Palin’s selection as VP creates interesting scenario in Alaska

Palin believes that creationism is science and that global warming is a liberal conspiracy. What a nut! This woman with her disregard for reason is a joke.

Alaskans need not worry. Their governor will remain where she is. Gov. Palin may well be a talented person, but by picking her John McCain put his age and health issues back on the table to be fairly questioned. At the same time he took the experience issue off the table. Not a good combo.

As an undecided voter I was considering not voting in the November election. However, after the events of the last 24 hours I absolutely, undoubtedly, positively will vote for MCCAIN/PALIN!
This is change and this is excitement for America!

Even Palin has spent more time as governor than Obama as Senator. It’s very hard to find someone less qualified than Obama. It’s even harder to find someone more hyped than Obama.

The democrats will have to “nuance” their attacks on Palin… it will be hard to point out her lack of experience for the office of VP without eroding Obama’s “qualifications” for President. Even in a debate if Biden shows how much more experienced he is over Palin; it will be a strike against Obama.
The more I think about it the more interesting this pick is… God I love this election!

OK, do American voters really think that a Presidential candidate who’s grandfather, father, himself and his son have military background will end the Military Industrial Complex’s policy of America in Endless War(s), and end the GHB/GWB Iraqi war(s) (that’s McCain…)? Do voters really think that a Vice Presidential choice who’s husband is in the Oil Industry and who’s state citizens get governmental payouts from Oil revenues in Alaska will support the complete move to clean, renewal, homegrown energy sources such as Wind, Solar, Wave, Geothermal, Biomass, cellulosic ethanol and others (that’s Palin…)? Well, I don’t think McCain/Palin will. They will support the status quo. So, if you feel the country is doing well and should continue on as usual, they’re your pair.

Are the Republicans kidding me, with the nod to Sarah Palin as McCain’s VP choice? If the GOP had qualms about the one-term Senator Obama from a well-populated State (IL) and one of the countries largest cities (Chicago area), then the RNC has got to be kidding about a one-term Governor Palin of a “remote” state (AK) from the continental U.S. with no large cities, relatively. This election is a sham, (I just lament the possibility that it could’ve been a Clinton/Biden ticket, alas…).

Truth Seeker – why do you lie?

Truth-seeker
You’re just another Obama sexist who took great pride in using your hateful skills against Senator Clinton. Now, more of the same just like your big-eared master.
You should change your moniker to ‘Do not know’!

Thomas What would your reaction be if let’s say the cost/maintance of owning a boat was to substantially increase to the point of loss of utility..What would you do?? Sell the boat..there is no longer satisfaction in owning a boat…
Obama wants to raise the Capital Gains Tax as well as the Dividend Tax..Now before you say well lower income people do not own stocks; however corporations do and that effects pension funds, jobs….so you may not be “rich” but most do have pension funds and most do have jobs…Anyway I digress, my point is that if the cost of owning that stock becomes too expensive, and the enjoyment of owning that stock is lost, most are going to sell it…….I expect Obama to be elected….I sold what stock I owned today and plan to “dumb down” my income, and reorganized our 401(k). That large suction sound you hear in January will be Wall Street..count on it..

I agree with Rush we are the ones with a babe on the team

NEW GALLUP POLL OUT!!!
Obama 49%
McCain 41%
Gee, I wonder why you Republicans aren’t talking about this? You always like to point out the latest polls!
Obama/Biden ’08!!!!!

Davis…Brag after the Repub convention..this was to be expected……….Not a big deal to Repubs right now

and we know we’re on a sinking ship when the ‘offended’ hillarites start jumping on our boat… can someone point me to where the republicans went, i seem to have missed the memo…

and, by the way, if you are going to support “mccain/palen” at least have the common sense to get her name right.

Francisco: i know, that’s why it was in quotes – check up a few posts to ‘sonia trevino’ and you’ll see why i did it.

