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Is Sarah Palin Qualified to be Vice President?

Playing the race card against Sarah Palin is just the kind of tactic you would expect from the nutroots Left, and just days after John McCain announced that Alaska's popular governor would be his running mate, the nutroots Left lowered itself to meet those expectations. LA Progressive, one of the more unhinged blogs in the Leftosphere, was quick to post a hit piece by Charley James. By way of hearsay from a waitress named "Lucille" who allegedly works in a restaurant which isn't named in an undisclosed location in Alaska, James tosses out a disgusting quote which he expects us...

Here is your chance to speak up for Sarah Palin - Takes 5 seconds. Let's turn this around!!! PBS has a short video on Sarah Palin on their website. Also included is a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP? I logged on a few minutes ago and 49% percent had voted YES, 49% NO. Let's turn this around..... You don't have to give your name or email address in order to vote. It's very simple. This is a liberal network with a liberal audience. Let's surprise them! Here's the link: PBS Sarah Palin Poll

Landing At Capacity As 5,000 Await Sarah Palin's Speech Police say the Jacksonville Landing reached capacity by 8:30 a.m. as at least 5,000 people wait for Republican running mate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to speak at a rally. More

At 8:34 a.m., the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said The Jacksonville Landing is at capacity for the visit by Gov. Sarah Palin and that no one else will be admitted to the venue for her campaign rally.

“Candygram for Sarah!” That supersized box of chocolates – oh, and roses, too? – in Governor Palin’s dressing room just arrived courtesy of Gwen Ifill. What book on Obama? Because the great whooshing sound you heard was the air being sucked out of any other issue in the presidential race by the supernova that is the GOP veep nominee. As the First Hockey Mom might have put it, didya notice the helpless grin that kept appearing on Joe Biden’s face? Hmmm. I’d seen that telltale look before. Oh, yeah. 1984. When Fritz Mondale was watching his presidential ambitions being knocked...

A gem of unfortunate truth seems to have permeated the Obama campaign: If a political candidate states a blatant lie with enough confidence, he will probably win over just enough people to accomplish his mission, if his mission is only winning an election. We have seen this theory applied repeatedly by The One Himself, and last Thursday, a record-breaking number of people saw his mentor do the same. Now if you think their goal should be to win the election and nothing else, then of course they are doing the right thing. It’s not like members of the mainstream media,...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin clearly and convincingly won last Thursday night's vice presidential forum with U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware. How do we know? Because the next morning most of the liberal talking heads were dismissing the event and, indeed, the vice presidency itself as of no consequence. Had Gov. Palin been anything less than stellar, these same windbags would be, as they were before the event, emphasizing how absolutely vital is the veep's role and how crucial it was for Palin to excel. The fact that she did excel is extraordinary, given the extremely immense pressure that she...

Here's the list as the McCain Camp put forth: Joe Biden's 14 Lies 1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY. 2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it. 3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping”...

TRANSCRIPT OF VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The vice presidential candidates, Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, are debating in St. Louis, Missouri, Thursday night. Gwen Ifill of PBS is the debate moderator. Here is a transcript of that debate, which is still going on: Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin debate the issues Thursday night. IFILL: Good evening from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. I'm Gwen Ifill of "The NewsHour" and "Washington Week" on PBS. Welcome to the first and the only 2008 vice presidential debate between the Republican nominee, Gov. Sarah...

The media elites of both the Left and the Right are trying so hard to define what Palin should say and do, and frankly it's insulting to the average voter. Joe and Jane America couldn't care less about what Palin reads, what Supremes ruling she dislikes the most or whether she's familiar with all eight permutations of the Bush Doctrine. What the average American wants to know from Sarah is what would she and John McCain do to make their lives better. What would they do about high gasoline prices? What would they do to make sure there's a supply...

 WATCH THE NEW AD HONORING SARAH PALIN - HEREBREAKING NEWS -- A new television spot honoring vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been released by the Our Country Deserves Better committee (website: www.OurCountryDeservesBetter.com) .  The ad will run in targeted key states, ahead of and during a national tour supporting the McCain/Palin ticket and opposing the Obama/Biden ticket.  The tour takes place October 15th - 29th, and more details are available online - here.Those who support Gov. Palin are asked to make a donation so the campaign can purchase as much airtime as possible for this ad.  If enough contributions are...

Since his vice presidential nomination, Joe Biden's 2007 statement that a "guy who allegedly ... drank his lunch" and drove the truck that struck and killed his first wife and daughter has gained national media traction. The senator's statements don't jibe with news and law enforcement reports from the time, which cleared driver Curtis C. Dunn, who died in 1999, of wrongdoing. "To see it coming from [Biden's] mouth, I just burst into tears," Dunn's daughter, Glasgow resident Pamela Hamill, 44, said Wednesday. "My dad was always there for us. Now we feel like we should be there for him...

