WANT TO KNOW WHY SARAH PALIN IS THE PERFECT MATCH FOR THE HILLARY SUPPORTER? JUST ASK NEWT GINGRICH
If you’d really like to get an honest sense of Sarah Palin’s viability as Vice President, just ask her supporters.
In today’s Washington Post, Newt Gingrich said…
Gov. Sarah Palin is exactly the right choice for John McCain’s running mate. The contrast with Sen. Joe Biden is extraordinary. Biden came to the Senate in 1973; Sarah Palin was 9. Biden has spent all those years in Washington; Sarah Palin spent them in the American West. She is for drilling for more American oil, and Biden is against more American oil. Every reformer and every Hillary Clinton supporter should take note — they have an opportunity to reject a disappointing betrayal of their hopes and vote for real reform and real opportunity for women.
See how Newt breaks it down in simple terms that all Newties can understand.
Biden has been in the Senate 38 years. Palin spent her time in the American West. Not just the west, mind you. The American West. Not like that European Senate of Biden’s in the American East where Newt served as Speaker.
Palin is for drilling for more American oil (in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before we drill for oil in the places oil companies have already be give the right to drill). Biden is against more American oil (drilling in protected areas while he is whole hog for letting the oil companies drill where they’ve already have the right to drill but to this point have decided against it).
But here’s where the feminism in Newt overflows with a real understanding of women and why voters aligned themselves with Hillary.
“Every reformer and every Hillary Clinton supporter should take note — they have an opportunity to reject a disappointing betrayal of their hopes and vote for real reform and real opportunity for women.”
I’ll just let that one lie in your craw for a while.
Did you throw up in your mouth, just a little?
Palin, who is for drilling in ANWR, said that “climate models that predict continued loss of sea ice, the main habitat of polar bears, during summers are unreliable,” is against stem cell research, believes Creationism should to be taught in public schools, supported a constitutional amendment to bar health benefits for same-sex partners and wants Supreme Court judges who will overturn Roe vs Wade.
I can just see the deluge of anti-science, anti-woman’s right to choose, anti-gay, anti-environmental Hillary supporters lining up for this one.
So, there it is. Laid out clearly by Professor Gingrich.
Palin and Hillary…
Couldn’t tell them apart.
Steve
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You are so right. And don’t forget, she isn’t weighed down with all that extra education either. I think that nominating someone who doesn’t know what a VP does is a great way of introducing fresh ideas to the table.
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“…she isn’t weighed down with all that extra education either.”
Spittake!
SY
In case Girl From Tx or anyone else never heard of the comedic show biz term: spit take.
It’s a good thing, conoting utter surprise when the listener spits out whatever beverage was in his mouth at the time of hearing the remark.
Better to spit that choke.
I thought Sarah Palin was actually a socialist. I heard her once say, “…strang women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of the masses, not from some farstical aquatic ceremony.”
Wait a minute here…, that was MICHAEL Palin. Sorry!!!!!
Does Putin sign your miserable paycheck, douchbag? The best thing about you leftist motherfuckers is you provide those of us with modest intelligence and education someone to laugh at and ridicule. I would love to read about someone stomping you into a pile of piss and pulp, but I suspect you don’t go out where you might get caught. You’re a disgusting loser of the worst stripe, but morons like you are going to get McCain elected, because frankly, you just don’t get it. You have my email, chump–invite me to coffee.
Thanks, Jim,
We Leftist MFers meet weekly at the Leftist MF’er Coffee Clatch in MFer, Pennsylvania. Right down trhe corner from MFer Park. Seeya there.
Steve
Palin will do for women what Clarence Thomas has done for blacks!
She’s got real strong ideas about how the world ought to work, too. Seems to have all the answers rolled into one simple “gut level” idea: Government belongs in the bedroom, but no place else. Any questions?
Gov. Palin, you must feel so superior to us with that chorus of angels perched on your shoulder and Jesus floating above your head. Does he talk to you about what countries to invade, like he did for GW?
HERE IS THE KILLER LINE: If you think McCain is like Bush, wait till you meet Sarah.