I hope everyone listen to both parties at their respected conventions and come to realize who is real and who is fake?
I think this decision was more weird if anything, what does she bring to the table? Alaska has different problems than say me in Dayton,Ohio who is in a city that is dying fast. When the GM plant closes and when the plant I work in closes its door, what is the GOP going to do to fix it? I heard him say in his annoucement that Dayton is a wonderful hardworking city that is doing good, I almost choked, do you live here? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, I’M VOTING FOR A CHANGE!

Its ironic Karl Rove was recently bashing Tim Kaine as a possible v.p pick for only being a governor for two years and previously being a mayor of a small city, although not as small as 8,500( Richmond having a population of 200,000 ).
Then his party rolls out a v.p who was a mayor of a fly speck of a city, and a governor of the 47th largest state for less than two years.
Karl you must be conflicted right about now.

Palin was a beaty model who posed nude for playboy way back in 1986.

Palin was a beaty model who posed nude for playboy way back in 1986.

Outstanding choice, as a first executive decision, our next President John McCain hit a Grand Slam! A new, fresh, accomplished Executive who is removed from Beltway politics who has established herself, her lifestyle as a normal middle class American, mother of five! As a middle aged Independent, John McCain and Sarah Palin have my vote! Reformers who actually care about real life Americans, not more of the same Beltway politicians the Dems are rolling out who use the word “change” with nothing to substantiate the use of the word, just continually repeating the word change! Her experience as an Executive exceeds that of both members of the Democratic ticket and her accomplishments far exceed those of the top of Democratic ticket! Great choice!

1percenter,
Better get on the bandwagon, your next administration will be McCain/Paulin, consider it a slam dunk and you heard it here first!

I have so many questions. “Credentials” are “experience” are really not the same thing. If candidates are to be measured only by “executive experience” then McCain himself loses to Gov. Palin. What is her education? What writing has she done? Where was she during the primaries? How much does she understand about the continential United States? Alaska is oil rich. Most states are not oil rich. Many states may have a more complex mix of problems, accompanied by strained budgets, and evaporating revenues. What has been the caliber of her work, and the measure of her opposition in the past? Why is she under investigation in her home state? Has she ever traveled abroad to meet world leaders? Would she be at ease on the world’s stage? Is she so eager to be veep that she would leave her young special needs child to others, without hesitation, on little or no notice?
I wonder.
Now I really wonder about Sen. McCain’s judgment. It does not seem to me that he put enough time into his selection.
I also think this choice brings up old ghosts such as 1. McCain’s age 2. McCain’s health and 2. McCain eye for younger women (took up with his present younger wife while still married to his first wife who was more his age).

Look, I can’t stand Hillary but I will be the first to say that in no way is Palin equivalent to her in any sense of the word.
So rationalize all you want, it is a choice that makes no sense. If you wanted a woman candidate just for the sake of having a woman, there were better choices. If you want affirmative action, then stay as a Democrat.

