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McCain Taps Alaska Governor Palin as Vice Presidential Running Mate
ABC News ^ | Aug. 29, 2008 | By GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS and ED O'KEEFE

Posted on 08/29/2008 9:51:13 AM PDT by valkyry1

The 44-year-old Palin brings working class roots and appeal to female voters, becoming only the second female vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket and a first for the GOP.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; mccain; palin; runningmate; vicepresident
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What she brings to the table

1. Young vibrant female Republican

2. a staunch opponent of abortion rights

3. Executive experience (Gov of Alaska)

4. Gun Rights

More to follow

1 posted on 08/29/2008 9:51:13 AM PDT by valkyry1
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To: valkyry1

Five children. No Dick, Jane or Marys in the household

As for the children’s names, Track is named after the track and field season in which he was born, Bristol after Bristol Bay, Alaska, Willow after the state bird (the willow ptarmigan), and Piper after her father’s Piper Cub airplane. Don’t know what Trig is named for.

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2 posted on 08/29/2008 9:53:56 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: valkyry1

Fantastic choice. Way to go John McCain


3 posted on 08/29/2008 9:54:05 AM PDT by valkyry1
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To: valkyry1

The vomit over at DU and koskooks are gagging. They are wetting themselves as we speak. It is funny. Now, I must go take a shower after being on those little sites.


4 posted on 08/29/2008 9:56:26 AM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: valkyry1

Interesting wording in the title.


5 posted on 08/29/2008 9:57:40 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: valkyry1

NOW I will support McCain.


6 posted on 08/29/2008 9:57:55 AM PDT by westmichman ( God said: "They cry 'peace! peace!' but there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14)
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To: valkyry1

....and a pro-life Christian!!! A home run pick!!!


7 posted on 08/29/2008 9:57:58 AM PDT by Lawdoc (My dad married my aunt, so now my cousins are my brothers. Go figure.)
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Just heard her remarks. What a woman. What a intelligent, articulate, role model and (appears to be) a REAL Conservative.

JUST ASKING: Will this pick change anyone's mind like myself who had planned on sitting this one out?

Obviously, that's no longer the case.

I'm psyched.

8 posted on 08/29/2008 9:58:49 AM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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To: valkyry1

She has more credentials more experience and is better qualified than the top of the other ticket, Nobama Hussein


9 posted on 08/29/2008 9:59:04 AM PDT by valkyry1
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Lol. Watch out Sarah. McCain likes them young.


10 posted on 08/29/2008 9:59:42 AM PDT by BGHater (Democracy is the road to socialism.)
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To: stevio

This is McCain, not Clinton.
I like McCain’s choice in women.


11 posted on 08/29/2008 9:59:46 AM PDT by westmichman ( God said: "They cry 'peace! peace!' but there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14)
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To: valkyry1

SHE HAS FIVE KIDS HELL, SHE KNOWS HOW TO RUN THINGS!


12 posted on 08/29/2008 10:00:14 AM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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This race just got FUN again. Yes, I was going Libertarian, but after listening to her speech, I’m voting Republican again. Palin won me over.


13 posted on 08/29/2008 10:01:13 AM PDT by mukraker
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!! That's the sound of a smackdown coming all the way from Alaska.

Did the Dems have a convention this week? I don't remember. I do remember some stadium fireworks but that might have been the Communist Chinese ending the Olympics.

Gov. Palin is a mom, her youngest has down syndrome and she never even considered abortion. She is a hockey mom. Her eldest enlisted in the army and deploys to Iraq on Sept.11th. That means she wants to WIN!

Oh, and what a great public speaker. She has all that McCain lacks.

She is an NRA member. She got up at 3 AM when she was young to go hunt moose with her father.

She NAILED the female vote with her acknowledgment of Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton. “They put 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling and now we are going to shatter it!”

It reminds me of the movie DAVE when Frank Langella invites all his political cronies over to see the president resign on TV and instead the president fingers him. Suddenly Frank is all alone in his living room holding his election sign.

I imagine Obama and the Dems standing around in shock from the SHOCK AND AWE move by McCain.

14 posted on 08/29/2008 10:01:33 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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To: TomasUSMC

the mistake the RATS will make is to belittle her working class background. The NE Libs will turn up their noises and reveal their true nature.


16 posted on 08/29/2008 10:02:58 AM PDT by Oldexpat (Drill Here, Drill There..we must drill everywhere.)
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To: valkyry1

yahooooooooo


17 posted on 08/29/2008 10:03:06 AM PDT by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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To: valkyry1

We’re going to win Michigan. Hockey is a way of life for Michiganders.


18 posted on 08/29/2008 10:04:20 AM PDT by rivercat
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It’s also worth noting that Alaska is less than three miles from Russia. Kinda gives Palin a bit of foreign policy experience, moreso than Obama.


19 posted on 08/29/2008 10:04:48 AM PDT by mukraker
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To: valkyry1

730 days vs 43 in the ‘experience’ department


20 posted on 08/29/2008 10:05:30 AM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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