Sarah (Heath) Palin's performance on flute in the 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant.

How can the moderator Gwen Ifill show up to a debate where she has a financial stake in the outcome? I think Hillary Clinton would be a fairer moderator.

September 29, 2008 Categories: Veep In re-introduction, Palin to do more interviews and "tell her story" Tacitly acknowledging criticism that she's been diminished in part by an overly protective media shield, Sarah Palin will take a more forward-leaning approach and do additional interviews in the weeks ahead, a top aide said today. "She's seen the reviews and heard the criticism, but she's a fighter," said this aide. "And now she's in a fighting mood." Palin heads to McCain's cabin in Arizona today to prepare for her Thursday debate, and while she's there she'll do a round of conservative talk radio...

The Left, including its mainstream-news sources, are alleging that Palin, as governor of Alaska, “slashed” funding for Special Olympics — as well as a myriad of other notable charitable causes — from the Alaska budget. The strategy is to frame Palin as a hypocrite, one who chose life for her own son, and claims to support government funding for special-needs programs, but as a state official worked to do just the opposite. As far as we can tell, the Special Olympics claim was first made in the September 6 edition of the bible of the Left, the New York Times,...

Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin has taken enough heat to melt the Artic Circle over this exchange with CBS' Katie Couric: Couric: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that? Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It's funny that a comment like that was kinda made to … I don't know, you know … reporters. Couric: Mocked? Palin: Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah....

<p>In an interview Wednesday with CNN, the first lady remarked that it's fortunate that Republican presidential nominee John McCain has foreign policy experience himself.</p> <p>Still, Mrs. Bush says she has a lot of confidence in Palin. She says the Alaska governor has a lot of good common sense, and the first lady adds that she is thrilled to have a chance to vote for Palin on the GOP ticket.</p>

ABC News' Russell Goldman Reports: Despite saying she would accept the offer to be vice president, Hillary Clinton never really wanted to be Barack Obama's running mate, her husband former President Bill Clinton told ABC's The View. "Not really, she didn't," Clinton said in response to a question from host Barbara Walters about whether Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. wanted to join her one-time opponent on the Democratic ticket. In June, soon after conceding the primary to Obama, Sen. Clinton told New York lawmakers that she would accept the veep slot if it was offered. "I'm open to it,' she told...

Now that the early hysteria has died down, the legacy media is moving into the second phase of their assault against Sarah Palin: sometimes regretful, but stern (often mocking) disapproval over her enormous and un-ignorable shortcomings. We'll know we've reached phase three -- "Palin's moment is over" when they dig up a few rogue "Republicans" to express "second thoughts".  According to Jon Friedman, the media is simply going to close their eyes to Palin until she goes away.) But none of it will stick any more the savage first-stage attacks stuck.  Palin will see it through because of her courage, her...

The anger felt by many Nebraska Republicans toward Sen. Chuck Hagel rose to new heights Thursday after Hagel questioned whether Sarah Palin has the experience to serve as president. State Republicans are "worn out" with Hagel and his propensity for controversial comments aimed at fellow Republicans, said Mark Quandahl, chairman of the Nebraska GOP. Quandahl went out of his way to distance the state party from Hagel's remarks about Palin, the party's vice presidential nominee. Quandahl said few Nebraskans would agree with Hagel, the Nebraska party's senior elected official. "The views expressed are his own and would not reflect the...

How qualified for the vice presidency of the United States could a Republican be who: Is young - under 45 years old? Speaks in favor of economic development of Alaska? Advocates and engages in exercise for personal fitness? Has lived in the wilds of the American Northwest? Fishes, hunts, and loves the great outdoors? Has a reputation, not as an environmentalist, but as a conservationist? Has at least five children? Is a moralist for whom every issue is a struggle between good and evil? Is a reformer who has taken on the GOP's "good old boy network"? Believes corporations should...

This poll asks if you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as VP of the US.

Just got this poll question from NRCC via email (fund-raiser after you answer the question)... I thought it would be interesting to hear FReeper responses...

Link only: http://www.kypost.com/content/middleblue3/story.aspx?content_id=e2d876aa-929e-4ed5-9e27-9165a2f2828b

Did John McCain ever believe that Sarah Palin would dominate the media spotlight to the degree that she has? Ever wonder what he has to do to get that spotlight back? Check out this new "Geeks On Caffeine" cartoon for the answer. NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thanks!

With just 15 minutes to go before Sarah Palin's event was to start Saturday, the Pony Express Pavilion was only about a quarter full. The hold-up: The Secret Service had just one metal detector to run a line of some 3,500 people through. At 4:45 p.m., they gave up. They moved the metal detector out of the way and the crowd flooded into the pavilion. As one McCain backer said, the Alaskan Governor isn't in serious danger in Carson City.

