An Apostle of Alaska

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Sarah Palin Exposed

Intrade: Now Betting On Palin Dropping Out !!
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If you were wondering what are the chances that Sarah Palin won???t be nominated for VP after all, we now have an answer for you. Intrade Prediction Markets has started accepting trades on whether Sarah Palin will be forced out of the race.

FYI, Intrade is an exchange created for people to trade, or speculate on, events that directly affect their lives, including politics, entertainment, financial indicators, weather, current events and legal affairs. It is a kind of betting system that can be used to assess the probability of certain events happening. Studies have shown that financial markets do an excellent job as far predicting events is concerned, often much better than opinion polls.

Here???s what the market has to say about Sarah Palin. The contract/question offered to traders is as follows: ???Sarah Palin to be withdrawn as Republican VP nominee before 2008 presidential election???

The greater the likelihood of this event happening, the greater the price of the contract will be. All Intrade markets trade between 0 ($0.0) and 100 ($10). The contract price at any given time reflects the probability of the event happening.

As of 2:20 pm ET, the contract price was at 13.9 and rising. In Intrade terms, that means, the market predicts there is a 13.9% chance that Palin will drop out.
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Now think about it. Despite all the Evangelical excitement about Palin, there is still real concern she???s not ready and will be withdrawn from the nomination. This has never really happened before. When was the last time anybody talked about a VP pick being kicked out of the race for incompetence? Even back when Dan ???Potatoe??? Quayle or Geraldine Ferraro were running for VP, nobody expected them to drop out. This Sarah Palin is surely something.

Oh, and in case you???re wondering, as of 2:20 pm ET, the Intrade market pegs Obama???s chances of winning the election at 60.1% versus just 39.8% for McCain. (The numbers don???t quite add up to 100% due to rounding.)

Edit: Apparently, a VP nominee has been forced to drop out of a race before after all. Reader P-Blunt refers us to Thomas Eagleton, McGovern???s first pick for VP in 1972. Eagleton was forced to drop out of the race after newspapers started reporting he had been hospitalized at least three times for physical and nervous exhaustion. In addition, on at least two occasions, Eagleton received electroconvulsive thereapy, also known as shock therapy.
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Sarah Palin today......

Today our state budget is in control we have a surplus. We put a veto pen to nearly half a billion dollars in wasteful spending.???

She then went on to attack Barack Obama for accepting earmarks for Illinois, "In just three years our opponent has requested nearly 1 BILLION dollars in earmarks. That is about a million dollars for every working day," Palin said. "So we reformed the bases of earmarks in our state and I???m ready to help President John McCain end these corrupt practices once and for all."

Hussein's fir change???...ONE BILLION DOLLARS!!!.....He is such a lying hypocrite.

NOBAMA!!!

Rice Offers Less-Than-Hearty Palin Endorsement

September 08, 2008 9:12 AM

Rice is Qualified, Kay Hutchinson Hillary Clinton & Elizabeth Dole, they all KNOW Sarah Palin is outside her Element.

ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: In a weekend interview, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice passed up an opportunity to defend Sarah Palin from allegations that she does not have the foreign policy experience to be vice president.

In a less-than-hearty endorsement, Rice declined to say anything more positive about Palin than "she gave a terrific speech" and "she's a governor of a state here in the United States" during her interview with Zain Verjee of CNN.

Asked point-blank if Palin has enough experience, Rice said, "These are decisions that Senator McCain has made. I have great confidence in him." Confidence in Palin? Rice didn't say.

Rice added: "I???m not going to get involved in this political campaign. As Secretary of State, I don???t do that. But I thought her speech was wonderful."

Comparing Vice President Cheney's foreign policy background Palin's, the interviewer asked Rice to respond to critics who say she "just won't be able to handle it."

Rice's response: " There are difference kinds of experience in life that help one to deal with matters of foreign policy."

More Rice: "You know, she???s governor of a state here in the United States."

Rice also said she'd be the "last" to advise Palin in a foreign policy debate against Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden.

In contrast, Vice President Cheney readily defended Palin's qualifications. Talking to reporters in Rome on Monday, Cheney said, ""There's no reason why Sarah Palin can't be a successful vice president in a McCain administration."

