Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Is McCain's Pick for VP

[bowens43]

Source: CNBC.com

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a self-styled "hockey mom" who has only been governor for a little over a year, is GOP Presidential candidate John McCain's choice for Vice President, CNBC has

Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/id/26454655

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Thank you John McCain for handing Obama the election !!

[Skinner]

1. Woo-hoo!

So much for that "experience" argument.

[bowens43]

11. Exactly, if this is confirmed

how will McCain make the argument that Obama is not experienced enough to be President. She has been governor for only a little over a year and she would be literally a heart beat away from the oval office. If this is confirmed (and I really have trouble believing that McCain is that stupid), McCain has just destroyed the only argument he had against Obama. And of course, a large part of his base, both male and female believe that the job of CIC should be held by a man. there is a v

[Maeve]

53. IF this is confirmed...the next line at the link sez

"According to a Republican strategist, Palin is the nominee, though McCain's campaign has not comfirmed this."

[nels25]

87. 9:40CST: WTMJ radio in Milwaukee is reporting it as

done deal sara Palin it is.

Methinks that it will sell better than we expect with the broad public.

It will help not hurt McCain, no matter you cut it this is a historic election all away around the horn.

I thought that Obama should have selected Gov Seilbus from Kansas as Veep this gives some of the more irate Hillary followers a place to go, and a more plausible argument as to why they are doing so.

No I may be wrong but I think this will turn out to be a good choice for McCain.

As always: We Shall See.

[alfredo]

133. I think she has some serious ethics problems. I seem to remember

it on Kos or TPM

[SemperEadem]

166. McCain's advisors actually think

that they are going to be able to lure disgruntled Hilary supporters by making Palin his VP choice... and it seems their thinking, which probably trickles down from the old man himself, is "women are so clueless that they'll vote for any woman before they would vote for Obama". He's blown his "experience" argument out of the water--it is clearly now his weakest point... because, yeah, Obama's experience is not as robust as Biden's, but Obama is not McCain... and Biden is solid. McCain turns 72 today--and if he should fall ill, this inexperienced woman takes over. To me, if you're going to pick a female candidate, pick a freaken female 4 star lieutenant general or someone who has some solid experience somewhere.

[Joe Bacon]

195. She makes Dan Quayle look like a chess grandmaster!

I wonder how she's gonna explain those scandals she's involved with in Alaska?

[Corgigal]

200. disgruntled Hilary supporters

I guess they actually believed it. I thought it was just a gimmick but I guess Mark Penn is giving McCain points now. I hate almost nothing worst then a female republican who is ain't choice. I always think they put cash before womens values.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

243. This line about "Hillary supporters not voting for Obama" is BS, fed to us by...

...our corporate owned and controlled media.

Let's face it, half of America hates Hillary and most of the other half is losing interest (and that's putting it mildly).

We can't let them steel another election!!

[Wabbajack_]

287. She's a wacko Pentacostal

[NashVegas]

202. They Don't Have To Lure Women to Vote *For* Them

They just have sit back and watch Obama's hardcore base - internet users - translate the sex-based attacks that were made on Clinton to new sex-based attacks that will be made onto Palin, and that should be enough to keep plenty of women home.

[alfredo]

227. I don't see her standing a chance against Biden in a debate.

her abuse of power investigation could hurt her.

[Raster]

91. "Republican strategist." What an OXYMORON!

Gets me every time!

[L. Coyote]

137. This is a strategic choice, made to overcome McCain's personal weakness.

McCain covered up for Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed, handing
the White House back to the Corrupt Bastards in 2004.

This is an offensive move to TRY to hide the fact
that they are the Corrupt Bastards Club!!

Palin has made a point of epitomizing the oxymoronic "Republican corruption fighter."

McCain is trying to overcome the Rs greatest weakness, leadership by the Corrupt Bastards Club.
That will likely backfire now, and actually draw more attention to the Club.

[L. Coyote]

151. This is a strategic choice, made to overcome McCain's personal weakness.

McCain covered up for Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed, handing
the White House back to the Corrupt Bastards in 2004.

This is an offensive move to TRY to hide the fact
that they are the Corrupt Bastards Club!!

Palin has made a point of epitomizing the oxymoronic "Republican corruption fighter."

McCain is trying to overcome the Rs greatest weakness, leadership by the Corrupt Bastards Club.
That will likely backfire now, and actually draw more attention to the Club.

[Raster]

207. "Let her that is the LEAST SOILED among us come forth and be annointed by the Old Coot.

