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If its that's she's pro life-then that is what you and all the other female posters should say-not claim she's inexperienced.
For Martha-
A few days back, you were looking for a succinct answer on Sarah's qualifications, here it is in a nut shell:
Sarah Palin learned the basics (Government 101)in Wasilla, involving providing services and cutting taxes, and being responsive to her contiutents. She moved on to energy issues -- big time -- (Alaska Gas and Oil Commission), discovering as commissioner that the Repubs and the Dems had ethical issues, so she dealt with that. She moved on to Government 202 as Governor of Alaska, after defeating the incumbent Rebublican without any machine running her campaign. Her state budget and responsibilities are in the billions annually. The number of state employees is 10 x Obama's campaign, and they certainly are not all star stuck swooners. As governor Palin nailed down a natural gas pipe line for the lower 48 which will cost somewhere between 26 to 40 billion dollars and involved dealing Canada, enviromental issues, citizens and the oil companies, among others.
That's more executive government experience than Obama and Biden combined. (Showing up to vote and having staffers and party leadership tell you what to do and vote "present" does not come near Palin's experience.)
Now the REAL question, if Sarah Palin was A Pro Choice Republican Gov, would you vote for her?
If its that's she's pro life-then that is what you and all the other female posters should say-not claim she's inexperienced.
I happen to think there are a few pro life women who liked the idea of Hillary running-but are looking for a pro life female leader.
Hurricane Sarah has landed.
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diamond: do you think Sarah Palin would have been picked if she were a man?
she coulda been.
Remember, none of the men had an 80% appoval rating, and that is her natural hair unlike Joe's:
With Sarah you get authenticty unlike Joe and Senator O.
YouTube - Doug from Upland Sing-Along: Joe Biden's Doll Hair
i'll take this as a "no, of course not."
It's so cute to watch you try and squirm out of an answer.
Won't happen. She's going to hit a home run tonight, and the story about her daughter (which if anything is helping, not hurting her) will soon disappear.
Huffington Post has pictures of Palin in a pink t-shirt from college and the shirt says "I may be broke but at least I am not bare breasted". Nice. God, I love this woman. She is a Dem's gift!
She's going to hit a home run tonight,
and the story about her daughter (which if anything is helping, not hurting her) will soon disappear.
Well I'm not sure how anyone could be that sure, this is really the first time she'll be doing something at this scale... it's make or break time.
some of these leftie bloggers
are really reaching
They're also saying Palin's wedding was a shotgun wedding as well...
a felony, like using cocaine ?
certainly not
oh deep, you gotta let this one go. i mean honestly, who in the 70s and 80s wasn't doing a little bit of blow. come on!
and this has
what to do with anything????
the fact that you even wrote it
says something about you.
Or maybe it just says that I heard it over talk radio today and I'm agreeing with you on how ridiculous the "blogging community" can be? Oh NO, that can't be it.
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TIM RUTTEN:
Palin's privacy versus her public stance
She, her husband and daughter got to make private decisions privately. But her public views would deny that same right to other Americans.
Tim Rutten
September 3, 2008
How sensitive is Sen. John McCain's campaign about his presumptive running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin?
Well, there's the fact that they appear unwilling to let her be alone with the media. God forbid anyone should ask about her views on, say, global warming -- she doesn't believe that human activity has anything to do with it. Perhaps they don't want anyone to hear her explain why she opposes hate-crime laws?
When CNN's Campbell Brown asked McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds mildly aggressive questions about Palin's pregnant teenage daughter, and about the governor's lack of experience with national security issues, the campaign's response was to angrily cancel the senator's scheduled appearance on Larry King's show on Tuesday.
That'll show them. (It had the ancillary benefit of sparing McCain the awkward experience of answering direct questions, albeit it avuncular King-like ones, about Palin.)
The McCain campaign's major defensive effort on Palin's behalf, however, has been the categorical insistence that any discussion of her 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy is out of bounds, an unacceptable invasion of the family's privacy. It's a sentiment that's been seconded not only by the religious right, which believes that it has found a champion in the Alaskan governor, but also by McCain's Democratic opponent, Sen. Barack Obama. On Monday, he told a group of reporters: "People's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president."
Both the McCain campaign and Obama are partly right.
Palin's daughter and herunbornchild's father are entitled to privacy as children -- and that's what they are -- and as individuals. They ought not to be pursued by reporters, nor should their friends and teachers be grilled for details about their private lives. Nobody asked them whether they wanted to be made symbolic caricatures in a national debate over the fulfillment of two strangers' political ambitions, and they shouldn't be treated as if they had.
That said, the fact of Bristol Palin's situation and the way in which she and her family have chosen to deal with it are legitimate issues, because they involve public policy issues on which Sarah Palin, candidate for vice president, has taken political positions. Palin, for example, opposes sex education in schools, including all access to contraceptive information for adolescents. Similarly, she believes that abortion should be illegal.
But Palin and her family dealt with two personal situations in just the way all Americans are entitled to meet them. When Sarah Palin and her husband discovered that their unborn son would be born with Down syndrome, they were free to make the decision that she would carry their boy to term. When they found that their 17-year-old daughter was pregnant by her high school boyfriend, they were free to reach a decision that the daughter, too, would keep her child and that she and the boy would marry. (They were free to do that even though many, perhaps most, Americans no longer regard teenage marriages as particularly desirable. Most people long ago put away the notion of a boy "making an honest woman" of the girl.)
The point is that the Palins were able to make all these decisions according to the dictates of their own consciences, formed by their own religious convictions, within the privacy of their own family and according to its values and traditions. What they decided is nobody's business but theirs; the fact that they were free to arrive at their own decision is everybody's business.
The particular brand of social conservatism in which Sarah Palin quite evidently believes deeply would deny other American families and other American women the freedom to make these same intimate decisions according to the dictates of their own consciences, religious convictions and traditions.
The McCain campaign would like to cut off discussion of Palin's views as quickly and as completely as possible. That's because McCain's desire to find a female running mate whose views on abortion wouldn't further alienate the religious right led him into a reckless and ill-considered decision. He picked a vice president he hardly knew -- and now, his campaign would like to buffalo the electorate into doing the same.
That's unlikely. Reporters are beginning to work their way across Alaska, reconstructing Palin's personal history. ABC-TV first reported -- though the McCain campaign denies -- that she flirted with a secessionist, state's rights political party. On Tuesday, an online piece by Time magazine reported that, as newly elected mayor of Wasilla, Palin tried to fire a librarian who refused to cooperate in banning books from the public library.
If McCain and his people think they can obscure this sort of record behind an appeal to privacy, they're kidding themselves even more than they're trying to kid the voters. Palin is beginning to look less like Dan Quayle and more like Tom Eagleton, whose abrupt departure from the 1972 Democratic ticket remains a watchword for unpleasant political surprise.
Failin Palin! Haha I like it. I will use it.