Originally posted by The17sss
haha.. that video is pretty funny. I actually like that Palin is different than hillary. She represents everything Hillary isnt: a woman who can balance everything from kids to work to school, keep her husband in check, and doesn't need to ride the coat tails of her man to get ahead in politics. She's done it all on her own with no help... without affirmative action or some other government assisted program. The only thing Hillary ever had charge of while Bill was president was "hillary care" which was a disasterous failure. Other than that task, she ran for her senate seat with being first lady as her experience. This is why I think the hardcore feminists don't like Palin. It's like she isn't a woman by their standards because she wears a dress, doesn't want abortions, and lovingly supports her family
Yeah but what the does the VP do all day again?
cmay119
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Originally posted by LazFX
Why can't the GOP ever answer a question??
It's also hilarious to see a her, Bachman, try to play the sexist card and fail miserably.
It's entertaining to watch these people try to defend Palin when they have no specific examples to use. They just keep making generic statements about how qualified she is.
If she accepts the nomination and goes the distance McCain will lose in a landslide. If she bows out and McCain has to choose a replacement his judgment argument goes out the window and he loses in a landslide.
I watched that last night on TV, and just couldn't stop shaking my head. I just commend James Carville for having such a tremendous amount of patience with Bachman. He stuck to the facts and put her in her place proper.
Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Have we already discussed the topless photos ?
FFS...... i was expecting a funneh link, not NSFW........ nice rack though....
Krypton
Thank you John McCain for sabotaging your own election. All we have to do now is get as many people to vote as possible. The worst enemy of a Republican is an energized electorate.
The17sss
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Originally posted by jerZ07002
energy production is a small piece of the US economy. Furthermore, the goal of both the obama and mccain campaigns is to reduce oil consumption, so alaska's relative importance will wane over time.
:conf: energy production is a small piece of the economy? lol. Without energy production keeping up, all other industries will fail. Oil is the engine that runs the economy.
The goal of the McCain campaign is more about less reliance on foreign energy through all options of production here than it is about simply reducing oil consumption
LazFX
I know its kind of tired, but I giggled when I saw this......
Dj Smitty20
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Originally posted by colonelcrisp
FFS...... i was expecting a funneh link, not NSFW........ nice rack though....
wow.
You can sure as hell bet John McCain and his camp didn't see that picture. It's quite obvious now that this was a snap decision when he realised he couldn't pick his turncoat buddy, Lieberman (Gore made a huge mistake picking him in 2000). Palin wasn't thoroughly "vetted"...that much is quite clear.
I'm starting to laugh at the right wingers trying to defend in spite of revelation after revelation....desperation is a bitch eh?
josh4
Bound to happen, they linked her to the Alaskan corruption investigation, among other things.
That's completely open game when the Repubs are busy trying to link Obama to Rezko and Ayers.
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Campaign money hurts Palin's outsider image
By MATT APUZZO – 39 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin accepted at least $4,500 in campaign contributions in the same fundraising scheme at the center of a public corruption scandal that led to the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens.
The contributions, made during Palin's failed 2002 bid to become Alaska's lieutenant governor, were not illegal for her to accept. But they show how Palin, a self-proclaimed champion for clean government, has been part of an Alaska political system that is now under the cloud of an ongoing FBI investigation.
It's the latest in a string of revelations that raise questions about whether John McCain's presidential campaign had sufficiently investigated the background of Palin, 44, a little-known governor new to the national stage. Palin stunned delegates at the GOP convention Monday when she announced through the McCain campaign that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant.
With the convention still abuzz, the list of potentially embarrassing details grew Tuesday:
_Palin sought pork-barrel projects for her city and state, contrary to her reformist image.
_Her husband once belonged to a fringe political group in Alaska with some members supporting succession from the United States.
_A private attorney is authorized to spend $95,000 to defend her against accusations of abuse of power.
_She has acknowledged smoking marijuana in the past.
_And this: Bristol Palin's boyfriend, Levi Johnston, plans to join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention, the boy's mother said. He left Alaska on Tuesday morning to join the Palin family in St. Paul, Minn.
Defending his choice and the team that helped pick her, McCain said Tuesday "the vetting process was completely thorough." Campaign advisers at the convention in St. Paul, Minn., said Palin filled out a survey with 70 questions including: Have you ever paid for sex? Have you been faithful in your marriage? Have you ever used or purchased drugs? Have you ever downloaded pornography?
