No one knew who Sarah Palin was before that Friday in August when John McCain plucked her from obscurity. No one.
"There is no new Messiah coming out of the bush to come save us all"
I'm not looking for a Messiah, apparently you are.
I'm looking for a nominee who can form complete sentences, actually win a debate with a retard like Joe Biden, and get a daughter past the age of 17 and out of high school before getting knocked up. Oh, and who won't select someone to stand on her nominating stage just 12 months he decides to pose for Playgirl magazine. Just saying.
No one knew who Sarah Palin was before that Friday in August when John McCain plucked her from obscurity. No one.
That just isn’t true, many of us were aware of the most popular Governor in America and how she was shaking up her state’s corrupt establishment.
“The Most Popular Governor
Alaska’s Sarah Palin is the GOP’s newest star.
by Fred Barnes
07/16/2007, Volume 012, Issue 41
Juneau
The wipeout in the 2006 election left Republicans in such a state of dejection that they’ve overlooked the one shining victory in which a Republican star was born. The triumph came in Alaska where Sarah Palin, a politician of eye-popping integrity, was elected governor. She is now the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating in the 90s, and probably the most popular public official in any state.
Her rise is a great (and rare) story of how adherence to principle—especially to transparency and accountability in government—can produce political success. And by the way, Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state’s proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, “may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history.”
As recently as last year, Palin (pronounced pale-in) was a political outcast. She resigned in January 2004 as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after complaining to the office of Governor Frank Murkowski and to state Attorney General Gregg Renkes about ethical violations by another commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, who was also Republican state chairman.
State law barred Palin from speaking out publicly about ethical violations and corruption. But she was vindicated later in 2004 when Ruedrich, who’d been reconfirmed as state chairman, agreed to pay a $12,000 fine for breaking state ethics laws. She became a hero in the eyes of the public and the press, and the bane of Republican leaders.
In 2005, she continued to take on
the Republican establishment by joining Eric Croft, a Democrat, in lodging an ethics complaint against Renkes, who was not only attorney general but also a long-time adviser and campaign manager for Murkowski. The governor reprimanded Renkes and said the case was closed. It wasn’t. Renkes resigned a few weeks later, and Palin was again hailed as a hero.
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In 2006, she didn’t hesitate. She ran against Gov. Murkowski, who was seeking a second term despite sagging poll ratings, in the Republican primary. In a three-way race, Palin captured 51 percent and won in a landslide. She defeated former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election, 49 percent to 41 percent. She was one of the few Republicans anywhere in the country to perform above expectations in 2006, an overwhelmingly Democratic year. Palin is unabashedly pro life.
With her emphasis on ethics and openness in government, “it turned out Palin caught the temper of the times perfectly,” wrote Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News. She was also lucky. News broke of an FBI investigation of corruption by legislators between the primary and general elections. So far, three legislators have been indicted.
In the roughly three years since she quit as the state’s chief regulator of the oil industry, Palin has crushed the Republican hierarchy (virtually all male) and nearly every other foe or critic. Political analysts in Alaska refer to the “body count” of Palin’s rivals. “The landscape is littered with the bodies of those who crossed Sarah,” says pollster Dave Dittman, who worked for her gubernatorial campaign. It includes Ruedrich, Renkes, Murkowski, gubernatorial contenders John Binkley and Andrew Halcro, the three big oil companies in Alaska, and a section of the Daily News called “Voice of the Times,” which was highly critical of Palin and is now defunct.”
Clued in Freepers knew who she was.
There are plenty of posts on here about her, long before John McCain chose her.
You might search the archives. Plus she wrote an article on this country's oil policies in the New York Times (yes that bastion of liberalism), long before McCain nominated her.
Of course none of that changes the fact that she'd clobber McCain in any head to head poll for the 2012 nomination, which is what I was talking about.
“I'm looking for a nominee who can form complete sentences,”
Now you are beginning to sound like that retarded skanky woman Joy Behar. That post of yours is a direct quote from her. Might I remind you that the New York Times never let's those who can't string "complete sentences" together, write opinion pieces in their newspaper, especially if the person writing the article is strongly conservative?
” actually win a debate with a retard like Joe Biden,”
She already won the debate with Biden, with a very short time for preparation, and even with Biden having spent decades in the US Senate.
” and get a daughter past the age of 17 and out of high school before getting knocked up.”
Even the Royal families of Europe, have had daughters get knocked up before they were 17, and their lineages still rule Europe as we speak
” Oh, and who won't select someone to stand on her nominating stage just 12 months he decides to pose for Playgirl magazine. Just saying.”
Now you are showing your desperation. She didn't " chose" anyone fir her daughter. Her daughter chose the skank herself.
And # 2, if you want to talk about embarrassing family connections, why don't we start with Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton's notorious brothers eh? They happen to be related by blood, and have the same genes as those 2 presidents. Which is a more serious matter in my view.
And while we are about it, we might just take a look at the current president's drug dealing brother, and his illegal alien aunt.
None of that stopped any of the above gentlemen from occupying the White House did it, so why on earth should Sarah Palin's daughter getting herself knocked up, stop Sarah Palin from occupying the White House then?