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A Carrot Dangle?
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From everything I've researched thus far, I like John McCain's pick for VP, although I don't, and have never, liked McCain himself.
In my book, a Governor has better credentials than a Senator, because they have to get more involved and make bigger decisions. If they happen to make a wrong decision, they have to take the full brunt of it, and cannot hide in a Senate chamber and get "lost" among so many others.
Experience?...........no less than Obama who is running for the number ONE seat.
Sarah Palin is certainly the most genuine member of this goofy race. She and her husband are both avid outdoors people. She hunts, dresses out her own game, and is a lifetime member of the NRA, which would be especially handy as the Democrats try to push more antigun measures through the Congress..........in the event of a tie vote, guess who gets to be the tie-breaker?
As the new Alaskan Governor, one of the first things she did was SELL the private jet, a luxury and perk, she felt that money for its cost and upkeep could be better spent. Anyone know what Nancy Pelosi rides around in?
Sarah Palin is the mother of 5 children, including one with Downs Syndrome, so you'd have to believe that when she says she understands life's problems and going with them, she has a pretty good idea of what she's talking about. She would seem to be as home in a pair of jeans as she would in a 3-piece pantsuit. I like that, as I've never been impressed by "prim and proper", ballroom gowns, tuxedos and gobs of jewelry. You can hide a lot of garbage behind the glitter.
As for November, I still don't trust McCain and would certainly feel better if the ticket were reversed. I think he may be using Palin as bait....dangling a carrot before the women voters who feel betrayed by the Democrats when Hillary was shut out. I'm curious of how he would use her should he WIN in November. Would he include her, listen to her ideas and suggestions, or just shove her off into a closet like Bush did with Colin Powell?
Ron Paul is CLEARLY the best we've had out there since Reagan, but the media has effectively shut him down, as "directed" by the high rollers in D.C. Yes....that's true and you libs out there know it (that's why the left is working so hard to get talk radio shut down as well)................."1sr Amendment?.......never heard of it, eh?"
I'm looking at this very hard right now. I have intended all along to Write-In a vote, because I absolutely CANNOT stand party-traitor McCain. But with his health an issue, and an actual pro-America, pro-freedom running mate being a "heartbeat away" as they say (and it COULD happen)...........I might have to alter what would normally be a steadfast position. I would also have to walk into the voting booth chanting to myself, "This a for a potential PALIN..........NOT McCain."
Ticket vs ticket, it would once again be the lesser of two evils, but in the name of freedom..........in the absolute name of freedom...........Barack Obama MUST be denied the White House.
Not only does Palin hunt, fish, skin and clean, but her husband competes in dogsled races as well. These aren't people who hob-knob in snoot circles over champagne and crumpets. They live the pioneer way of life, and if she can bring some of that oldtime country "savvy" the D.C., it just might do us ALL some good.
Honestly, I'd never heard of her until last week, but if everything I've read about her is true, she's the best one on EITHER ticket.
Well, we've still got a couple of months to go.........let's watch, learn and then decide.
PS:............another BIG, BIG, BIG plus of Sarah Palin over Obama's VP Joe Biden..........Sarah isn't ALREADY a 3-decade part of the problem in Washington D.C. She isn't just "another one of THEM!" Heck, that would be reason ENOUGH to cast a vote her way, wouldn't it?
But if I go that way in November, I'm still gonna have to remember.........."this ain't for HIM, it's for HER.............this ain't for HIM, it's for HER..............." Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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I attended my sons Army boot camp graduation this past year and Sarah Palin was there. Her son was also graduating into the Army infantry. She has my support.
Mike:
A person still has to ask why "duke nukem" (McCain) who does not have an environmental/conservationist bone in his body chose a person described as a "conservationist" (Palin) for his ticket. It would seem that they would be at odds all of the time with all of this "do we or do we not drill" crap that is going on and the nuclear debate that is going on as well. She seems like a pawn to me. What a loss for Alaska if that is the case and she is as "genuine" as they have represented her to be. Big gamble for her, (possible) "bait dog" for McCain.
It also bothers me that not very long ago she said that she would not take the VP nomination because she could do more for/in Alaska than in DC. What has changed in such a short time? Maybe she is also afraid of what BHO will do to this country. That would be enough for me for sure! I hope that McCain's motives are "pure" and that he will listen to her thoughts and ideas and allow her to "serve" in her position. She is new blood and that is what is needed. Out with the old and in with the new.
