney or Tom Ridge or Condoleezza Rice.
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He’s worried about his conservative base. If he had room to maneuver, there were lots of people McCain could have selected who would have represented a break from Washington politics as usual. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman comes to mind (and it certainly came to McCain’s throughout the process). He had no such room. GOP stalwarts were furious over trial balloons about the possibility of choosing a supporter of abortion rights, including the possibility that he would reach out to his friend.
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At the end of the day, McCain is still McCain. People may find him a refreshing maverick or an erratic egotist. In either event, he marches to his own beat.
On the upside, his team did manage to play to the media’s love of drama, fanning speculation about his possible choices and maximizing coverage of the decision.
On the potential downside, the drama was evidently entirely genuine. The fact that McCain only spoke with Palin about the vice presidency for the first time on Sunday, and that he was seriously considering Lieberman until days ago, suggests just how hectic and improvisational his process was.
6 things the Palin pick says about McCain - Yahoo! News
Some interesting points to ponder over…
I’ve only pasted pivotal points, the entire article can be read at the link above.
6 things that Palin pick says about McCain:
He’s desperate. Let’s stop pretending this race is as close as national polling suggests. The truth is McCain is essentially tied or trailing in every swing state that matters — and too close for comfort in several states, such as Indiana and Montana, that the GOP usually wins pretty easily in presidential races. On top of that, voters seem very inclined to elect Democrats in general this election — and very sick of the Bush years.
He’s willing to gamble — bigtime. Let’s face it: This is not the pick of a self-confident candidate. It is the political equivalent of a trick play or, as some Democrats called it, a Hail Mary pass in football. McCain talks incessantly about experience, and then goes and selects a woman he hardly knows, who hardly knows foreign policy and who can hardly be seen as instantly ready for the presidency.
He’s worried about the political implications of his age. Like a driver overcorrecting out of a swerve, he chooses someone who is two years younger than the youthful Obama and 28 years younger than he is. (He turned 72 on Friday.) The father-daughter comparison was inevitable when they appeared next to each other.
He’s not worried about the actuarial implications of his age. He thinks he’s in fine fettle and Palin wouldn’t be performing the only constitutional duty of a vice president, which is standing by in case a president dies or becomes incapacitated. If he were really concerned about an inexperienced person sitting in the Oval Office, we would be writing about vice presidential nominee Mitt Romney or Tom Ridge or Condoleezza Rice.
He’s worried about his conservative base. If he had room to maneuver, there were lots of people McCain could have selected who would have represented a break from Washington politics as usual. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman comes to mind (and it certainly came to McCain’s throughout the process). He had no such room. GOP stalwarts were furious over trial balloons about the possibility of choosing a supporter of abortion rights, including the possibility that he would reach out to his friend.
- At the end of the day, McCain is still McCain. People may find him a refreshing maverick or an erratic egotist. In either event, he marches to his own beat. On the upside, his team did manage to play to the media’s love of drama, fanning speculation about his possible choices and maximizing coverage of the decision. On the potential downside, the drama was evidently entirely genuine. The fact that McCain only spoke with Palin about the vice presidency for the first time on Sunday, and that he was seriously considering Lieberman until days ago, suggests just how hectic and improvisational his process was.
Some interesting points to ponder over....
I've only pasted pivotal points, the entire article can be read at the link above.
Assuming these 6 points are true, doesn't it then actually make sense and in fact quite amazing that one person, Sarah Palin, fits these criteria and therefore the correct choice?
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
^Not necessarily.
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
Heres what Rove said about Obama before he picked Biden 
Republican strategist Karl Rove said on Face The Nation Sunday that he expects presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama to choose a running mate based on political calculations, not the person’s readiness for the job.
“I think he’s going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice,” Rove said. "He’s going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he’s going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He’s not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president."
Rove singled out Virginia governor Tim Kaine, also a Face The Nation guest, as an example of such a pick.
“With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years, he’s been able but undistinguished,” Rove said. “I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America.”
Rove continued: “So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, **it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I’m really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I’m concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?'” **
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/10/ftn/main4336134.shtml
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
Rove is an idiot...look at what he and his chela have made of the United States!
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
Now it is confirmed that the 17 year old daughter of Palin is pregnant and of course is unmarried. This is getting better and better for a socially conservative party. who is willing to bet that Palin may actually reconsider accepting the nomination? wonderful role models we have here.
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
Can’t wait until Palin is asked about abstinence-until-marriage education programs verse sex-ed programs.
The real issue is Palin is not ready to step in as commander in chief, John McCain’s judgement is reckless.
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In a 2006 Eagle Forum questionnaire, Palin indicated that she supported funding abstinence-until-marriage education programs instead of teaching sex-education programs.
“Explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support,” Palin wrote in the conservative group’s questionnaire.
I knew the abstinence programs that Bush supported did not work back in 2004, why didn’t Palin?
