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A conservative OPINION blog --with bite. OPINION by Joel Johannesen.

Friday, August 29, 2008

McCain Veep choice: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin?

Written by Joel Johannesen on Friday August 29 2008 at 06:01 AM

Constantly updated as needed throughout the day

...UPDATE (7:30 AM PDT): ....BREAKING: ...Fox News Channel is now confirming that 44-year-old “hockey mom” and Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, a true-blue conservative, is the pick…



image  Fox News Channel is all over this story but nobody knows or will know for another two hours. 

This is what they do confirm:  Mitt Romney is not the pick.  Tim Pawlenty is not the pick.  Lieberman is not it.  Huckabee is not it.

A jet arrived in Ohio from Alaska and the Alaska Governor cannot be tracked at this time.  Looks like it’s her.

The McCain campaign is handling this masterfully, as up to three news outlets—all of them not in bed with Obama and liberal-leftists—are covering it (aside from Fox News Channel). 

The name Meg Whitman (Chairman of eBay) is also being bandied about…


image EXTRA ICE CUBES, JUST IN CASE:image

• She’s a die-hard true-blue conservative. 
• She’s 44.
• Her family taught her about hunting moose, one of her hobbies. 
• She runs 5 and 10K races. 
• She’s a hockey player. 
• She’s a former sportscaster.
• She owns a float plane.
• Was a point guard and captain for the Wasilla High School Warriors.
• She earned the nickname “Sarah Barracuda” because of her intense play.
• She played the championship game despite a stress fracture in her ankle, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds.
• Was also the head of the school Fellowship of Christian Athletes, would lead the team in prayer before games.
• In 1984, Palin was first runner-up in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year, winning a scholarship to help pay her way through college.
• In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.
• She ice fishes, rides snowmobiles.
• Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association.
• Married to Todd.
• Has son in Army.  He joined On September 11, 2007. Going to Iraq in September.  They have 4 other kids. One has Down’s Syndrome.
• She has a degree in Journalism.
• Was a whistle blower against her own party’s shenanigans in Alaska. 
• Palin is strongly pro-life, and against same-sex ‘marriage’.
• Has been a very popular, very strong Governor, axing all kinds of wasteful spending and spending commitments, and selling government luxuries like a luxury government private jet—on eBay—and canceling the stupid “Bridge to Nowhere”.
•  Is in favor of oil drilling in Alaska, including in ANWR.


Post-Update Warm Thoughtage:

- Talk about “change”!  Republicans are about the change, not the Obamatons.
- Let’s monitor the Dems for “sexist” talk.
- Let’s watch attack dog Biden “attack” this woman. 
- She has executive experience, which the Obama-Biden team totally lack.
- Hillary voters: here’s your man.  Err woman.
- Just TRY calling her a “Washington insider”. (Check your map)
- One woman commentator on TV just called her a “cool lady” (not referring to her being in Alaska).
- Watch for the “anti-racist” Team Obama to accuse the McCain-Palin team of being “white as snow”.
- Here’s some pictures from her recent trip to Iraq to visit the troops and learn about things (compare and contrast with The Great [Uninterested] Obama)...
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- Karl Rove thinks the choice and the handling of it was “brilliant”. 


“FAIR AND BALANCED” and IDIOTIC CNN, CBC, and CTV:

- In citing point after point of supposed Palin negatives, CNN idiot reporter Dana Bash thinks she has a real goodie that Dems can use image on McCain:  She says McCain has always lambasted and ridiculed (“trashes” was her word) Alaska for that “Bridge to Nowhere” project (see above), and yet now here he is choosing the Governor of Alaska.  She muses that it will be interesting “to see how he squares that!”.  She doesn’t know (as I do, from 2 minutes of research) that it was precisely Palin who axed that project citing it as being totally stupid. 

“You know one other note I just have to tell you because it’s been on my mind ... first of all, um, one of his favorite lines, is how how he he basically TRASHES Alaska, all the time, specifically the idea in Alaska uh that uh, that one of the biggest earmarks was for the “Bridge to Nowhere”.  In fact it is one of his favorite lines!  So it is gunna be interesting how he squares that with the fact that uh, that it was a pretty popular thing in the State of Alaska and now he’s picking the Governor of Alaska!”