All you right wingers MUST read this (from the URL I posted) …
Sarah Palin’s sister Molly married a guy named Mike Wooten who is an Alaska State Trooper. Mike and Molly had a rocky marriage. When the marriage broke up, there was a bitter custody fight that is still ongoing. During the custody investigation, all sorts of things were brought up about Wooten including the fact that he had illegally shot a moose (yes folks this is Alaska), driven drunk, and used a taser (on the test setting, he reminds us) on his 11-year old stepson, who supposedly had asked to see what it felt like. While Wooten has turned out to be a less than stellar figure, the fact that Palin’s father accompanied him on the infamous moose hunt, and that many of the dozens of charges brought up by the Palin family happened long before they were ever reported smacked of desperate custody fight. Wooten’s story is that he was basically stalked by the family.
After all this, Wooten was investigated and disciplined on two counts and allowed to kept his position with the troopers. Enter Walt Monegan, Palin’s appointed new chief of the Department of Public Safety and head of the troopers. Monegan was beloved by the troopers, did a bang-up job with minimal funding and suddenly got axed. Palin was out of town and Monegan got “offered another job” (aka fired) with no explanation to Alaskans. Pressure was put on the governor to give details, because rumors started to swirl around the fact that the highly respected Monegan was fired because he refused to fire the aforementioned Mike Wooten. Palin vehemently denied ever talking to Monegan or pressuring Monegan in any way to fire Wooten, or that anyone on her staff did. Over the weeks it has come out that not only was pressure applied, there were literally dozens of conversations in which pressure was applied to fire him. Monegan has testified to this fact, spurring an ongoing investigation by the Alaska state legislature. But, before this investigation got underway, Palin sent the Alaska State Attorney General out to do some investigative work of his own so she could find out in advance what the real investigation was going to find. (No, I’m not making this up). The AG interviewed several people, unbeknownst to the actual appointed investigator or the Legislature! Palin’s investigation of herself uncovered a recorded phone call retained by the Alaska State Troopers from Frank Bailey, a Palin underling, putting pressure on a trooper about the Wooten non-firing. Todd Palin (governor’s husband) even talked to Monegan himself in Palin’s office while she was away. Bailey is now on paid administrative leave.
As if this weren’t enough, Monegan’s appointed replacement Chuck Kopp, turns out to have been the center of his own little scandal. He received a letter of reprimand and was reassigned after sexual harrassment allegations by a former coworker who didn’t like all the unwanted kissing and hugging in the office. Was he vetted? Obviously not. When he was questioned about all this, his comment was that no one had asked him and he thought they all knew. Kopp, defiant, still claimed to have done nothing wrong and said to the press that there was no way he was stepping down from his new position. Twenty four hours later, he stepped down. Later it was uncovered that he received a $10,000 severance package for his two weeks on the job from Palin. Monegan got nothing. *end*
OMG, what is wrong with the McSame camp??

truth seeker, its called “desperation”, but they call it “experience”.
Now you know what their “experience” really looks like.
Will someone contact the other two stooges and let them know we found Shemp. He’s pretending to be a presidential candidate.

Melissa
IM still leaning Obama but th Palin choice will make me stop and think because after Obama made Hillary into the monster she wasnt, it wont work against Mccain/Palin… there are a lot of genuinely angry voters out there that Obama wanted to win at all cost that he was predjudiced against the Clintons…nevermind the obvious doublestandard… looks like the master poltician has ben check-mated!

And, the point of this media gibberish is…

The movie, Executive Decision, gives a good scenario of how a woman VP can benefit a President and provide the type of stability a country needs in the war against terrorism.
The Bombastic Obama and his mistress have yet to figure out that this country’s culture does not need reshaping any more than the Constitution…

Girl, who cares about Alaska, go be a VP and rub your nice butt on Lincoln’s ambiance. Indeed, pass gas in Lincoln’s bedroom like he was still there getting rid of some bad red beans. Touche!
McDaddyCain 08.

Another fundamentalist Christian in the White House!!
This is great. We desperately need people who do not believe in science and instead believes that the world was created in 7 days!!!
I can’t wait to lose my rights as a woman and to have my kids be drafted to war.
Anyways the end of the world is coming soon.

Teresa what are you going to do about it? –”Alaska has different problems than say me in Dayton,Ohio who is in a city that is dying fast. When the GM plant closes and when the plant I work in closes its door, what is the GOP going to do to fix it?”–
We the People have more power and control of the economy, infrastructure, and government around us then we usually realize. I Give full kudos to my Governor, She has seen what was not right around her and has taken a stand for true righteousness. What better can we ask of Leadership then this.
No greater love is known then to lay ones life down for his brother.
To fix the world around us we must take less then we give!

Thomas….Biden will have to teach/lead Bozo if THE TOP OF THAT TICKET WINS.
Palin is #2 to McCain and will be a fine asset and be a quick learn (still with more experience than the top of Dem ticket). AMERICANS VOTE TOP OF THE TICKET…..BOZO UNACCEPTABLE, NO CRED.
McCAIN/PALIN

It will be a cold day in hell before the left actually gets a fact right…
Let’s see, we have:
“dementia”, “Geraldine Ferarro”, “not properly vetted”, “anti-environmental”, “big oil”, “world created in 7 days”, “McGeezer”, “Miss Buffalo Chip”, “desperation”, etc, etc.
Do we actually have any liberals who have anything substantive to say? I mean, really, your candidate carries more baggage than the dude at the Delta service booth. I would hope that you would have something more than platitudes and bumper stickers.

