Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Carnivore wrote: According to Faux News, she has foreign policy experience because "she is right up there in Alaska, right next door to Russia!"

http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/08/29/most-absurd-comment-ever/

Idlewild wrote: I doubt very much she will grab any kind of level headed vote except for some hardcore religious votes which don't seem to be relevant this election.

Idlewild wrote:
I'm curious who McCain would have picked if Obama did choose Clinton as his VP running mate. Any guesses?

Idlewild wrote: Sarah has those Tammy Faye eye lashes going as well. Maybe Tina should write in Palin for an episode of MILF Island on 30 Rock?

new yorker magazine wrote:
Before she was running against him, Sarah Palin—the governor of Alaska and now the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States—thought it was pretty neat that Barack Obama was edging ahead of John McCain in her usually solidly red state. After all, she said, Obama’s campaign was using the same sort of language that she had in her gubernatorial race. “The theme of our campaign was ‘new energy,’ ” she said recently. “It was no more status quo, no more politics as usual, it was all about change. So then to see that Obama—literally, part of his campaign uses those themes, even, new energy, change, all that, I think, O.K., well, we were a little bit ahead on that.” She also noted, “Something’s kind of changing here in Alaska, too, for being such a red state on the Presidential level. Obama’s doing just fine in polls up here, which is kind of wigging people out, because they’re saying, ‘This hasn’t happened for decades that in polls the D’ ”—the Democratic candidate—“ ‘is doing just fine.’ To me, that’s indicative, too. It’s the no-more-status-quo, it’s change.”

This was two weeks ago, at the statehouse in Juneau. After persistent reports, in July, that Palin was on McCain’s short list of potential running mates, her name had faded back into obscurity. Nobody in Alaska seemed to take her seriously as a national prospect, and she had shrugged the whole thing off on television, telling CNBC’s Larry Kudlow that, before considering the job, she would want to know “what is it, exactly, that the V.P. does every day.”

JAH wrote: The lil down's syndrome baby is not her daughter its her granddaughter.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/121350/137/486/580223

Carnivore wrote: Palin's first lie as VP nominee:

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/08/well_that_didnt_take_long.php

Mayoral performance. Palin, who portrays herself as a fiscal conservative, racked up nearly $20 million in long-term debt as mayor of the tiny town of Wasilla — that amounts to $3,000 per resident. She argues that the debt was needed to fund improvements.