—Idiot reporter at CNN

 

- CBC and CTV are currently almost completely ignoring this story, today, pretending that nearly every other story is massively and unusually vitally important, such that this little McCain thing is totally insignificant.  This contrasts starkly with their wall-to-wall coverage of every tease and peep and rumor out of the Democratic Party as The Great Obama was about to make his Veep choice.  As such, I believe they are misinforming you and leading you astray. (Latest CBC Newsworld stories:  Michael Jackson turns 50.  And John McCain turns 72 today.  End of story (as they play video of Jackson).  Then they played video from last night’s Obama rally.  I’m serious. ) 

- (10:57 AM PDT): Quick check on CBC’s coverage:  CBC continues to show clips of last night’s Obama show, not today’s McCain VP pick.  They should be reported to the CRTC. 


Official reaction from Team Obama:

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- They also ridiculed her in knee-jerk idiotic fashion, accusing her of being but a “small town mayor”.  That should appeal to small-town America.  Real thinkers and America-lovers over there at Team Obama, huh? 

- Team Obama-Biden started their campaigning day today in Beaver, Pennsylvania. Beaver.  I’m just saying.


Other than that:

- JohnMcCain.com already has their graphics together….
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Post-Palin’s Hot Speech Thoughts:

• That was a hot speech.
• She is formidable.
• Was very gracious.
• Great speaker.
• A real woman.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.  (Or is there, now?) ... Wore a skirt.
• Said great things.
• Inspires twice as well, and as a far more natural and folksy and GENUINE an American human, than The Great Obama or his attack dog Biden. 


Rush Limbaugh/Ann Coulter Watch:

- Rush sounds like he’s happy.  Not clear yet.  Just tuned in.  He pointed out that last night, The Great Obama (he calls him The Messiah) shouted in his speech to end all speeches that he (Obama) is… “his brother’s keeper!”.  But that in actual fact, The Messiah’s brother lives in a shack in Kenya, living on $15 a day.  This is a fact that CBC and CNN forgot to report about the speech of the century. 
- No word from Chairman Ann yet.  Will update.
- Rush plays clip from Palin’s speech this morning, and then says:  “Sarah Palin:  Babies. Guns. Jesus.  Hot damn.” 

Posted by Joel Johannesen on   Fri, August 29, 2008 at 6:01:43 AM
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  1. daverbonz's avatar daverbonz says:

    Very interesting choice but I really like it.  She is certainly qualifed and Joel you took the words right out of my mouth.  Let’s see that simpleton, plagiarizer attack her.  From what I’ve cobbled together since this was first reported she ain’t no shrinking violet in the debates.

    Posted by daverbonz  from  Ottawa, Ontario...Nepean/Carleton  on  Fri, August 29, 2008 at 7:48:54 AM
  2. daverbonz's avatar daverbonz says:

    Reading the comments on CTV website are just laughable and extrordinarily ignorant as usual.  Most of these birds either aren’t old enough to read book or lack the expertise.  Even after the love-a-thon the MSM, Hollywood and every other left wing nutjob has given to Obama-rama he has gained anything in the polls.  Weird, maybe this indicates that a majority of americans actually use their brains and I believe the closer it gets to November you will see McCain pull far ahead.  Especially after the debates and Obama-rama gets shredded on nearly every issue other than communism.  And when Sarah digests the little simpleton VP canidate people will be in shock…the Left will then cry…NOOOOOOOO, we have Harper with a majority and a Republican again for 8 more years….why didn’t we choose hilda-beast instead….

    Posted by daverbonz  from  Ottawa, Ontario...Nepean/Carleton  on  Fri, August 29, 2008 at 9:04:10 AM
  3. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    She’s doesn’t have western values in that she eloped with her husband…smoked marijuana (yes; I know it was legal in Alaska at the time).

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Utah  on  Fri, August 29, 2008 at 10:42:09 AM
  4. Heather's avatar Heather says:

    Can I just say, Joel, I love you (in the most platonic sense of course). After reading all the ridiculous headlines this morning, seeing no sanity or or common sense, I come here to PTBC and WHEW, the world is back on its axis again.  I hungrily feast my eyes on what is good and right and true and I can go back to dealing with the lemmings and actually pity them for their stupidity.