I have never been impressed by McCain but his selection of Sarah Palin for VP is the most disturbing and disgusting act any politician has made in gender terms. To actually put our nation at risk in the event a possible President McCain died is reckless and reckless more because this woman, unlike Obama and his youth and experience, has had relatively none, and I mean none. Nor does she have much of an education with a Bachelors degree in journalism and someone who can tout being mayor of a town of 7,000. Pitting women against women in order to obtain votes is not only cynical it is morally wrong. It divides women and closets the grave issues of our times into a battle between women and blacks. This nation has so fallen that I doubt seriously that anything or anyone can ever save it from its own stupidity ( as shown from some of the above statements).
McCain’s judgement here is so flawed that it is frightening.
What about the best interests of the nation as a whole? Palin is a pale horse who god forbid, should she become President would be the laughing stock of the entire world and all women who have worked hard to do much higher things than this woman has.
Jim Baker not only steals neocon GHWB unfailing buddy and former Secretary of State’s name, but like all flaming, raving lunatic Bushies is totally incapable of making a cogent arguament, therefore resorts to vulgar name-calling.
Great going, buster. You make quite an impression.
If Steve ever met you for coffee, he’d roast your ass, percolate a drip like you and toss you into the garbage with the stale, used coffee grounds.
Bin Ladin must be chortlin’ in his cave, especilly if Americans are stupid enough to elect this twerp.
Bravo, Dennis. Well said.
I’ll take Sarah Palin in Washington D.C. over Barack Obama or Joe Biden any time.
She has more executive experience than both of them combined.
She is honest, not a plagiarist (like Biden), and doesn’t appear to have an America-hating spouse or America-hating associates (like Obama: Michelle & Bill Ayers).
You all sound jealous of her accomplishments. She has an 80% approval rating as Governor, and at least she DID something about corruption instead of just finger-pointing.
Short-sighted folks: wait & see how Palin will be the catalyst in a McCain landslide victory.
Her character & inner strength will enable her to excel in a national leadership position as the VP.
Jim, if McCain’s intent when picking his VP isn’t a plitical gimmick then why didn’t he pick a woman who was truly more qualified? I genuinely believe that the only reason Palin was selected is because she is a woman and he wants to win an election. The picked someone who doesn’t know anything because it’s easier to control her. Her success in Alaska hardly empowers her to deal with someone like Putin or Ahmadinejad if it came to that. And now that I see how McCain makes his executive decisions, I’m not sure he can knows what he’s doing either.
I swear, if McCain and his X beauty queen is voted in I will give up my American citizenship….to be assosiated with a country full of people stupid enough to not see the difference between McCain and Obama or Hillary is not a place or country I want to be a part of…..The world is LAUGHING at a people who would even consider voting for a President who is computer ILLITERATE who chooses a beauty queen as the person who will be a heart beat away from leading the world…..BTW, the encrypted codes to the American nukes required COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE…the Russians and Chinese must be happy.
Putin should be quaking in his boots — and so should everyone else. She’s the type of religious wing-nut who just might regard nuclear war as “glorious” rather than “horrifying.” Someone needs to ask her her opinion of the “Left Behind” drivel — wanna bet she’s a devoted fan who doesn’t think of the books as fiction? Be afraid. Be very afraid.
BTW, Steve, I really shouldn’t have to remind you the Newtie was Speaker of the House, not Senate Majority Leader.
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Folks,
The idea that Hillary supporters will vote Republican just because they put a female on the ticket is an insult! Palin’s politics are 180 out from Hillary’s positions, and we all know it. The only votes Palin is going to bring to McCain are the extreme right wingers.
She was all for the “Bridge to Nowhere” until she learned that Alaska had to pay some of the cost. Then she dumped it. Of course, the state got the money anyway. So her claim of saving money is a lie.
No Way No How, NOBAMA! I refuse to drink the Kool-Aid for Barack Hussein Obama! This guy is a loser and a slacker, and his refusal of HRC was typical of who he really is. Once again the DNC has bungled key decisions, and reinforced their tired weaknesses.
To Jim Baker: I’m shocked you include yourself among those with “modest intelligience”; I like the way you try to act like such a “tough guy.” If you ever do meet Steve for coffee, my money is on Steve to kick your ass with half his brain tied behind his back. Sarah Palin — are you kidding me. There laughing at us around the world. She did, however, balance the budget in her 7,500 person town, so she must be ready to lead the free world.
I am voting for Obama but I can tell you McSame will most likely win.
The RNC pulled a fast one and here we are all underestimating her and poking fun at her.
