I posted quickly earlier as I had to get to a meeting. I did not explain myself very well. I think her experience in local government probably brought a great deal more knowledge then most people realize. Many say she is not experienced on the executive level. Last I knew Governor of a state is executive level experience, and I think her record speaks for itself. She does not appear to be afraid to roll up her sleeves and get in to the thick of things for the sake of change and improvement.
Like I said before...McCain would get my vote anyway cause I won't vote for Obama. As far as Palin...I don't ever jump to judgement with ANYONE running for public office. The words, EXPERIENCED, TERRIFIC, LOYAL, HARD WORKING, DEDICATED....ETC....are heard in every single campaign.Once they get into office it is quite often a different story. So I will vote for McCain, with or without Palin, and will see what happens when and if they are elected. Call me a skeptic, but there is clearly enough skepticism to go around in politics today.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Well, I must say that I just finished listening to her speech andI thought it was pretty good. Also, remember, she's the only person in this race (President or Vice President) that has actually run ANYTHING to this point.
Gov. Sarah Palin delivered a "brilliant" speech tonight. And I never realized all of the pain and suffering that Senator John McCain endured while he was a POW.
John McCain is officially the Republican nominee with the addition of the 53 votes from Arizona to give Mr. McCain a total of 1223 votes, more than the 1191 that is needed to get the nomination. States passed around so that his home state could be the one to nominate him.
Looking at how the Los Angeles Times covered day two of the Democratic convention versus day two of the Republican convention:
Wednesday, August 27, 2008, following day two of the DNC: The headline is "Clinton calls on her party to end her rift" (click to see the image). A large, full-color Convention photo of Hillary and Chelsea Clinton graces the top of the front page. Inside: Five pages of coverage with 15 more photos (11 color, 4 b&w)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008, following day two of the RNC: The top-of-the-page headline is "GOP touts McCain record" (click to see the image). A large, full-color color photo of President Bush on the video screen addressing the Convention (same size as DNC photo). Inside: Four pages of coverage with 8 color photos, including one of Ron Paul.
When it comes to even coverage, the Times is 0-for-2 so far.
I am surprised at the degree of positive spin the press has put on John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate. They apparently agree with his belief that putting a woman on the ticket will entice many of Hillary’s supporters to vote Republican. I doubt that will happen unless they are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face. Palin, an avowed conservative, supports McCain’s Iraq war policy, is antiabortion and anti-gun control, advocates the expansion of oil drilling both offshore and in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, and wants to make permanent Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy. Almost all are anathema to most disgruntled Hillary fans. The resume of Palin’s political career includes president of the PTA, mayor of a city of 9,000, and less than a two-year stint as governor of our least populated state. This relatively unknown lightweight would be a 72-year old cancer survivor’s heartbeat away from the presidency. No matter how angry the Hillary backers are, they are too liberal, too intelligent and too patriotic to vote for the GOP ticket merely because it has a woman on it. CHARLES RIELLY Guilderland
Palin shines in spotlight Republican VP candidate directs attack at Obama BY DAVID ESPO The Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin claimed her historic spot on the Republican ticket Wednesday night, uncorking a smiling, slashing attack on Barack Obama and vowing to help presidential candidate John McCain bring real change to Washington. Scarcely known a week ago, she drew tumultuous cheers from the Republican National Convention. “Victory in Iraq is finally in sight; he wants to forfeit,” she said of Obama. “Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America; he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights.” The 44-year-old Palin had top billing on the third night of the convention. The first female vice presidential candidate in party history, she spoke to uncounted millions of viewers at home in her solo national debut. To the delight of the delegates, McCain strolled unexpectedly onto the convention stage after the speech and hugged his running mate. “Don’t you think we made the right choice?” for vice president, he said as his delegates roared their approval. It was an unspoken reference to the convention-week controversy that has greeted her, including the disclosure that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant. The packed convention hall exploded in cheers as McCain stood with Palin and her family — including mother-to-be Bristol and the father, 18-year-old Levi Johnston. The audience also shouted in agreement at line after line delivered by the 44-year-old Alaska governor. She had top billing at the convention on a night on which delegates also lined up for a noisy roll call of the states to deliver their presidential nomination to McCain. At 72, the Arizona senator is the oldest first-time nominee in history, collecting his party’s top prize after pursuing it for the better part of a decade. Palin drew cheers from the moment she stepped onto the convention stage, hundreds of camera flashes reflecting off her glasses. If McCain and his campaign’s high command had any doubt about her ability at the