Absolutely Ecstatic about Palin
August 29th 2008 23:41
I’m so totally thrilled about the pick of Governor Sarah Palin that I’ve hardly been able to focus at my day job. I’ve been wanting McCain to pick her for months, though I would have given him my vote, pointless as it is with Oregon’s electoral votes likely Barry’s. However, rather than gush on this woman straight out, I’m going to follow the advice of a conservative professor I had in college and address what I know are going to be the attacks.
And no, I’m not going to provide all the links. I will put some at the bottom, but it would be a blue post (or whatever color you use for unclicked links) if I linked everything. You can go to the links at the bottom and multiple things I say in here will be found.
She’s too inexperienced: The Obama campaign has already made this charge, within moments of the announcement. Besides the fact that it is the opposite of McCain congratulating Biden on being picked and being gracious about it, the charge is hilarious.
First of all, Gov. Palin has already accomplished more in her almost two years in office than Barack in Illinois and Washington D.C. put together. She has done so much for ethics reform in Alaska that her own party wants to remove her by investigating her firing of the State Police Commissioner. Like most people when they take office, including Clinton and Bush, she started fresh. Her ex-brother in law did get found guilty of two of the charges made against him and he has suspended for 10 days. Before even winning the governorship, she forced the HEAD OF THE ALASKAN G.O.P. to resign under an ethics violation cloud.
She pressured BP and Conoco to build a $40 Million natural gas pipeline to increase the flow by 35%. Currently it’s 10 million barrels a day and this pipeline will increase it by 3.5 million barrels. That will be huge towards breaking our dependence on foreign oil.
Second, she’s been an executive. A governor makes more decisions, according to U.S. Senators themselves, in a week than a Senator does in a year. While she has been in the governor’s mansion making decisions and running a state, where has Barack been? After 143 days in office he began a Presidential campaign. She’s run the state so successfully that she has an approval rating in the high 80s. No office holder, state, local, or national has enjoyed that kind of approval rating this long in office. While he’s been running for office, she’s been governing. She wins on this count.
Her best line in the debate when asked about her experience should be: “Based on experience level, I admit that I'm only slightly more qualified to be president than Barack Obama”
Supporter of Big Oil: Nope, not going to get it on this one folks. She has fought big oil. Her husband is a union member working for big oil, but she took on her husband’s employer, BP, and Conoco-Philips to make them build a natural gas pipeline with no government funding. They have to do it on their own! She’s making oil companies put their profit into building helping our resources grow!
Did I mention I’m ecstatic.
Continuing George Bush’s Failed Policies: I’ll reiterate that while things are tough right now, our GDP still grew in the second quarter of 2008 and we are not in the recession of 2000. One comment on the American Thinker blog said that
I’m sure it’s part of the reason for her popularity. Imagine, those of you in Democratic governed states, if your governor would do that. Our Oregon Democrats tried to keep a legislatively mandated kicker for themselves to increase the size of government.
As a reformer she’ll force Washington D.C. to clean up its act, including the spending waste that has paralyzed our government.
Biden will eat her alive in the debates: NOT! As the point guard for her state champion high school basketball team they called her Sarah Barracuda. She also got that name back as mayor and I’m sure the Republican and Democrat corrupt good old boys that she’s driven out of office feel the same way. I guarantee she won’t cry if Biden comes after her and Slow Joe will be tripping over his tongue.
She’s smart, savvy and common sense embodied. She’s shown herself to be a tough debater, beating an incumbent Republican governor and a Democratic challenger.
She won’t win women because of her stand on abortion: According to a poll quoted on fox news today, 40% of women list the economy as the number one issue. To argue that women vote on only one issue is sexist. There are many more issues women care about, and her image as PTA mom, military mom, fighter, loyal wife, mother of a Down Syndrome child, etc. will also all resonate.
Yes, there are women whose all lives revolve around abortion and the absolutely false belief that it is the first step towards ending all other women’s rights, but most women have a broader vision than this (sorry about the broad pun).
She will win a lot of Hillary Democrats. She will appeal to rural and small town women, imagining themselves hunting and fishing with her.
The mainstream media will eventually trot out people to directly and indirectly challenge whether she should have (a) got pregnant at 44, (b) kept her baby and (c) taken the VP slot with an infant to care for. The first one will really piss off most women over 35, even pro-abortion women. The second one will tick off every pro-life person and women who are “pro-choice” but don’t think a woman should be told a special needs child doesn’t deserve a chance at life. The last one will backfire as she travels with her family and is seen in all sorts of nurturing situations with this baby.
Such a slam dunk.
McCain has wiped the Obama speech last night off the airwaves. He’s grabbed the headlines and the bounce.
