Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin has executive experience.  Barack Obama has been running for President since being elected to the Senate.   All the Democrat talking points won’t be able to dissuade many Hillary supporters from voting for the McCain/Palin ticket.

Full speech by Palin at her introduction to America in Dayton, Ohio August 29, 2008:

Link: sevenload.com

Sarah Palin
Current Office: Governor of Alaska
Date of Birth: Feb. 11, 1964
Age: 44
Place of Birth: Sandpoint, Idaho
Home: Wasilla, Alaska
Education: University of Idaho, 1987
Religion: Lutheran
Party: Republican
Political Experience: Wasilla Mayor, 1996-2002. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Chairman, 2003-04. Elected governor in 2006.
Misc.: Palin’s son Track enlisted in the Army in 2007, and is scheduled to be deployed to Iraq in September.

Barack Obama:

Community Organizer, Partnered with William Ayers, terrorist.

A clear choice for all the disaffected Hillary supporters.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

The most entertaining political show is the little known internet live stream The Strategy Room on the Fox News website. Most of the show is very candid with the pundits opinions open for discussion and with no holds barred.

Three liberal Democrats appeared on The Strategy room while the Montana and South Dakota Primaries results were being televised last evening. An Amazing discussion between Karl Rove, Shep Smith, Kirsten Powers, Bob Beckel and John Edwards’ campaign spokesperson Chris Kofinis followed Hillary Clinton’s non-concession speech. Needless to say Beckel and Kofinis were not at all happy with Hillary. Kirsten Powers was defending Hillary’s decision not to concede.

t/b: Michelle Malkin, Hot Air

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Bill Clinton phoned in to a radio show in Pennsylvania claims that the Obama Campaign played the race card against him.

Then he denies that he said any such thing when reporters confront him with his own words.

Reporter: “Sir, what did you mean yesterday when you said that the Obama campaign was playing the race card on you?”

 

CLINTON: “When did I say that, and to whom did I say that?”

 

Reporter: “On WHYY radio yesterday”

 

CLINTON: “No, no, no. That’s not what I said. You always follow me around and play these little games, and I’m not going to play your games today. This is a day about election day. Go back and see what the question was, and what my answer was. You have mischaracterized it to get another cheap story to divert the American people from the real urgent issues before us, and I choose not to play your game today. Have a nice day.”

 

Reporter: “Respectfully sir, though, you did say …”

 

CLINTON: “Have a nice day.” [continues shaking hands with supporters]. I said what I said, you can go and look at the interview. And if you’ll be real honest, you’ll also report what the question was and what the answer was.”

 

Reporter: “They asked you if you regretted your comparing Jesse Jackson to Barack Obama on the day after the South Carolina primary.”

 

CLINTON: “And I pointed out that I did not do that, and that I complimented them both. And that Jesse Jackson took no offense. And I called him myself, I said, ‘Did you find that offensive?’ And he said no.

Bill speaks out of both sides of his mouth. The era of Youtube and the internet will continue to bite him in the ass.

SOS POLL

[Poll=40]

t/b: Hot Air, Michelle Malkin

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

It sure looks like it may be. Clinton’s poll numbers aren’t reaching the lofty goal she has set for herself in Pennsylvania. Herself (HRC) might be supplanted by Himself(BHO). Bittergate is backfiring on the Clinton 2008 Campaign. The story hasn’t grown legs, turned into stumps, Hill’s fallen on her face. If she loses this time around she is cooked for any future run for the Presidency.

I’m not sure Hillary would win another term as Senator.

From Bloomberg.com:

Barack Obama is leading Hillary Clinton in two of the next three Democratic primaries, an advantage, if it holds, that would allow him to sew up the nomination.

A new Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll of likely Democratic voters gives Clinton a 46 percent to 41 percent edge in Pennsylvania, and a similar 40 percent to 35 percent lead for Obama in Indiana. In North Carolina, Obama has a larger, 13- point advantage.

“To have a solid chance of winning the nomination she’d probably have to win all three” and get “a double-digit victory in Pennsylvania,” says Tad Devine, a former strategist for Democrat John Kerry’s 2004 presidential bid. “If she wins just one of the three, it may be difficult if not impossible for her to continue” and “if she loses Pennsylvania, it’s over.”

