The Real Ticket for Hope and Change!
Posted on August 29, 2008
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Senator McCain finally revealed his VP choice, Governor Sarah Palin from Alaska. It contrast sharply with Obama’s feeble choice of Senator Biden, the very one who barely a year ago felt the junior Senator from Illinois was not quite ready for primetime. Choosing Ms. Palin fully restores McCain’s image as a maverick.
From 1992 to 1996, Ms. Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council her native Alaska town. In 1996, She challenged the incumbent mayor, in 1906 criticizing wasteful spending and high taxes. She ran for reelection against the former mayor in 1999, winning by an even larger margin. Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. On becoming Mayor she kept her preelection promises by taking a major cut in salary and reducing property taxes by 60%.
Under Governor Murkowski she was appointed Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. She served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the “lack of ethics” of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest. Following her resignation, she went the state Republican party’s chairman, Randy Ruedrich, a fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, accusing him of doing work for the party on public time and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail. Tireless in her efforts to root out corruption Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes. Both resigned as a result of her denunciations.
In spite of a lack of support by the party leadership, in spite of being vastly outspent by her Democrat opponent, she handily won the Governorship in 2006. True to her reputation as a reformer, true to her fighting spirit, she hit the ground running with a successful push for an ethics bill, she also attacked and shelved pork-barrel projects supported by fellow Republicans. In Governor Palin’s words, “Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on ‘federal dollars,’ as the state does today.” And so far she has kept her word, striving to reduce that dependency!
At the very outset of her administration, in efforts to reduce and cancel wasteful spending, Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet purchased (on a state government credit account) by the former governor’s administration. In 2007, the jet was sold for $2.7 million.
She canceled an 11-mile gravel road outside of Juneau to a mine. In June 2007, the new Governor signed into law the largest operating budget in Alaska’s history ($6.6 billion). She used her veto power to make the second-largest cuts of the construction budget in state history and managed to reduce it to nearly $1.6 billion.
SOCIAL STANDS
Abortion – On April 18, 2008, Palin gave birth to her second son – out of 5 children – he was born with Down Syndrome. Palin refused to let the results of prenatal genetic testing change her decision to have the baby. “I’m looking at him right now, and I see perfection,” Palin said. “Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?” The sancity of life, in her view, far outweighs any considerations of false shame or personal convenience!
Gay Marriage – She opposes same-sex marriage, though she has gay friends and is receptive to gay and lesbian concerns about discrimination. Palin complied with a state Supreme Court order and signed them into law, though the previous administration had refused to do so. Palin’s sensitivity to her constituents was responsible for first veto used to block legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to the partners of gay state employees. Her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska’s attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation.
In short, while Sarah Palin is a staunch Conservative she has reached out and acted on behalf of groups that are traditionally outside the pale of Conservative politics. She has demonstrated no tolerance for wasteful projects. She fought against and reversed the cronyism inherent in the last administration. Unanimously, she has been hailed as a reformer with unusual ethics in politics. She has indefatigably fought to clean up government and shown she will stand for no nonsense.
Senator McCain’s choice was a bold, brilliant move. Though Obama’s minions will doubtlessly try to accuse her of having no national experience. Her stint as governor showed her as crusader against graft, graft, corruption, useless expenditures and very unlike Obama whose community activist experience was decried by his own constituents (as The Boston Globe, a liberal newspaper, reported. Unlike the good Senator from Illinois, Ms. Palin got results. Unlike the good Senator from Illinois who basked in the company of undesirables, Ms. Palin never hesitated in going after her own party, when necessary, to root out corruption, graft and wasteful spending. Unlike, Senator Obama who actually excelled in all three of those “arts”!
Ms. Palin’s no nonsense approach to government, her proven record, her youthfulness, her appeal to women voters, make mincemeat of the fallacious argument by the Obaminists that a McCain administration would be a third term of Bushism. The McCain/Palin has now shown us the true meaning of what Hope and Change really is. Even liberal NPR (National Public Radio) likes her!
Chaim
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With his brilliant choice of running mate, Senator McCain consolidates his reputation as a maverick. This is the real ticket of Hope and Change!…
I’m a happy camper!
I’ve been listening to NPR and reading other news sources all morning and, while Palin is certainly seen as a novel choice with fledgling reformer credentials, the emerging consensus is that she is little known and that there is a whole lot of vetting that needs to be done.
The media are still asking “Who is this woman?” and comparisons to other younger, little known and equally novel past running mates (Dan Quayle, anyone?) are being invoked.
Most concerning is the simmering scandal regarding attempts to fire her former brother in law Mike Wooten, an Alaska State trooper, who is in rancorous divorce procedings with Palin’s sister. Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was fired abruptly on July 11 allegedly for his refusal to dismiss Wooten and a bipartisan legislative council has launched and investigation into the affair.
It strikes me as poor judgement by Senator McCain to select Palin as a running mate, in part for her position on ethics and reform, when she is under an active investigation for such a serious ethical lapse.
I think we’re all best served by letting the public vetting process of Senator McCain’s VP choice get into days rather than minutes before declaring it a masterstroke.
~GC
There goes an Obaminate trying to do damage control in slavelike service to his master, the Big 0.
Let’s look at all the facts about the investigation, not just the ones curmudgeon picks and choosest: In response to Palin’s statement that she had nothing to hide, in August 2008 the Alaska Legislature hired Steve Branchflower to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal.
The investigation is being overseen by Democratic State Senator Hollis French, who says that the Palin administration has been cooperating and thus subpoenas are unnecessary. The Palin administration itself was the first to release an audiotape of Bailey making inquiries about the status of the Wooten investigation.
Palin later admitted that members of her staff had made about two dozen contacts with public safety officials about the trooper, including at least one “smoking gun” conversation. Asa of these stage and pending evidence to the contrary, it seems the stuff member made the calls on his own, without prior consulting with the governor.
Half stories, inuendoes and outright lies will not alter the facts, though they may sway those too lazy to think, to check, or to even care abouyt the truth. Choosing Sarah Palin, definitely helps McCain… look at the polls. This story is already bigger than the would be emperor’s coronation last night.
Watch out everyone there is an Obomoron in the room please remain calm.
This Hillary supporter is very happy with Senator McCain’s choice. She makes conservatives happy which is important and she makes Hillary supporters happy which is going to make him the biggest winner in history. Why because he listened to us. Obummers doesn’t listen to anyone but the whistles going off in his head.
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