Do you honestly think that the majority of Americans are critical thinkers or have the capacity to grasp the difference between the two statements listed above by Steve?
Laugh it up while we can because unless we get every Dem voter in those red states out to the poles, we can kiss this goodbye.
Yes she acts like an airhead, but that’s the charm that a huge number of men will vote for and a lot of women vote the same way as their husbands do.
Hell my stepmom went from liberal to center and now thinks McSame is not that bad after she married her Rep boyfriend last year.
We seem to think everyone has brains and uses them. That is why we loose.
It’s absolutely terrifying to think that John McCain thinks this a is good idea!!! If McCain were to be elected (God forbid!!), and then meet an early demise, can you imagine a neophyte like Palin trying to steer the “ship of state” while constantly being pulled in one direction or the other by her merry band of special-interest-supporting “advisors”. (Oh, yeah, GWB already took us through a dress rehearsal of this.) We already know how abysmal McCain’s choice is in the people with whom he surrounds himself as advisors. Undoubtedly, in a crisis situation, she would inherit his “Policy Groupies”. Either the nation would self-destruct, or Palin would (leaving us in the hands of Nancy Pelosi as next-in-line to the Presidency). A nightmare scenario all the way around.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden comprise the only logical choice to keep the U.S. strong and credible in the eyes of the rest of the world!
I’m still amazed that the bloviators can lay out Palin’s ultra-rightwing politics and ideology, and in the same breath proclaim her a “maverick”! If you’re pro-everything neo-con, that makes you a neo-con. Not a maverick. And some “family values”. This woman has an infant who was premature and has DOWNS and she’s gonna go hit the campaign trail for half a year? How about we elect somebody who’s NOT under federal investigation for a change?
Thank you Wilson your comments are right on the button. Has anyone mentioned Palin’s facial language and her hand gestures. WATCH THEM folks.
This is a hard cookie - and that voice - Hillary sounds like Anna Netrebko in comparison. Do i think the American people will really think this through - well I would like to think they would. We will know on Nov.4th. I hope Joe Biden in the debate - eats her alive and then spits her out to go swimming, if she can, in the waters around Alaska. The world is laughing at American loud and clear.
I was unable to sleep last night and today I am crying. I do not know what the people of the United States did to the Republican party that makes them hate us so much.
How does a young average family of 6 make the decision to give up their life and security in a week. Oh I see her gut and her God told them to do it. Cowboy politics to be continued.
She has already started with stretching the truth regarding the bridge to nowhere. If we thought the POW story was getting old her story will add a new dimension to sympathy politics.
I am a Democrat; but while that makes me elite I don’t understand why they did not look at someone like the Senator from Maine, Olympia Snow. In 2005, she was named the 54th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine.
So this is what Country First means! It certainly looks like politics first and foremost to me. The single most qualified person to become the President of the Free World is a soccer mom? Hollywood coudn’t come up with this story line because it is too unbelievable.
Pam
I CAN’T STOP SHAKING MY HEAD… ONCE UPON A TIME I THOUGHT ANY WOMAN IS BETTER THAN NO WOMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE… BUT THIS ONE JUST …. I DON’T GET IT, I DON’T GET IT, I JUST DON’T GET IT.
HOW DID SHE GET ELECTED GOVERNOR? BY THE SAME KIND OF FLUKY LUCK?
The white men running the Republican Party are pulling another Clarence Thomas with this one - holding their noses and running the least offensive woman they could find to dupe “the women” into supporting their ticket. I have been mad ever since I heard news of McCain’s choice of Palin. I am outraged that he and Karl Rove think women in this country are stupid enough to see Sarah Palin as worthy of the nomination. Don’t patronize us!
The 18 million who voted for Hillary appreciated her experience, her intelligence, and her proven track record fighting for the issues we care about - choice, health care, quality education for our kids, and income redistribution as part of the way to afford these benefits. We’re smart enough to know that these values are shared by men and women. Obama and Biden have real cred here. The only thing Palin has in common with Hillary is body parts.
Shame on Sarah Palin for letting her own blind ambition get the best of her!
WHEN I HEARD SARAH WAS PICKED I THOUGHT MY MAIN MAN HAS SHOT HIMSELF IN THE FOOT.