The poll offers some warnings for Democrats in the general election. More than two-fifths of voters in each of the three states say the controversy surrounding Obama’s former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, will be a problem if the Illinois senator is the Democratic presidential nominee in the fall. In addition, at least one-fifth of voters in Indiana and North Carolina say they would vote for Republican candidate John McCain in the November election if their chosen Democratic candidate isn’t the party nominee.

…

No matter what the results are things are looking up for McCain.

Slate has a death watch widget up at it’s website. Even the liberal blogs are counting her last days in the campaign.

Whether or not she realizes it, Hillary Clinton is on a slow march to her political doom. She’s behind in the popular vote and has fewer pledged delegates and primary victories than Obama; she’s had only one superdelegate endorse her since March 4; and she’s losing ground to Obama in Pennsylvania polls at an alarming rate.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

The Clinton Campaign owes Hillary’s high school alma mater, Maine South High School in Park Ridge, ILL for a bill they were incurred in February. The debt owed to her alma mater is a whopping $3,161.

This from The Swamp:

…according to federal campaign disclosure reports that show that among more than $8.7 million listed as debts, the Clinton campaign owed $3,161 to Maine South High School in Park Ridge for renting the school for an event, as well as for catering.

Clinton, then Hillary Rodham, was a 1965 Maine South graduate.

The Clinton campaign used the school’s Watson Auditorium for an election eve event prior to the Feb. 5 “Super Tuesday” balloting in Illinois and more than 20 other states. The event was a “town hall meeting,” broadcast on the Hallmark Channel, which allowed supporters across the country to question the candidate.

The FEC form listed only a “Dr. Rose” as a contact at the school. A switchboard operator at Maine South said no one was available to discuss the debt and that the only “Dr. Rose” at the school was Dr. Rose Garlasco, the assistant principal of students, who was unavailable.

Jay Carson, a spokesman for Clinton’s campaign, said the invoice from Maine South High School was paid today.

This is the typical Modus Operandi for team Clinton.

Looks like they were shamed into it by the media.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

John Edwards will exit the Democrat Pary primary race. The announcement is expected at 1 pm today. The 2 Americas theme didn’t catch on I guess.

John Edwards to quit presidential race

Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voters’ sympathies but never diverted his campaign, The Associated Press has learned.

The two-time White House candidate notified a close circle of senior advisers that he planned to make the announcement at a 1 p.m. EST event in New Orleans that had been billed as a speech on poverty, according to two of his advisers. The decision came after Edwards lost the four states to hold nominating contests so far to rivals who stole the spotlight from the beginning — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

The former North Carolina senator will not immediately endorse either candidate in what is now a two-person race for the Democratic nomination, said one adviser, who spoke on a condition of anonymity in advance of the announcement.

Edwards waged a spirited top-tier campaign against the two better-funded rivals, even as he dealt with the stunning blow of his wife’s recurring cancer diagnosis. In a dramatic news conference last March, the couple announced that the breast cancer that she thought she had beaten had returned, but they would continue the campaign.

t/b: Michelle Malkin

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Who do you think had the best Christmas holiday message of all the candidates? Which Candidate produced the worst?

Vote here for the best and the worst political messages by the 2008 Presidential Candidates.

Watch the videos and vote at the bottom of the page.

Barack Obama:

Rudy Giuliani:

John Edwards:

Hillary Clinton:

Fred Thompson:

Mike Huckabee:

John McCain:

Ron Paul:

Now what do you think? Vote here and leave a comment why you voted for best and worst.

t/b:  Stop The ACLU, Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Captain’s Quarters

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

A restoration of a candidate. The New and improved Hillary. Watch out Barack, she’s on her comeback tour!

A synopsis of her remarks on the talk shows on Monday morning 12/17/2007:

The Old Hillary:

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

-Hillary Clinton (At a fund raising speech in San Francisco)

…

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they’re not.

-Hillary Clinton

…

I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

-Hillary Clinton

…

“Come on Bill, put your dick up! You can’t f**k her here!!”

