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McCain appears set to name Palin as running mate (FR exclusive analysis)
August 29, 2008 | xjcsa

Posted on 08/29/2008 5:08:06 AM PDT by xjcsa

Based on a couple of key pieces of evidence uncovered by others (h/t to Truthseeker at Draft Sarah Palin), it appears nearly certain that John McCain is set to announce Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. This evidence has also been noted by Kathryn Jean Lopez at the Corner and in a few posts here on FR, although I have not seen both pieces noted together.

So what's this evidence? Flight tracking information from two separate chartered flights.

One of these flights started in Anchorage and flew nonstop to Hook Field Municipal Airport (MWO) in Middletown, Ohio, less than 30 miles from where McCain is to make his first appearance with his running mate. The other airplane also started in Anchorage two days ago, but flew first to Flagstaff, Arizona (near McCain's home in Sedona), and then on to the same airport in Middletown, Ohio (with fuel stops along the way in Seattle and Amarillo).

This is too much for coincidence - it appears certain that Sarah Palin and her family were flown separately to Ohio for the big event. Most likely Palin was on the flight that stopped overnight in Flagstaff and her family was flown on the nonstop flight yesterday.

It's not 100%, but I'd call it something like 98% - Sarah Palin appears to be the pick.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008veep; mccain; palin
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To: xzins; P-Marlowe

Palin has been my number one choice for a while now, EVERYTHING about her impresses me.


41 posted on 08/29/2008 5:21:37 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: epluribus_2

Carl Cameron on FOX & Friends said Romney is out


42 posted on 08/29/2008 5:21:37 AM PDT by NEPA (Save a cow, tip a beer)
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To: xjcsa

If true, the correct choice.


43 posted on 08/29/2008 5:21:42 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Here's hoping.)
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To: xjcsa

Drill here and now. She is on board.

I’d like to see her debate Bela Pelosi on this issue.

(I’m also waiting with bated breath for th Pelosi/Sheehan debates)


44 posted on 08/29/2008 5:21:53 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: NEPA

If Romney’s out, Palin is really the only one left.


45 posted on 08/29/2008 5:22:23 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: SlapHappyPappy
I have canceled all planned events and will be announced as John McCain’s running mate later today.

You can thank me for that, I gave him your phone number last night.

However, you'd better check your voicemail, I think he changed his mind......

46 posted on 08/29/2008 5:22:31 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: xjcsa

Look, I’m a fan of hers. I just think her resume is on the light side at this point.


47 posted on 08/29/2008 5:22:50 AM PDT by The G Man (The NY Times did "great harm to the United States" - President George W. Bush 6/26/06)
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To: The G Man
She would make it kind of hard for us to push the “Obama isn’t ready to be President” angle.

Counter punch would be she is more qualified.

And even if Obama is in the Senate for 30 years, he still won't be ready or qualified.

48 posted on 08/29/2008 5:23:10 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Proud member of the Pajamarines - First in facts - Semper FReep!)
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To: xjcsa

two things

NBC reporting Romney is In Dayton, and having worked in the aircraft charter business for a dozen years, I have never seen anyone take a private jet to an airport 30 miles away when there is an aiport in the city they want to go to as in dayton
unless they were forced to go there because of weather, if you wanted them to not be seen there is no need to land 30 miles away you just taxi the aircraft right into a hangar and load them into the car inside


49 posted on 08/29/2008 5:23:11 AM PDT by edzo4 (Vote McCain, Keep Your Change)
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To: Tuxedo

InTrade is BS.

Some Freeper told me the other day that if anyone goes over 80, he’s the nominee.

That is so ridiculous, Pawlenty was over 80 yesterday.


50 posted on 08/29/2008 5:23:20 AM PDT by JRochelle (I support the PUMAS!)
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To: NEPA

HOLY GAMECHANGER BATMAN!