THEN I HEARD HER SPEAK AND “WHAT A SPEECH”
I AM REALLY EXCITED ABOUT OUR NEXT VP BECAUSE SHE IS FOR ALL AMREICANS,ESPECIALLY THE ONES BORN AS A NATURAL AMERICAN AND HAVE A UNFORGED BIRTH CERTIFICATE.IN MY OPINION SHE KNOWS WHAT THE AMERICAM DREAM IS AND HAS “ALWAYS” LOVED AMERICA.
***THANK YOU JOHN***
ALSO TO DTLINCOLN…I THOUGHT “God” WAS ALWAYS SPELLED WITH A CAPITOL ‘G’.I COULD BE RONG.
@Mike
She also has more executive experience than McCain so maybe she should be president? Sounds pretty ridiculous doesn’t it?
I love the smell of Rethuglican desperation in the morning. LOL
A couple of years ago in my state, one of the candidates for Superintendent of Education was a woman who had had ZERO experience in education, except as a student. She’d been successful in business, but had never taught, had not served on a school board, and (I believe) had only a bachelor’s degree. And I heard her claim in a debate that her “lack of experience” in the education field made her a superior choice — because she wouldn’t feel tied to the way the office had been run previously.
thanks Demand Truth for mentioning that she is hitting the campaign trail with a baby is real need of care. I was a special ed. teacher for four years and two of my students were Downs kindergarteners. they began what’s called early intervention education at 9 months old, as recommended by most states. This involves the entire family’s participation in such a situation, so that all is set in place for the child’s most positive future. That’s just the beginning. Parents of kids with any developmental issues have to be involved in their schooling, practical training and socialization to an extreme degree.
She doesn’t know what she is really in for. She doesn’t realize how much involvement raising this little boy will entail in these earliest years.
For my own experience, I was appointed to my city’s planning commission when I had a (typically developing) 3month old and a three year old and that was incredibly difficult. I can’t imagine her being vice president with 5 kids, one of which is developmentally challenged.
What planet is her brain residing on?
I am happy that McCain chose Palin. She has a verifiable record of changing things in ways that reflect the values of Alaskans who she works for and the values of a large majority of Americans. Those who must resort to ridicule know this is the truth or they would be able to attack her record.
They don’t evalate her executive record as she advanced as a citizen politician from small town mayor to chief executive,Governor, of one of our 50 states. Along the way she actually accomplished change. She didn’t talk, she delivered. Check the record for yourselves,don’t be weak and blind sheep following those who require your mindless acquiescense. Let the true record speak to you.
Ask yourself to name something that Sen. Obama has accomplished, not in college, not in law school. He organized. That’s fine and well intended but honestly….so what? I’ve been an organizer, working in the jails of New York; maybe you of your friends have been ortanizers.
Is that an accomoplishment suitable to justify the Presidency? He got elected to the Illinois state legislature. Somebody please reveal to us his achievements while there which are being kept secret from us this long, long campaign.
Sadly, there is no there there either; no bipartisan effort nor evidence of any singular enligntened vision.
Neither is there a history of bucking the Cook county Democtratic party machine as if it is as clean as a Carnelite convent. Sadly no record of charachter defining conviction there either. No major achievement in the U.S. Senate in his few actual days there before declaring for the Presidency.
Compare this with the hard driving career risking record of Gov. Palin. Ouch!…not even in the same league. This woman has guts and principles and can do ability clearly evident for anyone who wishes to see. A strong woman who fought her own corrupt party machine. She routed out corrupt office holders and the A.G., the head of her party and special interests including big oil. She took no prisoners.
Sen. Obama has no experience as an executive except while heading the board of the C.A.C. where he worked closely for about 5 years with Bill Ayers, of Weatherman fame, who headed up the community action component of the same group which had been the winner of a competition for a huge grant called the Chicago Challange in the mid 1990’s. Access to the records of this group being housed in the library of the University of Illinois at Chicago where Bill Ayers is a professor has been blocked. About $160 million was disbursed to activists and groups under Sen. Obama. But there is no public accounting of this. And no record of any change in the welfare of Chicagoans as a result.
It seems that when all is said and done the likable Sen.Obama, as Sen. Clinton aptly summarized,’has a speech’. This is a truth that hurts any serious consideration of Sen. Obama.
In no way can this be said of Gov. Palin.
