RF, apparently you missed my point.  I firmly believe if a woman is qualified she should get the job.  Period.  Jobs should never be based on gender unless that gender affects a job.

Case in point.  I was once assigned to bartend a bachelor party.  I was (and still am) a woman in my early fifties (no longer that) and was in a room full of randy young men with fists full of dollar bills and two strippers with a kiddie pool and Mr Bubbles. 

After that fiasco I raised holy hell with my supervisor and told her she should have assigned that to our young male bartender.  It wasn't a matter of ability, it was a matter of what's appropriate for everyone's benefit.

My POINT is if you're big enough, tough enough, smart enough, and quallified, there's no reason anyone shouldn't be in public office and your sex should not be used aganst you.  Especially as a smoke screen or red herring. 

......... and regarding her Downs Syndrome baby........

I was an AAU Track & Field Judge for years but the best times I ever had were judging and helping organize Special Olympics events..........

She will make you proud anglo

Nor should your age,or race. watching the intro myself~ sombody needs new tech help on that mike...

Nancy, you missed *MY* point.  Before affirmative action, there is no way a qualified woman could have gotten the job.

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Oh, it's looks like a packed house, wonder how that happened.

Teeny-tiny venue.

Yeah RF -- no Roman Coliseum

Gee......... too bad

Repubs just don't  "get" it....

Just ordinary folks compared to those hubris filled Dems......

Wow~ if that the qualifier~I should run,I raised mine while poor...seriously she's lucky to have a family support system.

This is going to be neck and neck and as always ~may the best team win! Whoever that is I plan to stand behind them~until given reason to exercise my Constitutional right to express otherwise. Blessed be America! (Go Obama!)

Beware FALSE PROPHETS

.....For

A WOMAN WILL SHOW THEM THE WAY!

Nancy, If Palin was a man would you say he was very qualified and ready to be President? 

PP considering the prez candidate is inexperienced and chose experience as a running mate I think experience as a prez and less experience as a running mate makes sense.  Even the commentaters are bowled and most impressed.

It will be interesting to hear what Hillary will have to say along the line of "just because a woman."

Sam, you are to be commended for not stooping to respond to the hate filled personal attacks.

Yeah, just "ordinary folks."
 

It will be interesting to hear what Hillary will have to say along the line of "just because a woman."

I imagine she'll congratulate Ms. Palin on her choice.  She's certainly come a long way since two years ago when she was the Alaskan equivalent of the "mayor of Oildale."  It would be a bit awkward for her to point out that the *ONLY* reason Ms. Palin got selected was for her beauty queen past and possession of a bajingo.

I was interested to learn what Kay Bailey Hutchinson said about McBush being known for sowing his wild oats, when asked about Palin.

Unless the Left can engage in enough voter fraud to make a difference, we may well be witnessing history.

The first woman Veep, showing us the way to true energy independence, becoming the first POTUS in 2012.

The Left will attack her in every conceivable way -- ex-BIL scandals, being pro-life, having kids she must be neglecting, running 5 and 10k's in her spare time, hunting moose, NRA lifetime member...........

In time it will be viewed as what it is however.......misogyny at its best...........

It didn't matter who McCain picked, the commentators would say it was a great pick. They have to keep this one close, so people will watch their commercials. 

McCain has about as much presidential experience as Obama. Neither of them have been POTUS. Palin makes Dan Quayle look experienced when he was picked. She's a gimmick pick for sure.

Energy independence? Chico, surely you don't think there's enough oil in Alaska or off our pristine coastlines to make up for what we buy overseas? Maybe you meant something else.

I admit I knew nothing about her other than her defeating an incumbent Rep for governor.   The more I find out the more I like.  My first choice was Romney but I am happy with Palin.  Actually my choice would have been Newt.  She's experienced, pretty, pro life, pro 2nd Amendment , and the only one with political managerial experience on a high level ,everything OB's not.  

We'll know more about her after the independent investigator's corruption report is completed.

I've explained it to you before Pete. So sans being redundant, I will just tell you that it is more than just drilling.

Palin's CH4 pipeline is just another bridge to our energy Independence, as is ANWR, OCS, and exploiting other hydrocarbon reserves already proven.

