HOW THE PALIN PICK TRUMPS OBAMA-BIDEN
Posted on 09/01/2008 1:41:16 PM PDT by rface
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- There's word from the McCain campaign that Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin is in the Twin Cities getting ready for her speech.
We spoke with the Chariman of "McCain for President" from New York State, Ed Cox, who said Governor Sarah Palin reminds him of Richard Nixon's fit on the republican ticket back in 1952. Although Palin has little foreign policy experience, Cox believes she'll be able to learn on the job.
"Like President Nixon, when he was Vice President, like Dwight Eisenhower, had not that much experience on the world. And he learned, as did Harry Truman. He made some of the best decisions that were made by any president of the United States when he ordered the Berlin airlift against the advice from all his advisors," Cox said.
So far, no public events have been scheduled for Governor Palin. She has been in the headlines though, after the McCain campaign released a statement from Palin and her husband Todd, saying their 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. The couple also says the unmarried teen plans to keep her baby and marry the baby's father.
Doesn’t this rate a “well, duh!”? The Veep is going to speak at the convention ... who knew?
The one speech this political season that I WILL NOT miss!
I can’t imagine that they’d be dumb enough NOT to showcase her. She’ll draw more viewers than anyone this side of the Beatles.
God bless her!
bttt
Preparing?
She kicks butt when she speaks extemporaneously!
Gotta see what she can do when she preps...
Prediction: NOAA announces that next hurricane named will skip I,J,K,L,M and N and will start with “P”.
Palin, an Alaskan. Obama, a Kenyan with a hidden birth certificate. What a contest!
>>Doesn’t this rate a “well, duh!”? The Veep is going to speak at the convention ... who knew?<<
Yep... why the surprise?
Ah DUH! Her speech is Wed, McCain on Thursday. They will go on unless something really bad happens in the next 24 hours
of course the MSM will be implying that she is dropping out.
Doesn’t the VP always speak at the convention???
I wonder why we haven’t heard a word on Gov. Plain yet from Ann Coulter?
No entries on her blog since 8/27.
by tomorrow morning they need to tell the MSM that they are resuming the Convention.
Enough is enough.
IIRC, Dennis Miller had her on his program the day it was announced and Ann thought it was a good pick. Don’t know why nothing followed.
Boy, I MUST get a new pair of glasses. I read the headline so fast I thought it said “PALIN RUMORED to be pregnant......
“The one speech this political season that I WILL NOT miss!”
Me either! Think it is to be Wednesday night. :)
Ann usually only does the one article a week. Check out her site again on Wednesday.
The point of the article is that she is in MN and not on the Gulf Coast. Duh.
Kick some ass Sarah!!!
Thanks for the replies.
This is an opportunity for the Republican Party to re-evaluate what they mean by the term “family values”. I hope the Barracuda urges her fellow Republicans to abandon their traditional “abstinence only” stance with its waste of hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, and instead get with real sex education programs for America’s teens that have proven results.
There's another rumor going around that McCain too is preparing a speech for the convention.
you got it. The MSM is trying to start a drum beat to get her OUT. Screw them
It is a weird annoucement. Obviously the Vice Presidential candidate would speak, unless the assurance is that the convention will go forward which has been somewhat in doubt. Awkwardly phrased.
No doubt her speech will trump McCain’s in notice. I’m not certain how many viewers it’ll draw, I’m guesssing quite a few. The real question won’t be viewership but the affect on polling numbers afterwards.
Palin will stand right beside the GOP platform. She is going to kick ass. I’ve seen this movie
In my opinion, it is FAR more important for the President to have foreign policy experience than the VP.
As mentioned here, Truman had ZERO foreign policy experience when he assumed office (he had only been VP for a couple months and had been kept in the dark by FDR) and he is generally considered to be the second best president of the 20th Century.