So sayeth KKKarl, so let it be written by the fawning media.

Let us distract-eth the population from the sins of the Stupid One and his evil mentor Kitten Eater.

Let us all try to say out of prison.

Amen.

[L. Coyote]

289. Let's pick a woman and dress her up as our Joan of Arc. It will take just 2 years.

Planing ahead a mere two years would create this ruse to salvage the AK Rs, and now this sham too!!

In the end, it is an admission of guilt, no matter how interpreted.

[katty]

208. Stra-Tee-ger-ree at its ReThug best!! hysterical

[Jennie125]

101. *smirk*

HA HA HA HA HA...all I can do is smirk this morning. If McCain croaks in office this woman would be our President?! Yup, out the window goes the lack of experience talking point.

Given her current ethical troubles, it seems par for the GOP course. And Republicans nationally will be thrilled to hear that her husband works in Big Oil. But at least McCain gets to lock down Alaska.

CNN's Dana Bash just described her as a "young female John McCain."

[janet118]

109. Wow . . . McCain may be that stupid

This pick (and the cable stations are saying it is Palin) is incredibly cynical and tone deaf in numerous ways. It is like women are just interchangeable parts - Sarah Palin = Hillary Clinton. She is an attractive woman who is much younger than McCain and because of his marital history, it just seems wrong. She has no experience - Governor of one of the nation's least populous states for only 1 and 1/2 years and mayor of a small town before that. Ready from Day One - Not!!!

What she does have is 5 children - one of whom is getting ready to deploy to Iraq and a newborn with Down Syndrome. She loves guns.

It looks like the votes he is going after are those of white, Christianoid women and the gun-toting men who are served by them. The joke's on him. He already had that voting bloc.

If he is going after disgruntled Hillary voters, he will have to concentrate on those who have defective bullsh*t detectors.

[crim son]

142. Well put. Women are interchangeable... that is surely the view.

Though the american public never ceases to amaze by voting against common sense time and time again, there are serious strikes against this woman.

[mwb970]

215. It seems to me like a huge mistake.

(Unless, of course, it's brilliant.)

Palin has ZERO foreign policy experience, ZERO head start with foreign leaders, ZERO credentials or international "political capital". How can mccain put her a heartbeat away from the presidency, especially when it's his 72-year-old heartbeat?

The presidency is stressful (duh) and dramatically ages people. mccain can't take much more aging, unless he is indestructible in the evil cheney vein.

If mccain were to become incapacitated as president (I mean beyond his existing, inherent lack of capacity for the job), we would have a "caretaker" president who is clueless on foreign affairs to deal with Iran, Russia, China, Iraq, etc.

It is spectacularly irresponsible for mccain to make this choice, and that idea should be pushed hard in the coming weeks. Is this an example of the judgment mccain will exert in office?

[yellowcanine]

226. I agree. A VP should have be better prepared than she possibly can be, particularly given his age.

Biden needs to be careful though in debating her - let her ignorance show (as it surely will) without being condescending or combative. No need to create any smpathy vote for her.

[mwb970]

249. Biden is the best possible person to debate her.

He will be kind. He will be polite. And he will demolish her.

[Mercracer]

258. Overconfidence is often the result of politicians being unaccountable for their shortcomings

Stand by to see Bidden have his butt handed to him......

[mwb970]

260. Um, OK. Standing by. /nt

[yellowcanine]

265. Have you ever seen Biden debate? He can be over bearing and say stupid things but he never gets his

butt handed to him. It just will not happen.

[Xenotime]

307. NEVER Happen. This PUG slime is going down

[crim son]

276. True. While a conservative conservative may have the stomach

to support Gonzales despite his evident idiocy, that same conservative might well have strong objections to an inexperienced woman taking the second highest office.

[StopTheMadness]

318. McCain thinks all women are bimbos

John McCain has a disturbing pattern of treating women as nothing but airheaded, disposable arm candy.

McCain’s first wife, Carol, was a swimwear model, not the most respectful “job” for a woman. He displayed her with pride to his buddies, flaunting her sexuality as if “having” her made him a man.

And when Carol was disfigured and crippled in a car accident, McCallous had affairs with numerous women, finally settling on a rodeo beauty queen 18-years-his-junior. He married Cindy, the silicone-chested, botox-faced beer heiress before the ink was dry on the divorce from his first wife. Cindy became a well-known drug addict.

