After the landmark Democratic convention this week, Sen. John McCain decided to make a little history himself: On Friday he named Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to become the GOP’s first female vice-presidential nominee.
It was a bold, out-of-the-box decision aimed at reinvigorating the Republicans and perhaps drawing support from women who were disappointed over Sen. Hillary Clinton’s failure to win a place on the Democratic ticket.
Palin could also help placate social conservatives who still have some qualms about McCain. She is a strong right-to-life politician. She also has a reputation as a ferocious ethics watchdog.
And for those who prize novelty, the 44-year-old governor certainly brings a “fresh face” element to the battle for the White House; before yesterday most Americans had never heard of her.
But as this newspaper noted earlier this week, the most important question in evaluating a vice-presidential pick is whether that person is prepared to step into the Oval Office.
Palin, with no national political experience and only a couple years in the Alaska governor’s office, is a very tough sell for the Republicans on that score. McCain’s age — he turned 72 on Friday — certainly doesn’t help.
The Republican presidential candidate has emphasized the importance of military and national security issues, and taken shots at Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama the Democratic presidential nominee for having only four years of experience in the U.S. Senate.
Yet McCain now suggests that someone halfway through her first term as governor is “exactly who this country needs” only one step away from the presidency.
Perhaps he and Palin will be able to provide more support for that claim in the weeks ahead.
But her speech in Ohio on Friday was devoted largely to broad generalities about the importance of public service and so forth. Her discussion of foreign policy was basically limited to assurances that McCain would be able to take care of everything.
Most American voters, particularly thoughtful independents, will want to see far more evidence that Palin has a good grasp of the challenges that this country faces — or at least evidence that she is a very quick learner.









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Edith is a lying troll
You can't even tell the truth in your headline, troll. When your party is essentially the rebirth of the Nazi Party, all you have left is lies.
Are you listening, Dan Beyer?
Mainstream_Coalition has nothing to say, and somebody told her at some point that if you call people Nazis they'll run shrieking from the room. Sad, really. Who came up with that one, MC, Limbaugh? Savage?
This, DB, is one of your "caring pro-lifers."
Palin? Republicans Are Drinking Kool-Aid
After all the McCain balderdash about the lack of Obama being fit to sit in the White House, we're now to believe a 43 year old, former beauty queen is capable? Are you kidding me?
Tim Pawlenty would have at least brought the possibilty of McCain winning Minnesota in a close election. Alaska can always be depended upon to vote Republican in a national election and this choice seems to ignore the reality of our Electoral College and the chess-game involved.
Gov. Palin is the subject of an investigation that can best be summed up as "abuse of power" regarding her (ex) brother-in-law state trooper. After all the Republican attention given to Obama's nebulous ties to Resko in Chicago, why would McCain even open the door for a tit-for-tat attack from Democrats?
Fawning over the choice of Palin can only be a result of drinking the Kool-Aid served by the RNC. Being qualified to be President is important, Palin does not even come close.
Why the Navy passed over McCain for flag command...
One faltering heartbeat of a very sick man away from assuming the Presidency of what is still the most powerful nation in the world. Stunning.
All we need is a couple more Republican legislators caught with their pants off in a petting zoo or something, and we won't see another Republican president for two generations.
Edith is just a troll
I've seen her comments on two threads now and she hasn't made a substantive argument yet, and I'm betting isn't capable of making one. Stupid troll.
You made me cry, Pogue
Cut and paste? You're slipping.
Pogue, nothing to say and not shy about saying it.
OMG
Every conservative is a"gun toting yahoo"? Keep it up Edie, that will endear all of us here in flyover country to Yomama, Yep we will just be "a-settin here clinging to our guns and our religion". Shazaam!
FYI:
2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE COMPARISON TALKING POINTS
ISSUE
JOHN McCAIN
BARAK OBAMA
Favors new drilling offshore US
Yes
No
Will appoint judges who interpret the law not make it
Yes
No
Served in the US Armed Forces
Yes
No
Amount of time served in the US Senate
22 YEARS
173 DAYS
Will institute a socialized national health care plan
No
Yes
Supports abortion throughout the pregnancy
No
Yes
Would pull troops out of Iraq immediately
No
Yes
Supports gun ownership rights
Yes
No
Supports homosexual marriage
No
Yes
Proposed programs will mean a huge tax increase
No
Yes
Voted against making English the official language
No
Yes
Voted to give Social Security benefits to illegals
No
Yes
CAPITAL GAINS TAX
MCCAIN
0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples). McCain does not propose any change in existing home sales income tax.
