Posted on 08/29/2008 12:03:29 PM PDT by kristinn
As the news media and country gets to know John McCain's vice presidential pick, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, tidbits are being dug from their archives (or sent to them by opposition researchers.)
MTV unearthed a videotaped interview with Palin done in February where she praises and identifies with Ron Paul's independence from the "party machinery".
Politico dug up a quote by Palin from two years ago discussing whether she tried smoking pot:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is known as a staunch social conservative. She's a life long NRA member, belongs to an anti-abortion-rights group called Feminists for Life and opposes civil unions.
But the self-proclaimed "hockey mom" had some youthful indiscretions.
Palin has said she smoked marijuana but didn't enjoy it and doesn't smoke anymore.
"I can't claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled,” she told the Anchorage Daily News in 2006.
At the time, marijuana was legal under Alaska's liberal drug laws.
SNIP
Palin has said she doesn't support legalizing the drug, fearing the message it would send to her five children.
There's more in the MTV video than the Ron Paul comments. Palin talks mostly of wanting Alaska's energy resources to be used to help ease America's dependence on foreign sources.
Her praise of Ron Paul's independence might help his young diasaffected supporters in the party take a second look at their choices come November.
I really don’t give a damn if she tried marijuana back in college or high school. A lot of us did...myself included.
Most people would write it off to being a youthful indiscretion - as it should be.
P.S. Like Sara Palin, I didn’t like it either. The smell and taste bothered me. OTOH, the smell and taste of beer bothered me significantly less.
End of story.
I like her even more. I prize honesty in a candidate. It’s a rare commodity these days.
MTV link not working.......
Nothing wrong with a little independence now and then! I think the forefathers would agree! ;)
Feminists for Life
She might lose a few conservatives, but pick up some more Hillary gals.
If Pot had been legal when I was in college, I would have tried it. I did try drinking, since it was legal.
Since pot was illegal, I never used it. And since I didn’t like alchohol, I rarely ever drink it, just a bit of wine once or twice a year at most for special occasions.
Do we WANT Ron Paul supporters on our side?! (I joke!)
You have to admire her honesty, especially as a politician.
Tonight, I will have an ale and a puff in her honor!
(...of course, that’s illegal here...)
(yes, officer, I have glaucoma...)
I’m one of those people who, in the 1970s had to deal with everyone offering every kind of drug you can imagine and some a lot probably can’t.
I never took ANY drugs, legal or ILLEGAL until I got high blood pressure. I take something for that. I also take asprin occasionally.
BUT, that’s me and I never gave people crap for what they did unless it began to affect me personally (they caused problems for others) and it affected their personalities.
I never cared about Clinton doing drugs (still don’t)... what I CARED about was him telling the public on the one hand how he would legalize drugs and then some months later telling the public how he ‘abhorred drugs’ because of his ‘brother who had’ a drug problem (I don’t remember the exact wording, sorry).
I didn’t like liars and I still do not like liars. I don’t give a rip if someone “inhaled” LOL
I DO care if they LIE about it.
yeah...conservatives upset that mccain didn’t pick another old guy
There are a lot of stupid things you can do that are legal. And if obama wins, there will be many smart things that you won’t be able to do.
Let’s get it out there: Sarah Palin once smoked pot and admits it when post was legal. Barak Obama smoked pot on a regular basis and did cocaine at least once when it was illegal.
Agree completely. That one thing told me all I needed to know about weasel boy.
“Didn’t inhale?!”
Liar or a coward.
I am amazed there are no loserdopian comments yet!
Cripes if it were some lib from Berkeley bragging about smoking pot, they’d claim it was an asset. Nice of MTV to get this one out of the closet early - a non-starter.
Those with a libertarian bent should find a lot to like in Sarah Palin (who, like McCain, is a maverick, but instead is a maverick in the good way). I invite fellow Ron Paul fans to have a second look at the GOP ticket - Palin's ideology is a fair match, better than all of the serious GOP POTUS contenders but FDT and TT. Barr, on the other hand, has decided to abandon many of his former conservative stances in order to agree with the LP "centrist libertarian" orthodoxy.
I do not expect Ron Paul to say anything good about her (as he seems to have decided to lately define himself by a few pet issues to the exclusion of all others...very sad). I doubt he will take this opportunity to gain relevancy and endorse Palin, with an eye to the future (2012+).
Aren’t personal choice and personal responsibility wonderful things?!
All the more reason to vote for her.
OMG! A former drug user! Here on Free Republic? Heavens to Betsy, no!
Is this the best they can do?
I KNOW! there is NOTHING THEY CAN SAY about Palin that does not show that their OWN candidate is WORSE!!!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA I LOVE THIS
Liberals heads are exploding today
No, it’s not the best, they are saving that for later.
Let me elaborate a bit...
1) She’s a MOTHER! WITH FIVE KIDS! OMG!