51 posted on 08/29/2008 5:23:23 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: xjcsa

If it’s Palin, and if she’s half as good as I’ve read and can hold her own in debate, I think we can (cautiously) start learning to say “President McCain.”

She’d reassure the base, and she’d equally make history.


52 posted on 08/29/2008 5:23:54 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: savedbygrace

LOL! Here’s hopin’


53 posted on 08/29/2008 5:23:59 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: xjcsa

It’s already been on Fox News. Romney and Pawlenty are staying at home. It looks like Palin, but Huck is supposedly heading to Ohio as well.


54 posted on 08/29/2008 5:24:13 AM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: The G Man

I don’t think it will be hard at all.
Obama with no experience will be President.

She will be VP and have four years (or eight) to get ready.


55 posted on 08/29/2008 5:24:28 AM PDT by netmilsmom (The Party of Darkness prefers to have the lights out. - Go Fierce 50!!!)
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To: xjcsa

Ahh, FReepers. Is there anything they don’t know?


56 posted on 08/29/2008 5:24:30 AM PDT by rabidralph (Watch out for the Obamakazis.)
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To: VOR78
With any luck...

nah, not luck. With God's Blessing.

One analysis - I heard that a lot of women that voted for Clinton did so because they found him attractive in some way (probably that female attraction to the bad boy),

I wonder if Palin would peel off some dhimmirat men, at least the heterosexual ones.

57 posted on 08/29/2008 5:24:38 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: The G Man

The o’s experience would not have an impact on his voters. THEY just believe in CHANGE - even with an old dim as a running mate.


58 posted on 08/29/2008 5:25:09 AM PDT by mathluv
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To: P-Marlowe; wagglebee

Incredibly strong pro-life. She just gave birth to her own Downs Syndrome baby. She would be an AWESOME choice.

This would be a McCain Home Run.

And, she could sell energy ideas like no one else. She can speak directly to that issue.

Sarah Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska, and a member of the Republican Party. She is the first female governor of Alaska, its youngest, and is the first governor born after Alaska achieved statehood. Brought to statewide attention because of her whistleblowing on ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders,[1] she won election in 2006 by first defeating the incumbent Governor in the Republican primary, then a former Democratic Alaskan Governor in the general election.

Family and personal background

Palin was born as Sarah Louise Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho, U.S.A., the daughter of Charles and Sally (Sheeran) Heath.[2] The family moved to Alaska when Sarah was an infant.[3] Charles Heath was a popular science teacher, and coached track.[3] 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.[3]

Palin was the point guard and captain for the Wasilla High School Warriors when they won the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982; she earned the nickname “Sarah Barracuda” because of her intense play.[3] [4] She played the championship game despite a stress fracture in her ankle, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds.[3] Palin, who was also the head of the school Fellowship of Christian Athletes, would lead the team in prayer before games.[3]

In 1984, Palin was first runner-up in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year, winning a scholarship to help pay her way through college.[3][5] In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.

Details of Palin’s personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose burgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[6][7] 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.[8]

Palin holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Idaho where she also minored in politics. 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.[3] 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.[3] Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP at an oil field on the North Slope[9] and is a champion snowmobiler, winning the 2000-mile “Iron Dog” race four times.[3] 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.[3] Todd is a Native Yup’ik Eskimo.[3] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.[10]

On September 11, 2007, the Palins’ son Track joined the Army. Eighteen years old at the time, he is the eldest of Palin’s five children.[10] Track now serves in an infantry brigade, and will be deployed to Iraq in September. She also has three daughters, Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 7.[11] On April 18, 2008, Palin gave birth to her second son, Trig Paxson Van Palin, who has Down syndrome.[12] (Sarah returned to the office three days after giving birth.[13]) Palin refused to let the results of pre-natal 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?”[13]


59 posted on 08/29/2008 5:25:14 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: SE Mom

But- Carl Cameron says Romney is out

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2070458/posts


60 posted on 08/29/2008 5:25:14 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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