To: bmweezer
How about her?
Posted on 08/30/2008 8:04:19 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
Click the link to see the poll results and read the many poll options offered by WND to its readers.
What do you think of Sarah Palin as the GOP vice presidential pick?
(Excerpt) Read more at forums.wnd.com ...
They don’t have a poll question that would explain how I feel. When Fred Thompson dropped out I was right here on FR saying that “a McCain for President Yard sign will never cast its shadow on my front lawn”, and I would Never put a McCain bumper sticker on the car. Stopping short of saying I would never vote for him.
Well let me tell you, with his perfect performance at the Saddelback forum, his brilliant new style of ads, and now picking Sarah Palin as the VP, -
I AM SO PUMPED I CAN’T BE CONTAINED.
Within minutes of the VP announcement I began searching websites to purchase bumper stickers, yard signs, T-shirts, anything. Heck right now I could break a taboo of mine and tattoo McCain/Palin 08 on my chest.
And I have heard from many others going through this same thing. Obama is in big trouble.
Didn’t really even need the poll -— which is driving the radical left nuts. I bet I am right in saying that any patriotic, even pseudo-conservative, REAL American citizen, who cares about America, is elated with the choice.
This is great in so many ways for America — and it so greatly reflects upon the radical, anti-American left as to be beyond superb.
Speaking of the Rick Warren Forum, FOX NEWS is re-airing it tonight—
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070933/posts
Saddleback Civil Forum Encore presentation: Sat Aug 30 8pm ET
Friday, August 29, 2008 9:31:50 PM · by Presbyterian Reporter · 1 replies · 104+ views
FOX NEWS ^ | August 29, 2008 | Staff
For your friends who missed the first showing-—Fox is showing it again. Saddleback Civil Forum Encore presentation: Sat., August 30 at 8 p.m. ET FOX NEWS Pastor Rick Warren sets up the Civil Forum with Senators Barack Obama and John McCain
She needs to be speaking to the crowds twice a day, six days a week. More TV. People SEE her and they can INSTANTLY tell the difference. She is real, the dems are plastic crap.
Navy,
That’s absolutely heart warming....and like you I hope contagious! Sure looks like WND copied one of their questions seen more often like this:
“If Obama ever occupies the Oval Office his inexperience will embolden the terrorists ... and the Russians ... and the Chinese”
Nail in the coffin of the Democrat party.
Other than here me say to her 3 times a day for weeks on end, my Wife has never heard of Palin or knew anything about her. She watch a rebroadcast of the Palin speech yesterday with me and she is now so excited about her running and about the election. Prior to this she was lukewarm about the whole election. Thank You John McCain.
I opposed McCain in the primary, and with some reluctance (and true fear of Marxist Obama) support him in the general.
I also was impressed with McCain's Saddleback Forum words and performance.
Yesterday, however, after watching McCain introduce Palin and hearing her speech and sensing her honesty and enthusiasm, I had this...feeling of "energy" all day.
This is only slightly related, but I want to offer a comparison of Sarah Palin that nobody's yet noticed.
Sarah Palin resembles, in several respects, a modern-day, female, Theodore Roosevelt.
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Adding Palin was a stroke of genius.
I hope she can fight hard and weather the bitchy, Liberal media s**t storm coming her way.
Too good to be true, is my assessment. Hope the R candidate(s) stand up to the scrutiny.
not impressed but that will bring the proles in to vote against obama......mccain will gleeful welcome 30 million new citizens, a global warming tax, mittcare like healthcare and nominate someone like hillary to SCOTUS. So I have that to look forward to. yeah obama would be worse but I could count on conservatives to fight him....mccain not so much. I question her judgement for accepting.
I opposed McCain in the primary, and with some reluctance (and true fear of Marxist Obama) support him in the general.
I also was impressed with McCain’s Saddleback Forum words and performance.
Yesterday, however, after watching McCain introduce Palin and hearing her speech and sensing her honesty and enthusiasm, I had this...feeling of “energy” all day.
This is only slightly related, but I want to offer a comparison of Sarah Palin that nobody’s yet noticed.
Sarah Palin resembles, in several respects, a modern-day, female, Theodore Roosevelt.
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I have been reading all these comments and agree with most of them, but your comment (so far) most closely resembles my feelings.
I, too, felt excited and energized all day and even today.
I gave birth to Down Syndrome twins (identical) in ‘88. Sarah Palin’s example is so inspiring to me and many others.
She just seems like a real gutsy lady who, although very pretty, is too busy to really think about it. Or just knows it’s a gift from God.
She seems like someone who I would meet and feel immediately comfortable with — like a neighbor, a friend or someone I’m volunteering with on a school fundraiser.
Good choice, McCain!
P.S. I was really praying and hoping for Romney, but also praying for God’s will, most of all - the best for our country - anything but BO and JB.
And the Democrats know it. My sister (lives in Arizona) called me all pumped up, and is going to join as a volunteer with the McCain campaign. Before this pick she didn't have a good thing to say about McCain.
Palin changed that.
Remember last week during the Democrat convention, they kept putting “real people” up on the platform and letting them talk? Well, we’ve now got a “real person” as our Vice-Presidential candidate. She’s not a career politician, and because of that, she has a chance here to completely reshape American politics, which is what has the democrats really pissed off. We need to send people like Sarah Palin to Washington instead of the lawyerly political class that we’ve been sending there for so many years.
I truly believe that independent and women voters are going to turn out in droves to vote for this smart, witty, attractive hockey mom with proven leadership skills. McCain made the best choice possible. There was nobody else who offered him what she did, and he is already reaping the benefits of listening to whatever source (advisers, instinct?) told him to choose her in the form of the $4.9 million that I read he collected yesterday.
Who knows what the future holds, but for now, I’m content to hope and believe that in 15-20 years, after President Sarah Palin finishes her second term, Republicans will have learned that conservative priniciples win elections and that they do not have to pander to win. I know a lot of democrats right now (and some on this board) are saying that this pick IS pandering, but it’s not. Most political advisors would have told McCain that if he wanted to attract Hillary! voters, he should choose a pro-choice woman as a running mate. THAT would be pandering. Instead, he went another direction - offering those women a choice that will force many of them to consider how important an issue abortion really is to them. If even a relatively small percentage (15-20%) of them decide that they’ve let that issue hold their votes hostage for far too long, then that will be an amazing thing for conservatives. I think it’s a brilliant master stroke from McCain, and I’m going to crawl across broken glass to see that he and Palin are elected in November.
Romney is better fit for the job.
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