UPDATED WITH THE ‘OH NO HE DIDN’T’ REACTION FROM OBAMA CAMPAIGN…CONFIRMED! And The Mate Is: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Via drudge comes word that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is John McCain’s choice!
Two GOP strategists close to the McCain campaign said all indications pointed to Palin, a self-styled “hockey mom” and political reformer. The strategists spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized by the McCain camp to discuss the matter. There was no confirmation from McCain or his advisers….
….Palin is a first-term governor credited with reforms of her out-of-the-way state. Newly minted Democratic nominee Barack Obama is making an aggressive play for the traditional GOP stronghold and its three electoral votes, and polls show the race close.
This was my choice when looking at female candidates. I hope this rumor proves to be true!
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FOX News Confirms Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Will Be McCain Running Mate
McCain Picks Palin
URGENT: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is surprise choice to be McCain’s running mate; mother of 5 is considered rising star in GOP, known for pro-life stand and being a fiscal conservative
Alaska Gov. Palin is McCain’s VP pick
State’s First Female Governor brings youth, conservative appeal to GOP ticket.
CNN’s Roberts: Palin Too Young and Inexperienced
During the 9 a.m. EDT hour of “CNN Newsroom,” “American Morning” co-anchor John Roberts gave an analysis of Governor Sarah Palin during discussion of Senator John McCain’s vice presidential choice. Roberts focused on Palin’s lack of experience, saying that a prerequisite for the vice presidency should be the ability to step right into the office, especially because of McCain’s age. Roberts stated:
She’s only been in office for a couple of years now, which really raises the experience issue here.
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Now, she is a manager. She is the governor of a state. She does have limited experience, though. She’s also been the mayor for a city in Alaska. And for a time she was the ethics chairman of the Alaska oil and gas conservation commission. But that does not add up to broad experience, particularly the type of broad experience you think should launch you to the national level.
Of course, Senator Barack Obama, who is running for president of the United States, has no executive experience and has only been in the U.S. Senate since 2005. But apparently, Roberts finds Palin to bee too inexperienced and young to be vice president.
Palin for America: A true conservative « Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian
Flashback: You go, girl: Alaska GOP Gov. will sue Bush administration over polar bear listing
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Jennifer Rubin at PJM
Memeorandum has tons more reactions
OBAMA REACTION: He just can’t seem to stop picking on those small town people
“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. [HOLY] Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies ” that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same,” [CRAP] spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
McCain camp fires back: She’s got more experience than you, Barry
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August 29, 2008 - 08:35 AM on August 29th, 2008
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August 29, 2008 - 10:04 AM on August 29th, 2008
See, this is how it goes…
McCain is running for President and he has a lifetime of experience for the job. His Vice President pick, Sarah Palin, is a bit less experienced, but has executive experience to bring to the job (more executive experience than Obama and Biden)
Obama is running for President and he has no experience for the job (Senators don’t have executive experience, btw)_. His Vice President pick, Joe Biden, has a lifetime of experience to bring to the job.
Methinks the Democratic ticket has it a bit backwards.
The Obama campaign has it wrong in their reaction to Palin. They said she has no experience - - yet she has more executive experience than Obama and she’s running for the second slot! She’s gone up against big oil and she’s a tough lady.
McCain/Palin ‘08!
August 29, 2008 - 10:06 AM on August 29th, 2008
Another perspective: Obama points at McCain having been in the Senate for 26 years as being part of the problem. Biden has been in the Senate for 30 years and is nothing more than a hack. Biden is certainly part of the problem.
And this is change? Change we can believe in?
August 29, 2008 - 10:12 AM on August 29th, 2008
I’d have to question the point of that.. Biden has been in the Senate for 36 years - longer than McCain (22). For Obama to criticize McCain for being so long in the Senate, then he’d have to feel the same way about his running mate, else he’d be blatantly hypocritical.
August 29, 2008 - 10:15 AM on August 29th, 2008
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August 29, 2008 - 10:48 AM on August 29th, 2008
Now ponder this:
This is change you can believe in!
August 29, 2008 - 11:08 AM on August 29th, 2008
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August 29, 2008 - 01:37 PM on August 29th, 2008
I am PSYCHED!!! Let’s pick off the former Hillary supporters, for one! She seems solid…
August 29, 2008 - 04:38 PM on August 29th, 2008
NEWS FLASH: for his Secretary of State, John McCain has named a really cute assembly line worker from Miles City, Montana. And for his next nominee to the Supreme Court, he is trying to decide between a personal trainer from Sandpoint, Idaho and court stenographer from Guam.
Seriously, 26 years in congress and he things she was a better pick than Olympia Snow and every other female Republican? Seriously?
“In some ways, the choice of Ms. Palin was reminiscent of George H. W. Bush’s selection of Dan Quayle, a young United States senator, as his running mate in 1988.”
“Several of Mr. McCain’s outside advisers reacted with bewilderment to the selection of Ms. Palin, and one said that it would undercut one of Mr. McCain’s central criticisms of Senator Obama ” that he is too inexperienced to be commander in chief.”
Palin “As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?”Aug 2008
August 30, 2008 - 06:33 PM on August 30th, 2008
You guys raise two great points. Now Senator Obama can’t legitimately criticize the senate’s recent history; and Senator McCain can’t legitimately criticize Senator Obama’s lack of experience. Those two issues are more or less off the table.
One issue though is that the former Senator Clinton supporters are NOT going to jump on the Senator McCain boat just because he selected a female running mate. To suggest so would represent a misunderstanding of the typical female Senator Clinton supporter.
August 30, 2008 - 08:06 PM on August 30th, 2008
McCain’s surprise choice for veep: Sarah Palin…
An amazing surprise: Sarah Palin has been chosen as running mate for John McCain…
August 30, 2008 - 09:18 PM on August 30th, 2008
Sarah Palin was born in Sandpoint Idaho in 1964. My wife and I were there in 2006 and can tell you that this is an area of the country that still remains somewhat pure. We knew a little about her before the V.P slot and are pleased to see she now has it. This women exudes genuine traditionalism. We hope that her good looks are not used against her by some overwieght, tattooed, gray haired, left wing libby with her keychain hanging off her jeans.