GOP Sees Sarah Palin as Mrs. Anybody USA
GOP running mate Sarah Palin, Alaska's governor, screams middle class so much that even some Republicans who initially questioned Sen. John McCain's pick are now rewarding the ticket with a thumbs up. "She is so middle class in where she comes from and what she does that it's turning out to be a perfect fit for McCain," a high-up House GOP official tells me. "People get that she's one of them, and that's a big deal," adds the official. Even those McCain passed up think she's the cat's meow. A source close to Rep. Eric Cantor, the architect of the Republican alternative to President Bush's $700 billion Wall Street bailout, tells me that the Virginian is "totally on board" the Palin express and believes she can attract middle-class independents seeking a candidate who looks like them. You might recall that Cantor had his own site promoting his very long-shot vice presidential bid.
Meanwhile, you might have noticed many pundits and bloggers poking fun at Palin for suggesting that Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her an unusual foreign-policy outlook. Well she's not the first to claim that. Way back in the late 1980s, when I was an editor of Defense Week, then a leading trade publication famous for revealing weapon cost overruns and failures, I took up Sen. Ted Stevens on an offer to spend two weeks looking at the state's needs to defend itself against the Soviet Union. At the time, he was bidding to boost defense spending in the state and declared that—all jokes aside—Alaska was America's first line of defense. It was quite a trip, spent in Alaska Air National Guard helicopters, jets, and refueling tankers. And we even visited a village where the locals told of Russians landing in military craft and leaving behind Russian goods like batteries and aerosol cans during spying missions. I recall printing pictures of the goods in Defense Week. Was there a threat of attack? Naw, since Alaska is so big and far from the lower 48. Any attackers would probably fly over, or totally avoid, Alaska, it seemed at the time. But for those who lived there then—and apparently now—the threat is real enough and the reason why the state has a number of military installations. And lower 48 snickering seems only to embolden the locals more about their position in U.S. military defense.
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Mrs. Palin
It always amazes me of the mentality of the dems. Yet you are the very ones that are so freakin corrupted who steal from the hard working, our bank accounts and want us to have to pay more?
I don't think so. We will find those who put us into this bailout crisis and kick those of you out of office. Mrs. Palin be glad that you were not a part of this fiasco. Just be yourself. The dems think they can get away with anything but America is finally waking up and fighting back. Who do you think stopped the House and Senate from voting? I say continue to bombard the phones and email these characters and say no bailout until we the people are satisfied of what you put in the plan and if they have not made anyone accountable for getting us into this mess boot their as... out of office.
I say to Mrs. Palin show these people how wrong they are about you and when you get to the white house do what you said you would and clean out all the corruption that's going on there.
I admire everything about you.
Sandshores get your facts straight
This almost trillion dollar deficit is almost $10 trillion and it has gone up every year since 2001, the year the Republicans took over. Gas was $1.55/gallon in November of 2000 and it's what now?
The Democrats didn't gain the majority in Congress until 2006 and by then the Republicans had already begun plans to bail out Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac beginning in 2004.
Friday's unemployment report will give us more bad news....to the tune of over 110,000 more jobs lost for September, bringing the total year to date to over 750,000.
THIS is the REPUBLICAN economic plan, not the Democrats.
The REPUBLICAN president created this $700 billion "Bi-partisan Economic Recovery Plan" (BERP) and the Republicans voted against it 133-65. So what does that tell you? That his own party doesn't trust him to fix his own mess, that's what.
And what does McCain do? Blames the Dems for playing party politics. Guess what Senator McCain, the Dems voted 141-94 in favor of the BERP, but only after they put in enough restrictions to monitor how that money was spent, not just the blank check Bush was asking for.
Before you blame the innocent for what is wrong with this country, you might want to check voting records, economic policy records and read some articles. The Dems left Bush with a budget surplus which he took less than 2 years to blow through and reverse the trend.
It doesn't take a chicken to smell a rotten egg
Sarah Palin is the poster woman for everything that is wrong with this country. She is the classic example of style over substance and the now infamous "lipstick on a pig" comment was 100% accurate.
McCain wrongly believes that the American people are so stupid that they would rather have a pretty woman with no experience and no clue, than a qualified man who is less aesthetically appealing. He is counting on her appeal to average moms and dads everywhere to save his candidacy and give him a chance to hold America's highest office.
In 2004 Bush was re-elected because he and his party knew how to sell fear to the American people. He sold them a fear of Islamic extremists, a fear of WMDs, and a fear of what would happen without him in the White House and it worked.
But ask yourself this question America, do you honestly feel safe with McCain as old as he is and Sarah Palin as the next line of defense against those who would seek to do us significant harm? Just because she kills animals herself doesn't mean she is qualified to represent our military to other countries in negotiations of any kind.
Those who choose a candidate because she comes from a similar background and is "one of them" aren't thinking. Look at your other friends/co-workers who are "one of them" as she claims to be. Is there anything about them that would suggest to you that they should be 2nd in command of the entire country? Why is it so hard to elect a smart person? Personally, when the sh!t hits the fan, I don't think the average Joe (or Sarah) has the stuff it takes to lead a nation through a difficult time in history. So why are we settling for someone who has as much chance of figuring things out as your next door neighbor?
My neighbors are salt of the earth people whom I admire and respect very much and when I go out of town on vacation I count on them to watch my house and care for our pets, but I don't for one second think they would make a good VP. Nor do I think as much of myself. Unless you have a lot of personal government experience dealing with foreign countries, economic issues, and wars in two countries, being just like you isn't qualification to run the PTA, much less the second highest office in the country.
In November of 2000, the average cost of gasoline was $1.55/gallon. The oil companies reported record profits that year and every year since, even with the damage done by Katrina. We elected an oil man and his cronies and they are the only ones who are better off today than they were 8 years ago.
McCain is proud of voting with Bush 90% of the time, yet calls himself a "maverick." In what world does conformity=rebellion? You can't be a maverick if you tow the party line 90% of the time. McCain owns 8 homes and calls Obama an elitist because he went to Harvard Law School. Wake up McCainiacs and smell the hypocrisy.
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