Quotes of the day

My only criticism of her post-election is that she hasn’t been more outspoken about Obamacare. With a special needs child and experience at the state level (to talk about the unfunded mandates the states would have to bear under the filthy liar’s plot), she could have done more to rally the public against HR3200 and throw out some constructive alternative ideas.

highhopes on September 30, 2009 at 7:16 AM

What in the Wide Wide World Of Sports are you talking about?

Have you been on another planet this summer?

Sarah SINGLEHANDEDLY stopped ObamaCare dead in it’s tracks!

Ever heard of then “death panels?”

I believe her exact quote was “I don’t want my parents or my special needs child to have to face Obama’s death panels.”

She destroyed Obama, and never let up on the ObamaCare debate.

I love the smell of political revisionism in the morning.

McCain did not willingly pick Palin. She was not his first choice but the lead contenders (Pawlenty & Jindal to name two) were smart enough not to board the SS McCain after it had hit the iceberg.

The fact of the matter is that McCain’s strategy was to ignore the social and Christian conservatives (whom McCain passionately loathes) and build a coalition of disgruntled Democrat Hillary supporters. When that didn’t work he only reluctantly looked for somebody that would appeal to the GOP base and it worked so well that Palin was a bigger draw than McCain at HIS campaign rallies.

For these reasons, I would hardly give credit to McCain for having faith in Palin. He didn’t want her, doesn’t stand for any of the things she does, and remained silent while his former staffers trashed her. Had he won the election, it would have been the last we would have seen of VP Palin except for the occasional state funeral.

highhopes on September 30, 2009 at 7:27 AM

Honestly, I don’t know how willingly, or unwillingly McCain chose Sarah, but here is what I do know, and you can search C-Span for the tape.

A.B. Culvahouse, a high powered D.C. attorney, and former Reagan adviser is the guy who vetted all of McCain’s prospective VP picks, all 25 of them. Yes, McCain had 25 people on his short list.

Culvahouse talks about Palin at length on C-Span. He said she was highly vetted beforehand and filled out an extensive questionnaire, and then added that her daughter was pregnant.

In the end, Culvahouse said McCain had three national security questions for her, and he said she “knocked them out of the park.” He never really elaborated, but evidently, one of those questions was whether she would use nuclear weapons if necessary! What ever answer she gave was a keeper!

Culvahouse said he told McCain this about her: “High risk, high reward!”

Now with all of that said, there was an incredible “Draft Sarah Palin” movement out there. Four or five different groups were very active. How much impact that had, I couldn’t tell you.

But as someone who started following Sarah not long after she became Governor, I know a lot more people than you’d think already knew that Sarah was the a star. She was one of these “best kept secrets” that political junkies knew all about!

That’s why none of this is a surprise to those that already knew about the “Cuda. This is just the natural progression for her career!!

gary4205 on September 30, 2009 at 11:01 PM