GOP VP thread: Palin is the pick

[amraeder]

Apparently she has upwards of 80 percent approval from Alaskans. Unless you think they're all idiots, too.

Dude, she's been in office for a year and a half during which the state of Alaska has had the good fortune of riding an unprecedented oil boom wave of prosperity--which, btw, she had nothing to do with. Pretty damn hard for any governor not to have a high approval rating under those circumstances.

Show me her ratings after she's actually been there awhile and had to make tough decisions and cuts, something she's not yet had to do, and I might be impressed. But right now she hasn't really even been tested.

The high price of oil doesn't help Alaskans too much.
Higher gas prices mean higher costs to a) tourists themselves and b) tour companies. And since tourism is such a big part of the economy...

The price of heating oil is absolutely killing a lot of Alaskans. So much so that the government was forced to give a tax rebate to help people pay for it.

Gas prices in Alaska are crazy-insane, insane-crazy right now and that hurts your average Joe (especially in a state where everything is so spread out).

Most of that oil money goes to the oil companies. Joe on the pipeline isn't seeing more money but his cost is getting driven up.

Alaskans will get more money from their divy check this year, so they DO have that going for them.

But the idea that high oil prices = good times for most Alaskans just isn't true.

The wave of prosperity will come when the natural gas pipeline gets going. And that she will have had something to do with.

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

You love polls, right? Apparently she has upwards of 80 percent approval from Alaskans. .

And I'm the King of England.

What exactly is your point?

Seriously, what does a 80% approval rating from Alsaskans have to do with her competency to be VP of the most powerful nation in the world?

I'm thinking none.

Apparently, it means most of the people she governs think she's doing a good job.

I realize you look down your nose at Alaskans (if not virtually all Americans), but you know it's about the same size as ... Delaware.

That this thread has been pushed to 55 pages in such a short time is very telling about some of you.

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

And can we put this lack-of-vetting shirt to rest please? (Although I know it won't.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/30/AR2008083002377.html

 

[Oz]

That this thread has been pushed to 55 pages in such a short time is very telling about some of you.

You're right. It says that we care enough about our lives, about this country, about this election to debate a relevant issue at length, going over the pros, cons and ramifications of McCain's decision.

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

That this thread has been pushed to 55 pages in such a short time is very telling about some of you.

You're right. It says that we care enough about our lives, about this country, about this election to debate a relevant issue at length, going over the pros, cons and ramifications of McCain's decision.

Yes, and it also tells me a lot of Dems are scared shirtless that this pick could spoil your dreams of winning in November.

 

[GB-Hack]

That this thread has been pushed to 55 pages in such a short time is very telling about some of you.

You're right. It says that we care enough about our lives, about this country, about this election to debate a relevant issue at length, going over the pros, cons and ramifications of McCain's decision.

Yes, and it also tells me a lot of Dems are scared shirtless that this pick could spoil your dreams of winning in November.

What indicates that? I think you're reading something into this that isn't there.

 

[Cadet]

That this thread has been pushed to 55 pages in such a short time is very telling about some of you.

You're right. It says that we care enough about our lives, about this country, about this election to debate a relevant issue at length, going over the pros, cons and ramifications of McCain's decision.

Yes, and it also tells me a lot of Dems are scared shirtless that this pick could spoil your dreams of winning in November.

Nah, not so much.

If this was a pick to pander to women, it's going to fail. There is no vagina litmus test.

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

That this thread has been pushed to 55 pages in such a short time is very telling about some of you.

You're right. It says that we care enough about our lives, about this country, about this election to debate a relevant issue at length, going over the pros, cons and ramifications of McCain's decision.

Yes, and it also tells me a lot of Dems are scared shirtless that this pick could spoil your dreams of winning in November.

What indicates that? I think you're reading something into this that isn't there.

I think a lot of vituperative (there's that word again) reactions from some people here are based in that. I think they were banking on a safe, boring pick that they could tie to Bush. Seems like they're far too worked up about who's No. 2. Particularly when that person has more executive experience than their No. 1.

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

That this thread has been pushed to 55 pages in such a short time is very telling about some of you.

You're right. It says that we care enough about our lives, about this country, about this election to debate a relevant issue at length, going over the pros, cons and ramifications of McCain's decision.

Yes, and it also tells me a lot of Dems are scared shirtless that this pick could spoil your dreams of winning in November.

Nah, not so much.

If this was a pick to pander to women, it's going to fail. There is no vagina litmus test.

If there is one, can I volunteer to be a tester? (As opposed to a testee ... well, we'll just stop right there.)

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

And can we put this lack-of-vetting shirt to rest please? (Although I know it won't.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/30/AR2008083002377.html

Yes, because I think it's just super that six people unilaterally decided the selection of who should be the No. 2 government official in the land. Democracy in action right there.

Wonderful vetting process. Exactly the way I want to see my government work.

Thanks, GOP. Great precedent this potential administration is setting.

Can we go back and see what the vetting processes were for every other presidential candidate? That would be fascinating.

 

[Stoney]

The high price of oil doesn't help Alaskans too much.

Well, I will defer to your greater knowledge of all things Alaskan. But I will point out that I posted that not long after reading this piece by an Alaskan columnist (http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/aug/29/palin-unqualified-serve-vice-president/) that clearly does seem to indicate that the situation with oil markets has more than a little to do with the prosperity Palin's gotten credit for.

 

[GB-Hack]

That this thread has been pushed to 55 pages in such a short time is very telling about some of you.

You're right. It says that we care enough about our lives, about this country, about this election to debate a relevant issue at length, going over the pros, cons and ramifications of McCain's decision.

Yes, and it also tells me a lot of Dems are scared shirtless that this pick could spoil your dreams of winning in November.

What indicates that? I think you're reading something into this that isn't there.

I think a lot of vituperative (there's that word again) reactions from some people here are based in that. I think they were banking on a safe, boring pick that they could tie to Bush. Seems like they're far too worked up about who's No. 2. Particularly when that person has more executive experience than their No. 1.

And exactly the same thing didn't happen when Biden was picked?

And god that executive argument is going to get tired soon. Again, I think it's far more about the positions the candidates have taken than whether they've signed a bill before.

It's not like Obama or McCain, who also has no executive experience, will not know what to do with a bill when it arrives on their desk.