OK....McCain chose a relatively young woman for his running mate. Good move...or bad move? What do you think?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_ ... akes_palin

Interesting choice....Maybe a very obvious move to pull in Hillary's supporters who have not exactly fell in love with Obama...and the voters who are concerned with McCain's age...from her bio she sounds like the real deal...would like to hear from some Alaskans on here who would most likely be much more familiar with her as governor of Alaska.

Kitty

Here is the buzz on RFC. http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/sh ... p?t=237877

Definitely a gamble, but I like her better than the other choices McCain had to choose from. I'd probably vote for her over both McCain and Obama, to be honest. Check out this quote from her, speaking about her photo shoot for Vogue magazine.

"At first they had me in a bunch of furs," she said of the photo shoot. "Yeah, I have furs on my wall, but I don't wear furs. I had to show them my bunny boots and my North Face clothing."

So she's hot enough to be in Vogue magazine and she's got furs on her walls, on top of kicking some political ass already.

I'm glad Jason said it cause I wasn't going to in deference to all the ladies that shoot with us (and shoot very well) and I didn't want to appear sexist, but considering McCain's wife Cindy and his VP running mate, I'd vote for the guy just based on his taste in women

Kitty

She seems very down to earth and capable, but (you expected that from me, right?) I'm concerned about her oil & gas connections. Our current oil administration has made some unfortunate choices.

Seems like the best choice and I agree with Jason I'd vote for her over any of the others. From the reports the majority of folks in Alaska love her, she is the real deal!!!!

BlauBear wrote:She seems very down to earth and capable, but (you expected that from me, right?) I'm concerned about her oil & gas connections. Our current oil administration has made some unfortunate choices.

I don't think she's pro-oil at all, as much as she is pro-Alaskan economy. She supported quite a large tax on oil company profits and is cleaning up the government corruption, both oil-related and otherwise. Here's a quote from the article.

Palin's confrontations with the state GOP began when Murkowski named her chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. There, Palin exposed current Alaska Republican Party Chairman Randy Ruedrich, who was also on the commission, for ethical violations.

In 2005, Palin co-filed an ethics complaint against Murkowski's longtime aide and then attorney general, Gregg Renkes, for having a financial interest in a company that stood to gain from an international trade deal he was helping craft.

The article also states that she opposed listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because it would interfere with an oil pipeline, which would seem to suggest she supports the oil companies. After trying a few searches, I couldn't find where it said she opposed it for that reason, though. I hope, but don't know, that she did it because the polar bears are nowhere close to threatened. I'm sure that it's not surprising since I'm a hunter, but one of my biggest political pet peeves is animal rights groups trying to list species as threatened or endangered to enforce their agendas on the rest of the world. In my search for info on why Palin opposed listing polar bears as threatened, I did find a boatload of info on why they shouldn't have been considered for threatened status at all.

Thanks Jason! If she's pragmatic about oil that's fine with me, I'm just very wary of "owned" politicians. And yes, one of my concerns about Obama is who "owns" him, because political machines like that don't just magically appear - who's behind the curtain?

BlauBear wrote:Thanks Jason! If she's pragmatic about oil that's fine with me, I'm just very wary of "owned" politicians. And yes, one of my concerns about Obama is who "owns" him, because political machines like that don't just magically appear - who's behind the curtain?

Oprah

It's the communist republic of buddhist nazi satanism . Whoever sent him is probably not a nice person. Vote for the vet, they have historically been OK presidents.

coppertop wrote:It's the communist republic of buddhist nazi satanism . Whoever sent him is probably not a nice person. Vote for the vet, they have historically been OK presidents.

Okay, which one is the the communist republic of Buddhist Nazi satanist? That's a real mixed bag of conflicting interests...

BB,
Opposites acctract.
Mary

Innocent wrote:BB,
Opposites acctract.
Mary

Yeah but that's schizoid, and we're talking at least three personalities...

This from a forwarded email from our wise friend Bob259........

An email from Ireland to all of their Masonic Brethren in the States...a point to ponder despite your political affiliation:
'We, in Ireland , can't figure out why you people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States
On one side, you had a pants wearing female lawyer, married to another lawyer who can't seem to keep his pant s on, who just lost a long and heated primary against a lawyer, who goes to the wrong church, who is married to yet another lawyer, who doesn't even like the country her husband wants to run !
Now...On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with the appropriate 'Mc' terminology, married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship !!
What in God's name are ya lads thinkin over in the colonies !

Now that makes sense........

Kitty