2) Her last child was born with Down’s syndrome and SHE DIDN’T ABORT WHEN SHE COULD HAVE!
3) She has “Oil Interests” at heart. (rolls eyes)
4) Her husband is a good looking guy, and has his own life and accomplishments.
(Mark my words, they will pick on him for something and they WILL pick on her for being a Mommie - perhaps one “not staying home and watching her kids”... which is something MOST liberals hate doing anyway cuz it takes away from their drug habits)
They wound up with Bronco Bomber as their nominee ... so, yes, it probably is.
I don’t think that smoking pot once to see what it’s like would be “stupid”. In fact, it bugs me even to this day that I was refused the right as an individual to see exactly what smoking pot was like, simply because the government felt most people couldn’t handle the experience and would end up getting hooked.
Even though the government was right, it bugs me that I had my freedom to choose taken away when I could easily have smoked pot once and never done it again, just like I smoked cigarettes once and got drunk twice (because the first time I didn’t do it right).
We all know he’s a tool of “big oil” :)
Yep they’re popping for sure.
If Sarah Palin can truly get most of the conservative votes as well as get many RP supporters to also vote for the McCain/Palin ticket, then that’s really amazing. It’s what the actual outcome will be on November 4 that will really say if this is the correct move by McCain. This is truly a brilliant political move by McCain, IMHO.
It's a good move for another reason that, so far, no one here seems to have figured out. It personalizes the drilling-in-Alaska issue. If the governor is for it, then what's the argument against it? It hurts Mother Earth? Try telling that to someone paying $4 a gallon.
I did read something, about two weeks ago, that said that McCain could change his views in his ongoing belief in no drilling for oil in Alaska. Somebody should truly ask McCain now what his views are with drilling for oil in Alaska.
he? Her husband? Or McCain?
snicker.
I’d be thinking SHE is a tool of “big oil” myself.
He’s a lucky guy, and she looks to be a lucky lady. We need a VP like that. A “Luck be a Lady tonight” kinda Vice President.
I wonder... I’m reading Doctor Bennet’s books on “America the last best hope” and I am thinking whLY recommend these books to Right and Left ALIKE. If you haven’t read them, you SHOULD... wow. Just WOW).
Franklin was against a two house governmen/Congress right til the end, and when asked by a lady on the street what sort of government they had given the Americans... he stated, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
It appears that we have so far, in spite of those who would attempt it’s destruction - and insofar as Americans have gone through many changes in the last couple of hundred years, we’ve managed to keep it as it was intended. Left leaners tend to see things through the eyes of Socialism.
Franklin and the rest saw nothing of the sort.
To have a woman “a heartbeat away” from being President of the United States is, in my opinion finally a true and healthy advancement of everything from human rights to the proper and true recognition of women.
The left has been so hateful and spiteful over the years they have forgotten THEY are the people who formed and perpetuated the KKK, slavery, hatred against women, and they were the ones who fought against women voting.
Tat site is waking up to the facts and to reality.
FINALLY America is seeing that being “Right” is right (even if it is SLIGHTLY RIGHT in some cases.
NONE of us have the exact right answers, but we all think we do.
The Founders themselves were not 100% Right about everything, but they were damned close and all we have to do is follow their lead and in their footsteps and so far, they’ve got it right and so have we.....
:)
“I invite fellow Ron Paul fans to have a second look at the GOP ticket - Palin’s ideology is a fair match, better than all of the serious GOP POTUS contenders but FDT and TT.
McCain’s choice of Palin was certainly a cunning move - one clearly intended to draw skeptical conservatives, Christians and constitutionalists to the GOP ticket. I’m not sure how many Ron Paul supporters will fall for this.
For one thing, unlike McCain, Palin will NOT be President under any realistic scenario. Although I very much like much of what she apparently stands for, her presence on the McCain ticket is an aberration.
Secondly, if elected President, McCain will have plenty of very unConservative and very non-constitutionalist neocon, liberal, Democrat and other miscellaneous globalist establishment beltway insider advisors around him. If Palin stands firm with many of her alleged personal views, she will end up as the most marginalized and least consulted VP in the history of the Republic (opposite of Cheney). Let’s not forget either that good conservative Senators have had plenty of opportunities to “rub off” on McCain in Congress in the last 25 years, but he has steadily moved to the left on many critical issues (borders, life, guns etc).
Third, there is no guarantee that she will be the next GOP Presidential nominee, nor is it even guaranteed that she will serve out her full 4 year term in office. Many things can happen in 4 years.
Personally, while I like Palin very much, I consider her addition to the GOP ticket to be a very cynical ploy to trick the grassroots. One more reason NOT to support McCain for President.
Gaaah! Stop making sense! I want to beeeeeeeliiiiiieeeeeeeeve!
:-)
Interesting find.
Your ilk are nothing but a bunch of fanatics. No matter who was chosen they wouldn’t have been good enough for you. Go wander in the wilderness.
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