Here is my take on every newly elected administration for the past century (reelections don't count because foreign policy is a given):
2000: Bush - No, Cheney - Yes
1992: Clinton - No, Gore - Yes
1988: Bush - Yes, Quayle - No
1980: Reagan - No, Bush - Yes
1976: Carter - No, Mondale - Yes
1968: Nixon - Yes, Agnew - No
1960: Kennedy - Some, Johnson - Yes
1952: Eisenhower - Yes, Nixon - No
1932: FDR - Yes (as Asst Sec. of the Navy), Garner - Yes
1928: Hoover - No, Curtis - Yes
1920: Harding - No, Coolidge - No
1912: Wilson - No, Marshall - No
1908: Taft - Yes, Sherman - No
Note: Long term and senior members of Congress and the Senate are assumed to have foreign policy experience.
So, McCain and Palin are every bit as experienced as all but three new administrations in the past century, the only ones that have more would be Bush 41 and Nixon because they had both served two terms as vice president and FDR.
Are you kidding me? I wouldn't be surprised to see Super Bowl numbers for Sarah. Not only is the GOP base energized but the rest of the country is now curious about her due to all the rumors spread by the left-wing media and now the fact that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. Most of "Oprah-America" lap this stuff up and by the time this week is over, a good part of Oprah nation will actually switch over to McCain/Palin after they hear her.
Which would certainly bum Oprah out.
Be most interested to see what Ann has to say.
Proven results - like a million abortions a year, chlamydia and HPV in epidemic proportions, middle school students engaging in oral sex on the school bus... Those kind of results?
Pro’ly they have a bunch of newsies there, suddenly with little to do and they’re reporting anything just out of boredom. They also probably had some juicy pregnancy stories ready to go and Obama blew the timeout whistle. They had to have something, anything! [cried the editor] to fill the space!
I guess not?
Oh goodness, I'd forgotten that there were no teen pregnancies until abstinence education came along.
Obama got where he is because he gave one good speech. If any of the speeches she has given since the announcement as the VP choice, she will make Obama look like a freshman in a high school debate class. She is completely at ease, confident and direct. She doesn’t read a speech, as McCain and Biden do, and she isn’t putting on an acting job with the teleprompter as does Obama.
She is a real asset to the ticket — McCain made the right choice - and after Wednesday the whole country, except the die-hard libs will know it!
This Political problem with her daughter’s pregnancy will pass - clear thinking people will realize that this a a problem a lot of families cope with - and the way she and her husband have handled it - at least in public - says a lot about what kind of people they are !! My hat’s off to her... and my vote will follow!
I’d like to see Palin debate Obama. She’d kick the carp outta him.
There are a number of consulates in Alaska from countries like Japan, Mexico, Finland, Norwary, Korea, etc. In 2007 there was an International Whaling Commission conference in Alaska that had over 70 countries represented. Palin spoke to the group. Palin also visited the Alaska National Guard troops in Kuwait.
I agree, I was merely pondering about high-level foreign policy experience.
Why do I suspect you never practiced abstinence?
The scandals keep coming. First, that her husband had a DUI when he was 22 years old. Then, that her unmarried daughter is pregnant. Last and worst, that she’s going to prepare her speech ahead of time instead of speaking extemporaneously.
This only makes me love Palin more, and want to work harder to see her elected the first female Vice President of the United States. The left is just filled with bitter, vile, repellent, scum.
Rumored? Doesn’t the VEEP nominee always make a speech?
Senators and Congressmen don’t have “high-level” foreign policy experience. They are more knowledgeable about the details due to the oversight responsibility they have, but the Executive Branch formulates and implements foreign policy.
If you look at my list (except for Gore and JFK, both of whom I probably gave too much credit to), the senators and congressmen I listed as having foreign policy experience were senior members who held long term positions on armed services or foreign relations committees, or positions such as speaker of the house or majority leader.
While you are completely correct that the executive branch formulates and implements foreign policy, the implementation is virtually impossible without the cooperation of Congress.
Somehow I think that when the majority of the people who post here, and the other conservative/Republicans they represent, want the opinion of a toe tag leftist like yourself, they'll give it to you. Or perhaps you'd be happier if she followed your hero and just offed the kid?
Republicans taking advice from you. That's rich...
I’m waiting to find out what vegetables she doesn’t eat.
A rumor? What else would she be doing?
Can someone wake me when some news happens?
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