Sarah Palin for GOP Vice President

[Light]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

WRONG. Palin did not say that she SOLD the plain on eBay, but that she "PUT" it on eBay, which she did. See the following quote and source:

"Not for lack of trying. She put it up for sale on eBay (with a $2.5 Million reserve) four times during her first year in office." --Source



She authorized the project, therefore she can take some credit for it, whether she authored it or not.



What falsehoods?



What is your source for this piece of information?

Her on aide in Alaska who today was trying to defend her.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Light

Listen to her speech She did not say anything about a broker. When you lead someone to believe something that is not true that is a lie.

Light, just admit you were wrong. LOL!!! She said that she put it on eBay, and her point was she got RID OF THE JET--BOTH points are accurate. The eBay sale didn't work, even though she listed it 4 times, and they ended up selling it through a broker. The eBay listing speaks to her intention to offload the jet, which she did eventually, and that was the point of her statement.

There was no untruth to be found.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Light

Her on aide in Alaska who today was trying to defend her.

Can you provide a verifiable source? In other words--a source I can also read? A link? A newscast?

[Light]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Smart political move on their part. They are going to go through the process and strengthen who they are before the media has a personal field day and misrepresentation.

And Oprah isn't wanting to jump on the bandwagon and let her on the show, BUT she did Obama. Hmmmmmm. What is Oprah afraid or?

Boy oh boy you republicans are gullible. Here is a woman that you want for vice president and she is not ready to talk with the press. They have to prepare her?????
God help us.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Light

Boy oh boy you republicans are gullible. Here is a woman that you want for vice president and she is not ready to talk with the press. They have to prepare her?????
God help us.

LOL - - - who kept on giving her speech when the telepromter was messed up? Palin.

Obama had to stop until they got it fixed when it messed up for him - he didn't know what to say.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Light

Boy oh boy you republicans are gullible. Here is a woman that you want for vice president and she is not ready to talk with the press. They have to prepare her?????
God help us.

You didn't check your facts and you want me to listen to YOU call ME gullible?

That's funny.

[Pressing-On]

Just got this in my e-mail and this is how it will go for Palin. Light is doing it here.

The Coming War Against Sarah Palin

I am writing this newsletter from St. Paul, MN, where Alaska Governor Sarah Palin electrified the crowd at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. And I think it's safe to say she showed the entire country a fresh new face of conservative reform.

There was a lot of build-up to Governor Palin's speech, both in the media and among the professional Republican political class. Everyone was telling us that the speech was the Governor's big moment; if she could perform well Wednesday night, she would break free of the despicable, sustained partisan and personal attacks being leveled at her by everyone from the left-wing blogs to the elite media.

Palin Survived. Now the Left REALLY Has to Destroy Her

But the pundits and the consultants were wrong. Palin's success last week doesn't mean the left-wing is going to give up attacking her.

Palin's success means that now the left really has to destroy her.

Why? Because she's proved that she is an intelligent, articulate and mortal threat to the left's claim that it is the sole, legitimate voice of women and blue-collar, working Americans.

Sarah Palin is a mother of five who is also an accomplished woman.

She is a lifelong member of the NRA who is also an intelligent, articulate professional.

She is pro-life in her words and in her deeds, and she controls an $11 billion budget and 15,000 Alaska state employees.

Simply put, the left has a greater vested interest in destroying her than any presidential or vice presidential candidate the Republican Party has nominated in the last fifty years.

The media will try to downplay her accomplishments as when Ron Allen of MSNBC tried to get me to accept that she had too little experience.
http://newt.org/tabid/193/articleTyp...2/Default.aspx

Echoes of the Clarence Thomas Nomination

We've seen this kind of desperation before, of course.

Those of us who lived through the effort by the elites to destroy Clarence Thomas when he was nominated to sit on the Supreme Court by George H. W. Bush have an unsettling idea of the fight that lies ahead.

The left and the elites regarded Thomas - an African-American who is also a conservative - as a threat to their ability to be the arbiters of what African-Americans and other minorities should believe.

Allowing Thomas to ascend to the high court would show that skin color does not dictate political affiliation - just as allowing Sarah Palin to become vice president would show that being a woman and a blue-collar American does not dictate political party.

So they threw mud at Thomas. They called him a traitor to his race.

Just like what's happening now with Governor Palin. We've seen this before.

The road ahead promises to be bumpy. But the good news is that if Governor Palin survives the next few months as a national figure of competence and reform, then the left suddenly has a tremendous problem.

It's a problem that is bigger than just losing the election (which is what will happen if she is a star in November).

The left's problem will be that, at 44, Sarah Palin represents potentially 30 years of Republican Party leadership and transforming the party and America.

The stakes are high, and the race is on.

It's time to brace ourselves for the coming war against Sarah Palin - and its time to win it.

Your friend,

Newt Gingrich

[rgcraig]

I love Newt!

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

I love Newt!

He is awesome!!

[Light]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

You didn't check your facts and you want me to listen to YOU call ME gullible?

That's funny.

FactCheck.org

A Bridge Too Far

Palin claimed to have stood up to Congress on the subject of the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere,” the Gravina Island bridge in Ketchikan, Alaska, about which we wrote last November.

Palin: I told the Congress, "Thanks, but no thanks," on that bridge to nowhere.

Fact:
This is not the first time Palin has cited her choice to kill the bridge in 2007 as an example of her anti-waste stance. It’s true that she did eventually nix the project. But the bridge was nearly dead already – Congress had removed the earmark, giving the requested money to the state but not marking it for any specific use. Palin unplugged its life support, declaring in 2007 that the funds would not be used for the Gravina bridge.

When she was running for governor, however, Palin expressed a different position. In 2006, the Ketchikan Daily News quoted her expressing optimism and support for the bridge at a Ketchikan campaign stop.

Palin, 2006: "People across the nation struggle with the idea of building a bridge because they’ve been under these misperceptions about the bridge and the purpose,” said Palin, who described the link as the Ketchikan area’s potential for expansion and growth. … Palin said Alaska’s congressional delegation worked hard to obtain funding for the bridge as part of a package deal and that she “would not stand in the way of the progress toward that bridge.”

Palin also answered "yes" to an Anchorage Daily News poll question about whether she would continue to support state funding for the Gravina Island bridge if elected governor. "The window is now," she wrote, "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist." It was only after she won the governorship that Palin shifted her position. And even then, it’s inaccurate to say that she “told the Congress ‘thanks, but no thanks.’” Palin accepted non-earmarked money from Congress that could have been used for the bridge if she so desired. That she opted to use it for other state transportation purposes doesn’t qualify as standing up to Congress.

The bridge reversal is not the only matter throwing doubt on Palin’s credentials as a government waste reformer. Watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense has reported that the small town of Wasilla, Alaska, which had not previously received significant federal funds, hauled in almost $27 million in earmarks while Palin was mayor. (McCain has explicitly criticized several of the Wasilla earmarks in recent years.) To help obtain these earmarks, Palin had hired Steven Silver, the former chief of staff for recently indicted Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, as Wasilla’s lobbyist.
And Palin continued to solicit federal funds as governor. A request form on Stevens’ Web site shows that she requested $160.5 million in earmarks for the state in 2008, and almost $198 million for 2009.


You need to check your facts.