GOP VP thread: Palin is the pick

Would you give him credit for the way he and his staff ran his campaign up until now?

 

OK still wading through all this, so someone might have responded to this earlier, but the Alaska Permanent Fund was established in 1978, (or maybe 76) way before she was around. In the simplest terms, and these are very simple, it's a way of compensating the Alaskan people for the fact that a company is profiting from "their" resources. The dollar amount is tied to oil company profits, so it's not a set $1,000 each year (it's closer to $2,000 this year from the estimates I've seen).

Alaskans LOVE this. You need to get in on Dividend Days sales.

 

And Biden was chosen by one man. As are all vice presdential candidates. So your point would be?

 

Um, more than that, Mr. Obama Press Secretary. From what I've read, it's at least two or three. (Some conference a few months back, then again after that, then a phone call last week.)

 

Spot on. Excellent post.

 

We're trying to get him to mellow out. You wanna brownie too?

 

They've run a good campaign, no doubt about it. Having a very, very polarizing figure as your main opponent does help.

 

Don't Bogart that shit, please.

 

Mike Huckabee on a governor vs. a senator on Hannity and Colmes :

"You get more experience to be president in a month of being governor than you do in several years of being a senator, and let me explain why. When you're a governor, you don't sit around making speechesand listening to people talk in committee hearings. You make decisions every few minutes; you make them right now. You live with the consequences. If you're wrong, everybody blames you. If you're right, you have 100 legislators taking credit for it. But if you're a senator, you have the luxury of picking two or three issues. You don't have to look at the whole field of play. You're making decisions (as a governor), you're not just making speeches. Let me just suggest this: Sarah Palin had more executive experience as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, than Barack Obama has in his entire life."

 

I think earlier in this thread I pointed out this argument would be used, and why.

And as useful as it is to have this experience, I can definitely remember the votes that Obama and McCain made -- or in some instances were not present to make or were abstained from -- that were used as fodder for and against the two candidates.

While the governor has made executive decisions, I think the votes that both Obama and McCain have made during their tenure in the senate are going to be looked at as indicators of what sort of executives they would be.

 

I think the votes are looked at to shed light on their stand on an issue. But votes are not the final say on an issue. Signing a bill into law or vetoing a bill is.

 

Absolutely. But I don't think it's too big of a stretch to say that if someone votes for or against it in the senate that they would hold the same position with the opportunity to sign it into law or veto it in the White House.

I think the position on issues that could come before them is the key, not whether they've been able to sign it into law before.