As mayor she ran to cut unnecessary spending and cut property taxes. She won and she made these changes. A huge majority of Americans wish their Mayor would do the same. A failed campaign to win the Governorship and do the same for the state of Alaska followed. But strong campaign performance led to her appointment to the State Oil & Gas Comission and it’s chairmanship where she called the Attorney General’s attention to corruption in her own party. Her reward was to suffer threats or fines and dismissal but she courageously refused to compromise her commitment to honest and ethical government. Gov. Palin is one tough woman. She fought the Attorney General.She won. These corrupt leaders were thrown out of office and the investigation has led to indictments and jail time for state officials & legislators in her own party. She went after oil companies and special interests.
She demonstrates with action that she knows who she works for, the people. She fights…she wins, she know’s who and what is important. She does not speak metaphysically about the future. She speaks clearly about needed action and does it. Gov. Palin is a clear talker but much more that a talker. She has a record of delivering on results which her bosses, the people, have called for.
I can’t help comparing this to Sen. Obama. Can anyome find anything he has actually gotten done while in his breif state legislative service…or in his few days in the Senate prior to his current campaign? I can’t find a substantive change resulting from his actions. I can recall Fritz Mondale ask in earlier days “Where’s the beef?”
Perhaps a better name for one of his books would have been “The Audacity of Claiming I Am Prepared to Be the Chief Executive of America.”
Americans know that integtity and courage and strength and independence and getting things done are not political party attributes. They are American individual values that a huge majority of us apperciate as the leadership they wish for. This strong, principled action and results are what Gov. Palin brings to the table.
No ammount af spinning and distortion and mean spiritedness can remove the record showing that Gov. Palin’s ‘does things’, she doesn’t talk about it. Can you immagine Gov. Palin talking and talking for years, decades and generations about fixing the same set of problems and never doing it? I can’t envision her not shaking it up and MAKING change. Change takes ACTION. That’s Gov. Palin. She accomplishes things, walks the walk.
Honestly, ask yourselves to name one change Sen. Obama has made, one single governmental accomplishment, one dramatic stand up moment where he confronted the Cook County machine on ethics and made a change, or took on his Democrat party leadership on ethics and won for the people. Organizing can be honorable, but where is the record of successful action? I too love the talk but I can’t find a single action resulting in a change. Can you? Maybe Sen. Obama will grow to a person of action in the future. I hope so.
Senators Obama and Biden are nice guys, good talkers but when the speeches and assurances are over, all we get is a good feeling.
Gov. Palin is a woman who takes action and has a clear record of action and accomplishing change for the people of her state. It’s easy to see. It’s hard for honest people to miss it. the great majority of Americans are honest people.
In your heart you know this is the simple truth.
I have to say this. I’m disgusted; partly at McCain, but mainly at America. Executive experience? Clearly, most don’t seem to have a clue as to what that means. Why haven’t Palan supporters bothered to ask themselves - ‘How did Palin, without any in-depth formal training related to economics, finance, accounting and law, acquire the ‘experience’ and know-how to balance budgets, create fiscal policy, devise means to regulate spending and the like?’ The somber answer is that she doesn’t! Politicians in office rely on a competent staff of TRAINED experts to give them the alternatives, from which they are guided to implement the most competent solutions.
Palan has NO expertise in finance - she just has experts! You take those away and she couldn’t find her way through a balanced budget. The extent to which a governor or president can engage in dialog with his/her experts is determined by their own level and area of expertise. It means that anyone without relevant training will be nothing more than a pencil pusher, hiding totally behind the expertise of his/her staff. Consider this - Bill Clinton had degrees in Law and Government, Bush has a degree in History and an MBA. Obama has a MAJOR in political science with specialization in international relations and a law degree from Harvard. Palin just has the journalism degree and a MINOR in political science. Don’t underestimate how much the level of higher learning impacts the judgment of candidates and presidents. Between Obama and Palin, Obama is head and shoulders above her because he has higher qualifications that will enable him to make far better use of the information provided to him, and hence, exercise better judgment. Palin’s limited relevant educational background will make her a puppet of the advisors she works with, but to the misinformed outsider, she would be perceived to be more competent than she really is.
Anyone who thinks that working at the capacity of a pencil pusher in a small state for a year will produce a better decision-maker than someone who already has more relevant intellectual training, is clearly uneducated. That’s the problem with people today - not enough people are making logical, educated decisions. Instead, more and more persons are thinking like citizens of a third world country, and it’s costing us all.
