Palin for President

[jcn59]

Me thinks she be my rite-in fer president. She be only candidate who ain't lied to me.... yet.

Don't git no better, plus she wants to harvest our underground oil before the Chin ese gits it.

Seriously, why is there so little talk about this piece of news.  And a NRA lifer on top of it. 

Is this the wrong forum for this discussion?

[deltecs]

Not necessarily the wrong forum for this topic, as she is definitely todays news.  I think she'd make a good President.  Honest, hard working, pro 2nd Amendment, credible, bipartisan, energy minded, efficient with economical government stance and tough.  Thought that's what the Constitution party, Libertarians, and core Republicans wanted in government.  If this is the way of the new Republican party along Jacksonian political lines, I'm all for it.  But then the opponents would tell me I'm bias, because she and I live in the same State.  So did Gov/US Sen Murkowski, Gov Knowles, Gov/US Secretary of the Interior Hickel, and several other State and National figures, but none with my complete backing like Sarah has.  And she beat them all, in either primary or State elections for Governor of Alaska.

[jcn59]

I guess time will tell if she meets our political needs.  The fact she has little experience in politics is a big plus for me.  Not many career politicians worth a poop, except Ted Kennedy.

That was a joke.   Anybody out there.  Hello?

[TribReady]

Not to rehash a long, drawn out discussion, but a write-in vote for her just equals a vote for Osama.

Now, let this all run it's course and she'll get her chance.  Just imagine 4-8 more years of the country getting to know her and she may be a lock for the Presidency.

[jcn59]

I didn't know this was already discussed.  Someone was talking about writing her in for president??  Pretty risky but at least she signed a windfall profits tax & returned the money to the voters.   There was a federal windfall profits tax years ago, but guess who kept the money?  Right, it was our good 'ol Uncle Sam.

I don't approve of the way ALL politicians serve their respective party, totally ignoring their constitutiency.  I'm tired of "politics-as-usual".

If it looks like either candidate is a very clear winner, I'll write in Jesse Ventura, but Obama will never get my vote for anything with his anti-gun voting record. 

We KNOW we can't vote democrat, but how long can we afford to vote Republican??  Both parties need a wake-up call,  and the more votes any third party gets, the sooner the Rs & Ds will see they are not invincible. 

Don't keep doing something that is not working.  The people who poll "undecided" aren't all stupid, they are FED UP!

[TribReady]

Voting a third party, and it's benefits, have been gone thru a ton at Graybeard.

I guess my point is that you said in your first post you want to have her as the "rite-in" candidate and that doesn't have any benefit whatsoever.  I understand the idea of voting 3rd party to send a message (but in my opinion, that is also just a vote for Osama)  The idea of writing Palin in is a total waste of a vote on all accounts, IMO.

[jcn59]

Guess I was asleep at the keyboard.  A brain cloud, I think. 

I was being facetious about writing in Palin....but I stand by what I said about Ventura.  If it looks like a landslide win for either candidate, Ventura gets my vote.

I'm not just tired of being lied to and exploited by democrats, darnit,  I'm tired of being lied to and exploited by republicans, too!!  A vote for either party is a vote against yourself.  If what you are doing isn't working, don't keep doing it, expecting something different each time you do it.

The only thing republicans have to offer is that they generally don't assault the second amendment, and they appoint conservative judges.  Many don't care about these things but I sure do.

[TribReady]

The only thing republicans have to offer is that they generally don't assault the second amendment, and they appoint conservative judges.  Many don't care about these things but I sure do.

That's the reason I vote straight Republican across the board every election.  I agree, the party is far from the "conservative" party that I want it to be, but the 2nd Amendment, judges, and abortion are enough for me, especially in relation to the Dems

[deltecs]

While I agree with the above posts, the new direction of the Republican party with the selection of Sarah Palin as VP is promising.  She is a rogue from typical Republican party politics as evidenced in all the media news by Rep opponents in Alaska politics.  McCain is similarly accorded the same reputation.  There are several things about McCain that I disagree with and more that I do agree with.  Gov Palin has more that I agree with.  Why vote 3rd party when the Republican candidates this year are not typical Rep party hacks??  For months lots of posters have indicated voting third party with the result of voting for Obama and the Dems, which is exactly what wasn't intended by the posters.  Now comes 2 mavericks that differ from their own party policies and don't want them either.  It seems that unless every candidate comply with each and every method, means and policy that doesn't meet the posters, then they will vote 3rd party.  What is with the concept of third party that makes people think the grass is greener on the other side?  This just might be the start of the third party policies inside the Republican party, and if so, don't need additional third parties to split our constructionists views.  Since Dems have no real party policies, they encompass and embrace all those liberals with no third party to select.  It is only the conservatives who require third parties to vote for. 

[jgalar]

I can't stand McCain or Obama. Barr is a nut case also. Most of the critters in congress are just padding their pockets. Problem is the US is filled with politically uneducated people - and they vote!

Palin may have the potential to be a Margaret Thatcher type leader, but I think we may have shoved her out there to soon.

[jcn59]

I'm the one who talked about voting for a third party:

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"If it looks like a landslide win for either candidate, Ventura gets my vote."

"Both parties need a wake-up call,  and the more votes any third party gets, the sooner the Rs & Ds will see they are not invincible."
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It's my contention that a third party CANNOT get elected because the parties in power WON'T LET IT HAPPEN!  They will promise us EVERYTHING for our votes. 

But it won't take long before the losing party figures out that if he got the 3rd party vote, he (or she) would have been elected.  (It's called psychology).  That's when government will begin to answer to their constituency again.

[deltecs]

That is just what is generating McCain's candidacy with a different Rep direction than the typical party hacks wanted.  Palin's selection has generated much more independent support for the Rep nominee than the Dems either wanted or expected.  The Dems believed they had these voters in their pocket and now it is highly questionable.  The core Rep conservatives have not been able to really get behind a candidate since Reagan and now it appears that they may be behind McCain with his selection of Palin.  And I still do not see a need for third parties, if either party will answer to the public trust.  And Palin has done exactly what her campaign promised to do as Governor, answer to her constituency with less government waste, open negotiation with oil companies on proposed projects, viable alternative energy solutions, and honesty serving the voters of Alaska.  Troopergate is a smokescreen by dis satisfied Rep party hacks and Dems who wish to discredit her on a national level and really isn't taken seriously by the common voter.  She had every right to fire any commissioner who bucked her gubinatorial policies, with or without cause.  Monnegan did not fire her ex brother in law even though he should have. Her ex brother in law should have been indicted for felony charges; had he not been a State Trooper, he would have been convicted and would be serving time just as any ordinary State citizen.  The commissioners serve at the will of the Governor, regardless of cause and are not civil service positions with any protections.  So what is the big deal?  She fired a Public Safety Commissioner for not doing his duty to the States citizens, restricted and hindered her policies, all within her authority as Governor.  Too bad Monnegan and Wooten.  She did her job, they should have done theirs.