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AudiCQ wrote:

I have never heard of her. I don't like the "hockey mom" thing. Reminds me too much of "soccer mom". I dont need banning of anything that might be dangerous to jr and so on. But Ill hold my judgment since most of you like her, so there must be a reason other than most of you thinking she is hot.

Dude, its Alaska, and FWIW, still a wilderness. Like as in many towns are 4 hours+ from the closest cop. I seriously doubt a woman that proudly pursues big game animals and fish in the last wilderness in the US is going to be after banning nerf balls because junior can choke on them.

That's her float plane in the background.  The family does commercial fishing in Bristol Bay.

Her hubby's grandmother is Native American.  Her son (right) just enlisted in the Army.

And she's a marathon runner.

Would hit it. Ballot and otherwise.

Turd_Ferguson wrote:

Cripes, this is the perfect candidate. Tell me she has some sorta skeleton in her closet so I can sleep with her better.

Corrected.

Alaska is in the tank for the GOP.


Webb or Warner may be Obamas VP.  They are gunning to take Virginia from the South.   If that is the case, Michael Steele, who lost there last election to Jim Webb isnt going to do squat.   Although I like him.  He rocks, I wish he had won, he should keep at it in Virginia for a Congressional seat.

Kasich in Ohio seems to be the better play, especially if Webb runs as the VP.  Michael Steele is a shoe in for the Webbs vacated seat, if that is how things go.

Makes sense.

The mighty Allah weighs in (with a poll! and look who's leading!)

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/29/a … rah-palin/

So why am I warming up to her? First because the GOP needs new faces, figuratively and literally, and as faces go you can scarcely do better than hers right now (figuratively and literally). Read Fred Barnes’s profile of her from last summer: She’s excellent on ethics, has experience with energy policy, and maintains balance on the environment, opposing the polar bear ruling but calling for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Second, obviously, having her on the ticket would steal some of Obama’s media juice as the candidate with the Narrative versus the same old patrician Republican crap. And third, well, watch this. We’re not going to win the woman vote, but there are surely some Ferraros out there disgruntled enough about how Hillary was treated to give McCain/Palin a very close look. That’s why it’s silly, actually, to care how many electoral votes Alaska would deliver. Her appeal, unlike Crist’s or Ridge’s, has to do with who she is, not where she’s from. Who’s to say she wouldn’t help deliver Florida or Pennsylvania more than either of them?

Sarah-mentum, baby!!

Last edited by dubfan (05-29-2008 10:33 PM)

The only problem with Sarah Palin is that, given McCain's marital record, he'd spend the entire campaign trying to tag her in the back the of Straight Talk Express.

And he'd need to call Sen Dole for a dose or two of Mycoxaphlopin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXfiOSCfY44

Bumping this in the odd chance a couple of commenters over at the Draft Sarah Palin For VP blog (http://palinforvp.blogspot.com/) turn out to have the scoop...

Some dude notices via FlightAware that a chartered GulfStream IV arrived in Dayton tonight from (you guessed it), Anchorage, AK:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?postI … amp;page=2
(see the 10:30PM entry by "sakaki")

Another dude ("drew") claiming insider knowledge strongly hints that Sarah's the one:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?postI … amp;page=3
(see the 11:01PM entry by "drew")

Eh, who knows...

Fingers crossed...

Last edited by dubfan (08-29-2008 05:24 AM)

http://www.mccainpalin.com/

glfredrick wrote:

Fox news is breaking a story that indicates that neither Romney nor Pawlenty are the choice.

Drudge and Real Politics are both suggesting Palin.  A gulfstream from Anchorage arrived in Dayton overnight -- a woman and two teens were escorted from the plane into waiting unmarked white vans...

Palin would be a shocker...

Palin would help bring McCain all the "Biden is a sexist pig" votes.