Palin's Running For….?
Friday, Sarah Palin gave a speech about one of her, er, McCain's pet issues: taking care of children with special needs. Today, she spoke about energy, particularly on opening up U.S. lands and waters to increased oil and gas drilling.
In a McCain administration, we will authorize and support new exploration and production of America's own oil and gas reserves -- because we cannot outsource the solution to America's energy problem. Every year, we are sending hundreds of billions of dollars out of the country for oil imports, much of it from OPEC, while America's own oil and gas reserves in America go unused. And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: we've got lots of both.
Setting aside that McCain only recently decided to support offshore drilling and that he still opposes opening up the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska – one of Palin's top priorities as governor of Alaska (she delicately didn't mention this in her speech today, at least according to the prepared remarks – I'm in North Carolina with Obama so didn't catch her on TV) – isn't it a little odd for the vice presidential candidate to be giving a series of policy speeches on her pet issues in the last week of the election? You don't see Biden saying, well, much at all.
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Yeah - but we think she could sing "I'm So Pretty" like Natalie Wood on West Side Story. ...............
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/10/12/sarah-palin-im-so-pretty/
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JNS,
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What was really odd was there was no "policy" to her policy speech. Also it seemed to me watching it live that she was calling out Saudi Arabia and including them in the "countries that don't like us very much" when she was talking about our oil imports. Considering the close ties we have with them and that in theory they are an "ally" I would think thats a very dangerous and unwise thing to do. Did you see it that way? -
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By the way would this statement be consistent with an "across the board spending freeze"?
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"If Senator John McCain is elected, she added, $2 billion a year would be devoted to clean-coal research and development."
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I don't think it's odd at all that she spoke about a substantive matter, and it's obvious to me that the campaign has made a strategic choice to have her out further than McCain himself on drilling.
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She's certainly not running for vice president anymore. I think the timing of this speech is really off. Perhaps a speech on freeing the US from OPEC would have been politically effective a few months ago, but not today with recession looming and demand dropping off.
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This was her first speech of 2012.
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The Queen of Dumb White People? Phyllis Schlafly should be dead soon....Her Highness Queen Sarah of Dumbf@ckistan!
It does seem as if the GOP is gonna take at least one more shot w/ social conservativism and the willfully ignorant GOP base.
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The Queen of Dumb White People? Phyllis Schlafly should be dead soon....Her Highness Queen Sarah of Dumbf#ckistan!
It does seem as if the GOP is gonna take at least one more shot w/ social conservativism and the willfully ignorant GOP base.
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The Queen of Dumb White People? Phyllis Schlafly should be dead soon....Her Highness Queen Sarah of D@mbf@ckistan!
It does seem as if the GOP is gonna take at least one more shot w/ social conservativism and the willfully !gnorant GOP base.
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The Queen of D@mb White People? Phyllis Schlafly should be de@d soon....Her Highness Queen Sarah of Dumbf@ckistan!
It does seem as if the GOP is gonna take at least one more sh0t w/ social conservativism and the willfully ignorant GOP base.
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The Queen of D@mb White People? Phyllis Schlafly should be de@d soon....Her Highness Queen Sarah of Dumbf@ckistan!
It does seem as if the GOP is gonna take at least one more sh0t w/ social conservativism and the willfully !gnorant GOP base.
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I agree this was her first speech of 2012, but why on earth would McCain let her give a 2012 speech? This lack of cooperation is stunning. Can't wait to read the post mortem on this.
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gysgt,
I am telling you that if McCain loses he is going to bury her so deep you won't even remember her name 2 years from now. Theres going to be he!! to pay and she is going to be the first one the piper calls on -
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The Queen of D@mb Wh!te People? Phyllis Schlafly should be de@d soon....Her Highness Queen Sarah of Dumbf@ckistan!
It does seem as if the GOP is gonna take at least one more sh0t w/ social conservativism and the willfully !gnorant GOP base.
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hello
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Unlike Obama, McCain doesn't keep a muzzle on his VP.
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If anybody wants the transcript from the speech today you can find it here
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/29/palin-big-oil-love/#more-4966
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moderation
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The Qu@en of D@mb Wh!te People? Phyllis Schlafly should be de@d soon....Her Highness Queen Sarah of Dumbf@ckistan!
It does seem as if the GOP is gonna take at least one more sh0t w/ social conservativism and the willfully !gnorant GOP base.
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Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy our troll is back
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How are you doing today new liberty troll? -
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sghwite - McCain won't be in a position to bury anyone. He'll be a loser without a constituency or future. McCain will the most powerless, unsupported Republican in town.
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The Queen of D@mb Wh!te People?
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Phyllis Schlafly should be de@d soon....Her Highness Queen Sarah of Dumbf@ckistan!
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Phyllis Schlafly should be de@d soon.
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Her Highness Queen Sarah of Dumbf@ckistan!
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