So what does this Palin pick tell us all about how McCain will choose people to be in his cabinet????? Very scary as he knew this woman for 2 HOURS and offered her the job, when she didn’t even know the requirements. A bit TOO far out of the box. Palin does not represent me and I’m a 52 year old white female who is now voting for Obama with ALL MY LIFE. I will campaign for Obama will all my life. Please join me.
BTW, did you hear McCain’s new slogan? DIVIDE AND CONQUER. Okay, maybe not really but that is what he is trying to do to us women who voted for Hillary. PLEASE PLEASE don’t let it happen.
Maggie in Sacramento
McCain picked Palin because he is quick as a fox. Don’t forget he was a fighter pilot who had to outmanoeuvre the opponent. He discovered that people in America will vote for inexperience, if it is combined with charisma and good looks. Case in point, Obama. McCain countered his move by an even more appealing move–it left Obama and Biden looking like two boring guys. They are yesterday’s news. The national excitement is with Palin now. And McCain knew how. Women, even Hillary women, will find good reasons to vote for Palin–to break the glass ceiling. I am one of those women, and I own my vote. (Now, if Obama had picked Hillary for VP, I venture that McCain would have countered that move by picking Condoleeza Rice.)
WOW - after reading all the posts from those of you hanging so far off the left, you certainly expose yourselves to your male chauvinistic female hate. The bottom line is that Sarah has more balls than Obama ever will have. There are 2 kinds of people on this planet. Ones who talk about and “hope” to do things, and those like Sarah who actually get things done. She has more executive experience than Obama. Biden on the other hand has been nothing more than a doorstop in the Senate collecting cobwebs. Sarah Palin is a woman of action. That’s what this country needs.
To Observer: I read your post. One fatal flaw in regards to Obama. He severely lacks good judgement and does not have his finger on the pulse of American values. This is evidenced by his participation for 20 years in a church filled with hate speech and racism. 20 YEARS! There is something severely wrong with his judgement, and the judgement of the people who will be voting for him, because they believe the lies and propaganda he is spreading. I will admit, he is a fantastic speaker which is why he was able to fool half the nation. You’re being bamboozeled.
The idea that Hillary supporters will vote Republican just because the GOP put a female on the ticket is an insult to the intelligence of all people, both women and men. Palin’s got minimal education and experience, already has a taste for abusing power, and policy positions that are 180-degrees from Hillary. But that’s missing the point of what’s really happening.
Clearly she’s a cheerleader for the hard right—but here’s the key—she stands to acquire a vast personal fortune from the oil reserves of the state she controls. She has potentially eight long years as governor and over 26 billion barrels of untapped oil (trillions if Alaska drills offshore). That easily makes her a contender on the world stage.
Alaska’s Republicans have groomed Palin for over a decade to keep that extravagant wealth in the hands of the “right people”. Forget the made-for primetime-working-class story—follow the money. The big picture is the oil she’s sitting on, and Palin has shown she’s ready and eager to do anything it takes to seize those incalculable riches.
Palin’s not being hired to woo unhappy Hillary supporters; she’s been crowned the Queen of American Oil Carpetbaggers.
One other note on Biden - He started his speech at the Dem. Nat’l Convention saying that John McCain is his friend and then proceeded to use the remainder of his speech to berate and belittle him. Some friend! It’s disgraceful, shocking and coward-like. I can’t wait for the backlash of the vice-presidential debates when Biden exposes his knee-jerk character-flawed personality to the American public.
Obama spent 8 years in the Illinois legislature and his record was creditable, and–if any of you were listening or watching the Democratic convention his accomplishments on health care and education there were listed and they were considerable. He also authored and got passed an ethics bill in the US Senate, and has a longer list than Hillary of bills sponsored and bills passed.
As far as executive experience, look at Obama’s campaign organization vs McCain’s. The latter is a mess, the former is a model that candidates will emulate for decades to come.
Further, Joe Biden single-handedly pushed and finally got passed in 1994 the Violence Against Women Act that has made a major difference in domestic violence since.
And what has Sara Palin done? Yes, she stood up to the oil companies to get more money for Alaskans, and she has administered one of the smallest states in population for the year 2007, probably only getting her own budget this spring or summer.
