McCain/Palin ???

[sparks19]

Since it was announced that she was chosen why has it been crammed down our throats that she is a beauty pageant winner?

Does the fact that she is beautiful mean she isn't qualified? and it seems to be women who can't get past the fact that she won a beauty pageant. So WHAT? What does that have to do with ANYTHING?

didn't realize there was a rule that said you had to be old and ugly to be qualified

[Pam]

As I see it Obama and McCain have both made their first major decisions in this race to the White House - the selection of a running mate. Obama has selected someone that is more than qualified to take over the reins in these unstable times. McCain, on the other hand, has shown very bad judgment. Eventually he will realize he just lost any hope of winning this election. If this is representative of the type of decision that he would make as president thank goodness he showed us ahead of time.

[sparks19]

and how do you know she isn't capable? because she's only a governor?

From what I can tell... America's best bet may be someone who hasn't been corrupted yet... who is still a real person and not just a dummy with someone's hand up their butt making their mouth move.

She may turn out to be great. I have faith in her abililties.

Afterall... it has been proven that experience doesn't equal a good president lol if all it took was experience then we wouldn't be where we are right now.

[Puckstop31]

As I see it Obama and McCain have both made their first major decisions in this race to the White House - the selection of a running mate. Obama has selected someone that is more than qualified to take over the reins in these unstable times. McCain, on the other hand, has shown very bad judgment. Eventually he will realize he just lost any hope of winning this election. If this is representative of the type of decision that he would make as president thank goodness he showed us ahead of time.

Well, well... Thus is the difference between people like you and people like me.


I see this as a brilliant choice BECAUSE she is outside the DC establishment. It is obvious that in the last 50+ years, neither party has done squat to help us, WE THE PEOPLE. I think this is the first good choice he has made in his run for office. Before this, I was going to write in Bob Barr.

Keep telling yourself that he will see he has lost hope. What you fail to see is that this choice will energize the millions of people like me... Former Republicans who left the party because of it's move to the left. Sarah Palin is a true conservative/libertarian.

Yes, you all SHOULD be very afraid of her.


I can't wait to hear how Obama plans to actually deliver his promised Utopia. You know, without taxing to death the people who give us all jobs. People like me. Small business people. People who work 70 hours a week. People who have to find ways to 'pay' ourselves OUR hard earned money in ways so the worthless government does not STEAL it.

Why is it that you on the left hate success so much?

[Pam]

Why is it that you on the left hate success so much?

I am not on the left. Just ask anyone here who has been reading my posts for 8 years. I have voted both ways, Democratic and Republican, over the past several decades.

[Puckstop31]

I am not on the left. Just ask anyone here who has been reading my posts for 8 years. I have voted both ways, Democratic and Republican, over the past several decades.

Voting D or R does not mean anything. There is so little difference between the parties now. But if you are a BIG fan of Joe Biden, you certainly are not a social or fiscal conservative.

Just sayin'

To SAY nice things is one thing... To come up with ways to pay for them is another. You know, rather than bone the people who got off their bums and EARNED it.

[RICHARD]

Since it was announced that she was chosen why has it been crammed down our throats that she is a beauty pageant winner?

Because she would never bring it up in a conversation, because we think of any BP entrant as either a Hooter's girl, dental hygenist or a lingerie model?

She's breaking a mold here. The least that anyone can do is think about Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary and now Sarah Palin.

History always remembers the "first ones" chosen. We got past the first woman as a VP runner, Presidential candidate and now there's a real possibility to get a woman into office.

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She's a man's kind of woman. I just saw her pulling salmon nets into a boat, she jogs, she hunts, she played basketball in school, she gets double points from me if she drinks beer and watches sports with her husband

She could have talked her son out of enlisting-He signs up on 9/11 and will be deployed on 9/11- she goes ahead with birthing a child she knew has Down's and managed to have three more kids in between.


No experience? I guess you have to become a lawyer to get experience in life? Just kidding!

