This was a comment... I went here and saw this post, and decided that the answer was post worthy.
Amazing how the Democrat attack machine has fired up on Palin in such a big way.
- She's inexperienced, and "only a heartbeat away from the Presidency."
I guess it is better to get your inexperienced slot filled at the top of the ticket, where there isn't even a heartbeat seperating it from the President... Oddly, she HAS actually run things... business, a city and a state. Neither Obama nor Biden have run anything. And Obama saying that he ran a campaign is layghable. He has a campaign manager that runs the campaign... and still his campaign is not responsible for nearly what the Governor of Alaska is...
- She must be a bad mother to take all of this on...
Really. The party of Equal Rights and Women's Rights says that a mom can't be in a high powered job? Again, laughable. Where is the mention that Joe Biden was a single father with young kids? Where is the mention that he not only worked in DC, but commuted a couple of hours each day to that job... so he couldn't be there for his kids. Where is the comparision to the Obamas who are both on the road and have foisted the kids off on granny... vs. the Palins where dad is staying home with the kids.
- Obama continues to try to paint the McCain Presidency as a continuation of Bush...
And yet, while in the last year the voting record of McCain has been 90% with Bush... there is no mention that Obama voted 49% with the Administration. And voted WITH the Administration on energy, while McCain was voting against. So, does the 90% number indicate that McCain is a party hack? Keep in mind that he has also had years where he only voted 60% with the Administration... and Obama is voting 95% with the Democrat line. There is your party hack.
- They aren't uniters, and they are partisan...
Now you are really kidding me. Refer to the 95% voting record with the Democrat line. THE most liberal Senator, and the third most liberal Senator... Kennedy wasn't up to the run. And the guy that is known to fight the GOP almost as much as the Democrats, paired with a woman that went after GOP corruption in her home state... Who is really the partisan ticket?
- She's only been a Governor for two years.
And Obama has only been a Senator for 2 years... except he has spent the entire time running for President. She was busy running a state until last week.
- But the last eight years...
Unemployment was hovering around 4% when W took office. 9/11 and the Clinton Recession (remember, it started before Bush was even the front runner for the GOp, so that one wasn't his fault) pushed it up to 6.3% before the Bush Tax Cuts took effect... driving it back down to 4.4% until the Democrats took over the House and Senate... now it is 5.7%. (You might also be interested to know that the rate hovered around 7% for Clinton, until the GOP took over the House and Senate in the '94 Revolution).
Oil? Went from $24/bbl when GWB took office to $50/bbl in Oct. 2006... and right after the elections, started to rise... Hit $126/bbl before GWB signed the Executive Order allowing expanded drilling (and will drop further if the Democrat controlled Congress would drop their ban). So, in six years, oil doubled. In 1.5 years, it went up 2.5 times...
McCain has been fighting spending his whole time in office. The problem that we have with the federal budget is a spending problem. That is why he has butted heads with the GOP... they wanted to spend like Democrats. And I mean that sincerely. Tax collections have skyrocketed since the Bush tax cuts took effect. And those cuts reduced taxes at ALL income levels. But, the GOP has been a bunch of weak knee'd slackers letting themselves be pushed into spending "just a little less" than what the Democrats wanted to spend.
Obama and Biden have shown NO fiscal restraint. Despite the fact that Obama has stated that he knows that increasing taxes on the "rich" won't increase revenues, he still preaches the mantra. Despite complaining about GOP spending, he has introduced $1,000,000,000,000 in NEW programs.
The bottom line is that the worst thing to happen in the last eight years was the election of a bunch more Democrats in 2006. The didn't run on a bad economy then... because it wouldn't hold. Now they have made one. They ran on Iraq... and didn't help fix the problem (the surge is doing that).
Yeah... that's the ticket.
It's going to be interesting to see these attacks on Palin play out.
Lane Bailey - REALTOR & Car Guy
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Lane - I wish folks from all sides would just concentrate on the specific issues prevalent to very people they are 'serving'. All the rest is a distraction and a short-cut to thinking.