GOP VP thread: Palin is the pick

Re: GOP VP thread: So who will McCain name today?

She's a creationist. So that's good news.

 

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Nope.

McCain just decided to take that argument, which he gets points on, off the table in about a half-hour.

 

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From Wiki...

Palin was born 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 science teacher and track coach.[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, after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year, Palin finished second in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant which won her a scholarship to help pay her way through college.[5] In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.

Palin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Idaho where she also minored in politics.

Her husband, Todd, is a Native Yup'ik Eskimo.[5] Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP at an oil field on the North Slope[6] 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] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.[7]

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]

On September 11, 2007, the Palins' eighteen-year-old son Track, eldest of five, joined the Army.[7] He now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September 2008. She also has three daughters: Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 7.[8] On April 18, 2008, Palin gave birth to her second son, Trig Paxson Van Palin, who has Down syndrome.[9] She returned to the office three days after giving birth.[10] 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?"[10]

Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose hamburger, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[11][12] 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.[13]

 

Re: GOP VP thread: So who will McCain name today?

She sounds like a fantastic lady.

I just don't want her as the leader of the free world if McCain goes down.

 

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The Democrats better get their shit together on this.

What I'm hearing in terms of Democratic reaction?... All over the place.

Somebody put out the damn talking points, and make 'em good!

 

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Maybe she posts! Which one of you is she?

 

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Jesus, when are the TV wonks going to learn there is a three-second delay on these telecom connections. It's only been this way for 15 years.

Assholes talking all over themselves... very annoying.

 

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I guess she'll help with the wingnut vote.

 

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If I'm Obama's campaign, this is a worrisome choice. It is a game-changer, but in which direction?

And if I'm the Dems, I have Howard Dean and other surrogates make the following argument today:

"John McCain was obviously looking for a woman to pander for HRC voters, but it had to be pro-life, so he kept reaching until he found one. He picked a political running mate, not someone who he actually wants in the room when he's making decisions - unlike Barack Obama."

 

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I applaud McCain for his political genius in the pick, but I'm still not sure how it's going to work out. Is Palin going to be the attack dog and rip Obama for being callow and inexperienced?
And is anyone watching this McCain event in Ohio? Don't know what music they're playing now.

Wouldn't it be crazy if Palin's kid and Biden's kid met up in Iraq? One of them gets the salute.

 

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The ethics stuff is already popping up.

Wasserman-Schultz is killing Palin right now on MSNBC.

 

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I'm worried that every argument against McCain is going to be, "You can't say that; he was a POW," and every argument against Palin is going to be, "You can't say that; she's the mother of a child with Down's Syndrome."