So Hussein requests pork barrel earmarks at the rate of a MILLION per day, for a total of nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS.....HYPOCRITE...HYPOCRITE...HYPOCRITE......now we know what he does when he isn't voting PRESENT.

No wonder he wants to raise taxes.

NOBAMA!!!

About Sarah Palin, Pt.1-
[ Note by web_admin: This was already posted on Washington Independent
comments area and was meant by the author to be read by many, but
readers need sourcing. The NY Times has talked with contributors since]

During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been
pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had
gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
given rise to a recall campaign.

Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6
years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation
(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she
promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
benefited residents.

I am sorry but as a female and a conservative I have to question Palin's values. She left her home and her children right when they needed her most to pursue fame in the public sphere. It is very telling that her daughter became pregnant after she abandoned her to serve as mayor and then governor. She should have been home serving as a mother to her children. Now she wants to leave her family to serve as Vice President when she has 5 children one of which has DS and another that is pregnant! What kind of mom would do this? She should stay home to help her family in its time of need.

Since moms have abandoned the home the nation has fallen a part. Palin's example with do nothing but encourage more women to do the same.

Why are so many conservatives cheering for Palin when her actions run contrary to our espoused values?

Its not Pro Abortion ... its Pro Choice. Meaning you are for CHOICE. I choose to do something and not allow the government to step in and tell me no you can't cause GOD says so. The right to choose is fundamental. If you allow the state to tell you this is the right way and the wrong way to live, you can do this but you can't do that ... you tread down a very slippery slope.

I find it funny how right wingers praise the Bill of Rights and the Constitution; The right to Free Speech, the right to bear arms, the right to a trial and yet they would allow the government to choose for them something so personal.

The basic princible of Conservatism is Limited Government and it's supposed to be just that ... LIMITED.
Stay out of my bedroom, stay out of my personal life. Stop preaching and Do Your Job.

Who cares about race, who cares about gender, republican, democrat, left, right, whatever! You are either for 4 more years of Bush or not! Have all these McCain/Palin supporters suffered amnesia since 9/11?? What is wrong with you people??? McCain is a military-minded man, that is all he knows, his currently using the ???shock and awwwwwe??? tactic to get votes by choosing his new running mate who is about as cold and harsh as a December snap in Alaska. People need to think of their futures, their children???s futures, and the safety of this country and our place in this world. We have a responsibility as a nation to hold our own and take care of our allies as needed. We have gotten our priorities so mixed up over the last 8 years, now we are ALL suffering. How many folks do you know who have had their job outsourced/cut? Lost their home? Lost health care or insurance because bias of pre-existing conditions, etc. I know the conservative-right like to think nothing will happen to them, and that only those who suffer deserve it because they are weak and can???t ???pull themselves up by their bootstraps???. I am struggling mom with 4 children and a disabled husband who has been refused insurance and we depend on the help of others, I have seen families over the last 8 years fall apart because of health and financial issues, and it is heart breaking. I am proud to support someone like Obama who is not ashamed to stand up to the world to share his compassion to those of us who have suffered and want a better life. Republicans will continue to leave us out in the cold. Palin is confusing being a strong woman with being cold and heartless. She can???t even kiss her own family in public, she does it like a ???queen???. The pageants has long been over, but not for her.

I'm Alaskan. Have ived in the state since 1990 and here to stay, am female, and a registered independent who voted republican in last seven presential elections. To those who accuse writer of bias, I can say firsthand this article is well-written excellent piece of journalism. It reports the facts and in my view accurately presents the governor we know.

Unfortunately the realities underlying the attractive Palin persona is she's a great "Politician" and McCain certainly didn't put country first in selecting her. It's good for McCain and Alaska, but unthinkably reckless for America.

Well, this is a beginning; she is human, not all that terribly extraordinary.
Still, I find her disinterest in anything not directly related to her person, her family, or Alaska to be a non-recommendation for the VP slot.
This is not a typical election, where the VP barely matters. John McCain will likely die in office, if elected.

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I love her. FINALLY a woman with some values! I'm so excited I cant wait until McCain is president of the United States. No one should call themselves Christian and vote for a Pro-Choice president. More people are dying in the womb than in these wars on terrorism and from AIDS combined. This is the REAL issue. For those of you who vote for Obama - are you gay, black (for those that this is your only reason for voting for him) or do you like to murder babies?