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Reply With QuoteWow....I hear they called her Sara Barracuda because how tough she is. Excellent....excellent choice. Go McCain !
Sen. John McCain has picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, a senior McCain campaign official told CNN on Friday.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, seen in a February photo, will be John McCain's running mate, sources say.
Palin, 44, who's in her first term as governor, is a pioneering figure in Alaska, the first woman and the youngest person to hold the state's top political job.
She catapulted to the post with a strong reputation as a political outsider, forged during her stint in local politics. She was mayor and a council member of the small town of Wasila and was chairman of the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which regulates Alaska's oil and gas resources, in 2003 and 2004.
The conservative Palin defeated two so-called political insiders to win the governor's job -- incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski in the GOP primary and former two-term Democratic Gov. Tony Knowles in the 2006 general election.
Palin made her name in part by backing tough ethical standards for politicians. During the first legislative session after her election, her administration passed a state ethics law overhaul.
Palin's term has not been without controversy. A legislative investigation is looking into allegations that Palin fired Alaska's public safety commissioner because he refused to fire the governor's former brother-in-law, a state trooper.
Palin acknowledged that a member of her staff made a call to a trooper in which the staffer suggested he was speaking for the governor.
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Palin has admitted that the call could be interpreted as pressure to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, who was locked in a child-custody battle with Palin's sister.
"I am truly disappointed and disturbed to learn that a member of this administration contacted the Department of Public Safety regarding Trooper Wooten," Palin said. "At no time did I authorize any member of my staff to do so."
Palin suspended the staffer who made the call.
Palin has focused on energy and natural resources policy during her short stint in office, and she is known for her support of drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, a position opposed by McCain but supported by many grass-roots Republicans.
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Her biography on the state governor's Web site says one of the two major pieces of legislation passed during her first legislative session was a competitive process to construct a gas pipeline.
Palin started Alaska's Petroleum Systems Integrity Office, an oversight and maintenance agency for the state's oil and gas equipment, facilities and infrastructure. She created the Climate Change Subcabinet that would forge a climate change strategy, according to the Web site.
At present, Palin chairs the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, a multistate panel "that promotes the conservation and efficient recovery of domestic oil and natural gas resources while protecting health, safety and the environment," the biography says.
She has been named chair of the National Governors Association's Natural Resources Committee. That panel is focused on legislation to ensure that federal policies take state priorities into account in agriculture, energy, environmental protection and natural resource management.
She is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association and takes part in two of Alaska's popular pastimes -- fishing and hunting.
The governor's biography said Palin's other priorities have been "education and workforce development, public health and safety, and transportation and infrastructure development."
The biography touts other achievements during her time as governor -- the investment of $5 billion in state savings, overhaul of educational funding and implementation of a program to help low-income elderly Alaskans.
Born in Idaho, she is a longtime Alaskan and a Protestant. Her biography said she arrived in Alaska in 1964, "when her parents came to teach school in Skagway."
She graduated from Wasila High School in 1982 and received a bachelor of science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho in 1987.
Her husband is Todd Palin, an oil production operator on Alaska's North Slope. They have five children, including a son who enlisted in the Army last year.
Congressional Quarterly notes Sarah Palin's other past occupations, including commercial fishing company owner, outdoor recreational equipment company owner and sports reporter.
Palin also made an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor in 2002, Congressional Quarterly said.
McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as running mate - CNN.com
I can't belive it i was so sure it was going to be Romney i'd only heard of Sarah Palin briefly before because she has very high approval ratings but never thought she was seriously in contention for the job do you think this choice will affect the outcome of the election?
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Wow....I hear they called her Sara Barracuda because how tough she is. Excellent....excellent choice. Go McCain !
I'll be interested to see her and Biden duke it out, her frustrate him, him flip out, the GOP running away with the election, B.O. dropping to his knees in defeat and crying.
Actually, any or all of the above.
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage."
