McCain's VP Pick

[392cobra]

Looks like McCain has sucked the air out of "o"'s party this week.

He has really pulled a hat trick if the rumors are correct that he has chosen Gov. Palin of Alaska as his VP pick !

Young, female, pro-life .

[wtm442]

My guess is Pawlenty. That and $1 will buy you a cup of coffee.

[KeithBrown]

Originally Posted by 392cobra

Looks like McCain has sucked the air out of "o"'s party this week.

He has really pulled a hat trick if the rumors are correct that he has chosen Gov. Palin of Alaska as his VP pick !

Young, female, pro-life .

I'll bet she likes Cobras too!

[427 S/O]

Add lifelong NRA member and her husband races...snowmobiles, but it's stilling racing.

[cobra de capell]

It is Palin! WOOHOO!

I wonder what Hillary is thinking......plus, BO is probably saying - damn!

[Ron61]

What NoBama would have done if he had thought of it.

VP CHOSEN
BARRACK OBAMA HAS CHOSEN HIS RUNNING MATE. IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT HE HAS SELECTED SYLVESTER STALLONE AS HIS CHOICE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.

THEY WILL RUN AS "SAMBO AND RAMBO".

ALSO, I HEARD THAT NANCY PEOLOSI IS GOING TO BE SECRETARY OF STATE, SO IT WILL BE "SAMBO, RAMBO, AND BIMBO" !!

ADD FAT AL BORE AS SECRETARY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND JOHN KERRY AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND YOU WILL HAVE "SAMBO, RAMBO, BIMBO, DUMBO, AND DILDO"

Ron

[cobra de capell]

Obama - Biden......

[Smokingcobra2]

AWESOME move by McCain this should shake things up!!! How will the liberal press handle this. Now they are saying we elect a president not a VP, BUT when Biden was announced OMG he was the savior!! Again 2 standards.
joeg

[cobra de capell]

Just made this......

[392cobra]

I find it interesting that McCain's running mate has "a pair" and Binden's running mate doesn't.

[427 S/O]

I just watched her acceptance speech, looks like Mac made a very good choice.

[bomelia]

Originally Posted by Ron61

What NoBama would have done if he had thought of it.

VP CHOSEN
BARRACK OBAMA HAS CHOSEN HIS RUNNING MATE. IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT HE HAS SELECTED SYLVESTER STALLONE AS HIS CHOICE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.

THEY WILL RUN AS "SAMBO AND RAMBO".

ALSO, I HEARD THAT NANCY PEOLOSI IS GOING TO BE SECRETARY OF STATE, SO IT WILL BE "SAMBO, RAMBO, AND BIMBO" !!

ADD FAT AL BORE AS SECRETARY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND JOHN KERRY AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND YOU WILL HAVE "SAMBO, RAMBO, BIMBO, DUMBO, AND DILDO"

Ron

Man o Man are you running on the edge!

Brilliant choice! Can't imagine Biden OR Obama accusing her of inexperience without it flashing back on them!! Of course, they will get their hooligans at moveon to do it for them.

Mike

[Ron61]

Mike,

I just copied and posted an e-mail that is going around out here. That was one of the milder ones. It wasn't anything that I made up.

Ron

[cobra de capell]

Here's an interesting bio that was actually posted on hillary clinton's site.......it's off the web, so....beware relating to truthiness - it probably originated off of Wiki.

Sarah Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska, and a member of the Republican Party. She is the youngest and first female governor of Alaska. Brought to statewide attention because of her whistleblowing on ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders,[1] she won election in 2006 by first defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary, then a former Democratic Alaskan governor in the general election.

Palin was born as Sarah Louise Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of Charles and Sally (Sheeran) Heath.[4] Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant.[5] Charles Heath was a popular science teacher and coached track.[5] The Heaths were avid outdoors enthusiasts; Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school, and the family would regularly run 5k and 10k races.[5]

Palin was the point guard and captain for the Wasilla High School Warriors, in Wasilla, Alaska, when they won the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982; she earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play.[5] She played the championship game despite a stress fracture in her ankle, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds.[5] Palin, who was also the head of the school Fellowship of Christian Athletes, would lead the team in prayer before games.[5]

In 1984, Palin was second-place in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year, winning a scholarship to help pay her way through college.[5] In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.

Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose burgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[6][7] Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.[8]

Palin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Idaho where she also minored in politics. She briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working as a commercial fisherman with her husband, Todd, her high school sweetheart.[5] One summer when she was working on Todd's fishing boat, the boat collided with a tender while she was holding onto the railing; Palin broke several fingers.[5] Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP at an oil field on the North Slope[9] and is a champion snowmobiler, winning the 2000-mile "Iron Dog" race four times.[5] The two eloped shortly after Palin graduated college; when they learned they needed witnesses for the civil ceremony, they recruited two residents from the old-age home down the street.[5] Todd is a Native Yup'ik Eskimo.[5] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.[10]

On September 11, 2007, the Palins' son Track joined the Army. Eighteen years old at the time, he is the eldest of Palin's five children.[10] Track now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September. She also has three daughters: Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 7.[11] On April 18, 2008, Palin gave birth to her second son, Trig Paxson Van Palin, who has Down syndrome.[12] She returned to the office three days after giving birth.[13] Palin refused to let the results of prenatal genetic testing change her decision to have the baby. "I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection," Palin said. "Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?"[13]

Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council from 1992 to 1996. In 1996, she challenged the incumbent mayor, criticizing wasteful spending and high taxes.[5] The ex-mayor and sheriff tried to organize a recall campaign, but failed.[5] Palin kept her campaign promises, reducing her own salary, as well as reducing property taxes 60%.[5] She ran for reelection against the former mayor in 1999, winning by an even larger margin.[5][14] Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.[11]

In 2002, Palin made an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a four-way race. After Frank Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate seat in mid-term to become governor, Palin interviewed to be his possible successor. Instead, Murkowski appointed his daughter, then-Alaska State Representative Lisa Murkowski.[5]

Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission[15], where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.[5] After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.[16] Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[5]

In 2006, Palin, running on a clean-government campaign, executed an upset victory over then-Gov. Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[5] Despite the lack of support from party leaders and being outspent by her Democratic opponent, she went on to win the general election in November 2006, defeating former Governor Tony Knowles.[5] Palin said in 2006 that education, public safety, and transportation would be three cornerstones of her administration.[8]

When elected, Palin became the first woman to be Alaska's governor, and the youngest governor in Alaskan history at 42 years old upon taking office. Palin was also the first Alaskan governor born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood. She was also the first Alaskan governor not to be inaugurated in Juneau, instead choosing to hold her inauguration ceremony in Fairbanks. She took office on December 4, 2006.

Highlights of Governor Palin's tenure include a successful push for an ethics bill, and also shelving pork-barrel projects supported by fellow Republicans. Palin successfully killed the Bridge to Nowhere project that had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending.[13][17] "Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on 'federal dollars,' as the state does today."[6]

She has challenged the state's Republican leaders, helping to launch a campaign by Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young[18] and publicly challenging Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings.[13] Palin supports holding occasional legislative sessions outside the state capital, and municipal revenue sharing to help local governments.[citation needed]

Palin's tenure is noted for her independence from big oil companies, while still promoting resource development.[6][13] Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisors, to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska. [19]

Shortly after taking office, Palin rescinded an appointment by Murkowski of his former chief of staff Jim Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, one of thirty-five appointments made by Murkowski in the last hour of his administration that she reversed. [20][21] Clark later pled guilty to conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into Frank Murkowski's re-election campaign. [22]

In March 2007, Palin presented the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) as the new legal vehicle for building a natural gas pipeline from the state's North Slope.[23] Only one legislator, Representative Ralph Samuels, voted against the measure,[24] and in June Palin signed it into law.[25][26] On January 5, 2008, Palin announced that a Canadian company, Transcanada, was the sole AGIA-compliant applicant.[27][28]

In response to high oil and gas prices, and in response to the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates.[29] She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly and eliminate the gas tax.[30][31]

SOCIAL ISSUES Palin is strongly pro-life and belongs to Feminists for Life.[8] She opposes same-sex marriage(we will have to work on this one, but she has stated that she has gay friends and is receptive to gay and lesbian concerns about discrimination.[8] While the previous administration did not implement same-sex benefits, Palin complied with a state Supreme Court order and signed them into law. [32]

She supported a democratic advisory vote from the public on whether there should be a constitutional amendment on the matter.[33] Alaska was one of the first U.S. states to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage, in 1998, along with Hawaii.[34]

Palin's first veto was used to block legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to gay state employees and their partners. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska's attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation.
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Double WOW...match her resume against Obama’s and you have substance versus fluff. What a home run. Thanks about all the democrat ladies that wanted hillary to win - actually, a woman to run and win - now they have one!

[427 S/O]

Excellent............

[VRM]

I'd read a bit about her because of Stevens. This is the sort of GOP that has been missing at a national level for longer than I can remember. I hope she runs in '12 or '16. I take issue with her on some of the issues, but I would be willing to settle for a reasonably honest politician from either party.

McCain probably could not have done better.

Steve

[big-boss]

I am with you guys- I think she is what we have been missing for a long time and she ain't bad on the eyes either.

[GlynMeek]

hmmmm...John McCain is 71 years old. Is this REALLY the person we want ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY from being the most powerful person in the world????

I was actually going to vote for McCain until he made this choice. Sorry folks, I HAVE to disagree with his choice here.

She does have an impressive record in Wasilla, Alaska (!), but this DOES not prepare her for World Politics, and over the next four years we HAVE to mend the world's perception of us as bumbling amateurs when it comes to the international stage...IF John McCain DOES win, every person in America better be praying for him to live, EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS!

NOT A GOOD CHOICE FOR ME!

Sorry

[Sharroll Celby]

This will be a first for this country...elect a black man for President, or elect a woman for Vice-President.



I'm gonna vote for the codger and the cougar!!! lol !!!

[Cobrabill]

Originally Posted by GlynMeek

hmmmm...John McCain is 71 years old. Is this REALLY the person we want ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY from being the most powerful person in the world????

I was actually going to vote for McCain until he made this choice. Sorry folks, I HAVE to disagree with his choice here.

She does have an impressive record in Wasilla, Alaska (!), but this DOES not prepare her for World Politics, and over the next four years we HAVE to mend the world's perception of us as bumbling amateurs when it comes to the international stage...IF John McCain DOES win, every person in America better be praying for him to live, EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS!

NOT A GOOD CHOICE FOR ME!

Sorry

Glynn,Reagan shoots your arguement to pieces.McCain will be the oldest president -elect.However he will not be the oldest sitting president.