McCain Picks Palin for VP
HURRAY!!!!! made mine and Rush’s day.......
She is a lifetimemember of the NRA -that is enough for me. BTW, if McCain/Palin wins, it will be the first time that both the P & VP have children serving in a war zone while in office.
SHE is the reason I just put my credit card away after making a contribution to the GOP. I haven’t put squat into this since FRED! dropped out, except that I was going to hold my nose and vote McCain on Nov 4. Now I feel we have something, someONE, to vote FOR!!!!!!! Oh HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!111111!!!! Ah, but just try to imagine. Thompson/Palin.
I hear you CM. I just got emails from John McC announcing this and asking for money. I’ve got to give it some thought, but I feel positive for the first time in months.
I also got an email from Fred saying that “On Monday, September 1, Senator Fred Thompson will announce a major new effort to ensure that these conservative principles are supported and defended across our country and at every level of government.”
Not sure what that means, but if Fred is going to get involved in this fight, now is the time.
Interesting pick. I like what I’ve read about her. Someone REALLY likes her so much they’ve put up a site with the interesting name of VPILF.com devoted to her. (I found it in the comments over at Rachel Lucas.)
A list of her qualifications, also from the above comments:
She is a lifetime member of the NRA
She hunt and fishes
She was an awesome athlete(and apparently still plays hockey, truly a bone-breaking sport)
She is a pro-life evangelical
She is a mother of five, AND the mother of an army recruit
She is a HARD-CORE CONSERVATIVE REFORMER
She is the mother of a special needs child
She is totally hot
She is a woman(obviously) that doesn’t need to wear pant-suits
She is the one with ANY executive experience on either ticket
She is the governor of a SERIOUS border state, with Russia, no less!
She is pro-drilling, pro-oil, anti-waste, TAX-CUTTING/rebating
She can beat Hilary in 2012My only question is – can we get a Palin/McCain ticket instead of McCain/Palin?
Thank You John,
So, Us conservatives were not so irrelevant after all.
Been holding onto my breath and my dollars up until now.Sarah’s Family reasonates with me.
They Remind me of my Mom and Dad and the Values they held.So instead of being Hunkered down,
preparing for the onslaught of the Marxist Boss,
Now we have reason for Hope, Optimism and new possibilities.Stay on Message and you can count on our support.
Hi folks, time for me to come out of the woodwork. I hope you’ve all been o.k.
Over at Michelle Malkin’s, there’s a short quote from Palin’s speech that I love
12:44pm Eastern. Palin gives props to Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton. “The women of America aren’t finished yet…We can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all!
Did Hillary bust a blood vessel or just sh*t her pants?
The Dems and other assorted bed wetters are already attacking GOVERNOR Palin for being nothing but a beauty queen, hockey mom and mayor of a very small town. What do they think Alaska is? There has been absolutely no discussion (by liberals) that I’ve found about her accomplishments since her entrance to politics. The attackers seem to think that joining politics via the PTA is a negative. How long was it from the PTA to the Governorship of Alaska? We’re looking at some serious brains and huevos here.
I don’t agree with some of her policies. So what. I agree with most of them and I admire her accomplishments. Apologies for saying this, but given McCain’s age, she just might inherit the Oval Office. If it comes to that, I think she’d do a good job.
Regardless of what happens, I hope to see her make a serious Presidential bid sometime in the future. I wouldn’t mind seeing her win and I wouldn’t bet against her winning.
GO PALIN!
My only question is – can we get a Palin/McCain ticket instead of McCain/Palin?
How about Palin/Jindal ‘12?
And Drew. Link FRED!s thing Monday! Oh lordy do I not want to miss that!
I kind of thought she might be the once when ABC had the story saying her Chief of staff said she was in Alaska and would be at the state fair today, I had to check to make sure Alaska’s State fair was even going on this week, after all 2 VP potentials with word they wouldnt be appearing with McCain today and would be at state fairs? and then the reports of her landing in Ohio last night, or at least a plane with a woman and others that was from Alaska that many said was her.. seems that was the real story and ABC was wrong once again.. I feel good.. was waiting for his vp pick.. not really warm on McCain. but at this point I think his VP pick was the right 1.. especially with the rumors of Romney yesterday.. I didn’t like that Idea..