As a libertarian, I love the choice. Good to see a party that had been giving us the finger for the last six years give us the VP slot.
However, one concern is that McCain has just hammered and will continue to hammer Obama on is "lack of experience". And she's been governor of Alaska, her only top-flight position, since January 2007. So doesn't that kind of undercut his argument, especially considering whether we all like it or not, McCain is pretty old and the presidency is a very hard job for the person that does it?
Would she be experienced with the national economy?
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National Economy, no. But I think she has the proactive spirit coupled with the experience of running her state to counteract that inexperience on the national level. Her suggestions, passed laws, and budget track record on the state level are impressive. She's up front and honest, and frankly that's not something that's easy to come by with politicians and to me is most important. The little I've seen about her and read about her, she has good character. She's a good compliment to McCain. Pro-Life, Anti same-sex marraige, member of Feminists for life.Originally Posted by smilingassassin
ENERGY POLICIES:
Palin's tenure is noted for her independence from big oil companies, while still promoting resource development. Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisors, to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska.
Shortly after taking office, Palin rescinded thirty-five appointments made by Murkowski in the last hour of his administration, including the appointment by Murkowski of his former chief of staff Jim Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority. Clark later pled guilty to conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into Frank Murkowski's re-election campaign.
In March 2007, Palin presented the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) as the new legal vehicle for building a natural gas pipeline from the state's North Slope. Only one legislator, Representative Ralph Samuels, voted against the measure, and in June Palin signed it into law. On January 5, 2008, Palin announced that a Canadian company, Transcanada, was the sole AGIA-compliant applicant.
In response to high oil and gas prices, and in response to the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates. She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly and eliminate the gas tax.
BUDGET:
In the first days of her administration, Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet purchased (on a state government credit account) by the Murkowski administration. The state placed the jet for sale on eBay three times. In August 2007, the jet was sold for $2.7 million.
Shortly after becoming governor, Palin canceled a contract for construction on an 11-mile (18-kilometer) gravel road outside of Juneau to a mine. This reversed a decision made in the closing days or hours of the Murkowski Administration.
In June 2007, Palin signed into law a $6.6 billion operating budget—the largest in Alaska's history. At the same time, she used her veto power to make the second-largest cuts of the construction budget in state history. The $237 million in cuts represented over 300 local projects, and reduced the construction budget to nearly $1.6 billion.
Background....
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage."
Finally, a presidential election with eye candy. She has 'thinking man's crumpet' written all over her.
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Which of the four are experienced irt economics. Being a Senator does not give one economic experience.
I guess Mccain could have picked Greenspan as his VP.
historicaldavid,
.....don't know what you eat for breakfast, she looks a tad school-marmish.
The human mind cannot grasp the causes of phenomena in the aggregate. But the need to find these causes is inherent in man’s soul. And the human intellect, without investigating the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: “This is the cause!"
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I can see where you are coming from. It does undermine that argument to an extent. I would venture to stay the argument still stands though, given that the Dem presidential nominee is inexperienced rather than running mate. I'm just ready for Obamathon to come to a close. Her track record and approval rating in her state is good for me.
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage."
Agreed. She was runner up to Miss Alaska in 1984! Put her through school.
AND she has 5 kids. MILF. Haha
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage."
Actually, as Governor of Alaska she has more executive experience than Obama, Biden, and McCain combined.
Will the timing help take away attention from Obama's recent speech and lower Obama's bounce?
I also find it surprising that McCain is getting this much attention on TV after barely getting any media attention.
Those who can't change become extinct.
She's pro-gun. That's all I care.
As far as experience goes, she has more executive experience than McCain, Obama, and Biden COMBINED!
Damn, I'm late by 10 min.
"Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
I just heard her on the radio introducing her family - what is this fascination with your leaders families that you have other there? You're not voting for the spouse or the kids. Why should it be of any interest? *Shakes her head* "These Americans are crazy...."
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