McCain Fakes to the Left, Cuts to the Right, Choose Palin for VP
Not Romney, Pawlenty, and not Lieberman. John McCain has made either party choice in November a historic one by choosing Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate. This is so big, the Drudge Report website is overwhelmed with readers (I can’t get a link in edgewise).
Aside from the obvious appeal to history, and the disenchanted Clinton voters, Palin brings experience. “Experience?”, you may say, “She’s not even been governor a full 2 years.” Indeed, but that’s 2 years more executive branch experience that the other 3 candidates — Obama, Biden and McCain — combined. Prior to that (via Wikipedia):
- Became mayor of Wasilla, AK on a platform of cutting spending and taxes. She did both, with cutting her salary being the first thing.
- Appointed by then-governor Murkowski to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission as the Ethics Commissioner. She quit over ethics issues in her own party, so she’s not afraid to call it like she sees it.
The Wikipedia article has much more about her that I find absolutely excellent. Great job, Senator McCain.
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just want to set the record straight on anyone suggesting Palin is as qualified as Obama or has equal or more experience. From 1997-2004 Obama was representing over 130,000 Americans in the ILL State Senate as the Senator of the 13th District, Palin was let’s see, mayor of a town of 5,000. Yes I think puts her on the pulse of the American people.
Oh and we can’t forget that University of Idaho, BS degree. I think that compares to Obama’s Harvard JD. Obama is responsible for 12,831,970 Americans as a Senator from Illnois each day, while, she govnors 670,053 people. Executive experience please, tomorrow you’ll be electing the mayor of Austin, TX. At least he’s in charge of more people.