ARVADA — Trina Green said she worries about her lack of health insurance and the price of groceries. On her bookkeeper's salary, she needs cheaper gas to shuttle her baby and her 7-year-old around. She is concerned about the quality of her son's school and the war in Iraq. And vice presidential pick Sarah Palin is making her take a second look at voting for John McCain. "She's not soured; she's not influenced yet," said Green, a registered independent in Jefferson County, a key battlefield where there is a roughly equal measure of independent voters compared with Republicans and Democrats....

An Army of Sarahs by Hugh Hewitt Sarah Palin keeps collecting admirers. Her interview with ABC News Charles Gibson has added another legion, .... (excerpt) Manhattan-Beltway media elites are very slow to recognize anything completely new. This is why prior to 9/11 they were in the dark about Islamist extremism. It is why prior to $4 a gallon gas, they had never anticipated a huge majority of Americans would demand offshore drilling. And it is why they still don't understand the Palin Breakout. (excerpt) The Great Snarl that has arisen and is directed at Sarah Palin has registered at a...

CARSON CITY, Nevada – Sarah Palin made her debut in this swing state with many of the same well-rehearsed lines she’s used to excite Republicans across the country since her rocket rise to political prominence. This time, though, she didn’t have to appear as an opening act. After a week of campaigning side-by-side with John McCain, and often overshadowing him in the process, Palin made her first solo campaign appearance outside Alaska with an upbeat confidence, plainly comfortable being the main attraction. Introduced by Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki as “a hockey mom with attitude” to about 5,000 people in an...

Nearly a quarter of a century later, Sarah Palin is also being grilled about her capacity to negotiate with the Soviets (well, the Russians, but they are acting like Soviets at the moment), asked if she will still cook for her family if elected vice president and praised for her chic glasses and copper highlights. But this time, women are flocking to her, cheering her can-do attitude and her unabashed embrace of the hockey-mom label.

Obama interview: How does it feel to break a glass ceiling? How does it feel to “win”? How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling? Who will be your VP? Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP? Will you accept public finance? What issues is your campaign about? Will you visit Iraq? Will you debate McCain at a town hall? What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech? Palin interview: Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders? Aren’t you conceited to be...

I don't think so. Right away, the Left is trying to portray her as Cheney in a dress. This'll backfire, hopefully. She's able to connect with the populace in ways Cheney could not. McCain and Palin need to learn right away-don't cozy up with the news media. I really believe that, if Palin plays her cards right and sticks to her guns, she will be the first female President. I think a future Palin / Romney ticket would do fine.

The first cut of Charlie Gibson's interview with Sarah Palin reveals someone embarrassingly unprepared. His name is Charlie Gibson. Here's the transcript: Gibson: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war? Palin: You know, I don't know if that was my exact quote. Gibson: Exact words. Palin: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln's words when he said--first, he suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or...

Anyone who said that Charlie Gibson might go easy on Sarah Palin might want to quickly delete those comments. What the ABC newsman conducted yesterday was a serious, professional interview that went right at the heart of what we want and need to know about the governor: Could she be president? Does she understand the nuances of international affairs? Does she have a world view? He was all business, respectful but persistent. ~snip~ Lots of conservative ridicule for this sentence in a Wendy Doniger piece on Palin for WP/Newsweek's On Faith blog: "Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that...

Howard Kurtz's column in the Washington Post is surprisingly blunt and surprisingly revealing. The mainstream media, Kurtz says, are mad. Their anger, though, is oddly unidirectional: "The media are getting mad. Whether it's the latest back-and-forth over attack ads, the silly lipstick flap or the continuing debate over Sarah and sexism, you can just feel the tension level rising several notches. Maybe it's a sense that this is crunch time, that the election is on the line, that the press is being manipulated (not that there's anything new about that)." There certainly isn't. Barack Obama has been manipulating the press...

"South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin [yesterday], saying John McCain had chosen a running mate 'whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn't had an abortion,' " Politico reports. Fowler later apologized "to anyone who finds my comment offensive." We'll leave the offense to others. We find Fowler's comment revealing and disturbing. And she is not alone in striking this theme. Here is Andrew "Beagle With a Smear" Sullivan of The Atlantic: And then, because [John McCain] could see he was going to lose, ten days ago, he threw caution to the wind and with...

The media is trying to make hay that Palin did not know what the Bush Doctrine was. Wikipedia is not a great source, but it does provide a consensus of sorts that tells us what terms mean. According to Wikipedia: "The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was...

South Carolina's Democratic Party chairwoman said Wednesday that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's top qualification seems to be not having had an abortion. She later apologized.(snip) "I clumsily was making a point about people in South Carolina who may vote based on a single issue."