I wonder if it’s too late for McCain to change his mind? Maybe he could say,”Oops – I meant to say…”.
One staffer said Palin can shoot a moose, skin it and have it on the table for dinner that night. I’m impressed! Next time I want to eat a mooseloaf or some moose soup, I’ll call her.
Paul Begala is right. This VP pick goes beyond being a Republican or Democrat. Big Mac is threatening the security of this country.

Although not a member of either political party I can see where Senator McCain has done a huge favor for the Democrats, in fact his pick was such poor judgment he may as well as have conceded to Obama.
The main point is, in picking a neophyte Governor who is no doubt a lovely person, but certainly not a candidate for President, he has placed the nation in Jeopardy.
Always remember the position of Vice President requires all the talents and attributes of the President, Joseph Biden certainly does, Sarah Palin certainly does not.
McCain did not pick her for her vast pool of experience, he’s only met her twice so he barely can remember her name. She is an attempt to convert Hillary votes to the GOP and in doing so has insulted the female voters of America whose intelligence McCain has no respect for. Oh and she’ll look good beside John, so you won’t notice how old John’s looking.
Like I said in the beginning, this boneheaded move by McCain has handed this election to Obama on a silver platter, John McCain has once again proven he has lost his capacity to think. Putting your own country in Jeopardy is not a smart move for a Presidential candidate.

funny how the liberal comments preceeding have all been questioning motives… not the facts.. Palin was a brilliant choice.. I’d rather have the intern following the doctor than the doctor following the intern.. yes.. i know.. we have to stomach that in that analogy Biden is the doctor.. lol.. yes.. ambassador to Hollywood .. that would take advantage of all Barastar’s skills

I am a Democrat and a Hillary supporter. I did not care to watch the Democratic party convention because I am still upset with the top party brass. Thanks to you, Mr. McCain, we have an alternative. The Republican ticket appears to be eager to bring about the change that we are seeking for. The Alaskan Governor is a good fit. Going by what I heard and saw on the TV for the last 24 hours, I am warming up to the Republican ticket. I hope many unhappy Hillary voters would consider switching to McCain and help him turn around the country.

The libs are using Mccain’s age and Palin’s in-experience as scare tactics out of their own panic. Biden’s age and Moses’ in-expeience is quite a drama since the qualified person is the one NOT on top the ticket. Mccain/Palin is a balanced ticket for Hillary female supporters. GO PUMA!

I have heard Biden say many times in the past that he would NEVER accept the vice presidential job. He says he could do more by staying in the Senate.
This attitude goes right along with the comments he made yesterday –
If he had nice hair, “I wouldn’t be screwing around with this job”.

For me, this is the bottom line:
Because of his advanced age, there is a very real chance that McCain could be stricken by a disabling medical condition or, God forbid, even die in office.
Who would then be commander in chief and in charge of national security? A totally unknown and untested political rookie, a young woman who was selected by the president, not by anyone’s vote.
It’s utter insanity. And as dangerous as it gets.

Where Obama has talked the talk , Mc Cain has walked the walk …Obama says he is a uniter , yet ,he hardly works with the Other side , while Mc cain has done legistrations with Dems more than anyone in the Senate ! Obama want to appeal to women who support Clinton , yet , his big Ego prevented him to even VET her for the VP job , much less offer the post to the first lady who won 18mil. votes , WHILE Mc Cain has just chosen the first female Republican VP . Obama want to take on corruptions , yet , his friend Tony Retzko was just convicted of corruptions , and Obama has hardly a spine to stand up agaisnt party bosses , how do you suppose Obama will tackle the Ole’Boys network ? While Mc Cain and Palin have times and again shown the bosses that no one is above the laws . Obama want to Reform Washington , yet , he chose a running mate from the time Washington was built ? Obama is a good speaker , yet , his record indicates that he may be just THAT , nothing more , why , because we can’t find anything there to back his words up . It seems like Obama , the great Messiah , indeed just fell out of the blue sky yesterday with hardly any accomplishments to show for , and his people is dissing Palin as inexperient ? She has more executive experiences and has shown more gut and courage and has acchieved far more in her career than Obama ever did ! Wake up America and stop this injustice that has been inflicted upon women by the Media and the Dems party bosses ….take down the house and rebuild!