It’s about time the old fool did something right.
Posted by single stack
08/29/2008 at 09:07 PM
How about Palin/Jindal ‘12?
CM, has somebody been sneaking you a look at the 20 year plan playbook? That’s how I figure it too. Because McCain will be a one termer, because he really IS old. Then two terms for Palin if things go well, with young Bobby J on the ticket for the 2nd term if not before. Then at least one term for Jindal, with some up and coming black person (or a lesbian jooooooo!!) on as VP and maybe THEN we can finally move beyond all this sexism & racism BS?
way to go drew!! over the top as usual..... ;-Þ .......®
Indeed. Drew, you said what I see @ 12. I’m just wanting some hardcore anti establishment types up there to clean out the dross. Palin did it in Alaska, Jindal’s doing it in La. And THAT is what we need in DC.
When they announced Palin, I discussed it with my mother, who considers McCain to have been the only “voice of reason” in Congress in recent years. Yeah, overall I like her. So does mom.
But I did have fun with the point that, when I was a kid, I remember how disgusted my parents were at how many women voted for JFK because he was so good looking. Just after I got out of the Navy, I remember how disgusted I was at how many women voted for Bill Clinton because he was so good looking. Well, I guess it’s the men’s turn to want to pull the lever for someone because she’s such a hottie.*snicker*
Here’s a thought for you. The Vice President is also the President of the Senate. Generally, the VP does not have duties in the senate, but does cast tie-breaking votes. However, I am sure that at times, the VP has been involved in trying to get senate votes to go one way or another.
Biden is currently a senator, just another insider who would be president of the same people he has been with for the past 20+ years. Palin has taken on people in both political parties and thrashed their butts. She is definitely not an insider. Yet, she is poised to preside over this current group of career politicians. Heh. I bet that makes some of our esteemed leaders nervous!
Very smooth move by the McCain camp! This should solidify the pro-life followers (south states that may have slid to Obama if McCain had gone with the pro-choice guy) and....maybe draw some of that 18 million Hillary pool that may or may not be discontent with Clinton’s loss.
On the other hand, where does this take the Republican claim that there is a lack of experience in the deal with Obama. If McCain’s health fails him as it might being in a very stressful position, the load falls on a very unexperienced individual.
Risky move indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!
On the other hand, where does this take the Republican claim that there is a lack of experience in the deal with Obama. If McCain’s health fails him as it might being in a very stressful position, the load falls on a very unexperienced individual.
So...O
samabama would have been better there? Less than 5 months in the Senate before he started running for POTUS, and HE’D have been better than a Mayor turned Govenor? Of a state with Canada on one side and Russia on the other? BZZZT! Would you like to change your answer?"BZZZT! Would you like to change your answer?”
OK……NO..
This is coming from an independent (although registered Republican)
Maybe it’s time I stopped going to this web site! I really get a kick out of this site, but I guess it’s time to move on as I’m leaning towards a Dem vote here for the sake of the common American. I see the republicans as real business CEO’s and not as typical American workers. Good luck trying to out maneuver the Dems in this election, as it’s apparent the effort will probably fail. This is a desperate move in choosing this young women of no real experience to the ticket.hey lateforwork.......2 words on experience......john edwards
This is a desperate move in choosing this young women of no real experience to the ticket.
Yeah. Mayor(executive position, btw) for 2 terms, Governor(another massively executive position, in a state big enough to be its own country, surrounded by Canada on one side and Russia on the other). She’s basically been the President of her own frakking country for 2 years already. What other state do you know of with ballistic missile defense facilities? LFW2, YOU are not a registered Republican/independent, you are dribbling the leftist talking points trying to save “The Annointed Obamessiah” from a certain trip to doom. Your avatar of Arnold? Yeah, he’s a RINO too.
YO! Late and Blake, both of you calm down. One thing I’ve always liked about BMEWS is that we could discuss twitchy subjects in a civilized manner. No one has ever taken me to task for being an old 60’s Radical Liberal. Please don’t change it now.
