Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has stepped onto the national stage this evening at night three of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
At the start of her address, Palin told delegates that she was “honoured to be their vice presidential nominee.”
She later hit hard on Democratic presidential hopeful, Barack Obama:
“When the cloud of rhetoric has passed when the roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot — what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger and take more of your money and give you more orders from Washington and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world.”
The highlight of the speech came when Palin departed from her script, saying of herself and other “hockey moms” that “you know the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom? Lipstick.”
Our thoughts on the speech? Did she git-r-done? Or were you too busy watching the season premiere of America’s Next Top Model?
UPDATE: Oh snap — Obama’s campaign has already issued a response to Gov. Palin’s speech.
“The speech that Gov. Palin was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush’s speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we’ve heard from George Bush for the last eight years. If Gov. Palin and John McCain want to define ‘change’ as voting with George Bush 90% of the time, that’s their choice, but we don’t think the American people are ready to take a 10% chance on change.”
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What a fucking cunt. No substance just petty crap!!
ve her!!!!!!!!! MCCAIN & PALIN 08!!!!!!!
love her!!!!!!!!!
She provided nothing of substance just petty one liners. Of course republicans love
her she offers nothing to think about and we all know republicans can’t think for themselves.
obama rebuke is old and straight from his stupid speech
She is an idot who’s in way over her empty head…..
She’s incredible and I can’t wait to see her in the debates.
Teleprompter people! The best invention since sliced bread.
When this cunt was mayor she wanted to ban books and fire the librarian. Fucking fundamentalist and creationist.
Your stupid Americans have no brain cells….believe everything your see.
obama biden period
Michelle,
You’re an idiot too. Just think, if you’ve rape and beaten nearly to death, and get pregnant in the process she’d want you to keep the child. Now, tell me how incredible she is again!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08
Supporters, lets not rant on this women, donate to the campaign, volunteer, phone bank, do canvassing, whatever.
Lets use this hateration as motivation!!!! Take this all the way to the white house
OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!!!!
OMG…Gov Palin gave the best political speech…ever!
I LOVE HER… great choice.
Of course Obama fanatics have to use vulgar offensive language to discuss politics, comes with the territory, they probably worship that racist foul-mouthed P.Diddy too Go MCCAIN/PALIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Country first, not the color of ones skin!!!!
She did say alot, Guess you were not listening!!!! She made a great SPEECH!!!!
This woman is such a gimmick. The American people are too smart for this.
i really think jade is the only one i’ve heard in a week who gets it.
if you truly think she’s a complete idiot and that she’s not a threat, you should be happy and just do your thang. too bad most libs are GOVERNED by their emotions so they can’t help but have a few seizures over palin.
one other thought…if the palins wanted to keep the pregnancy under wraps–they should have leaked it to the press that john edwards was the father.
alekwj, nifty fear mongering posts!
Truth hurts, huh Adam!! Immagine a republican accusing someone of fear mongering..9/11 9/11 9/11!
What a tool!
Nice racist post Teri!
Alekwj, you’re a fine one to talk, look at your vulgar POSTS!!! iF YOU WANT YOUR VOICE HEARD, HOPE YOU REGISTER AND VOTE!!!
she didnt even write the speech. anyone who can read could have done what she did.
at what point will republicans go to defend this incompetent woman/mother?
when we look back, people are going to laugh at what mccain did. he blew any shot he ever had.
Leo,
Want to talk about vulgar? I believe it was your current VP, Cheney, that said “Go fuck yourself” on the senate floor. You republicans are such hypocrites.
Did she say anything about how they are going to fix the mess the Republicans made or did she simply blame everything on the Democrats? I thought she was rude, sarcastic, dishonest, and condescending. Barack Obama received over 18 million American votes, is a United States Senator, and he deserves a certain level of respect, and the fact that she couldn’t bring herself to refer to him by name once, is extremely disrespectful. The fact that this woman who is espousing small town ideals, would belittle a community organizer as a do nothing is an insult to those people in those communities. It is also a put down of man who could have run off to a six figure job, but instead chose to work for hardworking men and women affected by hard times. If she wanted to appear as mean and vindictive as a man, mission accomplished. The Dems were extremely respectful of McCain last week and Obama went out of his way to be respectful to the Palin family this week and her words and actions tonight signify to me that she didn’t deserve the respect he showed her.