Talk about Big Oil! No Income Tax, no sales Tax, plus a Check for every Alaskan.
Tough on Oil? I doubt it the whole process there is bought and paid for by Big Oil, they get everything they want and then some. So while I pay at the pump, Sarah’s Government, and people are paid from the proceeds of my pain.
And she asks how does the VP contribute to Alaska?
Country first, or Alaska First? Country First or the Alaskan Republican Party First?

Let’s flip the coin. First, we all know that Obama is a joke on national security (Iran is not a threat, meetings with no preconditions, nuke Pakistan, etc.). Second, Biden voted FOR the Iraq war and AGAINST the surge. Then, we’ve got total morons like Reid, Pelosi, and Murtha who actually want us to lose. Exactly how is that smart leadership from the left?

Folks, lets all face the truth. Palin was chosen for ONLY ONE REASON. To garner the female vote. The only reason that Hillary did as well as she did was that the simple minded women of America wanted a WOMAN president and they didn’t care who. The intelligent women voted for various reasons (and plenty of them for Hillary) but they were not voting for sex they were voting for their belief in the candidate they chose. McCain is trying to suck up the simpleton vote (all the poorly educated, heavily racist, white Americans). Very poor strategy and an insult to all Americans

“McCain is trying to suck up the simpleton vote (all the poorly educated, heavily racist, white Americans.”
In addition to your obvious misogynistic views, you also harbor some rather bizare feelings about race and educational abilities. Good luck with that.

What’s up with the “in line with Hillary” crapola? Do you actually believe that the Republican party is looking for a Hillary clone or something? It’s actually just the opposite.

Hillary is Hillary and the democrats squashed her future at all cost. When she was being insulted by Obama goons and the media, no one in her party defended her. Finally she was forced to make way for Obama to get affirmative action at her cost because she’s a woman.
The Obama nuts are beginning to insult Governor Palin. McCain, who was the only one who came to Hillary’s defense, will put a stop to Obama nuts insulting his VP partner.
No Fraud Obama for President.

For Don,
“Palin doesn’t carry much, if any, baggage.”
Don’t you think ABUSE OF POWER is “baggage”? She is currently under investigation for trying to fire a state trooper for PERSONAL reasons. She has history doing these things. She fired her police chief after being elected mayor “because he voted for the other candidate”. I think MOST Americans will consider these things “BAGGAGE”, and the voters will SOON know ALL about it …
“Palin has an 80% approval rating.”
Hmmm, you better recheck your source. It’s very difficult to have high approval ratings when you’re UNDER ETHICS INVESTIGATION …

I wonder if any of you would be voting for McCain if he were black? Would you be supporting Palin if she were a black female? Probably not. You would be screaming that a black McCain is too old, out of touch and you would be harping on the fact that he left his wife to marry a young, pretty, rich girl. If Palin were black woman you would be screaming this selection is “affirmative action gone amuck”. The same for Obama. If he were white he would be a “brilliant, breath of fresh air, who could revitalize the country” yayaya. I can’t imagine any white women in this country shouting Palin’s praise if she were black and presented so little experience. If women vote for Palin because she’s a woman without examining her public stances, they deserve what fate comes their way. Certainly there are other conservative Republican women in this country who have more experience than being mayor of a some town of less than 10,000. And several Republican women have state and/or congressional experience. Funny McCain thinks affirmative action is wrong and only those with the best experience and qualifications should get jobs But now I see he means that only for minorities. Remember when Obama started running people said blacks shouldn’t vote for him because he’s black? But now it’s OK for white women to vote for Palin because she’s a woman? Why the double standard? Seems to me that white women should be insulted. This is how little McCain thinks of your intelligence–Apparently McCain thinks women voted for Hillary only because she was a women. Do you really think in this day that either Reublican or Democratic women win public office becuause their women? Do men really think women are that shallow? McCain, of the viagra set, just got excited when he met her, After all they keep reminding us that she is a former beauty queen, she’s young and fertile. Isn’t that just what most 72 year old men want?