Obama really is pretty clueless. Instead of hinting that Governor Sarah Palin is a pig with lipstick, he goes on Letterman and calls her just another pretty face - insinuating she has no brains, views or political force of her own: Obama: “It does. But keep in mind that, technically, had I meant it that way, she would have been the lipstick, you see?” (audience, Dave laugh) “But now we’re…” Dave: “I don’t know, you’re way ahead of me.” (audience laughs) Obama: “Yeah, the failed policies of John McCain would be the pig.” Obama keeps digging his hole, and laughing...

IT'S WIDELY ACCEPTED now that Barack Obama would be better off if he'd picked Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate instead of Joe Biden. Obama had his reasons, particularly his discomfort with her as his actual vice president if he's elected. Still, Obama sacrificed a stronger ticket by rejecting Clinton. Absent Hillary, the contest between Obama-Biden and the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin is throwing the Democrats into disarray. The consequences of Obama's veep decision appear mostly to favor McCain. And if Obama had picked Hillary? Here are a few of the differences. No Palin....

Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party nominee for president, has invited GOP Congressman Ron Paul to be his running mate in the upcoming election. In a letter sent to Paul, Barr called Paul one of the “few American patriots” who exist in today’s society, and asked him to “seriously consider this final offer as an opportunity to show true, lasting leadership beyond party politics.” Barr cited Paul’s 1987 letter to then-GOP Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf, in which Paul stated that, “after years of trying to work through the Republican Party both in and out of government…[Paul] concluded that [his] efforts must be...

Fairfax, Va. — If you’ve been to Barack Obama’s big public rallies, you know it’s not unusual to see lines of people stretched for block after block after block — seemingly mile after mile after mile — waiting to get in. That hasn’t usually been the case with John McCain’s rallies. Until now. When McCain and running mate Sarah Palin appeared this morning at Van Dyck Park, in the city of Fairfax, Virginia, the people spilled out of the natural amphitheater, over the sides, out the back, and nearly all the way to the Old Lee Highway. The rally had...

This is an email I received this morning from Democrat.com. I subscribed awhile ago to see what kind of things they are saying. This morning when I got in my Hotmail account this was in the junk mail, which is exactly where it belongs. Here is what the email said: Tell The Media to Call Sarah Palin a Serial Liar It is now thoroughly documented that Sarah Palin supported the $398 million "Bridge to Nowhere" when she ran for Governor in 2006, even though Congress cancelled the earmark in 2005. She only opposed it in September 2007 after her final...

When I wrote the email, I was merely responding to friends and clients in the lower 48, who were asking me about Governor Sarah Palin. I really didn’t mean for this email to go round the world, but it may already have. Kathy and I are simple folks and life time Alaskans who run a lodge on the remote Alaska Peninsula. I am a bush pilot and guide for the same operation that I started as the camp boy for, back in 1966. Kathy and I both pitch in to respond to emails and inquiries about fishing and hunting with...

No story in my lifetime has shown more bias, hypocrisy and incompetence than the political left-wing media's reporting of and reaction to John McCain's choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice-president. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D_NY) greeted McCain's v-p choice with a statement that it would "put to rest any argument about inexperience on the Democratic team." Based on today's polls, it would appear that Sen. Schumer may right. Only, it appears that it is the inexperience of Obama that has been put to rest. Obama's "experience" as a community organizer who failed to actually succeed in getting asbestos removed...

As Sarah Palin hits the big time on the political scene, we are being told that her selection as the nominee for vice president is intended to appeal to women like me -- your ordinary working mom who balances work and family needs and still finds time for service to country and community. In fact, Palin and I have quite a bit in common. I, too, have worked outside the home since my children were 10 and 8 weeks old, respectively. I learned firsthand what it's like to work with a special needs child. When my younger daughter was 13,...

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Gibson's producer says no issue is off the table for Sarah Palin's first TV interview as a vice presidential candidate, which ABC is hoping it can air in part on Thursday. Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, addresses supporters during a campaign rally in Lee's Summit, Mo., Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) Gibson will travel to Alaska and will probably speak to Palin at least twice. The challenge for ABC will be making excerpts available in time for "World News" Thursday, which Gibson must broadcast live from that state at 2:30...

FLINT, Mich. — Barack Obama broadly accused his Republican rivals of dishonesty Monday, citing former lobbyists working for John McCain, Sarah Palin’s shifting stance on the “Bridge to Nowhere” and their promise to change Washington. With national polls finding the Democratic presidential nominee trailing or in a dead heat with McCain, Obama began the campaign’s final eight-week push by criticizing McCain’s popular running mate as much as the Arizona senator himself. He said Palin has an interesting biography — “Mother, governor, moose shooter. That’s cool,” he said — but the election should be about who can change people’s lives for...