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The Base Hearts Sarah Palin
FoxNews.com ^ | 8-29-08 | James Pinkerton

Posted on 08/29/2008 11:21:35 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle

The Base will love Sarah Palin—the Republican base that is. Rush Limbaugh has been openly arguing for her on his show, and John McCain was evidently listening. But I think that she has great potential to win over swing voters in the middle, too.

She’s a governor, which is obviously an asset in governing. She’s pro-gun, and she is pro-life. And not just pro-life in practice: Her youngest child is a Down’s Syndrome baby. “Perfect in my eyes,” she said, clear as a bell. That’s what The Base wants to hear—she talks the talk, and then walks the walk.

And speaking of walking, did I mention that she is authentic hunter and outdoorswoman—she and her whole family?

And of course, she has a son who enlisted in the Army and is on his way to Iraq. That’s walking the walk, too.

She’s also something of a reformer: She took on the entrenched Republican hierarchs in Alaska, and beat them to get where she is now, governor of Alaska.

Speaking for myself, I think that Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, would have been the best choice for McCain. I think he would have made The Base happy, too, but he has had much more executive experience and is a proven campaigner—after all, he won the Iowa Caucuses earlier this year. McCain has many great attributes, but as President, he will need the steadiest of energetic executive hands when it comes to the management of the federal government and dealing with the 50 states. Something to think about, in particular, as Hurricane Gustav bears down on Louisiana.

But that’s all moot now. Palin is a strong choice for McCain. The Base loves her, and I expect that America will, too.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; conservatives; jimpinkerton; mccain; palin; pinkerton; vp
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To: Pondo

Sarah Palin can be a great role model and inspiration for young women looking to “find their way.”

Strong. Smart. Conservative. A real American Woman.


41 posted on 08/29/2008 11:56:06 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Mainstream Media, the Left is Nothing.)
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To: rightinthemiddle

Well no kidding! She’s pro-life, pro-gun, pro-drilling, pro-military, anti-high taxes, and has taken on corruption in her own party!

I haven’t been this excited about politics since Bush won the 2004 election! Here I was thinking we were doomed in 08, but not anymore! I’m DEFINITELY voting now! McCain’s choosing her for VP was an absolutely brilliant move. He’s regained his conservative base, got the military vote (b/c Palin’s son’s in Iraq), got the NRA and pro-life base, AND he just raked in the votes of 18 million Hitlery fans who were so pissed at Obama that they’ll vote for McCain simply because he picked a woman for VP!! A woman married to a minority at that! The libs don’t know what to do about this; she’s a woman but she’s a *conservative* woman, so they’re all in a deep blue funk.

The best the MSM can do is attack her as being from a “small town” (good way to piss of a lot of people) and claim she has no experience (this from the Obama-worshipping crowd....). I hope they keep it up; the more they attack her, the bigger the hole they dig for themselves. And the best part is they’re too stupid to realize it!

Obama was so caught up in his ego and Invesco Field performances that he didn’t see this coming and ran into a wall. Finally, some light at the end of the election politics tunnel....


42 posted on 08/29/2008 11:58:16 AM PDT by G8 Diplomat (The thing about politics is it's never so bad that it can't get worse...or BETTER! McCAIN/PALIN 08!)
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To: GeoPie

My post:

Unfortunately, she’ll probably have to echo McCain’s stupid stance. (on global warming)

She favors drilling in ANWR, while McCain does not. (I said what you said)

Let’s hope the McCain camp doesn’t force her to sing out of the envirowacko song book.


43 posted on 08/29/2008 11:58:54 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Mainstream Media, the Left is Nothing.)
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To: DouglasKC
I heart her too. She is the best choice McCain could have made.

I've been misty eyed all AM, here's an opportunity to keep our country out of the hands of the Marxists.

Go McCain / Palin !!!!

I'm retiring the old tagline, at lest for a while

Now you KNOW why we're called the stupid party !

44 posted on 08/29/2008 11:59:08 AM PDT by JMJJR (Space for rent, cost is a donation to the RNC !)
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To: I see my hands

Good catch.

LOL.


45 posted on 08/29/2008 11:59:12 AM PDT by fanfan (SCC:Canadians have constitutional protection to all opinions, as long as they are based on the facts)
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To: Yossarian
Love it! Would you mind if I borrowed it and resized it...about so?