Now he picks Sarah Palin as his running mate, a vacuous former beauty queen whose qualifications include competing in the Miss Alaska pageant.
Apparently, McLame thinks women are so dumb that we’ll vote for him simply because he picked someone with a vagina as his running mate.

Someone should have told him he was supposed to be picking a vice presidential candidate, not his third wife.
More on his treatment of women:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-w...

[George II]

211. What he doesn't realize is that Dem. women are permitted to THINK, unlike their Republican brethren

[DeSwiss]

143. DANG IT!!!

I was SO looking forward to Gwen Ifill asking Mittens if he really, really believed that Lucifer is Jebus's brother. I think what killed-off Mitten's chances was when the RWingers started screaming about how Mormonism was a fake, made-up religion during the primaries. (insert own sarcastic comments to that idea here). If he picked Mittens, it would be over now. And Repukers in greater disarray than they are now. If that's possible.

- And I think that people were afraid that if he became President somehow, we'd all have to start wearing those magic underwear.

So I guess Sarah's as good a choice of any Repuke not currently indicted or under investigation. Not that there's that many. We'll see...


...but I think she missed the layup on this steal.



K&R

[JeanGrey]

296. DANG IT IS RIGHT!!

Damn McCain. Why didn't he just choose idiot Mittens and bury himself with the fundies. Damn.

[marshall]

167. Maybe McCain and Obama can switch slogan matras

Change vs. Experience.

[Malidictus Maximus]

228. Respectfully disagree

The Freepers practically get tumescent when they discuss Maggie Thatcher. And they were scared of Hillary. I would bet that only two or three percent of the most troglodyte extremes don't think a woman could or should be POTUS, I think even the hardest core reich wingers know Hillary could lead, they just did NOT want to go where she would go.

[YDogg]

31. amen

[JeanGrey]

106. Whoo hoo?? Make no mistake. This is a VERY smart

choice. She is well thought of and well liked. McCain is smarter than I thought. I told you he wouldn't take Romney!!

[smoogatz]

184. Smart?

His main line of attack on Obama is that he's "not ready." If McCain has a massive coronary, is Sarah Palin "ready"? No sentient Hillary voter's going to jump to anti-choice McCain just because the wingnut he's running with (also anti-choice, btw, and a creationist) has a vagina.

[JeanGrey]

293. Oh so we're going to point out that our FIRST pick has

not a huge amount of experience next to their "2nd pick?" It would be wise to stay away from the experience thing.

[joeglow3]

199. I agree with you

This is the one pick I did not want.

If Obama goes after her on lack of experience, it strengthens McCain's argument on Obama's alleged lack of experience. She can claim to be for change and can state she is the only of the 4 candidates who is NOT a DC insider. Her personal family (Native American husband and child with Down's) makes personal attacks harder. It makes it a bit easier to go after Hillary's supports. Finally, I HATE to give McCain props for this, but he has successfully pushed Obama's speech off as the top story.

I still think there is no way we can lose this election, but we will need to be a bit more vigilent in delivering our message.

[smoogatz]

201. It's a ridiculous, purely political choice.

The VP selection is a candidate's first big judgment call: the first real indication we get of how they'll act if elected. McCain's choice of Sarah Palin answers that question plain and simple: he's going to kow-tow to the Republican right wing and big oil, just like Bush. More of the same McCain.

[joeglow3]

209. Lets hope that message gets out (nfm)

[JeanGrey]

295. Why is it ridiculous?

[DrZeeLit]

239. Here's what you do. Visualize her leading the Senate. Or meeting with foreign presidents.

McCain and the GOP think women will fall for this stunt?
Which is EXACTLY what they think of women -- this shows a great deal of what they think.
Window dressing.
Women as place holders.
Women as a novelty.

Come on -- Hillary Clinton is a statesman (or is it stateswoman?) -- anyway, Hillary Clinton, as a woman running for office, had chops. To vote for HC was not exactly to vote "just because" she is a woman. No -- she does have experience, education, and skills in many areas. You could see Hillary in a federal leadership position -- even if as VP -- running the senate.

Come on... stack this anti-choice, pro-big oil, anti-environment woman against JOE BIDEN?
He'll wipe the floor with her.

And too bad -- I think we talk tough, we continue to be tough, we don't wimp out now.
"Oh no! We can't diss a woman... oooh, whatever shall we do?"
NO!

She is NOT experienced. Obama has a LOT more experience. For goodness sake, he's a Constitutional Law professor and scholar.
On top of the other experiences as a legislator and a Senator.
Even if he is young, he's got an old soul -- people can feel that.

