Sarah Palin Would Be Best VP For Ron Paul
Posted September 22nd, 2007 by freeman
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There has been some little bit of thought been put into who would make a good running mate for Dr. Paul's presidential bid, and I believe I have located the absolute perfect person for the job: Sarah Palin, Republican Governor of Alaska, one of the most free states in the country.
As I have thought about this, it has seemed obvious to me that there just aren't a whole lot of Ron Pauls running around out there from which to choose, but a look a closer look at Mrs. Palin reveals a startlingly familiar them to this Ron Paul supporter:
She has strong, rooted family values (she has four children and her husband is a commercial fisherman), was a two-time mayor of Wasilla, one of Alaska's fastest-growing communities, was elected President of the Alaska Conference of Mayors, and is probably the most popular governor in the U.S., with an approval rating in the 90% range!
In addition to being the youngest Governor in the history of Alaska, she is also the first woman to hold that office.
She has publicly complained about fellow Republicans' unethical behavior and references Alaska's Constitution whenever she speaks. Considered a maverick in the GOP, she goes around saying things like: "Fiscally speaking, the private sector can do a better job than government can do." and "Also just trusting individuals to make wise decisions for themselves and families. I have a lot of trust in individuals. I don't trust government nearly as much." She recently signed a bill making it a crime for public servants not to report bribery they know about.
Does any of this sound a bit familiar to a Ron Paul supporter?
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Sarah Palin on Foreign Affairs
Iraq: Palin is generally supportive of America’s presence in Iraq, her 18-year-old son Track Palin is in the Army and is slotted to go to Iraq in September. Palin has also visited members of the Alaska National Guard in Kuwait.
And to quote Mrs. Palin herself - "This is a moment -- this is a moment when great causes can be won and great threats overcome, depending on the judgment of our next president. In a dangerous world, it is John McCain who will lead America's friends and allies in preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons."
"It was John McCain who cautioned long ago about the harm that Russian aggression could do to Georgia and to other small Democratic neighbors and to the world oil markets."
"It was Senator McCain who refused to hedge his support for our troops in Iraq, regardless of the political costs. And you know what? As the mother of one of those troops and as the commander of Alaska's National Guard, that's the kind of man I want as our commander in chief."
Sound like somebody you would want running with Ron Paul?
ahe sounds
horrible and clueless.
Interesting read...
Check out this article, and the comments. http://www.andrewhalcro.c...
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Palin's Credentials
Check out her other credentials:
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have you lost your mind?
"Ideas have consequences." Ron Paul
how about...
Devvy Kidd!?!!!
Exactly what is so great about her?
All I hear is she is for the 2nd Amendment and pro-life. These are her big credentials. How about the other amendments in the Constitution?! How about those of us who believe "pro-life" is a dictatorial controlling ideal over humanity? The issue of abortion and pregnancy is complicated, but one thing is sure, that baby is not a separate entity beyond the mother. It is totally dependent. Is it your place to put mother in bondage to fetus? Why? Because your religious dogma commands it? Much religious dogma is self-serving, expanding the influence and power of that religion. More followers equals more influence.
Wow are we ever being played!
Take your blinders off people! I would never have considered Palin a recommended choice for Ron Paul, and she certainly will not entice me to vote McCain, no way, no how! What a crock this whole election is! This ALMOST makes me want to vote Obama, I won't but I have seen many Paul supporters recently saying that they will. Even some Daily Paul regulars are leaving the site due to all the pro-Palin crap!
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Look at the date you idiot
The point here is that many of us were thinking about her a long time ago.
I agree with the post, but I'm not going to vote for McCain just because he made a good choice of VP; it's not going to affect HIS policy.
PS everyone who complains that Palin has reallocated income taxes for various projects needs to remember that Alaska has no personal income tax.
Wow, reduced to personal attacks!
If you had any sense, you would know that the reason this is being brought up again is because a PRO-PALIN article has linked this to allude that Ron Paul supporters are happy with this choice. Save your childish name calling for the school-yard. Grow the fuck up!
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18 Daily Paulers
Made comments before mine, including ones yesterday, or did your blinders keep you from noticing that as well?