[Karen]

My first thought was that it was a transparently blatant attempt at courting dissatisfied Hillary fans.

Nothing I have heard since has dissuaded me of that notion, though I know more about her now than I did before.

This should be a fascinating election and campaign.

[Puckstop31]

My first thought was that it was a transparently blatant attempt at courting dissatisfied Hillary fans.

Of COURSE it was. But as a bonus, Mrs. Palin actually has some values to back it up with.

Nothing I have heard since has dissuaded me of that notion, though I know more about her now than I did before.

Of COURSE not.

This should be a fascinating election and campaign.

+100 I was so not interested until this.

[RockyRoad]

I knew nothing about Palin and had never heard of her prior to McCain`s decision. The first thing I thought of it was an attempt at winning Hillary`s feminist voters. I thought it was a shaky move for him. Then, I did my research and learned more about her, and she`s grown on me a lot. I agree with all the reasons Puckstop stated of why she is a good person and a good representative of her party. I was praying for Romney to get the nod, but I never really expected him to. However, I`ll be voting for my candidate primarily because of him, not because of his vice president. I don`t really know what this one is going to turn into, though, I think independents are going to have a big impact.

Because she would never bring it up in a conversation, because we think of any BP entrant as either a Hooter's girl, dental hygenist or a lingerie model?

I`m in school to become a dental hygienist, does this mean I can look forward to a Beauty Pageant in my future too?

[sparks19]

I just wanted to post something a friend of mine said. I had emailed him asking how he felt about her as he is from Alaska and has some personal (so to speak) experience with her in government....

Palin has not only standards but experience McCain and Obama lack. She has stood up to oil companies, other local polititians and utillities, cut taxes, and told the feds we dont need their money. She is down to earth as you have seen, more outside the beltway then those who are outside the beltway. She is pro developement, not just here but country wide. If she is as pro American as she is pro Alaskan she should be the going for president not the VP.

I guess she's not just a pretty face... she might actually have some substance. and she may not have the "experience" of a lifetime corrupt politician but she seems to have the experience we need the most... standing up to people who are trying to screw us. If she can keep this going in the white house and get McCain to go along with the same idea... I think she's wonderful

[jazzcat]

I like this choice. I think it was a great idea to get out of the good ole boy network. Seems like change is such a big theme, well she is definitely a change and I think a refreshing one at that.

I had to put both party tickets to my test. Which one rolls off the tongue easier - Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin. The GOP wins that one for me, too much b-b-b, I feel like I'm stuttering with Obama/Biden. Pretty scientific, huh?

[Puckstop31]

I just wanted to post something a friend of mine said. I had emailed him asking how he felt about her as he is from Alaska and has some personal (so to speak) experience with her in government....

Not only is this guy from Alaska, he is from Wasilla, Alaska. The town Mrs. Palin used to be mayor of.

[Marigold2]

I think it's a good choice for McCain's camp.
She will get the female vote and some of the mucho male vote.
For me she will not. A hunter. I would never vote for a hunter. Pro-life will not get my vote either.
Being both a hunter and pro-life doesn't make any sense to me at all.
How you can look an innocent animal in the face and blow it's heart out that is murder.

[Puckstop31]

I think it's a good choice for McCain's camp.
She will get the female vote and some of the mucho male vote.
For me she will not. A hunter. I would never vote for a hunter. Pro-life will not get my vote either.
Being both a hunter and pro-life doesn't make any sense to me at all.
How you can look an innocent animal in the face and blow it's heart out that is murder.

You equate harvesting a game animal with murder. That is so insane, I really can't put it in words. MURDER. That tells me that hunters should be arrested and put in jail. Is that what you really think? REALLY?

FWIW, hunting is about WAY, WAY more than the kill. You clearly have no idea what it is about and I doubt you ever care to. Before you truly HATE something, you should learn the truth about it.


Oh and get ready to cry, alot. LOL Dove season opens on Monday. Then, Deer and Fall Turkey's not long after that.