convention podium, they needn’t have. With her youthful experience as a sportscaster and time spent in the governor’s office, her timing was flawless, her appeal to the crowd obvious. “Our family has the same ups and downs as any other, the same challenges and the same joys,” she said as the audience signaled its understanding. In her solo debut on the national stage, she traced her career from the local PTA to the governor’s office, casting herself as a maverick in the McCain mold, and seemed to delight in poking fun at her critics and her ticketmate’s political rivals. Since taking office as governor, she said she had taken on the oil industry, brought the state budget into surplus and vetoed nearly one-half billion dollars in wasteful spending. “I thought we could muddle through without the governor’s personal chef — although I’ve got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her,” she said. Not surprisingly, her best-received lines were barbs at Obama. “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities,” she said, a reference to Obama’s stint as a community organizer. “I might add that in small towns we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t,” she said. That was a reference to Obama’s springtime observation about some frustrated working-class Americans. By contrast, she said of McCain: “Take the maverick out of the Senate. Put him in the White House. “He’s a man who’s there to serve his country, and not just his party. “In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers,” she said in another cutting reference to Obama’s campaign theme. “And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.” A parade of party luminaries preceded Palin to the convention podium, and Republicans packing the hall cheered every attack on Obama. “He’s never run a city, never run a state, never run a business, never run a military unit. He’s never had to lead people in crisis,” said former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani of McCain’s rival. “This is not a personal attack … it’s a statement of fact — Barack Obama has never led anything. Nothing. Nada.” Palin also jabbed at the news media, which have raised convention week questions about her background and her family. “Here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion — I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country.” McCain arrived in the Republican National Convention city earlier in the day to accept the prize of a political lifetime. Instantly, he defended his choice of a running mate, saying she was ready to serve as commander in chief after less than two years as governor of Alaska. “Oh, absolutely,” he said in an ABC interview. “Having been the governor of our largest state, the commander of their National Guard, she was once in charge of their natural resources assets actually, until she found out there was corruption and she quit. . . .” McCain’s remarks dovetailed with an effort by his campaign to depict Palin’s critics as out to destroy the first female running mate in party history. While she readied the speech of her career, McCain’s top strategist, Steve Schmidt, complained about a “faux media scandal,” generated, he said, by “the old boys’ network that has come to dominate the news establishment.” Little is known nationally of her views, although a video surfaced during the day of a speech she made at her church in June in which she said U.S. troops had been sent to Iraq “on a task that is from God.” Not everyone was quite on message, though. “I think that Gov. Palin and Sen. Obama do not have extensive experience in government,” Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania told reporters. He said she has potential and judged Obama a “political phenomenon, no doubt about it.” Whatever Palin’s impact on the race, McCain’s story was among the most arresting in recent presidential politics. The son and grandson of admirals, he had a rebellious youth by his own account, running up a healthy ledger of demerits at the Naval Academy. Shot down over Vietnam, he was held and tortured for more than five years before his release. Along the way, he turned down an offer of early freedom from captors eager for a propaganda boost. PAUL SANCYA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks about her family during her speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday.
by Ann Coulter (more by this author) Posted 09/03/2008 ET
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, as his running mate finally gave Republicans a reason to vote for him -- a reason, that is, other than B. Hussein Obama.
The media are hopping mad about McCain's vice presidential selection, but they're really furious over at MSNBC. After drawing "Keith (plus) Obama" hearts on their denim notebooks, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews stayed up all night last Thursday, writing jokes about Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the presumed vice presidential pick. Now they can't use any of them.
So the media are taking it out on our brave Sarah and her 17-year-old daughter.
They claimed Palin was chosen only because she's a woman. In fact, Palin was chosen because she's pro-life, pro-gun, pro-drilling and pro-tax cuts. She's fought both Republicans and Democrats on public corruption and does not have hair plugs like some other vice presidential candidate I could mention. In other words, she's a "Republican."
As a right-winger, Palin will appeal to the narrow 59 percent of Americans who voted for another former small-market sportscaster: Ronald Reagan. Our motto: Sarah Palin is only a heartbeat away!
If you're going to say Palin was chosen because she's a woman, you're going to have to demonstrate that the runners-up were more qualified. Gov. Tim Pawlenty seems like a terrific fellow and fine governor, but he is not obviously more qualified than Palin.
