Sarah appears to be a dynamite choice with her stand on many issues. She does, however, seem to waffle a bit on Anthropogenic Global Warming ™Anthropogenic Climate Change ™.
Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/29/2008 8:02:18 AM PDT by wilco200
With the selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, Sen. John McCain has extended an olive branch to the far right wing of his party.
The 44-year-old mother of five, who has only been governor for two years, has a conservative track record on both social and fiscal issues. Below is a list of her stance on several important issues.
Abortion: Palin is outspokenly pro-life.
Marriage: Palin opposes same-sex marriage and stated on her campaign web site that she believes “marriage should only be between a man and a woman.”
Climate: Upon being elected governor of Alaska, she created a sub-cabinet on climate change. However, she has been a vocal critic of scientists who suggest that climate change is leading to the decrease in polar bears in Alaska. She has also threatened to sue to have polar bears not listed as a threatened species.
Immigration: Being that her state only borders Canada and is thousands of miles from the Mexican border, Palin has not often expressed her views publicly on illegal immigration.
Guns: Palin is a lifetime member of the NRA. On her Web site, she wrote that she supports “our Constitutional right to bear arms and am a proponent of gun safety programs for Alaska's youth.”
Economy: She supports reducing property taxes and taxes for small businesses to grow the economy.
Health Care: According to her campaign Web site, Palin supports flexibility in government regulations that allow competition in health care that is needed, and is proven to be good for the consumer. It will drive down health care costs and reduce the need for government subsidies, she believes. Palin also supports patients in their rightful demands to have access to full medical billing information.
Thanks for the reality check. I’m cautiously optimistic, as I don’t really know anything about her, but I’d have to agree that this isn’t necessarily the magic bullet. Quick survey of coworkers said “who?” followed by “obvious pandering”.
It’s only initial reaction and she has a lot of time to overcome it, but I remain as wait and see.
[McCain must actually want to win this election!!!!]
I’m impressed too. In one swoop, McCain gets back the conservative base AND deflates the ‘first black man’ bubble AND takes a whack at the Hillary vote.
Now we have four zeros in the race McNuts blew his last chance the msm will have her axed in one week.
Wow! She Hunts big game and likes soldiers. This just keeps getting better and better.
And when I say hunt, I mean hunt. Not the John Kerry blue-blood country club sort of hunting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ys4HGbiONY
Yea, I was sure he was going to pick Lieberman, which would have been the death knell. I'm surprised at his "audacity" and grasp of reality.
I am troubled by these initiatives also. The taxation on the oil industry is similar to the rat plan. The rats have proposed to confiscate oil industry profits and distribute them as additional welfare payments. The state of Alaska has declared itself owners of mineral rights. The rats think that they own mineral rights also.
In a larger sense, these issues are minor for the election. The public does not have much knowledge of windfall profit tax issues. As long as McCain/Palin campaign on domestic energy exploration, these issues will remain below the radar. Problems may occur if McCain/Palin are elected and the rats gain firm control of Congress.
Why?
AND extremely pleased. This may not bring feminists around, but there are many more people of faith than there are feminists. Those are the people McCain needed to reach out to. I for one would have NO problem with her stepping in as POTUS should the need arise.
I laughed out loud when I read this. I pictured Kerry in his "prop shot" of hunting geese (not before) but while running for office. Just one of many "prop shots" he had. LOL Good laugh to start the day.
“And when I say hunt, I mean hunt. Not the John Kerry blue-blood country club sort of hunting.”
“I laughed out loud when I read this. I pictured Kerry in his “prop shot” of hunting geese (not before) but while running for office. Just one of many “prop shots” he had. LOL Good laugh to start the day.”
LOL, and I remember Kerry talking about “crawing on his belly” while hunting. Good way to get a face full of bear or elk poop in Alaska or here in the Pacific Northwest.
Just in from the Obama camp, “We are soooooooooooooooooo screwed.”
LOL...not by choice. I get one channel...don’t watch much TV these days, nothing worth watching.
From her speech, it sounded as though what she did was send to the taxpayers, some of the state’s windfall from the taxes on the increasing price of gasoline. Sounds pretty responsible to me. Instead of using that money for some other thing to bloat the State Govt., she sent it to the folks who pay the taxes. Also, oil companies will always try to get the best deal they can, sounds like she just prevailed in favor of the citizens of Alaska, since it is THEIR state from which the resources are coming.
Sarah appears to be a dynamite choice with her stand on many issues. She does, however, seem to waffle a bit on Anthropogenic Global Warming ™Anthropogenic Climate Change ™.
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