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Posted on 08/29/2008 10:11:05 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Senator Fred Thompson Praises Senator McCain’s Vice Presidential Pick
(Nashville) – U.S. Senator Fred Thompson issued the following statement:
"I am absolutely delighted by this selection. Once again, John McCain has shown that he is an independent thinker who paints in bold strokes. Sarah Palin is a conservative reformer with executive experience who will bring a breath of fresh air to Washington. She will be an ideal running mate for John McCain, and will make a major contribution to our country's future."
I agree. I just watched her speech, and I’m really impressed. I think we might have a new Reagan in the making.
She is going to give McCain a landslide win!
Other than the fact that Senator McCain should have been praising Fred Thompson’s pick for Veep, I’m happy. Thanks, Fred, for everything you’ve done for your country - and I hope that we haven’t seen the last of you. Maybe your friend, John, will make you Attorney General.
As per usual, I agree with Fred. Grins.
A truly good and proper choice for VP at this time. She will have the experience to thwart a Hillary 2012 should she run for POTUS then, as well she will bring in the female vote now. She also has more governing experience than Obama, and in any debates with Biden will chew him up and spit him out.
She’s doing great things for Alaska and the Nation now as Governor of that State, but she will be better for us now, and in the future as the VP candidate.
Fred nails it!
McCain made a solid conservative pick in Sarah Palin.
Hey, here’s some news for you guys.
I just got done talking to some “UNION” electrical workers who saw this lady.
They are ALL VOTING MCCAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Before, they were gonna vote Obama because he was a Democrat and most of them are too... NOW they are going to vote for HER. Not MCCAIN, HER!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Wow... I’m impressed.
From Politico, June 22, 2008:
***Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may be nationally unknown, but in her state she is nothing short of a political phenomenon.
Palin, 44, would add youth to the GOP ticket. As governor she has shown a willingness to veto some of the state’s large capital projects, no small plus for fiscal conservatives. But it’s her personal biography, which excites social conservatives, and reformist background that might most appeal to McCain.
She’s stridently anti-abortion, and recently brought to term her fifth child — who she knew would have Down syndrome. A hunter, fisher and family woman with a rapid professional rise, Palin is a natural for Republican framing.
In 1982, Palin led her underdog high school basketball team to the state championship, earning the nickname “Sarah Barracuda.” Two years later she won the beauty pageant in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska — and was also named “Miss Congeniality.” By her early thirties, she was the mayor of Wasilla.
In 2003, as ethics commissioner on the state’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, she risked her rising political star by resigning her position in protest of ethical misconduct within the state’s Republican leadership as well as then-Gov. Frank Murkowski’s acceptance of that impropriety. Though this briefly made her an outcast within the party, within a year several state Republican heavyweights were reprimanded for the conduct she’d decried.
Her reputation with the party thus redeemed, Palin defeated Murkowski in the 2006 Republican primary on the way to being elected governor.
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As governor, she’s continued challenging the state’s powers that be, even winning tax increases on oil companies’ profits. Her approval rating has soared as high as 90 percent, making her one of America’s most popular governors.
“Palin is becoming a star in the conservative movement, a fiscal conservative in a state that is looking like a boondoggle for pork barrel spending,” said Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster who specializes in women’s politics.
“She’s young, vibrant, fresh and now, and a new mother of five. She should be in the top tier,” Conway continued. “If the Republican Party wants to wrestle itself free from the perception that it is royalist and not open to putting new talent on the bench, this would be the real opportunity.” ***
Bump for McCain/Palin and Fred Thompson.
FRED! Ping.
Does anyone have a link to her speech?
I agree 100%. I don't think Fred's health and energy were up to the rigors of the campaign. I wish they were.
Well if the great Fred Thompson gives his thumbs up, then it is a winner.
McCain has redeemed himself this morning. He really is a conservative. Not always in the style I like but he is the real thing.
I wonder who they will have put her name in nomination. Just her life story reads like a pioneer.
I think the media has it right in describing her as, “a hail Mary pass” but they fail to realize that many middle of the road Democrats and independent are standing where this pass will find them and the leftists on defense can’t get downfield.
A master-stroke.
Fred supporting her gives her another brownie point imo.
Fred was my first choice, and he was the first one “at the McCain Ranch”, but I think he made it clear from the beginning he didn’t want the job. That said, if it ain’t Fred, I think this is a great pick. Solid conservative, gun owning, truck driving, hockey playing pro-life mom. Wants to drill in Anwar, has a son on active duty; husband is a working man.
Finally, a smart decision from McCain. He may get my vote yet.
Sara Palin’s husband is a union worker in Alaskas oil fields.
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