Sarah Palin

Vice Presidential Candidate

She is intelligent, attractive, posesses true leadership skills and the ability to take on corruption and stand firm. She has a proven track record, stands by the Christian principals she holds dear and knows how to get things done.  No wonder the liberals can’t stand her.

Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks. It’s on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units.

As Alaska is so close to Russia, Palin is briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security and counter-terrorism issues. Her exposure to classified material may rival even Biden’s and certainly by far exceeds Obama’s.

She’s also the commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF), a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security’s counterterrorism plans.

Palin is privy to military and intelligence secrets that are vital to the entire country’s defense Alaska’s proximity to Russia she may have security clearances we don’t even know about
According to the Washington Post, she first met with McCain in February, but nobody ever found out. This is a woman used to keeping secrets.

On August 29, 2008, Republican Presidential nominee John McCain, announced Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska as his VP running mate. That selection has trumped and checkmated the Obama-Biden ticket.

Coming the day after Obama’s historic acceptance speech at the Democratic convention, which speech and Obama’s earlier pick of Joe Biden as his own VP running mate, were expected to be the top news item leading into the Republican convention the following week, McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin however completely eclipsed those events. In less than 24 hours, Obama’s day in the sun had been come under a cloud of shadow and was relegated to history being completely upstaged by the Palin choice. The news cycles have talked about nothing else since, in terms of the presidential politics.

The choice by McCain has stunningly energized the conservative base of the Republican party, an important segment McCain had his own problems with. But by choosing Palin, a staunch conservative, he has revitalized his commitment and perception in that area. Many conservatives, who had resigned themselves to simply voting ‘against Obama’, are now more than willing to vote ‘for Palin’.
The choice also reached out directly to independents and disaffected Democratic voters, particularly women, who were so sorely disappointed by Hillary Clint on’s narrow loss and the way they had been treated since Obama sealed the nomination. Particularly in overlooking Hillary Clint on, who won 18 million votes in the primaries, and actually had more votes than Obama, those disaffected women are also excited about Palin, and indicating by the tens of thousands on blogs and disaffected Hillary voter sites on the web that they intend to cross over and vote for her and McCain.
The Obama campaign and DNC, curiously, have already launched all out attacks against the choice and Palin herself, indicating that she does not have enough executive or national experience.  Excuse me?  She does not have enough executive experience????

A simple analysis of the relative experience levels of Sarah Palin compared to either Democratic candidate puts this to rest. For over the past decade, Sarah Palin has been involved in executive decision making at increasing levels of elected positions of public trust. Obama has no executive experience, Biden has no executive experience. During that time, Palin left off running an actual private business in Alaska , a commercial fishing business and was elected to her city council and then, in quick order to be Mayor of her home town. She did so well there that she was ultimately elected to be Governor of the State of Alaska, managing 17,000 personnel and a 9 billion dollar budget. Obama and Biden have absolutely no comparable experience at all, neither of them!

I know I resolved that McCain’s pick for VP would determine if I even voted at all… well, I’ll be voting this fall.    H.A.M.

A Great Reason to vote for McCain.

This is the best arguement I have heard to date and tells it like it is.  And for the record, I think Sarah Palin is the best VP pick McCain could have made.    HoosierArmyMom