    “OMG, WTF,” KILLED myself laughing…......

    Posted by Heather  from  Chilliwack, B.C.  on  Fri, August 29, 2008 at 11:01:25 AM
    — Heather's   s i g n a t u r e:

    The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.
    Ecclesiastes 10:2

  5. Randy says:

    Lets see, she’s pro-life which means that she wont garnish the hillary supporters and she completely eliminates McCains experience argument over obama. I couldn’t be more disappointed, Huckabee or Romney would have been better.

    Posted by Randy  from   on  Fri, August 29, 2008 at 11:31:19 AM
  6. Jo-Anne's avatar Jo-Anne says:

    WOW! Who wouldn’t vote for this woman?  She sounds like a powerhouse.

    I understand that in past elections Veeps have largely been ignored in the campaign after convention week.  But maybe these two completely opposite Veep nominees will get more coverage.

    Posted by Jo-Anne  from   on  Fri, August 29, 2008 at 11:59:17 AM
  7. Greig says:

    A real breath of fresh air and NO Pantsuit!  Excellent choice and Sarah will make an excellent VP.
    I bet they’re passing out the black armbands at the Communist Broadcasting Cesspool and CTV Liberalvision. Yippee!!

    Posted by Greig  from  MB & TX  on  Fri, August 29, 2008 at 12:42:01 PM
  8. veryrightwing says:

    She’s hot

    Posted by veryrightwing  from   on  Fri, August 29, 2008 at 3:41:54 PM
  9. twh says:

    She is hot. That alone will get a lot of votes.

    Posted by twh  from  Keene Ont.  on  Fri, August 29, 2008 at 4:46:25 PM
  10. Zion's avatar Zion says:

    OKay - I am now officially EXCITED about the McCain ticket! I truly think this was a brilliant move. She is a true conservative, and she is a TIGER! I think Biden will have his hands full in the debates, and more than ever I am convinced Obama will lose decisively in November, not just in a squeaker.

    GREAT DAY today for the USA!!!

    Posted by Zion  from  Halifax, NS  on  Fri, August 29, 2008 at 6:05:16 PM
    — Zion's   s i g n a t u r e:


    “The tragedy of a person’s disbelief in God is not that they will end up believing in nothing. Alas, it is much worse. They will end up believing in anything.”

    G.K. Chesterton

  11. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) says:

    This is a great choice. It’ll be interesting to see how the Obama campaign smears her for lack of experience without pointing out Barry’s own. 

    And if I may correct you, you wildly inflate the income of Barry’s brother.  $15 a month? I think it’s closer to $15 a year.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  from  Victoria  on  Sat, August 30, 2008 at 7:26:55 AM
  12. Maranatha07 says:

    I hate to say it, but it’s true:  This election(thanks to the Dems.) is all about:  1st Black vs. 1st Woman.  Mccain couldn’t win without playing to this(he always plays by Dems rules, that Maverick).  I like her, great pick, but won’t vote for her until Mccain drops off ticket.  I’m still voting forChuck Baldwin and Darrell Castle this Novembre.  I am also voting for Harper in Octobre(J/K)

    Posted by Maranatha07  from  Peoples Republic of Massachusetts  on  Mon, September 01, 2008 at 6:03:28 AM
    — Maranatha07's   s i g n a t u r e:

    “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-nazi or I’ll sock you in the g**damn face and you’ll stay plastered.”  W.F. Buckley

  13. Dacre says:

    This choice was perfect. It stole the thunder from the post Dem convention love in. Now the news of a pregnant 17 year old daughter is out. I love watching the hypocrisy of lefties and their media. personaly I don’t see this having any legs only to show the double standards and meaness of the MSM. The moonbat bloggers are trying their best as well but I think they’re just making themselves look as stupid and ignorant as usual.

    Posted by Dacre  from   on  Mon, September 01, 2008 at 4:36:58 PM
  14. veryrightwing says:

    The Obama campaign has fairly stated that family critisism is off limits in politics.

    Posted by veryrightwing  from   on  Mon, September 01, 2008 at 5:35:10 PM
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