(From the book “Inside The White House” by Ronald Kessler, p. 243 – Hillary to Gov. Clinton when she spots him talking with an attractive female at an Arkansas political rally)

…

F**k off! It’s enough that I have to see you shit-kickers every day, I’m not going to talk to you too!! Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut.”

(From the book “American Evita” by Christopher Anderson, p. 90 – Hillary to her State Trooper bodyguards after one of them greeted her with “Good morning.”

t/b: Hot Air, Michelle Malkin

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

The Democrat Presidential candidates want to increase the “taxes to the rich.” How about a voluntary tax that is available to these politicians now? A suggestion for the Democrats such as John Edwards, Mrs. Bill Clinton and her husband, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and their billionaire supporters Warren Buffet and George Soros : Make a voluntary contribution of a 5-10% surcharge of your pre-tax income immediately. This is available now and they can send the checks to the Federal Government pronto.

I would ask these politicians and billionaires to disclose the amounts that they contributed with a disclosure of canceled checks. In other words put your money where your “beliefs” are.

James Lord of The American Spectator suggests that they pay up to 15% of their income with a Credibility Tax:

…

Democrats are saying something else these days that complements perfectly the opportunity given them by the chance to pay the Credibility Tax. They have made much over the last several years with a charge that President Bush has not called the American people to sacrifice during a time of war. Not long ago several top Democrats in the House proposed that in the spirit of sacrifice high-income taxpayers should have a 12%-15% “war surtax” added to their tax bill if they favored the war on Iraq. There is no reason to limit this idea to paying for the war, and the beauty of the Credibility Tax is that one doesn’t have to wait for that irritating legislative procedure to make something like this a law. Democrats, who love the idea of adding programs to the federal government, could just start sacrificing right now — today — by ponying up an additional 12%-15% of their income for the Credibility Tax. Even better, the Treasury Department specifically says that paying these funds is a demonstration of “patriotism.” With that kind of applause coming straight from the government itself these candidates would be instantly vaccinated against any future “swiftboating” episodes that might churlishly challenge their love of country.

…

Where would the money go once donated by these rich patriots? Why, to the plethora of federal programs liberals love. Let’s take Hillary Clinton’s list as displayed on her website. Receipts from the Credibility Tax could be used to help provide affordable health care for all Americans, reduce the cost of energy and make us energy independent, expand access to affordable, high-quality child health care, make college more affordable, protect families from predatory lenders and help them avoid foreclosures, balance the federal budget “so we don’t pass today’s massive debts to the next generation” and much, much more. This being the same Hillary Clinton who exuberantly says she has “a million ideas” for the government to spend money, you’ll understand if I list only a few. But you get the idea.

…

Think of the political opportunity here for these folks. John Edwards could call a press conference in the massive new gym he’s built on his multi-million dollar North Carolina property and have a check signing ceremony before hopping his next flight to New Orleans to collect his investment from all those residents losing their homes to his favorite investment company. Hillary and Bill could have their check signing in Rep. Charlie Rangel’s Harlem, with the tax-happy chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee by their side as they signed individual Credibility Tax checks. As a matter of fact, Rangel himself could write his own Credibility Tax check, setting a superb example for his fellow tax-paying Americans. Having just proposed a half-trillion dollar tax increase over the next ten years, Rangel and his friend could get an early start on filling those Treasury coffers. With all these prominent liberals raising their own taxes 15% for this year (and why not retroactively for last year?) the fever of self-sacrifice among our liberal friends could sweep the country. After all, you can set your own tax rate when you pay the Credibility Tax. Why cut your payment as low as 15%? Why not, as most liberals favor with the capital gains tax, raise it to 30%? Or 50%? The higher the better, right?

,,,

This from the US Treasury website:

Citizens who wish to make a general donation to the U.S. government may send contributions to a specific account called “Gifts to the United States.” This account was established in 1843 to accept gifts, such as bequests, from individuals wishing to express their patriotism to the United States. Money deposited into this account is for general use by the federal government and can be available for budget needs. These contributions are considered an unconditional gift to the government. Financial gifts can be made by check or money order payable to the United States Treasury and mailed to the address below.

Gifts to the United States
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Credit Accounting Branch
3700 East-West Highway, Room 6D17
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Contact the Candidates here: Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, US Senate Directory

Bookmark It

Hide Sites