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Palin is a neo-con
Libertarians who think McCain's VP pick is a substantive deviation from the neoconservative line should consider that she was Bill Kristol's top choice and prediction. "She's fantastic," the master neocon mused. Even if she is not as bad as Bush/McCain (a not so impressive achievement), she has to be bad if Kristol loves her.
So theres your Sarah Palin....
Plus this statement is NOT an explanation of her family values:
She has strong, rooted family values (she has four children and her husband is a commercial fisherman).
isn´t she
pro war ?
actually she's not
actually she's not really....
she's spoken out vehemently about the war being about oil and how unnecessary that is....
YES!
YES!
as I thought
then she would be terrible...worst of the worst..
There is only on e issue that is important
Where does she stand on the unalienable right to keep the fruits of your labor, i.e. self preservation? Compared to this the rest of the so called "civil liberties" are nothing but window dressing. I have no wish to go one being a slave with a right to say whatever I want. Of course, this is the one right that NO ONE talks about except for Ron Paul. Anyone jumping on the "civil liberties" bandwagon without talking first and foremost about property rights is just playing politics. I am looking for some indication of where she stands on this, but I have a feeling she believes property is a privilege granted by government, rather than a right, in the end. I'm hoping to be proved wrong.
Tom Mullen
Tom Mullen
Yeah she's great except for that whole not being a conservative
thing...
When Palin was a Mayor of a small city of 6000, she spent 16 millions of the states funds on building a Ice Rink that was never completed; when it should of cost 2 million.
She came out of nowhere and became Governor. She approved the biggest budget in the history of the state; 2 billion dollars more costly then the last one.
She supported the bridge to nowhere before it came to the national spotlight and then flip flopped on it to keep her name.
She supported giving 600 million dollars to a State Run Diary Farm and then took it over and ran it to the ground.
Is there anything less to expect from the Governor of the most socialist state in the USA?
Every Alaskan receives 1000 dollars a year for just existing; money made from oil revenues. Straight from the goverment.
Her husband works for BP; and she has forwarded him all her emails while she was governor; going over laws and proposals to do what is best for Big Oil.
Fascism today comes to america not wrapped in a flag; but in a dress.
A empty dress; with 2 years of local experience; no national experience.
A couple weeks ago Palin said on the notion of being VP: "I can't decide whether or not im ready for the job until someone tells me exactly what it is a VP does. I don't really know; at least I hope i can help advance my state and put Alaska ahead of everything else."
When asked about the Iraq war a mere 2 months ago. She said, "I haven't really thought anything about the Iraq War; actually I know nothing; I Haven't really followed it..."
What a lovely conservative.
she is selling out to neocons
pretty much says it all. No principles.
She's a politician
Politicians have no "principles". As they say, "Politics is the art of compromise" -- and for a professional politician, everything is open to compromise, because winning is everything, and losing is, well, losing.
Back before the primaries, most people I know (I live in a very liberal western city) were all swooning over Kucinich and Gravel. So I gave it some thought: What is the real, essential difference between Ron Paul and those two nice but unconvincing guys? And after reading their histories in Wikipedia, I realized what it was: they're both politicians. Politics is their career, the only thing they know how to do. Without politics, they're nobodies.
When Kucinich and Gravel lost their offices in mid-career, and had to go out in the real world where people actually work for a living, they were abject failures: both went bankrupt and lost their marriages. Politics is all they know, and politics is not working for a living. It's "going along to get along," and so on.
When Ron Paul was unelected after his first couple of terms, he just went back to being a doctor -- at which he was quite a success. He doesn't need politics to give him his sense of self-worth. Politicians do. So politicians compromise. Dr. Paul doesn't need to compromise, because fundamentally he doesn't care if he doesn't win. He already has a life.
In sum, Ron Paul is exactly the sort of Citizen Legislator -- taking time out from his successful career to serve his country -- the Founders hoped would populate the precisely limited government they created. Unfortunately, he's the only one I know of.
As for this woman, of whom I've never before heard, I know nothing about her life but what I've read today. I do expect her "blue collar" husband does what he's told if he knows what's good for him. She sounds like she likes to give orders, which of course is a prime qualification for a politician. And apparently she knows how to compromise, if the prize is big enough. She's a politician; she may have opinions, even strong opinions, but the vice presidency is a pretty big prize.