OBAMA
28% on profit from ALL home sales. (How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.)
DIVIDEND TAX
MCCAIN
15% (no change)
OBAMA
39.6% - (How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama becomes president. The experts predict that 'Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market, yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.')
INCOME TAX
MCCAIN
(no changes)
Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $31,250
OBAMA (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
Under Obama, your taxes could almost double!
INHERITANCE TAX
MCCAIN
- 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)
OBAMA
Restore the inheritance tax
Many families have lost businesses, farms, ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will only lose them to these taxes.
NEW TAXES PROPOSED BY OBAMA
New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet. New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough already) New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity) New taxes on retirement accounts, and last but not least....New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!
You can verify the above at the following web sites:
http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/election/2008/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.taxes.html
http://elections.foxnews.com/?s=proposed+taxes
http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourworld/politics/articles/mccain_obama_offer_different_visions_on_taxes.html
http://blog.washingtonpost..com/fact-checker/candidates/barack_obama/
http://blog.washingtonpost..com/fact-checker/candidates/john_mccain/
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Too bad, so Sad
Sorry Edie, old man Amnesty McCain with one quick move sucked all the oxygen right out of Denver and the Messiah.....how sweet it is!
BTW, the family feud thing fails miserably.
"Good answer! Good answer!"
"Good answer! Good answer!" It's like Barbra Streisand showing up in a muumuu with wide horizontal stripes and a stripe of zinc oxide down her nose--let's underline our BEST FEATURES.
Even dumber: John's to the right of center. Let's get somebody who's FURTHER RIGHT THAN MCCAIN. Now John's left hand is as liberal as you get on the Repub ticket. THAT'S GONNA PACK 'EM IN, BABY! Let's put out a call to all the gun-totin', anti-abortion, five-kid country girls that WE'VE GOT WHAT YOU BIN WAITIN' FOR--YEEEE-HAW!
Winnie the Lib takes another cheap shot, what a shocker!
Listen Winnie and Inter Flop, Gov. Palin has ran a town, an oil and gas commission, and a State.
You cannot minimize those accomplishments by stating so what, they are so small....BFD, it is leadership!
All yomama, and no-go Joe have ever ran is their gums, and your sorry so and so's know it. So try that lame ass leadership shot at her, it won't even get up off the ground!
Family Feud
Rogue slept in today, I seeeee...
Listen to the loony right applauding the selection of Sarah Palin. Mama, does this sound like Family Feud, when the question is something like, "Name something a woman might apply in front of a mirror," and the family dim bulb pipes up, "Uh...motor oil!" Two seconds of stunned silence, and the family starts clapping their hands and cheering, "Good answer! Good answer!"
Really good move, John. Biden's one heartbeat away from a young guy who shoots hoops. Palin's one heartbeat away from a guy who the RNC wants you to not think about how old he is and how sick he is. No wonder the Navy passed over McCain.
Palin?
Palin has a degree in journalism and was able to run a state with abundant natural resources and a tiny population. That hardly qualifies her as “experienced.” That’s like thinking the CEO of a 20 person start-up can run a Fortune 500 company. Alaska is the boondocks of politics and her qualifications wouldn’t even allow her to be mayor of a major city like LA, Chicago or New York.
Palin looks great on paper but her experience in the backwaters of the country are nothing compared to negotiating politics in a place like Chicago.
Strange VP choice. Why not Olympia Snowe or Christine Todd Whitman, or Kay Bailey Hutchinson?
SARAH PALIN IS MORE THAN JUST ANOTHER STATE GOVERNOR.
She shook up Alaska to its roots.
McCain has made a bold and telling move selecting someone with Chief Executive experience – the only one to have any - of the four running for the White House.
http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/08/mccains-renewal-sarah-palin.html
Go light, whoever you are
Um, probably want to be careful about Palin's executive experience, oh Anonymous Poster from the West. There's as many people in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties as in the entire state of Alaska. Woooo...if Wichita gets another fifty thousand people, we could run Bob Knight in 2012, ya think?