Hmm above…..you are my new favorite poster!
You said exactly what I was thinking!
brilliant Hmm! well done!
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Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 38 minutes ago
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.
Some examples:
PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”
PALIN: “There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.”
THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson.
THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.
MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
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“FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.â€
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. ONLY SINCE JANUARY 2007 HAVE DEMOCRATS BEEN IN CHARGE OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE.”
Are you talking about the nearly two years that gas prices have spiralled out of control while the dems have stood in the way of drilling for more oil despite the overwhelming desire of American citizens to do so?”
MCCAIN/PALIN’08
“The Dems were extremely respectful of McCain last week.”—21.
Are you talking about when Obama dishonestly suggested that McCain wouldn’t go after Bin Laden? And how respectful were the dems of Palin as they disgustingly attacked her because her spouse had a DUI 22 years ago (of course ignoring the fact that Obama himself was admittedly snorting coke around that time). Then dems accused her child with down syndrome of not really being her child (of course while ignoring John Edwards affair and illigitemate child for the last 6 months). Then dems attacked her daughter for being pregnant at 17 (of course, Obama’s mother was pregnant with him at the same age.) Then dems attacked Palin for choosing to have a child at 44 (i guess respecting a woman’s right to choose only counts if she chooses abortion for dems). Then dems put their sexism on full display when they accused Palin of neglecting her children by running for VP (of course, dems have never attacked male candidates for that reason). No, you’re right “Hmm”, dems have been very respectful. The only thing more offensive than their behavior is your narrow-minded, intellectually dishonest idiocy.
PHONY, PHONY, PHONY, PHONY, PHONY, PHONY, PHONY!!!!!!
I didn’t hear anything new in her speech, all I heard was her bitching on Barack Obama YES THAT’S HIS NAME SARAH… CAN YOU SAY IT??? So digusting and the Reps whooping this up more fool you because she just went on that stage and acted her ass off something Bush has not been able to do for the last 8 years.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!
Politics, gotta love this country, everyone has an opnion about everything and anyone!!!! Vote Vote, if you feel so strongly about your candidate.
MCCAIN & PALIN 2008
Loved her! I so wish I shared her politics.
Or rather, that she shared mine.
Alaska’s population: 626,932!!!
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NOT EVEN A MILLION!
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Is that experience?!
Maybe for a gun carrying, bible reading, baby maker hame schooled person.
The same cause the USA has fall behind in the global arena: pioneer type of colonialist politics!
she is a pitbull! HOW NICE! That’s the same problem with BUSH AND CHENEY!
BULLIES, no substance, only guns, ignorance and destruction of budgets for public programs!
I bet 99% of republicans do not know what a fiscal budget is! The difference between the firts world and the third world… Yeah…keep the fight against the public interest (government) to bring us back to entrenched feudalism based on few furtunes.
The aim of republicans: to subjugate through the use of force!
Medieval politics, guns, cowboys, and pregnant women!
I was the biggest supporter of Obama, until last night.
She has a proven track record that beats them all out.
She has proved herself, to her own state, that she will not tolerate corruption from any party, she is down on petty spending ie: her own jet for one, she is down on the “Good Ole Boy” standards, She also will not tolerate big government spenind, and on and on and on.
No wonder people are scared of her, She has a record of substance and the Good Ole Boy’s, they are running with thier tail between thier legs.
The debate between her and Biden next month, will honestly prove that this Lady has more balls to fight for what is right, then all of them combined.
PALIN is a hellcat, and will not allow alot of DC crap go on anymore.
You Good Ole Boys, needs to run and quit your bitchin - A they will be exposed.
This is surely a great day.
Absolutely, unbelievably ridiculous. I almost threw up several times throughout her speech.
This is the Golden Ticket
WOW!
I was going for Obama until I saw the light (giggles)
I just cant wait until the debate!
Palin has more balls then all 3 of them guys put together!
#26 - mccain said he’d go after bin laden himself. it’s a direct quote. both of these idiots suck.