She is a STUNT... and that's it.

And a STunt with a Scandal attached.

Great... I love it.
Let's not take the gloves off now that we're in the fight!

[JeanGrey]

294. Well I am in complete agreement and after I read all this

nonsense about "whose baby was it, hers or her daughters"? I get chills. I still think we will win too!!! but Sarah is dangerous. She is the most popular governor in America right now, and has many points going for her - family, pro life stance, tough, down's child, mom of five, husband a native american alaskan (hell, they said her parents or his were "carabou hunting", and the river almost made them late home to hear the announcement). She hunts, fishes, shoots, snowmobiles, has been a mayor and governor. She's tough, young and good looking and so is her husband.

And we can't very well talk about inexperience, it could hurt our first compared to their second. We would be wise to stick to issues and her corruption investigation and lay off the junk.

It was a smart pick for McCain. Romney the right wing loonies would've ignored and the rest of his top picks were boring as hell.

[George II]

220. Well thought of? You mean by the 150,000 people who elected her Gov?

She's from the fourth least populated state, less than 700,000 TOTAL population, has been governor for less than 2 years and before that was mayor of a town of 5,000 people? Sure, she's "well thought of" by those who heard of her, but what about the other 99.999% of Americans?

[George II]

222. Let me correct my previous post...

114,000 VOTERS!

2006 gubernatorial election, Alaska

Republican Sarah Palin 114,697
Democratic Tony Knowles 97,238
Independent Andrew Halcro 22,443
Alaskan Independence Don Wright
Libertarian Billy Tolen 682
Green David Massie 593
Write-ins 384 0.2 +0.1

Turnout 238,307 51.1

[llmart]

259. I consider myself pretty politically savvy....

and I keep up on things better than most, and I've never heard of her. Maybe I'm not as politically informed as I thought.

However, if I haven't heard of her then you can bet your bippy about 99.99% of the rest of this country hasn't either.

[JeanGrey]

297. She is the most popular governor in America right now.

Believe me she is known more than you think.

[toopers]

225. Unfortunately, the "experience" argument does not go away.

If I am the republicans I shoot back, "she still has more experience as a VP candidate than the democratic presidential candidate. At least she has managed a budget!"

[JeanGrey]

298. EXACTLY......

People don't discount this. She is dangerous. We need to stick to the issues that voting for McCain and her would just be another four years of Bush and Company!!! This country cannot go there............I for one couldn't take it.

[yurbud]

271. sounds like she's a hard right ideologue, so they are giving up on swing voters

[Blue State Bandit]

281. WTF?

Did she stay at a Holiday Inn last night?

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. McSame really thinks women are that stupid, doesnt he?

[nels25]

100. Not every woman is a rock ribbed liberal/feminist

nothing wrong with that, but we as a party always assume as fact that the country as a whole is wildly progressive when the evidence simply is not there to prove it.

The big reason that this country is going to give us a shot at governing is because Bush so screwed the pooch that most want the GOP to go away and sit in the corner for a while (this will not be a situation that will last in perpetuity), not because of deep seated love or lust for the Democrats to govern. If this were the fact then Barack would really be far ahead with a double digit lead.

I believe this will sell better with general populace than we would like.

As always: We shall see.

[JeanGrey]

107. You better bet it will. She is well thought of and liked by

many, including a lot of my dem friends.

This was a smart choice.

[SOS]

252. An unknown, right-wing extremist from Alaska

is "well liked" by your Democratic friends?

How odd.

[JeanGrey]

292. Not odd at all. I have two women dem friends who actually

first turned me onto her. This was last year and said that they'd be surprised if McCain didn't pick her and that they liked her. I'm not joking. I have republican friends who love Biden too!

[Freddie Stubbs]

110. Some of them are

[NM Independent]

147. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Daleks!!!!!!!!! Run!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm such a nerd.

[Curtland1015]

3. I can't wait for Tina Fay's impression of her...

You know it will happen!

That aside, someone who has only been a Gov for basically MONTHS? ...and the whole Woman thing, that is just a sad attempt to court the angry Hillary supporters. The Repugs would NOT have chosen a woman otherwise, they aren't that smart.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Wow--stupid. It will look like Gramps and his hot young mistress--

if they think women will suddenly flock to her, then they don't understand women at all.

[rfranklin]

35. Age 36? That's "barely legal" in Presidential terms...

This choice is almost pornographic.