As far as her lack of experience, she has more than BHO by far. She runs a state where BHO does not. He is a yes man at best to the rest of the party. That is the problem with DC. Nobody votes for what is right---they vote for what puts the most money in their pockets through "private donations" and vacations. Pretty sad.
Time will tell on this debate/situation. At this point, we cannot do much worse than the other guy and Biden. Yikes. Scary.
I wouldn't trust Obama with a yo-yo.
Hey, I have the first claim on the "duke nukem" name, so Senator McCain can't have it.
Sorry Beau. You are correct. What was I thinking? It is the illness...I am not on top of my game:)
All I have to say is......where's "Uncle Ronnie" when we need him?
Wow! No comments on the 17 year old child of Palin being PG (5 months). That makes her just more like the average Joe in my eyes. You do the best that you can with your kids and that does not always mean that they listen or make the best decisions 100% of the time. Life goes on. I hope that the pitbulls leave the 17 year old alone. It is a family issue and their business. I hope this does not "ruin" things for her.
The liberal mainstream media will do all they can to make an issue of this, because they have nothing else. Sarah Palin is a straight shooter who is a definite threat to take "Hillary votes" from their golden boy Obama. The media will milk every drop they can get out of this.......................watch it happen.
I doubt seriously though, that the public will put any importance on it. How many families do NOT have a single case of an unwed pregnancy? If this is the BEST Brokaw and his fellow Democrats can dig up, they're going to be in for a rough ride and I think they know it.
Before Palin came along, Obama was starting to look like a "shoe-in" for them.
I think they are concerned now. Very, very concerned. If Governor Palin so much as passes gas going up the podium steps, some "Paula Zahnite" will have a hidden microphone planted in desperation under the platform somewhere.
Don't read me wrong on this one.........I do NOT want to see McCain in the White House, but if we absolutely HAVE to go with one or the other, I'd rather see him than Obama, especially now that he has someone decent running with him.
As for Sarah's daughter? As my wife just said....at least she's pro-life, eh?
But Sarah Palin seems to have come out of nowhere. The limelight hasn't been on her......not much is known about her except for a list of POSITIVE things. Unlike Joe Biden, she hasn't had 35 years in "Corrupt County, D.C." so the Democrats may have to practically INVENT something to drag her through any mud.
Sand in the hourglass is running, and there isn't much time to discredit her IF there's anything in her Gubenatorial record to warrant it. The lefties were probably digging up bones on Romney or the others that have been mentioned. I don't think they were prepared for Sarah Palin................and they don't have a lot of time. They'll probably try to catch her chewing gum in public or something.
I LOVE it!!
Last night on Larry King some idiot democrat was questioning Palin's mothering skills. In other words, saying she couldn't be a 'good mother' if her unmarried daughter was pregnant. Heavens! Do they really want to go there??? That's ridiculous. If anything it makes me like Palin even more. SHE has my vote.
Has anyone seen the story about Joe Biden's son and brother that could go to prison for defrauding a former business partner and an investor of millions of dollars in a suspect hedge fund deal that went sour? Nope. Obamedia won't allow that.
I like the VP choice. She actually has a head on her shoulders and it isn't stuck in the sand. What I don't like is voting for the lesser of 2 evils. That is not what the founding fathers intended for this country to stoop to. Can't we have a ballot reform that includes a box labeled "none of the above"?
Vote for reigning in the first amendment? Vote for the World Poverty Tax? Vote for opening the borders? Vote for someone that doesn't even respect the real heros, our men and women in uniform?
I don't know...
"Gay? Liberal?, Here illegally?, anti-American?, anti-gun? Socialist?............the Democrats want YOU!!"
Vote for Obama, for "change."..........and that's all you'll have left afterward, your greenbacks gone and a little "change" left in your pocket.
Sarah Palin fired Wasilla's police chief and librarian when they wouldn't back her re-election campaign, and she left the town $22 million in debt. That's her record of experience, but I guess I shouldn't expect any better from the party that aided Saddam Hussein.
Now Palin's out on the trail lying about her past positions. More and more examples of her past support for earmarks and the "Bridge to Nowhere" specifically keep surfacing. She told the Ketchikan Daily News in 2006 she would not only fight for the money but "not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into some that's so negative."