Photobucket

46 posted on 08/29/2008 11:59:13 AM PDT by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
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To: thesearethetimes...

“I don’t know what NavyCanDo has found, but I saw some at Cafepress, but I liked the ones at a site called Zazzle.com better ; }”

Been to those 2 sites. Not crazy about the unnoficial designs they have. I’ll keep searching, or wait until McCain outs them on his sites store. Or knowing Cafepress they will have a couple of dozen different designs in a few days. I ordered my Fredhead stickers from them. They ship fast.


47 posted on 08/29/2008 12:01:20 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: lonevoice

Oh, I love this too!! Can we make the top name even smaller?!! LOL!!!


48 posted on 08/29/2008 12:02:44 PM PDT by dittomom (Moderation: Great for my diet, bad for my politics)
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To: lonevoice

No problem - I’m glad you like it....


49 posted on 08/29/2008 12:04:10 PM PDT by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity... FREE LAZAMATAZ!!)
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To: rightinthemiddle

I really do believe that the Republicans will now keep the Whitehouse for the next 16 years with this move. (Assuming of of course they don’t do something really, really stupid along the way and that Palin runs after McCain)

McCain now has my support and my vote.


50 posted on 08/29/2008 12:07:10 PM PDT by Jed Eckert
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To: rightinthemiddle

I have been cubical bound with nothing but Liberals all day. When they first heard the news they were at first laughing and making jokes. It was hard for me to listen too. But now that they have let it sink in and visited web sites during lunch time web surfing, they seem very very gloomy this afternoon. I would not want to be a Obama supporter today. That 15 point bump he needed is a 2 or 3, and that was before the Salin story broke.


51 posted on 08/29/2008 12:07:12 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: OpusatFR

Welcome aboard!


52 posted on 08/29/2008 12:08:17 PM PDT by GoodDay (McCain-Palin '08)
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To: HawaiianGecko

Concise and right on target. I’ll be quoting you.


53 posted on 08/29/2008 12:08:34 PM PDT by Lady Jag (The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right)
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To: BGHater

“Richard Viguerie is already predicting a landslide victory for the GOP in Nov.”

Wow. Mr disgruntled curmudgeon is on board?!? That’s amazing.

Is he actually *supporting* the ticket then???


54 posted on 08/29/2008 12:11:34 PM PDT by WOSG (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: rightinthemiddle

A paradigm break in Physics and Sarah Palin on the same FR day! HOORAY!


55 posted on 08/29/2008 12:12:02 PM PDT by bvw
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To: NavyCanDo

“I’ll keep searching, or wait until McCain outs them on his sites store. Or knowing Cafepress they will have a couple of dozen different designs in a few days. “

Same here. I got my Fred stuff from his site, but have heard that Cafepress is reliable, and fast. I’m so excited though, might have to make my own ;)

Tatt


56 posted on 08/29/2008 12:12:22 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said it's prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: NavyCanDo
And yes, I am writing a check to his campaign. Obama is in big trouble.

Just donated online myself. If you saw my primary artwork against McCain, you'd know hell just froze over.

Go, go! Go Johnie Go...

57 posted on 08/29/2008 12:13:17 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Need4Truth
http://dwb.adn.com/news/environment/story/8786824p-8688242c.html

All I could find.

58 posted on 08/29/2008 12:13:31 PM PDT by quack
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To: Yossarian; monkapotamus; Liz; Rightgrrrl; sam_paine; dead; diotima; SevenofNine
Ohmigosh that is so fantastic and sooooo stolen.
59 posted on 08/29/2008 12:13:40 PM PDT by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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To: HawaiianGecko
Sarah Palin is a gun totin’, hockey playin’, life time member of the NRA that gets up at 3 o’clock in the morning to hunt moose with her father, hockey mother of five, wife of her high school sweetheart, a lifetime fisherman who’s been in the union all of his life. She’s a pro-life environmentalist wanting to drill holes all over Alaska to lower the price I pay for gasoline. Her eldest enlisted in the United States Army on September 11th last, and deploys to Iraq on September 11th in two weeks. And to top it off she just thanked Hillary Clinton for putting 18,000,000 cracks in the glass ceiling, and promised those women she’d finish breaking though it.

And people ask if McCain made a good choice for VP?

Well said.

60 posted on 08/29/2008 12:16:13 PM PDT by RJL
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