I don't know much about her, but Ann Althouse's post is interesting.Besides a debate, perhaps there could be a free-throw shooting contest.
UPDATE: She has a great personal story, a reputation for integrity, experience as a governor rather than a lifetime as a blowhard legislator, relative youth (she is younger than I!), and conservative credentials. She comes from a state that has voted Republican in every election since 1960 except 1964. Alaska is as "red" as state as any, but of a completely different character than those in the Bible Belt. Alaska is a libertarian frontier state of immigrants from around the U.S. and the world, and not a settled, genteel, or parochial place. Alaskans are tough, and they don't elect sissies.
That being said, nobody outside of Alaska knows anything about Governor Palin. She just had her fifth child. This might not be the year to be on the road. Nonetheless, she appears to be a warm and attractive personality who would make the Republican ticket more competitive.
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Gov Sarah Palin -- the only VP if McCain wants to win!
After watching both McCain's and Obama's speeches on TV Tuesday night, McCain no less than NEEDS to run Alaska Gov Sarah Palin as his VP mate.
Sarah Chavez will help balance the ticket by bringing liberal voters from Hillary's camp.
I very much like Palin and worked early on to link stuff about her. But in the end we have the same problem as we do with JIndal. Experience.
I keep using a football analogy to both her and JIndal. That is Pro-Football fans are always anxious to get the hot new College QB they drafted into the action. Coaches know that is folly because when they fall the fans will turn on them
Both Jindal and Palin more importantly , besides finishing up one full term as Governor, need to learn to fall on their face in a major way and get up. That happens to all politicians and is a needed experience. That first time experiencedoes not need to occur while they are in the executive branch or God Forbid as President.
Further, if Recall we sort of went after John Edwards on his lack of experience as VP. I would think that going after Obama on the lack of his experience is going to be tough if we Republicans put up a person a heartbeat away that is about green as him.
I very much like Palin but she like Jindal are the future. THe fact that the assorted names we are hearing for VP is so thin it alarms me. That is one reason we don't need to pull the "redshirt" as you might say too soon. We have to be careful about the next group of generation of leaders we have and make sure they are ripe when they are needed.
Bottom line, with Palin as VP, McCain WINS.
Without Palin, McCain likely does not win.
Case closed.
Bottom line, with Palin as VP, McCain WINS.
Without Palin, McCain likely does not win.
Case closed.
Q&A How can McCain SIMULTANEOUSLY attract both Hillary AND Bob Barr voters? Answer: PALIN Veep!
Both Governors Palin and Jindal have more experience than Obama, and no one seems to be concerned about what a newbie he is.
Palin may be quite busy with her new baby who has Down syndrome, however, besides campaigning, what does the VEEP actually do?
In the hierarchy of values of my family, that is, my wife, my daughter, and me, it would be unthinkable for my wife to accept the nomination for a position described by John Nance Garner (former Speaker of the House emasculated as FDR's VEEP) as "not worth a bucket of warm spit" while a newborn cried for her at home.
I do not know of a decisive vice-presidential choice since John F. Kennedy picked Lyndon Johnson simply because he had to carry Texas. Since then, Ronald Reagan united his party by drafting George H.W. Bush in 1980, and Bill Clinton helped his cause by choosing Al Gore in 1992, but those choices were not decisive.
Please, the woman is an idiot
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