As for former governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge and Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, the other also-rans, I can think of at least 40 million unborn reasons she's better than either of them.
Within the first few hours after Palin's name was announced, McCain raised $4 million in campaign donations online, reaching $10 million within the next two days. Which shortlist vice presidential pick could have beaten that?
The media hysterically denounced Palin as "inexperienced." But then people started to notice that she has more executive experience than B. Hussein Obama -- the guy at the top of the Democrats' ticket.
They tried to create a "Troopergate" for Palin, indignantly demanding to know why she wanted to get her ex-brother-in-law removed as a state trooper. Again, public corruption is not a good issue for someone like Obama, Chicago pol and noted friend of Syrian National/convicted felon Antoin Rezko.
For the cherry on top, then we found out Palin's ex-brother-in-law had Tasered his own 10-year-old stepson. Defend that, Democrats.
The bien-pensant criticized Palin, saying it's irresponsible for a woman with five children to run for vice president. Liberals' new talking point: Sarah Palin: Only five abortions away from the presidency.
They claimed her newborn wasn't her child, but the child of her 17-year-old daughter. That turned out to be a lie.
Then they attacked her daughter, who actually is pregnant now, for being unmarried. When liberals start acting like they're opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain's vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.
But at least liberal reporters had finally found someone their own size to pick on: a 17-year-old girl.
Speaking of Democrats with newborn children, the media weren't particularly concerned about John Edwards running for president despite his having a mistress with a newborn child.
While the difficult circumstances of Palin's pregnant daughter are being covered like a terrorist attack on the nation, with leering accounts of the 18-year-old father, the media remain resolutely uninterested in the parentage of Edwards' mistress's love child. Except, that is, the hardworking reporters at the National Enquirer, who say Edwards is the father.
As this goes to press, the latest media-invented scandal about Palin is that McCain didn't know her well before choosing her as his running mate. He knew her well enough, though admittedly, not as well as Obama knows William Ayers.
John F. Kennedy, who was -- from what the media tell me -- America's most beloved president, detested his vice president, Lyndon Johnson.
Until Clinton interviewed Al Gore one time before choosing him as his vice presidential candidate, he had met Gore only one other time: when Gore was running for president in 1988 and flew to Little Rock seeking Clinton's endorsement. Clinton turned him down.
To this day, there's no proof that Bill Clinton ever met one-on-one with his CIA director, James Woolsey, other than a brief chat after midnight the night before Woolsey's nomination was announced.
Barring some all-new, trivial and probably false story about Palin -- her former hairdresser got a parking ticket in 1978! -- the media apparently intend to keep being hysterical about McCain's alleged failure to "vet" Palin properly. The problem with this argument is that it presupposes that everyone is asking: "HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?"
No one's saying that.
Attacks on McCain's "vetting" process require the media to keep claiming that Palin has a lot of problems. But she doesn't have any problems. Remember? Those were all blind alleys.
Unfortunately, for the ordinary TV viewer hearing nonstop hysteria about nonspecific "problems," it takes a lot of effort to figure out that every attack liberals have launched against Palin turned out to be a lie.
It's as if a basketball player made the winning shot in the last three seconds of the game and liberals demand that we have a week-long discussion about whether the player should have taken that shot. WHAT IF HE MISSED?
This is an outrage how the liberal media fell down on the knees over here for a pretty lady. She has no business being mayor let alone vice- president with that crippled baby and the daughter with the bun in the oven { since the mother wasnt watching her kids she was too busy trying to be the man } If a woman wants to be the man, my wife told me last night - she should not have the kids like that. I refused to watch the phoeny speech since I am boycotting this here election indeed. Plus the husband is a convicted criminal and I cant vote for anyone like that who goes against law and order. Then the boom lowered for her when I found what she did to the poor trroper she tryed to fire just because her sister broke up with him. A man in blue should never be fired or treated that way unless they do something illegal or violent, NEVER. So no matter what you so colled conservs say, the repubs sold out to liberalism and feminism this week and will never be the same. the endorsement of the premarital sex and babies out of the wedlock will be a stain on the repub party forever and ever. Dont you people get it. She MUST step down immediately and blame the situation on the crippled child at home over there, then give McCain the chance to make up for his terrible mistake in trying to get a female on the ticket indeed. LOOK will you people at the letters to the editor now Obama will be elected because of this.
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