McCain Greeted by Palin Family on Arrival in Minneapolis

watch out for those mikes! Yikes:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/212920.php

Noonan is a joke? Ronald Reagan and HW did not seem to think so. Peggy Noonan is the same as she was 20 years ago, it is the party that has changed.

And MA blows a gasket in three… two… one…

Noonan is a true conservative still in support of this candidate, but this choice was one conceived by the idealouges, not McCain himself and the choice reeks of panic. It was, in my opinion, a poor choice but one that he will hopefully recover from.

I don’t hate her, although if she is a Hockey mom, how come none of her kids ever played hockey?

And I hope Brittany and K-Fed are very happy together. (That part was a joke.)

Mike I know that you fall in lock step with whomever the idealouges tell you to, but just because I disagree with McCain on his choice of running mate doesn’t mean I hate him.

I have said on this site for years that I simply wish the more moderate forces in the party would speak up. This time when McCain mentioned several moderate choices that would have brought in politically middle minded people, Rove (from written reports) and the fringe in the party pushed for a choice made purely for ideological choices and John Caved.

I understand that you see if differently, I am OK with that, and like I wrote above… I don’t hate Palin. I just wanted to keep the experience argument on our side.

I don’t see that the “experience” argument has been lost, but been reinforced, CentFla. I’ve long been lamenting that we have no governors in the mix. I don’t trust Senators on executive administration. Very different tasks.

I think Giuliani says it best… and he should know, having been a long time mayor of the Apple.

“You know why? She had to make decisions,” Giuliani told Face The Nation anchor Bob Schieffer. “All Senator Obama has had to do is talk. That’s all he does.”

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Citing her executive experience, the Republican National Convention keynote speaker called Palin “somebody of accomplishment” because “she’s vetoed legislation, she’s taken on corruption, and in her party, and won. She took on the oil companies and won. She administered a budget successfully.”

He also said Obama “is the least experienced candidate for president in the last 100 years.”

“I mean, he’s never run a city, he’s never run a state, he’s never run a business, he’s never administered a payroll, he’s never led people in crisis,” Giuliani said.

Add to that, Alaska is so far removed from the lower 48, she regularly engages in business negotiations and state regulations/permits with CEOs of oil companies, and foreign powerhouses of the Asian countries as well. This isn’t like a governor of IL, who’s surrounded by the other 48 states for interstate business regulations. Alaska has major foreign investors, from gold mines to metal companies.

They also deal with the foreign intrusion into their waters for commercial fishing.