Really?? Well, I guess that isn't TOO bad.......a lot of people had a history of turning up DEAD around the Clintons. Your golden boy "TED" did in FACT get away with murder. Hillary's over 20 million in debt from campaigning and Obama's gonna have to tax the air we breathe to support all of HIS ideas.
I don't know where your news source came from, CNN, "The View" or the National Enquirer........but apparently, the people who live in Palin's home state didn't seem to have a problem with her, because they not only turned around and elected her GOVERNOR, but she got more votes in the process, than Joe Biden got running for President in your primaries.
Good, bad or otherwise, she at least HAS some kind of experience. What pray tell, has OBAMA accomplished? What has HE done besides look pretty and make elegant speeches. Anybody out there know? You'll notice that the media has NEVER asked him any questions concerning HIS background, anti-American cohorts, or anything about HIS record in the Senate. His own "First Lady wannabe has publicly denounced America as being a hateful country. The media protects his butt like the faithful little liberals they are.
I don't think it's gonna fly this time, though.
As far as "aiding Saddam"...........DO keep in mind that except for 6 of Clinton's 8 years, the CONGRESS......(you know, the ones who pass bills and legislation)........the CONGRESS has been under Democrat control. THEY call the tune for the most part. The President is little more than a signature.
It is the DEMOCRATS' passion for the elk, weasels and ferrets up in the frozen north, who are to blame for the robbery we're taking at the pumps.
You realize of course that by the Constitution...(Huh?...what's THAT??)......Bush was never authorized to declare war WITHOUT Congressional Declaration............your guys control it, why didn't they jump up and stop it. THEY control the purse strings. Bush could NEVER have waged war on his own without Congressional approval of funds. Your side not only stood by and let him wage his little war WITHOUT declaration, but you gave him the funds to do it with............and now, conveniently....this "war" is an "election issue."...........Come on, ExIntern..........let's get real here a minute...your side is as dirty as ours, and the whole rats nest needs to be cleaned out.
Palin sold the Executive Jet as a wasteful perk. Nancy Pelosi is flying around in her own chartered 767. Wasteful spending, perhaps?
Bottom line......most everything that affects us in this country is mandated by those 435 clowns in D.C. and for 46 of the last 52 years, the Democrats have been in charge..........no debate here, look it up.
Remember that wonderful economy we had under Clinton's watch (1992 to 2000).......you guys brag about it all the time, during every election.
Might have slipped your minds, but the GOP had their little 6-year Congressional control from 1994 to 2000).................OH, but it was CLINTON who did it all, Right? Yeah, HE was the brains behind all those good economic bills during those years.
If Sarah Palin was part of a street gang, and ran a two-dollar cathouse, she'd still be the best one on either ticket.
First, don't lecture me about the Clintons or the Kennedys. I despise both. The U.S. needs a new constitutional amendment barring the spouses, siblings, or children of presidents from serving in the office themselves. Nepotism is not an American value.
As a state and federal legislator, Obama was involved in passing tax rebates for the working class and laws requiring videotaping of police interrogations, strengthening the U.S. ability to secure loose nuclear weapons, requiring specific planning for FEMA evacuations of the mentally handicapped and elderly, and creating searchable databases of federal grant and contract awards. And these are just a few highlights of accomplishments revealed when the media asked the questions you say they don't ask, pulled from CNN and The Atlantic.
The robbery at the pumps can be partly blamed on an unwillingness to drill on our own soil - I support it and have for longer than John McCain. But it is also partly our unwillingness to set tougher gas mileage standards, invest in rail to freight to reduce cross-country truck freight, and invest more in biodiesel, solar, wind and hydroelectric. Maybe nuclear too if we can keep Republicans from deregulating it to the point it becomes a massive safety hazard. Increasing supply only defers the problem. Cutting demand solves it.
The U.S. aided the Iraq regime in the mid- to late eighties. Reagan's team in the United Nations claimed the chemical gassing of a border village was done by Iran and not Iraq - the Republicans have since begun to say otherwise. Clinton, for all his faults - and bombing an aspirin plant in the Sudan hardly begins the list - had nothing to do with that.
The Democratic Party failed on Iraq just as the Republican Party did. Obama's role in that was minimal. Hillary Clinton deserves a lot of the blame as a de facto "leader" in the party. Both parties would be doing much better to remember George Washington's words about foreign entanglements. McCain is open to fifty years of Iraq entanglement. Obama will begin to withdraw forces - something that cannot begin soon enough, lest we end up subsidizing another country's national security.