It’s true enough that not everyone will like or agree with Governor Palin. That’s pretty normal. It’s also true enough that she doesn’t have that much foreign policy experience, but then look at Obama. It would be difficult to have less experience than he does. Half the people at BMEWS probably have more experience. Additionally, consider her chairing that oil and energy board. How much of their work was directly involved with the policies and actions of places such as Venezuela and Saudi Arabia? That would put her dead center in the middle of some of the hairier political and economic situations of the last 35 years.
If you look at Palin’s history from the PTA to the Governorship, she’s taken on some political heavyweights from both parties and kicked their asses. Conservative Republican or not, she seems to have a very limited tolerance for b.s. and will not let party loyalty get in the way of her sense of right and wrong. She’s a quick learner and she’s tough. That’s how she became the Chief Executive of Alaska. That Governorship is the sort of key policy and decision making position that Obama definitely has not experienced. For an interesting bit of history, consider Harry Truman. When Roosevelt died Truman didn’t even know we were working on the atomic bomb. He came up to speed pretty quick. Not bad for a haberdasher. Then again, that’s the reason that political heavyweights employ advisers in key positions. Regardless, 72 or not, McCain seems to be in pretty good health. Notwithstanding Dick Cheney, unless the President dies, the Vice Presidency is a pretty much symbolic job. Dick Cheney is the only exception I can think of and that’s because Bush gave him the power and position to be his personal lobbyist.
Look at some Vice Presidents from our history. How many people knew much about Lyndon Johnson before Kennedy’s assassination? How many said “Hubert who?” when he announced he was running for the Presidency? Then there’s Spiro T. Agnew. Before the Vice Presidency, his major claim to fame was managing a super market. I’m reminded of an old saying; “Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea and the other became Vice President of the United States. Neither was ever heard from again.”
One parting shot. Elitist? Both Obama and McCain are part of the ruling economic and power elite of this country. I don’t think either one of them relates to the common man anymore than they relate to someone who wants a sex change.
Okay, I’m cool. But SHE is the best thing that could possibly have come along. For the positive reasons you say, but the negatives are incorrect. She does have the “foreign policy” experience, and she HAS been the Chief Executive of a state big enough to be its own country, which geographically it pretty much is. As I’ve said, I’m voting for HER not McCain. She’s got the no b.s. attitude, the clean out the dross fire, DC needs.
Look at your own third paragraph.Well appreciated cm.
I’m sorry you thought I was damning her with faint praise. Paragraph 2 lines 3-5 point out that dealing with U.S. foreign policy and the fallout from some pretty strange governments has been very important to her. The personalities, the economics and such had to be part of her regular concerns dealing with oil and energy in general. If she wasn’t directly involved in making the policy, she sure had to be aware of what it did. Paragraph 3 lines 1-4 gets into her executive experience. Something Obama can’t claim at all. The rest of it is a quick review of history and some stuff from mho.
I know I didn’t go into a lot of detail there, but I’ll sum up my thought on her this way; I agree with more of her policies than I disagree with. She’s got serious brains and big huevos. Those are qualities I want my President to have.
P.S. Aren’t conservatives supposed to be against women holding high office or any other responsible position? It’s starting to look as if Obama and his friends aren’t just racist, they’re sexist too. Something’s going on here....
Indeed.
I’m all in favor of spirited discourse here. But let’s argue with brains first, swords second, m’kay? ‘Nuff said. Ok, my turn to shoot my mouth off.
Late, I’m finding it pretty tough to nail down just what a “typical” American worker is. Help me out here. Some of us run small businesses, some work at those business. Some build things, some fix things, some sell things. Some push papers. Some push brooms. Some work for non-profit corporations. Others are managers. Others are executives. Doctors and nurses too. Unions? Unions are largely a thing of the past, except in areas where they have no business being. Like government employees and teachers. I was in a union for 13 years. I never ONCE got a raise or a bonus for good work. My only pay increases came because I’d logged another year on the job. That sucked. There’s a million and two different kind of jobs out there, and there are Americans doing all of them. And that’s ignoring the illegals who are gutting certain workforces. So nail down “typical” a bit, and tell us why the Dems are better at representing that worker. This isn’t to set you up for a slapfest because you see things differently. I really want to know. But please, I know you can do better than a Matthews “tingle in my leg” reaction, right?
