YAHOO!!!!!! An actual conservative. No, this pick wasn't the lame half-assed country club republican soft-on-social-issues selection from the northeast as would normally be expected for electoral math.
Gov. Palin is pro-life (one of her 5 children has Down's Syndrome, and another enlisted in the Army last year), an NRA member, was a mayor, and is chairman of the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Her husband, Todd, is an oil production operator on Alaska's North Slope
Congressional Quarterly notes Sarah Palin's other past occupations, including commercial fishing company owner, outdoor recreational equipment company owner and sports reporter.
If McCain wanted to shore up the Republican base, this goes a long way towards it. Obama and Biden won't know what hit them. She's young, but her executive experience is still more than Obama's.
For more about her see this article from the National Journal.
Hooray, hooray, hooray! And I like your new header picture--very nice.
ReplyDeleteso happy for your country. If they get in it will be so great for the pro life movement.
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It certainly will be. Especially all the prochoice folks who say: "But you've never had to make a 'hard case' decision, " etc.....
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Yeah, I think this is an amazing pick! Thrilled out of my gord!
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ReplyDeleteI am stoked about this pick...I just got through hearing her speak, VERY IMPRESSED!
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