I am so sick of the “two Americas” Republican vs Democrat. Instead of the Iraq war maybe we should just start another Civil War?? We need to UNITE America! People are so hateful when it comes to their political party - pretty much all politicians are liars and will say what it takes to get what they want. Don’t let them pull your strings and make you dance. We need to get back to our roots and the constitution and above all we are brothers and sisters of America, we should not be attacking each other over politics. I am not much for either candidate but we do need a change, and a huge issue is protecting our borders from illegal immigrants which neither candidate has a great stance on. I will use my voting right on Election Day to voice my opinion, hopefully we don’t lose it along with our constitutional rights which are slowly being taken away.
Thanks God all the fluffed hyped stuff is done, now lets get down to business. I can’t wait till the debates. Sept 26th seems like forever.
The debates are going to be awesome!!
Everything she said last night can be rebuked by the Democrats and ANYONE WITH COMMON SENSE!
I found Palin and Guiliani, in particular to be extremely disrespectful which seems to be a common theme with Republicans. We should all be able to agree to disagree but there were some below-the-belt remarks last night. I actually think Guiliani hurt McCain’s chances based on his flippant remarks. He just came off as an egotistical asshole with an ax to grind. Palin is still unqualified to those of you who were so ‘moved’ by the speech she didn’t write. OBAMA/BIDEN ‘08!!!!!!!!!
Come on folks open your eyes will you. Gov. Palin like Ann is a real woman, thats why the liberals fear her. She hasn’t had a prefect life but then again who has. She got to where she is because of hard work and dedication to her family.
I have a lot more respect for her then those soccer moms whose any problem is what fast food do I serve my family. Oh the Palin she has a job and helps to raise a family, she is a threat to me way of life, is what they think.
She’s a threat because she is something they never will be, honest, hard working and a true American. Who cares is who daughter is pregnant and unmarried. Last I looked she was the age of legal consent. Unlike Obama, she has opened her family up to the world, nothing about her or her family is off-limits.
Yep, McCain answers that amazing 3-pointer Barack made in Iraq with Sarah Barracuda, starting point guard on the state champion team.
Just a little touche.
Or how about the “nice touch” directed at Putin: “don’t mess with Alaska, i.e., the U S of A…
I’ve had mixed feelings about McCain, but I’m crazy about Sarah Palin. She took on CORRUPT REPUBLICANS! And won! Bless her heart.
God bless America and Future President Sarah Heath Palin.
Why is Palin not experienced enough?
Why do you all think that being a Govener and a Mayor makes for NO experience?
You all smoke crack bought by Obama’s terriost friends.
JESUS CHRIST!
It’s about time we picked a dragon slayer. If she can clean up half of Washington, with the help of McCain, she would have accomplished a whole lot. Washington is an incestous brood of vipers. What with ex-congressmen and women and ex-senators, men and women and relatives of senators and congressmen and women working as lobbyists. Whenever these lobbyists need more money, why, their relatives in the senate and congress will pass a law to satisfy the lobbyist dreams. Also, a senator or congressman buying worthless pieces of land, then pass laws to build roads or bridges through that worthless pieces of land to enrich themselves. Washington has become a third rate banana republic, that only enriches the lawmakers and their families by passing laws to enrich themselves at the expence of the tax payers. As a point; Harry Ried went to Washington to do good and he done very well indeed. He bought worthless pieces of land or had other people buy it in his name, and passed laws to build bridges and roads through the land, raising the price of that land. And he’s not the only one. All paid by the tax payers.
She can do what she says she will do.
NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN !!!
Some of this is going to be difficult for you, but try to keep up.
1. You’re still a “guest” in our country until you successfully apply for and receive citizenship - so while your leftist opinions may matter to you and your fellow moonbats, you don’t get a vote - yet. Thank God.
2. I see by your references to the National Enquirer, you are “homesick” for the infamous Brit tabloids. Here’s a clue - we don’t take them as seriously over here.
3. Obama got the highly predictable post-convention bounce, and it depends upon whose polls you look at as to whether he’s over some hypothetical 50%.
4. Like it or not, whatever you see in a poll for Obama needs to be reduced by 5 - 10 points for the Bradley Effect - sad, but unfortunately true.
5. I have been writing for months now that Obama is unelectable because when Americans actually vote, they aren’t going to vote for the most inexperienced and liberal candidate a major party has ever nominated.
6. Last but not least - Sarah Palin just enamored herself to MILLIONS of voters - but especially to the conservative base that might have been thinking about sitting this one out.