Clinton was not responsible for the economic growth of the nineties. The primary factor was a wave of technological innovation neither party deserves particular credit for. And those "good economic bills" the Republicans hammered through and Clinton sold out on - NAFTA, telecom act of '96, PNTR for China - are why the economy is collapsing. Obama MIGHT prove to be a protectionist. McCain already says he'll surrender the manufacturing base to the third world.
Points well taken. Yes indeed, George Washington warned us about staying out of foreign affairs. We don't learn of course.
I have long maintained through both this blog, the Mountain Home News and the Idaho Statesman, that the greatest problem in this country is we the people. Ross Perot once said that "If you want to know what's wrong with America, go look in the mirror."
As I said in my previous response, ALL the rats need to be cleaned out. There is absolutely NO NEED for 35 and 40 year terms as Senators and Congressmen. But it's OUR job as voters, to be their "term limits."
When we go into the polls as faithful little Republicans and Democrats, and continue to re-elect the same buffoons, term after term, we DESERVE what we get. It is WE who are the "term limits", but we continue to vote as our mommies and and daddies always have.
As an example, I've never liked Ted Kennedy, and I truly am sorry about his brain cancer. Wouldn't wish that on anybody. The travesty is that THIS is what it's taking to get him OUT of politics. The people in his home state have never been smart enough to vote in some fresh blood. But this holds for both parties, which are almost becoming dictorial.
Barack Obama is a liberal. He favors amnesty for illegal aliens, is heavily antigun, and won't even respect our flag. He is friendly with known terrorists, absorbed anti-American teachings for 20+ years and his "First Lady" denounces America as a "Hateful Nation."
Yep...........I'm gonna run right out and vote for him.
McCain isn't much better. He too favors illegal amnesty, and is willing to continue Bush's war in the wrong country.
***Ronald Reagan would have gone straight into Afghanistan, and not stopped until we got Bin Laden------------------(I was at Lakenheath on his Inaugeration Day when we nuke-uploaded to take out Tehran if the "Jimmy Carter Hostages" weren't released. Reagan wasn't playing around***
McCain also made an attempt to shut down gunshows in Arizona. I was living there at the time, and still proudly have my "Recall McCain" badge, and took part in a huge rally in Phoenix. we'd gathered up thousands of signatures on petitions, and only the tragedy of 9/11 interferred and fizzled the movement out.
For this reason alone, McCain has not had my support. I've only recently decided to back his ticket because of Palin, her hunting abilities, pro-gun stance and lifetime NRA membership.
Single issue? Ok, call it that if you'd like, the the gun issue is really a multi-issued thing, because if we ever surrender them, we are DONE, friend.
Yeah...I hear Obama talking. He needs votes. But I also know how this little snake has voted.
The 2ns Amendment is CRUCIAL to this country, because it is the only amendment that INSURES we'll always have the rest of them. Gun control isn't about guns. It's about control. Ask Hitler, Stalin and Castro.
I will NEVER, EVER support any candidate who would seek to disarm us. I'm not saying that all Democrats are anti-gun, but I challenge anyone out there to show me an anti-gunner in that Congress who ISN'T a Democrat. Every anti-gun proposed measure in Congres is sponsored, co-signed and supported by...........well, look for yourself.
There's actually a part of me, ExIntern, that would LIKE to see someone like Obama get into the White House, because way down inside, I believe that nothing short of an all out revolt is ever going to change anything in this country.
Yeah...yeah...yeah..........."The old Bazookaman is getting paranoid, he's over the edge, he's losing touch with reality...........I've heard it all.
But it's gonna happen. And it's gonna happen because NOBODY THINKS IT CAN.
Obama a "protectionist?" How's he gonna do it, through his U.N. friends?
McCain's not the answer to anything either, but at least with Palin, there is SOMEONE credible in this election..........most importantly........someone who isn't ALREADY part of the Washington "Elite."
Haven't we had enough of this same old routine? Does it work? HAS it worked?
And Barack Hussein (isn't THAT ironic!)Obama.............sharp dresser.....charismatic...........smooth talkin' dude.................yes he is.
Well ExIntern...........I guess you and I are just gonna have to cancel each other's vote, and see how this all shakes out. And if your boy wins.......well, as we promise within our "fraternity"......"from my cold dead fingers."