Sarah Palin for McCain's VP; what's everybody think?

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Permalink Reply by Courtney E. Howard on August 29, 2008 at 1:29pm

I just had to include this photo and its caption:
"In 1984, Sara Palin was first runner-up in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year. She won a scholarship to help pay her way through college." (from wikipedia.org)

I think it is a smart move on the part of McCain. I have heard lots of Hillary supporters disappointed with the Democratic party say (on call-in tv shows this morning) that this move sways them to vote Republican for the first time. Personally, I don't understand Hillary supporters moving to the McCain camp because of Palin. She and Hillary have only gender in common; they could not be more different, IMO.

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Permalink Reply by Courtney E. Howard on September 2, 2008 at 12:06pm

Now that I have done some reading about Palin, I have to ask: How did she get where she is? Honestly, she majored in Journalism in college, her goal was to be a news broadcaster, and she has been in office less than two years. I am a journalist -- could I be a VP candidate in two years' time?

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Permalink Reply by John Keller on September 3, 2008 at 2:03pm

Courtney Howard could be my VP candidate anytime.

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Permalink Reply by Courtney E. Howard on September 3, 2008 at 2:23pm

The Keller-Howard ticket would be unstoppable! :)

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Permalink Reply by Ron Gill on September 3, 2008 at 1:21pm

Let's review the facts. Currently there are 17 cities in the U s with a larger population than Alaska and countless communities with populations greater than 6,500. Read this article and don't miss the last paragraph.

Alaska: Palin flip-flopped on 'bridge to nowhere' By TOM KIZZIA - When Sen. John McCain introduced Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate Friday, her reputation as a tough-minded budget-cutter was front and center.

"I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere," Palin told the cheering McCain crowd, referring to Ketchikan's proposed Gravina Island Bridge.

But Palin was for the bridge before she was against it.

The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform, telling Ketchikan residents she felt their pain when politicians called them "nowhere." They're still feeling pain today in Ketchikan, over Palin's subsequent decision to use the bridge funds for other projects -- and over the timing of her announcement, which they say came in a predawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines.

In 2007, Palin announced a change of course -- just a month after the Arizona Republican slammed the Ketchikan bridge for taking money that could have been used to shore up dangerous bridges like the one that collapsed in Minnesota.

"I think that's when the campaign for national office began," said Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Weinstein noted, the state is continuing to build a road on Gravina Island to an empty beach where the bridge would have gone -- because federal money for the access road, unlike the bridge money, would have otherwise been returned to the federal government. - More...
Tuesday PM - September 02, 2008

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Permalink Reply by Courtney E. Howard on September 3, 2008 at 1:28pm

Great information and observations! Funny story: This weekend a die-hard conservative Republican friend of mine left a cookout early to "go pray for the future of his party," as he put it, only partly joking.

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