You really need to spend some time around real people for opinions - establishment politicians such as Mitch McConnell ALWAYS hedge their bets.
Thus endeth the lesson.
I was amazed and impressed!
As arrogant and full of himself as Marxist Obama is, that’s exactly how down to earth, practical, and realistic as Gov. Palin is…
Marxist Obama better come up with something a LOT better than running a campaign to count for “executive experience.”
I can hardly wait to hear what the Marxist Obama camp comes out whining with later this morning.
I have spent many years studying the liberal mind. One of the discoveries I have made is the more a liberal screams, the more scared they are. I just love to sit back and look at all the screaming they are currently doing on the blogs. That tells me they are scared to death of Sarah Palin and what she brings to the McCain ticket. If they weren’t, they would sit back and quietly praise her.
So fellow conservatives, join me, sit back and enjoy the show.
Our First Femal President………..Love her.
THE MEDIA IS ;LOSING THEIR S.H.I.T.
I don’t want a ph*cking ACTRESS as vice president, a heartbeat from the presidency. Give me SUBSTANCE, i.e., real experience, real ability. Give me Obama and Biden.
Also, I don’t want a VP or President that is being investigated for abuse of power. Or one who uses the ‘gee, I didn’t know that’ line when asked why close family members and staff were in on what happened.
Palin, you’re a phony. Hang it up.
This was an easy shot, anyone could have pulled this one off, with a few cute lines written by Bush’s cronies. Just wait till the smoke clears folks and more truths about Palin’s credentials and ability comes out. Then we’ll see who is worth voting for.
Alexwj,
anger issues anger issues anger issues
dude get some help
she is a joke. OBAMA/BIDEN!!!!!!!!!!
Do you liberals realize how ridiculous you sound?
Complaining that Palin criticized the holy Obama too much in her speech? Apparently you haven’t been in a cave while the dems have been conducting a campaign of personal assassination on her and her family for the last week and Biden’s been spouting his dishonest smears about McCain.
Complaining that she’s just an “actor reading a teleprompter”? You must have Palin confused with Obama. While he’s absolutely unfit and too inexperienced to be president, he is the reigning King of the Teleprompter. BTW, I just love how he uses the same inflection and style as a Chicago preacher. Must’ve learned that from his spiritual mentor of 20 years, the disgracist (that’s disgraced + racist for you “x”) Jeremiah Wright.
Luv ya Bea!!
#4 “She provided nothing of substance just petty one liners. Of course republicans love
her she offers nothing to think about and we all know republicans can’t think for themselves.”
Let me break it down for you AlecWJ. The “substance” is the career and experience that substantiate her words. Something Obama is sorely lacking. Beyond the soaring, empty speeches, Obama is a completely unaccomplished fraud. Unless you count writing two books about himself a significant achievement. I don’t. As for your ridiculous comment about republicans not having the ability to think for themselves, you do realize the speeches Obama’s manager, David Axelrod, writes for him are the same speeches he wrote for another politician a few years ago, don’t you? Oh, you didn’t know? See for yourself:
http://bigheaddc.com/2008/02/17/obama-caught-plagiarizing-2006-deval-patrick-speech/
Bea,
Here are some facts for you since you seem to be rather obtuse.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.
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Some examples:
PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”
PALIN: “There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.”
THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson.
THE FACTS: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.
MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska’s national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
TINA FEY IS gonna be the VEEP??!!!???
no shit eh…?
She’s a bitch. And no, I’m not be sexist. If she were a man, I’d call her an asshole.
Sarah will be a great VP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1lCMH8rlHE
She’s wretched.
59. “Alekwj” you’re so silly. You accuse republicans of not being able to think for themselves and then you go and cut and paste an entire article straight from the AP. Hypocrisy, thy name is Alekwj. Is that a liberals idea of “thinking for themselves”? Is that why Obama’s VP candidate Joe Biden was forced to drop out of the presidential race in 1988 after he got caught plagiarizing a British politicians entire speech? Is that why Obama’s speeches (written by his manager David Axelrod) are many of the same speeches delivered by another of Axelrod’s politicians (Mass. Governor Duval) several years ago? Yes, liberals are very good at “thinking for themselves”, aren’t they? Oh, and by the way, most of those claims you cut and pasted have already been easily debunked. Try to do better next time. I’m giving you a D- this time.