[TwilightGardener]

46. She's 44, just had a severely-disabled baby a few months ago.

It is an absolutely logic-defying choice, and makes McLoon look like a dirty old man.

[rfranklin]

60. Sorry, I read she was 36...can't believe everything on the internets

my mistake

[9119495]

94. Maybe it was 36 minutes and not 44 minutes. AP makes a similar mistake.

[Doug.Goodall]

291. My goodness, she is half his age.

Dirty old man my azz, he is almost a pedo

[Hepburn]

99. Exactly....

...and, oh, yes, I am being catty ~~ the hair is soooooooo 1980s! And that is besides all of the other things that ring wrong about her.

[amandabeech]

262. She looks like she belongs with the B-52s doing "Rock Lobster."

Maybe they'll get her a makeover. Less hair and contact lenses would help.

[Bake]

156. Hot? Not.

Sorry, but she ain't no Nancy Pelosi ... (couldn't resist ... )

Bake

[IndyOp]

5. Her husband is Native American. Interesting. (n/t)

[WriteDown]

8. Hmm....

That is very cool. Wish he was the one running.

[IndyOp]

19. He is actually a blue-eyed Native American...

Not to disrespect his ancestry, but he wasn't who I pictured when I thought of a Native American man.

This is a picture of Sarah and Todd with their youngest baby - a boy who has Down syndrome

[WriteDown]

26. That comment is more than a little offensive....

Many Indians(still use the term, ha) are of mixed blood and have some other ancestral traits. Also depending on the tribe, skin tones vary widely from light brown to dark red. Sure you didn't mean anything by it though .

[IndyOp]

47. I am sorry if it is offensive and I won't use it again if you tell me it is truely offensive -

because your smiley makes you comment a bit ambiguous.

I come by the phrase "blue-eyed Native American" honestly -- I have friends who call themselves "blue-eyed Indians". One did not know he had Native ancestry until the night before he married and his mom told him never to tell anyone and to wait until after the wedding to tell his new wife. Other blue-eyed Native friends I know I met at the Sundance that is held every year near where I live.

My adoptive father had Cherokee ancestry - had gorgeous brown eyes and tanned a beautiful copper color during the summer in the garden. Most people would not guess he had Native ancestors, but after you knew you could see it in his cheekbones, too.

My friends who call themselves blue-eyed Indians don't have any discernable Native physical features, but they've got Native hearts.

I think Palin's husband's appearance is relevant only in that if McCain picked Palin in part because her husband has "ethnic" credentials -- and, yes, I think he might do that -- then they will have to keep saying that it is so because it isn't apparent when you look at him. Also, the fact that he is a Republican makes me think that his heart isn't Native.

[WriteDown]

58. I realized...

That you didn't mean it in a bad way and therefore the smiley. My father is a full Indian and he has been mistaken for black at times in the summer, haha. I can get dark, but not that dark. I know fellow Indians who are both democrats and republicans. All have good hearts. They've been screwed by all sides, so its hard to pick a winner. Hillary was big on helping existing tribes, especially in NY so I was a big supporter. I haven't heard much from either of the two candidates on the subject.

[IndyOp]

81. They've been screwed by all sides... Indeed. Indeed.

It is my greatest hope that the Obama election will be noted most in history for awakening THE PEOPLE -- all of us, and, yes, especially the people who've been hurt most and longest by corporate powers run rampant.

Here is the "First Americans for Obama" blog - I would trust them to be paying the best attention to whether Obama is making specific statements about issues important to them... http://tribes.barackobama.com/page/content/firstamshome

Here is Obama at the Crow Nation - he was ceremonially adopted during this visit:



As for McCain on Native Americans -- do you remember "Broken Rainbow" -- the Oscar-winning documentary about the Navajo and Hopi in Arizona? McCain, as Arizona Senator, has long been on the side of the coal and other mining companies that have very nearly succeeding forcing the people off of their last bit of land.

The depth of the tragedy inflicted on the Navajo to this very day by the US Government through the BIA is hard to comprehend. The Euro-American race has long proved its prowess in human rights violations, but there is a particular cruelty in its methods against the Navajo and Hopi, who they tried to set against each other in order to pillage the incredible wealth under the land and poison it in the process. It could certainly be construed as torture, with shots of BIA bulldozers destroying even the desert vegetation to deprive the people of their food and medicine. When they could have given them much more than the peanuts (2 to 3% of the value of all that coal, gas, oil, and uranium!!!) and given them a few mesas on which to live their old dignified ways. Which is all they ever really wanted. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088857 /

[WriteDown]

90. It will be interesting to see...

Obama talks the talk, but it all hinges on the changes at the Dept of the Interior. Another interesting part is that NA's do not function as a single unit and many tribes have very different priorities. There is a lot of infighting due to perceived favoritism, false tribe recognition, etc.