Except for oil, has Palin dealt with any national issue, let alone international one? So what she has to offer is hard-line pro-drilling, even in ANWR, though McCain has opposed that, at least. She’s also a hard-liner on abortion, more than McCain, and she’s an advocate for motherhood at any cost–
as long as you don’t really have to take care of the kid once you give birth: she’s going to hit the campaign trail and leave her 4-month old special needs baby behind!
But she’s pretty, right? McCain prefers to surround himself with pretty women, like Cindy, unlike his first wife, who he unceremoniously dumped. So, McCain probably pictured himself on stage in Twin Cities flanked by two pretty women–take that Obama!
On reform: anyone can run on that one: Hitler was a reformer before he got elected. McCain and Palin are about as much about reform as GW himself: reform the system into an elective dictatorship most likely.
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Damn! I hate it when there are so many comments that I may repeat myself. But, I do that quite often. So I will risk making a pompous fool out of myself again. McCain is a senile old man who chose a woman who used to be a beauty queen & who wears waaaaaaaaaaaay to much make up to be his running mate because he’s a horny old doughy looking man who wants to recapture his youth. And if I were Cindy, I’d be concerned about his “soulmate” comment. But then again, McCain won’t leave Cindy because he doesn’t want to lose whichever “home” he lives in. And she won’t leave me for some reason beyond my comprehension.
To emma:
In fact, she is more qualified in some ways than Sen McCain.
I believe she will be President of the U.S., after McCain, that is.
You may be interested to know that I see Sen. Clinton, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee as the most qualified persons to seek the office this time around.
However, Clinton was thrown out like an old pair of socks by the DNC (Disgraceful, by the way).
Romney simply gave up at the first sign of difficulty during the primary.
And Huckabee, (though determined)was not as popular with Republicans, finally conceding.
So, that leaves us with the current field:
I will not vote for someone with only about 150 working days of experience in the U.S. Senate to be President.
I respect your opinion, but disagree with you.
Love, Mike
[...] Even noted blogger and incessant, self-promoting author/satirist/TV writer/columnist, Steve Young, wrote facetiously of the seeming attempt to attract the female vote, “I can just see the deluge of anti-science, anti-women right to choose, anti-gay, [...]
You know, I am not scared of the Republican ticket winning this election based upon its ability to improve the conditions of the people living in this country.
I’m scared that they know how to play The Game better. And they do. Who are we liberals kidding?
It doesn’t matter how smart you are.
It doesn’t matter how qualified you are.
It doesn’t matter.
All that matters is that you win.
If only I had the means to leave this country.
Dear Heartbroken,
I understand your frustration, caused by the DNC under-estimating the GOP candidate’s abilities.
But at least you can be grateful knowing that in The United States of America, you-
A. are free to pursue business ventures and by the sweat of your brow and smarts, achieve “the means to leave this country”. (As so many have done.)
B. are actually permitted to “leave this country” after achieving the means. (Unlike residents of Cuba, Communist China, et al, who are held captive by their government, and are not allowed to emigrate).
C. would be replaced instantly with an immigrant who would be most appreciative to suddenly have the freedom and opportunites you seem to want to give up so readily. (Like the millions of Central & South American folks who risk life and limb to get here.)
Food for thought…..
PS: If McCain/Palin turns out to be so bad, as you may suspect- fear not. There are 535 members of Congress in place and a Supreme Court to counteract any abuses of power that may occur.
Mike
Sarah is currently under investigation for abuse of power and obstruction of justice by a BIPARTISAN group of the Alaskan government. She had been applying pressure to the head of her safety and security department to fire her ex brother in law, an Alaskan state trooper. He was in the midst of a nasty divorce with her younger sister.
The group that is investigating her is a made up of both democrats and republicans who voted UNANIMOUSLY to look into this issue. THis has been in the works for months before Sarah or McCain ever thought about her being the VP. None of the members of this board were contacted by McCain’s campaign when they were vetting her, despite this being a high profile case in Alaskan news.
Sarah initially wanted the board to investigate this, then later filed charges against herself.
Why? She thought since she filed her own charges that the investigation would be looked made by three members of the Alaskan government, ALL APPOINTED BY PALIN HERSELF.
It didn’t work that way.