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/world-affairs/136363-no-sex-you-bush-waste-another-270-million.html
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Maverick and the MILF. :D
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
^:rotfl:
Ahem…
Palin’s daughter’s boyfriend is expected to attend the conference. I wonder if the media will get in touch with him and have him say a word or two…
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
Palin delivered a very powerful and partisan speech at the RNC yesterday in front of an adoring crowd. By all measures, the speech was delivered and received very well. She is definitely firing up the republican base. Good for McCain, cz now he can focus on attracting the independents and democrats with this "maverick" label.
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Now, for a dispassionate observer, yesterday's whole RNC charade was very interesting. In terms of high profile speakers, they first had the three losers (meaning the guys who lost their presidential bids to McCain), namely Romney, Huckabee and a fiery Guiliani. They were followed by Sarah Palin.
Whats most striking about all these speeches was that not once did any of them mention the current leader of Republican party, the two-term President, George W. Bush. It was not even clear (at least I missed it) if the elder Bush (H.W) was in attendance either. There was absolute dead silence as to who is running the country right now. It appeared as if Republicans consider Bush as some kind of parasite, or worse a closet Democrat from whom they need to distance themselves.
And then the tone of the speeches, while understandably berating their Democratic opposition, seemed to suggest that McCain-Palin will solve all of America's problems and broken systems. Hmmm.... alright. Now the small question is, that Republicans have controlled the White House for the past 8 years. For 6 of last 8 years they have also controlled the Congress. What have they done during all this time, that they now demand another 4 years to solve the problems? There was not a single mention of any accomplishment in the last 8 years. Its as if, the current administration are some kind of aliens who have no relation to the Republican party, or that the McCain-Palin are some kind of alien ticket, who are completely divorced from those who are in Washington right now.
These elections will be very interesting. They will be very bitter, very partisan, ugly and full of lies and distortions. Personally, as I said before, I don't really care who wins or loses, as both parties brings some goods and some bads to the table, but the complete lack of ownership by the Republican party for all they have done in the last 8 years of their rule is mind-boggling.
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Faisal you thoughts captured what I was thinking while watching the speeches last night. I found it frustrating to watch them go on and on while ignoring the giant elephant in the room that being that it's their party that has had control for the past 8 years. It's as if I was watching a group of people in a snow globe unaware of what has occurred over the last 8 years under their leadership. The more Palin spoke, the more she sounded out of touch with reality and not surprisingly the crowd ate it up.
One minute they would claim that Obama is too "cosmopolitan" I guess that was a code word to say he's out of touch with 'real folks' but then a moment later they would mock Obama's work as a community organizer. To me, that showed the true face of the Republican Party, the white gloved elitists who mock those trying to make a difference in lives of everyday people. It's as if the were calling Obama an idiot for helping his community instead of joining the ranks of WallStreet, what a message.
When the crowd chanted, "Drill now, baby, drill now" it showed me how short sighted, misinformed, and greedy the Republicans are. The Department of Energy has stated that drilling in ANWR would at most lower the price of a barrel of oil $1.44, and the real impact of the oil from ANWR wouldn't be felt for 20 years...this is what the of Deptartmet of Energy is telling us, why do they ignore this? Palin wants to take Polar Bears off the endanger list so the company her husband works for, British Petroleum, can make more money by drilling in areas that would harm and kill the bears all for little to no gain for the American people.
The fact is McCain has sided with Bush over 90% of time and as much as Palin tries to pretend otherwise that is the reality. In Alaska they have snowstorms that can cause zero visibility, last night Palin was that snowstorm and everyone in that snowglobe couldn't see the white elephant in the room. Now let's see how the message goes when she steps out of the globe and how quickly her hot air melts her message built on bullsh1t.
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She pissed me off to no end with her speech last night, it was more of a high school type writing taking snide digs at someone like she did with her.. '.... oh except that we have actual responsibilities'. wth was that, really? sounds like a line i used to hear alot back in middle school. i can't wait to see mccain and his sorry-excuse of a VP fall flat later this year.
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
McCain @ one point during the previous convention said " what a beautiful family" and i wasn't impressed ,
Palins inclusion into this presidential race however is a breath of fresh air , but i guess this team has to work extra hard beyond their looks , caucasian descent and newly elected young female VP candidate
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^^ Exactly... and what was that drama by McCain refusing to give interviw to larry king?
Re: McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)
what a pathetic pick, really..
they are trying to make the race about lifestyles rather than issues because McCain knew he has no leg to stand on when it comes to issues.
he wants to get disgruntled hillary supporters, the moronic types who will vote just because she is a woman and not because she is even close to hillary's position on things.
oh and obviously biden and obama would have t handle it with kid gloves cuz the moment they pay her back in kind, it will be considered sexism.
The speeches at GOP convention demonstrated a complete lack of class, may be a good rallying call for their target market of red states..I guess they know their target market and their ability to think more than we do.
The funny thing is that the blue collared base of GOP support will rally like morons behind 'issues' like abortion and sex ed, while they will be the ones losing their manufacturing jobs and will be paying higher taxes.
Now someone explain to me how and why is it okay to not have sex ed in schools because of family values and its a big no no, but getting knocked up out of wedlock is nothing bad for family values? what a farce.
and then not teaching about evolution in schools.
damn..we have a fundamentalist problem in USA.