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Sarah Palin?

Megan Baker

Posted: Aug 29th 2008 10:50AM

Filed under: US Elections, Politics, St. John Fisher College, Veepstakes

Well, McCain made his choice, and to be honest, it is a little baffling.

Sarah Palin is a 44 year old governor from Alaska. She was the youngest and first female to be elected to that post in Alaska. She has only served two years as governor, but served as mayor in Wasilla City before that.

So...why Sarah Palin?

This choice is pretty ironic seeing how McCain has done nothing but bash Obama for being unexperienced and young. How is he going to defend himself against this? He chose someone that encompasses a lot of what Obama represents: a fresh face, change, something new.

If he chose her hoping to win over Clinton supporters, good luck with that. People did not support Hillary simply based on the fact that she is a woman. They supported her because they liked her and her policies...which were all liberal.

Anatomy is the only commonality between Palin and Clinton. Palin is a conservative and Clinton is liberal, there's no way around that. McCain's camp must not have much faith in female voters if they think they can throw any woman on the ticket and get votes.Palin has fought hard for ethics in Alaska, which will definitely be a plus for her and the McCain campaign. But the McCain camp can no longer throw "experience" in Obama's face with this choice.

The Democrats could have a field day with this one...

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aelane

3:29PM 3:29PM Aug 29th 2008

I can see why he chose her. She is most like him, a maverick, unafraid to go after the establishment. She is a mother of 5, including a handicapped child. She has good values, working class husband, and has been successful in Alaska. But how does that translate into a national platform. Will people really feel comfortable electing a relatively unknown and inexperienced VP, who is a heartbeat away from leading this country? I don't think it will sway Hillary supporters.

Apparently the reps don't "get it," along with the dems. Hillary support was never about the fact that she was a woman. It was her strength, her experience, and her platform of intelligent change that garnered her supporters. While I am sure that Palin would compliment McCains strengths, it does nothing for his weaknesses--his age. I think the opposition will have a field day with her inexperience, and the fact that she represents ongoing support for oil interests, as her state directly benefits from that industry.

This race is about the economy and about the cost of the war, both in terms of dollars and lives. In the end though, whoever wants to win had better get going on the economy, because people will vote their wallets when it comes right down to the nitty gritty choice. I am not sure Palin can help McCain with that.

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ungles

8:29PM 8:29PM Aug 29th 2008

Nothing but sour grapes in this article. McCain was smart to do what he did, and it will work, contrary to the inane comments in this article. Hillary supporters already were leaning toward McCain, this will definitely send more McCain's way. McCain will win now, without a doubt. NOBAMA, NO WAY!!

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Mike

7:41AM 7:41AM Aug 30th 2008

The McCain-Palin ticket reaches all generations, from the newly born,grade school, high school,young adults in the military then onto the middled-aged and elderly, like McCain's mother. Obama-Biden ticket only covers racial issues {which are not generational issues}. Obama has only a few kids while McCain family cross the generational divide. Palin was chosen because of family matters, {one in the military} and young Americans, the newly born. Has Obama touched your life personally? Only through ominous rhetoric , unfounded promises of change and a booming voice. McCain-Palin are more realistic what America is made up of. And no, McCain is not going to die in office. Palin was chosen because it will represent all Americans. At least McCain strongly believes he will live a long healthy life.

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dan

7:15PM 7:15PM Aug 30th 2008

If McCain is elected and has a heart attack while giving his inaugural address, we're screwed for at least 4 years, not because she's not a nice person, but because she doesn't have the national and global policy experience. Of all the choices McCain had of qualified men and women in the Republican party, he chose Gov. Palin who he has only met her once. Gov. Palin, you're being used, in a big way.

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Chris

11:39PM 11:39PM Aug 31st 2008

As a woman, I'm offended by McCains choice for a VP. It's insulting that he would pick a partner with ZERO foreign policy experience. With the state of the world what it is today, how could you consider throwing someone into the fire without any clue as what to do. Your advisers only get you so far, "see Bush", This is not a joke and yet I feel as though we are being "punked" I'm waiting for this to be exposed as a hoax, just like bigfoot. Look at pictures with McCain posing with his choice, he alomst looks as though he knows he made a bad choice. Has withdrawing a nomination by the candidated for pres for their choice for VP ever been done before? Now is the time.

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PAUL PIPER

2:21AM 2:21AM Sep 1st 2008

It seems to me, that a lot of people are missing the point. Yes, she does have little experience, but I would trust her to make the right decisions long before I would trust Obama. Sarah has already proven herself more than Obama has, and he's running for the highest office in the land. And contrary to what others have said, I do believe many women were voting for Hilery because she is a woman. McCain was looking for someone he can trust and work with. I know he has made the right choice.

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marc

4:09AM 4:09AM Sep 1st 2008

McCain couldnt have done the Dems a better favor - a hard right window dresser for the NRA with zero experience in federal government. Last week the Dems had a great convention, this week McCain gave them Christmas. Cant wait to see all these filthy right wingers kill themselves the morning of Nov 5th.

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Alfred Anduze

10:03AM 10:03AM Sep 1st 2008

Are you people who plan to cross over to Palin crazy or just plain stupid? Are you the same ones who voted for Bush twice and got us into this mess? What are you thinking? That Republicans will trick us again and destroy the country with this head cheerleader in charge. McCain has cancer and will not make it through the first term. She is a dolt. Look at her policies not at her legs.

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