Posted on 08/29/2008 5:08:06 AM PDT by xjcsa
Palin has been my number one choice for a while now, EVERYTHING about her impresses me.
Carl Cameron on FOX & Friends said Romney is out
If true, the correct choice.
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)
If Romney’s out, Palin is really the only one left.
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......
Look, I’m a fan of hers. I just think her resume is on the light side at this point.
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.
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
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.
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.
LOL! Here’s hopin’
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.
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.
Ahh, FReepers. Is there anything they don’t know?
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.
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.
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]
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