When initially questioned she told the investigators that she had NEVER contacted the security head regarding her ex brother in law, and that she would NEVER have done anything like that. SHe was adamant about this. Video available.
She changed her tune when audio recordings came out, and now she agrees that she and her husband and some others in her administration called the security officer over 20 times! Now there are emails from her private email account to this gentlemen regarding her ex brother in law. Remember the pit bull? This woman and her family wouldn’t stop.
The ex BIL was disciplined by the board who monitors state troopers, and given a 10 day suspension, later reduced to 5. Even after he had served his discipline, she and the first dude and others in her administration continued to complain to him that the exBIL should be fired. Finally she fired the head of the safety department.
This is a man who had retired as the police chief of Juneau 5 years earlier. Quality fellow. Stand up guy. He filed the charges because this was wrong and he new it. The Palins and Heaths ( her maiden name) and her sister had filed 36 complaints against the trooper and WANTED him fired. He has had no other complaints filed against him while on the force.
She quickly replaced him with another man. Two weeks later, she had to let him go due to sexual misconduct on the job. She didn’t vet him.
This whole situation was eerily similar to the way she up and fired another police chief several years earlier.
That time, she didn’t like the way he looked at her, and “you can tell when someone is not supportive of you”. Do I hear BARRACUDA?
She also dismissed ( read fired) the town librarian, because the librarian (7 years on the job) would not remove books that Palin found objectionable from the town library. The town refused to take this one sitting down, and Sarah had to relent and allow her to come back.
Because she kept trying to fire people, the town hired a city administrator to assist Sarah. She couldn’t handle the town of 7,000 by herself! I think she left that out of her speech the other night, and McCain doesn’t mention that either.
DId you know that she came began as mayor of Wasilla, they had no debt. Nada, ZERO. After she left they were 20 MILLION IN DEBT!
Why? She decided to put in an indoor hockey arena? She made an agreement to buy the property in the town, and guess what, she never followed through on signing the papers for the purchase. But that didn’t stop her from starting clearing the property and beginning the construction of the sight. Meanwhile, someone else came in and bought the property. Currently they are still in court proceedings over this one. Wasilla has paid over 250,000 in legal fees alone for this fiasco.
They ended up getting some of the property by taking it from the gentlemen who bought it via eminent domain, and purchased a portion of the property that they had originally agreed to purchase- I am a bit sketchy on the acreage here, but I think it was 65 acres less for tens of thousands dollars more than the original price for the original plot of land.
Todd, the first dude, seems to be involved quite heavily in the Alaskan government, despite the fact he is a citizen and NOT and elected official of Alaska. There are several documents regarding the pipeline deal that she made with TRANSCANADA that were considered classified, and some folks have asked for copies of these under the freedom of information act. They were denied access due to the classifed nature of the documents. Guess who wasn’t denied? Todd the first dude. He received them, with no problems. How could that be? It seems Todd was cc copied onto these email between TRANSCANADA and Sarah and her assistant. Now I ask you, how do you feel about the first dude having access to our confidential documents here in the USA?
Especially as Todd has been an actual member of the Alaskan group thats goal is to secede from the Union. If this would take place it means Alaska would no longer be a state and they intend to take “THEIR” natural resources- read OIL here- with them when they break away from the US.
He left the group when Sarah began running for office. Sarah has been a member in the past according to several folks within the group. But there is no record of her membership at this time. However, she did send them a message encouraging them in their efforts, and the leader of the group states that it is part of their plan that leaders need to INFILTRATE the major political parties to advance their cause, as they are not considered a major party.
Before you think I am exaggerating this, please remember back to when she was first asked about whether she would run for the office of VP. She stated she would consider IF IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR ALASKA. She also usually wears that sparkly pin that says Alaska first.
Certainly something to think about.
Sarah Palin can start today compiling a list of all Hillary has done, get to work on it tomorrow and not be done by the time she is 90. She is a flash in the pan, nonsensical moron who the republicans counted on folks not caring about anything but her sexual being.
My problem is how after 8 years are they trying to push the VP as a non-essential role. HELLO DICK CHENEY, anyone???? What the hell?
Some Hillary supporters will vote for McCain
because they will be voting against Obama. When
he did not pick Hillary for VP they were demoralized.
she is fearless….I am sure she’ll fire all the librarians who refuse to burn the books she doesn’t like..