McCain's aides maintained that Palin was a finalist from the start
But a senior Republican familiar with the search, who requested anonymity when speaking without authorization, said Palin had all but fallen from the radar until late in the summer when McCain — apparently unsatisfied with his working list — asked for more alternatives. Suddenly, she was a finalist.
When she was introduced as McCain's running mate last week, Palin portrayed herself as a political maverick in McCain's mold: "I've stood up to the old politics as usual, to the special interests, to the lobbyists, the big oil companies and the 'good old boy' network,'" she said.
But Alaska's first female governor has at times benefited from Alaska's entrenched political system.
As Palin campaigned unsuccessfully in 2002 to become lieutenant governor, she received contributions from executives at VECO Corp., a powerful Alaska oil field services company. Company founder Bill Allen has admitted the company steers its donations through a "special bonus program" in which executives received money and the company instructed them to donate it to favored politicians.
Allen pleaded guilty to bribery and corruption charges. He admitted the program violated federal tax laws and said it was used to keep his political allies flush with cash.
"If they're working with the oil industry, I'd like to help with their campaigns," Allen testified last year in the corruption trial of a former state lawmaker.
Since Palin's nomination last week, these issues also are raising eyebrows:
_In her earlier career as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Palin hired a lobbyist to help the tiny town secure at least 14 earmarks, worth $27 million between 2000-2003. McCain has touted Palin as a force in his long battle against earmarks.
_Under her leadership this year, Alaska asked for almost $300 per person in requests for pet projects from Stevens, one of McCain's top adversaries. That's more than any other state received, per person, from Congress.
_Her husband, Todd, twice registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fierce states' rights group that wants to turn all federal lands in Alaska back to the state. Sarah Palin herself never registered as a member of the party, according to state officials, though party members said she attended a 1994 convention with her husband.
_The head of the firm hired to defend Gov. Palin in a state ethics investigation was previously her family's lawyer and is permitted to bill the state up to $95,000 for work in the current case. It involves the dismissal of public safety commissioner Walt Monegan after he refused to fire a state trooper who had divorced the governor's sister.
_Palin opposed the U.S. government's listing of a variety of animals as endangered, including the polar bear and the beluga whale, both of which inhabit areas also rich in oil and natural gas.
_Palin previously acknowledged she smoked marijuana but said in a 2006 interview she no longer used the drug. "I can't claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled," she said.
In the fundraising corruption probe, VECO founder Allen is cooperating in an FBI investigation that has already sent several state political figures to prison. He is expected to be the Justice Department's star witness at Stevens' trial later this month when he testifies about home renovations and other gifts he provided the longtime senator — gifts Stevens is charged with concealing on Senate documents.
Palin received $500, the maximum amount allowed by law, from Allen and VECO vice president Rick Smith. Several other VECO managers, including Pete Leathard, who came up with the idea for the special bonus program, also donated the maximum. Allen's son, a VECO employee, also donated $500. All the checks were donated the same day, except for Leathard's, which was dated two days after the rest.
John Cramer, one of Palin's treasurers for her 2002 campaign, said he doesn't remember any indications that the money came from a special company program.
The donations aren't evidence of corruption and Palin is not among the lawmakers under investigation in the VECO case. But they undermine arguments that Palin has broken from Alaska's Republican machine, including Stevens.
"If you can take on Ted Stevens and that crowd in Alaska, you can handle the Russians," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C, told ABC News this week.
But Palin didn't reach the governor's office picking fights with the Senate's longest-serving Republican. She was a director for a nonprofit group Stevens set up to increase the number of Republican women in government. Stevens also campaigned for Palin in 2006 and appeared in a political advertisement for her.
Palin has had her share of run-ins with Stevens, including a dustup earlier this year in which Stevens accused Palin of not being enthusiastic enough about his efforts to bring federal earmark money to Alaska. She has also called on Stevens' son, Ben, to resign as national committeeman for the state party.
She was among the first Alaska Republicans to urge Stevens to answer questions about the FBI investigation. But she did not urge him to resign after his indictment, as she did after a state lawmaker was indicted. She said Stevens "has dedicated his life to the betterment of the state." http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5...Vms8tgD92USVF01
Clovis
Having toked is one of her few pluses at this point imo.
josh4
This has potential to turn into a "Wright" media frenzy for McCain. The Obama campaign just has to stay back and watch the media envelop Palin in a cloud of uncertainty. Even if they don't get a smoking gun on her theres plenty of small things that can cause concern.
She disagrees with the science behind global warming and wanted to teach creationism in schools? That's not going to get McCain swing voters or women short of conservative ones.
