Whoa... OUR Governor is going to run as VP?!?!?!

[Mrs MIA]

...and I say this without any judgement or malice, but trying to help keep minds open...
This morning CNN's headlines were "Just who IS Sarah Palin"... she's not a household name (unless you happen to live in Alaska), so how can ANYONE make up their minds 100% about her less than 24 hours after they've announced her running?

It just confuses the bejeezus out of me.

 

[Michigan Chickman]

Isn't it funny how according to the media "everyone" wants change. But when a candidate actually does something, says something or chooses someone as a running mate outside of what the pundits approve of they're protrayed a lunatic!

I LOVE the choice and hope the media gives her a chance to get her feet under her before they start tearing McCain appart for choosing her.

Here's to having the nerve to step out of the mainstream

 

[ParkerVA]

I think she is a very interesting pick, but worry about the fact that McCain is older and she'd be next in line if something were to happen to him. She has very little experience!

 

[Oblio13]

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Compared to Obama, who's literally done nothing as a senator but run for president while we pay his salary, she has enormous experience.

ETA and it's executive experience, not just legislative. People seem to forget that the presidency is an executive office.

 

[Mrs MIA]

I tend to agree...

Well folks, I will catch up on the discussion in a few days... I'm headed to Anchorage for the weekend, and while I'm there I'm going to the Fair and check out the competition in the Poultry department...

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Please keep it nice, keep it fair... I don't want to come back to find it closed by a mod...

 

[menageriemama]

Pretty ballsy move by McCain. Should be interesting to see how it all plays out

And thats all I have to say about that

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[CarlaRiggs]

I'll answer as to why I like Mitt Romney (I live in so. Calif by the way). Granted, I have some insight into him and his wonderful family as my daughter's husband & his father do business with Romney.
He is an honorable man, married to his childhood sweetheart, with good sons, each successful in his own right. Mitt Romney was raised a middle class lifestyle, went to school on his own and graduated Valedictorian at Brigham Young University, summa cum laude in English. Romney then attended Harvard Law School concurrently with Harvard Business school (!!) program, graduating cum laude. He was in the top 5% of his class and received the prestigious Baker Scholar.

Mitt Romney did this all on his own; he earned his money on his own. This is what America is all about.

While governor of Massachusetts, he was not absent while his VP ran things.... He came into a state with $3 billion worth of debt. Because the Fed gov gave Massachusetts a half billion $$, and other laws passed before Romney came into office, the debt was down to $1.2 billion when he took office. He raised fees (not taxes) that hadn't been raised nor adjusted for inflation in 20 years.
He cut a lot of fat off government entitlements to cities/people. The best thing Romney did was to get his health insurance plan in operation. The health insurance cost is killing us in California! He brought it into manageable costs for the state by mandating that people insure themselves. Help was available but had to be proved.

His acumen as a businessman is well known. If people actually do the research, they will discover that Romney has helped businesses. He does not do hostile take-overs and push jobs overseas. Romney did a complete turn around in Salt Lake with the Olympics. The Olympics was running almost a $400 million dollar debt. One of the first things Romney did was cut out the perks. No free dinners ~ everyone paid $1 per slice of pizza was the norm under his leadership, including him. They Olympics ended with a $100 million profit! He donated his $800,000 + salary to charity.
He tithes 10% of his gross earnings to his church, and gives a good % more to charities. Not only money, but his TIME is given, as a regular member of his church. There's a video somewhere on YouTube of Romney wielding a shovel helping a homeowner with after disaster cleanup.

There's a LOT more I could say about the man.... He is a GOOD person, extremely intelligent, interested in the common man and loves his country greatly.

Carla

 

[eggzettera]

Palin's husband works for BP - formerly British Petroleum - not that it should matter but it will......

 

[Reinbeau]

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Yes, he was.

He came into a state with $3 billion worth of debt. Because the Fed gov gave Massachusetts a half billion $$, and other laws passed before Romney came into office, the debt was down to $1.2 billion when he took office. He raised fees (not taxes) that hadn't been raised nor adjusted for inflation in 20 years.

Carla, with all due respect, do you live here in MA? Do you live with the outfall of Romney's decisions? No, you don't. I do. He did nothing for this state other than shift things around. Towns are struggling under unfunded mandates made by the state. The business climate here is unbearable, that is why so many companies are leaving - as well as residents. The current administration has been so laughably ineffective, even incompetent, so nothing has improved, everything has deteriorated even further. Romney did not leave Massachusetts better off, he just left.

As for his health insurance, that's a load of garbage. It was supposed to cost $200 million - yea, right, last I heard it was up to $1.5 billion and growing. Massachusetts is one of the states losing doctors due to the overburdened insurance, rules and regulations that come with Romney's wonderful health care system. Nevermind the fact that we're struggling under the burden of so many illegals (our welfare regulations are very enticing, as well as our official lack of enforcement of all things immigration, so it's a sanctuary state for many). He ignored that problem, as well as ignored the huge debacle of The Big Dig. As I said, he just left.

He's known as a savvy businessman. In today's business world, to my eyes, that isn't saying much. The accounting card shuffling that goes on is why we are in such an economic turmoil (that's a whole 'nother rant). Romney is good for Romney, not for the rest of us.

As a person I'm sure he's a wonderful guy. As a politician that's what he is - a politician.​

 

[ivan3]

O.K., I usually stick to the chooks and turks but, I'd just like to encourage all younger members to pay close attention to this election (hoopla/hucksterism/pandering/posing and lieing like dogs though there'll be) as nothing this interesting has happened in at least a half-a-century, and we're going to take something of a high colonic regardless of the outcome.

Do not fret, we always muddle through somehow and come back for more (if you don't believe me read H.L. Menken's, A Carnival Of Buncombe).

Baby kissing and the art of compromise is what we have to work with. If liberty was the true Jacob, Tom Paine would have had more than six mourners at his funeral.

(18y.o. in `72 (26th Amendment) write in for Shirley Chisholm, D. R/NY) only election about which I can say that my choice was just as inspired as that of any other voter.

Good Luck, fellow citizens!

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