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Who are we kidding?
 
Look at Geraldine Ferraro.
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Being Governor isn't so hard.

In NY, there's a BLIND GUY doing the job.

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Who are we kidding?
 
Look at Geraldine Ferraro.
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There's talk about Ferraro actually endorsing McCain.

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And pray tell ,how would that matter?

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u
And pray tell ,how would that matter?

It may matter quite a bit.

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What would she do against abortion rights, if at all? She's "pro-life". That's what concerns me the most. Any ideas?

I don't think abortion has any business being an issue at that level of government, so no, regardless of my own personal feelings on the issue I really think it is a none issue.

Can she lead a country? Does she have a clue of foreign policy? Can she stand up to the attacks she would get, stand nose to nose with the middle eastern leaders that feel women are a second class citizen(at best) and do what is best for the whole country?

Those are the things I want to know about her. Those are the types of things that I seriously doubted in Obama. I've educated myself enough to have more confidence in his abilities.

It's still a moot point because I get spewy at the very idea of McCain being president.

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Is anyone troubled that the Republican nominee chose as his running-mate someone who is under investigation for abuse of power charges.Seems her ex brother-in-law was fired as a State Trooper shortly after a nasty divorce from the Gov's sister.
Is this the sort of move to induce anyone to believe that a McCain administration would conduct itself any different than the Bush administration.Seems abuse of power is not a real issue to this Candidate,after a vetting they go right ahead and put this woman out there as the person to be "a heart beat" away from the Oval Office..
How can they be this arrogant

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Is anyone troubled that the Republican nominee chose as his running-mate someone who is under investigation for abuse of power charges.Seems her ex brother-in-law was fired as a State Trooper shortly after a nasty divorce from the Gov's sister.
Is this the sort of move to induce anyone to believe that a McCain administration would conduct itself any different than the Bush administration.Seems abuse of power is not a real issue to this Candidate,after a vetting they go right ahead and put this woman out there as the person to be "a heart beat" away from the Oval Office..
How can they be this arrogant

That is very troubling, and should certainly not be left uninvestigated... the sooner all the facts are out in the public eye the better.

How long did the poor man have to go without work when he was fired, and what is he doing for a living now?

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This "executive experience" must be the new Fox News talking point buzzword since I've seen it on so many posts today.  Wouldn't a Senator, who represents his state on a national level have at least as much executive experience as a Governor? 

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Well, I just hate to think of that poor man not being able to find work after losing his career that way....

I hope slvemike is able to give us more details soon.

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Is anyone troubled that the Republican nominee chose as his running-mate someone who is under investigation for abuse of power charges.Seems her ex brother-in-law was fired as a State Trooper shortly after a nasty divorce from the Gov's sister.
Is this the sort of move to induce anyone to believe that a McCain administration would conduct itself any different than the Bush administration.Seems abuse of power is not a real issue to this Candidate,after a vetting they go right ahead and put this woman out there as the person to be "a heart beat" away from the Oval Office..
How can they be this arrogant

That is very troubling, and should certainly not be left uninvestigated... the sooner all the facts are out in the public eye the better.

How long did the poor man have to go without work when he was fired, and what is he doing for a living now?

From what I understand the only thing even remotely linking her to the accusation is a single phone call made from her office, for which she fired the person that made the phone call, as it was not authorized by her.

She has fully embraced the investigation and claims to have nothing to hide. 

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Palin has denied pressuring Monegan in the case of the trooper. At the time of Monegan's dismissal, she said she wanted the department to move in a new direction.

Monegan said the pressure to fire Wooten came from three members of Palin's administration and from her husband, Todd Palin.
The governor revealed earlier this month that her director of boards and commissions, Frank Bailey, had made a phone call to a state trooper lieutenant in February complaining that Wooten still had his job. Palin said the call didn't amount to pressure for Wooten's dismissal.

``She's conceded that she had an aide that went off the reservation,'' Palin spokesman Bill McAllister told reporters today. ``But she took no action to pressure Monegan.''
French said Wooten was ``no Sir Galahad'' and had at various times been accused of drinking on the job, shooting a moose out of season and using a Taser on a 10-year-old nephew. He said Monegan's position was that the trooper had already been disciplined for those offenses.

The legislative probe of the Monegan case isn't connected to a separate, four-year federal investigation of alleged political corruption in Alaska. The federal probe has resulted in convictions of or guilty pleas from three state legislators, the chief of staff of Palin's predecessor and two executives of an oil-services company, as well as the indictment of Senator Ted Stevens.

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She's already backtracking from this. There were actually 24 calls made some she made herself, some from her husband. This is troubling. Often, it seems, narcissists make progressive strides in politics, but don't feel beholden to such things as "the truth."

I wonder how much McCain understood about this before he chose her. Do you believe it was responsible and in good faith to pick a VP after 1 or 2 meetings?

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FR

...i didn't think Michael Palin was American born......mind you, an ex-python for president....hmm.....