What if McCain had offered the vice presidency to Ron Paul? What do you think he would have done? That's the difference -- between a politician and, well, a man.
Good NLP Psy Op post..
People actually fall for this shit..
Associate Sarah Paulin with Ron Paul's positions..
Bypass the conscious filters and install the idea that
voting for McCain somehow is aligned with Ron PAul.
Bypassing Conscious Filters... Many have been programmed and don't even know it. Some even thought they might vote for McCain now.
Abandoning their principles by a clever little NLP trick...
I don't care if George Washington Himself is the VP..
Or who the VP is... I am not voting for McCain unless he makes his #1 and #2 promises to bring our troops home from around the world and completely legalize cannabis..
That will be a cold day in hell.
No thanks,,,I'll keep my integrity and NOT vote Republican this year..
Dale Legan
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato
McCain/Washington
The Zombie Party ticket in '08.
Did you know that delegates to the Republican National Convention should never, under any circumstances vote for John McCain? Instead, they should vote for Dr. Ron Paul; because, after all, a vote for Ron Paul is a vote for freedom.
bring our troops home ... and completely legalize cannabis.
Sounds like the candidate I've been looking for! Who is it in 2008? - I sure haven't located the him/her.
very true, and thanks Dale
What you described is EXACTLY the kind of shit that "preferred" (Pro-Fed) is trying to pull in other threads even as we write. Maybe I am semantically wrong in callling it "disinformation" but it IS pro-establishment subterfuge and subliminal messaging of the vilest kind.
Yup... thank Gawd it's like
Yup... thank Gawd it's like a drink in the desert some one has a brain! Right on Dale and Akak this is psy ops doing its best but I am not being nice to people on this one since this is the "Wake Up!" site. So pull your heads out fellas!
She's too watered down and benign
She was marketed as a sex kitten/ soccer mom with tomboy hobbies. It was almost like a Miss America contest.
Given the news, I thought
Given the news, I thought I'd bump this.
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Good memory. I wonder if McCain's people read this in 2007
IMissLiberty
good thing you did
I was going to do the same.
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Ron needs to win some delegates first.
Ron Paul needs the leverage of some wins before he is likely to entice anyone worth having as VP. Not only that, a VP announcement by someone still considered a dark horse will receive only token coverage and probably some snide remarks by pundits.
Needs to happen now...
If it is going to happen with her (being anounced as VP candidate with Dr. Paul) it needs to happen right now...that announcement would gain considerable press and might put us over the top. Further, it would be outside of the "accepted" campaign standard. Thompson capitalized on being outside of the expected/accepted campaign program. It is all that he has going for him, so he will eventually fall. Dr. Paul has 1000-fold more going for him, so this would be an incredible boon to an already incredible campaign.
Until the Electin is Won!
Agreed!
She sounds like an excellent pairing for Paul!
Big question: What's her view on foreign policy and Iraq? I can't imagine a self-described strict constitutionalist, mother-of-four (with one in the army) from Alaska being a neo-con warhawk. But that's the big question in my mind. I also doubt that she could be convinced to run with Paul or anyone else, she hasn't been governor for a full year yet!
On a related note, Dr. Paul does need to choose a running mate ASAP. Particularly if it is someone intriguing like Gov. Palin. He would gain a lot of attention and it would probably double his fund raising efforts. Normally candidates wait until others drop out, then choose one of them as a running mate. They do this because they're warmed up to the campaign trail and bring in money and supporters. Since its highly unlikely that Dr. Paul would choose any of his fellow Republicans to run with him, he wouldn't get this benefit. He needs to choose NOW and get his running mate ready for the prime time, and to get the extra help the other candidates don't have.
How About Mark Sanford?
Not that I have any personal objections to Palin, but if we were looking for a bounce from a VP announcement, wouldn't it be better to announce Mark Sanford, governor of early-state South Carolina?
Foreign Policy
She sounds good on domestic issues, but does she hold any neoconservative foreign policy positions?
Lou dobbs would still be
Lou dobbs would still be better.
Ron Paul 08
She's also camera candy
That never hurts. Hmmm... a good-looking, family-friendly female VP... to go up against Hillary? Yeah, I can see some serious head-turning occurring with that ticket. Has any contact been made with her?
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questions
Can she debate? Does she support RP's ideas? Does she even want the job?