Hey LarryMan,
“TS, try to get ALL the facts, not just the CNN ones.”
Thanks, but I have ALL the facts I need and NONE of them came from CNN. Just click on the link below and you too can read the WHOLE story. Here is an excerpt …
After extensive news coverage about all this nasty behind-the-scenes scandal, which is definitely NOT squeaky clean, Palin’s approval ratings fell to 67%, still high, but a far cry from the 90% number that’s being thrown around so glibly by the Republicans today. Alaskans are quickly becoming disillusioned once again.
So you see, her approval ratings are in free fall and just WAIT until the whole nation knows about all this MESS, … you mindless dittoheads might not care, but the independents who decide most Presidential elections in this country CERTAINLY will …

Palin—love it!!! Love it! Love it! Bring that pioneer spirit to the White House! Those of you skeptics are having a knee jerk reaction. First, Palin is a governor–remember how Americans like governors in the White House? Second, she’s new and the media loves new! Third, she is down-to-earth and Americans love that. When the Repbulicans ran George W. no one could understand why they put him out there. Well, now we know why….because he seemed like an average American. We know that George W. was brought up in a life of privelege…Not Palin, though. She’s the real deal, and Americans will love it!
This Dem will be voting McCain/Palin in November!

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-alaskans-perspective/
Note: Barack Obama was a State Senator and is now a Federal Senator who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee alongside Joe Biden, who is his More Experienced senator, liken unto JFK and LBJ, but Palin’s so called “Executive Experience” is a Rush Limbaugh-Sean Hannity …JOKE on the American Populus…
MCCAIN-PALIN WILL…. LOSE
After extensive news coverage about all this nasty behind-the-scenes scandal, which is definitely NOT squeaky clean, Palin’s approval ratings fell to 67%, still high, but a far cry from the 90% number that’s being thrown around so glibly by the Republicans today. Alaskans are quickly becoming disillusioned once again.
“Executive Experience”
Before her meteoric rise to political success as governor, just two short years ago Sarah Palin was the mayor of Wasilla. I had a good chuckle at MSN.com’s claim that she had been the mayor of “Wasilla City”. It is not a city. Just Wasilla.
Wasilla is the heart of the Alaska “Bible belt” and Sarah was raised amongst the tribe that believes creationism should be taught in our public schools, homosexuality is a sin, and life begins at conception. She’s a gun-toting, hang ‘em high conservative. Remember…this is where her approval ratings come from.
There is no doubt that McCain again is making a strategic choice to appeal to a particular demographic – fundamentalist right-wing gun-owning Christians.
And Republican bloggers are already gushing about how she has ‘more executive experience’ than Obama does!
Above is a picture of lovely downtown Wasilla, for those of you unfamiliar with the area. Behind the Mug-Shot Saloon (the first bar I visited when I moved to Alaska long ago) is a little strip mall. There are street signs in Wasilla with bullet holes in them.
Note: Wasilla has a population of about 5500 people, and 1979 occupied housing units.
This is where your potential Vice President was two short years ago. Can you imagine her negotiating a nuclear non-proliferation treaty? Discussing foreign policy? Understanding non-Alaskan issues?
Frankly, I don’t even know if she’s ever been out of the country. She may ‘get’ Alaska, but there are only a half a million people here. Don’t get me wrong….I love Alaska with all my heart. I’m just saying.
I, and all Alaskans will be interested to see how this whole process unfolds. This is definitely a gamble for McCain, and in my humble opinion, a gift to Obama and to Joe Biden who just got thrown a big hunk of red meat for the vice presidential debate.
This is the wedge-issue, desperate ‘Hail Sarah’ pass of the McCain campaign.