We need conservation, wind, solar, geothermal, bio (esp micro algae), tar sands, shale, enhanced tertiary recover of proven fields, (e.g. Bakken), nat gas, NGL's and LPG's, hydro, nuclear, all of it.

Sarah Palin is hip to the real skinny on energy, unlike the Pelosi (CH4 is not fossil fuel) Dems......... 

Had to edit the Pro-choice mistake, excuse me.

In the first place, the majority of our imported oil doesn't come from overseas, it somes from right here on our continent.

In the second place...wait, there isn't any 2nd where oil is concerned.

I've done it in speaking with others already anglo. I'm so used to hearing  "pro-choice" in conjunction with women it is easy to slip up and say  "pro-choice" instead of  "pro-life".

Watch the MSM now jump Palin for having a baby so late in life.

They will be shameless I predict

(past being prologue)

HA...some are saying McCain taking on an inexperienced running mate negates his talk of Obama being inexperienced.  Just like Obama negated age when he took on Biden.

You guys are all too funny.....ii's POLITICS!

spam code..  Y TX TX

A candidate that doesn't seem to be imbeded with the old D.C. crowd is very refreshing.  I'm really starting to like this, especially the heads spinning on the left.  All the Romney attack ads are out the window and money wasted.  Got to be disappointing to those that wanted to make fun of his religious beliefs. 

We  "import " most of our oil from Canada, Saudi, and Mexico, I think most people know that. We are approaching a level of 70% imports presently.

We use about 20 mil bbls a day which translates to 7.3 bil bbls per year.

What most people don't realize is that there are billions potentially recoverable in OCS, and just that coupled with utilization of CH4 and clean coal usage can make us virtually energy independent in just a few years if handled right.

But these are  "fossil" fuels (unless you go to the Nancy Pelosi School of Geo-Science) and the Left doesn't like that.

If we use the fossil fuels as a bridge to other forms of energy, meanwhile increasing refining capacity, we can get to energy independence much sooner than the Loons of the Left will have you believe. Palin is well versed in this BTW.......

Sounds like Palin's ideas on energy are closer to Obama than McCain, although to be honest, Other than continuing the Bush administration policies, I don't really know what McCain plans to do.

Crude Oil Imports (Top 15 Countries)
(Thousand Barrels per Day)
Country Jun-08 May-08 YTD 2008 Jun-07 YTD 2007

------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------

CANADA 1,883 1,840 1,888 1,905 1,881
SAUDI ARABIA 1,479 1,579 1,523 1,501 1,407
MEXICO 1,124 1,116 1,193 1,392 1,454
VENEZUELA 1,085 1,030 1,012 1,135 1,109
NIGERIA 946 851 1,036 893 1,022
IRAQ 693 583 674 573 476
ANGOLA 636 464 496 502 568
BRAZIL 280 318 221 121 158
ALGERIA 269 440 319 504 494
RUSSIA 228 119 109 29 135
KUWAIT 179 263 219 263 193
ECUADOR 178 162 192 166 195
COLOMBIA 177 245 182 143 108
CHAD 107 57 101 80 69
LIBYA 89 96 76 144 66

 

Headline News is going to run Glenn Becks interview with Palin in a few minutes.  If you're interested in what she thinks you might want to tune in.

I dearly wish I could

Someday I'll get me a PDA with a TV!

Go McPalin !!!

Nancy: "I say all this just to say I'm not a feminist, I'm just smart enough to know that women can't do EVERYTHING men can do but the things they CAN do just as well, should be allowed witout any snickering from the locker room boys.   :-)"
 

Then I wonder what she thinks about McCain's support for the SCOTUS decision last year that women don't deserve equal pay?

Anglo: "Oh, it's looks like a packed house, wonder how that happened."
 

Because they're not there to see McCain. Just like every other crowd larger than 1,000 people he's appeared at this year.....

I bet Gerry Ferraro is laughing this morning!  

"Throw me under the bus will ya? Now my party can eat crow!"

Chico: "We need conservation, wind, solar, geothermal, bio (esp micro algae), tar sands, shale, enhanced tertiary recover of proven fields, (e.g. Bakken), nat gas, NGL's and LPG's, hydro, nuclear, all of it."
 