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And no, I’m not going to provide all the links. I will put some at the bottom, but it would be a blue post (or whatever color you use for unclicked links) if I linked everything. You can go to the links at the bottom and multiple things I say in here will be found.
She’s too inexperienced: The Obama campaign has already made this charge, within moments of the announcement. Besides the fact that it is the opposite of McCain congratulating Biden on being picked and being gracious about it, the charge is hilarious.
First of all, Gov. Palin has already accomplished more in her almost two years in office than Barack in Illinois and Washington D.C. put together. She has done so much for ethics reform in Alaska that her own party wants to remove her by investigating her firing of the State Police Commissioner. Like most people when they take office, including Clinton and Bush, she started fresh. Her ex-brother in law did get found guilty of two of the charges made against him and he has suspended for 10 days. Before even winning the governorship, she forced the HEAD OF THE ALASKAN G.O.P. to resign under an ethics violation cloud.
She pressured BP and Conoco to build a $40 Million natural gas pipeline to increase the flow by 35%. Currently it’s 10 million barrels a day and this pipeline will increase it by 3.5 million barrels. That will be huge towards breaking our dependence on foreign oil.
Second, she’s been an executive. A governor makes more decisions, according to U.S. Senators themselves, in a week than a Senator does in a year. While she has been in the governor’s mansion making decisions and running a state, where has Barack been? After 143 days in office he began a Presidential campaign. She’s run the state so successfully that she has an approval rating in the high 80s. No office holder, state, local, or national has enjoyed that kind of approval rating this long in office. While he’s been running for office, she’s been governing. She wins on this count.
Her best line in the debate when asked about her experience should be: “Based on experience level, I admit that I'm only slightly more qualified to be president than Barack Obama”
Supporter of Big Oil: Nope, not going to get it on this one folks. She has fought big oil. Her husband is a union member working for big oil, but she took on her husband’s employer, BP, and Conoco-Philips to make them build a natural gas pipeline with no government funding. They have to do it on their own! She’s making oil companies put their profit into building helping our resources grow!
Did I mention I’m ecstatic.
Continuing George Bush’s Failed Policies: I’ll reiterate that while things are tough right now, our GDP still grew in the second quarter of 2008 and we are not in the recession of 2000. One comment on the American Thinker blog said that
Palin has exhibited a strong belief in the redistribution of wealth, pushing legislation to hand out cash to "help" people pay their bills on more than one occasion since being governor
. WRONG! The state got a tax windfall from rising oil prices to their state coffers. Instead of keeping it or spending it on more government, she gave it back to the people, who are still paying some of the highest gas prices in the nation (I don’t get that, but I’m sure there’s some logic for it). I’m sure it’s part of the reason for her popularity. Imagine, those of you in Democratic governed states, if your governor would do that. Our Oregon Democrats tried to keep a legislatively mandated kicker for themselves to increase the size of government.
As a reformer she’ll force Washington D.C. to clean up its act, including the spending waste that has paralyzed our government.
Biden will eat her alive in the debates: NOT! As the point guard for her state champion high school basketball team they called her Sarah Barracuda. She also got that name back as mayor and I’m sure the Republican and Democrat corrupt good old boys that she’s driven out of office feel the same way. I guarantee she won’t cry if Biden comes after her and Slow Joe will be tripping over his tongue.
She’s smart, savvy and common sense embodied. She’s shown herself to be a tough debater, beating an incumbent Republican governor and a Democratic challenger.
She won’t win women because of her stand on abortion: According to a poll quoted on fox news today, 40% of women list the economy as the number one issue. To argue that women vote on only one issue is sexist. There are many more issues women care about, and her image as PTA mom, military mom, fighter, loyal wife, mother of a Down Syndrome child, etc. will also all resonate.
Yes, there are women whose all lives revolve around abortion and the absolutely false belief that it is the first step towards ending all other women’s rights, but most women have a broader vision than this (sorry about the broad pun).
She will win a lot of Hillary Democrats. She will appeal to rural and small town women, imagining themselves hunting and fishing with her.
The mainstream media will eventually trot out people to directly and indirectly challenge whether she should have (a) got pregnant at 44, (b) kept her baby and (c) taken the VP slot with an infant to care for. The first one will really piss off most women over 35, even pro-abortion women. The second one will tick off every pro-life person and women who are “pro-choice” but don’t think a woman should be told a special needs child doesn’t deserve a chance at life. The last one will backfire as she travels with her family and is seen in all sorts of nurturing situations with this baby.
Such a slam dunk.
McCain has wiped the Obama speech last night off the airwaves. He’s grabbed the headlines and the bounce.
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