Who for Veep ?

[ironglow]

  Who for Veep ?

   Is Sarah Palin our gal ? She's a hunter & life member of the NRA..

  Or is Joe our choice ? you can see from the photo, he's a "born liar".. 

[Oldtimer]

Ironglow,
That is my idea of a glamor shot.   She is a keeper, for sure.  Biden is SSDD, if you know what I mean.  So much for the Dems being the party of change.  I put my hand on my pocket to see if they have gotten to my change every time I hear them talk about it. 

I was surfing Drudge last night and read some of the posts on the articles about Governor Palin and the Dem women are sure that this is all about them.  They have no clue how important Palin is to unifying the Republicans.  I think Dee hit the nail on the head in another post when he said he wouldn't vote for McCain, but would for Palin.  Democrats not having a clue, imagine that.

[bilmac]

I hope this will make Mccains election a done deal. I hope, if all goes well, that we will get a chance to vote for her for pres in 2012.

[ms]

I THINK MMCAIN JUST LOST. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WANTED ROMNEY. ROMNEY WAS ALWAY THE PICK AND MMCAIN KNEW THAT.

[ironglow]

ms;
  I think you just voiced your wishful thinking..
     I thought Romney would be a good Veep also..because McCain needed to bolster his conservative base and his standing with
  hunters & shooters,evangelicals, America firsters, values voters, pro-lifers, pro-family voters, some women,and Christian
   conservatives... 
   It sure doesn't hurt that Palin and McCain are the ONLY candidates among the 4 top slots that ACTUALLY have loved ones serving
   in the war zone..and Palin is the only one of the 4 with executive experience..other than McCain's XO experience in the Navy !

  She does this better than Romney could...A POSITIVELY brilliant choice !  Ask yourself..what's all over the news..Sarah Palin,
  or the Obama speech of the night before ?

[Sourdough]

Personally, I think this will put McCain over the top to a big win.  The lies have already started. 

My Mom called this morning saying, "Have you heard about that woman"?  She has been married 20 years and has a 20 year old daughter who just had a baby with Downs Syndrom".  I explained, "No Mom she has been married 20 years and her oldest is a 19 year old boy".  "The baby is hers, not her daughters".  Mom swears that is not what is being reported of TV down in Tennessee.  I told my Mom that it all is lies.  Since my Mom heard it on the news she still thinks is is the truth, and refuses to accept my explanation, she says the news would not lie about something like that.  My Mom is what my brother calls a Yellow Dog Democrat, "She would vote for a yellow dog before she would vote for a republican".

[nomosendero]

I THINK MMCAIN JUST LOST. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WANTED ROMNEY. ROMNEY WAS ALWAY THE PICK AND MMCAIN KNEW THAT.

NOPE

[ms]

Ironglow, I under stand  where your coming from. But bush has put this country in a big money mess with the war. Alot of the people have lost there home's job going over sea just in the past eight year's. I just don't see people going to vote for a republican there staying home or third party to send a message. And this is a wild card if bush start a war with iran the election can by called off.

[bilmac]

Who lost their home that didn't deserve it. Just because the alphabet soup media tell us the economy is bad dosen't mean it is bad, it means they are trying to get democrats elected. They come up with the same crap every 4 years.

[ms]

Who lost their home that didn't deserve it. Just because the alphabet soup media tell us the economy is bad dosen't mean it is bad, it means they are trying to get democrats elected. They come up with the same crap every 4 years.  Dude you need help if you think this economy is good. mmcain doesn't want bush around him for a picture.

[Sourdough]

About the homes, I agree with bilmac.  My oldest son called and ask me what I thought about him buying a house in California last year.  They were looking at a $550,K home with an interest only loan.  That is what the loan companies were pushing.  I told him to sit down and put it on paper, then after 15 years how much of the house would he own?  He got smart and asked how much of my house I owned after 15 years I told him the whole thing.  I got a 15 year loan and paid it off in 12.  He finally saw my point.  I told him if he was stupid enough to take an interest only loan he deserved to lose everything.