And how much of that does Palin have experience with? And you think that's part of the Republican platform why?

Chico: "I bet Gerry Ferraro is laughing this morning! 

"Throw me under the bus will ya? Now my party can eat crow!" "
 

Yea, and it only took the Republican Party 25 years to get where the Democratic Party was. How "progressive" of them.

Awesome pick!  I was hoping for Lieberman, but a dope-smoking, Catholic woman who raised taxes on oil companies?  HA!  She's got some good qualities, but I'm going to love watching the Republican Party backtrack on everything they thought they could campaign on. 

Because it is [part of the platform] as elucidated by McCain.

But, that notwithstanding, I was delineating my personal platform, not trying to be partisan about it.

Can you bring yourself to do the same?

Sarah Palin has done more for ethics reform in Alaska in a handful of years than Biden has done in 35 (let alone 20).........

I already posted her Larry Kudlow CNBC clip where she talks about energy.

You just can't accept that a woman knows more about energy than your entire party (let alone your own goodself  .)

Don't expect to hear anymore ads about "experience" or who's ready to lead.

enjoy whatever blows your skirt up, Tom

and she smoked it when and where it was legal Tom

and she admits to inhaling

(unlike your hypocritical hero)  {cough}

Chico, they're playing it again this evening.

Matt..what are you talking about?  Equal pay?  I was talking about me but explain anyway.

PP, and we won't hear any ads about age..    You guys have even had to back off some on that one.

Chico, We finally agree on something. I don't think Biden has done very much for ethics reform in Alaska either. 

I said it a long long time ago -- women will save our gun rights and hunting rights too.......

Now it looks like they may be the ones to save this country from itself.......

I will watch it tonight Nancy

Did you watch the CNBC clip I posted with Larry Kudlow and Sarah talking about energy?

She's solid

I've wanted her [for Veep] for sometime now........

Purely from a strategic viewpoint, Palin only has 2 months to "introduce" herself to the country at large.  That's not a lot of time for anyone hinging their vote on McCain's VP choice.  The choice of Biden was different because he was a known commodity--you already either liked him or you didn't.  I don't really think it would have mattered to most people who McCain picked anyway, though.  Let's face it--people have already divided up along party lines (myself included) and McCain could have picked Darth Vader for all anyone would have cared.

What I think is funny, though, is that, by choosing Palin, it really does seem like McCain is trying to nab any undecided Hillary supporters.  Considering that most (if not all) of Hillary's supporters were pro-choice, picking no-choice Palin was kinda wishful thinking.  Ya know, 'cause the gals just vote for other gals, and not because of, like, ISSUES or anything complicated like that.

Sure thing, Chico.  Just running back through all your comments about Obama being the "affirmative action" candidate and laughing, laughing, laughing.

I suppose you support taxing oil companies more too now that that's what you've been told to do?  Heck, you hated McCain at one time and now you think he's the second coming.  Your politics are cute, just stay in the kiddie pool.

From Obama's book. 

"In the book, Obama acknowledges that he used cocaine as a high school student but rejected heroin. "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though," he says."

What I think is funny, though, is that, by choosing Palin, it really does seem like McCain is trying to nab any undecided Hillary supporters.  Considering that most (if not all) of Hillary's supporters were pro-choice, picking no-choice Palin was kinda wishful thinking. 

Apparently he thinks all women are interchangeable slots.  Pun intended.

Nancy, you're right.  The point is that Republicans were using this as an attack on Obama until they brought Puff the Magic Mayor onto their ticket.  :)

Random, that's exactly it.  PP brought up Harriet Myers.  Same thing.

Cat, you can bet the search engines are humming today and by election day people will know more about Palin than they do about  Biden.

Tom, most of us have clearly stated that McCain isn't our first choice.  Or even 2nd or 3rd.  The fact is he IS the candidate and  we'll stand behind him because the alternative just isn't acceptable.

Pssst.......... Tom............ she's NEVER utilized AA

Just personal merit

Ever hear of that?    

Nancy, I agree with you about standing behind your candidate when the alternative isn't acceptable.

I just read Obama's list of promises in the paper today and almost choked.  MORE Bush spending???

And that's all I'm gonna say about that, because I'm gonna get crucified as it is.  : )