My 2 cents on the whole “experience” angle it that the whole thing is BS. None of these 4 people have ANY experience being President of The United States. Toughest job in the world that EVERY new President has to learn on the job. One of these 4 has very little experience at anything, even at holding a paying job. Two of these 4 have been part of the DC government for generations, though not in the Executive branch. Both are insiders who know everyone, know how things get done, the give and take, and have roots and contacts a mile deep. While some may want to Change that, that’s the way it is today, and that kind of knowledge is a good thing. Only one of these 4 has some experience being the lead decision maker, juggling ten dozen plates at a time and taking the heat when one breaks. And some experience setting goals and agendas, and trying to get them accomplished. That’s executive experience. That one person, Palin, likely also has some international experience, seeing how the state that she is governor of is the ONLY state in America with TWO foreign nations as neighbors. And by amazing coincidence, she’s been involved in the Oil & Gas game, when Oil & Gas are a major national issue. Two of the 4 have some amount of executive experience, either from military leadership or from committee chairmanships. That’s better than nothing. One of these 4, as far as I can tell, has NO experience being the decision maker, the leader, the one in charge in any way shape or form, not even being den leader in Cub Scouts. Two or three of these 4 are elitists who started out on top and then got even higher. Three of them are rich IMO, whether because they married money, built their own fortune, or had some really nice deals handed to them for whatever reason, good or bad.
Do not lose sight of the fact that there is FAR more to being President than just being a good executive. Being a good speaker is part of it. Being able to get along with foreigner dignitaries is part of it too. Having other countries like you does not hurt. A large part of the job is appearances; being out in public looking and acting presidential. (Read some of the more recent Tom Clancy books and you’ll see) But it is also FAR more than that. A good President leads the country in a direction it needs to go in. A bad President relies on polls to make up his mind, and waffles and flip-flops all over the place on everything just to remain popular. Popular helps, because it makes the people and the press happy. But it rings hollow after about 4 years or so. Then the excrement starts impacting the oscillator at high velocity. A good President needs to have the respect and admiration of the military, especially in time of war. And like it or not, but we ARE at war and we will CONTINUE to be at war for quite some time. (unless you elect me, in which case I’ll end the GWOT in about 18 seconds. Certain parts of the planet will be off limits for the next 2 to 3 million years after that however).
In my opinion, the very best President is the one who is somewhat liked, somewhat disliked while in office, but a few years after his term is found out to have been an awesome President. Remember how, when he was in office, Reagan was going to get us all killed because he pushed the commies? Remember how his “voodoo economics” were going to tear the nation apart, make us go bankrupt, and allow the Japanese to buy us out? Now look back on it. Outlooks sure change with time, don’t they?
Personally, at this instant in time I think Palin would make a better President than McCain. But she isn’t running for the #1 slot. I think Biden would make a better President than Obama (I think a horse turd would make a better President than Obama, but that’s just my opinion). But he isn’t running for the #1 slot. Both of the VP candidates are going to be in a very strong position to advise their President IF he is willing to listen. Nothing says he has to. Nothing says either Biden or Palin are going to get to do anything more than sit in the Lonely Chair in the Senate and just snooze for 4 years. Cheney did NOT redefine the VP role, but Bush realized he had a superb top executive and used him to his best advantages. Don’t expect that to happen again, although Biden is probably the better schmoozer of the two. But hey, that isn’t the politics of Change is it? That’s the politics of Reality after all.
Doc Jeff - We are? News to me. Sarcasm, right?
Give me someone who can do the job best, and I don’t give a fig if they’re a Setter or a Pointer. Heck, I don’t care what color the Labrador Retriever is either, as long as it brings back all the ducks. There are no glass ceilings. There is no color barrier. Oprah has more money than almost all of us put together. Not only do them old dogs not hunt, they done up and died a long time back.
Sarah hunts. And kills shit. http://www.palinfacts.com is a good laugh!
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWQ2YzMyNGViMmIyY2I0MTliYjRjYmU4MmMxOWZjODA=
Check this one too, for her foreign policy and national defense creds.
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