[Odin2005]

108. That is cool! I have Ojibwe relatives, Obama supporters all of them!

n/t.

[IndyOp]

114. My friend Bob is Ojibwe! I am sure I know others, I just don't usually

ask for tribal affiliations when meeting a new friend.

[Odin2005]

126. Bob is the name of my cousin Becky's Ojibwe husband!!! n/t.

[IndyOp]

131. Sadly, your Bob isn't my Bob. My Bob is married to my friend Marianne. (n/t)

[roody]

61. So he is a Native American who enjoys

white privilege.

[WriteDown]

74. Yeah, just like my father right?

Ridiculous and undignified.

[roody]

290. I don't know your father.

I do know white privilege. That blue eyed rich guy and I both enjoy it.

[liberalhistorian]

66. Exactly. What, pray tell, is a

Native American "supposed" to look like? I live on a SD Indian reservation due to hubby's job, and there are plenty of "blue-eyed" native americans; there's no such thing as a "typical" prototype. And I can tell you that this won't make much difference in at least some native american circles; sentiment is strong for Obama and most of those who were for Hillary have gone into the Obama camp.

However, McSame does have a very good track record with native americans and does have a strong base among many southwestern tribes, so this may have been why he chose her if her husband is native american, to try to solidify that base with Alaskan tribes. Unfortunately for her, Biden will eat her alive in the debates!!! And so much for McSame's "experience" argument, lol.

[uppityperson]

198. he's (part) Yup'ik. Here's wiki link. Having worked with full&part, I'd say part

"Eskimo" is considered by many to be a slur, like "redskin" is to native americans/indians in lower 48. Yup'ik and Inupiat are the 2 groups in AK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yupik
blog with pictures: http://www.city-data.com/forum/alaska/293050-2008-camai...

[Pab Sungenis]

45. Hm.

[Iggo]

55. Aw, she's pretty.

Okay, I'm done complimenting the opposition now.

[Ishoutandscream2]

70. Really? I don't think so

But that's just me. To each his own, I guess.

[Iggo]

86. Yeah, thanks.

[krispos42]

155. She is pretty

Nice hair, pretty face, good skin, nice smile, glasses (which I find sexy).

Unfortunately, she's a corrupt Republican who will continue to back the multi-decade failure of post-Goldwater conservatism.

[wtmusic]

89. Agree. She has a beautiful smile. nt

[CaseyStorm]

92. MILF? No VPILF!

Sorry.. couldn't resist.

[The Stranger]

I agree. She's very attractive -- unfortunately.

[Outlier]

127. Palin allegedly vetoed

a bill that barred the state of alaska from giving gay partners health benefits. effectivly clearing the way for them to get benefits.

[SOS]

310. Media matters says AP story is false

AP falsely suggests Palin supports benefits for same-sex partners of state employees

Summary: The Associated Press reported that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin "opposes gay marriage -- constitutionally banned in Alaska before her time -- but exercised a veto that essentially granted benefits to gay state employees and their partners." However, the AP did not note that Palin stated that she vetoed the bill because the Alaska attorney general had advised her that it was unconstitutional, not because she believed same-sex partners of public employees should receive benefits.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200808290025

[Stump]

242. She's pretty hot...

ands that the best thing I can say about the GOP these days.

[Stump]

244. She's pretty hot...

and that the best thing I can say about the GOP these days.

[9119495]

96. Down Syndrome? Do they get Canadian health care in Canada?

How are they going to afford that? They probably got dropped by their provider.

[Castleman]

206. I'd hit it.

Oh, my bad, I thought we were discussing her being quite babe-ish. For VP? With a 92 year old man? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No. Not in a million years. Experience my ass! McCain was shooting from the hip here, and it's gonna cost him. Lemme see, 99% of all Alaska politicians are completely slimy crooks, and her husbands in the oil biz? She's currently under investigation?Bring on the attack dogs! Honestly, the only person who's hoping for a win here is Tina Fey so she can have four years of good materiel to work with.

[soleft]

6. I think they're hoping Biden will be too tough on her in the debates