He did not buy the house.

[Brett]

BINGO... Most of the fools who lost homes bought waaay over their means to begin with.   If you're only grossing 50 or 60k a year you're a damn fool to buy a $1,000,000 home.    My first home was a 900 sq/ft, 75 year old, 2 bedroom, single bath, fixer upper that I paid $125,000 for (New Jersey).  Almost always added an extra $100 or $200 to my mortgage payment every month to pay down the principal and save a bundle on interest as well as build equity.  Sold it after 8 1/2 years for $225,000.  Moved south and bought twice the house with 6 times the property... cash.   Used some of the equity in the home to put up a fence around the pool area and buy wife a new car.  The interest on the home equity loan was deductible unlike a car loan.

Speaking of cars.  IMO it's foolish to trade in a vehicle every two or three years and buy a new one. (Unless you put excessive millage on them or needs change such as expanding family,  need to trade car for truck for work, etc.)  I generally keep my vehicles for ten years and two or three hundred thousand miles or more.   Even if I have to have put $400 or $500 into a vehicle in any given year to keep it on the road I'm still way ahead than if I were making a $300 or $400 dollar car payment every month.  That's not even considering the savings in auto insurance.    That new car I bought my wife is now 5 years old and has approximately $150,000 miles on it. 

Be savvy and live within your means and you will find that the economy is not as bad as you thought.     

[bilmac]

Two or three years ago there were a bunch of programs on the tube about flipping houses.All these idiots were taking loans out and then HIREING the work done. How can you make money doing that? I flipped one but I spent 5 years and did all the work myself. Bought it for 8K and sold it for 80k. These are the dopes who diserved to loose money.

[Oldtimer]

Remember that this is the same news media that was raking the banks over the coals some years ago for not making loans available for poor people.  Seems to me that the banks had some idea of how to run their own business.  But the news media are in NY(that's downstate, not IG's area) and LA and are therefore smarter than the rest of the universe.  My older daughter just closed on a townhouse for about $0.50 on the dollar.  There were three in a row that were foreclosed.  Want to bet what kind of loans those folks had?

[Mikey]

Sarah Palin is a fabulous choice.  Governor, Mayor, cleans house in her own party, hunts, fishes and shoots.  She knows business and how ti works.  She will unify the GOP and bring more women into the vote.  She is a conservationist and environmentalist who is on the side of hunting and fishing, but she isn't stupid and she knows what constitutes a priority. She is a smart constitutionalist and nobody's push-over.  I think she is the best choice short of someone like Condolezza Rice, and there is only one of her.........

Romney is window dressing with his own agenda.  I believe he is a party convert.  I also believe he would be devisive in the whitehouse.  He is too greasy to be a good choice.

I think this is gonna cause lots of people some major sweat because I think she is as good as it sounds.  Biden has no chance against someone like that and I think she may swing a lot of others. 

I really hope she shows her colors and comes out swingin'.  I understand one of her responses to a democraptic correspondent already set some issue straight. 

And what would she do in time of national crisis - respond a lot more positively and agressively than either of the other party, and that's for sure.  JMTCW. Mikey.

[ironglow]

 Most who are losing homes are those who bought Waaaay toooo much home for their budget. If one buys a home with an ARM they
  should figure that at some point, interest rates could go as high as 20%. That is what happened during the Carter admin...followed
  by the same figures for inflation..
  My first home, I paid 1/2 down and the rest within 4 years. How did I do it ? I did it the old fashioned way...I scrimped and saved for it,
  and then bought what I could afford.
  One should also have a nest egg of 3-4 monts mortgage, plus more for the unexpected..repairs, insurance etc...

  Sourdough;
  I have a sister & Bro-in-law and family in the Fbks/N. Pole area..they think Sarah is positively great..what say you ?

[ms]

I'M JUST SAYING WHEN PEOPLE HAVE LOST THERE JOB THERE HOUSE GAS PRICES ARE UP I DON'T THINK THERE GOING TO VOTE.