I am happy to see a female on the ticket, but this one’s policies are so right wing that I could never vote for her. Colin Powell would have been a great VP for McCain. It would have equalled the historic element of a black man on the ticket, and America already knows and respects Powell for his experience.

I am an independant and was offended by B.O.’s speech. I was expecting to hear the “change” and solutions to today’s problems. All I heard was the same old words that I have been hearing from those old Democrats that care more about their party than our country.
I am excited by the change that Palin brings to the race; especailly since she was willing to take on members of her own party as well as those of the opposing party. Now that is CHANGE I want to hear and SEE out of our presidential candidates.
McCain just showed me he is the real agent of change. This independant will switch parties and vote McCain/Palin this year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/30/gop-alaska-state-senator_n_122664.html
The Anchorage Daily News is reporting that many of Palin’s local colleagues, even Republican, were rather stunned by her being chosen as McCain’s vice president.
State Senate President Lyda Green said she thought it was a joke when someone called her at 6 a.m. to give her the news.
“She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?” said Green, a Republican from Palin’s hometown of Wasilla. “Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?”

OMG, so the McSame camp didn’t even ask the Republican leaders in the state’s House and Senate what THEY thought? Did they vet this lady AT ALL?? This may be the worst VP selection since McGovern in ’72 … (his first pick had … mental problems in his past)
FWIW, McSame needs to act QUICKLY. He should have her announce that she’s had second thoughts. After all, she has a SPECIAL NEEDS child, less than a year old. IF NOT, we will witness the destruction if not the END of the Republican party … and as GOOD as that sounds, we NEED at least two viable political parties …

My dear Alison,
WADR, do you just make up this stuff, or was it “reported” on FOX?
“Executive experience – defeating incumbent democrat for Governor”
?? She defeated the incumbent REPUBLICAN!! You know FRANK, Lisa’s DAD!!
” the bridge-to-nowhere-fiasco,”
She was A WILLING PART of that “fiasco”. Don’t be so lazy. Do some research. Her comments on this are STILL available.
” and a strong backbone on ethics”
?!?!?!? What are you talking about? She is under investigation. She committed abuse of power!!
“Lets pay more taxes to give it all to the poor” crap..
Alison, do you have ANY idea what the Republican party has done with YOUR $$$?
Do you have ANY idea what it means to be $10 TRILLION in DEBT? In order to give rich people HUGE tax cuts we as a nation are borrowing a half TRILLION A YEAR. Do you have any children Alison?
“Obama’s experience of 143 days in senate, and hanging flyers before that.
Puh-lease.”
If you want to learn about Obama’s bio, then READ, LEARN, RESEARCH,(it’s really not that hard) because when you post garbage and lies, YOU are the fool …
I put a link below to get you started …

Both Senator Obama and Governor Palin are a little lean on the length of their experience although I do place a little more value on having some executive experience. It strikes me that for much of the time Senator Obama has been gaining this experience he has actually been running for President and not actually doing the job he was elected to do or gaining the experience he claims.
The big difference between Gov. Palin and Sen. Obama is the name recognition and rock star status. I submit neither of these make him a better or worse candidate. We will learn more of Senator Palin’s character and commitment and have plenty of time to assess her potential ability as President. Just because America hasn’t heard of her doesn’t make her less qualified. Lets use the next two months to learn and assess and choose what’s best for America.

V,
Regarding Wooten, there are plenty of avenues in place that will speak up for him against the alleged ‘bullying’ by Palin. He can speak for himself and you mentioned several ‘witnesses’. So let the system play itself out.
The unborn whom Obama bullies into nonexistance don’t have the voice to say their right to ‘LIFE’ was trampled. And the witnesses are Planned Parenthood, Naral etc. How would YOU like to be in that court!
You sound like a fair-minded person. Please speak up for the unborn like you have done for a grown man who has at his disposal his own voice and the legal system!